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Yeah, Digg version 2 was my favourite - back when it was a just a really simple technology news site with higher then average comment quality (a bit like Hacker News is now).

It really degraded fast as they expanded, and every upgrade seemed to make it worse...
If you have persistent, severe problems with procrastination, willpower, and organization, don't rule out the possibility of an attention disorder. Smart people can often scrape by -- but proper diagnosis and management could dramatically help and improve your life.
>not used in industry

Well, that ones about me. Yes, I have a plenty of experience in machine learning, including undergraduate research in neural networks, a graduate degree in machine learning, and more than five years of industry experience (including several years building some of the most utilized neural network models in industry). I have read many of the deep network papers in detail, and have played around with them on actual data.

And yes, I think your comment deserves to be downvoted; unlike those of us with insight into the issue you added nothing to the discussion other than derision. It bothers me that comments like yours end up at the top of so many threads like this.

edit: and I'd like to point out as someone in the industry I have a good reason to temper expectations. Undeserved hype leads to bubbles, and bubbles create collateral damage when they pop. The AI industry has dealt with this at least twice already, and I don't want to see it happen again. The results so far are extremely exciting, but deep networks still need to prove they deserve the hype.
This was quite helpful since I base most of my purchase decisions on the entertainment value of the launch event.
I'd like to give this a try. Any tips for removing that feeling?
Surprised Feedly is so highly ranked. I tried it out after the last set of Google Reader changes and deleted it after about a week. The mobile app is really awful for skimming lots of content and is too focused on presenting a newspaper like layout. It's all pictures...
Hey Dan,
I couldn't find any contact info here or on your blog. I have some specific questions I'd like to ask about your trip and the aftermath. Could you please contact me?

zachwass2000@gmail.com

Thanks!
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PayPal iOS SDK Enables In App Payments And Checkouts
Awesome project! IFTTT should really be part of every service that has a little bit of interactivity, even at a corner. Too bad I don't know ruby.

Please give us updates on your experience as you use it as well.
Yes, Programming is for Everybody.
This looks like a great article. I've bookmarked it for later. :D
Looks Like Firefox For iOS is Gone For Good, Says Mozilla
Barrie is arguing that the Gillard government is increasingly going to restrict an Australian startup's ability to hire the people it needs to succeed.

When that happens, what good will faster internet in rural areas do?
I've never used Google Reader for just these very reasons, and have been using Thunderbird for several years, even though Thunderbird is hardly ideal. The disadvantages of existing web-based readers really outweigh the one feature that's really superior in web-based clients, that being ubiquitous synchronization.

What I'd love to see in a reader:

* Email-like interface

* Custom folder hierarchy, allowing filtering of specific feeds into specific folders.

* A "unified inbox" that shows new items from all feeds, outside the normal folder hierarchy.

* Highly customizable text themes, allowing font, size, and color defaults to be easily configured without having to write custom CSS.

* Automatic retrieval of the full article for RSS items that don't include full text, parsed through a readable/readability-like filter, conforming to the user's defined text theme.

* Automatic retrieval of the comments feed for each article, to be displayed in a separate pane or tab.

* Integrated streaming of audio and video for podcast feeds, with playback positions remembered from session to session.

* No feed recommendations, no integrated "feed gallery", no integration with any external sites - especially Facebook; at most, "share link" buttons for individual sites that can be customized and disabled individually by the user (so, e.g., I could optionally add a button to my UI for posting the artice to HN or reddit).

I'd be willing to pay for a client that had this featureset.
Man Overboard: GNOME Cofounder Joins the Mac Side
So then the Google calander API has always been used, but the data is delivered in CalDev format?

This move would then represent Google refusing to accept that format?

I didn't read things that way.

It makes good business sense - look at Maps API. You can get X number of free calls, but if you go over a certain limit you need to pay (That limit is pretty high if I recall)

So now fast forward to Microsoft and Others incorporating that API into their products - am I understanding correctly Google could charge for API calls similarly?
Says one of the most prominent capitalists ever-ever existed. Oh, this is the irony so hard it broke my spine.
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No skydiving??
>of course "not used in industry" is not a technical argument. With Google just yesterday hiring George Hinton

Again, you're quoting me on that. Yes, 'not used much in data science' is a valid argument that it's not one of the biggest breakthroughs in data science.

And if you want to discuss the topic (while blanket criticizing people for not knowing what they're talking about) at least get the father of deep network's name right: it's Geoff Hinton, not George.
Bits Of Microsoft's Kinect Code Now Open Source
> Qualcomm's Kafkaesque E3

These are three things that do not belong together at all in my mind. What do you mean by this?
I just don't get this. There is no amount of production that is going to make me care about a phone, or any other type of tech, any more than I already do. If anything it makes me want it less. Stop trying so hard to make tech "exciting" for an hour.
This is interesting to me from the perspective of being a parent and having high expectations for my children. I think that as a parent it's important to have high expectations, but that there's a tricky line to walk regarding what kind of high expectations to have. I grew up under the expectation of acing everything, and as a result I do feel a lot of what he talks about in the post. However, I'm trying to raise my children with a focus on persistence and confidence even in the face of the unknown. To that end, I'm always trying to find things for them to do that are a bit beyond their ability, but that they can solve with some work.

I've found that it's hard to break the habit of seeing "good" as synonymous with "right the first time" though, even when I know what the result of that attitude has been for me. I'm hoping that I can help my kids by focusing on the idea of learning from failure and improving by working hard, rather than trying to avoid failure. Any other parents out there working on this problem?
Firefox not returning to iOS until Apple treats third-party browsers better
At least part of the problem is AUS is that we really don't have VCs. We have companies masquerading as VCs, but they're more like mezzanine financiers than VCs. They want an established market, established customers, protected IP, massive sweat and real-equity from founders, and they want a controlling interest for their investment.

They generally have no capacity for risk whatsoever, and unless you're digging stuff out of the ground and razing the environment, there's very little on offer from the Government, either.

So I can see why a lot of tech startups kick-off here and then go offshore because the economic environment is just not conducive to startups (at least in general).

Given how many people small business employs in this country (from memory, its the single largest employer, unlike mining, which only directly employes a low, single digit % of workers despite the mindshare it has) we should be doing everything we can to give people a leg up to start a business.

For example, something like Jon Stewart's proposal for a 'softer cushion for failure' would be a great start. We could do a lot worse here in Australia that institute something like this: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/jon-stewart-propose...
Author has obviously never heard the "Third Time's a Charm for Microsoft" idea, which contains some truth based on the historical record. This is a rebuilding a refocusing period for Microsoft, and the outcome on tablets is by no means a foregone conclusion.
parsing is not the point for people who have to write and understand programs, just the point for a parser. Which is more important?
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Ask HN: Where would I go to learn about automatic printing?
I'm pitching in my school's business plan competition next month and my startup idea includes a feature that would require automatic printing for standard (8.5 x 11") paper and envelopes. The text would be submitted by a user through my website. I was wondering if there is preexisting software that can accomplish this?
I adore the design. Nice touch with the sinking ship.
As We May Think (the origin of Memex) is still one of my favorite papers.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...
The coverage is certainly less than stellar. I certainly expect to see that shifting in time--the changing demography of the country demands it.

I run an early stage startup PlusNavigator, Inc. a solution simplifying the shopping experience for plus size women. Founder Institute alum, cited in the NYTimes this past summer, I'm Chicago based. I've learned to pitch my little heart out, and have had favorable interest from respected persons in the VC community...its now a matter of delivering qualitative traction for the business.

The process seems somewhat uniform once you're out there and competing with your fellow peers and their startups, irrespective of race/gender however the process of GETTING into the active conversations around startups, accelerators, incubators, and serious conversations about effectively positioning your company is something that the individual has to own.

My personal path started in desktop support, then enterprise IT sales, and I've always had a strong affinity for tech. Solving the woes of millions of plus size women, by leveraging technology seemed immediately viable.

A lovely tech sis of mine Obi is working on PopInGym, another brilliant idea...and its JOY seeing her at SXSW each year.

While there is a difference between tech enabled companies and tech companies, I think the future of startups makes that difference close near indistinguishable, and it turns into solving every day problems by leveraging tech.

Access to mainstream startup communities makes a difference. Since August, I've worked out of Chicago's highly regarded 1871 digital startup community, having to compete against a large pool of applicants, an in-person interview, and panel voting review for acceptance to work on my startup there. The programming, education, and network fostered certainly helps to neutralize the lack of diversity some.

It seems I have an great deal of female, and black female founder colleagues to name a few Obi (PopInGym), Bolaji (SociaLifeChicago), Feyi (CancerIQ), Christine (ItsAShort.com) among others.

The news coverage certainly isn't sensationalized. We're out there, we have a story to tell, and its inclined to empower other women just like us...because we know there are others out there, waiting to claim their space at the tech table.
Gnome-3 had Mac envy from the start, so something like this isn't surprising.
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A petition - especially to the executive branch rather than the legislative - is hardly the way to approach this.

How about class-action lawsuits for fraudulent misrepresentations for businesses that use the word "buy" in deliberately deceptive ways?
For those saying this means anything about Android, it does not. Google Play is Google's app store for Android and they can do what they want with it (I wish they wouldn't, but that's another story). However, there is absolutely no restriction by Google on Amazon or any other app distributor continuing to provide AdBlock to Android devices. The AdBlock guys can also just put up an APK online. It's unfortunate that they'll lose the exposure of Google Play, but that's a risk you run when you're making an app that directly goes against the business interests of your distributor.

The same goes for the Chrome Web Store, it's not the only place you can install Chrome extensions it's just the best place to get them. Again, I hope Google doesn't remove AdBlock from the Chrome Store but if they do I really couldn't blame them. I'm not sure why we should expect a company that makes 99.9% of its revenue (not an exaggeration) on ads to willingly distribute ad-blocking software to customers who are likely not paying for any Google services.

This is different than what would happen if Apple did the same thing on iOS. On iOS you can't install apps from third-pary sources without jailbreaking your device, which puts your warranty in jeopardy. So while I agree Google may be abusing the term "open" with regards to their policies, Android as an Operating System is as open as ever.
Thank you for this. It's easy to think you'll have something similar in your head, but actually seeing it makes it harder to ignore.

My procastination is usually due to a stupid case of OCD. I say it's stupid, because I can see how blatantly counter-productive it is... and yet, it's still there.

I keep my OCD down to "mild" levels by purposely flinging my socks as soon as I come home. This, in a way, breaks the cycle of "can't get down to do this because everything isn't perfectly clean". Ordinarily, something becomes a source of discontent that keeps me from getting things done and the best way (that works for me, YMMV) is a hot shower after a bit of excercise, LOTS of coffee followed by soothing music. "Soothing" in my context is usually Testament or Slayer, but you get the idea.

I also make it harder on myself to get distracted by turning off the ringer on my phone or taking out the battery to make Twitter et al. harder to get to (I don't remember my Twitter password, so I'd have to go into my "mega-list-of-all-passwords" text file which is PGP encrypted).
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For what it's worth, it looks like the preview books simply have every byte XOR'd with 0x42, and you can see the image requests coming in on the Network tab of the Chrome developer tools while you're in the Flash-based reader. (I can't say for sure if the previously-for-sale books have the same scheme though.)

I doubt that this will reach the eyes of most of the users being screwed by the DRM though...
Devs tease early screenshots of Ubuntu Touch Core Apps
Twist: Marco actually posted this, so he could have an excuse to write another ad-revenue-generating post for HN.

http://www.marco.org/2013/03/14/davidpayne
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The direct attack on procrastination... has been postponed until Monday. :)

I really liked the article, as I'm almost exactly like the way the op described himself. Hot proof: my tax returns were due 15 days ago and here I am, eagerly discussing the issue of procrastination. Much of the last two weeks was also spent watching the second leg of the Champions League football matches (ah, Barca, you recovered magnificently from a two goal deficit - well done!).

It's a really big problem.

There was another article recently on HN which I really liked [1]. I tried it. Yelling "You're an ANIMAL! You're an ANIMAL!" at myself as I perused my tax documentation. It hasn't worked yet and I've now scheduled another session. For Monday.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130313143038-54...
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Thank you! I threw together the backbone action under the hood, all credit goes to Alain for the awesome design. We're pretty sure this post would have about 3 upvotes had it not been for the bobbing ship.
Change, yes, but refreshing is probably not the word that comes to my mind. To each his own, I guess.
Ditching Java, Reader and Flash for sake of security
Social-media journalist accused in hacking
I don't use any programming languages that do use English syntax - I'm not even aware of any such programming languages - and I don't really understand the position that the optimal language for issuing instructions to a computer is the one that looks most like a language meant to facilitate dialogue among human beings.
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GitHub gets down with the ladies in Passion Project series
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I don't remember any of those. What I do remember is lots of discussion about flagging instead of posting comments berating a submission for being upvoted.
Some Schemes (like MIT Scheme) do this with a circular buffer of bounded capacity. Another Scheme interpreter (a little one by Jake Donham) had a switch to turn off TCO to help debugging. Yet another approach is full omniscient debugging (being able to go backward in time).
I love how the author puts off starting his experiment till Monday.
If Ubuntu wants to succeed on tablets and smartphones..
This is exactly what I thought about when I saw the article :)
Same here.

It's confusing.

Muninn would seem like appropriate alternative.
Well, the slogans used by proponents of more restrictive copyright policies aren't themselves the basis of the law, and even if many people seem to be amenable to the notion of ideas as property, actual copyright and patent law still don't work that way.

I don't agree that ownership of ideas is something built into human nature; physical property as been with us from time immemorial, but the modern notion of copyright is only a scant few centuries old, having been established by positive law and not recognized under common law. The notion of "intellectual property" is even newer.

Perhaps your daughter is being influenced by the current milieu, and not expressing an intrinsic equivocation between copying and theft that originated within her own mind.
> If you’re a developer and the Calendar API won’t work for you, please fill out this form to tell us about your use case and request access to whitelisted-only CalDAV API

I hope a lot of developers write to google and just tell them they simply can't afford resources to support proprietary APIs when perfectly good open APIs exist. That's a good enough reason to me. The idea that Google is going to continue maintaining a CalDAV API but expects legions of 3rd party developers to devote time and effort to making special calendar integrations for their proprietary API is obnoxious. At very least, some more rationalization of this is needed from Google.
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Could you please explain how NBN will pay for itself?

Not to mention, NBN Corp. will not be any different monopoly from Telstra Wholesale.

And regarding speeds, how is NBN going to solve that? Australia doesn't even have enough international throughput in the current network. NBN will make speeds even worst as the demand will only increase. The bottleneck here is not copper, it is international capacity. What's the point of replacing copper if the weakest link of the network remains.
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"Don't wait until you feel like doing something"

That's the one sentence solution described by Oliver Burkeman that has remained in my Pinboard.

http://www.oliverburkeman.com/blog/posts/the-one-sentence-so...

This article describes procrastination as two demons you need to conquer: the first is doing the actual task, while the second is to get into a certain state of mind or mood that makes you want to do the task. By setting up two barriers to getting the task done, you're likely to procrastinate further.

The "just do it" mantra jettisons the "I need to feel like doing the task before I do the task" roadblock. What you'll find is that once you actually start working on your task, you're more likely to continue along merrily, wondering why you even resisted starting in the first place. This almost always works for me. Give it a shot.
Samsung is trying really hard to think of new stuff. The group play was acceptable (of use may be once a year) but making different phones part of a surround sound was absolutely ghastly. The only way to show it also has to horrible.
OneTab instantly frees up to 95 percent of memory in Google Chrome
So what you do is you "print" it to pdf and read it that way. It's worth the effort. The insights are pure gold.
Side note: I was just wishing I could search across all of CL. (Looking for a particular car.)

However about half of the ads that were relevant had expired. Do you have a way of dealing with that?
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Hardware Version: WR741N v1/v2 00000000

it works :-/
Good stuff, although I'm not a Ruby user. Tools like this should be much more widespread. Code Is Bad because you can't write code without a minimum level of vocabulary and syntax, and that excludes a lot of people. True, code offers the most flexibility, but 99% of the time people don't need all that flexibility and want to accomplish fairly straightforward tasks - which is why GUIs are the norm. With GUIs and visual network design, users select from a palette of what's available and can connect components together without wasting time on syntax.

The oft-repeated cry that 'everyone should learn to code' is wrong, wrong, wrong. It's like telling a kid to learn CAD and use a makerbot instead of providing them with a Lego set. Coding is great when you want to make a procedural something generator. If you want to make something specific, then coding often imposes an annoying and unnecessary layer of abstraction. For example, you can write music and/or perform sound synthesis in a superbly powerful language called CSound, but only a tiny number of academic masochists bother to do so. Commercial DSP engineers write in C or assembler, commercial sound designers use Max or Reaktor, much as most electronic engineers use SPICE rather than describe their circuits in code.

In short, keep up the good work!
I had always thought Mallory was the female name and Mallet was the male name for the second attacker. I did a little digging and it seems that Mallory is primarily a girl's name it can also be a boy's name.
The top left logo clearly says "Glider Blog" -> If it had taken me to the product I would be disappointed.
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