skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you need for verification? Do you want to talk to my surgeon? Usually, they don't like to talk about their patients unless you are next of kin. I did ask him to mention what the condition is, and more details on my condition is outlined in "savingcaptaincrunch.com"

I'm fully aware that webcrunchers and wiki have no references, but that should be fixed by tonight.

I'm barely able to type (have to use my thumbs). I got stacks of mail I haven't even read, but hope you understand my limitations.

Crunch
HTML5 is a lot more than an AJAX/DHTML "rehash". And even if it weren't more than that, you say it like that's a bad thing....it's not! None of that was ever properly standardized, so building a markup language that's standardized across all implementations is extremely valuable. Not to mention, there are numerous important features of HTML5 that you're not thinking about.

Geolocation is extremely powerful for the mobile world, which is growing faster than anything else. A web page can - with your permission - read your GPS coordinates and provide you with location-aware information.

The combination of WebSockets, WebWorkers and local storage lets devs build sites that more resemble Applications. This is done in an easy and standards-focused way, and not with the hacked-together way that "DHTML" sites were built.

Come on...multithreaded Javascript with a socket interface and local storage? Added with location-aware information!

HTML5 really is much more than a rehashing of current web tech.
Wow, this is pretty intriguing and may actually be a solid differentiator in the browser space since it probably requires a considerable stored database of speech samples coupled with a decent back end server farm to do it effectively. Hard for the other players to replicate. Clever move Google!

I wonder if they will add this as a standard feature for any text field at some point? It's probably not going to get much sunlight if it requires a chrome-specific attribute on the field.
Checklists (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...) are another area where control has been taken away from doctors (medical staff apparently are allowed to physically restrain doctors who don't follow them), but with drastically improved results.
Wasn't saying it wasn't a good idea.

I'm saying "If you're going to do this thing posted on HN today, hurry up"
Interesting... no Mic icon here. Just a text box centered in the slide. Both in Chrome 7.0.517.44 and Safari 5.0.2. The mystery deepens.

Edit: Aha! Update to 8.0.552 and presto... Mic icon. Very slick.

Edit again:
"Hello" ---> Lowes.
"Hello Mr. Webpage" ---> homeless services
"This is a test" ---> test

Probably a crappy notebook mic to blame. Ah well. Recognition on my Nexus One is quite solid so I can't blame Google's algorithms.
Fantastic Feedback!! Love it. First of all, sorry for the name thing. Correcting it now. Secondly, you are right that I did inadvertently, by the end of the post, inject myself into the 'Jayter' wars. Whoops. :) I try to stay away from those heated discussions that involve people's personal opinions of Jason. I guess because I'm on Jason's team at Mahalo when I write publicly about my work life I'm going to come across as defending Jason.

I also agree that it is fantastic that these discussion happen for the sake of making founders think about things like engineer burn out. Thank you for writing your post and furthering the discussion.

When we talk about the work environment at Mahalo we often throw around the 80 hours a week because there are weeks like that and people need to be ready for it. Those statements seem to get focused on. Jason has also publicly stated several times that it isn't 80 hours EVERY week and that there is great culture at Mahalo. Those statements don't tend to get talked about because there isn't much to argue about there.

Final thing, is that I was very careful in my post to never so that great results ONLY can be achieved by great sacrifice. There is clearly evidence that is not the always the case. I tried to be very careful in wording things to just point out that generally, the amount of success is usually tied closely to the amount of commitment.

Thanks, again for your feedback.
Preview: River of News in JSON
My personal river without the formatting. Made to plug into any kind of rendering anyone can think of. I'll be writing this up in a post soon, but the software is ready to go now. :-)
I agree that peer review greatly improves academic publishing, because criticism always accelerates intellectual development. But it doesn't have to take the form practiced by contemporary journals. This recent NASA publication[1] is a good example of how the old system can break down, and how peer review can occur outside that system anyway.[2] It's actually already possible for people to publish that way today. PLoSOne is one facility for this. Unfortunately, there is so much momentum behind the old system that outlets like PLoSOne are seen as dumping grounds for papers which weren't accepted by conventional journals.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21127214

[2] http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-ba...
>It's hard for me to have this conversation with you, because I can't imagine living my life with the end goal of simply finding employment. I'm incapable of going a day without creating something or adjusting something or trying to somehow change myself. So the only jobs I want are the ones that let me make things. And there are always jobs like that available, and they're really easy to find, too: You just hunt down other people that are making things and you ask them what they want you to make.

It really depends on where you are and what sort of contacts you have. Yeah, if you already know a lot of people who are into programming or if you're in an area where there are lots of people making things, then you can let your work speak for itself. Unfortunately, I'm not in one of those areas. Here in the Midwest, if you don't have the degree, your resume gets placed directly in the circular file.

One of my friends is a better programmer than I am, but due to family circumstances he couldn't finish his Computer Science degree. He's stuck in a relatively dead end sysadmin job, while I'm moving ahead in the programming world. He's doing his best to finish his degree, but it'll be a couple of years before he can do so, and he'll be that much further behind when finally does graduate.

You may not be able to imagine a life with the end goal of simply finding employment. However, if you ended up in a situation where you were unemployed (or worse, unemployable) for a long period of time, then you would start looking for employment just for the sake of having employment. Its nice that its unlikely for you, but it is certainly a situation that many of us have to deal with every day.

>Having experienced, wise professors guide you through courses of study is a luxury we don't have yet on the Internet.

That certainly is true. On the Internet you don't have the challenge of defending your ideas against someone who's studied the topic for most of their lifetime.
this song should definitely be called "i love the funk".
According to Wikipedia, so far they have released less than 1%.
Why the up votes? I still don't understand.
Also, I agree that we need to get over arguing about this internet celeb or that. The value comes when we try and look at the publicly visible examples and then figure out what lessons we can learn from them as a community to be better founders and better engineers. That's what I was trying to accomplish in the post. Hopefully, I achieved some of that. Thanks again for your feedback. Always, looking to improve my contributions to the community.
It's not passive, but if you can do great Wordpress themes, I'd be able to give you some projects. Email's in my profile if you want.
Speech for HTML Input Elements
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dcfg79pz_5dhnp23f5
That's quite a 'stache! http://blotbot.co/#15ea44f5
Cool T-shirts
Everyone likes to stand out, that is exactly what these t-shirts will help you achieve.
Are there similar articles written discussing the rape allegations in the US press? I seem to have missed them...
You're right about my comment, it was a bit snippy. Even so, I find your reference to porno cocktails both understandable and snobbish at the same time. Every time someone asks me to mix them a sex on the beach I die a little inside. In fact I get that with mojitos (if they ask for Bacardi) and Margheritas (with Jose Cuervo) too, so I can't exactly exclude myself from the snobbish end.

Europeans I find don't have the monopoly on strong drinks - the Russians have been outdoing the whole of Europe (including us Brits and Irish) on the mad booze stakes for a while!

Fair enough that you recommend Claridges - I'll have to give it a try. Is it acceptable to use Cointreau instead of something like Grand Marnier for this, or does it have to be a specific triple sec?
Twitter API: tweet with PHP
You would have a point if I couldn't see your email by clicking on your info tab...
Plea HN: Need Work
Hi I'm programmer of four years and looking for work to make ends meet. Currently I'm a intern at Grey Group in Vancouver and I'm one of two programmers building corporate sites. I'll let you choose your own price. Just give a list of what you need built and a price and I'll get back to you. I program in php, mysql, html, css, javascript, and jquery.
Where does this icon appear? (It's not obvious in the latest Chrome or Safari on MacOS.)
I thought speech recognition was still very inaccurate & hasn't improved much in the last 5-10 years. Has it suddenly become usable?
kissing pigs http://blotbot.co/#a550e34e
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Ask HN: Start ups in South Korea (Seoul)
I'm going to be doing my CS masters in Seoul next year.

Does anyone have any information on what the tech startup industry is like there?
Yes, I'm talking about those.

Facebook seems to partially agree with me on this, as it allows you to not show the tagged pics on your profile page currently with a setting. I mean, "Those arent' your tags, after all, and other people have a right to those tags".
That's quite a grin!

http://blotbot.co/#550c83ea
>Moving past this, going with a simple key/value store instead of an RDBMS means giving up at least three of the ACID properties in favor of nothing more than a speed gain.

This is, at best, an overgeneralization and at worst outright FUD.

>The CouchDB file layout and commitment system features all Atomic Consistent Isolated Durable (ACID) properties.

http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/overview.html (to pick a single counterexample)

I have no idea what anti-NoSQL things you've been reading, but they've been wildly incorrect. And as to guarantees of what info an object has, schema-based NoSQL databases exist, just as schema-free RDBMS databases exist. Triggers frequently exist - you can automatically create a non-deletable (permissions exist too) home page for every user at signup.

You're entirely correct that DB joins taking a long time is similarly wildly incorrect, though I'm not certain that's what they're claiming. It sounds to me more like they're saying pulling all related info on primary object X in your system takes a long time in a highly-normalized RDBMS compared to a document-based DB where it's all in the same location. Which is frequently correct.
Flagged because the link leads to an error page.
Works on Mac OS with Chromium 10.0.601.0 (68155)
Julian Assange's lawyers say they are being watched
TSA mission-creep: scans and gropes now at bus stations (video)
If it's anything like speech recognition in Android, it's all server-side..so this should be technically possible in any browser as long as google allows it.
That is awesome, works even for German without a problem. I couldn’t get it to recognize an English sentence properly (which probably only means that my English pronunciation is horrible). I’m wondering, however, how they manage to recognize the language in the three word sentences I tried.
A call on FoxNews to boycott them most likely.
It gets wilder every day. In case you don't understand why this is inappropriate:

Lawyers are separate from their clients and should have the freedom to do their jobs without being identified by the causes of their clients. Essentially the state department (of all entities) lumps the two together here, as though the lawyers are in the wrong for having WikiLeaks / Assange as customers.
Atlas.com is for sale (if you can afford it)
Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac
>I didn't know facebook was broken

IMO their photo support was very poor. Perhaps not broken but I'd "upgrade" to get better support for larger images where one can actually make out peoples faces in group photos, etc..
Figment.com Aims for Young Readers and Writers
The problem is that the API will only return the email field for the current user (assuming the 'email' permission is set.)
en2go web site was shut down months ago. The investors shut down the company in July. So yes, en2go is en2gone.

The reason why I haven't been able to put the link on my website, has been due to my disability, and huge amounts of response I'm having to answer.

My webmaster, maintaining Webcrunchers.com is going to be putting up the links. Plus, since I have not gone through my wiki entry, I have not been able to make any additions to that as well. In actuality, other people have put up this wiki, with my blessing of course. Since I just located and found my webmaster, we're going to make these corrections as soon as possible.

There's a lot going on my life right now, in spending a lot of time doing research on my condition, finding and interviewing doctors, I found someone who I trust who is willing to perform open surgery on my neck.

However, there are other institutes out there that do non-invasive surgery using endoscopic treatments. I have interviewed and looked into one local outfit, and they charge $25,000 for the treatment, but unfortunately after looking at my MRI, denied my request for treatment due to the severity of my condition. I have several others I am investigating, and I have to be careful not to raise more money than I need, and if I exceed that, I have to return it.

Anyway, I hope that my webmaster will find the time to go in and fix it tonight.

Now I have to get back answering mail, I have a lot of mail to catch up on.

Crunch

John
Ask HN: Why was the "Google asserts copyright" story deleted?
This story is clearly on-topic, it got enough upvotes to make the top of the front page, and it generated a lot of discussion. Seems strange that it was deleted. What's going on here?
Can you elaborate on this or provide some examples? As far as I've seen, the only time facebook hasn't stuck to precisely to users' privacy settings are straight-up bugs, that have been immediately fixed.
When I first watched this I thought it was some kind of clip out of a movie until halfway through.

That super creepy newscaster praising the government's over-reaching authority in protecting us from imaginary threats seems like he's right out of a Hollywood movie where it's a parallel dark-world.

Except this is reality which makes it more scary.
Freelance.

Create a portfolio so that people can see the kind of work they can expect from you. Then find people who want work done, show your portfolio, and do some work for them.

As you can see from the comments, there's no shortage of people who need quality work done.

Heck, there are even people who just need a quick job done and quality is less important.
A lot of it is statistical inference. I've run into weird glitches where it chooses the completely wrong word that still fits. For example I used a sentence that ended with "cool!" but it transcribed it to "excellent!"

Obviously, "excellent" sounds nothing like "cool" but the sentence still worked because it was using the neighboring words to try and guess what should go there.
And Facebook told me that you (my Facebook friend) already had signed up as soon as I visited that page from the link submitted here on HN.
How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech
Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry
A problem here is that the 'download my data' feature doesn't let you download any sort of primary key for your friends. A name is not a primary key--I have many friends with the exact same name.
Ask HN: How should I deal with a long sales cycle?
We have a non-trivial embedded software MVP that took two years to build and is now ready. We are a small team and we made our first sale this month which consists of a few evaluation licenses. Trouble is we have something that is worth a try but the buyers are businesses and the price of the software is non-trivial, which denotes the sales cycle will be long (3-6 months on each account IMHO).

You may ask, where have you been all this time not building your sales/marketing relationships? The product has non-trivial technical challenges which occupied most of my focus as a technical founder. These are now overcome as we have the MVP ready now, which was my major concern, but it seems promoting the product consists of another huge (probably bigger than technical) problem.

What would be your advice on strategy here? I know there are no quick fixes and probably the best thing to do would be to start contacting potential buyers aggressively. If you have any advice on a long sales cycle or major account sales that would be greatly appreciated.

Would it be too optimistic to expect independent sales consultants to help by taking a margin from a sale as the only compensation?
Sets up a straw-man:

Article table like:
authorID, authorName, publisher, title

Where an article only ever has one author. Then proceeds to knock it down (summarized and slightly satirized):

>That's not even in second normal form. /makes an Author table. Viola! Future name changes are free.

>But wait! We don't change author names on published articles! * gasp * we don't need joins!

No, you've just demonstrated that blind optimizations are sometimes incorrect. Duh. They are correct in this respect, however:

>The dogma of normalization [too] often leads to over-engineering.

But all dogmatic adherence to X results in sometimes-incorrect use of X. This is true everywhere, not just for RDBMS normalization.
Obviously this is only one study, but have you heard of László Polgár? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r

He is the father of 3 chess prodigies. The interesting thing is, he decided very specifically to try and raise his children to be chess grandmasters, in an attempt to prove that geniuses can be made. Quote from his wiki article: "He is interested in the proper method of rearing children, believing that "geniuses are made, not born". Before he had any children, he wrote a book entitled Bring Up Genius!, and asked for a wife who would help him carry out the experiment. "

Quote from the article on one of his daughters, who is the strongest female chess player in the world: "She and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.[3] "Geniuses are made, not born," was László's thesis. He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
Crystallographic studies? What is wrong with simply doing the gradient suggested by two commenters in the blog entry? If that turns up negative, you can immediately get an answer and scrap the whole paper. (Which in itself leads to quite some speculations...)

Anyway, if the calculations and assertions made in the blog (and the commenters) turn out to be correct, this will be a big black eye for Science (the journal...) for publishing this.
No you can't hide the photo, that'd be impossible. You can however make sure no one else sees you're tagged in it.
Managing to Greatness
2 mackbooks on his desk -- why not a macbook + a mac desktop (iMac/Mac Pro)?
I am a medical student, so inevitably my perspective will be biased. I am a first year, so perhaps my perspective is naïve, but I want to share my two cents.

The broad view: First, life is precious. Our time here on earth is extremely limited, and despite our best efforts, we have only begun to improve and increase our time here. Every time I hear about stories like Ebenezer Scrooge or rich philanthropists donating their money for secure a legacy, I am reminded of our inherent mortality and life is one of the few things that you cannot buy. Any society where the basic needs of food, shelter, and entertainment are largely met, an increasing amount of money is spent on healthcare. I think it is no coincidence that the proportion of GDP spent on healthcare correlates extremely well with the GDP proper. This is in part due to extremely poor diminishing returns – hypothetically $10m spent on running water can increase the life expectancy of 10,000+ people by more than 20 years, but $10m can fund at most 100 open heart surgeries (which here the 5 year mortality benefit is only marginal). But with increases in the standard of living, expectations of health increase. Barring catastrophic changes, our emphasis on health will not diminish. If you want to work in a field of high importance, where effort will be rewarded, there are many challenges, and technology is constantly changing and improving, medicine is a good choice.

A ground level perspective: Second, medicine is difficult. Undoubtedly there are many challenges in the path to become and the practice of a physician. There are many problems in the structure of healthcare, there is decreasing independence, and the training path is only lengthening as medicine becomes more and more specialized, but there are many benefits and joys unique to the medical profession. You are privy to the breadth of human experience, from life to death, and are gifted with a perspective unparalleled in beauty and complexity. When you work with a cadaver for the first time, I hope you are overwhelmed by how inherently private and precious the gift is before you. I am convinced that are few experiences more acutely beautiful or overwhelming than helping someone overcome an illness or witnessing a birth or death. Biological science is an incredibly diverse, complicated, and fascinating field - as a physician, you can help facilitate the next big breakthrough or be part of its implementation. Technology will only facilitate and augment the physician’s ability to diagnose and treat disease – there will always be need for someone who understands and appreciates the mechanisms of the human body.

As a physician, you will be respected and will be compensated by your ability to help others. I am certain that medicine will be vastly different in ten and twenty years, but I think the things I mentioned above are constant. If you are passionate about science, appreciate the ability to help others, and willing to work hard, medicine can be a good choice. You don’t have to worry about it disappearing.