skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had to develop really good name & face recall for my work. I have probably a couple hundred or more names, faces, and short tidbits stored up in my head, and can remember at least temporarily just about everyone I want to at a conference or other.

1. First, look at the person. Remembering someone's name helps a lot if you can remember one thing about them. A lot of people don't have a very memorable face, but most people have something about them that's unique: do they stand with hips forward, wear velcro sneakers, have a beard, walk with a limp, have working-man hands, crow's feet next to their eyes, a specific hairstyle...? "That guy, Nick" becomes "That guy, Nick, who's tall and thin and has a really easy-going smile who holds his head back on his shoulders a bit and tends to wave his hands when he's talking." Now Nick's a unique person to you.

2. Listen to the person. Remembering someone's name is even easier if you can remember two things about them. Why are they at the event? What do you have in common with them? What gets them excited? Don't try to remember their life story, instead pick just one thing that stands out for you and associate it with the physical person and their name. "That guy, Nick, who's tall and tin and has a really easy-going smile who holds his head back on his shoulders a bit and tends to wave his hands when he's talking, especially when he's talking about Python. He does some geocoding work that I don't really understand."

3. If you really really want to remember someone, make contact with them. Not necessarily physical contact (like a handshake, not my favorite thing), but join in on the conversation, make eye contact, have a couple of words back and forth.

This also trains you to pay attention, and as others pointed out, inattentiveness is probably a big part of why it's so hard to remember people you've met. It's easy to just glance at someone and not commit anything to memory, and that's probably what happens most of the time.

Finally, when there isn't stuff going on, I'll spend a few seconds going through everyone in my head. If it's less than an hour since I've met them, I can usually work out any details I've forgotten. I have a kind of mental yearbook, and I go through it: "face & name & bio, face & name & bio, face & name & bio, face & ... blank? Wait, their name was Dave something, he liked embedded systems programming, he had a common last name, oh yeah, Dave Smith..."

It's the pop quiz effect: you're more likely to remember something longer if you've had to recall it at least once since committing it to memory.

edit: Oh, and don't be shy about forgetting something about someone! Being stressed out because you can't remember someone's name can make it a lot harder to remember the next person's name. And, odds are, they don't remember your name either, so being up-front about forgetting can put them at ease too. "Hey, we met just a while ago, we talked about ______, I can't for the life of me remember your name though."
Definitely an interesting idea, retaliating in the same spirit. But would it help Netflix? Switching costs for ISPs are higher than switching costs for streaming services (like Netflix or Amazon), not just in terms of dollars but time and hassle. I don't know that many people would be willing to switch ISPs just because Netflix costs a bit more. And in some areas, Comcast is the only ISP.

Nothing spurs innovation more than a challenge. Maybe we'll see it with large-scale peer-to-peer technology that Netflix may help innovate to respond to higher streaming costs, or it may be an opportunity for an different ISP model to enter the market or expand their existing footprint (like Google).
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Really? I could never stand LyX. Texmaker is my LaTeX editor of choice.
Awesome!! It remains me the UI of Trello boards which is pretty cool IMHO
Yes it was so easy
"An historical" actually is 'wrong' (for as wrong as anything can be in English, which generally isn't very). "Historical" doesn't make a vowel sound when read (which is the rule).
I see this every couple of days: http://imgur.com/gallery/AluV1G0

I somewhat doubt it's malware on my computer, because it only happens on imgur.
Very cool idea, reminds me of Brain Warp from back in the day.

Careful you don't drop your phone!
WOW, that is a really nice desk!
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Axel springer is buying a lot of daily and weekly newspaper in germany sry but we should fear axel springer too...

another view on that subject:
http://www.jungewelt.de/2014/04-17/026.php?sstr=d%F6pfner
It's a Herman Miller Embody. Very expensive, but my fiancee got a great discount through work. Great investment if you sit all day.

http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...

Plenty of color options. We were told the white back wasn't possible for some reason, but somehow the woman we worked with managed to sneak it in. Very happy when it was delivered!
>this sort of autistic 'oh look at how closely I follow the rules' nonsense //

He's not referring to autism he's referring to a sort of pharisaical uber-pedantry that fails to properly acknowledge the purpose of the rules, and the purpose of the forum, instead looking only at the letter of the regulations. You might call it lack of a good faith effort to interpret the question positively.

I'm guessing you knew that.
If you launched it on other platforms, why is the headline making it sound like you're just launching it on WP8? Why is that news is what I'm asking, I guess.
I like linode, their support has been amazing, and they're pretty affordable.
Very soon :) It's in working progress!! Thanks
Thanks for sharing Patrick. I never would have guessed that you had a stutter from your MicroConf talks.

I'm glad this topic is being discussed.

Even though I am relatively young (I turn 18 next week), can code and sell, I've always had a fear that my speech would prevent me from being a "real entrepreneur" (whatever that means), so it's good to see examples of people not letting their speech problems hinder their success.
What made you pick KWC for dental work, and how are your teeth?
But patenting it requires that you disclose the method; it is an opposite position to keeping it secret.
It's disappointing that CORS is listed under JSONP.
I agree the landing page is confusing though I believe it's called waffle.io because kanban cards create a grid pattern & waffles also have a grid pattern.
Mr. Doepfner seems to fear Google's power. As a newspaper publisher, that is reasonable. But in a wider societal context, as he seems to be implying, it is nonsense. Google has so little political influence that the city council won't let them build a twenty-foot bridge over a creek between two Google office buildings (http://rationalconspiracy.com/2014/04/17/money-doesnt-matter...).
Wasn't this part of a movie, Baader Meinhof Complex or something?
Ouch, those hover animations kill my browser.
I think you could "fold" the whole cable back on itself at that point. Instead of unwinding around the axis of the helix, unwind around an axis at a right-angle.
Hello! Thanks for the tips! I recently found out that if the device is in rotation lock does not work, I'm already solving the problem. Soon I will release a second (the first is already in review, I added the game center, etc. ..) update with all these problems solved.

Thank you use Turnica! : D
are you italian? :)
"many of them illegal immigrants trying to escape China."

I'm guessing the illegal immigrants were in KWC because Hong Kong's jurisdiction over KWC was ambiguous; and in Hong Kong, police regularly checked people for identification cards, and so illegal immigrants would be detected easily and would risk deportation outside KWC. Is this correct in explaining why illegal immigrants congregate in KWC?
It does if your dialect has a silent H there. A lot of people that pronounce "an historical" do so with a silent H.
Arthropod was supposed to be the next word of the title, but understandably, the author of the piece was short on time. The article's about the fossil of an ancient great ancestor of shrimps. The fossil has spectacularly well preserved impressions of soft tissue.

Evolution is not a relentless forward march, and if it could have inclinations, streamlining its productions would not be one of them. Doing so only when necessary, in cases where replication is also somehow advantaged. Usually... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ItAintBroke
Data was plural. It's definitely singular now. The old way is not necessarily "wrong", just awkward. Correcting people to use the old way is wrong, however.

Remember, if you're pedantically holding on to archaic conventions for data, and you don't use "agenda" as plural, you're a hypocrite ;)
Max is a great developer, I hope all the best for him.
It's a Herman Miller Eco-something or other.

I got it off freecycle for free, it's built like a battle ship chassis is heavy guage steel and underneath is covered with cable management, based on style and condition I'd say it's at least late 80's old maybe older.

When I finally have some money I'm going to get the chassis shot blasted and powder coated black and an identical top panel cut out of marine ply, I absolutely adore the aesthetics and comfort but it looks a tad tatty as is.
>It's often better to say: here's what I want to do and why, what's the best way to accomplish that?

Sounds like a great way to get your question torpedoed by overzealous moderators for being "not a good fit" since there's not a direct answer and it will "invite debate".
When I log into my Flickr account, it says my account has been recycled after too much inactivity. My URL username is different than my account name and I'm unsure if it's actually linked to another Yahoo account. But that account is either my real name Yahoo ID or my real name @ymail.com. Yahoo just referred to one username as "96b2a95890acd0cb201aaeb385f6482e". I can't log in, can't reset the accounts, and am confused by what is what.

Of course, ultimately it is my fault but my photos are stuck. They are still online in low resolution.
GPS is a misnomer, it should be JPS, Japan Positioning System, nothing global to see here folks. It is unfortunate that the article does not stress that this system is only useful in Japan; especially with the conclusion that many nations will be watching the results given the "range of promised applications [range of use, certainly not geographic range] and relatively low cost." That being said I am interested to see how the experiment with atomic clockless birds goes. One of the most overlooked features of GPS is time transfer.
5$ is expensive. Don't you know that there are other countries in the world and that the Internet is not only used by the US. There are also other age groups. If a 10 year old boy has a hobby website 5$ might be a price which is unacceptable.

what would you say if I as a billionaire tell you that cars for less than 50 000 $ are not needed because all Ferraris are not expensive. So please don't use your subjective experience as an argument against cheap security solutions. They have a point to exist. Nobody should have the right to set the lower limit of how much you have to pay to secure your website. Commericial CAs cannot guarantee the security of your favorite site as we all learned from the heartbleed bug. So there is nit argument to favor them and block community solutions.
please add "from the future" to the title - may 1st 2014?
What's on topic for HN, as the guidelines say, are stories that gratify intellectual curiosity. Meta posts gratify several things, but that is not one of them. They generate masses of comments like fast-growing weeds, because we're all full of opinions about HN, but the discussions never go very deep, or really anywhere. This has been the case for many years—pretty much since the beginning of the site—and so has the policy on it.
I work from home full time, and worked almost exclusively from my sofa for about six months thanks to moving/space considerations. I don't recommend typing a lot in any environment where you don't have arm or elbow support, it's painful.
Sounds beautiful. Love that area. How's the community? Is it totally isolated, or do you know some people nearby, etc?
I'm not sure most of the content benefits from images?
Sorry, I haven't looked at the site in a while and it has changed a lot.

Wildcard certificates are rarely economical compared with just buying individual certs for the subdomains.

> the dark pattern of presenting a lower price up front ($8), but then you find that this only applies if you spring for more than one year. Misleading and weak.

Absolutely agree!

If you send me an email then I'll make you a coupon to get a certificate for £5 (just over cost price) on my site: https://www.volcanicpixels.com/ssl/ (which is open source: https://github.com/volcanicpixels/volcanicpixels/)
Clearly you have never run across the same program, first in Perl, and then in Python, and felt the tangible differences in maintainability between the two implementations.
So you're OK with SaaS being protected by policy, but not the behavior of your own company's executive staff and delegated administrators?

Hardly seems irrelevant to me, and the free pass you give to SaaS is nonsensical and hypocritical.
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I looked through that, and it seemed that the vast majority of the changes were in prose, tool output, and println. There were some other smallish changes as well, but that doesn't seem so bad for a language that is being very clear that breaking changes are still occurring.
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None of what you are saying actually matters (regardless of one's position on those issues), because it's trumped by the fact that if you use cacert, users can't reach your site. It's wrong to defer this problem to the user, always.
Although it's about comics on the surface, this book is inspiring for work in all visual mediums, including interface design.
Active discussion on reddit from yesterday: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2409uc/til_im...
>The fact that you are getting so many "erhm, I don't think so" probably indicates that it wasn't a good comment that promotes discussion.

Well, that's because they haven't been following the discussion, on HN and on startup circles, going on for a while.

For one, Go creators' themselves said they expected Go to attract more C++/Java people, but instead they got more Python/Ruby people. And that's like 2 years ago.

For the past year or so, there have been numerous posts about how this or that project/startup switched from Ruby/Python to Go. Last 2 weeks alone there have been around 5 such posts on the front page of Hacker News (Digital Ocean being the latest).

Go is getting increasingly used by people that were doing infastructure/backend work in Python/Ruby etc, e.g people using stuff like Twisted and Tornado, JSON services, etc.

>That is why I asked you why it was better, even thought you already answered it 3 times, because it was another chance to explain why it was better.

Well, I guess he pre-supposed people are already familiar with all the "we rewrote our system in Go and we now have X times better performance, no more gimmicks to get async, etc".
The reddit page has no comments. Why doesn't the link go directly to the original post?
https://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2014/04/23/tiob...
I'm not American, so yes I am well aware.

>If a 10 year old boy has a hobby website 5$ might be a price which is unacceptable.
Why would this site need SSL?
OTOH Comodo is still in business: http://www.wired.com/2011/03/comodo-compromise/
My envy knows no bounds.
This sounds like exactly the type of pedantry that is dragging down Stack Overflow.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

A 10 year old with a hobby site in a third world country doesn't need a $5 certificate. Neither does a rich 10 year old with a hobby site for that matter, but he can purchase one if he wants.
It honestly seems like it's more prominent in the ruby community, and I'm not entirely sure why. Part of it may be that ruby is so expressive and nice to work in that it ignites people passions, which can be good or bad... I can say, however, that years back when I was trying to get into ruby from PHP, people like this gave me a very negative view of the ruby 'community' and were the biggest obstacle I had to embracing ruby.
Interesting and weird! It's similar when studying the evolution of the horse! The legs went from quite a few complex moving parts down to a much smaller number in a simpler configuration in the present day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horseevolution.png
wow. you pretty much summarized that feeling - that last sentence.
It's going to be a lot harder to maintain an open, global internet without the moral legitimacy that derives from liberalism. If the internet is just going to be a means to make states and criminals more capable of predating upon ordinary people, then ordinary people will abandon it in a panic (or submit to it meekly, and only use it carefully).

The thought that this can be reversed with mere lobbying is a little ridiculous. We have to build more secure computing and telecom infrastructure, or we will see a massive reversal in behavior. It does not matter how many 'internet of things' advertisements that CISCO buys if the general social opinion is that adopting the technology will make you vulnerable to governmental and criminal predation.

This letter is an example of some of the backlash that we can expect as this patina of moral legitimacy washes off. A congressional committee (like the Church committee) will not be sufficient to restore international trust, and neither would a new president making promises. Google's business model rests on trust, which is always harder to earn back than it is to gain in the first place.
The irony of this realisation that Google have changed the game completely is that it is occurring long after the horse has bolted, and so much so that it may not be entirely valid to target Google with so much venom. The reality is the SV bubble has created a way of valuing things (privacy, IP, money itself) that is not in keeping with the old world at all (being much of western Europe, NYC, LA etc.) and is just moving on regardless of their concerns, many of which I do happen to share.

Arguing the rights or wrongs of this is already too late, and the question to be asked is given the changes in the way things are valued how are you going to justify your existence in future? The very fact Google are struggling to create new revenue streams that rival their ad one shows how difficult this new game is to play, even for those that created it, and even for those apparently so dominant.

This isn't unique to SV as the other great growth area on the planet, China, has its own interesting take which bunnie called gongkai: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=20

You can only conclude that there is something holding back the old world.

If it were not obvious, regulation is going to achieve SFA, and the only way to change the system is going to be to play it in such a way you get to pick the rules. That used to be quietly whispering in the ears of authority, but that is clearly no longer as effective as Mr Döpfner would like.
As a corrolary: Angry* developers are the most effective developers.

* angry at the code
Nobody "has it in for you". You are exemplifying the poisonous, high-handed attitude which the rest of this thread is talking about, which tends to completely ruin forums for asking technical questions: you assume by default that the user is wrong and that the appropriate way to open the interaction is to build a case for the prosecution, even though 99% of the time a question about bash will be about programming (not e.g. 'who is the author of bash').
That's why you've taken a beating on score here. The internet points don't matter, but please reconsider the way you approach question
I'd be interested to know, have you customised UI kit controls, or was this built with one of the many "HTML5" based iOS frameworks where you just write in Javascript and HTML?
Yup. To be clear, this is a ~50 page introduction to the language, so it's not as though I'm testing all of the features of Rust, but the language itself is not changing a whole lot at this point. And what does is often a find/replace.
What do people use to write Rust? Seems like it would really make the most of good editor/IDE support.
I don't have to prove my opinion that the rumored settlement is too low because it's a value judgement. I can also say without burden of proof that non-prosecution of any criminal laws is less than ideal. I'm sure there's someone out there who would say the settlement is too high, that since the employees were free to start their own companies where they could make as much as they thought they were worth, so no harm.

In other words, I'm not arguing malpractice, nor incompetence in the courtroom sense, just that my interpretation of their history says that maybe they don't have the class's best interests at heart. Again, opinion.

If you have some sense that whatever they came up with was the best result possible, I'd really love to hear the rationale there, because I don't think one exists.
We'll need to wait for a Go compiler for the target architecture, and I doubt that will ever happen for AVR.

ARM is more promising with something like the Cortex M0+, but even then there are hurdles like the runtime size.
Hi, dat maintainer here. I made the website in a couple of hours (https://github.com/maxogden/dat-data.com/commits/gh-pages) but have spent about 9 months on the code so far (read through e.g. closed issues for an example of the scope there). I also have tried to convey that dat is still pre-alpha and that people shouldn't use it unless they wanna get involved w/ early development, but someone (not me) decided to post it to hacker news nonetheless.
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7. The Pain of Unfulfilled Dreams can be worst ache you will ever experience.

10. Ordinary People attain extraordinary success - you can too!

11. Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.

13. Always expect the unexpected because the only certainty is uncertainty.

18. Self-pity costs nothing and it is worth just as much.

19. You can be a victim or you can be successful - You can't be both, however.

53. The most creative shortcut to success is to reevaluate what success means to you.

73. You can't always get what you want, but you can get a lot more than you think you can.

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Hey Dan, no I went with straight objective-c. Wrote up my experiences here: http://cl.ly/VE8Z
I don't get it either?
I'm having trouble understanding the practical consequences of this project.

If I would be in Japan, with a regular, GPS-tuned/understanding device, would I get better service? Or would I need a special device, that'd be able to understand GPS+"JPS"?

The part where they transmit correction data to the satellites also confuse me, if that's what they're doing; It's not the same as the United States Global Positioning Service if that'd be the case, right? For what I've understood, the GPS doesn't need a constant feeding of data from ground stations - it's ""simply"" a bunch of satellites sending out the current time from their on-board atomic clocks.
> Go creators' themselves said they expected Go to attract more C++/Java people, but instead they got more Python/Ruby people.

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