skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you surprised? He said it right on the first para in bold letters:

"Again, this is by no means a complete, or even partially complete analysis, simply a quick exploration of the data."

To bo honest this posts shouldn't be even taken mildly seriously. It would have been interesting to look at the data if the data had some substance to it. In summary: "I woke up today, grabbed some numbers the threw it in to a plot." Thats basically what it is.
Macintosh System 1.0 was AWESOME.

Even Mac OS X doesn't match it in terms of usability.

If you're not willing to put polish on your 1.0 product, YOU FAIL IT.
There is no usable blogging software.
Not everyone realizes copyright enforcement is a form of censorship.
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I think that we need to consider the scale of the organization you're going to work for. Are you going to find a "software architect" in a five-person startup? If you do, you should run far, far away.

On the other hand, a larger organization with lots of different teams probably has a valid need for someone to bring in cohesion.
Justice comes from the need for social morality. Law books are only a means to express this morality.

If society thinks something should or should not be done, or a punishment is too harsh or too light, then the law should be changed.

Since we're all part of society, all our opinions matter.

Unless you were talking in the cynical sense that only the opinions of the powerful really matter.
No religious angle in TFA, for those of you who were anticipating an angry reaction from believers in Creationism. I suppose that might come later, if the proposal is passed ...
Ask HN: Who Buys Data?
Selling data isn't new, but the market for selling data is getting larger. If you were getting into selling datasets, who would you look to tailor your offerings to? (Assuming that you would pick a type of customer first, then gather the data to sell to them.)
No. In fact, lately I find its too much trouble even to bother logging into delicious. I'll either star it or share it in Google Reader, or else I'll let it go. If it really matters, I'll just search for it again. Guess I'm feeding Google "the Big Pig" with all my habits, but I'm too lazy to care.

It'd be kind of interesting to more easily group links around some train of thought (stuff I need for a baseline XP install, links related to some startup idea, etc.) but I doubt I'd ever pay for it. I can use tags for this, but it's always been kind of a pain to actually do it in delicious.
Ryan, great points.

I have mixed feelings about listening to users. On one hand, I'd like to think that my vision for the app should lead me and that users are there to keep me on track. On the other hand, what good is a vision if your users don't like where you're headed? Put another way: as the developer, am I there to implement the users' collective vision or are they there to guide mine?

I think there's got to be some sort of healthy balance. You can't (and shouldn't) do everything your users want, but you need to listen to their feedback because in the end what good is business without any customers?
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Definitely. if we're going to talk about weight, anything that any country (except haiti, obviously) pulls is above and beyond "their" weight
It's fun to switch a switch.
To rephrase what I think you're saying:

China is wrong because they're in the minority; essentially they're outvoted. If most countries didn't respect copyright but did censor, then that would be right instead.
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It's perfectly safe to do that; exec() doesn't reinterpret the arguments through the shell, but passes them verbatim to the program.

Just make sure you don't use 'system()' (or the equivalent call in whatever your language is) to launch things. It was a bad idea from the start.
Only the 4th one seems negative to me... 1) is neutral (since hack has atleast 1 +ve meaning), is positive and 2) is as similar to inexperienced/unskilled whose connotation is context dependent(imho)
Saxon Math is getting kids numerate to a high school level where constructivist horseshit is not.

Saxon Math is largely drill and repetition based, with some practical applications like counting money and so forth.

Therefore, you're wrong. QED.

As for what American students in general are doing, drill and repetition were how it was taught in the mid 20th century, when America led the world in science and technology. (My father was given a pencil with no eraser in the second grade; the teacher told the class "You're second graders now. You shouldn't be making mistakes.") We abandoned that sometime in the sixties and it's been downhill since.
I think that senior people and junior people should learn that they can learn from each other. Senior people were once junior know-it-alls who made stupid mistakes, and junior people can learn from that.

At the same time, senior people aren't always right, and it's always a good thing to have the fresh perspective that a more junior developer can bring.
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Hmmm---when you adopt this model you have to be careful you aren't running a consulting business if you think you're a startup (e.g. you'll be underpricing yourself.
Keep up your dream. With support like he got, that can help.
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Pixel art scaling algorithms (why your emulator looks better than the real game)
Nope - Django has never had this ability.
Go back and read Apple's response to the FCC. It may not have any outright lies, but there's plenty of stuff in there that is questionable. They say some things that are factually incorrect about the way Google Voice works, and they try to claim that they don't fully understand the service. If you buy that, so be it. I don't.
There is a very vital distinction: Disney removes all other copies, but allows access to the original. China removes all copies. Disney restricts how you can access the information, but China restricts what you can access.

Granted, the distinction isn't completely binary, as you can restrict access to modes that are difficult. But I still think that the distinction is productive. Disney's restriction does still fundamentally allow access to the material, while China does not.
Copy the following javascript on your iPhone...

javascript:var%20s=document.createElement('meta');s.setAttribute('content',%20'yes');s.setAttribute('name',%20'apple-mobile-web-app-capable');document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(s);alert('Now%20add%20the%20webpage%20to%20your%20home%20screen!');void(s);

* Visit voice.google.com

* Paste javascript into address bar, click "Go"

* Dismiss notification ("Now add the webpage to your homescreen")

* Add Google Voice to your Home Screen.

I didn't test it too much, but it appears to work fine in a SSB.
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Does Disney really have a monopoly on Mickey Mouse? Then explain this (NSFW) South Park clip: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/221275.

We make distinctions between copyright, physical property, and even personal safety. Analogies that attempt to blur the lines don't seem very helpful. Couldn't one say that Disney "arbitrarily declares ownership of other people's minds" in expecting protection because they "spent billions building the brand"?
Yes, that they don't notice. People are very quick to say companies make decisions based upon money, but they don't pay attention to the fact that the money is usually far smaller than even the short term loss incurred by not doing the right thing.
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People often ask me why I want to move to the west coast if I want to work on an internet business. After all, you can access the internet from anywhere.

The best analogy I've come up with is to say that it's like being a talented actor living in rural Arkansas. Sure, you can act from anywhere, but living somewhere that encourages and supports your talent (like Los Angeles in the case of acting), can make all the difference.
Odd that they'd approve this as an app. Here's the code for free:

http://www.lifeclever.com/17-powerful-bookmarklets-for-your-...

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/07/22/iphone-pro-tips-find...
Very cool, but absolutely don't use for a functional web-app unless you want to confuse your users.
Counterpoint: Microsoft's (and Google's) products are hardly perfect when released, and has a bigger market cap than Apple (and Google is close).

And to take it even further, you're cherry-picking. Apple's products are usually polished, but not always. MobileMe? Or their first product:

http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/design/images/computers...
"The current landscape is that of a patchwork of systems silos, none of whom talk to one another. There is practically zero integration at a platform level and any integration that is done is ad-hoc and custom."

I don't understand this part of your comment. I'm not aware of any hospital information system which doesn't support HL7 to some extent.
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Good points.

The enthusiasm is coming from musicians who like anything that might sell more of their music.

(Most of the readers of my blog are musicians.)
Agreed.

I'm often shocked how obsessed everyone is with "getting user feedback so you can iterate".

In my experience, users have no idea what they want and the ones that do are usually just trying to get you to implement their pet piece of functionality that will make their lives easier (usually at everyone else's expense).

User feedback is good for validating your design and feature choices not driving them.
Yes yes. :) I've not gotten around to it yet. Soon!
The chart has base e, not base 10. My point is not about how much the Dutch have donated or not, but to show that the inclusion of private donations of all countries would significantly change the chart.
1. the iPod touch is already a far better tablet than any iteration of, say, Windows tablets. If the iTablet shares the iPod's ease of use, reliability, durability, battery life and toolchain, there's no reason to expect those old lessons apply.

2. agreed. but they promise to be far more effective and far less costly than putting PCs all over a hospital.

3. they didn't care for computers, email or smart phones either.

4. Any effective device is either going to be nurse- or bed-/room-centric. Frankly, even great interfaces aren't so fast that it's worth the time for most doctors to navigate the UI to bring up a patient's file himself. Nurses move, but doctors move more, their waste is more expensive and their frustration/errors more dangerous.

5. battery and connectivity issues are less a problem in nurse-centric scenarios and a non-issue for place-centric.

6. think of it as a replacement for the ever-present clipboards and physical files. Instead of handing off a file, the nurse hands over her tablet. The legal aspects will have to be updated for a digital solution of one type or another. That ship is set to sail with or without tablets.

Also: checklists and best practice management would be far easier to capture, manage and report on, if it was being digitally captured. Paper works fine for the physician because she can fudge it after the fact. Were it captured at time of service and the lists themselves generated dynamically based on the particular case at hand, more errors would be caught, sooner.

(I've worked on several smaller projects in the healthcare industry and spent more than my share of time in hospitals, ERs and doctor's offices.)
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“Public” should not be the default
I think people's tolerance of bugs and missing feature's has dropped to an all time low. It's not 1997 anymore.
This "ship early, ship often" tactic may have worked at one point but expectations have changed. Especially if you are selling into an established market (which most of us are...)

Also building software for your early adopters is usually a bad move. Typically this gets you a product full of corner case features that these users weren't getting in existing products. Unless it's a huge market you're probably painting yourself into a corner.
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If you define 'Censorship' more broadly than any standard definition (dictionary, Wikipedia, common sense), you easily have a wonderful starting point for a flame war.

Removing information from the internet is not, in itself, 'censorship', it's removing information from the internet. Some narrower, specific versions of it are, indeed, censorship.

Disney, incidentally, would be very happy to let you distribute their intellectual property on the internet. As long as you can meet their price. Try that with the Chinese government.
Thanks!

Some features that would make this really useful:

- custom colors (as mentioned by others)

- an X across the image, corner to corner

- Optional text instead of the size (i.e. "lead photo", "thumb")

- a tag (or the resolution) repeated in an offset "brick" pattern across the entire image, similar color to BG

The last one probably overkill but useful for when you are doing something like scrolling window, where not all of the image is displayed.
This is one of the things we've struggled with the most. We're huge fans of customer development, but also started a company with a vision. Ultimately, I think part of it comes down to your motivations for starting the company and what you hope to accomplish.

[Shameless plug] You can read more about our battles with this exact issue here:

http://mightybrand.com/2010/01/got-customers-part-2-the-one-...
Tax rates and government interventionism are major forces driving business overseas. A government "five year plan" to "refactor" the manufacturing industry is the poison not the medicine.
For anyone getting started with Django, what release will this ship with?
No, I meant it in the sense that we have the rule of law in this country, and I didn't understand how the original commenter thought his opinions factored into a case that had been decided as a matter of "fact".

Opinions about the reasonableness of the law are one thing. But opinions about whether the defendant here was actually found liable are another: she had a trial, she had vigorous defense, and both a district and appellate hearing found the industry's version of the facts more compelling.
Well, the consequences for a 31-year-old dating a 16-year-old are a lot worse.
Ask HN: What formula do you use for calculating subscriber churn?
It seems that everyone I ask uses a different formula for calculating Churn. Most people seem to use back of a napkin calculations like (total customers lost/average active customers during the month*100). Is this the SAAS industry standard? What do you use?
Nothing pocketable will be more useful than the paper it aims to replace. At a minimum, you'll need larger pockets. And even then, the reality of weight, battery life and connectivity are at odds with a per-physician solution.
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I m agree with this.
> Opera first developed a mobile browser in 1998. Since then, we've been at the forefront of enabling a full Web experience on mobile phones.

I assume this was written in early 2007?
If I went out and copied 24 DVDs and gave them to random people I would be appalled if someone came after me suing for 54k. So no, I don't have any cognitive dissonance on the matter. It's just a ridiculous tort and a ridiculous award.
Is this really any of DARPA's business? Aren't they supposed to be a defence research agency? When did they start feeling responsible for the US manufacturing economy. And why do they think they have the sufficient knowledge and ability to reform the US economy?

I mean if those manufacturing methods were more efficient, then wouldn't the economy change by itself then?
Unless behind the scenes it does an ajax call to the server to update the value.

I think that web apps that behave like embedded runtime applications are going to be more prevalent as time goes on.
When did they start feeling responsible for the US manufacturing economy.

In war, it probably helps a country to be able to produce a lot of guns, tanks, ships, etc.
I have an Acer Aspire One, the biggest problem for me is the small keyboard, I have big hands and is a touch typist. I've tried a couple of linux distros on it, but the by far best, and that I am running now is moblin. Boots really fast, looks nice, the hardware works well and most tools I need are installed by default.

I have, however given it to my 3 year old to play with. It's better that she has a real computer instead of a play computer, perhaps she'll have a sense of ownership of something fully working (maybe future career as programmer father thinks :). I liked real tools when I was a kid. She likes to type letters on it, listen to music, videos and play with the interface.
I'm okay with DoS attacks being punished as vandalism. Still, one year seems excessive.
Disney is preventing you from publishing something they own.

China is preventing you from publishing something you own.

There's really nothing more to it. This is just a silly attempt to attack copyright by comparing it to something that is orders of magnitude worse. I mean seriously, how can you compare the (allegedly) unfair protection of IP to what basically amounts to human rights violations?
I would be really interested in what he thinks of Haskell once he has written a large program in it. I seriously think he would like it even more.
Nope, labor costs are the major forces. As long as somebody sells the stuff in america they will probably pay very similar taxes based on profit regardless of where they made it. They will probably pay more taxes if they outsource actually because that would bring them more profit.
Right, but that's exactly my point. The native apps are fueling sales of the phone. The Apple ads don't say "10,000,000 web apps available online," they say "100,000 apps available in the app store." So I'm not seeing how Steve Jobs can possibly have wanted developers to create web apps all along?
I think you find the tort "ridiculous" because it's so easy to do and so hard to stop, not because you fundamentally don't believe companies shouldn't be able to price their products as they see fit or to enforce their own property rights. I don't know, I can't read your mind, that's just my opinion.

After all, you're commenting on a message board for startups, almost all of which rely heavily on IP and copyright law to survive.
I summarized my feelings here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=942771
Ironically, it doesn't work on an iPhone.
Slate is a pretty good and rational magazine, but one needs to remember that they are left of center, and apply the standard corrective filtering, just like when one reads the WSJ.

which is to say: yes, they find it hard to be completely clear and say "he breaks his promises because he chooses to".
Wait... doesn't their example show the more public options checked by default?
Unless it is the mobile (read: iphone-targeted) version of said web app where you want to emulate the iphone user experience
There's "vandalism" and there's "vandalism". A year for spraypainting a wall is crazy. But what about for sneaking into a company's garage and slashing all the tires on 20 or 30 service vehicles?

DoS is more like the latter than the former.
This seems better suited for the Department of Commerce or a public-private consortium. As much as I respect DARPA, they seem to have lost too much focus on their core mission over the past ten years or so. An exception is Urban Challenge.
Short version / key paragraph:

the IPCC is relying for its assertions that "up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation" on a free-lance journalist/activist and a specialist in ... forest fires in Australia
I generally agree with the sentiment that one is morally obligated to pay debts. This article makes a good argument that free markets don't work on morality, instead they are rooted in the assumption that everyone acts in their personal best interest.

Anytime I think about the morality of abandoning an underwater debt, I remember that $billion corporations do this every single day.
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It's not like it's going to be advertised on the front page of djangoproject.com, I'd imagine devs wouldn't even know about it unless you were reading up on how to customize the admin UI.
Ask HN: Free for startups, but larger companies pay: where to draw the line?
I'm creating a service that I want to give to startups for free/cheap, but that I want to charge larger companies for. What is a simple way to make the distinction?

Ex: companies with <10 people, companies with <$500k revenue
Very good point, ajax is a must and most likely what aresant was referring to as the confusing part for users.
OK, I will get started this week on these issues Aaron. I really have no ill-will toward you or SEOs.

I made a simple, uninformed comment five years ago during a Q&A session when someone asked me about SEO. Back then when we were doing Engadget and Joystiq and HAckADay we didn't do ANY SEO and our opinion of SEO was it was a waste of time.

I've personally learned from great SEOs like you and Michael Grey how to do white hat stuff, and what the best practices are.

Our goal at Mahalo is to produce great content, and yes, rank for that content when we have a GREAT page in search engines.

We don't want to rank for lower quality pages or pages that are being built out. Your anger towards me is misplaced I think... i was joking saying SEO is bullshit and it's not my fault that everyone takes my one-liners and turns them into gospel.

I will make a concerted effort to rehabilitate the damage I've done with my flippant comments. Honestly, I will. Even willing to do a joint press release with you and have you on This Week in Startups to discuss...

... provided you keep giving me all this great free advice! :-p

all the best,

Jason

http://www.twitter.com/jason
Let me shed some light on the subject by explaining what is actually happening currently. CCD/CDA documents (XML documents containing clinical information) are being pushed as the new standard for exchanging medical information (mostly by IHE which is in turn being backed by HITSP). These documents are stored in an XDS repository. Currently these repositories tend to exist at the IDN level (large groups of hospitals and physician offices). The real question is how we are going to get these repositories exchanging documents with each other.

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

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

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITSP
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I sign tablets when a courier comes to the door, and it's such a random squiggle that I doubt such a tablet is accurate enough for healthcare.
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That's great fun. New twist on an old internet favourite - I've just found a trail from James K. Polk to Kevin Bacon. (Well, "Kevin Bacon Filmography").

Not ever so easy since you can only go via the links offered, but I went presidents -> high schools named after presidents -> school athletic districts -> normal districts -> cities, and then the breakthrough change from City of Murphy (a place) to City of Heroes (a computer game) and from there to City of Villains, Batman Villains, Batman films, Actors.

Er, yes. anyway. cough.