skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does get me thinking, though... granted, the Internet allows the lightning-speed spread of misinformation, but at least it compensates somewhat by giving the same opportunity to the spread of corrections.

Whereas in pre-Internet days, truth was entirely in the domain of trusted institutions, who were quite content to inform the public for over a decade about how, for example, rock music and role-playing games were going to send their kids to hell. Now, my own theory growing up (not established fact! don't reblog or tweet!) was that Parental Advisory stickers pushed more sales than they prevented and that if Parental Advisory had become a proper label and signed artists it could have easily rivaled Motown at its peak.

But the risk of rumors and fabrications becoming fact has been with us far longer than the Internet; only now the general public can address them and maybe correct them on a more equal footing.
> To a certain extent this behavior is nothing new. The 12 CD's for a penny scams I fell pray to as a child come to mind.

I'm not sure that I'd call that a scam. Myself and several of my friends were legitimate customers and never had any issues.

If it were a scam, though, it certainly worked both ways. I worked for Columbia House as a teenager ("data entry"), entering in all those applications that people sent in. We received an absurd number of obviously bullshit applications (e.g.: "Mickey Mouse", "Donald Duck", etc.) -- sometimes one after another, all with the same address and handwriting -- but were told to enter them in anyways.
UI is pretty technical design. If you want to learn more about the aspect of it, the best thing you can do is learn design basics, typography, for example would make a big impact on your design work.
Another good one, thanks.
I would posit that nature is incredibly violent, and humans as a subset of nature are incredibly violent too, yet "technology" (in the loosest sense- rule of law, trade, etc) has allowed us to be remarkably less violent than our ancestors, and we're headed down the right path.
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I wish I'd studied xv6 in my early teens. It would've answered many of my inexperienced questions and served as a guide for how to write quality code and architect large systems.

For what it's worth, I was able to learn xv6 just by working hard to understand everything fully. Effort seems to matter more than prerequisites. Plus it was a fun challenge.

Also, please feel free to email me (sillysaurus2 at gmail) if I can be of assistance to anyone, e.g. by talking about some nuance of unix architecture or about anything at all. Intensive self-study can sometimes feel overwhelming, so feel free to message me for encouragement.
I've been spending the last 6 months starting a business in this space.

If you enjoy the client and the relationship, hang on to it! They are few and far between more often than not.

A few tools we use are: Xero, Toggl, Asana. Always try to optimize your own workflow, but structure it in such a way that it's not all in your head. Your process and hand off is just as valuable as the product itself.

We've had a lot more success tying hours to features instead of defined project scope. Let it creep and change, just be up front with costs and expectations. Realize that your time and work is not flexible, but the feature list is.

Let the client help define the product scope collaboratively with you. You already landed them, so you just need to focus on keeping them.

Since it's not your full time, set mental boundaries for yourself and try to keep the two jobs separate.
When this happens to me the sleep is always instant and deep-a huge difference from when I spend about an hour trying to fall asleep at a regular time. I sometimes wonder if being in a perpetual state of stress would improve my regular sleep.
I meant the terminology used, not the point made.
Wouldn't it be interesting if we were able to capture so much information in a photograph that you could examine the pupils of the people that appear in pupils, etc.?
All my past side projects have dabbled at the surface of a new or interesting technology. I hope to do at least one project which can take me deep into a specific language/framework so I can get a good feel for all the features in a specific technology.
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well wait a second, whether or not they do facilitate is not the same thing as whether or not they are necessary for it to happen. Clearly, the latter is true since there's that other 33%
Just as a historical note, classic Mac OS (versions 7-9) used STREAMS for TCP, in the Open Transport networking API. Sockets were provided as a wrapper around STREAMS, which worked about as well as you might expect. It had its fans but most of us were pleased to get real sockets in Mac OS X.
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These days I'd prefer a plugin template that doesn't infect the jQuery namespace by default (and is AMD compatible) so I can use it with a module loader:

var borderize = require('jquery.borderize');
...
borderize('div');

And my linter will tell me off if I forget a require.

Edit: I guess such a thing is not really a 'jQuery plugin' but a 'module that depends on jQuery'.
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desktop zen rock gardens. I was looking for an authentic full size zen rake, and I couldn't find one, at all, since the search only yielded those kitchy things you find on some people's desks.
Paul Graham Says Women "Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years"
Sleep deprived not at all. As soon as I quit the room I was fresh again. Up to speed is part of the answer, still, the effects were quite astounding. The only experience close to that was blood sample fainting.
you're -> your

Sorry.. I'm not of native English tongue myself, but this one annoys me to no end.
I may just be a bit slow today, but I fail to see how a patent obtained by a small company can not also be defensive.

Of course it answers your question. The answer is that there is no answer. You simply have no way of knowing whether a given patent will be used defensively or offensively, ethically or unethically. Like any good monster it has a life of its own.
I often struggle to have a strong inner voice and remain apathetic about events and things going on around me. I think blogging and writing in general to a public audience helps me define my own values and thoughts.
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I'd actually be perfectly fine if Characters, such as Holmes, fell under Trademark, rather than copyright. Sure, nobody could create new works starring Holmes himself, but there have been any number of Expys over the years, and truly good plots and writing would get recognized, expy or not. It would give the Holmes estate reason to promote additional stories - Trademarks are only valid while in use. They'd have to shepherd the brand, not simply leech on it.

It would also have the added effect of making it finally safe to reduce copyright down to a sane time; Somewhere within a lifetime. The Mouse could be protected under trademark law, while his early adventures would be free for anyone to see.

Trademark is also more open to use - A trademark cannot be used to sell, rather than not used at all as with copyright. It makes it far clearer that The Onion can portray The Mouse as getting caught in a toronto-esque crack scandal, or whatever else they wish to parody, without the ugliness of american "Fair Use" laws.
It's especially effective when the dreamy music is cued and the light colors get all blurry
This is consistent with my anecdotal experience. I sleep a lot more when I'm angry, frustrated and overwhelmed. It's a vicious cycle. It's pretty cruel. The inverse is also true: I'm alert and chirpy when I'm "on the ball".

Also interesting to read the comments:

"It is a commonplace among cops that a suspect who falls asleep while awaiting interrogation is almost certainly guilty. I think this is a related phenomenon."

"I've had this response - after a particularly heated argument with my mother. After leaving her house I began driving home and actually had to pull my car over, get in the back seat and sleep for about thirty minutes. It stands out because it was so odd, overwhelming and had never happened before."
Can somebody explain why american law is relevant here? Please excuse my ignorance, but shouldn't British law supercede American law as Holmes was first published in Britain?
The author of this study submitted it to Slashdot with the following summary: "After the reports on SSD reliability and after experiencing a costly 50% failure rate on over 200 remote-deployed OCZ Vertex SSDs, a degree of paranoia set in where I work. I was asked to carry out SSD analysis with some very specific criteria: budget below £100, size greater than 16Gbytes and Power-loss protection mandatory. This was almost an impossible task: after months of searching the shortlist was very short indeed. There was only one drive that survived the torturing: the Intel S3500. After more than 6,500 power-cycles over several days of heavy sustained random writes, not a single byte of data was lost. Crucial M4: failed. Toshiba THNSNH060GCS: failed. Innodisk 3MP SATA Slim: failed. OCZ: failed hard. Only the end-of-lifed Intel 320 and its newer replacement, the S3500, survived unscathed. The conclusion: if you care about data even when power could be unreliable, only buy Intel SSDs."

Source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/27/208249/power-los...
They are not successful though, are they? There is a low-budget snow-white based TV series that run a year ago (Once Upon A Time).

Also, it is ridiculous considering that character is way older than Disney itself and provably comes from outside US jurisdiction.
[serious] Has the BBC had to pay royalties for making/showing their Sherlock series? In that case, to whom? The person who created these fictional characters died over 70 years ago.
> I literally cannot tell whether you're still being funny or serious. Poe's law is in full effect. (It's still pretty funny to me either way.)

I am dead serious.

> Haskell tries to be a language where all code only does this: Take input, produce output from it; whenever input is the same, output needs to be the same, nothing else may happen, no exceptions whatsoever. Since this forbids things like printing to the screen, reading from a network connections and other useful things, there needed to be a single construct that is excempt from these rules, so Haskell can be useful. Monads are these constructs.

Stop conflating monads with IO. Monads just happen to be usable for modeling IO, but they can model other things as well.

> Monads are the house rules you bring to your Monopoly game to make it fun.

Ironically, when I program in Haskell, I try to keep as much stuff outside of IO as possible. The reason is precisely that IO is usually not fun.

> (Yes, that means Haskell is not a fully functional language, it's just more functional than most.)

No, it just means that IO is a DSL for constructing imperative programs functionally.

===

Anyway, I have no desire for being trolled, so this discussion ends here.
Hey! Checkout www.datatau.com

It's like Hacker News but for Data Scientists. This question might be more relevant there.
> By the way, Haskell provides excellent support for DSLs. So it should be no problem to develop a tool which converts Haskell plugins (or Python or whatever) to Emacs elisp.

I've been thinking about adding Haskell as an additional language for Emacs alongside Elisp. It would be nice to be able to use both.
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In the context it is clear that they used Linux in place of a 'Linux Distribution.' No one was unclear about this.

And the documentation of all Linux distros suck compared to FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Including Arch's.
Do not conflate objective mathematical simplicity, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972986, with subjective easiness, which depends on your prior experience.
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>> things like printing

> Stop conflating monads with IO.

> I have no desire for being trolled

Wow, that was a clever troll, didn't catch on until the end. Would've been better if you hadn't ended it on an obvious declaration of intent though. :)

--

Edit: In retrospect and for later readers i guess i should point out that i forgot one house rule Haskell brings along: Any function can only ever take one single argument. Some monads make it possible to bunch multiple values into one. So the monopoly analogy above is still perfectly accurate.
Nice touch with the subtle parallax!
Neat! If we didn't have this feature, we could still apply the style to lang=ca elements and reset it in lang!=ca elements, but this is more readable and avoids cases in which resetting is nasty.
How does anyone consider this sane javascript? Is this what the community has been reduced too?
More often than not, we just assume that we know something. When we try to explain it, we realize that we don't exactly know all the fundamentals. So blogging helps me go back to the basics and understand everything from the ground up. I end up learning more about something.
My argument is practicality as well as theory. First - who had "the commons" before it was closed? From what I understand there has always been someone who had more control over property than another.

Who will redistribute in a practical way? Who watches that person to make sure they are both efficient and fair?

Also - look at a list of the richest people in America. You'll notice that most came from middle or low class backgrounds. It seems like redistribution occurs fairly rapidly (within one or two generations) compared with other times.

Also - please explain who in America has massively unequal bargaining powers?

In another comment you said you needed to use "counter propoganda". The internet and forums are largely dominated by your way of thinking. Maybe it's because people who hold your view would rather type about issues than do solid work.

And I've also been thinking about this practically. It is right that claims on property, the foundation of many forms of capitalist forms of economies, are not inherent. However couldn't powerful property taxes be useful as this? If we defined property well and taxed ownership then redistribution would be built in and taxes would fall on the richest (those who use the most resources)? I'm just playing with that idea.

Also - there is one prominent example of someone living on $7,000 a year comfortably (early retirement extreme) which is far below the minimum wage. This person lives a lifestyle far better than almost anyone two generations ago and most a generation ago.
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Another great book, starting with the basics and then exploring a wide range of mathematical subjects, is The Princeton Companion to Mathematics:

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html

It's fun to just flip it open and start reading.
Thank you for detailed explanation
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>Putting Sherlock Holmes in the public domain is probably not going to have much effect on Arthur Conan-Doyle's writing output, though, so it's probably a good thing at this point.

I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here, but couldn't the precedent have an effect on the creative output of people alive today, based on their desire for their descendants to inherit something valuable?
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> > 2. For much of this, we can thank the loosening standards imposed over the past two decades by a specialized patent appeals court that has given overblown...

> No, this is just a common misconception. If you look at the history of rulings from east Texas, you will see they invalidate a higher percentage of patents than other courts in the US.

The "specialized patent appeals court" that GP is referring to as having imposed "loosening standards" over the past two decades is certainly the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, not the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, for the following reasons:

1. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is a trial court, not an appeals court,

2. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is a regular federal court, not a specialized patent court (even if it may have attracted some attention because of patent litigation that has gravitated there),

3. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is an appeals court, not a trial court,

4. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is unique among the Circuit Courts of Appeals in that it has national jurisdiction for appeals of certain classes of cases (including, notably, patent cases) based on subject matter.

So, however interesting your essay on the merits of the patent procedures of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas might be, it really is completely irrelevant to the post you are responding to, which wasn't talking about that court at all.
MIT has essentially recreated XINU. BFD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinu
How did Elon Musk build and organize Tesla Motors from the ground up?
Simple, because this covers America. If Britain wants to enforce its copyrights here, well you'll have to either use force or fire up a treaty. Until then American copyright law applies to something copyrighted in America. Doesn't really enter in that it was published in Britain first.
I believe the Copyrights for Sherlock Holmes expired in year 2000 and in public domain since then. So I don't think BBC needed to license it from the estate, at least in the UK.
"explicitly define your scope of work, and beware of scope creep" is going to be a part of my new year resolution. i find my self getting carried away because i am trying too hard to 'wow' the client
Yeah. Part of me cant help thinking he embodies the word "disrupt", or even, "innovate". Fine lines and all that.
Terrible title, terrible science, terrible conclusion.

Spoiler: He only tested these five drives, only Intel survived, so if they are your candidates, apply his conclusion:

Crucial M4
Toshiba THNSNH060GCS 60gb
Innodisk 3MP Sata Slim
OCZ Vertex 32gb
Intel 320 and S3500

Notably missing is the Intel runner-up Samsung and probably others i'm not aware of, as well as other models.
http://www.mtgprice.com - automated price guide for Magic: the Gathering cards.
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Open Competencies sounds like an awesome idea. Curriculum is not as open or transportable in the US education system as it should be, particularly at secondary schools. Too many teachers are reduced to teaching to exams, because that's the only thing their school district has time or resources to focus on.

It would be fantastic to see more educators relying on (crowd, open, ...) sourced plans, and rely less on the mediocre textbooks and resources that most districts provide.
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As many have pointed out: There are many applications where power cycling is extremely rare and also not a big deal.

1. Laptops have a built in UPS incase they're unplugged
2. Servers should have UPS incase they're unplugged or small outtages
3. Desktop drives shouldnt be trusted as the only copy. Though I imagine the data corruption would propagate to backups?
Valve makes game software not video drivers, you need to email ATI and let them know you'd like your card's driver improved or bye a different vendor's card that has better support for Linux.
I'm still slightly iffy on how it looks externally, and I'm still not fond of the lack of user upgradeability, but I have to admit that the interior is a truly remarkable piece of engineering.
> Can somebody explain why american law is relevant here?

Because actions within the jurisdiction of the United States are governed by the U.S. law?

> Please excuse my ignorance, but shouldn't British law supercede American law as Holmes was first published in Britain?

No, British law doesn't govern what people can do in the United States. I thought we settled that a couple hundred years ago?
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The groupies.
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Yes, this is the rationale the Supreme Court used to justify retroactive extensions of copyright.

From an economic and psychological perspective though, it gets increasingly silly as copyright gets longer and longer. We know that people discount future income, and when you get to time frames of 70-90 years, the present value of any additional income is near-zero.
> In these two cases, the effect on the reader might be identical, but in one essential information about the character was held back and in one it was developed later.

But we aren't talking about the reader. We're talking about the author. Plot reveals later in the story (that the reader experiences) have nothing to do with an author writing those things over time.

If Doyle 'discovered' Watson (not created), then Watson is not copyrightable. If Doyle created Watson (which he clearly did, being the author of a fictitious character in a series of fictional novels and stories) then Doyle didn't "discover" anything, he just refined his creation.
Didn't they just say today that the CPU is upgrade able. On top of the ssd, ram, and possibly gpu being user upgradable.
Disruptive tech themes for 2014:

-Bitcoin-based payment systems.

-Wearables providing new ways for marketers to spy on you.

-Sharing Economy, Uber for things we haven't thought of yet.

-Data mining in dynamic social graphs due to Snapchat, as opposed to the static graphs generated by facebook.
Both TV shows and the movie studio entered into a licensing agreement with the Conan Doyle estate, it's all in the article.
Things like this are what make me a "bad" libertarian. Strict libertarians are all about keeping our nose (and military) out of other people's business. Put yourself in the POTUS' shoes, as the Commander-in-Chief of one of the largest potential forces for good the world has ever known, and tell me why we aren't rescuing the entire country of North Korea?
Do you know anyone who responds to incentives like that? No? Me neither...
Yes and it's conveniently available on Safari [0] if the sticker shock of the print edition is too much. Also, the editor Tim Gowers wrote Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction [1].

0: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/math/9781400830398

1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEP2T2/
I'm surprised Disney didn't throw all their weight behind the Doyle estate here. Under this precedent, all attributes of Mickey Mouse created in 1928 (his first appearance) appear to become public domain in 4 years time, giving you, me, and my uncle Bob the right to publish Mickey Mouse stories.
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PG: "Women Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years"
A little harsh, don't you think? I'd say it's still useful to have 5 data points than 0.
I'm using Colemak, and it's not too difficult to switch to a QWERTY keyboard for textual entry. Usually it takes 5-10 minutes to get it back.

I'm definitely less productive for coding away from my ErgoDox.

And as to the stickers/legends, I use a blank keyboard and taped a cheatsheet to the bottom of my monitor for the first 3 months. Works great.

http://jjt.io/assets/media/ergo-layout.jpg
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I'm not. That's the distinction I spent my whole post making.
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The answer is simple: because no voice is heard, bed is warm, and sleeping kills time without a lot of thinking, only minimum consciousness is needed. Retrospective consciousness is completely removed during sleep, which is what causes people to actually think and remember things.
The small actor can sell the eventual profits from the patent to someone with the resources to fight.
I'd have been gentle if his conclusion had included a measure of humbleness and at least kind of approached being somewhat accurate. :)