skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that in most cases, for me at least, taking notes on a smart-phone instead is a reasonable middle way. Of course, I have to make sure I don't get distracted, but surprisingly, while taking notes on the phone, I don't feel the urge to do so (but I suppose every one's mileage may vary). However, since it takes time and effort to tap down notes on a smart-phone, doing so likely produces the same results that does taking notes on a paper with a pen.

PS: I regularly take down notes on my phone during work meetings.
In the meatspace events I've attended that pushed it, the whole #hashtag #live-audience-commentary #having-a-blast-at-x #PLZ-USE-THE-HASHTAG hoopla was complete asinine nonsense. At a basic level it's also disrespectful to the presenters for the organisers to be promoting mass-distraction of the audience.
That's somewhat fair (there are still conditions under which war might occur), but my point was that we are seeing a deeper peace than simply "peace between great powers".
This is particularly amusing because 6 or so months ago I had to write a résumé as part of a "career unit" in my Engish class. I was fed up with the whole thing -- what we had been taught seemed totally obvious to me and I was pretty much only doing busy work -- so I decided to write mine in JSON, and its schema happened to look pretty similar to this one's! The best part of the story, however, is that my awesome English teacher (only doing the unit because of the district), understanding of my interest in tech, loved it and thought it was clever and so gave me full points on it.
>That harm and those people are apparently not as important as some business goal. That offends me.

I understand your point.

> Why would an insult convey more offense than all the criticism in the article already does?

That really depends on the aim of the article. If it is to express a feeling, fine, she did express her feeling. If it is to make a point, she shouldn't, or one might simply say she cannot have a rational discussion, because it simply doesn't prove anything. Google didn't use insult, it undisclosed private information. While it is senseless, it's not an offense, in the sense that there's no proof that it was intended to hurt. I don't believe that S. Brin woke up one day with the idea of harming people, or do you think that is what happened? If it were the case: if I had been the victim of a deliberate attempt at hurting me by disclosing things about me that I consider private, I would be seriously pissed. The question is: was it deliberate, or was it simply an error, or a misunderstanding? People make mistakes, that's unfortunate, but it's understandable. She, otoh, cursed voluntarily.

> It's also a particularly harmless insult that as far as I can tell

That's anyone's appreciation. In a different culture, it might well be the worse thing you could say to someone. The fact that it carry already a insulting connotation is enough: there's no way someone could take it as a compliment, thus whether it is harmless or the worse one could say is besides the point, the message is clear.

> That's a lot of words about this sidetrack

For a minor issue, that happened in _the title_, but I surely don't care that much.
How does a mouse give one a rash?
Does anyone have any more information on what is actually possible from a malicious tower?

Below is all I could find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcKk8R0LFI

http://www.pcworld.com/article/216842/coming_soon_a_new_way_...

http://openbts.org/

Is anyone else cautious when receiving free electronics? I'm always suspicious that it could be bugged by a rival company (from another country) or possess malware such as http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429394/placeraider-the-...

Also, this seems dangerous: http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/20/technology/security/drone-ph...
You can get multiple strikes from one event I think. So, it is even harsher.
I like the idea of airport size a lot. You could even generate that by hand with a list of the top 100 airports or something.
Jobs pursued spirituality with the same zest as he pursued art and technology. He was neither a great artist nor a great engineer. Or was he? In the same way, he was not a great buddhist.
I love my trackpad, but use it in combo with my logitech.
They probably already have a pretty good idea based on your iPhone app usage data.
I've always done it, and I sense a vibe from people like "he hasn't come to work" when I have a notebook and pencil, and they're on twitter/IM the entire time. There's a herdmind social pressure aspect to this.

Taking notes by hand definitely improves my memory for things. I thought it might be the process of production that did it - that it had to go through your eyes and ears into your fingers, and that the output looked nothing like the input that cemented it, but the theory advanced here (aggressive filtering) sounds good, too. I've always been annoyed at lecturers that stopped for long periods to allow notes to be taken verbatim. Wouldn't that kill the effect if that were the cause?
Alloy has nickel in it. Nickel causes contact dermatitis for a lot of people, me included. My MBP does the same and is coated in vinyl sheet to stop it literally making my hands bleed.

Apple is one if the only vendors that actually doesn't actually consider biology when designing a product. Even the shittiest Lenovo or no brand Chinese clone laptops are made of better materials.

So I use my Lenovo instead and the MBP sits there like a lemon waiting until I can be arsed to clean it out and eBay it.

LOTS of people have this problem. My dermatologist said that he sees 3-5 people a week that have contact allergies on hands and ears that use apple products. I tried to email apple about it - never heard a thing back.

Edit: 2 days of using an MBP without vinyl around it: http://i.imgur.com/HgDquuE.jpg
Not really...You talk about being tracked by Google in the same breath that you talk about the relationship being consensual. If you have to work to prevent tracking because you don't want to and can't stop the tracking by simply saying Do Not Track, then its not very good informed consent
I suspect the "plank" is actually a wood veneer glued over a set of blocks. The veneers are extremely flexible (you could roll them up) and would look like this once carefully assembled. A side view of the 'plank' would be interesting.
Too bad they're not making this plain open source They should copyleft all the IP in this which will foster innovation on the algo instead of just basing this on customer needs Open algos are much easier to extend.
That slide was just noting factors that Daala would have to beware or overcome to succeed. While those certainly apply to VP8/VP9, Theora had many of the same problems.

VP8 was always on tenuous ground both politically and technologically. VP9 is not in a better position, either. Xiph doesn't carry political baggage -- just a reputation for building solid codecs.

Hopefully Xiph's re-thinking of codec design will pay dividends. The fact that Daala's design is coming from left-field is a real risk for adoption, but is nevertheless very welcome -- there has been only incremental progress since research into wavelet codecs in the '90s, and every single DCT-based codec in use today has been stuck in a local optimum since MPEG-1.
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No. You've got it backwards.

Disinformation is prevention of awareness (not informed at all).

Misinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately (informed with mistakes).

...but I see what you did there.
"Apple appears to be hoping to persuade building owners to upload a map of their space, and then iBeacons could in theory be used to automatically validate the map's accuracy...currently, Google is validating its indoor maps by hand"

It's interesting that the innovation here is apparently going to be in the verification, with humans manually building the maps. I wonder if Google's 'Project Tango' is supposed to be merging these steps so the map doesn't have to be built manually and is automatically verified - that certainly seems like a possible use of it.
This is a great example of the reality distortion field. Apple produces probably the worst product ever designed - in every way imaginable and there's still people claiming it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I'm a big proponent of using a vertical mouse. Not that cheap (mine was around 50) and not sexy, but useful.
> Snark aside

Is it really snark? Cops pull the "missing evidence" stunt all the time and get away with it, why should we expect different from the NSA (now that they're playing at being a law enforcement agency)?

> Is this really just a technical problem

I wouldn't go so far as to say this happened by design, but at the end of the day does it really matter? Opportunistic evil is still evil, and this opportunity dangles the temptation of opportunistic evil in front of a group of people that don't exactly have a sterling track record of self-restraint in such matters.

EDIT (re:downvoters): I realize that the court order has more to do with the ongoing court case than ongoing retention policy. That doesn't make ongoing retention policy irrelevant.
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If you have the money, why not? Though surely the diggers could just be dismantled and taken out?

Clive James recorded a wonderful and amusing Point of View (BBC Radio 4) on the subject of rich people and their basement palaces.

http://www.clivejames.com/point-of-view/underground
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Anecdotally, I've taken notes in my math classes using org-mode + LaTeX snippets for the last two years, and I feel like I'm learning the material better this way. I can look up background knowledge around a subject, view an alternate definition of a term, or briefly go more in depth than how my teacher/professor presented something. In addition, I end up with very nice-looking notes in the end that I can share with friends if they need them! (Plus, just staring at LaTeX-generated math is awe-inspiring... hhnnnnngggg)
If you do that your best bet is using a simple long[] (or a direct LongBuffer) and each forest is represent by just a long. Not a stock HashSet(...). Even then the simplest optimization is not adding when the total forest population is inferior to the current best solution.

Rewriting the solution to use a single long smashes the C++ too but yet again, it feels horrid when the real solution is O(1)...
I've heard this before... Oh yeah, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel http://blog.acton.org/archives/67697-lessons-creative-destru...
When they do that, they are usually putting the cart before the horse in how they're scaling it. They have some things that would theoretically work on a massive scale but not a solid setup for a hundred thousand users.
From The New York Times Garden Book:

...clear glass encourages the growth of algae...

The bottle garden should be cleaned inside and out once a month.

Algae growth tends to be rapid in bottle gardens... This monthly scrubbing and cleaning out is the key to the whole success story.

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=rSiFAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT522&pg=P...

and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858411
Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Sho...

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt3ZQxKl_ZQ)
Title is misleading but still pretty cool. It points to Steve Wozniak's comment about constantly being good at Tetris.
I had a professor who just had a rule that people with laptops had to sit at the back. Worked fine.
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No, the broadly understood difference is that disinformation is intentionally spread wrong information, while misinformation is just wrong information.

When I say 'broadly understood', I mean that it is the reasonable understanding you should come away with if you consult some reference like a dictionary or encyclopedia, it's what they say.
In general, of course, it depends.

In the case I mentioned above, we left the candidate site immediately, arranged earlier flights, and flew back to Seattle. There may have been exec communication but I was just the technical DD guy at the time. But I never heard from them again.

Had the code been stellar, we may have given them time to sort it out so that the package was clean.
I think the part most people are having trouble with is not what is contained in your first paragraph, but how the legislature/executive goes from there to "Every manufacturer, including those that never set up franchise agreements, must sell through a dealership." The especially galling part of the New Jersey kerfuffle is that Tesla was defined to be a "franchisor" despite the fact that they have never entered into a franchise agreement!
What are you talking about? Daala is as open as you get.
Yeah, but that's the thing. With a web comic he can do whatever he wants. Pure freedom. What he wants, when he wants. Hundreds of people would pretty much work out all the details for him just to put it on a page somewhere, I would imagine. And it's not like he'd have to come out of hiding, either. The web pretty much allows you to do as you like in that regard as well.

Sure, it's just wishful thinking, but it wouldn't be that hard to give him an outlet to do as he pleases, assuming he wants to do something.
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How thick is this veneer that it is also engraved?
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> is the "hockey puck" mouse.

I don't disagree that they're terrible, but didn't they end production of those 15 years ago?
This same thought occurred to me, surely rather than wasting the whole digger, there must be some salvageable parts that can be easily carried or hoisted out of the holes and sold as spares?
Well, I never thought of this

I just keep the base of the hand outside the lower part of the trackpad

There's also a trackpad<>keyboard hand movement as well so it doesn't stay there always.
To the extent that every now and then someone claims that he went to India to study during the time between the ages of 12 and 30-odd that the gospels say nothing about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_years_of_Jesus#Claims_of_...

Obviously none of it has stuck, with big chunks being acknowledged fabrications. People generally want Jesus to have visited various places important to them which is why the poem that the hymn Jerusalem is based on talks about Jesus walking in Englands green and pleasant land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_%28hymn%29

I do think that the teachings of Buddha to do with nonattachment to material possessions fit very well with the teachings of Jesus.
> So the bottom was cut open and sealed by heat then.

Even if that's true (which it's not, according to the creator), there's no call to be so dismissive and superior about it. Seamlessly cutting and resealing a bottle is sure as hell not in my skillset, and I'd be pretty impressed by someone who could do it reliably.
The wiki article isn't very clear, but it sounds like GGPO hides part of the network latency by disguising it as the natural delay between deciding to act and the action taking effect, therefore delaying actions in the game in a believable way. Is that right?
As I read it, they plan to patent new stuff. See page 9, the third bullet for example.
One shouldn't take notes at all. Class is for understanding; material should be available in books.

Notebooks are an escape if the class is boring/irrelevant. They should not be banned, so students can make at least something useful. I learned a lot about programming in high school from printed materials from under the desk in some classes which where not for me.
>Apple is a company that doesn’t have a great track record for mice though. Users have always complained about the lack of a right click button and scroll wheel. This was however one of the key drivers for the simplification of Mac OS. Steve Jobs insisted that if the OS should be simple enough to be operated with just one button.

This sounds great in theory but I don't think it works as well in practice. The great thing about a right-click mouse button is contextual menus, aka locality. For anything on your screen, if you want to know everything it can do, just right click on it.

There's no need to refer to a distant top menu bar, which only works when the app/window you're interested in is first focused, which is not something unsavy users easily pick up on. Just right click - it does both for you, focuses the window and provides all relevant functionality. Much simpler and easier for unsavy users to learn and remember.

The fact that Apple had to add a pseudo-right-click functionality in the form of holding Option or Command or whatever while clicking should have been a hint that maybe lack of easy access to a universal context menu is a bug not a feature.
Yes, hate them. Gimme types.
There's no real guarantee that Daala won't be covered, at least partially by some submarine patents. I don't think you can work on a years long R&D effort and make that promise.

IMHO, you work on stuff with the assumption that if you're a big success, someone's gonna sue you, and plan for it accordingly.

In the meantime, HEVC is going to be widely deployed eventually. VP8 and VP9 are valid alternatives for some, and I see no reason not to support them while we wait years for a moonshot codec to save us. I have to wonder if there isn't some NIH fear that if VP8/9 get any degree of success it would make it that much harder to switch to Daala later.

That is, it's better to keep things in a "bad" state (H264/HEVC) because as the situation gets worse, it would be easier to justify Daala adoption later. Similar to how if you're waiting for Healthcare reform, and you want Single Payer, supporting a partial solution (e.g. health exchanges) might mitigate the worst pain, and make it harder to argue for Single Payer later.
Foursquare also has some useful tips on it:

http://blog.foursquare.com/post/87115587663/foursquare-tips-...
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Searching the airport code didn't seem to bring up my airport. "SEA" brought up everything but Seattle-Tacoma.

Tip: If I type SEA and hit enter, even before waiting for the suggestions to load, it should take me to SEA :)
I didn't understand two things, if someone would like to explain to me:

i) Isn't it a winner/loser pair for each game? How can a pair "outperform" another? Nash equilibrium is about an overall better situation for both sides, but if one is smarter enough than the other, it is better for this one not to be on Nash equilibrium. So I don't see it as underperformed by a "Nash pair".

ii) Later in the article they explain that chimps have better short memory than humans through an experiment where chimps correctly recall numbers that appeared on a screen. My doubt: chimps can undersand the correct order of numbers? In other words, chimps can read numbers and understand their order?? That is new to me.

Maybe I misread something...
The article actually points out that he could be a pretty horrible leader in his search for the best implementation possible. Did you read it or are you just trying to forward your personal view?

Nobody's death is a good thing. Or a bad thing. It's just inevitable. (This is from TFA)
Except that Zen is the school of "sudden enlightenment." Suzuki: "Enlightenment is not some good feeling or some particular state of mind. The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment."

It's hard to see how being a capitalist overlord is compatible with any reasonable definition of "right livelihood," which is part of the Eightfold Path.

Zen is criticized by other Buddhists for its lack of emphasis on ethics. It's hard to see how being a samurai is compatible with "right action," either.

I don't think the question of who is or isn't "really" Buddhist is very interesting. I just think it's annoying to act like Steve Jobs is a good example of anything spiritual because he made pretty things at great cost to other people's lives, the planet, human decency, etc.
Pretty clear. How do you decide what deals to syndicate? And U.S. only?
Is the router your hardware? If the router was provided by (aka is owned by) your ISP, then I don't understand why you would expect to be able to control the firmware (it's not your hardware). From your providers perspective, this would imply that they've lost configuration management control of their hardware (not good for them). In this scenario, the simple solution is to install something downstream, for example a security appliance (firewall/vpn) or your own router with similar capabilities (use your own router as the ingress). If this is not correct, and you provided the router (ISP provides only the fiber), then you do have a valid issue. (but it could still be solved with the above solution).
It would be cool if they also add some kind of support for swift (or some variant) too.
This makes me really happy.

I kind've wish they'd used $ for what Application() is, though, to keep an analogous similarity with jQuery and the like.
Here's a more interesting list of potential file system translators:

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/wishlist.h...
How is he able to rewind through time?
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Good luck getting a visa...
I'm surprised they didn't try to get data on students who didn't take any notes at all. Back in the 90s I irritated quite a few college teachers by not doing any note taking - my ability to do handwriting has always been terrible and I absorbed much better by not doing it and then latching on to my friend's notes. Later on, taking notes on laptops proved a much better experience, and these days it's Markdown for the best results / effort (if I needed heavy math I'd have probably learned LaTex).
This caught my eye:

> Building a new codec from scratch may cost less than
licensing

Samsung is already participating in many open source projects: F2FS, Tizen, they are part of Linux foundation, and I believe is even helping Mozilla with Servo. So why not try to get them to commit to adopting Daala in all of their devices as soon as it's stable and out, and perhaps even help with funding a bit? There might be other companies out there willing to do it, too. They need to reach to them.
Helium doesn't need to be superfluid to leak through a lot of materials. If you are designing a ultra high vacuum system you better make sure the type of glass you use doesn't leak He. Or if you get the chance to play with a mass spectrometer you can inhale helium and observe how it leaks through your chest.
> Given that my logs tell me I receive unsolicited connection attempts out of some countries in the East every 5 minutes or so,

Do you have a cut and paste of those logs? Often those connections are either noise and not worth bothering about, or they're your ISP and not worth bothering about.
Top airports:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_busiest_airports_by_pas...

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/may/04/world-t...
AppleScript contains some amazingly powerful APIs, but is nearly impossible to write. Having a Javascript (successor?) implementation is going to unleash its full potential. I could see it becoming much more widely used and supported by third party apps. This is wonderful.

In the same cycle that they release a brand new language, they begin the deprecation process for their (only?) other proprietary programming language in favor of an existing language. Pretty cool.