skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To Mr. Lazaridis, a life-long tinkerer who had built an oscilloscope and computer while in high school, the iPhone was a device that broke all the rules. The operating system alone took up 700 megabytes of memory, and the device used two processors. The entire BlackBerry ran on one processor and used 32 MB. Unlike the BlackBerry, the iPhone had a fully Internet-capable browser. That meant it would strain the networks of wireless companies like AT&T Inc., something those carriers hadn’t previously allowed. RIM by contrast used a rudimentary browser that limited data usage."

“I said, ‘How did they get AT&T to allow [that]?’ Mr. Lazaridis recalled in the interview at his Waterloo office. “ ‘It’s going to collapse the network.’ And in fact, some time later it did.”

You have to give them at least a little bit of forgiveness for having to deal with AT&T/Verizon for so many years. I guess the constraints by their partners never allowed them to innovate.
I don't agree. He's looking for something that he can't put his finger on. The likelihood that the one designer he chooses comes up with the best idea is low.

By holding the contest, he can get dozens of submissions. They may not be well-designed, but he can use the best theme from the designs submitted to hire a top-notch designer and polish it up, if need be.
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All true. It'd still be weird for RMS to try and claim the kernel is GNU, but I don't believe he ever did.
Interesting that the functional prototype was 3D printed.
It sounds like you've only read in line-by-line files then. I mean, it doesn't make sense to read in a JSON or XML document line-by-line. Nor does it make sense to read in most binary files line-by-line.

Some formats, such as csv do make sense to read in line-by-line though.
For me, exam-focused learning has been the norm, not the exception. I don't hear very often that people use these SR systems continuously for years, and if so, it's usually in language learning
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When it comes to entering non-english text, touchscreens are fantastic for millions upon millions if not possibly billions of people for reasons other than "operating a shell".

I didn't have to sell my parents on buying new iPhones, finally, when they saw me switch from typing rapid English with a friend complete with a random emoji, to Korean while chatting with a cousin halfway across the world (for free, I might add, BB really missed an opportunity there), to Chinese handwriting recognition while still talking to said cousin, and finally Voiceover (the screenreader) just to demo to my visually impaired dad. Then setting up Facetime on the big(ger than previous generation iPhones) iPhone 5 display sealed the deal, so to speak.

Touchscreens are fantastic for the average consumer, and they can be great for techies too. They might fall flat compared to physical keyboards but we're not the target audience ...and even if I'm not, I do so much more than entering code or shell commands every day that I'm willing to make that trade in a heartbeat. Just the flexibility of software keyboards switching languages being an everyday thing nowadays kind of blows my mind still, having come from the world of Graffiti and hardware keyboards for years before iPhone.
The problem is that public outrage never amounts to effective activist action unless people can physically see the government's oppression -- that usually stirs people up.

With Internet spying, nothing changes -- we just now know what we sort of assumed. It's really easy to just move on with your day.

The question is, What does it take to make policymakers take action?
He wants you on his side of the propaganda war.
Odd, until I read that, I thought it refers to Apple. The culture of neatness, perfectionism, gadget obsession, even the motto stones that reek APPL slogans.
Aw, c'mon. This should have won an award: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
Then a turtle or a sloth.
Yeah, but the "..." in your quote has the all-important qualifier: ...Don’t take that as slight to the controller though because it’s more about the comfort of familiarity over functionality. I would choose a 360 controller because I have several thousand hours experience using it, however...
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Do you have any experience with the inverse statement? That is, have you had a good experience with optional types in an enterprise context?

I'm curious how many runtime errors persist due to the optionality of the type system. Perhaps code standards requiring all "library" code to be typed would be a good balance.
These people are going to have a really hard time with Oculus Rift. Sucks to be them.
Why does it sound wrong, is there a tradition of using actual physics in side-scroller interactions?
Suggestions:

- Autofocus the url bar, if this is possible. Make the search field the first tab field (it's currently the second).

- Do a live fuzzy filtering of my webapps, not a submit-based search. This might work better if you had the list of results in a dropdown from the search box (think how Sublime shows its command pallette. If you don't know what that is, see the third animation at http://www.sublimetext.com/), instead of taking over the main body of the page.

- If I press Enter from the search box, open the top result that's currently showing.

These three changes allow for the workflow Ctrl-T, Tab if necessary, type fuzzy search for app name, press enter. Otherwise it's faster just to use the URL bar.

- You should show the URL of the shortcuts when editing the list of shortcuts, and preferably giving an option to turn on the domain on the main view.

EDIT:

- I would suggest making all my currently selected apps stored in localStorage, and using appCache for the page, if you're not already. If you want people to use this heavily, it'll need to load fast. The directory you can just load from a server, but I shouldn't have to wait for a response if I'm on a bad connection and I want to open a web app.

- Is there a way to load in your data without redirecting the New Tab page? Currently, the way you have it set up breaks the Ctrl-T, type-url flow that I use constantly, and I imagine many other people do too. I know it used to be possible to take over the new tab page without changing the url - did the update break this?

EDIT: changed the first suggestion.
I do acknowledge the gravity of the situation, and have done for some time. I don't see what being surprised has to do with that. I don't see why (dishonestly, imo) characterising recent events as unpredictable is a useful message. And, I am not surprised. To say otherwise would be a lie.
This is a result of the inferior auto-complete implementation in Chrome. Firefox does not have this issue.
I guess it's not really on most people's radar. There's little professional incentive in arguing against some old quasi-folk theory that is not believed by any of your peers.

The incentive could exist for scientists who want to write books and be more public facing. However, I think most neuroscientists want to write something that relates to their professional work and is more interesting to them. Triune brain theory just isn't on radar.

Moreover, popular neuroscience is really really hard to do well. You need to find the overlap between the narrow controlled experiments of neuroscience and the messy realm of observable human behavior and experience. Things are that are known in the former are seldom known in the latter. Careful scientists know this and often feel alarmed when asked to talk about things outside the lab.

This leaves much of the writing, by default, to people who aren't concerned about being exact and who are happy to use technical terms as loose metaphors. Many of these aren't neuroscientists, but people who want a little neuro terminology to make their work seem cooler. Accurate neuroscience is not all that important to success in punditry and publishing. For example, psychiatrist Louann Brizendine's books on gender and the brain and economist Paul Zak's oxytocin book The Moral Molecule seem to me to write egregious neurobabble.

(There are certainly modules in the brain -- contemporary work statistically identifies which areas are active at the same time. There's a large cool literature on the default mode network, which is a pretty central concept in neuroscience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_network ).

(edited to fix a typo)
I'm curious, how much of this did the NSA learn from Facebook et al? There has to be some overlap between the analytics Facebook uses and what the NSA is doing. Did they learn anything from articles Facebook employees have written? Has Facebook assisted them with any of this? Or has the NSA basically had to reinvent the wheel?
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I actually like the new start page, but I would love if there were an extension to remove the new "Apps" button from my bookmark bar. I never use apps and so it's just wasting bookmark bar real estate.
TDD is supposed to work WITH iteration. You have one feature, you write the test for it, you implement it, pass the test, and go on to the next feature, etc.
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A friend of mine is a psychiatrist who specializes in treating ADHD. She told me about a conference she went to recently, where someone presented an interesting paper.

Apparently, there was an amazing study done relatively recently (last five years), in which they demonstrated that, in mice, exposure to nicotine during pregnancy results in higher rates of ADHD in the grandchildren (passed down through the female offspring exposed to nicotine in utero, not the males).

I can't find the study at the moment, but the findings would be monumental if they also apply to humans too.
Hey steveridout, you've got a point there. It's a weakness I've ran into many times when I move away from languages into learning something like statistics or hard algorithms. It's possible, by simplifying the information and using a combination of text and images. The problem when you start doing this is the time it takes to create a deck of cards that make sense. It would be a great idea to be able to use a templating language for your flashcards which you can embed simple rules and plug in a source of data. SRS programs have cloze deletion but it will go much further than that. It may be a good idea for an Anki plugin, perhaps. I hadn't thought about it until just now. ......
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I remember talking to a finance girl in NYC and she the only real options were BB or iPhone. BB because it was the most serious, you could type the fastest, iPhone was allowed though. I've seen lots of people in politics, running political campaigns texting canvassers constantly, etc. also love the BB. Well BB tried to switch to being the iPhone and it didn't work. Only reason Android succeeded at copying iPhone is that it is often cheaper and goes through faster hardware iterations through many OEMs so often has better hardware to boot.
Yeah. I've recently done a couple of interviews on the other side of the fence (as the interviewer), and I've hit on a problem that can be worked out collaboratively between the interviewee and the interviewer—and how far we go depends on their skill.

It always begins a discussion of the problem and what we want to solve, plus a bit of how—so we can figure out what it is that we're going to be testing for and how to build from that point.
contest -> publicity
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The documentary is available for free on archive.org:
http://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelf
The NSA spying on social networks is not surprising; your local cops do that. On the other hand, the NSA deliberately sabotaging the software that is widely used in our own government, even by the military, is pretty surprising. You can find people on sci.crypt and the cryptography mailing list who pointed to the NSA's other mission (the one they apparently ignore), "Information Assurance," as a reason to believe that AES did not have some secret back door.

It is not a lie to claim that at least some of these revelations were surprising to a lot of people.
Well we learned a lot about Tommy Refenes. The insights into the controller were more vague.
This was part of my thinking in http://getstarter.com single key navigation to your favorite web sites, but for some reason it seems not to catch on that well.
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Working for me. Shows pictures, names and profile number. If you scroll to the top left you can browse all of the first users of Facebook. Pretty neat.
I've watched a bunch of my friends do 99designs contests and can back you up with the concern about stolen logos. In the contests I've run in the last couple years, I've tried to submit somewhat idiosyncratic briefs to constrain the possible logos. On the other hand, I'm betting you'll have a hard time naming a company that had to pay "thousands of dollars in lawyer fees" for buying what turned out to be a boosted logo. You just take the logo down and get a new one.

The rest of your comment, though --- what is Colin supposed to do with this? He doesn't want to buy face-to-face collaboration. He doesn't want to subsidize your whole industry. Have you seen his website? Suffice it to say that your profession has very little to with his company strategy. I doubt he cares how many minutes go into the design; the point of contracting the work out is that other people can do in 10 minutes something he couldn't do in a month.

So what it boils down to is, he's made a decision that a logo has $500 in business value to him. The process you're advocating, with the specific bells and whistles you're mentioning, starts at $5000. No sale. Could you instead give him some advice that involves a more effective use of $500?
My Nexus is horribly laggy on a lot of things (and if I ever have more than one tab open in Chrome, the tablet is damned near unusable), even with 4.3; the battery life for me is measured in hours.

For me, it’s a little worse because the software is still so far behind in terms of availability and usability—there’s so very little that the Nexus does better than my iPhone 4 that I don’t want to use it.
I think he will have a hard time getting a qualified designer to take a $500 project seriously. I have no doubt he can get something for $500, but it won't be something he likes.
The $500 is worth the marketing value of a contest alone.
My cause is my mortgage.

Sorry, not picking on you specifically, but the HN meme of 'what we do is so important' is pretty tiring. My very first job, supporting cancer research, was actually probably pretty important in the scheme of things, and the owners were relentless about busting our chops if we started to take ourselves seriously. I liked that, and found it healthy.

So, a less flippant 'my cause' statement. I'm an engineer. I like solving hard problems. I work hard regardless of whether your business is "important" or not. Now maybe I'm falling into the 'hire somebody just like you' trap, but I'd far rather hire somebody motivated by solving problems, not somebody motivated by the extrinsics.

I am not saying you are wrong, but I am offering a counterpoint. Personally, I scoff at most of the job listings on here. 'Change the world with our personalized back scratching service' or whatever (only a tiny change from a lot of the actual job postings, I made it silly to avoid ticking off legitimate businesses). Tell me you want me to scale your back room, or your analytics are really hard and no one really knows how to extract meaningful data, or you are trying to get your latency down, or you are moving to GPU and CUDA to solve some computational problem. I'm there, I don't care too much if it is Santa Strike or cancer research (I care some, I am overstating things a bit to make a point).

I'm expecting some push back on this, and that's reasonable. I'll just point out that while I am not a pure blood capitalist, I do think the markets will tell you if what you do is 'important' in the form of success. Which is not to say really important things might fail in the market, they do. But if you are making money you are providing value to somebody, and that is, to my mind, enough reason to live and contribute. The world would be bleak indeed if we focused on very. serious. and. important. problems.
It doesn't sound wrong, this is the best way to attain a game were controls and movements feel great. This is my big problem with the new Counter Strike : Global Offensive that a lot of new comers don't see. It doesn't feel as good as old 1.6 or quake 3 or uT... It feels like developers didn't really care about great movements and focused on other things in the game.

I can't agree more with SMB's daddy, movements are the most important thing in the game. It's the core.
Even back as far as when she was mayor of San Francisco, it's not clear that she was particularly liberal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein#Mayor_of_San_...
I think it's only for the parallax effect.
For those interested in the development of the game Super Meat boy, the documentary _Indie Game_ follows the two developers during the making of the game, as well as the makers of Fez.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/

I thought it was a good film.
If you are wondering "what is Ripple?" Wikipedia's definition[1] is the best:

"Ripple is an open-source protocol for a payment network. In its developed form, the Ripple network is intended to be a peer-to-peer distributed social network service with a monetary honour system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_monetary_system
They already use them in 64bit Objective C on the desktop.
Every time I hear the name "Tarsnap" I think of the long skinny dragons on heraldic crests, so I'm with you thematically.

I think it's a bad idea to use a novelty display typeface for the name. Also, that typeface looks like something from a 1990s Front Line Assembly album.

Also, any typeface you pick better mesh well with Times New Roman, because Colin can be trusted to set type in that.

The castle will be hard to reproduce at different sizes, won't work at all in black and white, and is effectively clip art.
its not about if you make the mistakes or not per se, its about the removal of unnecessary mental burdens.
"It's not an in-apt analogy to compare this to light sabers," Lukin added.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925132323.ht...

It's however rather sad scientist has to make such statements to get attention. As this research actually has really awesome applications: "Particular applications of this technique include all-optical switching, deterministic photonic quantum logic and the generation of strongly correlated states of light9."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Worth pointing out:

Type providers, while awesome, are simply code generators that run interleaved with the type checking pass.

What's happening in that linked Gist is a bit different: It's generating types signatures that are devoid of their own behavior. In order to recreate type providers (or Hibernate-like things), you'd also need to give a type as a parameter to a macro for code generation. Since you can invoke the type checker at anytime, you can interleave code generation and type checking in much the same way as F#.

I don't think it's a good idea to generate code and strongly coupled types at the same time. An alternative approach would be to take some common source data structure, generate code and then generate types to validate that code. Those are two separate transformations, not one like with type providers. Type providers mean that type checking, compilation, and execution are coupled. In this Gist, you could run the code with or without type checking and you could ignore the code generation completely and run type checking for internal consistency. Much more flexible.
Abstract classes are unnecessary and "unpythonic", if you will; there's a lot of other preferred patterns in Python for that use case.
So the primary form of collection that should concern us most is media that spy on us while we use them. Books that watch us read them, music that’s listen to us listen to it. Search boxes that report what we are searching for to whoever is searching for us and doesn’t know us yet.

There is a lot of talk about data coming out of facebook: is it coming to me? is it coming to him? is it coming to them? They want you to think that the threat is data coming out. You should know that the threat is code going in.

For the last 50 years what has been happening in enterprise computing, is the addition of that layer of analytic on top of the datawarehouse that mostly goes in enterprise computing by the name of "business intelligence". what it means is you’ve been building this vast datawarehouses in your company for decade or 2 now you have only information about your own operations your suppliers your competitors, your customers now you want to make that data start to do tricks. By adding it to all the open source data out there in the world, and using it to tell you the answers to questions you didn’t know you had. That’s business intelligence.

The real threat of facebook is the BI layer on top of facebook warehouse. The facebook datewarehouse contains the behavior not just the thinking but also the behavior or somewhere nearing a billion people. The business intelligence layer on top of it which is just all that code they get to run covered by the terms of service that say "they can run any code they want for improvement of the experience". The business intelligence on top of facebook is where every intelligence service of the world wants to go.

Imagine that you are a tiny little secret police organisation in some not very important country. Let’s put ourselves in their position Let’s call them I don’t know what, you know ... "kirghista".

You are a secret police you are in the "people business" secret policing is "people business". You have classes of people that you want you want agents, you want sources you have adversaries, and you have influencables, that is people you torture who are related to adversaries wives, husbands, fathers, daughter you know those people.

So you are looking for classes of people. You don’t know their names, but you know what they are like you know who is recrutable for you as an agent you know who are likely sources, you can give the social characteristics of your adversaries, and once you know your adversaries, you can find the influencables.

So what you want to do is run code inside facebook. It will help you find the people that you want it will show you the people whose behavior and whose social circles tell you that they are what you want by way of agent, sources what their adversaries are and who you can torture to get to them.

So you don’t want data out of facebook the day you have data out of facebook it is dead. You want to put code into facebook and run it there and get the results you want to cooperate.

http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
Btw the castle source is a 3D model, so this logo can be scaled infinitely.
I've said it before and I'm saying it again: It needs to be a parsnip.

That's what springs to mind when you hear the name of your company, so that's what you need for a logo.

Here are a few options:

https://www.google.com/search?q=parsnip