skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source code and some more info at github: https://github.com/bni/orbium
The Side-Project Considered as a Necessity
And don't forget Readability (support long form journalism with real money, also a beautiful online reader): https://www.readability.com
I'm assuming you were downvoted for the vague swipe at "traditional medicine". It can be a touchy subject, because of the large number of crackpots, "vaccines cause autism", etc.

To be clear, I suspect no HN readers will claim medicine has all the answers - far from it. I suspect the reaction is more to the false dichotomy between "traditional medicine" and "some other kind of medicine" (with the implied hints of conspiracy or willful incompetence), rather than "current medical knowledge" and "future medical knowledge".

I took a look at your site, and it's obvious you've been through a lot, and thought about it more than most people - so please take my comment only in the context it's meant: as an attempt at an explanation why your one specific post was downvoted (and not an endorsement of the downvote).
Whats the obsessions with the word audacity??

Anyways, this is my perspective of the issue. And I do feels its ridiculous.
Comcast makes NBC, Telemundo, MSNBC their own
did no one notice one of the biggest potential corporate technology-relevant issues in american corporate history? just wait...
A/B testing is your friend. Try both and see which way works better for you.
I don't think that is the point. I signed up anyway, but I did feel like you were not respecting my time and interest, by asking me to check out something I cannot check out until you invite me...
From hotel worker to start up CEO
disagree. It's also a matter of respecting people, if you ask them to "check out your website" and they can't until you invite them...
"If we find an alien bug via a meteorite, then that bug was one of the reigning champions in terms of ability to survive and subdue its opponents."

That doesn't mean it's some kind of super-bug. The dodo survived long enough and I'd hardly call it a reigning champion. In the bacterial sense, there are plenty of harmless bacteria as well.
Logo is confusing especially considering you have a number 2 in your domain name, yet use II in your logo.

Overall page looks very nice!
Having spent a year at death's door, I can assure you that when you are physically unable to go out and get a life, the internet beats the hell out of laying in bed and staring at a blank wall (which I got so fucking sick of, I bought a screen to cover the damn wall and later put curtains over it so I wouldn't have to stare at the damn blank wall ever again).
I've never paid for iPhone app, or an Android one on my last phone. I download a free one every now and then, but I don't use them all that often.
How did this get posted twice? I thought HN catches the same URL being posted again
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294268
Whats in it for the companies? Run afoul of Apple and get locked out(rejected or worse, approval gets delayed for months) of the tens of millions of potential customers? This has already happened for many apps.

No one except very small companies are going to go this route, if any.
in which he shows detailed figures for NET immigration flows into and out of the United States in comparison to countries like China and India?

Funny, I was just coming to the comments page to say exactly this. The linked post is conspicuous for its lack of words like "study" or "statistics." Talking to a couple of random people does not qualify a trend that stretches to millions of people.

It's pretty obvious that the U.S. immigration system is fucked up and should be much improved. But you can't jump from that to the conclusion that so many immigrants are going home as to affect Silicon Valley.
Are you referring to people who are originally from Singapore or India, or to people from third countries who settle in Singapore or India rather than settling in the United States?

The people I know personally, who moved, are mostly from India, including one very close relative.

How does the number of those persons compare to the number of persons who stay in the United States after completing higher education?

Not a very large number, yet. But I have seen the upswing over the last 10 years that I have been in the US. I am not aware of any official statistics off the top of my head, but I would be very surprised if no one is tracking this quantitatively.

Why did you think originally that it was a good idea to study in the United States rather than in your country of citizenship?

When I first came to the US a decade ago, it was for a MS program in a field (bioinformatics) that was almost non-existent at the time in my home country (India). I worked with a drug-discovery start-up for a year after graduation but soon realized that career prospects in biotech/pharma research are way better with the letters PhD after your name and some serious publications on your resume. I hope to wrap-up and graduate this year.
I'd recommend not using centered alignment for the text. You might appreciate this article on alignment: http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/design-basics-alignme...
My worst fear is to stop existing. I can't fathom that one day I'll just be done. That's it. Not watching the world on some big screen TV. Not appreciating what I've done. Just done, and eventually no one will have ever known I was here.

I used to hope that as I approached death that I'd be so fulfilled with life that I'd be ready to go. I still hope that, but I'm less convinced that it will be so. It almost seems like suffering before death is to make the transition easier.

To me it just all kind of sucks, so I consciously try not to think about it much. It's one thing I have little say over.
I agree with you.

I use my phone as a phone, an e-mail reader, a GPS, and a web browser. I bought it for those things, and apps are a nice bonus, but a pretty negligible part of the overall value proposition for me.
Define performance. The question is ill formed since there is nothing specified to measure. The example wonders who should get the better grade based upon design decisions each of which are defensible in some context. And it's the asymptotic and/or typical behavior that is touted, not the implementation.

At a most elemental level, a program written by a CS student should work, that is, do what it is supposed to do for all legal inputs and provide meaningful diagnostics when it fails. That's hard, but that is the nature of programming.

Finding and choosing algorithms to accomplish a task (well defined or not) is also computer science. That is algorithmics and design. Doing a good job here is harder to measure and depends both a deep understanding of the available building blocks and the problem at hand. Moreover, trade-offs are involved and need to be resolved even though there is little real data to guide decisions. Seeing and exploiting invariant properties of the problem often enables better performance in some dimension; insight there is often called cleverness.

Equally important is the ability to see complex things in a simplified way by introducing abstractions. That's the only way to solve difficult, complex problems, and it is exceptionally difficult to codify.
Get your own #dickbar
On the contrary. The outer shell/skin of any live aerobic organism is most exposed to oxidative stress (21% O compared to cells inside the body -3%) hence the anti-oxidant defenses are most expressed exactly there. They are also most exposed to solar radiation ("sun-kissed") which makes perfect sense when you review the most active antioxidants -dark-green leafy veggies and dark-colored berries (anthocyanin). Calorie Restriction works by inducing NO (AMPK) and lowering core body temperature thus reducing the inflammatory impact of exogenous agents- nutrients,viruses,environmental stressors etc and also by reducing the endogenous thermogenic hormones (insulin, leptin, estrogen,norepinephrine etc.
Thank you for the feedback. I routinely struggle with how to talk about offering a better solution. Most folks get all up in arms, like it is an attack, and then just do not listen to what I am really trying to say. Sigh.

Have an upvote.
There are special types of tags with additional information - address, name, rating. We call them "Places". You can attach a "place" to the note. Users can create their own places and share.
As the ruby application loads in memory at startup and then is executed from there (in production) there is no need of bytecode caching, in contrast with PHP where the code is read, parsed and interpreted on each request, and in this (second) case, caching the bytecode to save parsing execution makes sense.

That is the case of bytecode caching. In regards to other forms of caching (etag, memoization etc) frameworks implement different strategies.
I only requested that permission to be able to publish the top 10 if the user wants. I think there should be a better way to do this (like a one time permission), but I don't know how to do it.
I don't know, I like driver sides ui. And they have a lot of great features. I wouldn't switch.

RepairPal is another competitor. They have mobile apps.

Just pointing out two competitors that have a lot of features that you need to differentiate from.
I upvoted your response, because I guess that's the thing to do on a site like this. But then someone else apparently downvoted. ?!
Phone calls?? Anyone?? There are plethora of people I would like to call.
So, maybe we should zoom even further out from that paragraph and look at the point of the article as a whole. I agree there are lots of problems in the article, but I agree with the basic point. That is, for muscle strength, muscle mass and muscle endurance, free weight training needs to be part of your core training program and there is no substitute.

You are referring to cardiovascular training which is barely mentioned in the article. He probably shouldn't have mentioned cardio at all except he wanted to make a point that cardio machines shouldn't even be in the gym. You mention routines of running which should be anywhere from 40 minutes to 2 hours, would you do that sort of routine on a treadmill in a gym?
Lost me at hipster...
Missing the point with ie6countdown.com
> I suspect there's a percentage of iPad buyers who bought the device just for Kindle/Netflix apps.

It wasn't the only reason I bought an iPad, but had the Kindle app not been there, it would have certainly been a deal-breaker. And even if they back off now, the uncertainty Apple has introduced has driven me to an Android replacement. I simply don't trust Apple to proceed with the customer's best interests in mind anymore.
Beautiful Visualization of Magnetic Fields (video)
Why BlackBerry Messenger for iOS and Android is pointless
He/she may not have known that it existed, but a link/reference would be good.
I am about to move to mountain view to create an american presence for my startup. This is simply because the rest of the world is way behind in adoption of new technology and helping entrepreneurs. But the visa issue is an exception to this forward thinking attitude.

Still, I will do my best to keep up a US presence because it is quite worth it.
Wrong news or information on TV, file a complaint on NBA.
It's the site owner's property. They absolutely have the right to control the content.
You haven't been censored, as witnessed by your posting of the same complainants here and, most likely, elsewhere.
Personally I don't think it's the least big tacky to promote your own book, with the support of your employer, on the site you edit. Perhaps when you become a published author you'll view things differently.
Fudged a bit? The numbers are almost completely fictional, and get more so the higher the total.

http://i.imgur.com/U8B1X.jpg

Displayed numbers: 9498 Up, 6876 Down.

Real numbers: 2666 Up, 140 Down.

You cannot judge proportion by looking at the numbers Reddit shows.
JMP3 - jQuery MP3 Player Plugin
jMP3 (javaScript MP3 player) is a jQuery plugin that allow us to make any MP3 with easy way that playable directly on most any web site
> I don't think it will be until at least v11

In 11.0.691.0 canary, GPU acceleration of Canvas is still an option in about:flags, just as it is in 9.0.597.107. GPU accelerated compositing is no longer optional, though, it appears. Of course, that's only the canary build, and I expect that the 11.x build that's actually released will be somewhat different, but still.
Wael Ghonim at TED
Oh, at the very least!

Then the module author should prostrate himself at the feet of the all-mighty Python community, trembling in unreserved awe whilst acknowledging that the world quite deservedly revolves around them!

Module authors of other (obviously inferior) languages, take note: always check if there's any Python code with a similar name before you choose a title for your project, to avoid embarrassment!
X2...
Road trip to the end of the world
The bigger the number the more the fudge. And they don't just keep it in proportion too. Most articles on the frontpage have a 66% upvote ratio.
I disagree. The rest of the world gets talent back at the cost of those talented individuals. You are one individual starting a startup and the government, the people, everybody is against you. You must own a strong corporation with R&D centers to be able to swim against that tide. It's not for individual entrepreneurs. I think this way because I have been through it and now closing down in my home country, moving to the U.S.

How would you fix it? The leaders in those countries should fix it.
The question strikes me as a link-baiting deliberate obtuseness. If we're in a post-industrial age, why do we still have factories? If my Mac is a "personal" computer, why can other people have accounts on it?

"Post" means "after". It usually connotes some sense of replacement, but does not necessarily imply wholesale obsoleting of the thing that came before it.

I think "post-PC" is a calculated marketing term, but to criticize it based on the most absurd possible interpretation is, well, absurd.
Sooo... you think Lucidending is sick from side effects, and thoughts of suicide will leave him once he stops taking these awful drugs?

Perhaps his or her situation is not as parallel to yours as you think. It's hard to say based on the little data there is, but perhaps all that is left for him or her is palliative care.
Analysis of Pandora Apps for IPhone4 | AllTime Best
Right because in 10 years time when we're all using Android tablets that will be because the Xoom and the Galaxy Tab started it all.
Seriously:

A) How are phone calls "more real" than internet conversations?

B) Did you read the Reddit discussion you are criticizing? His handle is "Lucidending". He opted to go off medication in his final hours so he could be lucid and spend quality time with family before he checks out, something he was unable to do while completely fucked up on chemo and other drugs. He is spending his last hours with family and on the internet, the internet being a substitute for a physical world tour which he is physically unable to do.
I'm also an interface designer, wanting to learn Python to make stuff. We're in the same boat! I'm reading Head First Python, a real newbie book. My knowledge just contains HTML and CSS, so I'm really starting from scratch.

Would love to see your progress and learn from it.

@lovskogen
I'm thinking of just going back to old friend Debian (which I run on my Desktop). Ubuntu almost seems to be trying to be so friendly to newbies that it just gets in my way.
It would also have been quite impractical before the development of affordable solid state drives - GCs tend to involve quite a lot of random access, after all...

That said, I'm far from convinced allowing cycles in a directory structure would actually be useful for anything.
Yeah, I don't believe this either. No wonder he couldn't get his startups off the ground. If you can't do well enough to market your own skills as a developer, then no way can you market any other sort of startup (I consider freelance web development to be a startup.)

No work experience? Is that a reflection of how lowly you valued your startups? These are real businesses and you worked for them, right? Isn't this work experience?

In any case, if this is real then you won't have a problem finding work now. Everyone replying to this thread would be willing to throw you work at minimum wage. ;)
Ask HN: Young, Lonely Boston Hacker
I am a 23 year old small business owner who just moved to Boston. I work in financial consulting; in specific, I partner with investment firms and utilize technology to innovate their investment framework. My background is in Computer Science and Computational Finance.

I am extremely fortunate to be able to work for myself. It provides me an incredible amount of freedom in my life and I love what I do. The only downside, however, is that 90% of the time, I am working alone.

I have contemplated joining start-up office spaces in the area just for the social interaction, but can't really justify it as a business cost at the end of the day. Plus, while I think I would thrive off the energy in the room, I would still be working alone at the end of the day.

I am extremely interested in getting involved in the start-up and angel investing community in the area, but have yet to really find a good way of going about it. The angel community seems to be locked up by groups of business associates that are all much older than me; people with whom I will unfortunately probably never have much opportunity for social or business interaction.

I also don't really know how I could fit into the start-up space -- I don't have time to work on new projects. I think that I am probably too young to offer myself up as a 'mentor' in the start-up space in Boston -- while I have learned a tremendous amount running my own business in the last several years, I don't feel like I am an expert by any stretch of the imagination.

Ideally, I am looking for the opportunity to,

1) Meet other young entrepreneurs
2) Develop mentor relationships with local angel investors (at this point, I am seriously just contemplating cold-calling some of the groups)
3) Listen to speaker series on start-ups, entrepreneurship and investing

I would love to get involved in some sort of weekly get together to discuss new business or investment ideas, real or fictional, to foster creative thinking and entrepreneurship.

I am even more interested in meeting with other young successful entrepreneurs and investors (no offense to you older guys) so we can push each other to succeed and begin creating a tremendous business network.

Does anyone have any thoughts or know about any weekly meetings or get togethers I could start attending where I could find these things? Any thoughts on how I can go about finding mentors in the angel investment space?

I am willing to start these groups myself, but thought I would reach out to see if they already exist.

Any and all thoughts are much appreciated!

For anyone who wants to reach out, in public or private:
e-mail: corey@hoffstein.com / twitter: @choffstein
Most scrapers seem to break down on heavy dynamic/ajax pages. For example, anything made with GWT appears to provide little for the average scraper to grab (say, for automated daily tracking of android app downloads, for example). Short of reversing out the foreign pages api calls, has anyone encountered a solution to do more processing and then scrape the rendered page?

(well, and short of using Selenium to script a login, then scrape the rendered page via a controlled firefox... which works, but is clunky)
Apple’s JointVenture For Business Gets Official
Simplicity is overrated... perception rules
None of this has anything to do with either the posted article or the comment to which you're responding.
Playing Angry Birds on Facebook Soon + Angry Direct Link for Android, Nokia
It is likely Facebook will get lots of new users, especially Angry Birds’ fans when this popular game will land the social network in the coming month. All you need to do now is continue playing this game till the day it official comes to Facebook. For updating information about this long-awaited event, you can become a fan on Facebook of Angry Birds.
Google to Fix Infected Android Devices, Remote Kill Malicious Apps
Long discussion under its actual title from two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436663
I said no such thing and I have no idea where you are getting that idea. Given that cancer has spread to his brain and the hell he has clearly been through, I understand his choice. I've been in a similar situation. However, it just so happens that my efforts to stop the pain -- which conventional drugs were not effectively treating -- began killing the underlying infection. I was really quite annoyed when I realized that because it meant I would live and the recovery would be both long and hard. That was about 10 years ago. The recovery has, in fact, been long and hard -- 10 years and counting and in recent months it has been common for me to throw up all day one day a week, so "hard" is an understatement. But unlike with conventional treatments -- where my doctor literally told me "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game." -- what I am going through now actually is getting me well.

I wouldn't wish what I am going through on my worst enemy. But it beats the hell out of conventional treatments for my condition. It both involves less suffering and actually is getting me well. It is hands down a better experience and a better outcome.
I had one of those sharp pocket computers - though I was a but younger at the time. It was 4 bit!
I've never understood why Byte magazine was shut down. There's been nothing like it. I can't imagine it not being popular in today's tech culture. I'd pay $100 or more for a year's subscription to it right now.
... or been a slave and been beaten for absent-mindedness ;)
Making a billion dollars, and holding on to it are separate things. If you feel that being a billionaire will make you 'uncool,' then why not just donate a large portion of it to some charity. What could be 'cooler' than making $1B and then turning around to donate $900M to charity?
Really enjoying this for some reason.

I'd love to be able to add my own icons to the database somehow.

Edit - what about allowing us to add our own icons but having them weighted by something like their Alexa site ranking? That should keep anyone from creating a super-icon.
Guy Steele's talk: How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-Parallel-Program...
I was looking at several scraping solutions (e.g. imacros, selenium) that can handle DHTML for a project and they all have significant performance issues since they need to render the actual pages before processing them. A couple of thousands or rows isn't a problem but try anything more and you got a real performance bottleneck.
Yes, this was my first thought. Graphs are more generic than trees, but sometimes the complexity cost doesn't justify the opportunity cost. The main byproducts would be a) easier to crash your system with an infinite directory loop and b) Making the term 'up a directory' more wishy-washy.
Feeling the same way :) It's fun and if you own a website it's nice to see how you favimon behaves!
I went out of my way to target YC and Github...those were some nasty fights!

Edit - avoid Google for awhile! Firm beating by them :S