skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh.

What this article really means is "If you get distracted by things, keeping distractions up on more screens will make you more distracted."

I have my laptop screen and 3 extra monitors:

1) Email. I keep my main inbox very filtered - email that shows up there is important and I need to see it and read it asap

2) IRC/OCS. Work communication primarily happens through these, and much of it is important.

3) Browser open to our internal workflow tools / tabs for research

4) Laptop screen, closest to me out of all of these, where I have terminals open, etc.

I originally only had one extra display outside of the monitor, but my productivity /very/ measurably went up when I added more displays. No more hunting to find the window I wanted. Easy to reference things when talking to people. Easy to reference things when working on a server. etc etc etc.

So, like just about every tool out there, the usefulness is determined by the use case that prompted it, and how effectively you use it.
Sort of seems like they're pulling up the ladder to the benefit of established companies and the detriment of newcomers.
Eh?

WinNT had the last laugh over all of them.
I don't have an iphone and so can't install it, but here is a question: if it's anonymous posting and in a social network, maybe there is a lack of incentive since I don't know who will be following me and I can't be identified. but this is just a guess. what is the closest anonymous social network you're trying to emulate?

btw, when you had your initial idea did you run it by people who resembled your target audience or did you go straight into production mode?

btw, you now have comment that says "never ran just crashed. deleting"
Ha! The jokes on them! I'm able to pay attention to both of them at the same time. Suckers.
I've been using this for at least a couple of years and was expecting it to develop further (offer more common settings for editors) and to gain native support as, for example, the Sublime Text plugin loads the file using default tab size, then EditorConfig plugin kicks in and changes tab size to 4, let's say, which causes a full redraw and that always annoys me.
I hate this idea. It just clutters the UI too much and adds noise especially if it's a UI you're familiar with. The C/C++ language is noisy enough without all this. Modern IDEs alleviate the need to be reminded inline what the values are for. On top of the fact, just about every IDE invented in the last 10 years offers code completion making this useless IMHO.
Per Wikipedia, the WHO defines violence as:

"the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation..."

Death threats would certainly qualify under that.
They should buy http://www.bubblereader.com/ too!
Phasing it out in 5 years seems pretty fast to me in governmental terms, how is this pulling up the ladder?
As a former professional musician and professional developer, I disagree. Creative work involves integrating large numbers of different items together at once - almost constantly, whether that is code or flows of audio.
Firefox 33.0 released
How to Be a Data Scientist: An Interview with Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz
Dart 1.7: easily share and use command-line applications built with Dart
What does some other app have anything to do with this?
How are you using the three external monitors from a laptop? The reason I stick with a desktop is because I very heavily rely upon three monitors and haven't found any decent solutions to do so with a laptop. I'm using ubuntu, so I understand if the OS is a limitation, but I'd still love to hear about what you're using to make it work.
Cost of a false positive here would have been a nurse who was inconvenienced. Cost of a false negative is at a minimum the time and expense of contact-tracking 132 people who flew with her, the cost to the airline of taking the plane out of service (which they've already done), and a severe drop of public confidence in the CDC. The pane made 5 more flights before it was taken out of service: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-frontier-airline-ebola...

Now, the chances that anyone else on the same flight got infected is very very low, close to zero. That's even more true for the people who took other flights on the same plane, even the people who were sitting in the same seat that she sat in - though it's non-zero, as I doubt the airline disinfects the armrests and fold-down trays after every single flight. But just doing the contact tracking and being prepared to field telephone and email inquiries from all the other people who traveled on that plane with and after the nurse did is going to consume a bunch of CDC resources that could be better spent elsewhere.

Meanwhile, it seems that staff at the hospital were not wearing adequate protective gear for the first 2 days after Duncan was admitted until they got a positive blood test for Ebola: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/presbyterian-work...

False positives are bad but IMHO they're a lot cheaper than false negatives. When dealing with the limited subset of people who had contact with known Ebola carrier at the Texas hospital (a total of 76 medical personnel AFAIK), the slight economic cost of limiting travel and monitoring all of them for a few weeks seems low compared to the new situation.
Rise of Planet of Apps: HTML5
You'll know in the future then when you developer something that people want because the response to all your effort will be different to this.
Australians are eligible for E3 visas which are relatively easy and quick to get.

It might be more amusing to go for the EB1 "alien of exceptional ability" visa though.
> when I read Siracusa's review

Are you referring to his Yosemite review? Is it out yet?
This article does not even scratch the surface.

Sorry but Win NT had nothing to do with it.

Sale/lease back of the campus to Goldman who then turned around and sold to Google for 3x what they paid for it.

2 bankruptcies. You don't even want to know what went on there.

The whole thing was a giant train wreck.
I just bought ABP about two weeks ago. Ugh.
Zittrain: Why Libraries [Still] Matter
Ok, I've been looking for a link but I'm not finding one. I'll continue to look, but I'll explain my experience in the mean time. Probably at the cost of some karma without explanation ;) But here goes anyway.

Originally I was looking for a reddit mobile app and tried Alien Blue and iAlien, not the "pro" version of either, but I chose iAlien, used the trial for a bit, then bought the pro version.

At some point there was an "upgrade" link inside the app that pointed to a new, renamed app with an explanation that "someone" had asked Apple to pull the original iAlien app (based on the name? going from memory here) so the developer released the app under a new name, but, of course, anyone who had purchased iAlien pro would have to re-buy the new app.

A comment either under the original iAlien or under the new name claimed that the developer had pulled this before. So I was reluctant to buy the new app thinking that this might be an endless cycle.

Instead, I purchased Alien Blue pro and have been happy since with it. So happy that I can't remember why I originally chose iAlien in the first place. I could have been more features in the trial for all I know at this point.

I'll try and see if I can reconstruct what I originally went through with links, but if anyone disputes what I'm saying, you can down vote me, but please explain or clarify, I'd really appreciate it and it will probably spur an interesting dialog.

EDIT: here are a couple links that I remember reading and changing my mind about iAlien and switching to Alien Blue:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien...

http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_be...
In 1996-7, I was on a junior high team to do virtual stock investing using mail in scantrons. We were terrible, and stock pickers. The stock I lobbied for: SGI. Singly the worst investment choice on the team. In 2000'ish, I decided to join some yahoo portfolio challenge and threw the initial pool into Geocities and jumped into a high tier spot.

Junior year of college, someone in the dorm went about running a portfolio challenge, and my roommate and I slowly realized the way to win was volatility, and I eventually found an earnings report calendar on Yahoo that was essentially our rosetta stone to winning, because the guy's system let people buy in after hours at market close prices. Wake up a few minutes before market open, search the earnings calendar for stocks up in after hours trading, and place your entire portfolio in one with a huge earnings surprise. I think someone else was front running the guy's system by using a feed 5-10 minutes ahead of the Yahoo API he was using, to find a series of 1 percent per five minutes trades.

In retrospect, these sorts of 'whoever has the most in 3 months wins!' competitions teach novices how to gamble and cheat, rather than allocate assets prudently. These days my retirement portfolio sits in low cost index funds.
> This made me wonder: has there ever been a death threat, that has actually been carried out later by the same person or group?

ISIS does it with Westerners on a near daily basis these days. The IRA would generally phone in bomb threats in advance of bombs. I'm sure there are other examples.

> Why would anyone announce a premeditated murder before it really happens?

Intimidation. Do it once and the next time you threaten to kill someone if they don't do what you want they're a lot more likely to take you seriously.
America Needs Amazon
Using linux on the asus TF101, the battery life is A-OK, I could get ~12h with the secondary battery, my main issues has been RAM (1G is barely enough).
Without resorting to install linux I would recommend KBOX2 [http://kevinboone.net/kbox2.html] which offer a lot of useful tools for a developper (vim, gcc, shh ...), and rely on the excellent Android Terminal Emulator.

Of course linux provide a more complete ecosystem for developers, but even without replacing android there is still enough to be useful.
Not really, but it's close. The Japanese ran an experiment that would have broken even if Japan were allowed to have tritium.
I've been waiting for a consensus to appear on Go dependency management. Finally I think we can call it - godep or something like it seems to be what works best.

Google said they were going to wait and see what approach worked best in practice before they integrated dependency management into the go tool. I think we're there now. The ball's in your court google.
10 days late; but... As it should. <3
This makes me sad on so many levels. One, because it's sad that the US government has so much ability to force other sovereign entities to bend to its will, and two, because paying more taxes to the US government is never a good thing. I personally support anybody who finds new and creative ways to avoid sending tax dollars to the USG... after all, not everybody wants to fund the US's empire building overseas wars, torture camps, surveillance infrastructure, propaganda machine, and massive money-wasting bureaucracy.

> As we've always said, it's for governments to decide the law and for companies to comply with it

That is so fatalistic and depressing. Everybody should feel empowered to work to shape what "the law" is. Personally, I want society's notion of "the law" rolled back to just how Bastiat[1] defined it:

"What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. "

I'm also reminded of what Bastiat said about lawful plunder and the perversion of the law:

But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.

This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Rip Blu-ray to the New iPad (iPad 3)
I transitioned from three 19" monitors to two beautiful 27" monitors for about a year. I hated it. Nonetheless, I gave it a worthy shot and allowed myself to get used to it. Turns out, I'm most productive when I have at least three separate contexts, in which a single window (or a couple representative windows) can hold the full screen, without needing to worry about rearranging things.

Unfortunately, moving to a single screen of any size is debilitating by a large margin for me these days.
They are phasing out the existing schemes, and as mentioned, five years is a very fast turn around for a country to make some big changes to its taxation law.
I'm not who you asked, but I have:

2012 Retina macbook pro 15"

27" display port dell
24" display port dell
27" Samsung on hdmi to dvi cable.

It will run all 4 screens at once.
I have not seen any "basic physics" laid out at all about this concept. Namely, how do they keep the plasma from leaking out the sides of the mirror? What calculations/simulations have they done?

As long as they remain secretive, they have no right to demand to be taken seriously.
it's not perfect, but something in between the Sony Xperia Z3 and Z3 compact sounds like what you're looking for.

Xperia Z3 has 1080P screen, 3Gb ram, 5.2" screen.

Xperia Z3 Compact has 720P screen, 2GB ram, 4.6" screen.

Both have microSD expansion, both have very solid processors and battery life, and sony's android is a very lightweight add-on to stock android.

Maybe a slight compromise in either direction will get you close to what you need?
> Why can't smartphone manufacturers understand that a longer battery life is whats lacking in mobile devices?

I can tell you haven't been using the Android L Preview. I have, and the battery life extension is fantastic. Easily the equal to Nokia's. Basically, when it gets down to low power, it can shift into a mode where only foreground apps and activities are in use, and the battery can last all day easily. iOS, of course, prevents background activities overall and so uses less power continuously to achieve a similar battery life on newer phones. That said, the best way to get all-day battery life continues to be "don't use the phone so much" or the no-compromises "plug it in when you can" which I'm sure we're all familiar with. Phones recharge faster these days too...
At the time, Sun was the competitor in the engineering workstation market. Later on, Sun was itself eaten. There were other bit players: DEC, HP.

It used to be well-accepted to drop $18K on a baseline engineering workstation + monitor (1995-98, say -- I just checked an old quote for a Sparc Ultra that sat on my desk).

It must be said that the graphics and floating-point performance of those systems well outpaced high-end PCs running Linux.
Your post may be full of crap, but I'd care if someone threatened you with death for it.
You can get external USB monitors. I've used three displays on a laptop - DVI, laptop display, USB display
If people knew that Google finally works under IE mobile in version 8.1, I think they'd re-consider Windows Phone. But that's not necessarily the HN crowd pleaser here ;-)
So he should really go old school and work on a 24 x 80 ASCII terminal :-) There are no distractions :-)
Most of my jeans have pretty small pockets (biggest thing I've noticed with higher end denim is the pockets are much smaller than levis, etc). An iPhone 5 sized device is about the max that will fit in there, a 6 (4.7 inches) borders on too large. But those pockets are plenty large for a phone, keys, wallet in my back pocket, and a few other small items. There's a difference between "useless pockets you can't carry anything around in" and useful pockets you can't carry a tablet-sized device in.

So yeah, it's definitely an issue for both sexes. You may not buy pants that don't have large enough pockets, but I won't base my wardrobe around my phone and won't buy a phone that I can't easily fit in average sized pockets.

I always associated massive phones as being marketed towards women seeing as, at least in western culture, they're generally the demographic that is able to conveniently carry them. Most men don't have the pocket space to carry a 6 inch phone, and I've heard a lot of complaints around the new iPhone screen size (the smaller, not the 6-plus) from both genders as being too large to conveniently carry.
I have a counter-argument that seems about as strong as the author's.

Sometimes I use one monitor and sometimes I use two. I perceive less friction when using two.
I'll assume you're kidding.
often times startup ceos are accessible, so you might really dig into a company and its ceo, and write a few well thought out letters to the ones that resonate with you the most. be careful here - there's a ton of smoke and mirrors in this space and you could end up with a real egomaniac that's done better blowing smoke than delivering value. startup ceos want talent who will scale our their visions - the more that you can demonstrate that you just want to work hard learning how to solve the problems theyre working on, the more compelling you will be. good luck - theres a lot of opportunity out there.
Exactly right, communication tools should have no real estate if you're trying to focus. I keep three screens: one with multiple terminals, one with my code editor(s), and one for displaying whatever I'm coding (android emulator, browser, etc) as well as docs, research, etc.

If I'm coding, all comms are off to avoid any distraction - specifically to avoid notifications. I'm I'm in support mode (flapping server, etc), comms are up, but they get a tiny slice of real estate next to my terminal with logs and such so we can triage and move on.
Can you solve a logistic regression manually?
I wonder what UK, Germany etc promised to Ireland in exchange. The tax debate was strong since more than a decade and it was even stronger during the default of Ireland.

All talks before have failed - I cant imagine what EU had to promise to them to change their minds...
Sorry, to clarify, I just bought Alien Blue in the last six months and I'm worried that I might have to buy it again after having already bought the pro version of another reddit app only to find that it had been removed. Hopefully, as a semi-official app, this will be the last time I'll have to buy a reddit client (and it had occurred to me that I might develop my own app to meet my needs and provide better support and service).

Maybe my comment could provide reddit with feedback that:

1. They could have done this much earlier with an official app that I would have been happy to purchase

2. According to the article "Our whole philosphy has been to give our users choice. We’ve got the reddit AMA app, and alienblue coming out… but we really want users to use whatever they want" ... This bit me, so take that as feedback.

I like Alien Blue and I feel that this move is a positive, someone is finally providing a means for someone to develop and maintain a stable mobile interface to reddit.

So, if you disagree, please respond instead of just down voting.
> what do you guys need help with?

I'll post some trailheads to dev-identity by Friday; we're just now rebooting some coordinated development effort. Generally speaking, our greatest challenge is an enormous amount of technical debt in the main Persona repo[0]. The cruft and complexity hinder maintenance, slow feature development, and present a huge challenge for potential contributors.

We're specifically trying to tease apart the verifier, frontend, and backend into independent components, but literally any contribution to reduce code complexity / cruft would be welcome. Some ideas: audit / upgrade our node dependencies, replace npm-lockdown with npm-shrinkwrap, try to get Persona running locally and file documentation bugs about what did / didn't work, open a random .js or .ejs file and see if you can make it less verbose or complex. All would be useful contributions.

> the IRC channel was dead for three days and the dev-identity list looks overrun with spam.

Right now our IRC coverage isn't great, but the mailing list should be better. The spam is an unfortunate side-effect of Mozilla's weird NNTP/SMTP hybrid lists -- certain incoming messages are somehow bypassing the filters set up in Mailman. I'll look into it more tomorrow.

Otherwise, if you mention my nick on IRC or GitHub, I'll see it. :)

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/persona/
The Tulsa TechFest is in your hometown - http://techfests.com/Tulsa/2014/default.aspx. It was actually the first of the TechFests, and draws over 1,000 people.

I've attended both Dallas and Houston TechFests, and Tulsa usually comes-out on top even though it's in a smaller city.

Also looks like Steve Wozniak will be speaking at the Mabee Center in April, 2015.
electricity generation is only a small part of energy consumption.
Seems like classic Hawthorne effect...
"She opened a Twitter notification in an incognito window soon after receiving it" is a pretty interesting definition of "quite a lot of evidence".
When I open the app the only description presented is this line:

> Note: Works only with iPhone and iPad. Does not work with iPod Touch. Not sure why App Store included that. I'm looking into this, thanks for understanding.

So literally the most important single line of the description, the only line which people can see without hitting the "...more" button is there just to avoid technical support enquiries!

That's just utter foolish. Move that junk down further into the description! The first line should be a single line summary of what the app is.

Also sharing your life "anonymously" in a social network, with photographs of all things, is a contradiction. It is pretty mind bending to imagine how those things come together in a usable way.

Even after reading the full description I still don't really "get it." What does this offer me that e.g. Snapchat or Facebook won't? What is the USP?
Local cops say your driving history is public-unless you want a copy
There's nothing in the parent comment that seems unreasonable to me. You're putting a spin on it that doesn't exist.

The content of Quora today is what it is. The Internet Archive has no agenda for misrepresenting the content of any site. They don't want "records to be" anything other than what is reality now, tomorrow and the in the future.

The Archive's stance is perfectly reasonable. You can't arbitrarily go back in time and remove content that existed at the time, otherwise it's not a historical record.

So you can opt-out totally or be included in the archive's records, it's that simple.
Coming from npm, composer, bundler, and utilities like those I wasn't entirely happy with Godep. Instead there's Glide[1].

Sure, Godep lets you save and restore dependencies to your GOPATH. But, what if different projects with different versions of dependencies? Or, what if you want to track to branches?

There's a reason npm, bundler, and composer are popular. They are useful. That's why I've become a happy glide user (and contributor).

Just my 2 cents.

[1] https://github.com/Masterminds/glide
You can use screen though :-P
What about reading? I can't always figure out what foo(0, xyz, null) means at first glance.