skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TechCrunch is useful for getting noticed by investors and the non-tech media. It's not useful for building a user-base that isn't investors and early adopters.
I'd like to know this too. The blog reads like someone patting himself on the back for pulling back from taking money from wealthy investors, while hiring someone who had a job and another offer then pulling the rug out from underneath them.
What I mean is that there can't be more investment without more demand. In the Uber example, there won't be more investment either - if you expect Uber to grow on behalf of other companies, these will be divested. In fact, you could expect decrease of investment with Uber, like with any other new technology (disputable in Uber's case, but for the sake of argument), because the whole point of moving to new technology is to decrease investment needed to maintain the same level of consumption (that is, increase productivity).

> all the money from QE will be funneled into consumption

They are, after sitting there idly for a while. The bank CEOs have to pay their mistresses and so on.

And distribution is important too. The whole problem of debt deflation is that you have money sitting idly (or better say idly circulating in an endless vortex of financial machinations), not being spent on goods and services.
Well, we are going to need another word to replace "literally" than. Because in being funny we have literally abused literally to death. For a replacement could we maybe use "figuratively"? Or maybe the joke doesn't work in reverse?
Whoa, I had a similar experience about 15 years ago. It wasn't hours before closing but it was looking like a go. And it also was with Brad Feld.
Why Should You Get a Ham Radio License? [video]
I know several doctors who have retired rather than deal with the EMR mess, and these are work 80 hours a week doctors, vs the new, gentler work regular hours kind.

In addition, the doctors I know who continue to practice have had to reduce their patient hours due to the amount of time EMR takes up.
That's a very Western centred view. We really seem to be losing sight of the internet as a global shared infrastructure, which was the point of the whole thing and where the benefits have come from. On the present course we might as well be going back to the arid experiences of fido and minitel.
Except email, there is nothing private on HN to raise privacy issue. Public internet is written in ink.
I think that should be a goal for many situations. If you can build a high-quality tool/platform/etc. for yourself, then you could, eventually, share it.. especially if it's better than the typical alternatives.
Pretty much every code added to a code set like the ICD is added because someone, somewhere needed it, and didn't have it in the previous version.

And ICD-10 codes are used for a variety of purposes -- statistical, billing, etc. -- so if its important for one of those uses, its going to get added. Especially since, with the degree of automation preferred now, if it a distinction could reasonably affect any decision in any of the roles that the code set is used for, it needs to be represented in the code set.
The first thing that came to mind when I read that headline was we could maybe save a couple bucks making homemade toilet cleaner.
Coffee Chats with Founders Around the World
Hangovers cost US employers a staggering amount
The end of cancer
Uber and AirBnb are simply reducing the friction and reducing barriers to entry.
I think the "sharing economy" represents a significant change, and things like AirBNB or Zipcar constitute major parts of that change. I don't, however, see why Uber gets lumped into that. Uber is not a "ride sharing" service; it's a transportation service to connect professional drivers to people getting driven.
Which might be true. I know a guy who had his secretary print everything out rather than read it on the screen. Which I always found silly and wasteful, but there are people like this.
Neutral. FDE if I want to do some front-end work that's effective on most browsers (usually Chrome's tools can render radically different than others) plus Mozilla's constantly adding more features that I'd find more useful now, over future proofing(web console, 3d layering, audio analysis). Also both Windows and OSX give similar experiences. Finally not a memory hog.
If you're truly concerned about battery performance use safari. FDE is slightly better in performance.
I guess it incorporates gravity - it's whichever way Hacker News tells its clients to rank the comments by.
What We’ll Eat, Drink and Breathe on Mars
Google wants self driving cars on roads by 2018
Nobody in the Windows 3 era used vector fonts for UI (menus, dialogs, etc.)

Windows 3.1 and (I think) System 7 added support for TrueType, but only for documents, not for UI. Windows 3.0 and System 6 (which would have still been fairly common for a while after 3.1 and 7 were introduced) were all-raster, all-the-time.

Not to mention alternative desktops like GEM and the Amiga Workbench, although I guess those don't really count as "most" personal computers.
You are getting downvoted for what you said (as of now anyway) however I have gotten press in the WSJ by sending them clippings that appeared in the local paper. This was after they had no interest in the story initially. In other words seeing that even a lowly local paper (ok was a big city paper actually) did a full page article was enough to get them to run a blurb about what we were doing. (On the front page no less).

So in other words to your point about Techcrunch it can be thought of as it as a filter of legitimacy that you can use to your advantage.
Bitcoin at the crossroads – Too soon for regulation? [pdf]
In addition, Rapoport rules for successful critical commentary: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapo...
Vim plugin: https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-troll-stopper
Personally, I want to see nothing. I want the fastest-loading thing possible that uses none of my bandwidth (especially on mobile).

If I want to go to a bookmarked site, I'll type the first letter or two in the address bar and it will likely appear without needing to take my hands off the keyboard. I don't need a UI for it.
Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS and Android
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> I've had countless "$x number of words/pages, minimum" writing assignments.

My better professors had, rather than just minimums, either ranges or maximums.
Or are they eroding laws and customs built up and evolved over time to manage complicated situations without clear-cut solutions in order that they can extract wealth and feed off society without contributing value? Frankly, I see both of those companies as parasites.
How to think straight in the age of information overload
I urge people to support the implementation of DHT feeds [1] in famous BitTorrent clients. The idea being that people can subscribe to specific DHT keys they trust, and publishers can publish at that key (by signing the content). This would virtually allow us to use the DHT platform, already in use for sharing IP addresses of peers downloading specific content, also for decentralized torrent "sites" that can't be shut down.

1. http://sourceforge.net/p/libtorrent/mailman/message/34356471...
Which was the point - Rome was too easy to attack, so the government moved to Ravenna so that when it happened, at least the emperor and bureaucracy wouldn't be at risk.
When I paid accident claims, I paid a surprising number of claims for 2nd degree burn on lower leg from motorcycle exhaust pipe. You make me wonder if there is a code specifically for that.

/weird but true
Can anybody provide an audio snippet for those of us who use Linux?
Asterix is back and takes Rome into info age
There is a saying that every generation is invaded by a horde of savages -- they're called children. Humans are savage by default, civilization is not natural. It took generations to build the institutions, the social mores, the web of reinforcing family and peer influences, the culture, the churches/schools, etc, that make civilization possible. The existence of these elements vary by people, vary by ethnicity (ethnicity being a combination of tribe and culture and institutions). If you look at the worst inner-city, ethnically African-American neighborhoods, those elements are all missing. Kids are raised from the cradle to the jail-cell without civilizing influences of parental discipline, good peer influences, and peer role models. Again, read American Millstone, or The Corner or Ghettoside. That is what I mean by a void of civilization.
It’s a joke at Russians' expense, due to association of Russia and vodka in popular stereotypes. :/
Crowdsourced Journalism
I am interested in building a platform around a new type of news consumption paradigm. I have built an MVP and am now looking for journalists who I can get feedback from. I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas of where to start this research? I am a student at Stanford, so ideally somewhere in the Bay Area. Thanks!
It would be a godsend to the #hnwatch crowd looking for sentences to take out of context.
A change to an API necessarily, by definition, breaks existing consumers. You can add to an API without breaking consumers but you can't change or remove.
Windows 3 PCs running Adobe Type Manager could use all the Adobe vector fonts. I built the Windows port of ATM - patched into some GDI calls systemwide and rendered the Adobe fonts into a GDI bitmap on the fly as you used them. Fun stuff.
DiceWARE
There’s tons published every day. From nonprofits, to brands,
lots of big brands, small brands, individuals obviously.

Whenever I see media execs talking about 'brands' I like to s/brands/companies/ in my head. You could s/brands/corporations/ if that were more your thing.
I use Firefox (with NoScript) and an even quicker/easier solution is to use the Reader View feature. Some web pages look great in their original design and some don't look any worse in Reader View but there are many more where Reader View is a big improvement.
There's obviously no blood-brain barrier for bacteria so I wonder how they protect themselves from being affected by surrounding metabolites or hijacked by competing organisms.

Here's the paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

I'd love a copy of the pdf - my school login's not working right now.
I didn't say to use it by itself. I said that your OTP would be required first to even access it. And of course you could provide backoff. And then you'd also have to be answering a series of multiple choice questions all correctly.

I dunno, just a thought, but do you get what I'm saying about recognition vs recall? Why don't we have the computer test us about things we're good at if part of the test has to be something only our individual brain is capable of?
The big difference is in how Medium hosts it's content versus how Wordpress.com hosts content. With Wordpress.com users get a subdomain and all the search engines treat that subdomain as a totally new domain.

With Medium you post an article and it's hosted on the TLD Medium.com followed by the user and an article name. This is an important distinction between the platforms since sites and users treat Medium.com with an increased level of importance.

My startup SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT http://www.joinjune.com has been using Medium posts with incredible results. We have had about 300k views on the content in the last few weeks. We posted the same content to our blog at first http://blog.joinjune.com and barely had any traffic at all.

Granted, our blog is really ugly (Thanks to Hubspot's unnecessarily complex template system) but also in part due to the fact that sites like Hacker News treat Medium more fairly and people feel comfortable sharing articles on there.

We have even had of our articles reblogged by the New York Observer, MatterMark and translated into foreign languages because it was so successful on Medium: https://medium.com/@ayasin/the-one-method-to-eliminate-bad-t...

I'm a fan of Medium. I tell everyone to use it instead of their own blog based on our successes with it.
I thought ice cream.
I'm not 100% sure how ATM for the Mac worked, but I seem to recall it was the same as ATM for Windows (which I worked on). It didn't actually create raster fonts, but instead rasterized on the fly the glyphs that each app was actually using.
Come up with a way for me to support fighting injustice that cannot and will not be turned around to argue that riots fix injustice, and I'll be there with bells on. Otherwise, I'm put in the position of being asked to encourage riots and measurably sacrifice my personal safety and well-being.

In my view, your demand is unreasonable and un-achievable, on the face of it. Nobody can control what rhetoric or narrative emerges from events.

Protest is a necessary ingredient of society. There is always the risk that protest will turn violent, just as there is always the risk that a plane will crash. This is even if nobody condones violence or plane crashes, and we all extend our sympathy to the innocent victims.
If my phone is protected with a 4 digit pin, and someone has physical access to it, why is it so hard to decrypt? Can someone point me to an explanation of the hardware that protects my data?
Hacking for Good  Waves
If anyone is changing the fundamental fabric of capitalism then it's the Chinese. They are ignoring intellectual property, the government prints its own money and hands it directly to the the banks that operate as partially privatized central planning with heavy political control.
Is there such a thing as "moving" to another browser for development purposes? You will have to use both at some point, at least for some sanity check.

If you're developing something with React, Chrome will provide a better experience since React dev tools plugin is only available for Chrome. I'm not aware of some tool that is exclusive to Firefox, so I don't have a reason to favor it.
https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf page 10.
Huh. That is a good point. In Gremlin you can chain steps together (e.g. out("knows").out("mother").out("worksFor")) and you can match patterns. So, to be clearer, I should have represented the chain as a one-liner or as a two liner with an indent.

out("knows").aggregate("friends").out("knows").where(not(within("friends")))

OR

out("knows").aggregate("friends").
out("knows").where(not(within("friends")))

Note the "." concatenation that ties the two lines together into a chain. When nesting parallel traversals (e.g. match()), the traversal patterns are delineated by ",".

. = AND
, = OR

Ha. Thats a generally neat way to think of "." and "," in computing. mult and + ...the algebra.
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>DailyMotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4talSeaiMc

whats the point posting somewhere where no one ever visits?
the deleted comment asked how the BigQuery data set was different than http://hn.algolia.com
2014 Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software
Well, there's "beam" fusion, where you send only high energy particles into target that they fuse with. The issue here is getting the beam up to speed in the first place.

What's especially nice about thermonuclear fusion is that it's feasible that the fusion reaction itself keeps the plasma hot enough.

> this means the vast majority of collisions will just send your ions pinging out of the magnetic bottle they are in

Here's the thing: collisions get less frequent the higher in energy you go. This seems counter-intuitive, but consider that the vast majority of "collisions" are actually weak Coulomb interactions at a large distance. If you're approaching an ion at very high speed, your trajectory is not deflected very much.
Looks like it's just the burn code:
http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/S00-T88/T20-T25/T24/T...
California teams with tech firms to fight cyber exploitation
> Personal Health Records are a nightmare, the whole system doesn't make a lot of sense and is solving the wrong problems in the wrong ways in the first place (and legally mandated to do so).

s/Personal Health Records are/Health Insurance in the US is/ and I still agree
"Much efforts will be put into designing of vehicles with robot brains. Vehicles that can be set for particular
destinations and then will proceed there without inteference by the slow reflexes of a human driver. I suspect one of the major attractions of the 2014 fair will be rides on small roboticized cars that will maneuver in crowds at the two foot level neatly and automatically avoiding each other."

Isaac Asmimov at the time of the 1964 worlds fair when asked to predict the major innovation at the 2014 world's fair
How to automate deploying a static site to AWS S3 and CloudFront using CircleCI
There are a lot of sites out there that offer programming challenges you can try, but actually developing software and programming are two different things. If you can do all of what you said, then it doesn't matter how well you can solve a programming puzzle. You've got what it takes and what you need is time developing real software and mentors to help you grow.
Just append 'sci-hub.org' to the domain name of a journal article URL to get it for free: http://www.nature.com.sci-hub.org/nature/journal/vaop/ncurre...
Not to mention that there's only so much land on Earth on which we can put solar panels. Sure, we might only need a few percent of the Earth's surface (!) now, but capitalism requires the credible possibility of boundless growth. Ground-based solar and wind cannot provide that, and I think fusion is capitalism's last great hope.
Rr 4.0 Debugger Released with Reverse Execution
If the form factor is really that successful, I wonder why no one else is copying it? The Surface itself is made by a Taiwanese company named Pegatron, which is a division of Asus - so it's even being made by an established PC hardware company.
The sinister science of addiction
I can't say I've ever seen someone refer to Hewlett-Packard as H-P before now. I've always seen it just as HP.
No, they'll be sending them your way to Sweden ;-)
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Speed Queens are incredible. There's a reason they're in every laundromat I've been into across the US.
Having a probationary period is always good, and resetting expectations at 6 months is good to. The way Google used to do this was you were hired but you weren't actually set in your job/grade (slotted). After 6 months to a year they compared you to your peers and figured out if you were correctly placed. Generally if it was "close enough" you could move on, if not, they got rid of you.

The sad thing is that it isn't necessarily the candidates fault if aren't cutting it, some managers were MUCH better at onboarding than others. So good people were lost, some not so good people retained.

As for 10% a year pay hikes, that just doesn't work. You'll double their salary in 7 years and double it again in another 7, so with 14 years experience you think they will be 4x productive as someone new? I could see it being great for retention (problem solved!) but hard to build a business model around it.
In a society where people glorify plane crashes, not all innocent victims receive sympathy. Instead, we tell them that they don't deserve it because there are larger issues at hand.

Sounds pretty screwed up, doesn't it?
Fear-Based Appeals Effective at Changing Attitudes, Behaviors After All
The theory of how collisions make you lose particles, like you describe, is known as "neoclassical" theory. It's actually quite well-understood[1], and is what Wendelstein 7X is optimized for.

So while collisions are a major concern in stellerators in this sense, they are less so in tokamaks, where turbulence is the main limiting factor.

[1] By those smarter than me, that is. It's incredibly complicated.
Except for the effort with non-verbal communication, I feel like I wrote this.

I read non-verbal communication about as well as spoken word. I hate getting just the voice. Phone conversations are the worst.

Here's the thing... other people really do judge you. Some people make everyone else in the room feel at ease. I'm not that way. Sometimes I can fake it, but generally people don't seem to enjoy conversation with me.

It's very stressful alternating between saying nothing and too much, which unfortunately makes it harder to practice this skill of conversation that some people just find so easy.
What worked? Losing weight eating twinkies isn't the healthiest option, I think obviously. I did know they ate only rice actually, and what I would say is to even use that as a point makes my point more clear. You are surprised that those food sources work because inherently you know they aren't the traditional mumbo jumbo. So like my comment says, more to it than weight, thats just a single measurement to go by.
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Also we should stop or block people from posting links from wsj.com because they asked to sign up for membership before you can read more.
Oslo will become the first major city to ban cars
A somewhat related article that I just happened to come across yesterday, including a novel treatment for social anxiety that is apparently helping some people by exposing them to uncomfortable situations that are much more uncomfortable than the ones they have been having trouble with.

I don't know if it would help this person, however.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/what-is-so...
I wonder, did they fire the HR person responsible for the performance review system?
It makes me happy that the author is better understanding himself and not hiding behind blanket terms like "social anxiety" as if he were forever prisoner to the label.

> I think probably because I stop caring about being weird or not — and there’s a big, obvious lesson right there for me.

I think this is the key for most people.

Everybody is different. I started dating this girl who's a real sweetheart, but called herself awkward and weird. I said, "But that's not what I think. And so if that's what you think and that's what I think, then isn't it arbitrary?"

Labels are incredibly arbitrary and I wish people would treat them with more care. Hey, person reading this, you're an asshole! It's ok -- it's a meaningless label and bears no consequence on reality.. unless you let it.

The more you tell yourself you're "this" or "that", you're simultaneously blocking yourself from who you really are. If the canvas (mind) is blank and you're filling it with negativity, what do you expect to happen? Your expressions only follow what's felt within.

Everyone has a unique purpose, vision, and perspective here; as a result, when focused, everyone has a different way of applying themselves to the world. Years of learning X things combined with Y perception creates a unique human.

However, it's not about being unique either. That's just a label and means nothing in reality. The pursuit of specialness is properly defined and labeled as vanity. There's something better than that in all of us -- some drive to help other, to improve our own lives to improve others' lives, to guide others into doing the same, the desire to connect, the desire to love, the desire to impart wisdom onto others. There's always some good inside of us that wants to be _expressed_.

Expression is limited when a mind clouds itself with arbitrary labels that promote fear. One day, we'll all learn that all negative behavior stems from fear. One form of this fear is fear from your own labels or others' labels (also known as others' judgment). I ask you who's reading this, if you have a good heart with good intentions, who cares if I think you're an asshole? Do you really think it makes it true? Now you should be on the way to confidence and a healthy lightheartedness.
What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?