skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit of an understatement. Basically all Squeak and VisualWorks images have been running since some time in the late '70s. They've been migrated from 16- to 32- to 64-bits and across chip architectures, but it's the same image. Other dialects were bootstrapped more recently, and some of them have retained the ability to create an image from scratch.

I guess bootstrapping is more common in the Lisp world.
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I'm completely new to NYC. I got a job offer in Manhattan recently. Des anybody have any suggestion of where to live for a family of two? Also, what salary range I should be expected to live comfortable in NYC?

Thanks
This is a really bad argument. You're implying that the leverage discussed here (coupling your product with Facebook) is the same as the leverage that caused the financial crisis. The only thing they have in common is you can use the word "leverage" to describe either of them.
we currently focus on recommending a certain set of components and aim to make their integration seamless.

once we got that and the documentation and code examples are improved we will look into making it easier to switch certain components for people who want something different. comparable to rails (ruby) where you can switch activerecord with something different.

so we certainly don't intend to make replacing components a hassle :)
Hi, I'm one of the developers of annotatr.

First of all, it's great to see people having a look at it and offering encouragement and constructive feedback. Thanks.

Annotatr was more a proof of concept and fun hack than anything else. While Bosco and I did want to offer an alternative to existing commenting systems for scientific papers (Nature, PLoS, CiteULike, etc.) we also realised that a big difficulty is getting continued engagement.

Some time after we put it up, I adapted annotatr and turned it into mldiscuss, a site for commenting on papers from ICML 2010:

http://mldiscuss.appspot.com/

Before, during, and after the conference this site had quite a bit of activity but has since died off. I guess the lesson here is that a narrow focus (a single conference) works better than a broad one (scientific papers) -- at least in the short term. I'll likely extend mldiscuss for this year's ICML to see if it can pick up a bit more momentum.
Is there some hidden meaning to '20 years ago', am I missing something?
great pointer! zombie looks pretty promising and makes a good fit with the node ecosystem.
C is outdated, even by systems programming language standards. Sorry, but it's true.

There's still room in the standard for one's complement, it denies all knowledge of multi-threaded programming, it has a bunch of impossible-to-use-safely functions in its standard library, etc. (This is just a tiny sample, there's so much else wrong that you could almost write an entire book about it.)

In my opinion, they should start by removing the substantial cruft. That would leave plenty of room for some sorely needed additions/modernizations.

In the name of backwards compatibility, they'll remove too little, they'll add too much unnecessarily stuff, and eventually, another systems programming language will catch on and start to slowly-but-surely replace C.
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Other than the 30% share of payment for paid apps in the Google Marketplace...
His version is just too much more harder to read...
Or you have made the grave, grave mistake of installing Adobe products on your machine.
What you say may be true for some, but I don't mind looking stuff up in the room with a patient. Most of us try to do what's in the patient's best interests, which definitely includes in my case trying to refresh my highly fallible memory.

However (and I'm waxing philosophical here) people don't come in to hear information from their docs as much as they come in to be heard by another human.

Good docs ain't in that room with you to check off whether you had your oil changed and tires rotated, which tasks do seem like something a pad or laptop can be helpful in noting (paper does it just as well, however, and doesn't end up on the web).

Data capture just isn't the big problem in all this. A major problem is developing novel, innovative and SECURE ways to track and make USE of that data for the benefit of patients.
I think its best we look at these two ideas seperately:

1. What Google decides to put into their browser.
2. What is the accepted standard

The first does not, and should not be an 'open process' because creative work doesn't do well when made my committees of people with disparate ideologies and motives.

The second is currently adjudicated by the various standard bodies, and is an open process.

You're arguing that Google might become a 'defacto standard' and implying that it would be harmful for the web in general. However, historically the only harm that has come from a defacto standard is if it is either (a) overlaps with an official standard without using the same process or (b) fallen behind an official standard. This is the case with Internet Explorer over the past few years.

On the other hand, the things that IE did innovate on have been copied and become part of official standards (in some way or the other) to the benefit of us all (e.g. XMLHttpRequest Object).
Wasnt intuitive, undocumented, had to jump thru lots of setup even for simple things (no smart defaults), I had to manage the memory for all buffers including temp buffers myself. It almost seems like ffmeg allocates no memory on its own. Sorry can't be more specific, it was a while back.
An individual's need for food is generally stable, predictable, and bounded (eg, 2500 calories/day). An individual's need for health care is unpredictable and unbounded, meaning that you can be financially ruined by it in a sudden and catastrophic way. Having a variety of providers doesn't address this crucial difference.
now scene to be the weakest part of the film

Agree. It felt almost like padding material, like someone said "we have this gap in the plot, ah let's just fill it with some james bond action".
I used it for an architectural visualization startup. I built the entire prototype myself, including a virtual tour guide that used the gameplay AI to find its way around a building, and contracted out the content production to a few artists.

Dungeon Defenders is the most recent "small" title I know of using UE3. Infinity Blade was produced by an Epic Games subsidiary, but they'd be an indie title otherwise.

Most major cross-platform game titles are built on UE3, so it wouldn't be a technology reason that an indie game couldn't be successful using it.
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> Restarting services usually takes care of the majority of the sanity checks.

Sure, that usually takes care of most checks, but the point is to eliminate as much as possible unusual scenarios. A service-level restart will catch service config mismatches, but it won't catch, for example, manual interface or routing table updates. It also won't catch the 'fragile root' problem where the device that the kernel is loaded from has become corrupt.

Bad things happen in the strangest places if you run enough systems.
Ask HN: Stop ex-boyfriend from SEOing my sister to death
My sister's ex-boyfriend bought her a domain name and built her a web site a few years ago. They broke up last year. Now he wants thousands of dollars for his work on her web site. She's trying to move on. She got a new domain name and built a new site.

He seems to still be doing active SEO so her old domain name appears first in search results. And the old domain has a page with just her name. No content. The old domain is her name, FirstLast.com, and has been around
for 3 or 4 years. Is she screwed? Is it possible to get her new domain which has actual content about her to do better?

Thanks!
Where can we find an overview of companies that demoed at Launch today?
The main issue with reading manga on an ereader is dealing with zooming and panning; unless you have it split by panes, rather than pages, that will be an issue no matter the format.
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Many varieties of trees take a couple decades to grow into something that adds a lot to the landscape.
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The tools "do have a learning curve," but then you say they "look intimidating?" Have you not evaluated both?

Perhaps they might have a learning curve as a dabbler, but if you wanted to use your skills on projects for industry employers, or find an artist or developer to hire, you'd probably pick Unreal.

Unity probably directly supports users like you better than Epic does, but the size and age of the Unreal engine community tends to make up for that.

Disclaimer: I also built Epic's support system.
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> I assume what he is giving us is method names written in Java with "Treasure Island" as the single argument that return a value indicating the likelihood that "Treasure Island" is what the method name refers to.

The sample queries struck me as Prolog rather than Java, even before they mentioned it. Using Prolog would allow testing the combination of various propositions in addition to the individual values. This would imply that they derive a list of possible assertions, then try combinations of those assertions and see what values of X will match those assertions. How they avoid combinatorial explosion when testing all those assertion combinations, I have no idea, but it must involve ranking and pruning.
I think he means the main page, that one scrolls fairly jerky for me, too (OSX/Chrome).

However I think this is more due to the generous use of drop shadows than the javascript.
More impressed? Yes. More willing to spend millions on hardware and software? No.
Ding ding nothin'. Physician fear of the unknown is the elephant in the room. If you know anything about crypto and read the hipaa security rule, it's very underspecified. The Gov't will be the first one to bear culpability if they push too hard on this. That said, no serious data custodian is going to lack for vastly more than adequate tools for data security.
Sounds quite a bit like the NovaDreamer http://www.lucidity.com/novadreamer.html
Show HN: Nice usability trick - "What do I have to do next?"
Recently there was a recruitment process at university I attend to. The system used for registering candidates had a feature that I'm pretty sure I've never seen anywhere before, and that's IMO really helpful - the "What do I have to do next?" link.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/216352/what-do-I-have-to-do-next.png

("Co mam zrobić dalej?" is "What do I have to do next?" in Polish)

This single feature simplified the whole otherwise complicated formal process to simple "click the link, read what to do, do it, repeat" process. After you completed one set of actions, new instructions were waiting under the link. For me, those instructions perfectly matched the thought process I had in my head and answered every question at the right time. Of course, all relevant formal data was available for all the time by clicking on other links. They also got the trust issue right - the "What to do" link, along with an action list, shown all the relevant context, so at any point in time one could be 100% sure what to do, and that one is not missing anything important.

Thought I'd share ;).
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Keyboards for the iPad already exist. The future is a touch screen, and an external keyboard (probably should also mention big screens, with gpus, hooked to iPhone docks, in order to offer a fully personalized desktop experience, running off your mobile device.)

CR-48 will not be able to detach from keyboard. Everything will be designed to support a touch screen interface; input devices will be external.
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It's hard to imagine they were not previously aware of the non-compete. So you can only assume they WERE aware, and just thought they could win, or should challenge it.
I agree the complaints sound similar. I'm not entirely convinced of the difference myself. I was just positing a likely reason for the difference in reaction to the two situations.

But I will also stick up for the user-centric perspective. I will never forget how Apple treated Google with respect to Google Voice. In that specific case Apple made up some very capricious arguments to avoid allowing an extremely useful app from appearing in the App Store, which would have hurt me directly had I owned an iPhone instead of an Android device.
Communities of convergence, aggregation...students and educators communicating more effectively, more foreign language translations of content, sharing & combining what's been mentioned here as well as

Khan Academy + Bittorrent
http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/02/11/khan-academy-and-bit...

Gaming: http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/09/video-visions-of-the-game... + http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~rich/courses/imgd404x-c11/playable.ht...

http://hackety-hack.com

http://cnx.org

http://www.writework.com

http://www.fhsst.org

http://www.unclasses.org

http://www.coursehero.com

http://www.varsitynotes.com

http://www.livemocha.com (language)

http://openstudy.com

Connecting educators & students to communicate more effectively using these and more:

http://edublogs.org

http://www.connectedprincipals.com

http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/blogs/index.html

http://piratepad.net

http://primarypad.com

http://typewith.me

http://sync.in

http://sketchpad.cc
I applaud your effort. I think dictation is going to be crucial. Keep pushing!
Conversely, I don't understand those who feel the need to point out that it was very straightforward, implying that those who did find it confusing perhaps weren't as intellectually capable of following the fast-action plot. It's like saying you don't understand why some people don't understand an equation just taught to them, or why someone didn't walk away fully understanding OOP after you just told it to them in the most direct way possible. This sort of plot was something most viewers likely had never experienced, so it is perfectly understandable, to me, how someone could've had difficulties following.

Apologies for the rant; I've just seen your sentiment shared here and on other similar forums, delivered in such condescending ways so as to somehow invalidate whatever entertainment any 'lay' person might've gained.
I think the requirements are fairly nebulous at best and mostly aimed at documenting your practices for access, and (god-forbid) breach/compromise. I think that you are covered if you cover these things in you operating procedures, but that is just from my own cursory research.

I'm mostly curious about the web stack and technical implementation:

* Encryption in transit (SSL) and at rest (whole-database encryption versus field-specific encryption)

* Select auditing (and performance thereof)

* Open-source stack?

I'm a pathologist so I'm primarily interested in interfacing with existing LIS (lab info systems). I'd like to pursue efficiency solutions for the laboratory (like dashboards, specimen tracking, lab ordering, intra-lab communication).

Of course, it's all moot with respect to my day-job because I work for the military and they mostly piss on open-source (MS all the way!) with no real path for putting applications on NIPRnet (yes even at the hospitals) without enterprise-level support and multi-level security audit/approval. Which explains why in the age of digital pathology, we are stuck entering pathology information over ssh (terminal emulation) into a MUMPS system.
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> Is this evidence that WP is feeling the heat from frameworks?

No.
Dictating the note would be huge.
If you want to get more use out of the raw data 23andMe produces from your DNA sequencing I encourage everyone to check out this free / GPL'd Firefox plugin my company created.

http://www.snptips.com/
Not clear if this is a domain specific language that would generate SQL, but when I was working for the big enterprise players they always had a way to abstract SQL running against several DB engines... (one of 'em called it meta-sql).

There was a significant effort to push this, and it was only successful because it was embedded into the dev environment of the enterprise software.

Great idea, but the many different versions of SQL syntax will be a pain to properly implement. I'd suggest staying with a single DB engine, then branching to others.
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I think a valuable complement to this is the idea of finding the fastest minimum viable product you can create and start getting feedback on, and if the original idea would take months to launch, then trying to plan a path to it through a space of increasingly involved products that are viable at every step from the most quickly launchable initial product, even if that doesn't bear much resemblance to the original idea.
Get tons of spam backlinks.

There are services called xrumer blasts. Some say it works to help SEO, I personally think it will nock the site down (Thousands of spammy blog links. Google is getting smarter).
The same number of commits were taken from each language.
...it would take amendments to the Constitution to institute price-fixed health care.

Government-dictated pricing wouldn't necessarily violate the Constitution, it's been done several times throughout American history.
First you make it work, then you make it perform well.

What, you were expecting the first code they wrote to be perfect?
launch.is just follow the blogs about each presenter or click to see the demo pit companies.
Is it just me or is a decent sized airship bigger, more efficient, and lighter then all these planes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg#Specification...

Ignore the exploding part.
This is why I never use my real Facebook account when developing apps. I have a special John Doe account from which I manage all my apps. I think this is the only solution to their incompetences.
The answer to your question is in the line you're already quoting: whether you like them or not shouldn't make a difference. My point is that its bad form to use strong words like shady, unethical, disgusting and "fucking disgrace" this lightly. I'd reserve those for situations where you have a clear reason to believe customers are being purposely misled with (bordering on) criminal intent, which is clearly not the case here. This is rude and doesn't help in regard to fixing the issue (assuming there is one), nor does it facilitate reasonable discussion about the matter.

Could they display their fee more prominently? Sure. Should they? Maybe, but it's not like they are hiding it either. Additional fees that aren't included in the quoted price are pretty common in the travel business, so I'd call their fee structure relatively simple and transparent. Are you going to call budget air travel companies unethical for charging an additional baggage fee, too?

It is a reasonable expectation to be charged a commission by a site like AirBnb. I'm happy with the fact that they display the commission before ordering anything or even starting the order process. I'm also glad that they transparently charge it to the end-user, instead of making it a hidden fee by increasing the price.
When I can't sleep, I need to listen to music to sleep. My wife needs absolute silence. So I always put on my headphones. I've been doing this for a few months now and the most that's happened is I've pulled the earphones out of my iPhone as I tossed & turned.

However, I don't think you can strangle yourself with headphones while you sleep. I imagine the force needed to do it is stronger than what you'll face from tossing & turning. I wasn't able to find any info on this anywhere either though, so don't quote me on that - but it strikes me as unlikely, at least in my own experience.
That's why you'd use browser A (say Chrome) for browsing and browser B (say Firefox) for anything to do with development.
IANAL, but she could try suing in small claims court. If he doesnt show up, she gets an enforceable judgement. If he does the judge might give her the domain name back. Surprising things have happened in small claims, like neighbors shutting down crack houses. It's cheap and an interesting experience.
I got on the deal for $100 on DNA day and found that most of the results I got back were interesting and cool to show my friends but it didn't change my life/habits in anyway. Most of the 23andMe's data is currently targeted for people of European descent and there isn't a whole lot of data on people of African and Asian descent in their database but even many of the European traits have varying confidence markers based on genetic data we have available today. I am hoping that much more data will be coming in the future but at the moment I wouldn't accept the results as gospel.
> innovative and secure ways to track and make use of

This brings up the very real issue that this is not just a fancy secure email app like hushmail where the data is stored and transported encrypted: here the data will live on the server decrypted at least transiently to build those novel ways to "track and make use of".
Reminds me a bit of SQLite in those respects.

Why come up with your own binary filestructure? Just use SQLite!
The two leverages have another thing in common - risk.
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Ask HN: What companies are the largest producers/consumers of open source?
It would be interesting to see a producer/consumer ratio of companies big to small. That being said, what companies contribute to open source the most? What companies consume the most open source, but don't contribute much?
I can see IBM charging customers millions a year to keep their Watson database up to date, even if it ends up running on an x86 Linux box. When they adapt it for general Q&A use, Watson will probably be as useful as Wolfram Alpha wishes it was.
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Watson can run on a laptop.

It just can't get the answers fast enough to win Jeopardy.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/In...
Not much worse than the paper sign-in log where I can see the name, address, phone number, and physician's name for the 10 people who came in before me.
Without better context, it's hard to understand the benefit this offered over, say, a wizard approach.
And, if pressing a button labelled "Make Chad A Sandwich" turned you (irreversibly) into a sandwich, I can only imagine that you wouldn't be happy about the semantic ambiguity. :)
Hi,

I'm the author of this article. You should read it if you've been following the debate about whether you're better off with a co-founder or going it alone.

Max
I especially appreciated how, when going from the top of the page down to the bottom, the middle tab would show the down-state briefly, while the browser scrolls to the bottom.
For what it is worth at this point, I heard Breakup Notifier mentioned on a nationally syndicated morning radio show (http://www.elvisduran.com/main.html) while driving to work yesterday (locally it was on Z100 in NYC). A belated congrats!
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Well this needs a better title. I almost didn't read it because I thought it was about the background image feature on the google homepage.
Which is how most people operate. It is the obligation of the interface designer to take into account that people rarely read the instructions.