skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also I should point out that inflation is not a natural phenomenon - it is the direct result of deficit spending by governments. Think of it as sucking money from the future into the present before the value underlying that money is created. Again, deficit spending is done for short-term political gain.
If only there was a real PC equivalent to TextMate. I find myself using eclipse due to the Remote Systems Plugin. Unfortunately, Eclipse is insanely buggy and has cost me countless hours of development time. One issue that keeps cropping up from time to time is that when I think I"m saving my file, it actually doesn't, and then I spend the next few minutes trying to figure out what's going on.

From time to time I look for alternatives, and sometimes find myself back in Notepad++. I guess that's the punishment I get for liking my ThinkPad hardware.
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Was he even trying to prove the world was round? That was a generally accepted assumption.
Ouch! It is a blog though and that's the point of a blog: editorial content. The title was to get your attention ;)
http://evince.darwinports.com/

But yeah, I guess if OS X has good built in pdf support, why not use it, so I can see the appeal on those grounds.
Intype (http://intype.info/home/index.php) is worth keeping an eye on. They develop with the same philosophies as Textmate and plan to support the same bundle system. Development seems a bit sporadic though, so I haven't gotten my hopes up yet.
Which is why I wanted to find out for sure.
So given an infinite set of possible theories to explain a data set, which theory should be preferred? Simple accuracy over the known data is frequently not sufficient, as you point out, because of overfitting. Given noisy data (which is almost always a given), you can't just use maximal accuracy as the sole criteria for which theory to prefer. One way forward is to combine accuracy with some measure of the complexity of the theory (e.g. minimum description length), which has much of the flavor of Occam's Razor.
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Relaxing read, not a heck of a lot insight though. I guess the blog kicker means what it says "Some random bits scribbled"
The Semantic Web is already here
At a Semantic Web conference the other night there was presentation on Tessera which grabs info from all OpenSocial SNs ...
Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?
Doesn't "5-6 small meals throughout the day" contradict the suggestions in this article, which other folks here have concurred worked for them? Would the people who got good results from eating a large breakfast and then eating smaller lunches and dinners have done better using your suggestions? Is "conducive to weight loss among the obese" too narrow a criterion for a healthy diet? Are your suggestions appropriate for different lifestyles? Is a diet that worked in circumstances that I'm not in actually best for me?

I'm not actually asking you all these questions, they're just meant to illustrate my continued warines and weariness over varied and contradictory health advice. (But if you knew the answers that would be awesome)
have you tried e? It touts itself as the windows textmate.
I agree. You know bloggers without the real press are just rant machines.
> there are a lot of assertions here without sources or context.

I don't have time to build the full case. The nutshell version is that modern medicine is dominated by pharmaceuticals. Doctors are largely in the pill dispensing business. Problem is, the pills don't work. Spend more than fifteen minutes reading about the cholesterol and statin racket for just one example, and this is a huge billion dollar thing. It's a big chunk of what doctors do to earn a living. My familiarity with the business comes from the software side of pharma sales. For another example read about long term efficacy of many kinds of chemo and heart surgery. The stuff just doesn't really work, but it sure costs a lot.

Doctors are something like the fifth leading cause of death. Malpractice is rife.

Modern medicine is great for trauma, injuries, and various acute diseases. But the financial reality of health care is that most of the spending and most of what doctors do is about lifestyle diseases, and the treatments are useless. They give pills and order tons of tests for people who should really just be told that there's nothing to be done other than better diet and exercise, or maybe bed rest. They also blow millions on people who are simply in the process of dying, mostly of old age, and the treatments are empirically known to do nothing.
It's doubly true in software, because adding people not only increases the financial cost, but it increases the communication cost as well. In software, it's very likely that adding people makes you go more slowly, unless you take very careful pains to manage them well (which makes you go more slowly, though hopefully it helps them go fast).
Sorry it wasn't more insightful. Maybe after I've been there a few weeks I'll have more interesting things to say...
Not automatically.
No equity at all? I doubt that. The eBay fiasco arose because one employee had ~28% equity in the company, which is far, far more than an engineer joining at this stage could reasonably expect to receive.
How about installing OS X on your ThinkPad? Which model do you have?
I think that's it. It takes very little in the way of tangible resources to build software. The biggest thing people need is skill, and they tend to believe they're skilled even in the face of contradictory evidence.
Should leave your email or contact info.

Also, good UI/UX experts would already be busy with ongoing projects, your solicitation barely registers anything on an excitement scale. Should divulge a bit more info about your project, or industry, or what you want to do.
I hear the guy who does Apple's products is pretty good.
My diet principles:

1. Eat a variety, particularly with respect to fruits, nuts, and vegetables. If you can't get them in natural forms then at least go for processed combinations. Uniformity of diet is a symptom of agricultural society and should be avoided.

2. Make eating a priority after you wake up. Eat a few hours before bed so that you wake up when you're hungry.

3. Rely on protein to make a meal filling - in whatever form it takes, milk, soy, whey, meat, fish...
You needed to incorporate aviation into it somehow. I think that would have sold everyone. ;)
jEdit has a ton of text-editing power, a lot of plugins with an internal manager/downloader, and is cross-platform.
Ask YN: Recommendation for a social network platform?
My company is getting prepared to rebuild our existing social network from scratch. Our current network (niche, B2B site) is "ancient" -- we built in 2003, on ASP/MSSQL which is what we were running on then.

I have investigated a number of options, and I'm not 100% satisfied with any. If anyone has thoughts, experience or recommendations I would to hear it. Open source is our preference by the way.

My quick notes on what I've seen so far:

* Elgg. Open source, looks cool. However, they are rebuilding the core from the ground up for 1.0? And there is no codebase or deadline to speak of...just occasional blog posts from their core dev team. Anyone know anything about it?

* Buddypress. Promising, but in development. I haven't also figured out if the MU blogging platform is a square peg they are trying to fit in the round hole of social networking?

* Insoshi. It's been posted here, I think it's YC?

* LovdByLess. I get the sense it's a social network that you can have the code for and basically customize, rather than a platform from which you can create a social network and extend it.

* Social circle. Nice guys, and looks interesting / well designed. Powers the social network acts_as_community which was posted here on YN last week. Not open source, and our company can't really afford the prices I'm afraid.

Of all of these, Elgg looks the most promising...but there's a giant question mark for me without knowing more about the development.

Last option to consider is building our own, from scratch, on a modern framework like Django or Rails.

Well, I'd love to hear feedback if anybody has any. You guys are great.
The article raises some interesting question, but doesn't tell me anything I didn't know about my, uh, "condition". It'd be good to have an "explosive productivity" veteran talk about how you adapt yourself and the world around you to this kind of working pattern, to make the most of it.
The grandiloquence of the slides was written with the tongue in the cheek. The project page is much more modest. http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/earing/
I have no idea how well that will work, but it's creative.
Well, "big" is relative... Let's say I am targetting 2400 calories a day (YMMV), that is 6 meals of 400 calories. If I had 600 calories at breakfast and 200 mid-morning (this corresponds to say, a pot of yoghurt and an apple) I'm still operating within "normal" bounds. The aim here is to keep your energy supply as level as possible. If you have a spike in energy, your body will react by storing it as fat. If you have a dip, unfortunately your body won't immediately turn to fat, it will react by slowing your overall metabolism and you'll feel tired and lethargic. Remember that for your body fat is a precious resource to be be hoarded as much as possible. Eating a small dinner is a relative thing because traditionally (in the West at least) the evening meal is large, 400-500 calories of good food is plenty. In the evenings, because you are not going to eat all night, slow-digesting foods are best.

Diets fail because they are unnatural, similarly people get fat in the first place because they way they are eating is unnatural. Basically I am advocating using high-quality modern ingredients to replicate the nutrition preferred by our ancestors, not "as a diet" but as a lifestyle. If someone does this, in the right quantities for their metabolism (this can be determined as you say, experimentally), they can't help but be basically healthy. We're all the same species, after all.
What goes into a 600-calorie breakfast? Sausages?
Sure, but a terabyte of rice is still a giant ship.
I think the only thing that is needed is understanding boss/company/co-workers etc, who understand the way that you work.

Working like this seems natural to me, big explosive bouts of high productivity, churning out cool stuff, and then days of nothing. I think part of it is that the days of 'nothing' seem like nothing, when in reality they are often 'thinking' days, where you solve problems, but just don't happen to produce code.
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My take on food is efficiency. If it tastes good, that's a plus, but if it is nutritious I couldn't care less.

With that disclaimer... the super breakfast (Variant of the breakfast by Tim Ferris).

1) Microwaved egg whites with salt and flaxseed, topped with salsa

2) Fresh Spinach with salt, pepper, olive oil

3) Grapefruit

4) Fat Free Cottage Cheese

One hour later follow up with protein shake.
This is a summary of this longer article from the Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/

The author is complaining that the internet is teaching us to skim more, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I don't do less involved reading than I did before the internet, but I do spend a lot more time skimming to find things that are worth reading.

He also claims that "Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking." I don't find that to be true at all! If I'm reading something thought-provoking, I often have to stop reading to think.
Also - 3 meals a day is not natural. It is an artefact of needing to fit eating into a "working day". Some cultures go for 2 meals a day which is even worse. Our ancestors ate when they were hungry, and stopped when they were full.
This is my typical work flow and I am currently in a lull. I haven't figured out exactly how to get out of a lull except to wait it out and work on whatever hold my interest for the longest.

If I sit in front of my computer and after 15 minutes I can't get anything done on the project that I am wanting to work on, I know I never will. Forcing it will never make anything happen.

I often work alone, so I wonder if having someone else around to help motivate me would help. Talking about the project without any pressure to produce until my creativity start moving again.

For me, I can have entire months where all I do is the bare minimum to keep life moving and then one week I manage to do what it would take most other people an entire month to accomplish. I know that this is part of my cycle and I've learned to life with it and let if flow however it does ...

But days like today I sure wish I could make things move on their own ...
I've seen a lot of startups that did plenty of market research (including both my last failed startup and my last employer), but I've yet to see one get anything useful out of it.

There're a couple of pitfalls to be wary of when doing market research, like:

1.) Confirmation bias. At my last employer, we had an intern spend all summer calling prospective customers. He called 30-40 organizations and got through to a grand total of 2 executives, who were sorta lukewarm about the idea. Then my boss said, "Well, I think there's enough interest to move forwards with this project." Then we busted our ass for a year, put it in front of a bunch of other customers, incorporated their feedback, and it still didn't sell.

2.) Not having something for people to react to. People don't know what they want, but if you show them something, they can often tell you whether they like it or not, and possibly suggest things they do want.

3.) Calling the wrong people. It doesn't help to get the input of people who won't use your product anyway. This can be kinda tricky though, since you often don't know who'll end up using your product ahead of time.
You want your biggest meal to be in the morning. It kickstarts your metabolism and your productivity should improve.

The best information out there probably comes from "The Abs Diet" people at Men's Health. Note that they hate the word diet and this is more like a guideline. Also, consult with a nutritionist if you want specific needs (you can get free consultations through work, school, church, etc).
I've heard it said that if that library hadn't been destroy Columbus may have landed on the moon instead of north america.
Off the top of my head, a bowl of porridge with fruit + 2 slices of toast with marmalade would be about 600 calories.

Also note that a glass of OJ is probably 100 calories.
I agree that Xcode beats TextMate in several areas when it comes to C and Objective-C (mainly the CodeSense completion). What I find compelling, however, is the extensibility of TextMate. I'm fairly certain that it is possible to build something along the lines of CodeSense as a TextMate bundle, if it does not already exist. I've been really falling behind when it comes to coding in my spare time (something I'm ashamed of), so I haven't kept up with the latest TM bundles.
Maybe my line of thought where a URL that only one website can own is outdated, but i thought that by typing the URL it would be more specific then, say, going to google and typing in "news" and hoping to find hn.
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Ya... at least he said "boot" and not "middle finger".
Hey man I need to find a good one too. Too bad Tony Wright isnt for hire!
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Most of the routine coding, billing, scheduling, and ordering paperwork is done by clerical staff. It's still inefficient, but most physicians aren't doing it themselves.

A lot of the paperwork (or computer work now) that physicians do is for documenting procedures. While that may take up a significant percentage of time (don't know if it's +/- 25%), it's crucial for patient care to have a complete and accurate medical chart.
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They have a problem, we have an opportunity guys. Help automatise their paperwork and procedures! Nice big market, and clients with deep pockets. Do it right, and it'll spread virally, as they'll recommend your product to their collegues.

Now, I could not tell you in what form and how this automatisation would work. Some standardizing (of data sharing etc) would help too.

And furthermore, you would help them HELP people.
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> Text books are important, but in my view the case for books is lessening. (unless you like fiction, ...

making a molehill out of a mountain, aren't we? more specifically, i think, a hasty generalization. just because you don't read fiction or something doesn't mean that others also don't.

i'll agree with you if we're talking about the NICHE of instructional/scholastic/informational/reference books. i don't read those types of books.

when you use the term "reading a book", though, you're typically referring to reading for recreation/entertainment, which is typically going to be fiction/literature. i do read those, and so do the vast majority of my family and friends.
There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of companies already doing this. If you have a good idea then go ahead and try, but you'll find that the sales cycle is slow, competition is fierce, and the pockets aren't all that deep.

There are a variety of existing standards for data sharing from organizations like HL7, HITSP, IHE, ANSI, NCPDP, etc. The standards work but many vendors don't fully support them yet. And sharing healthcare data means you also have to enable your customers to comply with HIPAA privacy regulations as well as (sometimes) more restrictive state rules.
The problem with these lists is that they're aimed at folks who are generally competent, albeit inexperienced. But I observe a good percentage of would-be entrepreneurs who aren't even competent enough to launch a product and grow a business to the level where they'd even have a chance to make one of these mistakes. Or, phrased more delicately, while there are sticking points at each level of business, it seems that many (most?) people hit the ones they can't surmount earlier on in the process than what these lists are designed to help with.
Thanks for the advice, I updated the post.
If the high-achievers are bored because they're so much ahead of the rest of the group (probably in part because they're more independent in learning material themselves), why not fund an inexpensive program to guide them towards more advanced topics which they can learn after they're finished with the standard topics and at their leasure?
The best way to find a designer is find something you personally think is beautiful and well designed (or, if you think you have no taste, substitute your opinion for someone's you trust).

Contact those people and try to convince them to work with you. Be prepared to spend a lot (which is going to be worth it if they're good).
I wonder if now is a good time to join Y! as a developer? Lots of people leaving -> lots of new opportunities.
"Doctors are largely in the pill dispensing business."

You do realize that doctors don't make any more money based on medications they prescribe.

"Problem is, the pills don't work. ..... and the treatments are empirically known to do nothing."

I don't really want to get into a big discussion about it because I know I won't be able to convince you. But this is just wrong. Many pills do work. Modern medicine is based on the scientific method and millions on dollars are spent on studies to prove that therapies work. Strnagely enough, insurance companies are part of the gatekeepers for this, since they don't want to pay out of their pockets to provide expensive care for things that don't work.

On the other hand, much of "natural" medicine and homeopathic medicine are based in anectodal evidence and not on any large scale scientific evidence.
Kaaren Schulz at Practical Usability (http://www.practicalusability.com/)

Disclaimer: She's my cousin. :)
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Don't you think it had more to do with the fact that the company was structured so that he could sell his equity to outsiders?
Carl Icahn just started a blog - lots of rants
I'd say Blue Flavor --- http://www.blueflavor.com --- they wrote Blueprint. I liked them a lot; excellent consultants. They may be out of your price range though. For the shops that you've heard of, for projects that include IA and UX in addition to pushing pixels, a small project falls in the 10-20 range.

It does not sound like you want UX --- it sounds like you want a designer. If you just want to look nice, that's a $1500-$4000 project. My advice, based on our experience: post to Craigslist and compare portfolios.
There are thousands of competant UI people who will do a small site for $5k. Most of them don't care about your industry or your excitement scale. On the flip side of that, your product probably needs to be pretty f'ing awesome to get Firewheel to do it for $5k.
Somebody must be from Britain ;)
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There are some few internet cafes that provide more than your basic service: massage, donuts, laundry, a fast pee or even tacos. Why settle for just one hour online when you can get so much more?
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If you get the latest Objective-C bundle from TextMate's SVN it does a reasonable job of codesense completion - but XCode is still a little better at it. The other thing that drives me nuts in TM with Obj-C is that building is an order of magnitude slower than doing it from XCode directly.
Are you looking for a designer or a developer? UI folks like myself tend to come in 2 flavors. One is skilled at the wireframes, architecture and look and feel and can do pretty mockups and prototypes. The other is a programmer whom is familiar with the latest AJAX, JSPs etc and implements the design created by the former person.

Also if the company is important to you as it should be you might want to hire someone familiar with branding to do your branding. Having a UI person do your branding is like having a programmer do your UI. They might know a bit about it but are definitely not the expert.

Lastly, if you're looking for someone with recommendations but don't know anyone personally try linkedin.com. Check out some profiles, look at their recommendations and check out their website. You can see my profile as a starting point.

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You have mischaracterized modern medicine. However, preventable medical errors were recently estimated to cause somewhere between 44K - 98K deaths per year in the US. For anyone interested in the details I highly recommend reading the Institute of Medicine report "To Err is Human". http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9728&page=1

There are good potential business opportunities in building automation to reduce errors, however it's still tough to get funding and find customers since the reimbursement system generally isn't structured to pay for error prevention. There was one positive step recently when CMS set a new policy to not pay for fixing preventable care problems. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/press/release.asp?Counter=...
jEdit is excellent for the reasons you list, and others. But the developers seem to have abandoned it. I finally moved on over a year ago. But I'd love to see active development on it.
By the way, have you read or seen The Road to Wellville? Hilarious satire of obsession with health. T.C. Boyle in general makes for a good read. A lot of his stories are written from the perspective of humans being just another animal, with often ridiculous behaviors and compulsions.
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