skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I mean "If I am operating a business and someone brings an idea for something we should do inside that business, the expected value of that idea is close to 0, and for some business it may be negative".

That doesnt say that all ideas are useless. Huge businesses are built off of ideas all the time. Whether it be by accidental timing, cutting edge research, new synergy opportunities or actively spotting a hole that can be filled, the businesses start with an idea and they are not useless for sure.

Once you are up and operating a business however, if an idea is not about something you can trivially do as part of daily operations (continuous improvement has amazing value) but rather is something you need to divert significant resources or attention to in order to potentially realize some other values, then the value of the idea itself, on average, is low, because you will have a lot of these ideas, and you will not be able to dedicate your resources and attention to more than a few of them at a time.

It is far more valuable (on average) to be able to effectively choose WHICH of the already existing ideas have the best return than being able to add another idea to the pile.
Lots of people tell Mozilla that their recent UI changes are bad. Just read the comments of any blog post Mozilla makes about such changes. Mozilla never listens. Their current approach is always deemed the "correct" one, even if it's seen as totally wrong a mere 3 to 4 months later, and subsequently reworked in some significant way.

These recent moves to imitate Chrome to an even greater extent are not welcomed, even if Mozilla forces them on its remaining Firefox users. Many people use Firefox these days precisely because its UI still retains a few of the vestiges of the more more usable UIs of its pre-4.0 releases. Getting rid of these makes Firefox even less appealing.

Perhaps the only thing keeping people on Firefox is that the UIs of the other browsers have gotten far worse (like in the case of the new versions of Opera and IE), or were never very good to being with (like in the case of Chrome).
What used to be possible with the stock browser, without any extensions, now needs one or more. They're not quite at the level of Google, but it looks like they're heading in that general direction.
See this Charlie Rose interview with Jim Collins on his new book, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck -- Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, where Jim talks about what it takes for a genius/artist to thrive (http://www.hulu.com/watch/298461).

Maybe these "always starters" and "distracted geniuses" are in search for truth and purity -- for meaning -- and are continuously iterating on and refining their value system in such a way that their values change between the time they start exploring an idea until the time they understand the idea. Or maybe their values don't change during the process, but once they fully understand the idea they were exploring, they find it's not valuable enough for them to commit more time to, even though others might find it valuable.

Jim's research reveals that the big things happen at the rare cross between creativity and discipline. It's the genius/artist who when they see and set their hands on the big thing, they grab it by the throat and don't let go.

Maybe the path to this intersection of creativity and discipline is for the genius/artist to first focus on peeling back the layers within themselves -- to spend time contemplating until they find their core values -- to "know thyself" -- and then once they have gotten to the root, they'll have the clarity of purpose needed to align their core values with their work and will be able to pursue their life's purpose without being distracted by frivolous matters.
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While you are right, I can relate to Page's view. Feeding people, for hunger-squashing sake, is a very immediate solution to a very immediate symptom. Does it attack the cause? Probably not. Using Africa as an example:

If Africa's land can't feed the people there, for some intrinsical reason, then feeding people in Africa is unsustainable, and we'd better move them elsewhere.

If Africa's land is capable of feeding the people there, then the real question is: Why can't it today? Are we going for the cause, or for the symptom?

It could be that by eliminating hunger temporarily we'd start a virtuous cycle of some kind, but it'd be a totally random side-effect.

In the grand scheme of things, feeding people for hunger-squashing sake, while noble and charitable and christian-good, amounts to very little. Colonizing Mars is the first guarantee that humans don't go the way of the Dodo in a Great Dying event[1]. Earth had five of those, and we still have to prove ourselves less stupid than dinosaurs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinc...
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Have you tried Brackets or JetBrains WebStorm? If so, how does it compare as far as HTML/CSS/JS dev?
I love that the same thread has people complaining that Firefox is simultaneously not enough like Chrome and too much like Chrome.

Mozilla literally cannot win here; no matter what they do people will just get angrier. They should just strip out the whole Firefox UI and make you run it from a terminal.
I think he just wants them to not screw up the UI so badly in the first place that numerous addons and customization is needed to bring it back to a minimal level of usability.
In my opinion, it implies that QUANTUM has a queuing system.
Minimal 2048
Going to mars is pretty much pointless before we figure a way to terraform the deserts we already have on Earth. There is no more natural ressources on mars than in the middle of the Saharah or Gobi, and the climate is way worst (not even talking about the atmosphere). So why go to mars if we already have unused lands on Earth?

Start by building a self-sustaining base in the middle of the desert. If you manage to do that you'll be improving the life on Earth for a lot of human being. When all deserts, including Antartica are terraformed, colonized, and we run out of space on Earth, then maybe we can feel the need to colonize mars.

Before than, it's just dreaming about living in a sci-fi movie.
UX people and graphic designers, based on extensive user testing. Have you run any user tests lately? ;)
In the linked markup, the difference between the bookmark star when the page is bookmarked (vs not bookmarked) is that the star is filled in grey rather than an outline.

I think this is a subtle design problem that doesn't easily show "bookmarked" vs "not bookmarked" state. I think users may have come to expect the typical yellow star when bookmarking a page. Usually if I want to bookmark a page I glance at the star to see if it's already bookmarked, and the outline vs. grey states don't make that clear.
The limit we've run into with iOS is not getting a good looking UI. Rather it's the performance of Javascript in Safari. We have a fairly large one page webapp that looks great on iOS however the performance is an order of magnitude slower on an iPad than Chrome on an old laptop.
> As a DirectX developer who's tried out OpenGL a few times, I found it horrific and painful to program in. But then again, I'm sure OpenGL devs complain about DX in the same way.

As an OpenGL developer, not a day goes past without me wishing that the API was sensible like the DirectX API and not the state machine mess that it currently is.

I'm pretty sure any OpenGL programmer worth their salt will agree. Only some beginners with no practical experience think that OpenGL is a better API because it requires less boilerplate code to draw a triangle.
From playing with the editor, it looks like it is sound.

What I thought the quoted passage was saying was that consistency between a class and a trait used by the class was not checked. That's clearly not the case, though. I don't understand what the performance point is, though, since I don't think the copy-and-paste style would produce different answers.

Finally, the online editor doesn't seem to honor // strict -- it doesn't produce an error when some methods aren't annotated.
It's important to add words like "native" to main product description tho. Adds credibility. It's ok that this is completely NOT native.
"maths quiz show that’s simply everyone"

Huh?
IIRC, modern Australis is actually tuned for better rendering performance; older themes used more gradients and alpha transparency in UI elements, which made them more complicated to render. Australis makes lighter use of these elements and this has a measurable impact on how much CPU time gets spent repainting tabs/address bars/etc.
From a real user who uses gfycat all the time

Your site requires some nits & bits of polishing here and there.
Make it more fancy.It looks like any other github project.
The page of gfycat is very minimalistic,only fetch url and upload file no fancy drag an drop or documentation or api stuff.
Talk to some 4chan & reddit users for some pointers ,they will gladly(I have done my part ;))
Sorry for the harsh word.Nothing but suggestions.
Yes, Typed Racket does have that -- DrRacket continuously expands in the background, so Typed Racket gets it for free by integrating into the macro system.

The Typed Racket type checker is much slower than Hack, though.

Hack does seem to have polymorphic data structures and higher-order functions.
This is a 'controversial' article written for hits. There will be thorough, intelligent criticism of 538, but not until the website publishes more material.

Towards the end of the article, the author asks "Is numeracy really what American public discourse most urgently lacks?" I cannot believe there is a red blooded American who could sincerely ask this question. Americans are paranoid that our schools are falling behind the Russians, the Danes, or the Chinese. Education is part of the American dream. The knowledge and understanding people have of the issues of the day is a metric for the strength of a democracy.

The author leaves us with a final question: "What is it about conviction that frightens these people?" upon which he refuses to speculate. Although he is the literary editor of the New Republic, he does not recognize that the fox essay is in the genre of manifesto (I wouldn't have known it either, but it was written in at the top).

Manifestos are meant to be self-aggrandizing and they will always define their subject over and against what already exists. Mr. Wieseltier needn't worry about the op ed page, it will survive Data Journalism.
NoScript is unavailable because current NoScript only works with the classic 'everything in one process' Gecko model & associated plugin model.

Firefox for Android isolates content into multiple processes (this is literally a requirement on Android due to their horrible memory management), which means plugins written in that fashion simply can't work. Unfortunately, at present this excludes NoScript. It's possible it could be fixed, though; I'm not sure.
It might, if people really believe it, which they don't, because it's bullshit in most western countries.

Imperfect democracies? Yes, of course. We need to be constantly vigilant and fight to improve things. No doubts about that. But "woe is us the US is a dictatorship" is silly talk. It is, like it has always been, an imperfect democracy in need of constant improvement.
Sure, here you have it, very simple.

EDIT:: The formatting got corrupted when I posted the comment. Feel free to contact me and I'll send you the format by mail.
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Ohh and i forgot /fetch like feature just like in gyfcat can be nice addition.
http://gfycat.com/fetch/https://mediacru.sh/static/demo.gif
*can help you choose the best taxi [registered through that app] at the best price [available through the app].

Do not forget that Uber, TaxiMagic, etc. are still closed and managed environments -- they are simply more opaque, as a corporation is choosing the makeup of that market instead of a government entity.

Laws are already version controlled and debugged when necessary, where does that come from? Laws are amended and repealed all the time, in every level of legislation.
> Also, NoScript is not a "vital security add-on".

The vast majority of exploits depend on JS being available, since (at the very least) it'll be used to unobfuscate/execute some attack code. Remember the Tor browser vulnerability that was exploited? That wouldn't have happened without JS.

(Coincidentally, I find it amusing that not too long after, that Firefox made it even harder to disable JS, by removing the checkbox for global enable/disable.)
My point is that there used to be a button that you could place in a toolbar and clicking the button would open the bookmarks sidebar. That button is now gone. I'm sure that in time I'll get used to the changes in australis but I think it would have been better if they would have been introduced gradually. As it was introduced, lots of things stopped working at once the way I was used to. For me, this is friction and it's not good.
It's called Xanax
>The government is granted those powers because of the legal and social contracts we enter into as citizens of the country.

That's bs post-hoc justification. There is no contract and few people agreed to it. Government is accepted because it works better than no government. We haven't found the perfect way to organize society (and it may not exist), so we stick around in the local optima.

>It's an organized, representative extension of the population of the country.

This is true in theory. In practice it's a big mess. Voters don't actually have that much control. Just a single bit of input "which party do you like more right now?" And maybe they shouldn't they because direct democracy isn't that great either. The real advantage of democracy is that if the rulers really screw up, if they make the population really angry, they will eventually lose their power when the next year divisible by 4 comes around. It also encourages the politicians to make an effort to be popular (which isn't necessarily what's best, but it's better than nothing.)
Mozilla periodically releases 'ESRs', or extended service releases, that are exactly what you complain they don't offer: the ability to lock yourself to a given release without being forced to upgrade (the most recent ESR gets security updates, IIRC.)
Since an open society stands or falls on the quality of its citizens’ opinions, the refinement of their opinions, and more generally of the process of opinion-formation, is a primary activity of its intellectuals and its journalists.

It's hard to read that in a friendly manner, it sounds like it would be so awful to have people thinking for themselves.

I think it is maybe a little optimistic, but an 'open society' probably works better the closer you get to discarding the idea that some people are intellectuals.

(I don't mean that as a rejection of expertise, but someone with a deep understanding of the dynamics of region (or whatever) is really only better positioned to explain the probable consequences of an action, their expertise doesn't really give them more standing to choose what action is best)
> He knows many things. He has no priors.

So what is Leon Wieseltier saying here about Nate Silver, exactly? That Silver considers himself to have no priors? That he, Wieseltier, thinks that Silver has no priors? Both interpretations seem ignorant. Further, how can someone "know many things" and yet have no priors, when a prior is a representation of prior knowledge?

I find it hard to believe that Wieseltier would be so dumb by accident, which means it's actually on purpose. The article is an attack on the sort of public discourse Silver wants - arguing over likelihood of outcomes under uncertainty - in favour of "repetition" and "persuasion". Are those "what American public discourse most urgently lacks?"
Modern thinking is to take out a carrier with a nuke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21#DF-21D_.28CSS-5_Mod-4.29_...

"United States Naval Institute in 2009 stated that such a warhead would be large enough to destroy an aircraft carrier in one hit and that there was "currently ... no defense against it" if it worked as theorized."
I'm kind of curious if, emboldened, Putin will make a grab for some, all, or bits and pieces of the Baltic states. That would really cause the shit to hit the fan, and Europe to have to decide if they can and want to defend their borders.

Let us fervently hope it does not come to that.
Well-written, but still pointless opinion fluff.
I don't understand why people listen to this guy. You can be right many times and profile political currents and opinions in a very relevant manner, not belonging to any party, it's still behaving like a prophet, and that's what people want to hear. That's just dangerous.
It is uploaded on heroku app and heroku gives one dyno(Instance) as it is my free account. So if my app crashes then it will take 5-10 minutes to work again. So wait for sometime it will be fixed automatically. If you want you can download npm package and test it. Link for the same is mentioned on my blog.
Unit testing is definitely influenced by language culture but there's also the issue of how easy it is to do.

JS doesn't have the unit testing uptake that Java/C#/Ruby/Python have, and I think that largely it is because JS is often used in the front-end and people aren't used to having any sort of an abstraction layer.

The issue with C is that it is hard to mock. You can use the preprocessor, the linker, or function pointers. The latter is the best option but your code ends up looking quasi-OO with structs of function pointers. It's a style people are used to in some OS programming but it does freak some people out.
That's almost like saying the vast majority of exploits depend on you using a Turing machine.

Breaking most websites for the sake of slightly reducing the attack surface doesn't seem worth it.
You have my attention..
So true. Windows' services and drivers system may not be beautiful but it full on works most of the time and it allows even non pro Windows users to change basic stuff with far greater ease than Linux which is a real shame given Linux' potential for transparent usability (a potential it has had since the late 1990s but I have personally given up waiting for it to come true)
That work was done by Tor Norbye who worked on the core Netbeans team at the time.
Ask HN: Is there an internship out there for Jason Werth?
The Washington Nationals outfielder Jason Werth was quoted Monday in The Washington Post as ssying that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in the galaxy, and that he could figure out how to do algorithms, but the guy who can do algorithms couldn't hit. His remarks have drawn a lot of derision from people in the sports journalism world.

I'm wondering whether any startups, or other tech companies out there, would care to get a bit of cheap publicity by offering Jason Werth an off-season coding internship.

[edit: somebody already posted a link to the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7440278. Also spelled his first name correctly!]
Firefox has no XSS mitigation built in unlike Chrome and even Internet Explorer. NoScript provides that for Firefox, even if you allow global scripts for practicality purposes you're getting XSS protection.

And I realise that there are design trade offs, but it seems sad that mobile has to drag the desktop into the realm of relative uselessness - not all add-ons can be updated to use the new abstract API (since the API will have gaps that the old API used to support).
I doubt it will fail in such environments (at least, for most of the time).

The problem with meeting CAT ratings is transient voltage spikes- I don't recall exact numbers, but some for some of the higher CAT ratings multimeters are required to withstand (meaning continue to operate, or fail in a safe way, with no harm to operator) several kilo-volts.

Cheaper multimeters just literally blow up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-FZP1U2dkM
The language isn't the issue, the frameworks and libraries are. You're going to have to spend your valuable expert time sorting those out too. That's the bulk of it.

If your truly an expert at c# then learning objective-c isn't much of a challenge. At least learning the amount you need to build apps.
Oh man they need a designer.
nice, but where are the docs ?
Congratulation! You have managed to create a web page where even links no longer work. Okay, that is a bit of an overstatement - open in new window, download and probably also the social media links do work.
Oh I checked the logs, error is "Memory quota exceeded". I will deploy it to another server. Till then download the npm package and run it.
The now-defunct FSA in the UK was pretty bad at regulating our banks too, mind.
I'm not sure what were the datapoints that suggested to them that the UI was in need of an overhaul but I would have been much happier if they lowered the cpu usage of Firefox. To be fair I have a massive number of bookmarks (12000+) and tabs :-/ I was happy with the UI as it were. I'm using Ubuntu, btw.
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I've been using it in some internal code at work since late February. It works pretty well. I was surprised by how fast it is.
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my own charisma is inversely proportional to the hours I spend each day coding. more coding -> less charisma. so I don't think it is just a stereotype at all, but rather an emergent phenomenon of how we spend our time, and where our interests lead us.
"We believe that Outlook and Hotmail email are and should be private. Unless we don't. In conclusion, you shouldn't have handed over the data, go cry me a river. Love, MSFT."
Did Google management order him to look into that data searching for something Google management wanted? No. Was he fired for that? Yes.
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I you do a search for something like 'intrade betfair obama arbitrage' then you'll find plenty of site who were discussing it. The size of arb varied but it was persistently there for months varying from a couple of percentage points (that didn't make it worthwhile considering currency risk) to over 20% at one point.
> A: We've created a decentralized accounting system and currency that obviates the need for most of the standard accounting controls and fraud prevention measures, so long as you operate within that currency!

I hear this a lot, but I think it's really only true with a massive asterix next to it. Can you explain how bitcoin will work, for instance, in a retail model? It seems like the transactions take a long (relatively) time to verify, which leaves two options:

1. The customer waits (not really a possibility - maybe for bar tabs it's sort of ok?)

2. The vendor purchases some level of security or risk management that allows transactions to occur instantly with a minimum amount of doublespend. And there's your transaction fee. Maybe it will be less than the credit card fee?

Am I wrong? I haven't been able to have anyone explain this to me.
I agree this is tone deaf, mostly. And certainly journalists have room for improvement in understanding data. However, I certainly agree with this statement:

>Neutrality is an evasion of responsibility, unless everything is like sports.

More data can also mean more noise. More data can also mean implying more causation where none exists. And the world isn't a giant game with sterile constraints and static rules.