skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found opposite regarding using email.

In 6 months, I have been using IM mainly first half, email mainly the second.

While using IM, I tended to talk more about doing than rather doing. It used to take hours to discuss things and chats which were supposed to be 15mins long happened to be an hour or more.

When switched to email, I became way more efficient. I spent more time on thinking about questions I'm asking, and questions to potential answers. This lead to 1) well thought designs 2) efficient communication 3) no distracting IM.

IM is still good for the times when you need to discuss something quickly. And I mean really quickly.

I guess it largely depends on the stakeholders/managers communication habits.

P.S. I am working solo with my boss
Not for people in Queensland. It used to be rolled in to our electricity bill at $24/quarter but that was abolished a while ago (apparently 2003). We're now just covered simply by living in Queensland for ambulance transport anywhere in Australia (that is, if I need an ambulance in Victoria, I am covered by the State) [1].

[1]: http://www.ambulance.qld.gov.au/about/
Kind of like Google Cache you mean?
Learning Deliberately
TOS showed technology, but the technology rarely interfered with people being people as we know them from every day life. People in TOS had replicators; we have fast food.

The coming next generations of technologies may well remake our species is ways that make everyday experience difficult to understand and distracting to narrative story. They may be intellectually interesting, but it would be difficult in a movie. From third paragraph illustrates the point.

I do like your first point, with respect to Star Trek. Certainly we can have both minimalism and exotic baroque lushness, sitting side by side.
Maybe I am loneley on this one, but I hardly find this new information.
It was a prequel. If he wanted something new, he shouldn't have gone to see a movie that was set in a time period between the original TV show and the present day.

I think the real issue is that Hollywood isn't interested in developing new franchises, or even stand-alone projects.

Instead, they are content to recycle the same characters, plot lines and assumptions.

Just like Silicon Valley isn't interested in investing in risky technology anymore, Hollywood isn't interested in investing in risky new ideas.

This, more than anything else, is a sure sign that the front-line of history and our collective future is happening somewhere else.
If you like japanese cyber punk checkout

Goku Midnight Eye
Cyber City Oedo
AD Police
I don't want or need to publish many of my videos or photos online. They are private; I'm a fairly private person.

Also - where am I supposed to put the terabytes of legally obtained digital media that I own? Can you upload every movie you own to YouTube? Furthermore, my NAS serves things quicker than any online service.

I also like a local player in case there's no Internet connection or if it's slow. I go camping in the mountains and my mobile provider has spotty coverage in remote regions.

So no, it doesn't solve the problem real well. I'll keep using my NAS and online backup service and general/full operating systems such as Windows, OS X, Debian and CentOS.
Yes to you and RDL - I see the point. I do dispute the 5-10 minutes though, but the point was that it could be learnt relatively fast. I'd assume some sort of weight versus exposure factors chart would hold 80% of the knowledge and when combined with a set 180cm tube-film distance and a digital system (forgiving!), things would be learnt quite fast.
It is deceptive how hard it is to get a patient properly straight, and thereby prevent ET looking deviated.
Some wilderness rescue services have an interesting take on it. If what you were doing was really stupid (like, hiking up and skiing a mountain in the middle of the night, during a storm), they bill you, but if you really just got screwed (fell and broke your leg), it's free.
"bugs will happen with your high level languages too"

Sure, but the nature of the bugs is different. In C and C++, you have low-level bugs and high-level bugs to deal with; in a high-level language, you almost never have to deal with low-level bugs. Pointers are an inherently low-level construct, which are necessary in low-level code but completely inappropriate in high-level code.

"it's not totally unmanageable or unapproachable"

It is, however, a waste of time and mental effort, and it leads to less reliable software. The majority of C and C++ programs are high level programs that neither require nor benefit from the low-level features of those languages; unfortunately, writing a non-trivial C/C++ program without using low-level features (like pointers) is impossible.
You know people who have those speakers and a microphone in stores and stand outside a store and try to sell?

They are known as spruikers.
If this was you, thank you.
Our student radio station applied for an edu organisation account and within a week had our org upgraded, we weren't sure if we would classify but figured as we were fully student run and non-profit that it was worth asking.

Just wanted to add my thanks! :)
If you use Emacs, you might want to check out Org Mode. It was basically designed to do that kind of stuff. Github also displays .org documents rather well.
That term, "R&D," it sounds so retro and quaint!

I guess a lot of large corporations and their shareholders have stopped thinking that they can or want to do creative/innovative work, and have decided to focus on doing repetitive work more profitably.
Concerns:

(1) Hydroponic operations, long term, miss out on a lot of nutrients you otherwise would have had (eg: B2).

(2) Sustainability. These things need significant power and labour inputs due to the artificial, high density, monoculture nature of the crop. Why design like this, when the world is not short on solar power and much of the real wastage is in transport? (Even mentioned in the article)

Following this line of thought, what we really need is closer-to-nature, closer-to-end-consumer solutions - ie. variety of non-monocultured plants in dirt near plate. Good luck monetizing that one! (Note: not a serious challenge; any and all disrespect to GM companies intended)
They can be used as functions, but I think they're implemented differently for optimization. Could be wrong.
oh god giant block of closely-leaded tiny text that stretches across my entire browser (which currently is about a foot wide) with no inter-paragraph spacing ABORT ABORT ABORT hits back button
Assuming it hasn't been opened and screwed with (which should hopefully be apparent from tamper-evident case construction), it should have a fairly comprehensive self-test built in. There's a pretty in-depth tear-down of one on youtube[1] that describes some of the test aspects.

Assuming it does pass, it's probably better than none at all, although in the worst case the person trying to use it is wasting time with it when they could be giving you CPR.
Definitely a tough call.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn-Wv9YAfv0
If they showed a Big Mac next to a Whopper where the Big Mac was clearly bigger, but the real-life Whopper was actually bigger (no clue if this is true, just an example), in an explicit size comparison, I would have no compunction at all calling it a lie.
> I got the link from Daring Fireball.

Shocking.
I did this when I was a student, and I recently had to move over the private repos to bitbucket when it expired. Just stick to bitbucket for private repos.
An anecdote: If you ever take a tour of Amish country in Pennsylvania, most of the houses have two or three generations living in them. What the Amish do is put an addition onto the house for another generation of family. It's been that way for a long time and will be in the future.
Yeah, even shooting good x-ray films is hard (rather, you can probably learn the absolute basics of radiation exposure, etc fairly quickly, but there is enough art to it that a good tech does a much better job than a radiologist (usually) or a bad tech, just at very practical things like patient positioning. At least in my experience -- the other issue being the craziness of an entire trauma team plus potentially a patient's unit representative plus techs plus radiologist all in a small CT room, or in the case of enemy combatants, armed MPs plus sometimes "other" guys plus patient plus techs...

But ETT and a few other things are the low hanging fruit. And with teleradiology you can even skip the "verify you got a decent image" step, particularly intra-hospital or for small images, because the rad can look at it immediately and tell you if you should reshoot.

I'd almost bet you could take a zero-training nurse or paramedic and give him a telerad-enabled x-ray or CT and get acceptable results working interactively with a radiologist and/or real rad tech remotely. Ultrasound might be trickier, but I saw midwives (who couldn't read or write, although they were really smart otherwise) trained in 3 days. I've never actually seen an MR used in person (since metal fragments tend to not go well with them; they just magically appeared on the PACS from elsewhere), but I imagine the basics of operating the machine aren't too much more difficult than a CT.
Search Youtube for 'Peter Schiff was right'. It's entertaining to watch the people who laughed at him in 2006.
And this is mostly relevant on big screens like the biggest iMacs. It's just wrong, imo.
So you are going to take the time to correct hundreds or sometimes thousands of warnings in some open source program you need to use at your job?
Lit Motors. Which reminds me, I meant to reserve one.
I would suggest the two of you are describing different parts of the elephant.

I was deeply struck by Venkatesh Rao's arguments [#] that entrpreneurlism now is simply a new form of hiring than genuine disruption. Michaels comment that VCs are the execs in some new corporate format has the ring of truth.

However, it certainly seems there is more capital, more widely available, and more fairly accessible both in the US and elsewhere. This means that a vastly increased number of entrpreneurs will be able to take flight and not all of them will be lacking the leverage of insight into tidal forces that Michael is alluding to.

Anyway I need sleep, but it seems to me that there is an elephant in the dark, it is the shape of Western workforce in the future - and we are all trying to describe its shape.

[#] http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre...
They do love their XML in Android layouts, though @.@
I believe the previous poster was only talking about openness to the public. (Is Google distinctively more "open" internally than, say, Microsoft or SAP? I think that's a different topic, and one that I'm not so interested in.)

As I wrote, I agree with the view that parts of Google are not disclosed publicly.

My question is, we all know that Google has some closely held secrets. In that case, how do I tell if (public) openness is part of the culture? Can I use that to estimation method if the level of openness has increased or decreased at Google over the last decade?
Sounds like crazyness to me
Tons of bloggers were all over it as well, just one example:

http://housingpanic.blogspot.com
Either he's a complete fool, or he hadn't heard about the massive RE fraud the FBI had begun reporting taking place all over the country, or he knew damn well what and why.

Take your choice. Small wonder that prices were rising like crazy (how can that -not-be a bubble? given the history of RE prices over the previous century) when anyone with a pulse could get a loan. And oh how they got away with it.
Really? Can you give some examples? Is the USA one?
These terms are not just used in the UK. Very common in Australasia.
A lot of the libraries listed are relatively new though.
You know where I go for my armchair macro-economic analysis? Hacker News.

Flagged.
A man after my own confused mind :-)

(Or woman.)
What would be cool would be using telerad (and telemed in general) to let some combination of family-caregiver, EMT, Paramedic, NPs, and doctors do both initial and definitive care in the field; should be a lot lower cost, both because it's cheaper and because it's better (old/sick/etc. people not being transported and then exposed to a bunch of other sick people would be a big win.)
Bitbucket.com anyone?????
>You start off as a CEO at 21, say to hell with "experience" and "qualifications" — I'll just learn by doing and figure it out as we go along.

This reminds me that IMO hiring CEOs based on previous experience at the same job is fundamentally flawed because it creates a paradox.
I only type with my right hand so here are my tips for typing fast and affective.
1. Make sure you know where the letters are on the keyboard
3. Make heavy use of keyboard shortcuts (control key almost useless)
4. Get Alfred with powerpack.
5. Never use command+tab.
6. Always use Alfred to switch between programs searching for one letter and hitting enter key fast.
7. Place your hand in the middle of the keyboard about a half an inch above your keyboard
8. Your typing needs to flow with the words.
9. probably more

If you're in or around San Francisco I can show you more of my technique for typing fast with one hand. You can hit me up on twitter tweets @gdi2290
I have never really considered imaging without interpretation. Sorry! This must be a legal nightmare - I'm imagining a missed pneumothorax, fluid collection (Not always obvious when supine). That said, something is often better than nothing. Were you in the military? I assume this would be more trauma type work, which tends to be a bit easier for identifying badness. However the working conditions would be somewhat worse I imagine (I have been hospital/clinic based). I would have thought that the most useful type of imaging I the fields would be ultrasound for finding a decent vessel to jab or guiding some sort of drainage (chest fluid, ascites etc). What was most your work?
Xbox LIVE is Hacked - 48 million users data leaked
Google isn't abandoning open standards for instant messaging. They're abandoning instant messaging. They've moved from a real time communications tool to a messaging tool. This is incredibly frustrating for those who used previously used Google Talk for instant messaging purposes, but now have to look for other options outside the Google ecosystem.
It's a good enough book to make the association concrete.

Agreed.
US scientists unveil new IQ measure: take the test
You could probably combine a CCD/CMOS imager (i.e. cheap webcam) with an x-ray (and maybe mm-wave imager or something) to help with this. Something like an AED as applied to radiology, with safety interlocks.
Care to share links? If not then I still consider the national weather service to be more definitive. Particularly since what it says agrees perfectly with the physics courses that I took 20+ years ago, which indicated that the taller and pointier a metal object is, the better a target it becomes for static electricity discharges of all kinds - including lightning.
The Industry Is Unfair: What I learned from my last Jobhunt
There were people who saw it, sure, but lots more people who didn't. So saying he was a complete fool is just ridiculous.
I don't get it. It's not an emergency now, but he could be in danger of something happening later.

Why go to the emergency room? Head to a walk-in clinic. I had to go a few months back. It was about a 20 min wait, total bill was $150 and I paid a $20 co-pay.

Don't go to the emergency room unless you have no other choice.
As bconway said, public libraries are fantastic—and I'm speaking from Australia. Also, coworking places. There's websites like https://www.desktimeapp.com/ for finding ones.
The notion that entrepreneurship is simply a different form of hiring is a popular notion that bears no relationship to reality. Operating a company is nothing at all like having a job. Operating a company that is cash flow positive after paying market salary is an extraordinarily privileged position relative to any reasonable (ie, not a first baseman for the Yankees) candidate/employer relationship in the market.

The thing that makes people believe that entrepreneurship is merely a hiring challenge is that most companies fail, and in this market, tech talent is so scarce that a failed startup team can still generate a premium. This is called "a safety net", and it is a good thing. You should be extremely wary of the kinds of people who argue that safety nets are a bad thing for tech startup people. Companies don't do their best work when they're dangling their development team's feet over the prospect of having no income and no health insurance if they fail.

The fact that most new businesses fail is not a new thing. Most new businesses in all sectors fail. That's why the rewards for financing a successful one are so high: that capital has been put at extreme risk.
A working AED for "guided CPR" is pretty nice even when you're doing CPR, especially if you don't do CPR all that frequently, too.
"healthcare is free."

The money to pay for that ambulance ride is coming from somewhere.
Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War
There was somewhat recently posted a website that generated background noise which simulated an office. I can't find the link, someone else should remember.
"But the site acknowledges that they are largely not to blame. It reads: "While giving millennials grief is highly entertaining, we want to acknowledge that the woeful state of the economy is not their fault. These free issues and e-cards are intended to help a generation that could sure use a hand, not to blame them.""

The quote "These free issues and e-cards are intended to help a generation that could sure use a hand, not to blame them." does not seem very genuine to me. It is very difficult for people in my generation to advance themselves in this climate. Youth unemployment has risen globally, and personally I'm horrified at how this government (in the UK) is sabotaging the future of so many children and young people. These kind of glib pot shots were funny 10 years ago, when social mobility was possible but they come across as arrogant and out of touch in today's world.
Don't define your text width in pixels.
Excel exports CSV in UTF-16 with byte order mark (BOM).
Very annoying if you're sending the data to another application that is expecting UTF-8.
I don't see how this is an alternative to iCloud, when it's specifically for photos.
"When it becomes serious, you have to lie" - Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg PM and Head Euro-Zone Finance Minister

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidhughes/100087136/he-m...
This is what I do now, I used to do CT and X-ray. MRI and CT have very little in common. While the images, very broadly speaking, look similar, the background knowledge required is very different. And they have crap interfaces. Really bad one. I save the error messages that are funniest now. MRI scanners are unreliable, temperamental, hard to get consistent results from and require constant care to avoid screwing things up! MRI isn't very good with serious trauma - too slow. I do miss that work though.
Reminds me of the story of the master sailor hired to help navigate a sailboat across the Pacific to Tokyo. He satisfied the boat's owner of his qualifications, and joined the crew.

During the entire crossing, he drank heavily, slept until noon, crawled above decks, stared at the sky, and told the helmsman "point 10 degrees north". Or some days, "point 10 degrees south".

The owner was a bit concerned, but things seemed to be going well. And the ship arrived spot on to Tokyo harbor.

On landing, he asked the sailor, "how did you do it? The whole trip, you never touched a sextant, looked at the compass, or checked the satellite navigation?" "Oh", said the sailor, "when I came up on deck, I looked at the airliner contrails, If the were to the north, I headed us south. If they were to the north, I headed us south."
We have exactly the same issue in Cyrus IMAPd.

That said, we have a test for it during configure, and either compile with full mmap support or with dodgy fake mmap support (which is shit - it just reads the entire file into real memory every time)
I would like to seem a fact supporting this, I have never been to a country where comparing objects in ads was outlawed, but to be honest I have spent most of my life in the US and travled only to Western Europe.
Apple's ignorance, fear, and lack of common sense hold the iPhone back. Take this, for example: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
In face a trick of perspective is a 3% larger lie.
except that this article was written in 2010 (three years ago!), and not much has actually changed since then.
Thanks for the answer. Seems reasonable. Although at that point I'd somewhat suggest tmux :)
Keywords implement many interfaces, function (IFn) being one of them. See this line in the clojure source code:

public class Keyword implements IFn, Comparable, Named, Serializable, IHashEq

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...
FWIW, it looks like Microsoft has edited the page to remove both the screen-size graphics and mention of touchscreen size.
Category theory for scientists
Yes. In the Go language one can use channels to funnel the data to/from a single process that does the SQLite reads/writes. It's trivial to batch up data in transactions as it comes in from users (the current channel length is the number of rows to include in the transaction).
Wow, really?

I lived there for 3 years and we got a ton of storms. I'm quite surprised - eastern washington used to get them relatively often during the summer.

Well, eastern Oregon on the eastern slope of the cascades gets quite a few as well, and I got there often enough to experience them :)
I certainly don't think open means community driven, and there are many more than two reasons companies don't publish unsupported specs.

One of the biggest is that they're just not ready for 3rd party clients in any fashion. The protcol may be _very_ rapidly changing. The auth workflow might be tied to some other system. And, regardless of messaging to use at your own risk, if you publish people will get mad when you break them. Finally, it's just a lot of work to go through if it's truly unsupported.
I think the recommendation is to have a non-privileged X client that invokes a privileged non-X program.
GitHub is a pretty great service (IMO). Totally worth paying for. If cost is your number one driving force, then sure -- go with Bitbucket -- but I think GitHub provides a way better experience (for users and developers).
They also let (501c3) nonprofit organizations in for free at the bronze tier. Thanks!

https://github.com/nonprofit
Code poetry exhibition space built by students
The students of Sydney Dev Camp, an intensive web development training school in Sydney, Australia, have launched an online exhibition space for coders who dabble in code poetry or ‘codetry’.

Codetry is poetry or philosophy written in any kind of programming code, such as Ruby, C, Perl, or HTML. Just like any language, programming code is well suited to convey ideas and describing relationships between people and things.
JET's days are long gone. The SQL Server Desktop engine is the underpinning for Access now. It essentially _is_ SQL Server. The biggest limitation? The concurrent transaction count is limited to 5. There are others, but it is a far, far cry from that prone to corrupt, slow beast JET.