skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This also extended to remembering events/conversations/etc in my own life, and they often became "intrusive thoughts." Was anybody hear ever picked on in 3rd grade? Imagine reliving that incident, in photographic detail, for no darned good reason during an 8th grade field trip.

God, that sounds awful. Proustian memory [1] forever would drive me insane. Imagine every breakup you have had over the years, vividly reliving them forever. Sometimes being forgetful is nice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_memory
Actually, no. Dividends don't give companies value. (In fact every time you pay one, your stock price drops by the amount of the dividend.) They return value to shareholders.

Yes, you're right about Buffet. And because the market is indifferent about when money gets redistributed, they are happy at this point to pay around $100K/share despite those shares having value tied up in a company that has shown very little willingness to distribute any earnings to investors.
That's the current plan. My application requires me to respond to these text messages, but a richer interaction through some sort of GUI (either web app or native smartphone app) would be much more practical here.
It is interesting. He is intelligent and has a very good grasp on reality, but does not seem to know himself very well. (e.g. not being able to control his thoughts and visualizations/memories)

It would be tremendous to master the self as well as reality -- then one could control his emotions and visuals, as well as channel it according to their will.
It's hard for me to see Microsoft's whole mobile strategy as anything other than a massive debacle (other than the Metro UI itself).

First WP 7 doesn't get upgraded to WP 8. Then you get a third OS for tablets. Then all they can come up with as a value proposition over iOS/Googdroid/AmazonDroid is Excel and a keyboard that makes a satisfying click.

MS certainly wasn't in the best position but they have many thigns they could take advantage of: huge cash stream, relationships with developers, relationships with OEMs, relationships in retail, relationships with corporate buyers, X-box live, Skype, Bing, etc. Despite all that they've managed to have little in the way of apps, installed base, mindshare, etc to show for the last 5 years in mobile. If this was all part of their master plan they need to be taken out back and shot in the dead of night.
So they are forced to choose the lesser of two embarrassments. I'm really curious what they are trying to hide.
i am not connected to this project in anyway. just thought the project is interesting. Not sure about whether this one is ready for release or not
Question = Why is it nice?

Response = "it's nice"
What if you created an all-new and substantive app/service category?
It's often said that there is 'nothing new under the sun' in terms of online apps/services. The hundreds of Twitter clones running around calling themselves disruptive underscore such a viewpoint, but let's set that aside for a moment and for fun assume the following is 100% true/certain:

1. a startup has created a web app/service which is so original that it creates a new category without any direct peers/competitors.

2. The startup is at a prelaunch stage, but the development version of the product works.

What, if any, special advice would you give to such a startup?
Like the author, I have the same, scattered detailed images of places/things/people from all over - but it is not sequential and it is not a searchable database.

I would definitely echo the: "Now here's a random very specific memory to take up all your working memory and distract you from your actual task" type of daily interruption such a memory has.

I would trade this "skill" any day for the ability to remember people's names the first time.
Nah mate, it's just some compiler flag that I didn't turn on (don't know which. my gcc-fu is fail since it's been really a long time since I touched C)
To each his own, but I just bought a Surface Pro and love it. It replaces a laptop and tablet and more, it's my main (and only) device from now on. Windows 8 makes total sense for a tablet, and is not in the way when I'm coding (hooked into a real keyboard/mouse/display). The killer feature for me though is the Wacom pen which is absolutely fabulous. I have like 10 notebooks spread out at work and at home with my notes, thoughts, diagrams, illustrations etc. Writing notes and todos in a text-editor feels like a straight jacket, but with the Surface it's even better than paper. I have an infinite drawing surface, I can zoom in and out, move stuff around, mix drawing with typing, draw diagram boxes, circles, insert images, copy and paste, undo, erase, share digitally etc. Now I can keep my notes all in one place, backed up and searchable. Writing with it even feels better than paper for me (not sure if being left-handed has anything to do with it), it's very responsive, has a sharp tip (unlike any pen you'll find on capacitive screens like the iPad). It just all fits together very nicely. This is the new PC, this is the productivity device I've always wanted. Being the Surface 1.0, it's not perfect, so I'll be transitioning to the Surface 2.0 when it comes out so that I'll get 9-10 hours of battery life instead of 5-7 now.

Would also like to clarify that the Surface RT is as useless as the iPad, if not more because of the lack of apps. Having Office on it might make it worth it for some people though.
What's wrong with Fox News? How is the site you listed more "decent"? Please describe "decent" as you understand that term? My sense is that your comment is snipey, snarky, snobby, snooty and snotty.
When discussing whether "linux just works" it is unfair to use a thinkpad as your reference platform. For as long as I can remember the thinkpad has had stellar linux support. The other x86 choices have only recently begun to catch up with the thinkpad and there is still some work to do.

I say this as a 17 year linux only user. I am not trying to disparage linux, I just want to point out that the thinkpad is an exceptional case.
Has this issue with D been fixed, or do users still have to choose between two incompatible libraries?
And replying to myself... Fahrenheit 451, of course!
Just for my curiosity's sake, would you mind posting the code you tried that segfaulted?
from what i understand (and on conference calls with our google reps), there's no more "tablets", it's a single category "desktops/tablets", but you can do "-100%" to exclude "mobile" (phones)

we were compelled to make the switch today, actually. it's gonna be an expensive Jul/Aug for us. we've adjusted some of our checkout pipeline so there's less typing for tablet users...eg paypal/amzn payment are shown first in list, less steps overall also. but it's not going to boost anything by an order of magnitude - basically just damage mitigation :(
At least for me I would say yes. I know I can think of my grandmother's house and immediately smell it.
For Python, a common idiom is to do this:

condition and truecase or falsecase

See "Boolean operations" and "Conditional expressions":

http://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#boolean-...
Two separate points I want to make:

a) If a company is approached by any spooky three-letter agency, the higher-ups of that company could possibly interpret that as a validation that they've made it 'big' -- and furthermore, they could see in that offer a security that three-letter agencies then have an interest in seeing the company continue to scale up and succeed (because of limited funds, three-lettered agencies can't just go merrily creating tools that work properly with the 'next facebook' every other 9 months... and furthermore, there's no knowing if they'll come across resistance when they solicit 'direct access' to the next company. Also, NSA would have just loved it if China and Russia was a big user of Facebook... so I can even imagine them doing something subtle to try to make that a reality).

b) I have worked in the defense industry, but what I worked on was pretty unremarkable (and not at all weird). Most of my coworkers and bosses were pretty liberal. I remember once I asked my boss (with whom I was pretty close and friendly with) how he felt that he was working for the defense given his political beliefs... and he had a 'meh, gotta put food on the plate for my kids somehow' answer. Then he further reaffirmed that what we were doing wasn't anything special, it's the folks in the NSA who're doing crazy Stuxnet-type shit. If we weren't doing what we were doing, someone else would have. So, my point in saying this is, for all the rage you see on HN I really just can't help but wonder if these folks would deny an offer from a company who's working for the American defense. I really think the only reason there was a lot of commotion (finally) over this issue was that it had just the right PR elements: a good looking guy, leaving the country in a coolass way, humiliating the world power by escaping arrest, etc. I mean, anyone who knew anything about anything already knew about these programs -- this was the cover of Wired last year: http://i.imgur.com/3Rjh1la.jpg

Lastly, I think folks who're pretty made at the top leading will just acquiesce to requests from NSA for reasons mentioned in point a, and because folks at the top are usually the sort of people who care about succeeding and making a company profit as much as it can, they generally don't give a damn about anyone's privacy:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
My issue with Bootstrap and Foundation is namespace pollution. Neither has a prefixed version, meaning neither can be imported into an existing project without serious headache. I believe Sass will implement mechanisms to address this soon, until then, I'm disappointed to see this issue absent from the post.
New Publication Lets The Voices Of Unpaid Interns Be Heard
What are some of the cool "unintended powers" you would want from Google Glass?
Not possible. Enhanced campaigns groups tablet bids with desktop bids.
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void){
printf("1 && 2 = %d\n", 1 && 2);
printf("1 || 2 = %d\n", 1 || 2);
}

What were you doing?
reminds me of this RadioLab episode about Mr. S
http://www.radiolab.org/2010/apr/05/limits-of-the-mind/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Shereshevsky
Or didn't put a format specifier, which makes sense coming from languages that don't have one in their print statements.
I honestly think that if anyone put a lot of work into this idea (easily find the cheapest textbooks you need for your classes) and covered major schools, there could be a large potential market. I only put in a week or two of work for one school and made $100 from 231 visitors.
Contrary to what they say about themselves, they can't really innovate. Search is what makes them. Can you imagine Google without it?

They'd be nothing.

All their existing products are copycat/published with the search leverage.

Imagine a rich kid who starts his own business. He thinks he's successful but it's his parents who feed him cash and make it easy for him. He never had to really fight for it.

It's the same with Google products - they can't fight for themselves, instead they rely on their daddy(search) to achieve success.

Now look at Apple or Samsung - they have many different products that are relatively successful. Meanwhile the big G only has one cow to milk - the search and they burden it with more and more ads with each quarter. They can't do it ad infinitum because too many people would run away from them. And it's not really improving, just abusing the previous success until it's still possible.

Larry Page should stop doing what he's doing. It's going to destroy this company sooner or later.

Does the stock price has to always rise? How much money do you really need? Just ignore cash and try to build something great, maybe then you will be able to truly innovate?
That is true. I guess it just made me wonder since he was going over how much trouble incorporating the human element into the equations is, and maybe trying to do without might be more practical (or maybe more predictable) going forward.
Yes it will: http://ideone.com/DYmxj0
Though this sounds really cool, its not feasible. Going that fast would definitely tear up the lawn just as much as it mowed it. Plus, its dangerous to ride that fast. You really only need so much speed.

But I would love to see X-Games Lawn Mowers. People on 130mph lawn mowers cutting grass the fastest.
There's no way Facebook is this dumb
San Jose State will suspend online courses offered with Udacity
That's how it is done. Classy.
In locales where access to higher technology is limited, I imagine that book banning could still be quite effective.
How to look busy at work
If you work in an office then there may be times when you have nothing to do. Don’t feel guilty for enjoying these short breaks in what is usually a busy job. It is important however to fill these times with activities and gestures that make you look busy.
Not putting a format specifier wouldn't cause a segfault.
It was surprising to read they will be reimbursing any overdraft fees caused by the problem. Good move.
Mobile search is ripe for innovation. Apple (and MS, Nokia, RIM...) can disrupt mobile search by providing a richer and more engaging search feature customized for mobile devices. The search box just isn't cutting it anymore.
I checkout the source code, build base on guide but fail:(
Yeah I'm dying to see the original C code but it isn't on the page anywhere, AFAICT.

From the article, about the C version: "Mine hadn't worked, which I suspect is some sort of compiler issue."

Yeah I'm going to go out on a limb and proclaim that there's no way this was due to a compiler "issue" in gcc. Not that gcc is perfect, but there's no way it is barfing on one of these handful of line programs that does nothing but some logical operations and printfs.
It's a 130 mile per hour lawnmower.

I believe "not feasible" was pretty well implied.
Are the photos kept on your hard drives? Would be nice if they could be stored on S3 or Goggle Drive for piece if mind.
This idiom is however out of flavor, unless you need to support python 2.4.

Nowadays you would do this:
truecase if condition else falsecase
Isnt this normal? Being able to recall smells/sounds/etc from places you've been?
Can you switch without a full reboot?
Awesome, thanks!
EMail sent.
C++’s best feature
Why is that unfair? Mac OS X doesn't work at all on my Acer, but it "just works" on Apple hardware.
They are not making a fully functioning lawn mower that goes 130mph, and certainly not one that you can buy.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lawn+mower+drag+...

Not sure what's novel about this. It's nothing but Honda marketing.
No, it is not true that the scientific consensus on cancer is that it is caused exclusively by random genetic mutations. Different cancers have different causes. There are, for instance, a small number of viruses that together cause a sizable fraction of cancers. Viruses make fairly specific genetic changes.
ah! I've been trying to write Python lately (I'm more of a Rubyist) and the internet suggested:

truecase if condition else falsecase

which is so inside-out that it hurts.

It didn't occur to me to use the boolean style - I guess I think of that as a perl idiom, and assumed that it would get sneered at in py-land
Studio 13 will use the g++ runtime:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37071/gndfg.html#O...
OS X changes every ~18 months also...
Did they? I graduated the year before that whole debacle, so I didn't get a very good sense of what happened beyond what was going on on one of the dorm mailing lists. I wouldn't be very surprised, though.
If you have the requisite skill to release two apps onto the App Store (both of yours look great, btw), you have enough skill to freelance at $100/hr.

I mention this because, as a nervous middle schooler who had fumbled around with Wordpress a few times, hosted a few sites for non-profits, but never did anything "big", I kept on telling myself "there has to be so much more to this, I need to get more experience, there's no way I'm worth more than minimum wage".
Well, my advice would kind of be the opposite: don't expect a TV appearance to send your traffic skyrocketing. TV is just not a traffic generator.

This.

Even major print publications. Doesn't even come close to the big online traffic drivers.
While having a good memory is important for cognition, it is just as important to be able to forget memories. There are probably limits to how efficiently our brains can scan memories for information relevant to a given situation and having more memories decreases the efficiency of this process. Also, when you can find almost all knowledge about anything on Google in just a heartbeat, it's inefficient to try to memorize most things. As Einstein said, "Never memorize what you can look up in books."
Once you understand short-circuit evaluation, it opens up certain coding tricks.

The line "[operation] or [error condition]" will attempt the operation on the left. If it succeeds, the program continues on the next line, ignoring the part about the error condition. If it fails, the error condition will execute instead. This might be something like "open file or die".

Likewise, "[operation] and [success condition]" will attempt the operation on the left, and if it succeeds, perform the operation on the right. This might be something like "read input and process it", which will perform the (possibly expensive) processing step only when input is received.

Code written in this style is sometimes, but not always, faster to execute. It's also sometimes, but not always, clearer.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation
The Pixel with the 3.9 kernel is really incredible - it just works with linux. Every single thing works flawlessly - suspend / resume, kernel mode setting, wireless, sound, touchscreen, display backlight. The weight, screen and battery life make the package even more compelling. I liked the macbook pro I had from work quite a bit, but this is the first laptop I have that I love using.
Common Lisp treats any non-nil value as "true," so the behavior is not bad for the "and" macro (yes, it is a macro). Additionally, the standard says that "and" should evaluate to nil if any argument evaluates to nil, or to its last argument otherwise:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_and....
Yes, it was noted that it was for developers and early testers:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57462641-1/brin-google-g...

(Note explorer edition is what the author of this post was testing)
If you prefer sass, there is a maintained bootstrap-sass port too. It works out fine, less and sass are pretty much feature equivalent these days, it's a simple port.

https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass

(You don't have to use it as a ruby gem, you can just download the source same as you do original less bootstrap, if you want)
Maybe. I just know that I can do it and also have some overlap with the eidetic memory crowd. Whether those are disjoint groups or not I don't know.
Did you write your own OT server or did you use something else?
Dumbstore - The most inclusive mobile app platform. Ever.
Sounds very familiar.

Out of curiousity, since I've never actually met someone with the same type of experience, do you ever have trouble "shutting your brain off"? e.g. sleep issues, etc.
This is commonly seen in Perl and PHP with stuff like

launchMissiles() or die('failure');
Agreed. I'm 30 years old and I can still visualize everything about my grade school schoolyard from a "bird's eye view" quite easily (can even do this with the apartment I moved out of and never saw again after 3.5 years old, and the grounds outside it) - never been accused of having photographic memory.

The author seems to be discussing more a "very good" memory mixed with a fixation on the past - e.g., feeling hurt that others don't remember what you remember means the past has some special importance for him/her. I recall plenty of things that happen that other people soon forget, but it never bothers me. I realized as a child I had to pretend to forget things, otherwise people would think it was bizarre I remembered so much about them that they'd forgotten ever telling me.

As I've gotten older and had less free time to think / worked crazier hours and ruminated on people and the past less, this tendency to remember lots of small details has receded (though still much stronger than other people's I meet). I'm pretty sure if I started thinking about the past often enough again though, it'd make a quick return to being as proficient at recalling numerous tiny details from the deep past as it was before.
I wouldn't say some researchers handing off a project warrants a broad panning of the school and the thousands of people that make it up...
And yeah, there will be sin/cosine/theta/pi.com attempts

I apologize for being thick skulled but I do not understand what you are referring to and I did not understand that similar statement in the comment to which you replied. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for explaining something to me that everyone else seems to have no problem understanding.
>A more relevant experiment would be to just hide certain books for a year and see if anyone notices.

How could you distinguish between a book being hidden, and the library simply not having said book, or having said book but it is accidently in the wrong section.
You're not crazy. I've found that a small customer service interaction early on (regardless of fault) helps solidify a good first impression. Not that I intentionally create problems...
Actually I will try to forget that, because it is wrong.

Many companies have the ability to cover employee stock compensation by issuing more shares. This dilutes existing ownership rather than returning value to investors.

If you want your eyes to glaze over, http://www.sec.gov/rules/final/33-8048.htm describes the SEC rules for how public companies need to tell their investors (who also generally own the company) what the risks are that their share of the company will diminish due to new stock being created for things like employee incentive plans.

Of course if you're an investor, your eyes shouldn't glaze over. Because we're talking large sums of money. For instance for Google in Q1 of 2013, we're talking something like $697 million of value transferred from existing investors to employees. (Search for "SBC" in http://investor.google.com/earnings/2013/Q1_google_earnings.... to see where I pulled that figure from. I won't guarantee that I read the filing correctly though.)
The evidence and reports that have thus far been released and discussed regarding the IRS's actions leave very little room to suggest they used their position to stifle freedom of expression.
Commercials with dancing people might sell clothes and booze, but they don't work for technology. I could barely tell what the product was until the end. And I still don't know why a Surface is better than an iPad.
I'd be very curious to learn about the speed difference between a competent typist and a fluent signer, especially if visual cues can be used to accelerate the latter (ie, an equivalent of auto-complete).

When writing prose (as opposed to code), I could actually see signing being very speed-competitive, and possibly a more natural way to communicate text than a keyboard. (Other advantages might be use with Glass, or the ability to pace around a room while "typing".) Maybe someday, kids will learn signing instead of keyboarding.
This reminds me of a similar story about how creative messaging can make people appreciate books and free speech:
http://vimeo.com/35758683
Huh, everyone I know switched to `brew` as an OSX package manager and never looked back. I've been quite happy with `brew`.