skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making of “Repeating What Simon Says”, a hybrid app case study
Have they released the actual software? I'm learning making amateur planes and can't wait to use this.
One build configuration for all your web apps
Does the vacuum have to be perfect? Maybe you can reduce the pressure on the surfaces, and therefore simplify the engineering, by leaving some air in there. I think it is an interesting idea that varying the internal pressure would change your lift. You only ever need "just enough" lift anyhow.
You should get a Nokia feature phone.
Humans are not designed to stand for 8 hours every day. It's about switching poses frequently.
You are 100% incorrect when it comes to Postgres. Feel free to try it out.
You can download the Ext JS 5.0.1 GPL at the bottom of this page: http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/details

I'm not sure that we still have the links to 4.2 posted anywhere, and in any case 5.x is definitely the place you'll want to be.
>The 512,000 route limitation can be increased to a higher number, for details see this Cisco doc

and that doc goes ahead to explain how to increase the limit at the cost of space for IPv6. Worse: The sample code (which everybody is going to paste) doubles the space for IPv4 at the cost of nearly all the IPv6 space, even though we should soon cross the threshold when we're going to see more IPv6 growth than IPv4 growth.
Surprised the NYT article didn't mention http://distrokid.com by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
>> I'm surprised there isn't an EFF-like non-profit that provides pro-bono patent defense to start-ups, against patent trolls.

Part of the problem is making it scale. It takes a lot of man-hours to defend a patent litigation case. Its certainly possible to set up such a non-profit... its just difficult. We're working on it!
Developing for Windows Phone 8?
In financial terms (preferably from someone doing this) is it worth the time to create apps for WP8? It seems that the platform is growing and the store seems to have less apps than iOS or Android.

Any thoughts or reports of experience would be helpful.

Thanks.
Is there a better workaround that doesn't hinder IPv6?

I agree that it would be better not to harm IPv6 growth. But if the alternative is to break the IPv4 internet then the choice seems obvious.
I would have preferred them to work on these new ideas to make them work better.

The idea of modern UI was good. The traditional freely movable windows are usually not using the desktop space very efficiently unless you spend a lot of time positioning them or use some third party utilities and configure them properly. I have a feeling that especially "normal users" very seldom use for example two windows side-by-side - even though this might be good for productivity.

The modern UI style was more like a tiling window manager. 8.1 made it possible to split the screen vertically among n applications. It would have been nice to see them explore this further to allow other kind of configurations as well.

The main problem with modern UI from my perspective was the lack of application. There was only few modern UI apps available and most of them pretty useless, tiny utilities. Now Office (even Outlook), no Visual Studio etc. A "simple" fix would have been to allow users to run the old applications the same way as modern UI apps.
> But let me ask you this. Assume for the moment I relayed the details accurately. If that happened to you, wouldn't you feel frustrated?

I am always frustrated if I don't get a job I apply for.

I don't go on to assume that there are sexist reasons why I didn't get the job.

Look at all the other jobs you haven't got, and the people who did get them. How many of those people are "not particularly impressive", or have "less education" or "work history was less impressive. Fewer accomplishments at less notable companies."?
Right. At that point their lifespan is measured in days anyway.
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This reminds me of the case of the 500-mile email:
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
I'm happy to live in these times.
I'd presume that the best workaround would be to begin replacing the older Cisco kit with newer models.
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I just started writing songs recently and gave DistroKid a try - it's so easy and low cost. One happy customer.
At first glance I'm not convinced to the idea, I'd assume that it's better to keep the community in one place. Reaching critical mass sounds easier with just one URL to share too.

I might like it if the fundraisers were complementary and addressed to the same target groups, but actually different.
This looks awesome!

So if someone installs this, will they eventually have a local copy of Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg on their SD card or USB device?

If so, I have a few questions:

- how long does it take to get the whole lot?

- what if the hard drive fills up? can someone choose to get only a portion or selected files, so that other files don't fill up the storage first?

- what happens when there are updates to Wikipedia articles? Are the new articles broadcast as you find them, or do we wait for the carousel to complete?

- is the goal to move beyond static-ish content? If not, then aren't hard drives or DVD-R disks easier?
Maybe lying on a couch is the safest choice then. :-)
ahh white gas bottles! msr makes those as well.
I'd guess "font" is understood by more readers than "typeface", even if it is slightly incorrect.
Also, it could have come from 'exit'. I've seen some text based programs use an 'x' key-press to activate a program 'exit', although I'm not sure of the chronology of its use.
It seems unlikely that they're going to be exposed to anything in the tube that they're not already exposed to when they congregate together at the bottom of a dam (or a natural waterfall). They can get pretty packed..

As another poster noted, at this stage they're not likely to live long enough to develop most diseases.
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That's not a workaround - but yes, these things need to be upgraded. They're probably unmaintained anyway since good networking departments don't want to be working with super old gear.
I've been in a team where similar tools were used to prevent people from intentionally writing bad code. If this happens, the problem is in the team itself (or bad company culture) and no tool will ever solve it.

Of course it's ok to use such reports as an aid in detecting accidental errors or as a helpful resource in discussions.
A rack of switchers, HTML5, a stack of mini computers to broadcast chess on TV
Isn't a 60% mortality rate particularly high?

And if you give someone a drug and they consequently show a reversal of their symptoms instead of a slow die off as immune response kicks in, doesn't that pretty heavily imply that the drug worked?

I'm not against full clinical trials and the like, but I doubt that's a possibility with an epedemic like disease like ebola.
If I were paying ~2400/yr and was given the option of ~1000/yr, I would think I've been grossly overpaying for the monthly option. In your shoes I would offer one month free for 2200/yr rather than 7 months free.
Which is one of the few things that the US actually has privacy laws against: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
The default sample code (which everybody is going to copy without reading about the consequences) could only slightly increase the V4 space instead of doubling it which we'll hopefully never need as V6 is going to grow much more quickly now (again: hopefully)
Search for my nick on Github or have a look at http://www.progtools.org.

Not much nowadays, as family and friends take most of the time.
interesting write up - but maybe it was also a company problem? often, applying the newest/hottest technologies show a lack of understanding of the "real" user problems. At least from my experience.
I wonder if these plastic containers contribute to the cancer epidemic we have?

Apparently cancer currently strikes 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women.
I think the push back in the US is coming because:

(a) people don't see the disease and thus are less scared of it, their imagined consequences of vaccination

and

(b) it appears the government will always choose to vaccinate if a vaccine isn't specifically required to stop disease transmission, the disease itself is not life threatening, and against parental opposition
I am using Full Page Screen Capture[0], which is a similar extension, but it still asks for "Access your data on all websites" and "Access your tabs and browsing activity".

I find it very hard to verify that an extension needs that to take screenshots, but now I have disabled that as well.

I guess the only real way to fix this is using something like PhantomJS to take pictures of public websites.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c...
Triangle was the menu button, O for cancel, X to accept/action, Square to play Triple Triad.
The planning/pointing process can only benefit people with high status. Rules don't really impact high status employees.

If somebody with high status doesn't meet expectations we tend to think the problem is with the expectations; if they are low status we tend to think the problem is with the person.

In the same way the high status employee has a lot more say over the way story points are allocated and how the work is allocated.

I've been low-status before despite being just as good as everyone else in the team and I've also been high-status despite being one of the worst in the team.

When you are low status people focus on your mistakes. When you are high status people look at your successes and overall contribution.
Yes it's the solution rather than a workaround - my very British, dry sense of humour, at work there.

Although it could be argued that "workaround" is a sub-set of "solution" ;)
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> but if someone thinks that writing incomprehensible but correct proofs is as fine as it gets — it's huge mistake to think so.

In the brute force case, it's simply a conceit of mathematicians that algorithms implemented in a programming language are incomprehensible. If our proofs can span hundreds of pages, why not also our programs?

Accepting the premise that large algorithms and their results can be used as part of a proof, have you ever proven a program correct by hand? It's almost always tedious and unenlightening.
There have been several Personal Rapid Transit [1] systems proposed with this sort of technology, e.g.:
http://zapatopi.net/inteli-tube/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Rapid_Transit
"Tinker compared old-style and modern (lining) figures and found a non-significant advantage for old-style figures in terms of reading speed and error rate. (Oddly, modern lining figures were easier to read at a distance – on a billboard, for example. In other tests, capital letters were also found to be more legible than lowercase when set large and at a distance, so these findings do seem to agree."

From: "Taking it in – what makes type easy to read and why" [1] by Kathleen Tinkel, citing "Legibility of Print" by Miles Tinker, Iowa State University Press, 1963.

[1] http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/jager/typetinkel
Does it have to be important to be interesting?
Oracle is actually being more proactive than Sun.

As for the whole Oracle vs Google, Google was the one trying to avoid paying for J2ME licenses.

James Gosling mentioned on his blog that Sun did not sue due to lack of money.
$12.99 to rent a digital movie? As we say here in New Zealand, "Yeah, nah." Considering most people here also have capped data, we'd essentially be paying twice.
Sold my beloved SurfacePro on eBay last week. It is a great piece of hardware, but .. in one word: Windoze8, alas

As a grown up PC fanboy, I found myself work/dev more efficient with less frustration on mac nowadays. Operating system is a productivity tool, and Windows has turn into this emo teen girl I can not recognize or share an easy conversation with anymore.

Picked up a refurbished MBA to keep me coding on the move.
I've had a long career and have been turned down for jobs many times before. It happens. But I've never felt discriminated against until now.
Who thought it was a good idea to use dark blue as the colour for land in the map at the top of the article?
Parents explain science to boys 3x more than girls when visiting a museum [pdf]
Do you really need a front-end framework?
Though, with crouton, you can expect to take a battery life hit
Reminds me of Chatham Island black robin conservation efforts that turned out not so good:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

Conservation management often focuses on counteracting the adverse effects of human activities on threatened populations. However, conservation measures may unintentionally relax selection by allowing the ‘survival of the not-so-fit’, increasing the risk of fixation of maladaptive traits. Here, we report such a case in the critically-endangered Chatham Island black robin (Petroica traversi) which, in 1980, was reduced to a single breeding pair. Following this bottleneck, some females were observed to lay eggs on the rims of their nests. Rim eggs left in place always failed to hatch. To expedite population recovery, rim eggs were repositioned inside nests, yielding viable hatchlings. Repositioning resulted in rapid growth of the black robin population, but by 1989 over 50% of all females were laying rim eggs. We used an exceptional, species-wide pedigree to consider both recessive and dominant models of inheritance over all plausible founder genotype combinations at a biallelic and possibly sex-linked locus. The pattern of rim laying is best fitted as an autosomal dominant Mendelian trait. Using a phenotype permutation test we could also reject the null hypothesis of non-heritability for this trait in favour of our best-fitting model of heritability. Data collected after intervention ceased shows that the frequency of rim laying has strongly declined, and that this trait is maladaptive. This episode yields an important lesson for conservation biology: fixation of maladaptive traits could render small threatened populations completely dependent on humans for reproduction, irreversibly compromising the long term viability of populations humanity seeks to conserve
EDIT: Guys, just because typing "Visual Studio" works for you doesn't mean I'm lying - I just made the mistake of saying "Visual Studio" instead of "Visual Studio Express", I really do need to type "VS" to find it. Typing "Visual Studio" nets me one shortcut: "Try Other Visual Studio 2012 products". I can share a screenshot as proof if you want.

My biggest (actually, only real) issue with my Windows 8.1 installation is with the type-to-search feature not being good enough.

Let's say I want to start visual studio. You'd expect Windows Key + "Vis" + autocomplete to work. Nope. Visual Studio uses "VS 2012" as the shortcut name. Visual Studio is the name of the start menu folder, but the shortcuts themselves have names that are very unclear and unsearchable on their own.

This is not limited to Visual Studio, lots of software (old and new) does this.

Similarly, a lot of older software seems to simply have "uninstall" as a shortcut, without the name of the program. So typing "uninstall" will give me dozens of icons without any context about what program it belongs to. If I want to uninstall a program (without going through "Add or Remove Programs") I have to manually look up the start menu folder and click on the uninstall icon.

The fix is easy enough: include start menu folders in the searching. First as labels giving context to search results. Second as search queries that can be done directly, or (ideally but more difficult to implement) as contextual information aiding the search. So something like "[program name] uninstall" resulting in the program name folder, the contents of which are then filtered to the shortcut with "uninstall" in the name.
Yep... Not sure why that is to be honest. I've emailed dang about it but no response yet!...
In my experience, typing while standing is really good, but watching Youtube videos (most of what programmer does) felt stupid/tiring.
I don't know why you say goodbye,
did I say hello?

Here's hoping that Windows 9 will be good enough for me to move away from 7. I just want to dual-boot it for gaming, I have zero patience to deal with their new UI paradigms.
Yep, shameful. Ooh, I've got another good one:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-9993

Basically asking for the ability to turn auto-play off when embedding videos into their wiki product, which seems fair enough because they really hyped their wiki's multimedia power back then.

Ticket opened November 2007, got a bunch of comments and votes, finally fixed in March 2011. Or was it? From August 2011: "This issue shouldn't be closed. I still get this issue in numerous web browsers.", with a follow up in October suggesting it was still broken. No comment from Atlassian, of course.

Whatever else you want to say about Atlassian, their development process is glacial, and their customer communications are very lackluster. It's like a tar pit where good projects go to get preserved in amber.
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If you update to latest I have reworked the OpenGL sample to now use the fixed-pipeline. It is a little less efficient but simplier to understand.
I'm not icon designer, but I just finished the hackdesign.org course (I recommend it) and now I understand a little bit of it and now I always try to think as one.

The [X] icon in graphic windows software (not in WordStar, Vim, etc), and not thinking as a letter of the alphabet (remember that maximize and minimize don't are also) but just as picture, it remembers me something collapsing. Like something bigger in a normal state with the borders collapsing to a center till disappear. As when you turn off and old CRT television (or an Android powered cell phone).
I always though it was for the color. Blue for OK, red for No
Ah, good points. I don't know much about these fish, to be fair. So they're on their way to spawn, then die .. got it.

I guess this device would be relatively self-cleaning, then, also.
This screenshot, also as "promise" mentioned in update, was taken from Microsoft's Build 2014 Day 1 keynote from April.

Relevant fragment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4S5F0Ckrc8
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I hope that your knee heals.

I'm gently curious about the people trying standing desks: this article mentions research on the dangers of sitting, but it doesn't mention any research on standing. Since many people are expected to stand all day at work I'd have thought there would be some research about standing.

Have people looked at that? How about investigating some of the products meant to counteract problems caused by standing all day (such as anti-fatigue matting).
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How do you reason your purchases?
http://cuckoosandbox.org/ looks interesting, as does the way of detecting it.
I'm still thinking on this... in design you don't think in one part alone, all the context is important. The minimize represents the future state of the window in the bottom bar, and the maximize represents the window occupying all the available area.

I conclude these three icons are really good and well designed.
I never noticed this. When I type "vis", I always get VS 2013, 2012, etc ... shortcuts.

In win 8 you have to explicitly search for files vs control panel items, and in 8.1 they removed that annoying feature, so you can just use win key + s for everything. It just works.
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This is a screenshot from OS/2 Warp 4, which was released after Windows 95 (source: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?page_id=132). OS/2 Warp 3 that came before Windows 95 had the following set of Window buttons:

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/os2warp3
It is possible that your rank was reduced because of a detected voting ring. That would be my guess, of course I have no idea if there is an actual voting ring or not.
Well this is unfortunate. I would have expected Google to credit your account accordingly, though.

A couple of years ago, we noticed massive automated click fraud that Google's fraud detection algorithms didn't seem to catch (which was kind of strange since all the clicks came from the same IP). However, after sending over some HTTP logs to Google, they removed all the invalid clicks from our account within a day or so.

I would definitely try to get my money back in your case.
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Nope. Hyperactivity is not a necessary symptom for A.D.D. But this is a very common misconception. Without hyperactivity, patients have a tendency to never get a diagnosis until sometimes even in their fifties, they start wondering why they are still chaotic, unorganized, can't seem to get their social skills in order or other seemingly unrelated stuff.

Turns out, when somebody has diagnoseable ADHD, then the corresponding treatment options apply. And there's not a thing they can do to solve their problems which is more effective than treating ADHD according to well-proven guidelines.

I can recommend "Pay Attention! ADHD through the lifetime" from Coursera. That MOOC goes into quite some detail about how ADHD affects people.
Suing Google because of Android is beyond stupid. Android breathes life into what could become an enterprise/legacy-only ecosystem in a very short time and, from that point, it's a slow descent into irrelevance. Oracle should embrace Java developers and make it as easy as possible for them to write Java applications for everything, not only server workloads.

We quickly forget the technologies we don't see in front of us. It's been 3 years since I wrote my last line of Java code for a web application. I wouldn't choose Java for the kinds of application I am doing.
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Actually this is common during drought periods[1]. My intuition is this is a "drop in the bucket" (ha ha) in terms of water savings. So I think it's done for the symbolism. The government wants to let everyone know that they're "doing something" to solve the problem!

As you point out, there are so many other activities that use a lot of water. I notice that you responded to another comment where someone mentioned that Palm Springs was using 736 gallons per residential customer per day. Incredible.

Oh, and BTW, for those not from the area, there really is a serious drought in California. But most of the locals don't seem very concerned about it.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/05/271997854/califo...
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There's a right way and a wrong way to go about something like this. You can't design a good setup before you even know how standing most of the day feels for you. Get a good adjustable stand, don't skimp on "accessories" like gel mats, ease into it, and above all listen to your body. If you're uncomfortable, sit for a while. If you're sitting too much, try standing differently next time - e.g. monitor/keyboard higher or lower, feet closer or further apart, shifting weight. Your ideal standing position/habit for work might not be the one you've been using in other contexts. Maybe standing for long periods, in a body shaped by long years of not standing longer than absolutely necessary, just isn't for you. I hope more people realize the benefits of standing more and sitting less, but even more than that I hope nobody hurts themselves trying.