skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only complaint is that the dev tools gives colors in rgb instead of hex.
Interesting. But what causes such memory in real life may also create a limited ability for abstraction. That capacity for abstraction may or may not be affected by this method of enhancing memory. It may very well be that enhanced memory by itself necessarily results in a loss in ability for abstraction, but this would have to be investigated.

Here's a real life example:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1940...

Jill Price:

She described her life as like a split-screen television, with one side showing what she is doing in the present, and the other showing the memories which she cannot hold back.

"Some memories are good and give me a warm, safe feeling.

But I also recall every bad decision, insult and excruciating embarrassment. Over the years it has eaten me up. It has kind of paralysed me."
"Funes the Memorious" is a work of fiction.
I think the average person will find it easier to socialise on two different sites or possibly have two different facebook identities, rather than altering the settings so that they can make sure that relatives can't see pictures of them looking silly or doing things that they wouldn't approve of.
Seriously - I don't have anything currently running on GAE, and I found it incredibly interesting reading.
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Safari's available for Windows and the Mac. That means that 99% of computer users can use Safari.

Since when was "things are prettier" a bad thing? I do extensive Windows testing using browsers, and Safari's rendering engine is leagues ahead of everything else, its developments tools are more polished than Firebug and easier to figure out, and it's one of only two browsers that fully supports HTML 5. Firefox renders things shittily (even on the Mac, which has possibly the best rendering engine out there available for all apps by default, it fails Acid 3 at the moment, and while Firebug's great for some things, at other things it fails hard.
I think it is unfair to roll out a new JS library when Jhon is working so hard to do the "BEST" at most popular, easy, great jQuery.

We will not let you fall John
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This is one of the few places I think I would actually prefer a technological solution, rather than bioengineering. Given the scifi-prophesied implanted visual and aural enhancements, I would like to be able to search my stored memories, giving me a much better signal-to-noise ratio.
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Not trying to be negative here, but if you just have an idea, forget it. All of the companies selected last year seemed to be already launched and profitable. Even if you are in the alpha or beta stage, I get the impression that you won't even be in the running.

Amazon touts this as though teams with great ideas have a chance, but they are really looking for companies who are already writing large checks to Amazon.

YMMV and I could be wrong, but last year I was astonished and disappointed by the lack of real, early stage startups.
The reference implementation seems very buggy--moving my caret and having inconsistent behavior.

I would certainly be hesitant to type my password on a website which is handling the field like that. Let the browser vendors implement this option at the application level (as an option, probably, so users can enable/disable on all websites).
It was written so that the reader can take any given point and either embrace it as brilliant insight or disregard it as satirical Fake Steve humor.

I mean, the end of the piece entirely contradicts the earlier points... If Chrome OS is pointless and ineffectual -- occupying market niches that Apple isn't even interested in -- why should Fake Steve feel so threatened by it?

(BTW, he claims the 39 million netbook figure in the article is for the next four years, not next year, implying that the netbook market is minuscule compared to desktops, laptops, and phones.)
The whole "This is the best thing EVAR!" articles really need to die.

In general the "best" tool is whatever one is best for the current job. Fortunately in the Webdev world our tools are free and easily accessible.

I personally use Safari, Chrome, Firebug AND IE8 (seriously, the built-in developer tools are actually decent!). Usually I start with Firebug, and if I run into a small issue instead of wasting time trying to fix the tool in that case I just try another tool. Usually one of the tools will handle the case with no problems and I can continue debugging/developing my core project instead of debugging the tool.
That's an interesting idea. The problem with it is that it takes a very long time and, depending on the OS being used to develop, would be a pain to work with. I'd have to be in Windows constantly to test the IE pages as I built them, and since there are 3 separate Internet Explorers I'd probably have to build 3 separate pages. If you combine both browser usage and resolution detection, suddenly I've got to make a dozen pages for every page on my web site, which is time consuming and not exactly a comprehensive approach either.

This approach works for the iPhone, which is standardized completely, but not for the complex and varying desktop browser scene.
I agree with you. but...a home is not a share of stock. Everyone needs a roof over their head. Giving the houses to people that stayed within their means doesn't solve the problem of keeping everyone in a home. In short, you shouldn't treat houses the same as we treat stocks.
Why is this "iPhone-like"? Every basic mobile phone I've owned since the internet arrived on mobiles has had this functionality when entering PINs and passwords.
Ask HN: Is a patent app a product killer?
In doing research surrounding an idea I had (consumer electronics product with software tie-in) I discovered a patent application filed in 2002 that definitely encompasses the concept of my product. A patent has not yet been granted and the product has not yet been brought to market. While the patent app is not "exactly" what I want to build, the concept is definitely there and my product would certainly infringe from what I gather.

While I presume those of you with patent experience are more familiar with the software side of things, have you encountered something like this before? Is my only option to discuss licensing with the applicant? Can he even license it before a patent is granted?

Any help is greatly appreciated and my apologies if this is not appropriate subject matter for HN. Google is not helping me much unfortunately...
Froogle's been continually updated, even if it's not very good it appears to be as good as comparable products. And blog search is largely integrated now. (One wonders if it's worthwhile to maintain the distinction at all, now that Google's algorithm has a better 'understanding' of blog-style posts and links.)

Google Video and Notebook are good examples of projects that seem to linger and rot, but are in fact just having their energy devoted to their successors. Google Video development is being channeled into Youtube updates and Notebook into WAVE-based document creation.

And the only reason I didn't respond to your comment about FSJ's analysis is I agree with you 100% on that. Lyons' is without a doubt the most insightful and interesting commentary thus far.

I just think the 'Google is unfocused/fickle/etc' meme needs to be approached critically and put out to pasture if it's found wanting. (which i believe it is)
"It was mathematically proved decades ago that it is impossible -- not an engineering impossibility, not technologically impossible, but the 2+2=3 kind of impossible -- to create an operating system that is immune to viruses." Does anyone know what he's referring to? That would be an interesting read.
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Amusing snark aside, this is an erroneous view of how the government functions and of how it provides services.
As an aside, I don't think I agree with the sentiment of "because it's hard we shouldn't even try". Sometimes you get dead end fields. Sometimes, other useful or interesting things spring out of dead ends.

That said, WA's interface leaves much to be desired. With Google (and its ilk), I can enter almost anything in, and get results. If they're not exactly what I want, I can refine it, little by little. It's like a gradient search in a sense.

With WA, I can't enter almost anything in, and get some sort of results where I can continuously refine my search. Instead, I get deadends where it has no idea what I'm talking about, and I don't know what else to do to help it understand.

In fact, it reminds me of playing the old text-based adventure games, where you have to guess what you can do in the "dingy old cabin with a door to the north." You go crazy asking the computer to "pick up mirror" and it replies, "thoust cannot pickth up the mirror" You really have no idea what you can do, and no hint out of the myriad of possibiliies. You end up playing a guessing game, instead of an adventure game.

I think google squared has the right idea. You can enter in some, and it'll spit back some sort of results, usually with columns you don't want. Then you can proceed to refine those results, by adding columns you want and deleting ones you don't.
Five years ago, when I lived in South Korea next door to the DMZ, I got the fastest unlimited internet in the world for $35 a month, but all the computers I saw ran Windows 98. Now, they still use IE6? Do you think that years-long lag behind the state of the art can be permanently overcome, or just temporarily bypassed?
That compartmentalization is what makes Facebook such a neat social site.
Which is why you restrict access to your tagged photos. Let people see photos you upload but not photos tagged of you, and you maintain absolute control over your profile.
I really don't think anyone should view this claim as anything more than marketing claims and statements, not actual technical claims or guarantees.
The statements were given in an interview with Yahoo News: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090708/tc_pcworld/googl...
Many people find Facebook easier to use than email - if you're on a Windows box, Facebook messaging is sexier and sleeker than either Gmail or Outlook. Facebook's also done a brilliant thing with its Phone Book. If I access it from a mobile device, it lists the phone numbers of all my friends.
Many (all?) of the browsers using libwebkit (uzbl, surf, midori, arora) contains the Web Inspector.
Yeah, it's a neat exercise, but the guy takes it a bit too seriously. I think your 'bored employees' assessment is spot on.

I'd also like to point on that the source is pretty wacky.

Some choice quotes from the site:

"Since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an international, crypto-fascist syndicate has been rapidly consolidating its grip on this planet."

"The system is in collapse now. This is my best and only advice: Get into a situation that eliminates your reliance on luck and minimizes the impact of factors that are completely beyond your control. Do this immediately."

Apply grains of salt as needed.
The first link in the description "Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful" is a pretty good read. I initially tried to submit it, but it was autokilled it seems.

Link: http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html
A quick search reveals many people in my network who post photos of drug use despite having their parents as friends. Methinks some privacy control has been taken advantage of.

Those crazy kids are a fickle bunch, and throughout history they've wanted to not be where their parents hang out.

But with Facebook the two groups are separate. Think of it as a house: It's all one place, but each group has their privacy. The parents can have a dinner party upstairs while the kids get drunk and party in the basement.
Dr. LSD to Steve Jobs: How was your trip?
If I could double up-vote this article, I would. Surprisingly astute, and I think I learned something about tools and interfaces.
I don't see how showing each letter individually is more secure than showing the whole password in the clear. Anyone looking at your screen is still going to see every character in your password.

The only reason this approach makes sense on mobile phones is that you can easily prevent others from seeing your screen. But if I'm logging in to a site on a projector in front of a bunch of co-workers, I don't want my password displayed to them. Not even one character at a time.
The author thinks that a handshake is "an annoying relic of the past.", and launching an app and bumping phones is somehow superior? Whatever. A handshake can tell you a lot about a person and gives us a little, sometimes much needed, human contact from people outside our normal circles.

I'm not dogging the app, just the author's assertion.
They will only get into trouble if they manage to pick up any sort of significant market share.

If the Google browser is a flop no one will care less.
What if WA had NBA stats? How about prices of similar cameras over time? Would the same stupid people want visualizations for that?

I wonder if that would that then turn it into a "non-solution to a problem"?
I don't think you can proceed from "we forget things" to "it's good that we forget things." We get cancer.

However, a decade and a half on the internet is enough to convince me that the ability to let certain visual memories fade into oblivion is a good thing.
according to this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910

xahlee.org is banned.
Anyone know of a decent firefox extension for sending print articles back to the regular web page? I keep my browser maxed on a 1920x1200 monitor, so these are unreadable (though they're great on my Pre). I'd rather have ads and pictures than a giant wall of text, especially since I have adblock, but is there anyone else who shares that need?
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This is a very informative story. I'd like to give it a summarization so that the rest of us would not go into the same trouble.

1. Keep a very keen eye on your customers and selling. Mr. Baumeister sold high-end products. With economic downturn, fewer people spend money on luxueries. He should predict that when economic was going down.

2. Pay constant attention to cash flow and balance statement.

3. As a startup, don't outsource critical component. If you have to, always double check it. Seems the incompetent accounting firm played a significant role in failure of his business.
I like this one:

1/9 = 0.1111...
2/9 = 0.2222...
3/9 = 0.3333...
...
8/9 = 0.8888...
9/9 = 0.9999...

yessir
The 34-54 age-group is a 20-years interval (28%) versus 24-34, which is a 10-years interval (25%). In other words, there are almost twice as many users in the 24-34 interval as either in the 34-44 or the 44-54 intervals (contrary to what the article states). Am I missing something ?
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Interesting quote I heard last week, from Stephen Fleming, successful VC and now Vice Provost of Georgia Tech. It was something like, "I've never seen a married founder bootstrap a company to a large exit and had the marriage survive."
That's true, but whatever they are doing, it still sounds like they've got money to spend so they are spending it. 9.5 million in 6 months? That's a lot of servers and a lot of programmers working on a web app.
If you happen to like inline-block (which I do), you’ll break FF 2 fairly reliably, as well.
"Safari's available for Windows and the Mac. That means that 99% of computer users can use Safari."

Firefox is available for Linux, OSX and Windows. It's open-source to boot and is available in different builds and brands for different systems.

That means that 100% of developers can use Firefox, regardless of the OS they choose to run.
I've never seen study that looks at physical performance as it pertains to sleeping schedule. This is pretty fascinating, I would not have thought there would be a correlation.
A large number of people have iPhones, relative to other phones on which web browsing is usable. Also, the iPhone is the first phone worth using for browsing the web, for many people. It's nothing about which to be upset. It is simply a way for the author to easily convey the goal of the article in the title.

I don't recall see this functionality in my one previous 'smart phone' (a Treo 650), but perhaps my memory has failed me.
Because it's a lot easier to create two separate IDs and log in and out between the two of them, or to bookmark two separate sites in the hopes that the same friends use both of them and that the interface is just as easy to use on both of them or that the features are equally good on both. Come on.
What's with the defensive attitude?

I'm saying that things being pretty is not my primary concern when looking for development tools. It's OK if they are pretty, but that's pretty far down on the list of things I care for.

As for Safari's rendering engine, I see you claim that is "leagues ahead of everything else" on Windows. Are you talking about text-rendering? In that case I would like to comment on how it is different from all the other software on Windows. Running its own anti-aliasing it just stands out and looks weird.

If you are talking about speed, I honestly don't care. Same reason I am completely yawning over Chrome. If you are talking about CSS3 feature-set, I honestly don't care either, because using any CSS3 features while people are still using MSIE would be messing up the experience for about 50% of your visitors.

As for Safari being "one of only two browsers that fully supports HTML5"... You know that HTML5 is only a draft at this point? The spec isn't even finalized. The Acid 3 test even admits this much, saying it's testing features which may or may not end up in a official spec.

Excuse me for not caring very much for Safari, when Firefox is my main browser and does everything I need. I'll test my shit in Safari, but that's as far as I'm willing to go with exposure to craptacular Apple software on Windows.
Maybe remove the "&type=printable" at the end of the URL ?
The author's point is that the users know they want, say, NBA stats, or price comparisons, so they should be able to ask for those.
I discovered a patent application filed in 2002 that definitely encompasses the concept of my product.

Only one? Look harder, you should be able to find dozens, all overlapping and contradicting each other.

Can he even license it before a patent is granted?

Anyone can license anything at any time. Its just an agreement not to sue. Of course, it won't help you if any of the other bazzilion people who think its their brilliant idea decide to sue, as the one thing that never seems to be offered along with generously taking your money is any kind of indemnity.

In short, it would have been better not to look. Forget you saw it and just do your thing. What you produce at the end will probably be so different than what you set out to, it won't matter anyway. If you do become successful, a long line will form of people who claim you've stolen their idea. You'll have a legal staff to deal with it by then.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer. A real lawyer would probably snort whatever he was drinking out his nose upon hearing advice like this...
Not great for projectors, but pretty good for your average use. If I'm typing my password in, my main concern is someone walking by glancing over and seeing my whole password.

This is a good balance between security and ease of use. I rarely mistype my passwords, but my less technical mother does frequently. Showing her the char she hit would be very helpful. It's a good compromise.
"Weight management is about calories consumed versus calories expended."

Yeah. That's about as useful as saying that alcoholism is caused by over-drinking.

There are all sorts of diseases and conditions that cause obesity, and we know for a fact that the primary cause is not eating too much (eating too much or too little is the effect): menopause-induced weight gain, drug-induced weight-gain, cancer-induced weight loss.

The idea that the recent (post-1970) epidemic of obesity might have something to do with the massive amounts of refined carbohydrates we began consuming (in response to low-fat hysteria) is not a bizarre one. Sugar is a brand-new element to the human diet and now we're eating 100 pounds per year per capita.

And with your last statement, you aren't seriously denying the primacy of growth hormone in childhood growth, are you? Because otherwise, your argument about mass triggers is rather tangential.
If I develop in a single OS, it doesn't matter to me where else my browser's available. So if I design things without using Linux, Safari's sufficient, and there's no disadvantage to my using it.

Two browsers can each be good without one rendering the other entirely useless. Safari's development environment is in many ways better than Firefox's, so why not use it when you've got it (which is 99% of the time)?
A lot of people who have iPhones never used data on other phones and thus describe everything as iPhone like.
So what do you care for if it's not prettiness, speed or standards compliance?
A common trick to show an upward trend is to show just the first and last point of something that has gone up in a certain period without showing the data in between. Like that it always looks like you are going 'up', no matter what.

If you look at the datapoints in between you get to see more detail, in this case a meteoric rise over the first couple of days and then a fairly steady decline, which is a more realistic picture. So, in this respect I'm more inclined to believe alexa.com over compete, not because they give me a story that I'd like to hear but simply because their data offers more transparency. In the long run (over many month) there will be more convergence between the shapes of the graphs, but for the moment alexa gives a more realistic image to extrapolate from, simply because it shows you more intermediate points. If alexa had just shown the first and last datapoints then the graph would have been the same but the conclusion would have been completely different.

Of course you're entirely free to disagree with that :)

For the record, I use my own site (ww.com) as a benchmark whenever I look at other sites to try to figure out the bias of the reporting agency but with sites as large as msn, google and bing that is not a useful technique because my own site is so much smaller that it is simply a flat line.
This would definitely be a drug for which the new FDA requirements of searching for psychiatric side effects during clinical trials would be of crucial importance. Quite a few drugs have turned out to have unexpected psychiatric side effects in recent years that didn't turn up during animal testing. Rimonabant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimonabant

is an example of a drug that at first sounded like it had no downside, only upside, when it was released, but it has been withdrawn from the market now that its dangerous side effects have been discovered. Rimonabant is not the only recent example like that. The human brain is a very complicated, interacting biochemical system, and drugs that were believed to be harmless have often been shown to have severe psychiatric side effects.

Thanks to the other participants who have already mentioned examples of strong visual memory storage not having fully beneficial effects in actual patients.
I've recently switched to Safari as well, for a very simple reason. Firefox performance was just too bad to deal with any longer. The combination of nutso RAM / CPU it took was bringing everything else on my machine to a slow crawl.
Thanks for coding this up!! It's great to have options out there for how you handle passwords.
"Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?"
The iPhone is doing it kind of unnecessarily since it has a (virtual) QWERTY keyboard. It is more of a necessity for phones with "normal" keypads because it is hard to memorize the multitap sequences (especially when there can be 10 characters per key).
Ah thanks. Forgot about that post.