skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Research Medical Cannabis...decide for yourself at link below

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.answers.php?question...
That last statement might be a tad exaggerated....

I've been using Flash and Adobe/Acrobat reader for years and have yet to be "owned" through either channel, and I spend a lot of time browsing the web.
Nokia actually are trying to sort their business
"exercise science"
> Mortgage on a small house is $1800/month.

$1800/month is a >$300k 30 year mortgage.

> Cars are expensive too, add $400 a month for payments on that.

That's absurd.

It's not hard to stay well under $20k new and used is even cheaper.

Keep it for at least 7 years and $400/month is two cars and change.
It's a great concept, but Explore doesn't have enough data--rather, cheap tickets--to be actually useful. If you don't mind doing multiple searches, http://matrix.itasoftware.com is much better at finding deals.
IBM To Unveil Product That Monitors Energy Usage In Buildings
I commute on a bus for 20-30 minutes each way every day. I've got my iPad out and I'm reading HN for most of my commute. Guilt free HN for an hour a day. :-)
Interesting work.

I know that this isn't exactly what you were asking for, but when the work is interesting, it's amazing how little else you notice. And when the work is boring, nothing else seems to help.

OK, OK, let me add a few perks I care about:

- windows
- good light
- fresh air, proper venilation / heat / ac
- enough personal space
- peace and quiet
- decent break area
- decent snacks/coffee available
- donuts Friday morning
- beer after work Friday
- flex time
- nice dinner once/month or quarter
- foosball (conflicts with peace and quiet, but...)

Most of all, you do these things because you really care (I believe you do) and not because you're supposed to. Any worker can smell a phoney giving cheap perks a mile away.
I wonder if Apple might be tempted to throw significant support behind Ruby just because Google is pushing Python.
Considering Google automatically adds anyone I have an email conversation with to my contacts, I would say one day we will all get to this point, some just sooner then others.

My "My Contacts" list is more than 500 people after using Gmail since September 2006, and my "Other Contacts" is more than 1100 people. So if I had work that involved even more email interchange than the work I have, I could easily get to that 10,000 limit. And if a person makes a lot of use of email, that is precisely the person who will comparison-shop for different email solutions.
I was going through my HN feed, when I spotted this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2244342

which mentioned this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1068715

which led me to this:

http://www.penzba.co.uk/Writings/TheTeleportingTurtle.html

and then I went up to the parent directory of that:

http://www.penzba.co.uk/Writings

and found the article in question.
This is one of the main reasons why we launched crocodoc.com, to do the same thing to Adobe Acrobat that Gmail did to Outlook: Take a bloated offline application, bring it online, make it easy to use, and make it accessible to the masses.

When you think about some of the most common reasons why people use software like Acrobat and Word (e.g. viewing a document, filling out & saving a PDF form, commenting on a presentation with a group), these are all things that should be easy to do online or on your mobile device. That's the vision we're working towards at Crocodoc: view and collaborate on any document on any device.
Thats what "enterprise" programming does to a man, you either hit the bottle or GTFO.
Honestly as an ex-indie PalmOS developer, I'm having trouble being sympathetic. I don't do blackberry myself, and don't have any particular affection for RIM, but this is just a little much.

As I understand, RIM's gonna do all the fulfillment & billing for you in the app store? This is the SDK for an unreleased product? On a new, unreleased OS? On a different architecture than your dev machine? Yeah, it may require some paperwork, and the SDK & dev docs might not be where all their developers' attention currently is.

Actually, the 10 app limit impressed me. I don't want my apps as #13 in middle of 25 variations of the same app from another developer. $20 a product just isn't expensive.

Also, why do you have to use VMWare fusion if it's an ISO? Couldn't you use any of its competitors if it's not in a proprietary file format?

Finally, as for all the 'cryptic commands'... write a shell script. ( http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ )

If you want a button, write an applescript app that shows a button & runs the shell script. ( http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.21/21.04/IntroTo... )
A Step Toward Inbox Zero: Email That Self Destructs
Ask HN: Love thy co-founder?
A few months ago, my best friend and I got a bit of funding and began working on our startup. We've made solid progress on developing the product-- so far so good. Making this progress, however, meant that we spend almost all day every day together, working.

Although we have faith in each other's abilities, have great chemistry and are equally committed to the project, problems still arise. We find ourselves frustrated with each other and often argue over minutiae.

What I'm asking is: How does one stay sane, and not resort to murdering one's co-founder in his/her sleep, in this situation?

For those of you with startup experience, have you become closer with friends after working on a startup with them? Or have your relationships changed for the worse?
I've definitely heard the horror stories of the early days of iPhone development. I don't think I exaggerated though. I pretty much stuck to the facts of what happened, with some sarcasm sprinkled on of course :)

It's important to remember though that RIM isn't competing for developers with the Apple of 3 years ago. They're competing with the Apple (and Google) of today. As a developer who's time and sanity is valuable, I'm going to have a hard time justifying the added frustration, when there are other options that are much simpler, and have much more profitable markets to sell apps to.
Question: How do you control false positive rate mining correlations?

Answer: We use false positives as a negative feedback mechanism which refines our models. We have dials for precision and recall depending on how much we want to risk looking stupid.

I would be highly interested in seeing how strongly this feeds into their system. A bit too much of the false positivity taken into account could make them look way too cautious and hinder any sort of adventurous recommendations. I'm sure they have taken this into account, though.
The final figure claims less than 0.3 general practitioners per 100,000. That would amount to around 1000 general practitioners in the country which is at least two orders of magnitude low.
I think if I had a bus commute with Internet access I'd do that, too. But I'm on the subway underground, rarely with a seat. iPhone is much more useful in that situation.
Don't go back to school for CS, go back to school for mathematics and take a CS minor, concentrating in the algorithms and data structures that you are interested in. You might learn more Unix hanging around physicists anyway..
This looks cool.

The problem I find with these taking-taking apps is that once you create bunch of notes, exporting or relating them to the "rest of the world" becomes hard.

It's kind of the same problem real-world post-its have. Either you only use them a little and they're not terribly useful or you use them a lot and keeping track of them in tandem with everything else you keep track of becomes a problem.

Caveat: I'm working an app aiming to tie lots of things like this together.
I'm pretty sure the work is interesting (we're a newly funded startup, exciting times!)

For the other things, we hit almost ALL of those. Nice, spacious space in Mountain View, near lots of restaurants. Our office manager bakes cookies for us, gets snacks, and drinks are provided (everybody had to sign up for the beverages they specifically liked) etc.
This "resilience" is overrated; Apple's Samsung/Toshiba SSDs don't get much slower over time, but they start out slow to begin with. They're effectively pre-degraded.
Ah - thank you. It probably won't you get much karma, but it's got you my thanks (for whatever that's worth!)

You've made my night ...
I've got a project for you:

In terms of algorithms and data structures, this is about the best that you can get:
Given a list of 10k unordered sets of 5 letters (let's say a .txt file, 5 letters per line), print what set occurs most often.

It's much more challenging than you'd expect, and my suggestion would be to implement any sorting that you wish to do, yourself. (not use Arrays.sort, or any library like that).

It's a problem that I was given in highschool, and was pretty exciting.

For an example data set, my suggestion would be to get a random character generator printing 5 characters per link, 10k times.
I've heard that Twilio gives all of their employees Kindles and a ebook stipend. That seems nice. We have a company "library" which any employee can borrow or add to, which is nice.

But in all honesty, a good chair, a nice monitor/mouse/keyboard combo, a good set of headphones and a window are all I need to code.
Yeah, definitely.

Actually, I worked at a team that refused to stock anything but water. My boss felt that the walk to a coffee place was more valuable to your creativity than staying at your desk.

I agree, but sometimes you are just thirsty. So we've got an office where stuff is walkable as well as stocked beverages.
I'll have to hope that personal references will be enough and try to come up with some story about how my employer is legally hamstrung not to give a reference

No! If you are asked about it (which to be honest, I find unlikely) just tell the truth - they're paranoid about being sued. Hell, I got told off at my last company (of 12 people) for asking as an interview question "What was your biggest IT mistake." The paranoia is pervasive unfortunately, but that's also your biggest strength - if there was a reason to fire you, within 10 years you would have been fired.

A simple "they're paranoid about the law" will be both truthful and sufficient.
That's what we're currently doing, and I'm waiting to see if anyone abuses it. Work from home as necessary, too...
Were you registering as a business? I saw other commenters mention that they had to jump through additional hoops when registering as a business, but I had no trouble at all as an individual. Just put in my name, address, etc., pop in my credit card number, and I was good to go.
Hands-On With the OSX Lion Developer Preview
I like this. Except in California, there are no good bagels. :(
How is it possible to replace TRIM at the hardware level? I wasn't aware there was any way for the drive to know what files the filesystem considers deleted. Unless the hardware module somehow detects what file system you're using...
If you're going to go with free drinks, make it easy for people to give some input as to what they want.

I avoid high-fructose corn syrup, for example, but I still like soda. At the two places I've worked at that supplied free drinks, when I brought this up I was "politely" told "well, something is better than nothing, isn't it?" No, it isn't.
Chrome has a background process that does the updating for it, Adobe could in fact use the same code Google does if they wanted (and it'd likely be much higher quality than anything Adobe wrote for themselves!):
http://code.google.com/p/omaha/
http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/
if they abuse it, let them go. don't punish others because someone you hire will eventually abuse it.
Obviously I can't speak to your situation specifically, but it is very common these days for people to have malware that was installed through an exploit that they've never detected - indeed it can be very difficult to detect a lot of modern malware without in memory analysis and skilled forensics. Signature tools and things like malware bytes are extremely hit and miss. OS X and linux are even worse off (at least with standard configurations) once something has done a remote code execution and gotten a privesc.

Poll a few people who do security work and ask them if they have acrobat or flash or the jdk installed at all, or running on pages by default. You'll hear about the same thing.

Even 5 years ago was a very different world as far as threats go.

I'd strongly suggest using an alternate PDF reader (apple, google, evince, sumatra) and using flashblock.
I'd have to disagree. In this case, the backticks are quite idiomatic, whereas the Python is less so.

The Python example can be broken down by someone who knows OOP concepts in general, but not Python. It says:

Invoke function Popen on the object subprocess, giving the arguments (for example) 'ls' and '-al' in a list. Standard output should be handled in some way that is indicated by the value of PIPE. On the object returned from Popen, call communicate(), which returns an array; take the first element off that returned array.

Now, in order to make sense of this you would need to know what the arguments to Popen are, what communicate() means and what it returns.

Does that require a trip to the documentation? Yes. Is it less readable? No, it's more readable. The understanding of what was read is not immediately conveyed, however.

The Ruby/Perl/Bash backticks mean nothing even if you have an OO background. Maybe if the command is 'ls' and you know some Unix, you can work it out in your head to understand that it's invoking a command in the shell. What if it's calling something obscure with a string of arcane arguments appended? That will tell nothing, and the backticks will also add zero information.

Backticks are more convenient, but readability is the ability of someone who doesn't know that particular concept, or even that language, to still parse a statement and extract some level of understanding.
Google Chrome has a built in (ok, a plug-in, but I think it's there by default) pdf viewer. Works pretty well for me.
If you think 'this is a viable business, something that I want to spend my time working on to make something great' isn't $325 chump change?
Intrapreneurship at Google
Stole it from twilio to be honest.

Also depending on who works there Legos or some other childhood toys to allow for creative times away from the computer.
Meet the 13 Companies that Came Out on Top at Launch
I also am in the camp of owning a tablet and using it very little if hardly ever. I also own smart phone and kindle. Mainly use the smart phone for browsing web,checking email, listening to music on the go, and keep it near me in the house for phone calls and a remote control for media pcs. The kindle I use next for reading before bed. Unfortunately I have to force myself to use the tablet in most occasions.
Mercury News interview: Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, venture capitalist
The biggest perks that have mattered to me have been abstract:

1. Transparency. When you're open with every member of the company about what's really going on, it decreases gossip and improves morale.

2. If your company has direct interaction with customers, a company culture that gives every employee the authority to make whatever decisions are necessary to make the customer happy is invaluable - no "You'll need to talk to a supervisor." (I read an article about a largish company that operates this way, but I can't recall which one it was. I want to say Zappos.)

Also, free soda.
It's not a question of whether you CAN make it work, but whether you should have to. RIM is in competition for developers with Apple and Google. Why would a developer choose to go with RIM when the experience is much better elsewhere. I think we can all agree that apps are one of the things that will make or break a smartphone platform in the current market conditions. If RIM can't attract talented developers to write apps for their platform, the outlook can't be good for them.
He is an investor. 10 people a day is not unreasonable. You might meet 4 teams of 4 people almost everyday pretty easily.
I haven't done Android dev lately but I wrote a few apps in the 1.5/1.6 days and it was really nice once you got used to the tools.
Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career
I agree. Sun was dependent on selling proprietary hardware at $20k a pop. Even if they had launched a commodity-hardware line, no one would have paid the prices necessary to support a corporate structure built on high-end sales. SGI tried, and it didn't go so well for them.
Sure, but those were the early days of the whole mobile platform craze. Today Apple and Google have a huge lead and RIM is trying to play catch-up. RIM's offerings have to be competitive with what the other players have now, not what they had three years ago.
This is a fair point, but its a fair point that completely misses the point. If RIM wants to attract the huge numbers of developers that are flocking to iOS (and, presumably, doing all of their dev work in OS X), they should be doing everything possible to make the switch from iOS development to Playbook development as smooth as possible. And there is no way to do that without addressing the question of Playbook development on OS X.
This is why I enjoy using Mac OS X -- it has great PDF support built-in, so no need for Adobe software.
Crawl Bank Accounts with the Ghost of Wesabe
For the last 30 years, 16,000 new doctors are let through each year,
and this is very carefully regulated to keep guild members
rich. There's nothing wrong with that, but the problem is
that the government is used as a tool to maintain this
monopoly.

What? If the AMA is restricting the number of doctors in order to make more money, then there absolutely is something "wrong with that". You're stating as a premise that it is ok for doctors to act selfishly in a way that causes (or aggravates) harm. The sworn responsibility of an MD is to get us and keep us healthy.

Sure, it's also wrong if government is going against the public interest in restricting the number of doctors. But whether someone should be able to claim that they are a certified medical doctor is something I want government to regulate, at least for now. AFAIK, these regulations were put in place in response to quackery (and the like).
Im assuming you're in California? What health plan do you have? I know sometimes you can't get an appointment right away, but it really depends on the condition. I got diagnosed and needed surgery, and I don't go to the ER, but something called Urgent Care. Emergency is a nail in your head... But urgent care is for pain that needs to be dealth with.. ie - you took tylenol and advil, and it didnt work.

You should research Urgent Care centers through your health plan and have their address in your phone. That way, you can get the care you need in a timely manner.

I am so glad we have such good doctors, pharmacists, etc in California at least... they def are trying their best. It all just depends on the condition. If God forbid you get seriously ill, then you will get all the appointments you need. Yes there is usually some wait, but its not THAT bad.
We're too small for things not to be transparent, honestly. I'd say morale is super high now.

I like the idea of direct interaction but it's too early for us (no product yet.)
If you have some gamers , lan parties during work hours is always fun, maybe combining it with the beer fridays. We would bring in Xbox's sometimes as well and play multiplayer on there. Plus its a team building exercise.

Do it once in awhile during office hours helps a lot. As much as I love my co workers, somedays I hated spending time with them all day, and then sort of feeling forced to hang out with them after work or else feel like not being part of the team.
You don't have to convince anyone, we just want to see your research.
Poland’s Biological Defensive
There is no reason trim needs to be done in the OS. (Not that I know of any drive that does this, but it should be possible without any OS interaction.)
This is super cool! I really like the visuals in your implementation, way better looking than my blocky vectors. You also get pretty great performance by using raw canvas api calls which by the looks of your code wasn't too unwieldy. You also didn't implement any wrap around which stirs things up when the flock hits the edges, which goes a long way to demonstrate the actual behaviour as they reflect off the side. Nicely done!
I'm sorry... What's wrong with Monopoly?
Likewise in Canada. I think the wait time numbers are higher because people are waiting to see "their" doctor. But there are lots of drop-in private clinics, and it is always "free" to visit them.
I hadn't heard of "gem server" until you mentioned it.
A few kegs of beer on tap and a decent single malt scotch collection.
I enjoyed reading it however. I will now mercilessly mock RIM along with you.
So if you are already there with your endoscopy, just get a goddamn biopsy already.

I love it when medical professionals express themselves clearly.
I heard about this on This American Life. Here's the link, it's in part 3:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/404/e...

Here's an article on the same guy, Jasper Lawrence:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/22/are-h...
Ech. What a horribly inaccurate and confused post. Somehow the writer managed to completely conflate Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, two related but different products. I'm not one to defend Adobe, but this misinformed raving doesn't shed light on anything.
I find it a little bit scary that Fred Wilson might not be able to differentiate Marketing from Promotion

Glad to see I wasn't alone in having that thought.

Every business needs to have vision for how its products and/or services relate to its customers and the wider marketplace. Marketing is fundamental to business.

Exactly. If you aren't "marketing," you basically don't have a business. Marketing is just identifying a need, finding a solution to that need, and connecting them. To borrow from Wikipedia[1]:

Marketing is the process of performing market research, selling products and/or services to customers and promoting them via advertising to further enhance sales. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments. It is an integrated process through which companies build strong customer relationships and create value for their customers and for themselves.

Marketing is used to identify the customer, to satisfy the customer, and to keep the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that marketing management is one of the major components of business management. Marketing evolved to meet the stasis in developing new markets caused by mature markets and overcapacities in the last 2-3 centuries. The adoption of marketing strategies requires businesses to shift their focus from production to the perceived needs and wants of their customers as the means of staying profitable

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing
Are we in violent agreement? I said that I wouldn't assume because the friction is higher. I was thinking along the same lines as you, but perhaps I should have been explicit that I include factors like family ties and roots in the community as part of 'friction.'
T-Mobile USA losing customers, says turnaround will take time
> ...which means you should go with the mechanism people have already internalized. I thought that was a key principle of UI design: if you don't have a good reason to violate established expectations, don't do it.

Sure that's good advice for beginners, but Apple is good at design. They know the rules and the know when to break them. This is how design evolves; because great designers can imagine how something new could ultimately be better once users get used to it.

If you just follow all the rules you end up like Jakob Nielsen, with a data-backed justification for every detail, all of which adds up to something inelegant and ugly as sin.