skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing you can do to become a better writer is learn to edit. Once you've written something, anything, go back through and make it better. Pick apart the parts that seem clumsy and figure out ways to say the same thing. Don't be afraid to completely drop something you've said that you thought was particularly clever if it doesn't fit. Also don't be afraid to just completely rewrite a big chunk of stuff, use what you've written as notes and start rewriting. A good way to start is by trying to make things simpler and more direct. Think of it like refactoring for writing.
IIRC, the Prodigy's Liam claimed to have written one album in bed using Propellorheads' Reason (then moved to the studio to finish off in pro-tools).

I know I've done stuff just point and click on the train home from work in both ableton live and Reason.

It's not quite as fluid as having a real keyboard (or other instruments around), but it is completely doable.
I don't see the problem. Google is letting people pay to beta test their product. They aren't forcing anyone to buy anything nor are they marketing it as a finished product.
Almost 100% agree with you. I would love #3. #6 is quite strange, though.
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Truth to be told, the original Scoble's article is full of inaccuracies. First of all, not every Google employee is allowed to dogfood glass, it's only for the selected subset of internal and external people. Second, statements like "facebook is not on glass, therefore it's glass' fault" are simply BS. If facebook wanted to implement an app for glass, they could clearly do it, the SDK is available for a while. 'No contextual filtering', 'price is too high' and 'photo workflow sucks' are missing the point that the glass is the work in progress and cost of manufacturing, limited availability and free hardware upgrade for explorers totally justify the $1,500. Obviously, it's absolutely reasonable to expect the market price to be much less when glass goes for a public availability. And, I absolutely don't buy 'the product is bad' commentary from an apple fan boy, Gruber. What else one could expect him to say?
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You can say that you are fluent in i.e. english even if it takes you some effort to formulate some arguments.
I'd say you are fluent in a programming language if you can effortlessly write a program even if it took some effort to solve the problems per se.
An aside of historical trivia: On an Amiga 1000, you used to be able to wiggle the mouse "too fast" and cause the machine to crash with its infamous "GURU MEDITATION ERROR"[1].

1. http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergals/2013/02/full-4656-5091...
You missed it. Again. And I spelled it out simply for you: why shouldn't I be able to take a picture of what I'm seeing?

That's it. Full stop.

Back to the Glass itself: "If Glass were a good product, people who have them would wear them." But they do wear them. Do they wear them all the time? No. But then I'm not always carrying my phone with me, either. Does that make it not good? What Gruber is saying is essentially: "Yes, the iPhone is not good because I am not using it right now."

Just like my friend would use Glass when it made sense, I use my phone when it makes sense. It's as simple as that. And he preferred it to pulling out his phone. And I was envious of it.

So yeah, you missed the point.
There's also the anecdotal/analogical style, the narrative style — of course you can use any voice you wish to sew multiple styles together.

You should use your topic as a basis for experimenting with different styles, not as a means to prove your mastery of the language.

Papers are not proofs.
It's possible to do that for any system. My distaste for Microsoft is deep, but the ability to write crappy software does not say anything about Windows itself.
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Woops. Even so Google might not mind because the opensiteexplorer doesn't really compete with its core business.
Twitted to Asus about Zenbook ux32vd that screen died 5x and still in warranty (comes back from repair, works sometimes a month, dies). No answer there. Maybe they are dead. Couse they are not repairing it eater... And Asus support is not support. It's customer avoidance.
What argument? I'm not trying to make an argument - somebody called out three different things that I said, and I attempted to defend them.

I have absolutely no cause other than a factual basis for policy and actions.
I like the idea of dictating while on a walk. I use Naturally Speaking to dictate in the office, but you have to be tied to the computer to do it. As any freelancer can tell you, getting out of the house really helps the ideas flow and from a different perspective too
Very awesome.

One thing I love about Watsi is that I can actually see (and pick) who I'm donating to. There's something cool about being able to read their stories and see their pictures -- it almost makes me feel bad going to the site and not donating.

Good luck!
And will save perhaps 20,000 lives and many more serious injuries in the US alone every year.
It's 2014, times have changed.
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I wrote an ncurses frontend to the the ticketing system used at a job one time. One of the users complained that if they resized their terminal window rapidly, larger and smaller, that is would crash.

The fix was telling them to stop doing that. :)
Women would benefit from nepotism.
OP here. Thanks for the question, which I've noe clarified in the post. I've got no problem with paying for it but wanted to make readers aware of it, that's all.
Nice idea. But in this case, i need to verify, that this is the same robot, because robot can do nothing, or play like a noob in first 9 games, but last game will be played by user through UI.

And you can't verify this, because there is different "worlds" and robot can be not so good, for solve some game problem in some random world.
IPad-style capacitive touch can be combined with a pressure-sensitive stylus.

I have a ThinkPad Tablet 2 which includes a Wacom pen. The pen is great - the sensitivity is very fine-grained and makes a big difference from finger painting. For finger use, the screen is as responsive as the iPad. (Windows 8 knows when the pen is hovering over the screen and treats it like a mouse, so you get a crosshair cursor near the tip the pen. Otherwise the cursor never appears.)
Nothing awesome can come without fear.
What you need to understand is that much of writing in school is bullshit. And not actually very useful for building up your writing skills.

For me I'd say the most important influences towards improving my writing came from one particular course in high school (modern european history) where the homework was all short essays and paragraph-ish long answers to a bunch of questions/topics and heavy participation in usenet during my college years.

With papers it's too easy to fall into a pattern of satisficing, because the bar is set pretty low, even in college, and the exercises are mostly unrealistic. But when you have to spend time trying to communicate complicated subjects to real human beings or to make detailed arguments then you have to step up your skills substantially.
Ok, so it's apparent that they know everything that can be known and can interfere with anything within that reach. Let's just get on with it under that invariant assumption.

Frankly, every such revelation impresses me more. These guys know their shit.
All Gruber seems to be saying is "if people don't use a product all the time it's a bad product" which is pretty obviously false to anyone who gives it a second thought.

When it suits him he argues that history is irrelevant (Android won't "windows" iOS) but because it suits him here he tosses in a fairly distant historical analogy (Glass is the Windows Tablet of wearable computing) and that's QED for him.

I really like 90% of Gruber's analysis, and the bulk of "Fanboy" accusations against him are totally bogus, but this is weak.

Maybe he's jonesing for a team to root against because it's the baseball off season.
I don't understand how you can lose important irreplaceable data but still continue to use the product. Evernote lost a set of conference notes for me. It wasn't the most important thing in the world, but it was something I went through the effort of capturing and then wasn't able to get to when I needed it. That was enough for me. If I can't trust it, it's useless.
Depends on one's definition of "cost".
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Why is that, do you have some particular use case? If not, are you sure you'd keep doing it after the first couple of days?
"the tyranny of the urgent"

Useful phrase although I suspect that Dr Bartlett would struggle to find political common ground with me.
When watching talks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs I'd be surprised if Google's search model couldn't be leap-frogged if a competitor were to have live access to Google's dataset.

That if is actually Google's biggest strategic advantage though: the resources to keep a near-live and nicely deduplicated copy of all relevant data on the internet. [PS1]

That's why by far the biggest strategic threat to Google is actually JavaScript UIs + RESTful APIs and the easily accessible data sources they form.

Google's demise will eventually come in the form of the adoption of protocols which allow you to efficiently maintain a live view of a service's public resources.

[PS1] And as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011816 click-throughs of course, although I don't see a way to side-step that with Google having implemented [not provided]
Indeed, I could have gone into more detail but people don't tend to read long posts. So I could have talked about the time I was in a taxi in Spain (not speaking the language) and my only directions to a conference venue got corrupted, or the time when a note to myself about my doctoral thesis disappeared, or...
Snapchat could learn a thing or two of how to do PR from this post.
I wasn't as old as you, but I did an internship when I was 23. I was married and we were expecting our first child at the end of the summer. From the perspective of work, it was fine. It was however a larger company and there were 20 interns. They all lived in intern housing and hung out together. It wasn't a big deal, but my intern experience was different from theirs.
I think you've confused a generalisation with a pronoun here.
Very cool. I thought to myself, before clicking on the article, "this is Hacker News, so its probably some interesting number theoretic sieve... but then again there are a lot of people who like to cook so maybe its some kind of novel mechanical sieve". So it was quite satisfying to see discover that it was BOTH in some sense.
That's not what he is saying. OS level networking keeps working. But an application that processes network events in the same context as it is processing UI events will cause its network related stuff to halt in some instances.

That's not the OS's fault; that's "just" bad programmers, and just as trivial to do wrong on Linux or any other OS.
Shortly before Christmas I started receiving spam to an address I know is only present on one web page. However it had been there for over a year before I got in (but is a pretty obscure page).

So I'd yes it is a problem but it's not the biggest problem.
Thanks! I know some people love DevonThink so I'll (OP) take a look.
Thanks for the comment and the suggestions. I was exaggerating, not all of the employees lack a drive and desire to build a great product but the majority of the developer do. When the lead developer tells me he doesn't care how anything looks as long as it works, when another developer tells me he wants an image for a button instead of figuring out how to create the button in .asp (literally a 45 second Google search) and another developer tells me he can't modify the look/layout of html tables because they are using specific .net UI controls, my faith in our product is shaken and I do in fact believe they are "doing it wrong".

I'm not quite sure what you are talking about regarding investing. As far as I know, we haven't taken any outside invested but we have had interest. I am more than happy to leave that up to the directors and CEO :).
The california version is covered california (https://www.coveredca.com/). After investing a total of 8 hours over the course of 3 days on this site I still don't have health coverage. Timeouts abound, and even when things say they have successfully gone through they haven't. I have money to pay, I know what plan I want, I just want to sign up. As far as I can tell it's impossible.
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Chris Gardner was 27 or 28 and homeless when he became a trainee at Dean Witter Reynolds. If the name isn't familiar, a movie was based on him called The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), played by Will Smith.

If you meet the hiring manager's qualifications, you'll probably get a call for an interview. Just be sure to be ready to explain why they should take you.
For any two points in N-space, you can draw an (N-1)-sphere around them such that the line between them forms the sphere's diameter. Then they appear to be opposites, within the artificially-limited domain you're talking about.
Did it stop spiking? It's up from $750 to $900 (mtgox price) in 7 days.

Bitcoin can be used to "move money" only when it's valuable. So it must be valued and collected by some people beforehand, so others can sell it to them in exchange for currencies on the other side of the border.
One of the top posts on the Python Reddit today:

http://python-future.org/
This might be a case few years ago, but google is clearly trying to diversify its business with the high speed internet, self-driving cars, robotics. It's hard to justify these investments for the sake of ads.
>1. A group of men run most things.

I don't believe this. I don't know that there's a group of men that run things. What I'm saying is that as you move higher in the chain of management, you stop seeing women.

>2. A group of men often don't think of women as completely human.

I am not saying this. I am saying that often men don't think of women as fully human like themselves. I am not saying that there is a group of sexists that is causing all of the problems. I believe there are people who are very and openly sexist, and people that are less sexist and less open about it, and the bulk of us that just sometimes suffer from lazy thinking or ideological blinders.

>3. I don't even know how to fix this.

Support programs that help and encourage women.
Like everyone else, I had trouble with the definition of "fluent". I said 1, because there's really only one language that I feel like I could immediately jump into writing with minimal recourse to reference material. But that seems like a bad definition, since I could very quickly increase that to 3 or 4 by just brushing up on a few languages I haven't been using much lately, and I could increase it pretty much indefinitely by spending a week or so with any given C-style language.

On the other hand, maybe that's not enough to truly count as fluent, in which case I plausibly am not fluent in any language.
The tip about speaking first may be a good one, but it shouldn't be portrayed as universal. I tend to express myself better through writing, and to be awkward when speaking. IMO the trick is to drop your inhibitions about writing crap so you can just get a draft down somehow.
"There's also something wrong when we treat half the population like baby breeding kitchen help, too."

Is that really your view of stay-at-home mothers?
That's a really smart idea. I wonder how you'd get a list of search queries to launch it.

Maybe you could require a tiny amount of bitcoin to edit a page to prevent spammers?
This is a great comment and I appreciate your view on the subject. It might be a little difficult to shadow prospective customers but actually getting out and opening up dialogue with individuals in the industry we are targeting is a great idea.
Beenie Babies are not good collectibles because you can make as much as you want. And even if they were, they are bulky and not really divisible to be used as money. Gold and gold coins is much better in that respect.
hehe, same here!
> Go: no parens for if/for. C: parens for if/for.

If the if/for constructs are sufficiently alike that you can meaningfully compare their parentheses usage, then I think that's evidence they're pretty damn similar.
I don't think it's as crazy as telling them to pick their computer up and drop it on the desk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III#Design_flaws
Is there a real demand for this? I made https://zetabee.com/text in 2010 and have been using it myself every single day since there. My app is plain-text and has lots of keyboard shortcuts. I could most likely convert it to work with any JSON key-val store, including localStorage (which will disappear if you clear your cache).

After almost 4 years, my app is currently used by less than a few hundred people so I never thought there is a big demand in this area. I just made it for myself. It'll take me some time to re-code it (and most certainly open-source it) but if enough people like what it does and how it works, I'm all up for it.
That's nothing. I was _blown away_, absolutely blown away, when I saw a Sierpinsky triangle emerge out of bitwise AND:

http://play.golang.org/p/VQ-gEFB271

(Sorry for the ugly code, I just copy/pasted and changed the example from mseepgood here, and I'm not a Go coder.)
Except in the US, it was 1870 when everybody but women got the vote.
Layer violations are way easier in OSes that don't have memory protection. For example, in classical Mac OS, it wasn't unheard of, and actually fairly common, to have a driver write into video memory to give user feedback or even to have a driver pop up an alert, or to have an application move the mouse pointer by writing the appropriate memory locations in the kernel.

Historically, it was even worse: all desk accessories on Mac OS where running as load able drivers (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Desk_Ornaments.tx.... Aside: that article shows that Jobs did actually design a GUI, that for the calculator. More info at http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...)

I think windows wasn't much different. There is/was an article about the mess that Microsoft's build system for Windows was that explains how they spent lots of effort fixing layer violations in order to improve build times (they used to have full builds only novice every few months. That meant that incompatibilities between, say, an improved menu system and the latest version of the Explorer would take months to surface). Anybody remember that?
Thank you! You right, I'll have to find a native speaker. I'll fix that.
With the right people, it is not necessary to pre-determine team size. Let teams form and morph organically.

I have observed that when you have a highly motivated group of people, they will subdivide into teams automatically as well as add and subtract team members without outside direction.
He seems to be comparing it to his wheelhouse: Ruby. Syntactically C & Go are very similar in comparison.
Volatility is a result of uncertainty. The more people share the same belief, the more stable this belief will be. You see tons of people around you confident in short-term safety of USD and you stay confident too instead of selling every buck for gold, silver, gun powder and bitcoins. When Bitcoin becomes world money, it will be so stable (and slowly appreciating) that people can price goods in BTC directly.
Vertical search engine might be the answer, much easier to implement and much more useful from users point of view.
Because it tries to prescribe a rule-of-thumb as a rule.
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Unicode may help a bit too: ﹫＠ != @

The one that spammers haven't figured out yet is: "My name is Bob and you can email me at this domain." (anywhere in a page under bob.com).
favorite notebook for me by far is a whitelines slim. it's tall but slim and provides a lot of versatility to me. Pretty durable too. The grid is white color and the page is a light gray. It's there when you need it but not distracting to read when you don't. http://whitelines.se/products/category/wire-slim/?item=wl89
To just get the hang of OOP, you might be better off starting with Python or Ruby (or some other language with a REPL). Although you can do OOP style programming in C (and it's a fun exercise), there's a lot of low level stuff that's really interesting but not particularly relevant to the basic concepts of OOP.

If the choice is between just Java and C++, I'd go with Java, but it probably depends on what your long term goals are.

In any case, learning any language can't hurt, so I don't think there's any danger of making the wrong choice--unless you get so stuck that you're not making any progress. Just pick whatever "fits your brain" then branch out later.
Check out meta's spaceglasses. They look a bit "aviator", but I'm keen to get hold of some. Plenty of potential.. plus some serious domain knowledge behind them (e.g Prof Steve Mann).
Yes, exactly my point. The server should be just another p2p client that's never turned off. That sort of architecture means that you can shift easily from server to server, and you can host it yourself or have someone else host it. With an architecture like evernote you are always locked in to a certain degree, regardless of how easy it is to get your data out, because moving servers also means moving platforms.
I don't think multiple return values or interfaces were considered at the time when C was made.

Also, the cost and gain of various features (for example headers) was completely different then.
As always when it comes to data-driven decision, the math seems scary, but is actually straight forward: the conclusion that the score should go through a logistic formula is actually a direct consequence of the innocuous decision to take a specific likelihood form.

Similarly, the key aspect is over-looked: ‘honeypots’? What do you mean by that? Are SuperUsers aware of what constitutes a non-acceptable points? Are edge-cases justified and explained? Most places I see exist but their structure is ambivalent: train stations that have two terminals, several restaurants, a corresponding metro station… Should each platform have its point?

The gym I go to recently opened; they have a large swimming section, with two pools (actually five, but the extra three are smaller), changing rooms each with a sauna, etc.: Where can I find a clear explanation of how to describe the place, add venues? Consistent purpose? So, one unit for the whole? ‘Any place big enough so that if you are looking for a friend, you'll be able to notice him there?’ In that case, the bar is separated by a glass wall from the lower pool, so those should be together, far from the lower-deck weightroom. Same for the nearby re-opened hotel who added a spa, a restaurant, a nightclub, a bar… What I see when checking in are seemingly inconsistent structures, and no explanation how to edit them properly.

Far more than the fairly straightforward ‘good behaviour’ possible rules (which have little actual impact), clarifying the goal of the tool would help other understand how to implement ‘gamification’. See Wikipedia for a stricking case of that.
The problem is it's not that simple though because interviewers like to ask really language specific questions for example a C interviewer favorite: what are the different uses of 'static' in C.
Nope, none of those. I did get about 18 days of severance pay. The CEO did offer to make introductions, but nothing legally binding. I still like the company and the team - no use burning bridges. I like to leave on good terms.