skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No offense Alex3917, but really - Philip Atkinson is your authoritative source?? Not sure why this is getting upvoted. Quote from his site, re: his experiences growing up -

"Everything about us was different, and we were naturally resented. While the neighbouring [sic] adults never confronted my father, their children were delighted to bully his children. My siblings and myself became social half-castes, accepted by no class and despised by all. The result in my case was an initial bitter resentment of my community, along with the traditional notions that I should pursue a university education then a career; so I dropped out of school to take a job as a bus conductor...

With determination, skill and a little luck I forged a career in computers before being forced into retirement in 1991...

Of course I could have restarted the education that I abandoned in my teens, but by then the true nature of universities had become obvious; they were no longer centres of learning pursuing truth but centres of profit pursuing customers. Inevitably striving for popularity with youth has made universities bastions of Political Correctness, and full of the kind of people who wanted to burn Galileo for daring to question that the sun circled the earth. So I spent my enforced idleness applying the skills acquired as a system's analyst to discover why my society is disintegrating into delusion and impotence...

In January 2000 I became an Internet publisher, placing a variety of books 'online' at my own expense, in an attempt to preserve some of the vanishing wisdom of humanity...

Indeed I am the first philosopher to realise that philosophy is the study of understanding."

Hmmm...
The Engineer's Guide to Drinks, non-scribd PDF: http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Engineers-...
The link is fine, just their server overloaded at the moment.
The host is refusing connections on port 80.
People just want to make sure it is you requesting the money and not a scammer. You just need to convince people that you are you and then HN/reddit will be happy to help. Hope you get well!
Since I don't have insurance it'll look the same, perhaps worse.
If speech recognition can with some accuracy identify the language of speech after only three words it already exceeds my own capabilities. Whenever I truly don’t know which language someone is going to talk to me I nearly always need more than three words to orient myself. That’s why I’m so impressed.
Since the site is directed mainly at non-technical users, we don't dwell on that much. To answer your questions: It's written in Java, it's a desktop client.
I think that's reasonable. Any person tagged in a picture can prevent it from being public. It can be implemented so that the most restrictive permissions carry through, but as I write it that way and reflect upon Facebook's history and stated attitude, it sounds naive.
After a quick glance, they load the page in an iFrame and inject their CSS + JS into it.

Any of changes you make will be "compiled" into a JS file which you then include on your page. Whatever edits you made will only be reflected client side on load.

Generating a screenshot is a completely different process than editing a website so I'm not sure Optimizely's tech is that useful to you.
http://www.zocdoc.com/ is doing some disruptive work in the area, but the high amount of regulation is really a huge limiting factor in the industry.

It's a field where people are inherently afraid of change due to the lives at stake. I think it really takes some doctors who aren't afraid to step out of the system and do awesome things. One of the few I've found is Jay Parkinson (http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/).

Jay noted that the healthcare system in the US is one of the best at acute care, but one of the worst at preventative medicine, which is why everyone is dying of chronic illnesses these days.

As a Biomedical Engineering Major originally going the pre-med route, I got really discouraged by the amount of work/studying/brainwashing required to work in such a highly regulated system where saving lives is secondary to your fear of getting sued.

And then you have the healthcare and pharmaceutical giants pulling many of the strings in the background amidst all the crazy regulation from the FDA, it's just sort of depressing at the moment.

But on the bright side, I do think it's all on the brink of some sort of revolution. I don't see the current model being very sustainable in the long term. It's quite possible that by the time you're done with your residency (and subsequent fellowship?) things could look a lot different.
Personally, I'd always go to a specialist for anything that involves messing with my eyes. I don't know specifically if there are ortho-k specialists, though.

And, no clue on the cost. I tried this out about 14 years ago.
Even with millions of records where the user's email needs to be updated - that's not going to take longer than a couple of minutes.

Then again - another solution would be to keep an "invalidated" entities list. It will never be very long - just keep all not-finished updates there. Bug report page goes up to 2 queries (bug + invalidated info list) + any number of entries you need to request by their actual ids.
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.

NOTE: This is a repeat on what I said above, I tried to edit it because Mac Speech had some errors I missed. The owners of hacker news should be notified I updated, after editing, the update button was presented, I pressed it, it returned back to editing, did it again, and it still didn't seem to accept it, so I submitted a revised message.
So about an hour and a half from now, we know you will be drinking much beer and yelling progressively louder at the TV. :)

EDIT: "The kicker should go back to bagging groceries!"

Neglected to mention that this one seems to have worked. :)
Had to fix something for a minute. It's working again. Sorry for the outage.
Are there any established, complimentary products in the market? That is, companies that sell to the same types of clients that you want to target but that you wouldn't consider competitors.

If so, try talking to those companies and see if you can structure a partnership where they sell your product to their clients and keep a chunk of the sales price. The downside is that you make less money, but you also presumably have lower cost of sales.
High cost of Scientific Journals is largely an artifact of how the journals of various academic societies were digitized.

During the late 90's, the academic societies realized that making their archives internet accessible would be very high value. But 90's era internet economics meant that this would cost several hundred million dollars. But during the late 90's stock market bubble, it was also possible to raise several hundred million dollars.

As a condition for digitizing journal archives, the publishers acquired the copyrights from the academic societies.

This investment has turned out to be extremely profitable. Publishers have been able to charge immense institutional access fees for electronic access to the journals. When I was studying at Upenn, 20% of undergraduate tuition went to paying for institutional access.

The notion of preprint archives have been a somewhat successful work around. This basically creates a free distributable version of the work before the copyright is transfered from the authors to the publisher. Unfortunately, physics and math are the only disciplines that have established the use of preprint archives as a norm.
>just slapping a search engine on a whole bunch of articles exists in Google Scholar, but that hasn't revolutionized anything

That could be because it was around a long time before Google [Scholar].

When I used to do patent searches we used terminal based services including searches of journals (either abstract or fulltext). I'm guessing these were pre-WWW dial-in services.
they're wider too, and immediately beneath semi-relevant content...
I develop clinical decision support software for a living and our experience has been that the best medical outcomes, particularly in relation to CVD, diabetes and CKD, are found in creating software tools that supplement the skill of the practitioner. Increasingly we find ourselves moving away from the AI based, expert system approach to decision support.

It is important to remember that GPs are much more than diagnostic engines. GPs are concerned with the entire health and wellbeing of their patients - mental, emotional and physical. The human aspect of medicine isn't something I would want to see us lose. Do I think we can build software that can help great GPs to be excellent GPs? Absolutely.
No, that's why I have my email visible to friends.

However, that doesn't mean I give them permission to easily mass import it through Facebook to whatever *Ville app is popular that day. If they allowed email export, my email is very quickly being hidden.
O...kay? Why is this news-worthy?

Was there XML previously? They're the same thing, they just use different parsers.

Was there no programmatic access previously? How about a link to where they announce this omg-new-way-to-read-News-River? Scraping looks like it would be simple enough, so I doubt lack-of-JSON-access prevented people from writing anything for changing News River's display.

Is this meant to be public? Will it go away? Why do we want News River in the first place? What is the point of this post?
The Adam looks like it has some serious potential. Not sure how the Pixel Qi screens will compare to eInk for reading though.
Not for me in this case. Every sentence I tried was mangled in the traditional way:

Once upon a time in america -> ants on a time in america

The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. -> the owl and pussycat when to see in a beautiful p cream

Google is not evil -> google is evil

I'm not joking about that last one.
I'm one of he VASSAL developers. We're flattered to see VASSAL featured here. Should anyone have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them---either here, by email (uckelman@nomic.net), or in our forum.
Two things I would want upon seeing this.

1. Chrome extension to use speech recognition in every text box.

2. Speech recognition inside the google apps: Gmail, etc.
That does not specify where the recognition is happening.
Interesting, thanks for the heads up. I'm going to wait for a device with a single, big screen though.
Is freelancing really viable for developers?

It obviously works for writers, designers, artists etc, but for various reasons, I've always been skeptical about whether the work would be there for a developer.
It actually does a pretty good job at simple words and sentences. So, jumping in the deep end, I tried "The reflected binary code was originally designed to prevent spurious output from electromechanical switches". Can anyone get it to recognize that? I did manage to get it to respond correctly to every word by itself (sometimes only after a couple of tries), but not the whole thing.

(non-native speaker)
Judging by the people listed in the friends list in the Facebook page, the Facebook account seems genuine to me, but you don't have to take my word for it.
One idea is that if an email address is updated the bugs are not updated straight away (inconsistency). They are updated as load on the system allows. Then you control the spikes as you see fit, to match your performance requirements.

Another ideas is you keep a list of un-applied changes and post process with those (fix the inconsistency). Banks used to do those when I was at university (balance = overnight balance + todays transactions, plus an overnight batch to get the balance up to date.)

If you original system was normalized, and did not fit in memory, then the joins cost (disk_access_time * items), which could have been 2 seconds of disk io. The notion that a db round trip is worse than a disk io is just wrong.
This seems to overlook really hard part where joins become important which is for things that need to transactional, such as how much money I have in my bank account. I might not care if it takes 30 seconds for my change of name to propagate to 300 different papers I have written, but it is crucially important that I have only one total for my bank account and that it is never allowed to fall below zero (simplistically).
>Hmmm...work on one's own research in order to generate a paper that can get citations and advance one's career, or take time away from that to review other people's papers for free.

As sibling poster notahacker says reviewing other work in the field is part of your own research effort or I'd warrant you're not doing it right.

(I'm not an academic and have only done undergraduate level study).
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Unless you're targeting a specialized market where you're really in demand, I'd have nothing to do with "web freelancing".

A few years ago I worked at a job shop that did web sites for small businesses, and I was talking with my accountant about getting my taxes done and he asked me how much we'd charge for a web site. I told him it would be around $2000... That would include a CMS install, original template, and some SEO. A pretty fair price for the time of the talented people it takes, plus the sales overhead. He was shocked. Although just getting another 10-15 clients a year would have paid for his site quickly, he was hoping he could get one for more like $50.

4 out of 5 small biz clients will let you make a tiny profit, but 1 out of 5 is a client from hell who'll balloon a $10k fixed price project to something that costs you $30k and wipes out the product you made from the other 4.

Not for me. I make web sites for my own account.
Has anyone here tried the Kobo ereader? Could you share your impressions?
We need database joins so that we can derive new, interesting propositions from the data already in the database.

A database is a set of facts about something. Joins are the logic reasoning that lets you deduce new things.

If you never need to find out new things, then you don't need joins. So you can get away without joins when you have a simple system that is doing repetitive work. You can't avoid them when you are doing complex analysis or presenting data in a variety of different ways.
Should Luxury Marketers Focus Their Efforts on the Wealthiest 1%?
If the Plastic Logic E-reader was out I would suggest looking at that. I played with it for about 30 minutes and interviewed a lead developer.

It was a super light, easy to ready, all e-ink, 8.5x11 touch screen. It worked great in my hands, but they had manufacturing issues, and delayed retails sales multiple times, and finally canceled that version. If it rears it's head in retail shelves giv it a look.
annoyingly, it published a story about this to my friends; one that I can't delete.
A team from MIT did that already. Mining is easy, and even easier when FB provides so much.
I busted out wireshark to answer my own question. The data is actually getting encoded as speex and being posted to http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize . Maybe google is about to open up its speech recognition API to the masses?
I was literally working on the cure for ALL disease, but stopped because I got frustrated with all the crap regulations and rules the government forces you to follow. If someones dieing and only has a few months to live they don't have the right to try an experimental treatment. Due to my area I needed people, animal substitutes don't work.

So instead I went into creating consumer products and am now moving on to the internet space because of new government regulations making the other space to expensive. As you can figure, I hate the government, you have bureaucrats making rules on subjects in which they have zero understanding. You have the lobbyists from the large companies using regulations to great huge barriers to entry to protect their fiefdoms. Unless the ridiculous health care law is repealed, the advances and success the USA enjoy will disappear. Before people quote survival stats, make sure you compare apples to apples, for example infant mortality is calculated completely different around the world (the definition of live birth).

My hope is that the US embraces a true free market health care system. The problem is that we have removed the pricing effect that creates efficient markets from the health care industry. What we should have is true insurance where it pays 50% over say $2,000/yr, 80% over $5,000, and so on. Your company places a set amount of say $3k per year on to a credit card (that roles over yr to yr) and you can use the card to buy any health related service or product. This eliminates all the paper cost in the system and brings back the pricing effect since people will now shop for better deals (ie why does a procedure cost $7k at one place and $2k at another across town?).
Excellent visualization of how VPN protects your connection
The public will be correct in their presumption that at least this part of the system didn't work.

It has gotten to the point with NASA that when they make a life-based announcement, the Bayesian-style rational response is to ignore them entirely. It isn't too big a step from here to think that this research ought to be simply shut down, so that it can get out of the funding stream and then at least there's a chance the funding will go somewhere useful.
If you're going to question the source then at least question the actual journal articles instead of just ad homineming the guy citing them. They're all from respectable sources like JAMA.
All I have is Medicare, they do NOT cover new and innovative treatments recently approved by the FDA. However, such organizations like LSI (Laser Spine Institute) has had a series of complaints about their post-surgery support. See link below... and I'm Still looking for a reputable alternate who would accept me as a client for treatment. So far, I have none, but my last surgery on my back, costed me about $6000 in co-pay, plus the hospital "out of pocket" stuff like my back brace which costed me a whopping $250, other stuff like a walker, which I needed for the next five days after back surgery.

If I choose to have the open surgery, my costs are estimated to be around $4000. Of course medication I have to pay for fully.

However, I am still seeking and looking for another Institute other than laser spine Institute.

Below, you'll find some links I changed my mind about having LSI treat me.

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/lsi-treats-their-e...

So you think our health care is a bad, take a look at this link above, and why I'm looking for another replacement Institute to treat me. I'm hoping with the generous support, that I don't have to go through invasive surgery, which means several months recovery time, wearing a neck brace, and having to think a lot of narcotic painkillers which really wipe me out. I know morphine can be thought of a recreational drug, but I need my brain and the mind, and the side effects are not very pleasant.
wow this is really good. It recognizes almost everything and I am not even a native speaker.
> "The announcers don't understand the game!"

Actually, this one we could do something about, no? I agree that professional sports announcing is terrible for people who are seriously into the game. So, could we build either an official or amateur broadcasting/dub-over of the commentary?

Would NFL Network carry an alternate commentary version of the game, with more football commentary and less nonsense about who is dating what celebrity? Could you do it unofficially? I bet it'd be really, really popular.

That's why I like "So, what are we going to do about it?" - Even if you don't do it, you might get some interesting ideas. If there was a serious analysis/no nonsense/no frills football commentary, I might tune in to that. Things like analyzing the plays, the line play, the coverages, how different players size/speed/length of arms make a difference, etc.

Anyway, Patriots fan but I always liked the Steelers. Classy organization, heavy focus on defense and an efficient game. Hope the two see each other in the AFC championship game.

Edit: Also, sometimes you decide it just isn't worth bothering because you've got more important stuff to do. It's still a fun thought exercise in that case, and occasionally you stumble on something cool.
Why Isn't WikiLeaks Trending on Twitter?
Pity we can't go back in time and specify something like this in JSON as the actual format for RSS. It would have prevented a lot of drama. (Not all of it, but a non-trivial amount of it.)
There's a lot of work available - I did freelance PHP and other platform development during university. The issue is aligning customer expectations. "Make me a facebook for $200" etc.
Also missing is a monitor and a mouse.

I doubt much real work gets done at that desk.
Hi. I'm the author of Unicorn Free. Since the topic is extra income, you might enjoy my post about how I brought in $216,000 of product income in 2010 up thru October (actually it's nearly $300k now that it's December).

http://unicornfree.com/2010/i-made-216668-from-products/

In case anyone wonders, I'm a self-taught graphic/interaction designer and Ruby/JavaScript developer. I freelanced/consulted for >10 years and was employed in technical leadership positions for 2.5.

Freelancing can be incredible because it exposes you to so many projects & tools & ideas you'd never investigate on your own. You can't beat it for developing breadth. But products are absolutely the way to go in the end.
check out www.odesk.com lots of work there if you want some cash...
Are you familiar with any PHP frameworks? What have you worked on in the past? Can you share some links or code repositories?

I may have some work for you, but I'll need this information first.
> Google IS the cloud.

I disagree with this. Google was the cloud. Google had an early advantage in the cloud game with their internal infrastructure. Google devs could produce apps on a platform not available to the rest of the world. As publicly available tools mature to the same level, anyone will be able to produce the same kind of robust, infinitely-scalable cloud apps. Actually that's already happening, to some degree.
You can't see it in the Chrome Developer Tools/Network UI, but the browser is sending the recorded audio input to a webserver. Unfortunately it's HTTPS, so a bit hard to decode the URL/content of the message without using a proxy.
The defense department has done research on the success of Lasik and PRK. They now pay for it and allow you to fly most planes after surgery. I had it done 4 years ago and my vision has been perfect since then.