skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good food is also intellectually stimulating (at the very least, many gourmets will agree). In addition, good food is often healthier, more balanced, etc.

I'd say that in many, many cases, "better stuff" has many other advantages than simply being considered better.

I actually am not a big fan of expensive coffee, because I can't taste the difference between a good cup of coffee and an excellent cup of coffee. And some people are not big fans of expensive wine because they can't taste the difference between a bad wine and a good wine. But I don't feel I'm superior to people who can taste the difference. In fact, I'd say I'm inferior - my range of experiences in my life is poorer than theirs - at least when it comes to coffee.

Honestly, I don't see how you can present the ignorance of better things as an advantage, except in are really base, utilitarian way, where we are all hamsters on the hedonistic treadmill with no higher aspirations beyond immediate pleasurable gratification.
Horrible headline. They have discounted the fact that our brains adapt to our behavior. You don't become a sociable person due to your brain - your brain adapts to your behavior.
when ebay bought skype it was at the "height of its hype curve" with a niche audience (geeks like us). My mother had still never heard of it. Now she has.
interesting to know that IT workers are more open to sex toys; may be because they're too tired by the time they go to bed - needless to say that that's the same reason why they are not selfish ... :)
I was suggesting that augmented reality twitters may be better twitter visualizations than Visible Tweets.
Cool, but should be twice as fast. How long does it take a person to read 140 characters? Is it limited more by API restrictions?
Reminds me of this from Eric S. Raymond:

...the idea that the most valuable gift you can give
your users is the *luxury of ignorance* — software that
works so well, and is so discoverable to even novice
users, that they don’t have to read documentation or
spend time and mental effort to learn about it.

Convenience is the luxury of ignorance! We live in a period of time when life is rife with complex information and complex choices. Mental effort itself has become a precious commodity. This explains a lot. It also works against the Long Tail. In order to cultivate esoteric tastes, you need time and you need to pay attention. The Internet makes that easier, but it also makes it easier for the mainstream to coopt what's out there on the Long Tail.
The problem is that the AGPL and GPL require you to let anyone who buys your software fork it or give it away for free. This is how CentOS is made.

And if you use a GPL or AGPL library, you have to license the whole software package as such.
Ironically Colonel Sanders was ashamed of the franchise (last paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legac...) so I think he'd approve of this :)
The algorithm probably only categorizes faces opposed to identifies faces - to recognize a logo vs human is a waste of time.
If you make it public domain, aren't you still liable (in the legal sense) for bugs or other issues?
Not really, this could be applied to in-car touch screens, as discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=609218
They only support SATA and USB-2, which unlike Firewire, do not work by DMA, IIRC. I'd assume they do not support Firewire for exactly this reason: to prevent a device from reading the systems memory directly (known as pwn-by-iPod)
It might be more accurate to say that the Register just goes around denigrating everything popular, well-known, or well-liked...being a British publication.

Seriously, I've never read anything in the Register that wasn't an attack piece on something popular. It's the tech equivalent of the type of tabloid that that revels in airing the dirty laundry of the rich and famous, with some sub-par trolling added as "commentary".
From time to time I stop and think about how blindingly FAST computers are.

It's easy enough to click "refresh" on a web server running on your desktop and wait half a second for a refresh...but then when you ponder that not only might you be executing a few THOUSAND or TENS OF THOUSANDS of lines of your own code, but you're executing a few hundred SQL queries, each of which is doing mind-bendingly complex stuff over in the SQL server ... running the same CPU ... it just boggles the mind.

I remember when I was amazed at how many computations my overclocked Apple IIe (running at 2.5 MHz !!!) could do in an eyeblink.
Although I agree that we all need to unplug sometime, it sounds like he is ranting about a symptom and not the cause. My guess is he needs to work on his presentation content especially if his long winded blog post is any indication.

I think we have all experienced presenters, and ideas from those presenters, that engage us enough that we don't wander back to our "distractions".
I don't think this is necessarily true. I realize most employers aren't like this, but my boss does a very good job of politely and clearly telling me what he expects of me and what I can expect from him. Our performance reviews are always positive experiences, and I leave with specific goals to accomplish before the next review: sometimes goals to improve my job performance, sometimes goals to improve myself. Instead of focussing just on a bonus or pay increase, it's basically a reconciliation of "what would you like from us", and "what we would like from you".

I think if more employers looked at it this way, and were more casual and open about the whole process, it would be a lot more beneficial to their companies.
Waking Life? Interesting idea, Ok movie.
However, he is still visible from space, via Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
The neighbour who came to visit and then just listened to music? The fact that she was a teenager is irrelevant in that point.
Umm... I just tested this, Firefox 3.0.10 running under Linux (Ubuntu).

Trial 1..

MXHR Stream - 10988 ms

Normal - 346 ms

Screenshot attached http://i41.tinypic.com/zn0k88.jpg

Trial 2..

MXHR Stream - 10978 ms

Normal - 111 ms

Screenshot attached http://i44.tinypic.com/24awmxg.jpg

Trial 3..

MXHR Stream - 12222 ms

Normal - 122 ms

Screenshot attached http://i42.tinypic.com/198o6t.png

So Digg figured a really interesting way of making something at least 31 times (median average of 59 times) slower? Awesome. Good job!

Instead of trying out new and interesting ways of slowing shit down, perhaps they can actually figure out how to turn a profit.
"We live in a period of time when life is rife with complex information and complex choices. Mental effort itself has become a precious commodity. This explains a lot. It also works against the Long Tail. In order to cultivate esoteric tastes, you need time and you need to pay attention."

You need time and attention to cultivate popular tastes, too. Once you discover a taste for jazz fusion or progressive metal or Japanese pop, though, you can safely stop paying attention to the rest of the music industry.
At its simplest, e.g. at the office, I use a $2 (oops, $3, now) Melitta single cup brewer. (1)

http://www.amazon.com/Melitta-64007B-Single-Coffee-Filter/dp...

All it requires is a cup, a number 2 filter, and ground coffee. Hot water is fairly ubiquitous, e.g. from the hot water / tea tap on the officer coffee machine. I also use a measuring cup (ok, this is getting complicated) to ensure I am not pouring in too much water, which would make a mess.

At the office, grinding is not convenient. So I bring pre-ground coffee in "flavor seal" type bag; this an impervious (plastic/foil combination, typically) bag that has a one way valve that allows for pressure from the outgassing of CO2 to escape. For example, Starbucks, Caribou, and the like all sell their pre-packaged beans in these types of bags (not that I'm recommending them especially, but most people have probably seen the packaging; in fact, I believe "flavor seal" may be a Starbucks mark).

To help keep the coffee fresh, after dispensing a dose into the filter, I press the air out of the bag (out of the top; the valve is not high enough capacity for this) while folding the top over repeatedly until I have the folds down fairly tight against the remaining grounds. Then I rubber band the folds into place. This removes most of the air, and outgassing further reduces O2 content as it sits.

The coffee stays reasonably fresh until it is consumed -- I'm also not adverse to the flavor changes as it "ages" as long as that process does not go too far. With a minimum of fuss, I get a much better cup of coffee than the office can provide.

If you grind your coffee but hate the mess of grinds getting all over the place, try placing the grinder inside a container like a Tupperware casserole pan or similar. The grounds only get as far as that container, which is easily wiped out.

I have a big old beast of an Italian espresso machine, but I found it to just be too much hassle and mess. It sits in the corner of the counter, in need of a descaling.

Cash is tight for me, right now: When I have a bit more disposable income, I'd like to try:

Aerobie Aeropress

http://www.amazon.com/AeroPress-Coffee-and-Espresso-Maker/dp...

Pump and Seal Food Saver Vacuum Sealer

http://www.pump-n-seal.com/

The latter to keep the beans fresh.

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(1) All links are free of any referral ID's or any benefit to me. Just provided FYI.
If I were to extend C by adding python style classes on top of it, I would end up with roughly the same number of keywords.

You can use Objective-C as a datapoint here. That's Smalltalk on top of C. You can use the same sort of trick (delimiting the dynamic sends) to recycle the C keywords in the dynamic context, and end up with a language with just a few more keywords than C.
William Gibson gives an interesting perspective on this sort of world view in the documentary "No Maps For These Territories":

"I think what I'm most aware of is the extent to which people are unaware of the extent to which they've been penetrated and co-opted by their technology. I mean, I take it for granted that I've been, but I think a lot of people today have this sort of Rousseau-esque idea that it's possible for humans to return to the natural state.
But in fact I think that it's not, and if it were, they really wouldn't like it.

I mean, I'm immune to a number of really terrible diseases, because I was inoculated against them as a child - that's technology.

I'm a male human in my 50's and I still have most of my teeth - that's technology.

I'm myopic, to the point of near blindness, and yet I can see - that's technology.

It's too close to us to be very aware of it, if we could be stripped of it - which we can't be, because it's actually altered our physical being, we'd be pretty unhappy; and we'd start dying big time!"
hmm... maybe i'll sneakernet all my music/photos now. been waiting for a sneakernet uploading service. it was only a matter of time before they added one.
wonder how long before smugmug adds a wraper around this and lets you send your dvd/smartcard/etc media and get it directly uploaded into your account.
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Doesn't say what kind of jobs those are going to be. Call center jobs?
Flinch pricing sounds great, but when used repetitively on contracting companies, gets old fast. At some point, you have to develop a trusting relationship.
Just because marketing drivel happens to be true doesn't make it right to post it on Hacker News. A stopped clock is right twice a day. I don't have anything against the project, just the fact that the marketroids got their copy published in the New York Times and then linked on Hacker News.
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The team that's been on top (BellKor, the same people who wrote the article) already combined with another strong team. The main problem is that a lot of teams already do the same stuff, so the benefit of combining isn't always that great.
call center jobs are in india - it would be way too expensive to start new CC here, also people here have just got used to twisted indian-american accent, so lets not spoil the hard work done in all these years :)
Lockdown would be like the final keyword in Java.
Ok, my fault for not being clear then. I was referring to visualisations of tweets within the context of a conference (often, people use Twitterfall or just plain old search.twitter.com). Projecting Visible Tweets on the wall makes for a cool, dynamic feel, by comparison.
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Unfortunately, at least in the U.S., unless there's some kind of formal & documented evaluation process for compensation, they're opening themselves up to a whole host of potential lawsuits.

One useful strategy we've had is to do 90 day (quarterly) quickie evaluations followed by a formal, but succinct, annual review. If both parties are doing their jobs, "pathway/goal" guidance given informally during the quarterly process and throughout the year should lead to very little surprises in the annual review.
A family estate with a few acres and a few homes that would eventually be paid off could be one solution.
I think his point was that violence is innate in children, whereas sexuality is mostly absent. There's no point in sheltering little boys from violent media because they're quite violent on their own.

By contrast, sex isn't on the typical 8-year-old's mind, and probably shouldn't be.
I think it has value within the context of a conference. As I mention on another comment, we used it at Be2camp north and it gave a dynamic, bigger feel to the conference. Basically, if you're going to have a twitter-fall type of display in your event, use this instead. Yes, it's eye-candy, but in the context of an event that you want to animate, eye-candy is very useful.
"You need time and attention to cultivate popular tastes, too."

Nope. I can just walk into Borders or B&N on the way home from work, and buy whatever's bestselling in the CD section. Done in a minute or two. (I walk to work.) What's featured or popular on iTunes? Done in a minute or two. I can just listen to what's on the Radio. Heck, I can just go to retail outlets, and they're playing this stuff for me.

The mainstream is still the most convenient, because it has the most resources behind it, because it's still the most profitable. Additionally, the mainstream is an enabler of uncultivated taste -- the ultimate convenience, the ultimate luxury of ignorance.

(In the interest of disclosure, I have played Irish Trad music for over two decades, and my preference for entertaining myself musically is to make it myself!)
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It was different back in the old times. There was even less communication because entertainment then meant TV and books, both completely solitary activities. But since TV was home based and reading books at work was inappropriate people had to fall back on radio.

Radio was always on. Wherever people were working, radio was on, no matter whether it was a construction site or an office full of programmers. Weird.

Back then there was too little communication. Now we're communicating with too many people at the same time. That's how I feel it.
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One key feature about the real thing, getting a beer: whoever is sitting across the table from you, you probably have their full attention and focus.

In that sense, maybe you'd be better off using a chat program in DOS, in order to prevent multitasking.
I apologize if I seemed to be putting words in your mouth, then. Thank you for clarifying your position. I like how you state that the law is the "minimum number of rules we need to get along with each other". To me, that is an interesting concept I shall think on more.
You could go with BSD, it seems to be the standard for allowing other people to take your source and distribute it in a closed source product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
I agree with you. More often, what I've seen is that engineers aren't interested in it. It is tedious in ways that are not interesting, often involving working with non-technical people.

Most engineers I've worked with find things like "yes, it really matters that those labels are lined up pixel perfect" to be annoyances at best. We tend to work at a deeper level, thinking behind the screen, so we don't often see the screen.
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"But I don't feel I'm superior to people who can taste the difference. In fact, I'd say I'm inferior - my range of experiences in my life is poorer than theirs - at least when it comes to coffee."

I don't feel superior either, I'm just glad I have time and money left over for other things. Feeling superior due to a taste for fancy coffee is the kind of elitism I have no interest in.

Plus there's some well-known psychology behind this stuff. Expensive wine tastes better, in part, largely because it is more expensive.

"Honestly, I don't see how you can present the ignorance of better things as an advantage, except in are really base, utilitarian way, where we are all hamsters on the hedonistic treadmill with no higher aspirations beyond immediate pleasurable gratification."

If you're ignorant of better things, you're happy with what you have. If you're familiar with better things, you're unhappy with what you have, unless you spend time and energy on better things instead, at which point you're just as happy as you were before except with less money and less free time. That's the same reward profile as drug addictions, frankly.

I think it's even more hedonistic to waste time and effort on exceptional food and drink when you could just keep yourself contented with average stuff and devote that time, money, and energy to higher pursuits. Not that I'm entirely uninterested in those kinds of experiences, but I'm not the one to be accusing of hedonism here.
So the problem is growing number of people don't pay enough attention to a particular subject or social interaction. They are in the state of continuous partial attention.

Here's a simple test if you have this condition: Consider news/tweets/blog items you read this morning. How many many different topics they covered? How long did you focus on one particular topic (eg. programming, software industry trends, social psychology). Now think if you REALLY paid sufficient attention to each subject to produce a meaningful and lasting effect (eg. form new opinion about a technology trend, make a technical decision affecting your work, etc.). If the answer isn't clear then you too are in this 'partial attention' state.

The point is, it isn't how people use the technology or tools. It is about how many things people pay attention to and how long they keep that attention.

The fix isn't to unplug, but to reduce time spent in 'continuous partial attention'.

May I suggest you now go unfollow a few people from your Twitter account :)
According to the condition I previously provided, (sqrt(x^2+y^2) - l/2) should be greater than or equal to b for the box to fit through.

Here let us take h=66 since it will fit only that way in the corridor.

x = 31, y = 32

b = 22, l = 57, h =66

So (sqrt(x^2+y^2) - l/2) = 44.55 - 28.5 = 16.05

Now 16.05 is less than b(=22), so the box will not fit through.
It's not an arbitrary line, it's a line between instant/realtime updates and not. Between short attention span distractions and long ones.

Yes you can read a book and ignore your surroundings, but you can't talk to someone and dip into a book for a few seconds every couple of minutes like you can with a phone or email. You have to give attention to a book, it can't clamour for it or ring.

Hey, maybe that's a good idea... books you like and want to read but keep not getting round to - make them ring and text you to call you back to them.
Couple of decades ago I worked on a team for a major corporation (Rockwell Int.). The objective of the team was to develop the ultimate performance evaluation form (e.g. program... you can't design a form like that without defining the program also). The result was a 7 page monstrosity that I have been totally embarrassed about ever since. I ended up resigning and moving to another company because I didn't want to have to use the thing to evaluate my employees.

I think the best evaluation I've ever seen was the one the character in the movie "Office Space" gave himself. You know, the one where he describes what he does and ultimately concludes that he really only does about 15 minutes of productive work every week. I think about this every time I peek into a cubicle and see one of the other developers "hard at work" watching stuff on U-Tube.
As a consumer of open source libraries, my vote has to go for MIT. There's nothing wrong with Apache but I really appreciate the brevity of MIT and BSD licenses. I know brevity isn't all you should care about, but both licenses seem to have stood up fairly well over the years while being intuitive to understand. I'm no fan of custom licenses, even if their meaning seems crystal clear (like the WTFPL). Sure it's funny, but I'd rather have people using my code be able to use it with complete confidence and with minimal hassle from their legal department.
Part of their "operation" is that they are flagging tons of popular videos that have nothing wrong with them.
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It looks to me in the C version, he only frees the first listener. The C++ version also provides the listeners as a set. The C version doesn't mind if you add the same listener multiple times, so to be apples to apples you'd use a vector, but the code wouldn't change otherwise, so no problem there.
Ubuntu, so nice, it must be on there thrice. Lists like these often substitute fanboyism for open-minded reviews and the full range of possible packages.

You need to break lists like these down into categories, and then list out options. There's dozens of very, very good tools out there for about any problem you have each with a specific focus where they are the best.

Everyone has biases on what they prefer to use, but it's super important when you are influencing people that know less than you to give them the full picture.
Unfortunately if you only think of usability as 'the labels are lined up perfectly', you won't create good interfaces.
He admitted so on his own blog.

I remember him saying that the new data didn't really change anything and explaining why the long tail idea was still valid.

edit: This is what I was thinking of: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/06/excellent-hbr-...

So in the data she cites, the head of the online music market represents 32% of the all plays, and the tail represents 68%. That's certainly no challenge to the Long Tail theory; indeed, it's even more tail-heavy than the data I cited in my book (probably because I used a more generous estimate of 50,000 tracks for Wal-Mart's inventory).
- That's an array of pointers; the listeners themselves aren't malloced

- The set / list difference is noted just below the code samples
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