skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ambiguous forms. So, do I type the http or not? 
Is it just me? Each time I encounter a form that asks for my website URL, I spend a second or two wondering if I should type it with or without the http:// ; based on what the site looks like, I have a hunch on which one's better, and I enter(or don't) the http://

While most forms are/should be built to handle this, I've had a http://http:// happen a few times.
I've gotten very selective about which android apps I install. It seems like some apps ask for more access than I would like to give them and what I think they need.
The Sunnect AP501 seems to fit the bill and seems to address some of the issues that Shabble mentions.
The LAPD has a much more informative interface

http://www.lapdcrimemaps.org/

which separates out crime by types. You can clearly see patterns such as GTA's (car theft) along major streets in Hollywood.
The Mail reader that ships with Froyo is actually useful. k9 never seemed much better than the useless junk that took up space in 1.5/1.6. With the exception of not being able to move a message to a different folder, it's actually a useful piece of software.
Thank you for the response - I very much appreciate the advice.

To answer some questions: I definitely want to be involved in the coding and technical aspects of a company. If I had to pick it would be a startup over the lower risk/higher stability of an established business. I would choose software over hardware due to the length of the development/approval cycle and the fact that I very much enjoy the creative process of coding. I'm flexible about location.

I agree that there are a ton of great opportunities in medicine. For the past 18 months I have been on clinical rotations and have quickly realized how poorly the current model of healthcare functions. Far too much time is wasted on tasks that distract from providing better patient care. These pain-points and inefficiencies could be easily addressed with simple software solutions. I truly believe that the talent on HN could change the way medicine is practiced. We could decrease the number of deaths due to mistakes (estimated ~100,000/year) and increase doctor/patient satisfaction.

I find the current enterprise software used in the hospital to be the most frustrating. The modern patient is a data-generating machine, yet we still use outdated programs to manage these patients. It's not customized to the clinical situation. It's ugly. It's unintuitive and difficult to use.

I'm interested in improving healthcare from a tech perspective. Providing better analysis and visualization of data. Creating a collection of tools that make everyone's job in the hospital easier. From my perspective there are a bunch of situations where the solution is an adaptation/translation of an established technology from outside the hospital.

3 examples - (I have a huge list):

1. a twitter/yammer/googlewave-like application that would be patient-centric and keep the whole healthcare team up to date on the management of the patient (a new member to the team could easily be brought up to speed on a patient)

2. a panic status board application for the inpatient consult service (once I call the consult I have absolutely no idea where they are in the proces - sometimes for days)

3. a stackoverflow/wiki on location-specific hospital logistics and information (I can never remember all the details of ordering a rare test/procedure - plus it would accelerate the learning curve for the new residents/staff each year)

ps - as for your assessment of doctor's egos, you're definitely correct (you should see what happens when you put 20 or 30 in a room together).
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Nice until she goes off on implants. Fuck that. Google some videos of kids with their implants. This fetish for signing society is just absurd. We've figured out how to cure deafness in most cases; get used to it.
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I suspect that getting a lot of visits from 'Hacker News' doesn't sound very comfortable to many people.
I don't. Leave them to do whatever they want.

Some people are just not interested in listening and so I gave up trying to talk to them and now only offer my opinion if asked, even when it comes to computing. All they're looking for is someone to agree with them, even if it isn't the right thing to do.

As for this particular situation, I haven't seen it succeed before. What usually happens is the project becomes a money sink-hole for the company and you'd get called in to try and save it.
Those problems have been addressed, but I really shouldn't say anything more than that.
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into some people's pockets..
i just recently went from iPhone 2G to Samsung Captivate and i can not stress enough just how easy navigating around android is. the back button, the search button, and the notification bar are the killer features.

this author fails to find use of the search button, but for me this is an essential item. you can be in any app (contacts, im, mail, etc.) and hitting search will search that currently open app. if you hit the search button again, you can search the whole phone. i don't think i could ever go to a device that did not have this functionality.
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New website allows scientists to post a synopsis of their work
One of the interesting things they're saying in this article is that you can tell from test scores when a given kindergarten teacher is very effective, in that their class will perform well above the average (or at least improve at a rate well above the average improvement). However, then in junior high to high school, those test scores then fall back in-line with the average. But then after that, when the class of people enter adulthood, the difference resurfaces in the form of higher wages. That seems to beg the question, are good junior high teachers less effective than good kindergarten teachers (or even effective at all)? We need more data!
I read a famous quit-smoking book on the advice of my (still smoking) brother. I was dubious of the thing, feeling all superior and thinking that I was too smart to be changed by a small cheap book. I was wrong. i finished to book and quit, just like that, went cold turkey. no craving, no withdrawal feeling, nothing. I even did what you should never do which is to smoke just-the-one to see, didn't fall back. It amazes me that I never ever think about smoking. I just have these meta thoughts sometimes when I smell cigarettes about how I should feel something about it but don't.

It's a truly amazing book that read in a few hours and simply states very simple facts about smoking, the kind that you know but refuse to know. It force you to reconsider your smoking. That cigarette in the morning feels good? (no it doesn't) The one after lunch? (neither)... Step by step you naturally come to realize that every justification for smoking, all the fear of withdrawal, all the drama around smoking has no foundation.

You can just quit. Don't mess around with excuses, just quit. Next time you want to smoke just think "Not worth it" and forget it. But read the book.

EDIT: Allen Carr https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Allen_Carr
...and the 3G version is going to have free worldwide web browsing included? (some people in Europe are saying so)
What we really need is more startups that actually have a capital gain (real profits in excess of original investment). That would be progress.
True, neither has it been mine. The point seems to be that you can't just apply b2b pricing knowledge to a b2c market, which is correct. But b2c is alive and well, even if it is in practice harder to get people to pay for longer term stuff.

You write 'web services', but actually you are selling something that is probably closer to software-as-a-service, where people use your product once or multiple times to get some instant effect.

37signals produces software that people actually build their business on. You are both 'toolmakers' but with vastly different audiences, however the 'toolmakers' link unites you enough that lots of these lessons apply back and forth.

If you were active in the 'social' space then it would be a lot harder - but still not impossible - to get your users to pay. If you were running a news outlet it would be harder still.

So, somewhere along the continuum you can place a dot and say 'this is me', there will be parties to the right of you that are able to make a more direct link between someone making or saving money and so they can make a 'harder' proposition, pay or leave. To the left of you there will be parties that compete for eyeballs and that will probably ultimately rely on some form of freemium or advertising supported model.
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Well, tracking the kids through the grades is already done via cumulative files. Those contain grades, scores on standardized tests, records of disciplinary action, records of social services issues and that type of thing. All of that is being digitized now. In addition to all of that things like attendance are tracked with finer granularity as it's directly related to school funding. Then there's things like what period of time was the student on the free and reduced lunch program. How many meals did they receive during that time. That all gets tracked, again, for federal funding purposes. I'd have to pull out the Infinite Campus manual to get the details on some of the other things that are tracked, but I was quite surprised at all of it when I first saw it. Unfortunately in addition to their primary role as education, teachers are being asked to do more and more paper pushing and handling other duties pushed on them by politicians.

Some of the data they keep track of is useful. For example, it's very difficult to get kids into the special ed program these days. You have to put kids through various phases of testing, and each phase requires a different amount of time between them or different benchmarks for evaluation. Some of these systems can keep track of that so as a child moves through the grades each teacher can pick up where the last left off. Sometimes it can take a couple of years for a child to start receiving special education services which is unfortunate because at that point they are even further behind where they should be. This is the direct result of parents not wanting their kids singled out or alienated by being labeled special education. So in that case the tracking is probably a good thing since there are definitive records of what steps have been completed.
to many (dumb) people.
> maybe on-demand permission requests would be better for many of those things, like apple ios does when an app requests your location.

Wouldn't change much, 95% of users would still go WANNA USE APPLICATION, DISMISS MEAN BOX NOW
Actually there is no difference between investment and consumption.
The principles of the internet are not different to the old world.
It is demand and supply.
The thing is: if a service is free and scalable, its supply goes up to infinity and this pushes the price down to 0.
I feel like if you can knock over banks for arbitrary amounts of money you probably wouldn't bother with a startup in the first place. You'd just move to fiji and fuck around with unprofitable OSS projects.
Anybody else thinking we should be alarmed at this kind of data - because of the spammers and self-promoters who will flock to HN, I mean...
I don't agree with the "make a game of it" approach. It sets you for failure as it keeps the smoking in your thoughts constantly. It also makes a lot of drama about something that is really very easy, want to stop smoking? just never light that next cigarette, never. Forget that next cigarette, forget smoking, forget all the reasons that makes you think you have to smoke and forget all the drama about quitting. What ever the situation the next cigarette will make it worse. (see my other comment too)
It's wrong enough that it casts doubt on the rest of the article, but he does have a - small - point, which is that any advise should be evaluated in the context in which it is given, which I think is pretty obvious.

I think the author operates from a limited perspective in to what startups are generally busy with and then assumes that everybody takes the 37signals advice as gospel.
Yes, I note the OP refers to YCombinator rather than Hacker News, but as the profile of both grow outside of the tech community not making the distinction will become more and more inaccurate.
Check the 'saved' link on your profile page.

So, yes, you can return to those pages at a later point in time.
I've got like 20 new follows by being on that list, even if near the bottom. Those at the top have probably changed even more.

So by observing this phenomena, you have changed it.
It seems mistaken to assert that Google's R&D enterprise is not "pushing the boundary of what's possible". Stopping with published papers and conference prominence, when you have the reach that MSFT does, seems to be missing an opportunity.

And given this, which culture is under more pressure to change, MSR's or Google's?
jee stack is a set of specifications, you never "install it" or "set it up"
Ask HN: Looking for an open-source project to parallelise
I've just started a Parallel Programming unit at University and our major project (worth 50%) is to take an application and manually parallelise it to scale across multiple cores.

I'd like to do the assignment where the target:

* Is interesting

* Requires a fair amount of effort and skill

* Has some sort of barrier to making it parallel

* Is welcoming to me taking up the project

Does anyone know a project that fulfils most of these? The project's language or libraries aren't an issue.
The iPad has really bad text reproduction. The text is very jagged and not sharp. I was quite shocked when I brought my kindle to the apple store and compared. I was really let down.
I'm not even sure how to get stuff on or off that list.

Again, in what way can you use this site as your bookmarks? You save an obscure documentation page and a mod deletes it, and then what?

HN (like digg, reddit, etc) is social news, or something. People who confuse the two think so because the delicious front page and digg looked similar, or whatever.
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Murdoch's response to this article here;
http://www.timesplus.co.uk/tto/news/?login=false
1. It depends on your app, you can go ahead fine with 256 megs with no crazy jvm tweaks at all.

2. It doesn't have to be complicated - it's the developers who make it so.

3. it depends on your server and configuration. Every server supports class reloading and jsp recompiling.

4. You don't have to - eclipse and netbeans are free and very powerful. Notepad for simple tweaks if you have to.
Exactly

It's not like it's a secret that the map is not the territory.

But perhaps, if you would excuse my pedantic tone, that's what one might think being an economist from an Ivy League University.
Yeah. I keep waiting for the definitive article taking on some of what 37signals is saying, but this wasn't it.

It's not something I dedicate a lot of time to thinking about, but I think they don't spend enough time talking about their "following"/fame, which is really their biggest competitive advantage. That's probably the thing they've worked the longest and hardest to build, in some ways, because they most patently are not "doing less" marketing and promotion of their ideas.
A typical case of overblown 'user failure', not Android security model failure. If a wallpaper app wants internet access and you allow it you really only have yourself to blame.

Wallpaper, cursors packages, screen savers and other dumb 'customisation' gadgets have been malware vectors on the windows platform for about 15 years now, why would phone platforms be any different ?
This reads to me as "let's make all state mutable and remove all indication as to which bits of the code are the interface, and which are implementation details". I like immutability and minimal interfaces, they make it easier to reason about what the code will do, freeing brain cycles to work on more interesting things than "but what if someone modifies foo between invocations of bar".

If you need access to a library's private or final fields, the library API is badly designed. Or, if you're that keen on wanting to change how the library works, fork it. That's kind of the point of open source.
I don't understand the up-votes on this. He asked a reasonable question and phrased it with respect to his knowledge base. Your reply assumes he knows the answer to the question he's asking. Huh?
they continued 'But the 75,000 documents WikiLeaks put online provide information about possible informants, like their villages and in some cases their fathers’ names. '
Because this wasn't some random APK downloaded directly from the internet and thrown onto a phone after the 'APKs from the internet might harm your security' message.

It was uploaded to Android Market and provided by Google, who as an arbiter of content, should realize that 'collect phone data' isn't an appropriate permission for a wallpaper.
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I think they started with ColdFusion
This data is sounds biased.

Delicious did in the BILLIONS of monthly PVs when I left - I really doubt HN throws more traffic in aggregate.
In 15 minutes, with 15 euros, I could be out the door and have a new 'business relationship' with a different telecom provider. It's not that big a deal: you just pop in a new sim card.

Sure, in the US people have all these locked up phones, but that's the price you pay for getting subsidized hardware.
I think you are missing the point here.

I am talking about an opportunity to turn crap work into at least challenging work.

I have worked some pretty crappy jobs myself from packaging crab cakes to cleaning at 3 in the morning to sorting packages. There is always things to focus on that will make it worthwhile.

When I was 22 I was head of sales for a small telemarketing business. The people working there where young and the job pretty freaking boring but hard as hell. The average number of individual orders that people would accomplish in a day ranged from 5 to 40. Which meant that I had some frequency to play with. So I invented a bunch of games that had bonuses attached to them.

Sales went up 200% and that is for the people on canvas.

You might not choose your own job, but you do choose how you approach it.
it still needs web.xml, doesn't it?
Obscure documentation pages are most likely not going to survive, I agree with you there. But I definitely do use it to 'bookmark' technology news and it is very rare that a link gets deleted.

The bigger risk for deletions seems to be not tech related stuff but rather non-tech related stuff that manages to get a couple of upvotes.

HN is social news simply because the audience can define it as such.

The main ingredients, the ability to post links and to discuss them and to revisit them at a later stage makes it such that some users will come by and use it in that way.

All the stuff you submit and upvote goes on that list, you can't remove stuff from the list if you've upvoted it, you can't remove stuff from the list after a certain time has passed.
Sensationalist title, blech.

The new meta-monitoring rules they are being asked to comply with are the same for everyone.
Yeah, this just shows that they have an install base hugely skewed towards sites that techies read.
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As a model, I really care about my face. That's why I always have anti oxidants and ceramide cream in my bag. I do really need this. My parent also have this for their wrinkle.
That may be hiding a really interesting point:

kids can learn to sign quicker and earlier than
they can learn to speak.

I expect it to be a good thing to try and get kids engaged with language skills as soon as possible, and using flexible language skills as much as practical. Some people achieve this by getting a nanny that speaks another language. How hard is it to learn sign language to fluency compared to spoken languages?
Could it be that this was an accident? I can imagine someone at Oracle going "Sun guys, what do these servers do?". The Sun guys, some of whom may have already left Oracle, some of whom may have shifted departments recently, don't know and say: "they don't seem to be used for anything, according to the administration. There's some weird postgres stuff going on there, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful". "Well OK", the Oracle guy says, "then we can use those machines elsewhere".
I upvoted, however the statement "jsp is not used as much" is not true - it is used on 99.9% java web apps out there
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step 2 make a baby with them.

step 3 stop worrying about your old problems because you now have a bunch of new ones.

step 4 realise that your instincts have been honed by thousands of generations of evolution to reward behaviours that increase your chances of reproducing, and denying those urges will result in unhappiness.
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So, Google has a responsibility to check each and every app for malicious intent by the uploader?

I really think that goes one step too far, that's exactly what apple does with their market place and I think that is a big part of the problem.

The ultimate responsibility of what you run on your computers lies with you, not with some entity providing you with a convenient way to get at a catalogue of stuff.

This application seems to be malicious, and it seems that the security model is not broken, after all it asks for the permissions very explicitly.

Now if only people would read those warnings and think for a bit before clicking 'ok'.

This is analogous to people receiving an email that instructs them to open a malware attachment.

It's simple, if you haven't inspected the source and it doesn't come from a source that has inspected the code and that gives you a guarantee that you can trust the stuff you download then you can not trust it.

Pushing the responsibility to Google is utterly unfair, they could never in a lifetime review the source code of every application that every android app developer throws out there.
example of code that takes 10 more lines of code to write in JSP than in PHP, please?
I smoked for nearly 25 years, mostly at a pack a day or more. Several winters ago, I ran out of money except for rent and food, and had no other reason to leave the house besides cigarettes and exercise. Depression prevented the latter, and I told myself that I wasn't up for talking to strangers for the former.

As my supply dwindled, I rolled the butts into second generation cigarettes. And then those into third generation. Finally I ended with a fourth generation cigarette, the nastiest thing I've ever smoked - and it took me days to finish it.

That cigarette, plus overwhelming amotivation to leave home, was my cold turkey route to quitting successfully after hundreds of tries with other methods.
grails is java, right? and if we are talking about "jsp" then jsp recompiling is a standard in any server out there
This works fine for long, straight streets, typical of some cities (particularly US cities). Not so much elsewhere...
Bring on the 4hr work week.
When people get into discussions about the meaning of social bookmarking, I often giggle remembering an early del user who wrote in to complain about the inappropriateness of some of the links because he thought 'social bookmarking' meant 'bookmarks on social issues'.
Ahem:

http://harmony.apache.org/
That is pure denial, not a very professional approach
Well, you can actually buy an iPhone on the highstreet. If they wanted to do a demo on a Windows Phone 7 phone, they would need to hunt down a pre-production device. So far, WP7 is itself just a software demo.