skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decent post, but really don't like being blasted with the AdSense right off the bat. Had I found that site through a search, I would have hit the back button. Just FYI.
Clickable: http://www.urbaniteboston.com/
I have employees who were laid off from their previous jobs. They could not afford to pay the COBRA payment and let their insurance lapse. They are now disqualified from private insurance and have pre-existing conditions that are not covered under our group plan.

It is easy to tell people not to let their insurance lapse. If they have no income, this is not feasible.

The point of the article is that the current system inhibits entrepreneurship. Plenty of employees in the current system stay with their employer out of fear of losing their coverage instead of pursuing other opportunities.
Is that a counterfactual counterpoint? Given the complexity of business success and failure, it's probably best to pick examples which don't rely on facts demonstrably not based in reality.
"History has shown that's not the case; they end up in the emergency room with no insurance, and end up being a cost that hospitals have to recoup via higher rates for the people that have paid for their insurance."

No. That is not "history". This is a recent phenomenon. This sort of thing was not generally occurring 30 years ago.
Bitcoin, Madison Hours and Musical Banks - alternative currencies
Is there a (harmless) chemical that reacts in some visible way to radio waves? It would be interesting to spray that in the street and see a 3d representation of all different signals in the air.
Better still, we could walk around with our Facebook wall (and little text ads) displayed on our backs!
Hmm...great idea! I hadn't thought of that to be honest.
Anyone know of some modern equivalents? What do we think the year 2100 is going to look like, for instance?
Performable and MailChimp sitting in a tree...
Thanks for the information! Do you have a graph that shows the up and down swings of your ad revenue?

Also, I'm not familiar with the stock photo site you mentioned. Is that a site where folks can license out photography?
cool, thanks for sharing! keep up the good work and good luck on developing for iOS!
I am an ex-smoker. I understand this stumbling block quite well. Should you decide to quit, here are some of the things I did to help with the take a break/socialization aspects of it.

-- I never stopped taking smoke breaks. (but I did start calling them air breaks)

-- I invited other, non-smokers to air-breaks

-- Other smokers didn't set off particularly strong cravings in me, so I still did my coordination with them

-- Since my body no longer had the chemical decay timer, and the mental habit started to fade, i had to set real timers and request my smoking co-workers to ping me for my air breaks (before I did this, I started to feel disconnected and seriously considered starting to smoke again to "relieve the stress")

-- Keep carrying around a lighter. (It makes no sense, but somehow it helps put some smokers at ease about a non-smoker in their midst)

-- Don't start preaching to your smoking buddies about stopping. Answer questions if asked, but let it be -- remember how much you hated the "you need to quit" stuff. It will keep the interactions smoother.
They had airports, bikes with farings, tanks, videophones, wireless news all down.

Apparently fashions weren't ever going to change!
Perhaps some things weren't every going to change?
Streetview Zombie Apocalypse
I do like Camdhu and Tamdhu; I'll have to give Glenrothes a try.

I highly recommend Port Ellen 30; it's the only "ghost whisky" I've tried, but it certainly invoked a feeling of saudade that such a rich taste will be lost to history. I'd put the taste somewhere between Talisker and Oban.
The other big miss is that the outside scenes have one or two people and a lot of green, and the indoor scenes have a tiny amount of utilitarian furniture.

There's no sense of stuff and clutter, urbanisation and buildings everywhere and people people people.

( and the train is nothing like high speed and aerodynamic - it has balconies! )
so much hardware. no silicon.
Large-scale social media analysis with Hadoop (Python)
Whoa !!! Cool!

Having discontinued hardware hacking (not by choice) more years ago than I care to admit, I didn't know that those cute li'l 555s are still around !

Speaking of which, are the good ol' 741 op-amps still going too? Just curious.

(This sure brings back some fond, old memories.) :-)
Yes, they were in the age of mechanization and the easy prediction was "everything will be mechanized"
> Or, are "we" ranting about the system without knowing rules that don't apply to us?

I don't know about you. I am ranting about the system that I pay into every month for my employees that doesn't cover their pre-existing conditions.
This is fantastic. It would be really cool to build swarm robots that turn measure out a area. then use some 3d projection to produce a spacial overlay, line and elevation map of all wifi
I'd love to see this for android too, so I could share between all devices with one system.
Keeping up with the Rails Lighthouse
Whatever happened to predicting the future? We should make predictions for 2100 for them to laugh at our naivety.
I wonder if google has enough data from their street view vehicles
chris sacca was born in buffalo, ny

in 2009, chris rode a bicycle across the US

buffalo...
Exactly. Unless a company's in such bad shape that they have to nickel-and-dime on expenses, the value of productive (and happy!) employees far outweighs hardware costs.
Agner - Erlang Package Index
http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604739779/1/tumblr_l2j5udUdfM1q... looks like a shot of Vertigo.
Another thing I hate with pure maintenance programming is that you're generally told to touch as little code as possible. If it 'works', don't change it.

Sometimes you'd love to refactor a bit of 10 year old C code to be more readable, or less bug-prone. But you can't because it's not a bug.

In some cases it's even worse and you can't even fix bugs that you find. Only bugs reported by customers count as bugs. Of course, a customer will eventually stumble on it, but heh.

I don't mind maintaining code as long as it's focused on structural improvement, not on manouvring through the code very carefully hoping the whole thing won't collapse.
I think you can learn that while there are many technically interesting projects to work on, seriously pursuing something as a business takes a lot of commitment.
Thanks kreci for sharing another income report.

I'm a U.S. college student and I'm looking to make some side income from Android apps. I've already developed my first very basic app, but I'm getting stuck on the financial side of things. I haven't been able to find any good answers to questions such as:

* What do I do about taxes?

* How do I report any income I make?

* Should I put my income in my personal bank account? Or should I put it somewhere else?

* How should I track sales, and what should I keep track of?

I'd appreciate any advice you or anyone else can give.
I don't mean to criticize but I had a horrible time just reading through your text - it's all very poorly spaced out and distracted me from your message.

Best of luck.
Beyond Usability - User Experience
Here's another lesson about customer interaction - don't piss them off with how long it takes a page to load and render.

I don't like depriving people of their potential for ad revenue, but on the second page I got so annoyed at how long it was taking to load that I found and clicked on the "Print" icon. Bam! Full text, cleanly rendered, no flashing graphics or distracting images.

Data. Possibly information. Readable.

Fast.

Now I might actually read what he wrote.
He didn't say they track everything, he said the marginal cost to track any particular thing is near zero.
Wendy Lea,Get Satisfaction,Challenges with Venture Funding PtII
Looking back at old visions of the future, they always seem to imagine the obvious things, e.g. flying cars and nuclear power. What I haven't ever seen is anything close to modern computers, which arguably have just as profound an impact on our lives and are probably more impressive technologically.
Exploring the Limits of Datacenter Temprature
Dream - Hyperminimal WSGI framework (Python)
Show HN: StartShout - Find places to get coverage for your startup news
It seems like there isn't a week that goes by where there isn't a post on Hacker News asking "where can I find coverage for my startup?" So, I decided to make something to finally help address part of this problem.

I'm happy to announce the launch of StartShout (http://startshout.com) today - a new way to find sources of coverage for your news about events, startup launches, new features, or other announcements. StartShout is both a directory of content publishers and a pitch writing service.

I made StartShout because I want to help hackers get their projects noticed, but I think it could be useful for marketers or anyone else involved with technology as well. I'm actually not a hacker myself, but I am an avid reader of technology news. I don't know how to program and this is one of the first websites I've ever fully built form scratch. I originally designed StartShout with the intention of making it a targeted newswire service for blogs. After only a lukewarm reception I decided to pivot and it evolved to the current form.

If English is your second language or if you'd just rather have someone else write a pitch or press release for you, I'm happy to offer paid copywriting. If you don't like what I prepare for you, tell me and I'll fix it or give you a 100% refund. I think I'm offering this at a competitive rate since most major online writing services charge over $300 for writing a press release.

If anyone has any suggestions for further additions to StartShout I'd love to hear them. I'm sure that there are other areas out there that I've missed so feel free to email me. I'm going to focus on improving and expanding the directory in the coming days. I hope that StartShout can serve as a useful resource and at least help curtail some of the "How can I find coverage?" questions on HN :)
Sequoia’s Latest Play In Mobile Payments
Why? Because the system strikes a balance between good semantics (for SEO if you need to justify this commercially), expressing a design effectively and licensing typography legally for the web.

It's an improvement over Cufon/Sifr generally and the one downside it does have (rendering under non-mac) will get better soon and I'll have to do zero work to benefit from that (theoretically).

Plus I saved a lot of time (and cost for the client) getting from design to live site quickly. It's a small price to pay, given that most ppl won't care that much, and those that do, a good proportion will understand what the issue is.
clickable: http://startshout.com
Seems like they're programmers without websites also...
I'm not sure how I should feel about this.
I believe you'd have to turn to science fiction writing these days. Well, that or the futurist movement.

But for the most part, I think the public has lost its thirst for knowledge about the far off future. We're much more of a "want it now!" culture. I find it very sad.
Technology does not have its own imperative
Deleted: OP posted clickable at the same time as I did. :-)
You're talking theory, not actual practice. The problem with the system is that every layer assumes it's the job of some other layer to determine if the person is actually guilty or not.

e.g. http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/07/reporter’s-notebook-re...
You must be on HOWE too. I am in the same boat - unhappy. send a tweet to CEO David Young @davidpaulyoung. (from @snapplez)
HTML 5, Web Apps and Native Controls
The 1990s are history: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2001-01-31/business/0101310...

2002 is history: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2002/08/05/story3...

2003 is history: http://www.healthylivingnyc.com/article/58

2005 is history: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7995137/ns/health-health_care/

2006 is history: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/07/20090715b.html

Affordability was quite different 30 years ago, perhaps that's why this is a relatively recent phenomenon. It doesn't really matter what the situation was 30 years ago though, because the trend over the past decade has been that uninsured people go to the emergency room when they're very ill.

I assume they didn't lay down and die at home 30 years ago either.
How to licence for a MultiCore architecture? Part 3 (Oracle DB)
You seem to be a bit misanthropic. A single advantage of working in an office within a team is that you engage everyday, face to face, with human beings, learn from them, eat with them, struggle, fight, laugh, sweat, etc. All those things I hope you won't tell me you can do with your pet(s).

For me the prefered config is a war room, with tech lead and devs in the same place, at the same table. Add headphones, irc and politeness, and you'll get great things done quickly, if (big if) the team spirit is good.
Palantir is exactly the kind of company that we need in the 21st century. One that can can answer questions about big datasets, be it climate data, market data, corporate data, social data, etc.

Unless they use Magic to answer those questions, there will be lots of other companies that can give you the same answers.
The "individual offices" aspect is interesting. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Microsoft went from success to success and the corporate culture got really established, software engineering research showed that developers were more effective with individual offices and big monitors.

By 2005/2006, when I was looking at corporate culture at MS, things had changed: with the advent of pair programming and agile methods, many designers and developers are more effective in shared spaces -- and many prefer those environments. NOT cubicle farms, which are the worst of all world, and NOT large badly-designed open-spaces ... but there are plenty of other good options.

However, "individual offices" for devs is now such a status symbol for the teams that still have them, that people at the management level are very unwilling to change. One designer I know spent literally a year trying to get permission to get his 12-person team into an open space. In the end he gave up and eventually left the company.
Massages and yoga classes work wonders to clear my head and solve design problems I'm stuck on. It's impossible to see the problem from a new angle by continuing to stare at the same screen for hours.

Maybe Google and Facebook got it right with those walkabout masseuses.
London Stock Exchange site shows malicious adverts
Can we have a link please?
I know it sounds deliciously ironic, but I already know the system is fucked up. But the article didn't really draw me in or give me any clues about why what it has to say about the subject is relevant to me.

I mean, we all know that dictators are killing people right now. Does that mean we need to read the stories of their victims' families, and how sad it is? Every time something like that happens?
"Most of the things people get treated for have nothing or almost nothing to do with genetic conditions."

Almost completely incorrect. Got the flu? Well that's because the flu virus latched onto a receptor that let it get into your respiratory cell. That receptor could be mutated in you.

Got into a car accident? The surgery is painful. They're going to give you an anaesthetic. Your response to the anaesthetic is going to be governed by genetics. The pharamacokinetics - how much anaesthetic you'll need - governed by genetics. Maybe the current standards of care will kill you.

"While having unlucky genes could decrease the chances of survival, ultimately everyone can get cancer."

Thanks for making my point for me. Cancer is extremely genetic. Got a mutation in BRCA? You're going to have an elevated (or possibly reduced) risk of breast and prostate cancers. And especially, individual cancers' response to drug treatments is going to be partially stochastic and highly dependent on the underlying genetics.

"As a European conservative, I truly believe that no life is unnecessary, no life is wasted."

Hypothetical: You see, I'm a biomedical engineer (true). Let's say I build a machine that can keep anyone alive. The machine is great, the quality of life for the user is awesome. And it's such a great machine, it works indefinitely. Here's the catch. To operate the machine takes 400 barrels of crude oil a day. There's no way around this. Now. If health care is a right, and no life should be unnecessary or wasted, then do people have a right to this machine?

Just to be clear, I don't think that no life is unnecessary or wasted, I just don't think that health care is a right, and I think that people need to accept the fact that they are going to die someday, and it's not such a horrible tragedy if medicine cannot save them, even if a possible cure existed and the only reason why they couldn't get access to it due to money. Obviously, I am not heartless and I think that situation should be minimized, via charitable actions - and I think that any system that tries to cover everyone will wind up costing everyone more and having rapidly diminishing returns in the face of reality, and will also really screw over corner cases. If such a system has the capacity to appropriate money from people against their will and the authority to make decisions for people, then the costs and the injustices will pile up even faster.
A look into some of the data that goes into 37signals smiley app
Definitely-expect one later tonight!
for the facts just jump to the wikipedia page. this is a narrative to take you through the story from the point of view of the participants.
Very very true.

The ideal situation would be a blazingly fast machine for compiling, linking, and running automated tests ... and commodity hardware for day-to-day tasks including browsing, email, word processing, spreadsheeting.
Why operators will find it hard to sell tablets
I'm terribly sorry for you if you don't believe that protecting the rights of minorities and corner cases is important.

If you don't believe the section about minorities, then you are pulling a denial of science that is far worse than any climate science denier. There are two 'canonical' heterozygous recessive diseases that are covered in every high school biology textbook - cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia affects mostly people of west african descent. Cystic fibrosis mostly affects people of askenazi jewish descent. Sometimes I wonder why do we have high standards of care and treatment protocols, and are racing toward a cure for CF, while sickle cell anemia even has, an admittedly crude, known treatment (for a decade now) that still has languished in regulation. Why don't we have better research on SCA to figure out how to treat it?
sounds good! I ran away from france to holland a few years ago because of this. I don't remember exactly but the threshold was much lower than 80000€
Wish you lots of luck!
How to Write a Law Term Paper?
Writing a law term paper is one of the toughest jobs assigned to students studying law. There are many types of law and students will have to write their term paper according to the type which they are studying. Ensuring the topic is narrowed will enable easy writing.
Yep, that's correct. It also differs in that you use "hg bundle" and "hg unbundle" instead of "git bundle create" and "git bundle unbundle"

If you want a one-shot archive of the entire repo, just specify -a or --all on the command line. Here's an example: http://pastie.org/1617081
As I commented on his post, the net effect is that Android and Windows Phone licensees, whose main experience is selling through carriers, will struggle with tablets. It is hard to build channel expertise. Apple and HP have a ton of it. Samsung has some but the division that is building tablets is their smartphone division, which only has carrier experience.
Thanks for the reference to the CHI2009 paper, very interesting.

Seems like an interesting series, looking forward to the rest of it. Will you be including accessibilty metrics?
Basically income is income. You could set up a separate legal entity, but until you're doing a significant income on it (>$50k? YMMV) it won't afford you any real serious tax breaks. You may want to investigate that for other legal/liability issues, though.

1. Keep track of all income related to this project (or to mobile dev in general).

2. Keep track of all expenses.

3. Itemize these on a distinct "schedule C" when doing your taxes next year.

That's really about it. It would probably make sense to keep the money in a separate bank account, but the more important thing is being able to prove your income and expenses - keep track of everything - receipts, etc.

edit: re taxes - your first year it probably won't matter, but the second year, you'll probably need to start making estimated quarterly tax payments to the US and to your state. If your current withholdings basically cover whatever taxes you estimate you'll owe including your sales, you won't be in trouble. However, let's say you've got a current job making, say, $30k, and your withholding every month comes out to, say, $6k for the year. You might normally get a refund, but with your android sales, you now owe $6k. You're OK. BUT... let's say your android sales add another $20k to your income - you'd owe more than the $6k that was withheld. First year you're OK, but you'll get an IRS letter indicating that you should start making quarterly payments. You can do this electronically at eftps.gov.

I mention a separate schedule C because if you do other stuff totally unrelated - pure consulting, for example, it's better to keep those 'businesses' separate from an expense and income perspective. I've run multiple operations which overlap a bit, but are basically different 'things' - pure consulting/development, specific PDF journals, conferences/events, etc. Each is fairly distinct (though there's promotional overlap), so each is kept separate from an accounting standpoint.

[plug] We may have a whole session on this at the next indieconf.com conference later this year. :)
741s are still going strong! In fact, as far as I can tell (electrical engineering student) they are the most prominent op-amp in use by far.
Do you have a screenshot of good-looking webfonts on Windows?

Here is a sample image I've made comparing various font rendering engines. The "Windows" one is by far the worst, IMO, and that's Chrome: http://twitpic.com/1ynx3e .

Edit: I looked around on fontspring, and noticed that most of those fonts look OK on Windows/Chrome, though not as good as on Firefox with DirectWrite enabled. Does the way you embed the font affect how well it renders?

Also, I've noticed that many free fonts (like those available from Google) render poorly. Is this an artifact of them being poorly designed?
As one of the investors said at the time, "He's either going to be remembered as an idiot or as a genius."

The thing is, I don't think even he knew which way it was going to go until after the Summize acquisition two years later.

Twitter always seemed like a worthwhile project, but those first two years were really hard for everyone and from the outside it looked like they might just completely fail to keep up with the growth.
Raphaeljs also has chart libraries. http://g.raphaeljs.com/ They're not perfect, but I think there's supposed to be an update soon.

Highchart and others charting options are non-starters for me at this moment. Don't want to pay $300+ right now.
Thanks for your comment. I'd be happy to talk about it with you more, and potentially setup a demo against your data. If you're interested, please email me at my username at comprehendclinical.com, or fill out this form: http://www.comprehendclinical.com/demo.html
RStudio,a new IDE for R
Ubuntu Developer Week starts today (until 3/4)
As I understand, it's a (large) directory of places where people can announce their startups and/or other tech related news.

That's cool - I'm sure it'll serve the objectives you've outlined above.

Congrats!