skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps Cinderella was a poor example due to its origins as a folk tale. Let's substitute Mickey Mouse for Cinderella in my example. Would I be able to write, publish, and profit from my own non-satirical Mickey Mouse stories if I clearly labeled them as not originating from Disney? What about 250 years from now?

I think part of the disconnect between your opinion of copyright law and some of the other commenters here is caused by the lawyer/hacker dichotomy. Hackers tend to view any involvement of the courts as a failure. For most non-wealthy people and most small businesses, the threat alone of legal action has a chilling effect.

An argument I make against long copyrights, especially for famous works, is that these stories and characters become woven into our popular culture. At some point, the public deserve to own their own culture, not megalithic corporations. Cinderella is the story it is because of the additions of different storytellers over time, like the godmother and glass slippers added in Perrault's Cendrillon.
I say go ahead and compare. Shakespeare and Dickens were both considered highly-commercialized and not art in their time. We already see pg's incredible value as a writer.

And what does the format matter? If it did, we would disregard haikus as poetry just because they can fit into tweets.
I called Scoble a narcissistic douchebag eight months ago (Get it? Shower == Douche! ;). But I've known that ever since he live video blogged from in line to buy the first iPhone with a webcam attached to his trucker's cap. He replied "thank you", and then claimed that he found my criticism quite motivating (the psychological term for that effect is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply ), before he blocked me. https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015157966444465...

The Yes Men hit upon what Google Glass is really all about -- the Managerial Leisure Suit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj-gisszHM0 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_dg6V8pQGo
Oftentimes inability to focus is because you didn't leave yourself a good starting point. Writers use this trick; they stop for the day when they are sure what comes next. So split it into two - sit down and spend a bit of time doing nothing but orienting - figuring out what you would do next if you were about to do it. Then when you've identified it, go take a break until you feel ready to start again.
Federal Court: No suspicion needed for laptop searches at border
(not op) I have 4 reported to Apple about Mavericks and one (Quicktime) was fixed with 10.9.1. The other 3 are on the Finder, first appeared in 10.9, and were not fixed in 10.9.1. Mavericks has the buggiest Finder I have seen on a 10.x release. It is a pain to have to restart Finder multiple times a day.
I took to some time earlier today to share some of my own anecdotal experiences in writing 5 books for O'Reilly Media over the past 5 years in a post entitled "5 Questions for Aspiring Author-Entrepreneurs" - http://wp.me/p3QiJd-53

The questions that I examine are these:

* What are your motives?

* How long will it take?

* To self-publish or not to self-publish?

* Is it a project or a product?

* What is its expected shelf life?

The post is about 2,500 words and the tl;dr is that you should seriously consider thinking of yourself as an author-entrepreneur and thinking of your book as a startup. One other post (from back in August) is also in the book-as-a-startup category and talks about some of the lessons I learned in writing a 2nd Edition of a book that was already somewhat well-established - http://miningthesocialweb.com/category/book-as-a-startup/

Would be glad to chat more if I can be of any help to you. I'm easy enough to find as ptwobrussell just about anywhere.

HTH.
What I meant by that was that it doesn't put itself into your line of sight, but when you do want it, it is (very) easily accessible.
Agreed, speaking as someone who's just reached the 30 hour mark on my current round of edits to a novel.
(continuing his list)

11. You might as well carry a huge banner that says "I'm a giant nerd." You know how normal people start fidgeting and looking around for someone else to talk to the moment you mention that you work with computers? If you're wearing Google Glass, you won't even get to the hello.
hmm, yeah but remember folks, Scoble dissed Apple's iPhone chances too :)
I was quite disappointed to discover this recently. I went out and bought a new machine; I looked at all the specs, bought a sensible machine, put it together. It ran horribly. I looked everywhere... and finally checked Tom's Hardware. My processor, which had cost me $300 at the beginning of 2012, outperformed the one that I'd just bought for $200. This was... pretty much unthinkable to me. Every other two-year gap in my life was incredible; Even cheap machines were way better than their counterparts. Now I've wasted a bunch of money, a bunch of time, and gotten a worse machine.
It seems like you need a new security system to reduce fraud which will reduce fees, and that is what bitcoin offers potentially
Lately, it's been a combination of removing distractions like IM, e-mail and the like. Putting on headphons and listening to Coffitivity. Then, I either grab a paper and pencil or tablet and stylus and sketch what I should be designing. I take components and use Vitamin-R (pomodora) and get working. If this seems to fail at any steps, I take a walk around the block with the expectation that there will be no delays when I return.
Do you let them specify any of their contracts in Bitcoin? Eg, a salary of $X + Y Bitcoins?
i was working, then i saw this post...
Once upon a time if you had a pager you were probably a drug dealer, unless you were obviously a doctor. Social mores change, and so far they have trended towards accepting more and more invasive and distracting gadgets. I don't see any reason to think the line in the sand is here instead of the 10 other places people thought it might be up to now.

I also don't think it's a bad thing, mind you. We're heading into an age of mass surveillance whether we like it or not. If we're going there we may as well go there with defensive, personally controllable (even if not secure), devices to go with it. Who watches the watchers and all that.
My retina MBP is so thin an ethernet cable is too thick for it, I think I can understand why it's not exactly built for hot swapping parts out...
It's not apples to apples either way. The Apple GPUs are missing ECC for example.
Bitcoins block chain implementation and idea is innovative and revolutionary. Your do... while example is not. Also, the blockchain is sort of the most important bit of bitcoin. I struggle to see how you're missing this...
If I read the pertaining article correctly then the tps issue is solvable within the practical bounds of the internet, bitcoin development, home connections and bitcoin use cases. For proposals to solve this read: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability - I personally wouldn't consider this a show stopper. Are there specific reasons why you think it might?
That's true, but it's not an advantage that it's not a true HUD, since a true HUD could place the information out of your line of sight or within it as appropriate, whereas Glass cannot.
I like the third one
demand != productivity

Questions that google can answer are low-productivity, possibly anti-productive if they cause people to hit stackoverflow instead of language docs. Hard questions can completely save the day of a few people, and teach even more.
Gamer resistance to DRM is stronger than ever
"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful."
-Warren Buffett
Wake up insanely early in the morning
I didn't understand what was special/novel about Proxies at all.
Why you shouldn't spend money on a genetic test currently
Word on the social media. I got rid of my Facebook in college and my average productivity instantly skyrocketed (although that creeping desire to waste time eventually gets filled with other things, like online chess).
No - I'm being provocative. Happy New Year!
My main distraction is noise, since I mostly work from home, and my home can be a rather noisy place sometimes (I don't live alone). The sound of the TV, for instance, can be anywhere from a nice background presence (like for a documentary) to an impossibility to work (like an action movie that tries very hard to catch your attention).

But one day, I tried this, and boy did it change my life! http://simplynoise.com/

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work for everyone and can get annoying to some people; but for me it was a revelation and solved a problem for good.
This is the problem people have with glass, they feel like their privacy is being invaded and it is not solving a painpoint. So google is going to know who i am looking at and what products i am looking at.... come on, this is ridiculous! I need to feel that this is a utility not something of excess i do not need. This can help doctors as info on pubmed quickly, collaborate with other docters quicker especially in urgent care. But telling that it is going to know who and what i am looking at, my intoxication etc, just does not make me want it. Imagine if Jobs marketed iphone as a way to take creepshots of females or the supposition of anything like that.

6. The really scary thing? The eye sensor. There's a reason why +Larry Page didn't answer my question at last year's Google IO: that thing can probably tell whether you are drunk or sober (think about THAT tonight). It also can probably tell you when you are checking out someone you shouldn't be (wait until the wife gets an alert about THAT). Of course Google will use it to tell what brands you are checking out at the grocery store (coupon alert) or when you are shopping in a shopping mall.
I've used one briefly so I am aware that it is not a HUD, but it could still provide a limited form of augmented reality useful for police. Always displaying the current address, a running list of local reports, etc. With some computer vision backend, it could constantly detect and scan license plates, and display alerts to the wearer when it found stolen vehicles.

There is a lot of stuff you could do with this sort of technology. If proper HUD glasses ever become more practical, you could of course do a lot more (and you would already have officers comfortable with the general concept).
I would say at least the Finder in Mavericks is "buggy as hell"[1]. It looks like it has a real issue with preview images (when the file is dragged to another window), Applescript, and updating based on file system changes.

1) my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993850
> Pretty much every review of Apple gear has people moaning about bias in the comments.

Well, yes, but any time just about anyone anywhere reviews an Apple thing and doesn't say "This is worse than iHitler", there are cries of bias, evil conspiracy, etc. People are a bit funny about Apple.
Are you using Shaw's DNS servers? I don't remember dealing with NXDOMAIN issues when I had Shaw, but I have run my own DNS servers for a long time now.

It's been 7 years or so since I used Shaw.
The Online Education Revolution Drifts Off Course
The Mac Pro has been pretty niche for years, and has been losing out to the top-end iMac for a while on poorly-threaded stuff. To a large extent this is due to Intel's product cycle, where the many-cored high-bandwidth Xeon is at least one core iteration, and sometimes two, behind the iX.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple develops a library to help facilitate GPU usage, similar to how they developed Grand Central Dispatch to help developers utilize multicore CPUs more effectively.
It actually did for a long time; then they skipped a few iterations. Maybe they'll do that again, maybe they won't; we'll see.
Are you serious? National security != fighting terrorists. From Wikipedia for the lazy.

> National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic power, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States after World War II. Initially focusing on military might, it now encompasses a broad range of facets, all of which impinge on the non military or economic security of the nation and the values espoused by the national society. Accordingly, in order to possess national security, a nation needs to possess economic security, energy security, environmental security, etc. Security threats involve not only conventional foes such as other nation-states but also non-state actors such as violent non-state actors, narcotic cartels, multinational corporations and non-governmental organisations; some authorities include natural disasters and events causing severe environmental damage in this category.
You guys collectively here seem to have nailed it on the points v useful information issue. However, I do like his analysis of the community problems in collaborative sites like SO and Wikipedia as becoming run by an anal-twerp cabal. This is a real social information problem and deserves more thought .thank you to OP for that analysis.
I change jobs. I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account. The televisions were trashed over a decade ago. My home page is my personal KanbanFlow page, modified to follow Mark Forster's Final System. It almost works.

I make sure not to overcommit myself. A study shows that scheduling has to be considered independently of effort, ability and experience. If I am not doing what I think I should be doing, I try to change the environment so that not doing what I should be doing is harder than doing what I should be doing. I don't believe that the exercise of willpower is any kind of solution. Its usefulness is limited largely to the minimum expenditure necessary to operate within the environment one designs to encourage work.

Also, I try to operate on a long time horizon. If something I do isn't going to have a discernible impact 10,000 years from now, I consider whether the opportunity cost is too high.
The privacy thing is really a big deal, it cannot be underplayed. You can probably get the public to buy into it for police, since you can sell the "it will keep the police honest" angle, but I cannot think of any painpoint that it would solve for the general public, when worn by the general public.

As for Google Ogle-detection™... I think the solution there is probably relationship counselling. That's basically an extension of the "my smartphone's GPS will allow my wife to track my every movement" problem. Trust and respect will remain as important as ever in relationships in the future.
They gave Macworld and The Verge, at least, 8 core units. Perhaps a case of know your audience; neither of those sites would be necessarily too inclined to go into _why_ the 12 core part is slower in many benchmarks, whereas Anandtech, of course, will.
Chromebooks Outsold Macbooks in the US by a Factor of Five in 2013
DragonForce at full blast.
Reverse compatibility.
> But I don't want two high-end compute cards

In which case, do you want a Xeon workstation of any sort? As mentioned later on in the review, you make significant sacrifices for Xeon (startlingly expensive, last-gen cores), and, besides the option for more cores than you can get on an iX, the main thing you get is extra PCIe lanes, which are not actually that useful for most things; one of the few things they _are_ useful for is dual hefty GPUs.
For me the disappointing takeaway is that good high-res monitor support isn't implemented. Like the reviewer, I had assumed the same types of scaling options that the high-res MacBook Pros have.

However, according to this review, the new Mac Pro doesn't work with the new Dell 4K monitors (I don't consider 30Hz refresh as 'working'), and even with the 4K display that Apple sells, it only works at its native 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz. When choosing a 'Scaled' resolution, it renders blurry junk.

That is pretty disappointing (although I imagine it will be fixed at some point).

http://anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/11
"personally identifiable"
Set a goal to do one small part of it in 5-10 minutes, then the rest usually follows. If it's a real struggle to get that small part done, examine why I 'need' to get it done in the first place. Deadlines are a huge motivator; I find external ones if the task doesn't come with its own.

Also, making tea or a latte before getting down to work can help me focus my mind, over time I've come to associate both of those activities with 'focus time'.

Edit to add: Isolating the task from distractions kind of goes without saying, but I find it helps to frame the distractions as much as the task. Why am I so compelled to go play game X, or read book Y, instead of the task at hand? Going a level deeper and figuring out what your brain's avoiding/being lured by has been really useful for me (especially while dealing with focus issues after a concussion).
I had this happen to me and it pushed me to use a vpn for all personal Web traffic.
Even than, I doubt that it would be helpful, since still so many C extensions are just not available in Python 3. I also don't think that it is a problem of apathy, but of wrong initial planning. With better initial compatibility, a bigger momentum could be reached. Now the decisive point is over and we will have to live long with both versions around (even when Guido sets a date).

Only thing that could really help, I think, would be a really big improvement in Python 3 that makes it more attractive to move, but that could also widen the gap between the two.
:) Happy New Years!
Biggest problem I see is in many places and situations, some one even suspected of poking a camera in peoples faces are likely to lose that camera. Maybe be gain a few bruises in return. I know full well that I would not be even slightly comfortable being in view of some one wearing these things. I mean, I don't like the NSA slurping all my data, why on Earth am I going to accept people wearing these things around me? Yeah, claim its some how different, but that isn't going to cut any ice whatsoever with me. Its a camera stealing my image and associated metadata and putting that information out of my control. I don't want people poking those damn things in my direction.

Of course, from a user sort of a well cool gadget POV, I do think its rather cool and would happily have a go on one my self.

So, while I see the merits, I think there will be a huge social problem, which may well negate mass take up. As another poster said, what may well happen is that they will be used in lots of specific situations, rather than be a general use thing. I know I'd probably like using it for specific things, or as a toy or gadget, but out and about? No, Im too pretty..... ;)
Most of the mining is now done in large data centres packed with ASIC miners. Ban it, seize the equipment and the government can immediately begin a 51% attack. Shut down the exchanges leaving only peer to peer exchanges, but now your local exchanger has the legal status of a drug dealer and all the sketchyness that comes with it.

No doubt there will be protocol changes to blacklist the government miners, a cat and mouse game will ensure. Bitcoin will survive, but it will be a tiny fraction of its previous size.
For a roll-your-own version of this, you can use the 'script(1)' shell command, the timing argument, console editor of your choice, and 'scriptreply(1)'.

Script is a Linux utility which makes a typescript of a terminal session. Traditionally this was mostly of use for shell sessions which didn't involve full-screen (ncurses) utilities, as the cursor-movement characters would typically present a jumbled mash on your screen.

Using the '-t' (or '--timing') arguments sends timing between movements to stderr, or the specified file. With this, you can then replay a typescript file, with the timing information, to show what was actually presented on screen. An optional argument varies the replay speed.

I've made use of this to log and replay serial console activity (available on most servers through IPMI or related hands-off / lights-out management tools), which can be both instructive and helpful in documenting steps.

Further fun may be had by playing the output of scriptreplay through the phosphor(6x) X11 screensaver hack.
I've been wearing Google Glass every time I leave the house for 2 or 3 months now. My social interactions have certainly changed; lots of people either recognize it as Glass or ask about what it is.

Bear in mind that this isn't in the valley, but in a fairly conservative part of CT. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of negative experiences while wearing Glass have far more to do with the wearer than the hardware.
Stop trying to focus. Just do, or don't.

It may sound as silly advice; but it's the honest truth.
The very fact that you are thinking about focusing when you are trying to focus; precludes you from actually doing it.

It's counter intuitive: Sit behind the work to be done, and truly accept whatever happens. Accept the fact that you might be unfocused or distracted. It's a sign that you aren't ready to work. Don't resist. Just either do, or don't.
I think Bitcoin is an indication of a larger trend, similar to search in the early 90's and social networks in the early 2000's.

Will Bitcoin emerge as the predominant online currency of the 21st century? Who knows? But it'll solve a lot of hard problems, and as a result, something will.
Eric, I am very sorry to see this happen to you. Unfortunately more and more companies are using our data for marketing purposes.

All is not lost though.

There are several ways you can protect yourself from these practices. The first thing I would do is get a router capable of using dnscrypt-proxy (http://www.opendns.com/technol.... Then you can be confident that your DNS traffic is not being modified by your ISP. It does require that you have trust in a 3rd party DNS provider like OpenDNS, but at the end of the day you have to trust someone to provide DNS lookups.

The second option is to setup DNSSEC so that you can verify where your DNS responses are coming from. While people will still be able to intercept what sites you're looking up, at least you know you're getting valid responses which is better than your situation is currently.

Third is to use both. =)

Anyhow, really awesome to see people standing against these practices. It takes users complaining to make change. The sad truth of the matter.
Here are 3 primary advantages I can think of:

* Ability to programmatically add to/chain queries. It's really simple to add an additional "WHERE" clause in an ORM query; it's much harder to do so with a SQL string, where you have to account for escaping, comma placement, etc.

* Ability to automatically join entities in some cases, which can save on verbosity.

* Ability to add methods and attributes to models, which can abstract away additional queries or queries that might normally be really complex.

It's debatable if ORMs really add that much to productivity. I use them in some projects, and forgo them in others. For Python, I'm a big fan of Pony ORM because it can greatly reduce verbosity and basically maps Python code directly to SQL; I don't really use it for the relational "mapping" though: http://ponyorm.com/
Just to clear this up: cdn.media.ccc.de is the new name for ftp.ccc.de. It was renamed because it does not actually serve FTP anymore, since HTTP can be load-balanced a lot better.
how is chromebooks for developers? Can it handle stuff like Eclipse?
Aren't rewards also subsidized by interest rates charged on those cardholders who carry a balance at the end of the month? My understanding was that that's a very significant income stream, and that's missing from your comparison of ~1% rewards to the 1.5-1.65% interchange.