skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patent advocates are outnumbered by practitioners who are virulently anti-patent by at least 100-1 on HN. Who would be flagging an article like that off in bad faith?
Seems neat, but it's unfortunately very US-centric. Under the list of things they "can't" do: "Telephone calls outside the United States". I'm in the UK.
Almost sounds like how a credit report can work. I've had my current address appear on mine without any effort on my own part. Once one company gets it, it seems to propagate.
Partial solution: http://www.bodymedia.com
Thanks for the clarification. I've noticed a lot of that in this thread: people started with MySQL, and now they have a serious code base dependent upon it. That is a tough problem to solve. Sorry.
First of all, it's spelled career not carrier.

PHP vs Ruby is not going to make a big difference. What matters is how you good you are.

Listen to your parents and go to college. If you love working with computers so much, a Computer Science degree will be fun. There's a lot more stuff to learn in CS than merely becoming an expert RubyonRails programmer. Do your web development stuff while you're studying and if you do become the next Zuckerberg, drop out then!
Yes, once you start to consider how many people one person can reasonably manage, then you realize the number of levels increases with workforce size.

Start with one person in charge of the company. Suppose he has ten assistants, and each of those assistants has ten managers they coordinate. Suppose the managers have ten employees each that they interact with, guide, and coordinate. So for a thousand-person workforce, the company has three layers of management in this model.
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A sophisticated algorithm for drug design.

A sophisticated algorithm for simulating turbulent flow near jet engines.

A sophisticated algorithm for optimizing [some complicated industrial process].

If you want a specific example, this is just what I got from a google patent search for "rational drug design", but: http://www.google.com/patents?id=3b8kAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&...
Um, let's see... they started with opting people's profile updates into the newsfeed back in 2006 and went from there.
Surely software copyright prevents reusing of the same source code, but not a different implementation of the same algorithm?
Have they ever heard of bookmarks or shortcuts?
He REALLY started improving when he started taking those figure drawing classes... You could noodle away aimlessly for 50 years and still be mediocre. Figure drawing basically forced him to teach himself how to teach himself to draw.
We'd slowly turn into that lost human civilization from Wall-E.
flipkart aren't profitable yet. are they?
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What are they going to do if you form a class anyway? Void your agreement and ban you? Countersue?
I think this guy got off the rails. The tablet is going to kill the notebook/netbook market which is what most consumers buy.

Killing the PC will take a long time in corporate environments except maybe in the C level where all they need is email and document/presentation software and web apps.

It will still be served to them from Linux/BSD and even some Windows boxes.
Is the Internet giving T.V a run for its money?
Thank you for mentioning Head Hunters. One of my favorite pieces of music to date. Also a great example of a record you can listen to straight through and enjoy every son equally.
Awesome, thanks - very lazy question!
While I use ticketing sites quite often. I have complete hatred for matrimony services. Sure, they are successful, and are profitable, But, they offend me ethically, sorting people by race, and weighing and matching by income? Sorry, I have no respect for them.
> The most expensive apartments per square foot is a 1 bedroom apartment at about $31.50 per square foot (Average: $2,100). But, the cost of a 4 bedroom apartment is about $25.60 per square foot (Average: $3,200).

I am having trouble understanding this. If the average 1 bedroom is $2100 and it is $31.50 per square foot, that would mean the average 1 bedroom apartment is 67 square feet. The average 4 bedroom would be 125 square feet based on his numbers. This sounds way off. Am I misunderstanding him, or did he get the numbers wrong, or what?
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> So you're saying as an official comment from a Facebook employee...

I come to, and comment on, this site because I believe it is filled largely with people of an above-average sophistication when it comes to these kinds of issues. Don't make me reconsider with this kind of inanity.
I think https://www.trustfabric.com/ does that.
It would be easier to access your situation, if you tell your country.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I've read through parts of [2] and [3] before and certainly found them to be of help.
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Here's a starting point : <$2000 downtown Manhattan. You'll get much more if you're willing to extend to Brooklyn/Queens, or spend a little more (or go for a share).

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/rentals/downtown-manhattan/rental_...
Yes, and that's how it should be. Mathematics, including algorithms, is not patentable.
Hrmm... sat here thinking about the question, then thought 'a weather API would be nice, let me see if anyone else already answered that'.. ctrl-f weather.. oh great, the one guy who mentioned a weather API is also from Seattle.
I like your question on one level but it's a waste, like wasting your first genie wish on what to ask!

Interesting meta questions to ask (and were answered here) that come to mind: is programming necessary for success, what is success anyway, where to find best advice for a new hacker, etc.
I have wondered why they didn't do something like that, except I'd make it so that it doesn't ship with the randomly generated key--you'd generate that on the machine itself in the pre-boot environment.

That way (1) if your key is compromised you can discard it and generate a new one, and (2) if you buy a used machine, you can generate a new key.
According to Chrome help (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...), only passwords are encrypted, not bookmarks, autofill data, apps, extensions, history, preferences, and themes. Is this still true?

Edit: in Chrome 15 (beta) just found an option "Encrypt all synced data". Yay!
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thanks for posting this, just installed Ghostery and it's the best thing I've done. very eye opening into what some sites are doing
ShowHN: DailyHealthScore - Track and improve your health
https://www.dailyhealthscore.com

This is a very crowded market so my aim was to provide a very simple way to assess and track your health. I had to leave a lot of features out for the beta version, but it is still somewhat valuable in its current form. Eventually, I'd it to automatically import fitness or health data from sites like HealthVault, RunKeeper, DailyBurn, etc.

It is very much a work-in-progress, but any feedback is welcome.
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Confused at why no-encryption would even be an option for this data.
"It just so happens that I am very fast, and I have surrounded myself with fast partners. On average we read two or three times what other radiologists read, so we make two or three times more."

It would not be surprising that the quality of diagnosis is correspondingly lower. But the CYA between doctors so prevalent in the medical field keeps the truth from being seen. If I was your malpractice insurance company I would definitely want to keep a close eye on you.
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I would recommend that app publishers, has a good practice, explicitly put the action as buttons to replace or complement the Like. So, I could click "read" and then it would publish the action. I think that doing so automatically on behalf of the user is asking for trouble.
I really wanted Seaside to become a legit competitor to Rails. I think that the component/continuation model is awesome when you aren't building something that needs to support a million concurrent users. But, the Seaside ecosystem is (relatively) dead, and I can't justify reinventing the wheel for all of the plugins available for Rails.
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http://www1.salary.com/radiologist-Salary.html

http://www1.salary.com/Physician-Cardiology-Non-Invasive-Sal...

http://www1.salary.com/neurologist-Salary.html

That radiologists make 100K more than cardiologists and 200k (!!!) more than neurologists absolutely screams market manipulation. Radiology seems literally one generation of Intel processors away from being automated into oblivion. God speed that it is.
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"Washington Post Web site loads too slowly"
"If we can read pediatric brain MRIs more accurately from across the country than the local small group, why shouldn't we?"

If a group of specialized radiologists in India can read them even more accurately for a fraction of the cost, why should they be legally forbidden to do so? Note, preserving your high income is not a valid reason.
I thought it was general knowledge that the closed-source Chrome sends (some) data back to Google while the open-source Chromium does not.

Disclosure: I use Chrome (default) and IE9 (whenever Chrome fails).
I agree. The UK government has had an online petition system for a number of years, and I am not aware of a single policy that has changed because of it.
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My gut is that this is just a trend right now. Eventually people will pull back once it gets old. And trust me, things get old. Remember chat? Everybody was crazy about it. There have been many trends that have gotten old too. Just like in fashion,music,video, trends change.
I worked for a major news agency recently and speed/page weight where two things we worked damned hard to tackle.

The publishing frameworks are to blame on the most part. We spent 6 months working on caching fixes to deal with that. The site is still pathetically slow even after 6 months, my suggestion to management was throw the baby out with bath water and migrate to a new bespoke purpose fit solution. But that option scares the hell of out management (especially when they are generally sales men).

Caching aside the rest come from tracking software. Infact from time to time neilson would add 50% load time a page, google analytics was only slightly better, but I have watched nelson hang a page for 30 seconds. Even with delayed loading, browsers are horribly unruly beasts :)

The sad fact is demographics are everything, without it the news site doesn't exist. You need to be able to go to market and say we have X demographic give us that huge client spend. Which for the uninitiated one sale can be more than what an entire months of Google ads will bring in.

So the comment is 100% correct, news sites are in the business of tracking you. Because without it people won't spend with them, and Google ads won't even cover hosting costs let alone paying journalists to cover stories. Big media is extremely expensive to produce, its not like some aggregator site like Digg or Reddit which get stories for free, you need to be able to send people to location, put them up in hotels, feed them etc...

And with that knowledge there is no way in hell that could could ever make an argument to remove those tracking scripts :/
Hmm.. I think the point is that people can accomplish a lot more when they are playing instead of working. I think the strategy works as long as you produce results that are better than your peers. Sure mgmt/profs will complain how your estimates/proposals are always inaccurate, but ultimately delivering results is what matters. It's a risk of course; certainly the less travelled road, but I don't think you have to be feynman for the strategy to work. You do, however, need the abililty to "not care what other people think," which is part of the title of another one of feynman's books.
Can you give us an insight on how you drive revenue?
Is it possible to connect offline?
Maybe because yours was the third such submission?

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3028999

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031574
I'd combine this, the grandparent's post, and the example given in the original post (along with it's inverse, making physical mail available digitally,) into the ultimate personal correspondence service.
"Detroiter" here (actually just across 8 Mile in Ferndale).

In short, the area is an interesting conundrum - there's actually a concentration of technical people (engineers and designers), some great culture (think about how many genres of music started in Michigan), and some great schools (mostly referring to U of M), and a fair amount of money. There's also a complete lack of entrepreneurial spirit (except for packaged foods and restaurants, for some reason). Everyone is the child of a mid-level engineer/accountant/manager in a faceless corporation. As in large, faceless corporations, there's a sense of social segregation between the artists, workaday engineers, and business owners.

But, really, it's not even worth getting into for the same reasons it's barely worth bringing up anywhere outside of Silicon Valley and New York (which only enters the conversation by virtue of having all of the money and a lot of the media industry). The social connections, venture capital system and expertise in the Valley are too much of an advantage for anyone with a serious product to stay away. I mean, many regard being in Chicago as a serious liability to Groupon...
No.

Conventionally, "bang" methods should only be created as 'dangerous' versions of non-bang methods. There was no non-bang method to make a 'dangerous' version of in this case so it's non-bang by default. This is a commonly misunderstood naming convention in Ruby (and I dare say I don't even understand all the intricacies!)

There are quite a few examples of this in Ruby. For example, Array#keep_if which changes an array in place.
http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/

http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/
Money.print(currency, amount) → Banknote or nil
No. It is a brand new permission that must be granted.

You will know since the dialog will be centered around "Add to Timeline" instead of "Authorize this app".
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A lot of people can't get around Linux or Photoshop at all.

I think most people here can probably make sense of the privacy settings, but facebook has 750 million members. I am certain most of them do not even know where to find privacy settings, let alone know how to use them. Yes, they may be idiots for posting personal data to a site they don't fully understand, but it is reality. Simply trusting facebook not to exploit these people seems naive to me.
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Depending on the frequency that trades are placed, there are statistical methods to determine "skill" much sooner than decades.
I think the point is that you could sign up with LocalTimes' funky new daily deals site using Facebook Connect one day, clicking through a generic permissions screen as you do, because you trust LocalTimes aren't going to do anything spammy. If you know what the signup permissions mean (which if you're an average person, you don't) you decide you can live with some of your friends wondering whether you bought the half price pedicure you perused.

A month later, you're Googling for a local STI clinic and have no reason to believe that clicking on the top result (LocalTimes' eclassified section) is going to share your interest in local STI clinics with all your social network. But it is, because LocalTimes' single signon site which you're already logged into makes no distinction about what is and isn't to be shared, but they have made efforts to adopt this revolutionary new form of passive sharing which is going to push up their pageviews.
I'm just trying to clarify - sorry if you think certainty is not sophisticated enough for you.

If you can't make the statement for legal reasons then say that. If you can't make the statement for other reasons say that. If you don't want to comment officially then say that. I don't think it's that inane - either they (you) do sell data or don't; just strikes me that if you can't make such a statement officially then you're not likely in a position to really know if it's true or not.

TBH I'd just assumed that FB do sell such data, to know that they don't sell any personal data (as I indicated) is a big result IMO and one that I don't feel I've seen championed. Pretty much I assume any website with a large subscriber base sells such data unless they explicitly tell me they don't; even then I'm rarely convinced.
It seems that you're starting to build a really powerful tool. Let me recommend changing the position of some elements.
For example:
- I would put Followers, Following, Listed & #Tweets in the sidebar, that's because those numbers don't change so often.
- I would also remove the time of day in the page. I think is an overkill.

Hope that helps :)
Germán
Glad I could help you Israel! :)
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What type of work were you doing in IT? What was educational background at that time?
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Going to university the first time – a stressful event for many freshmen. In Switzerland, people don’t automatically move out of their parents house when their studies begin. Actually, the opposite is the case. Many students can simply not afford it and they are so consumed by their studies that they simply don’t have time to work. There are even students, who live in Hotels Zurich, whenever they feel that the stress gets too much and they don’t want to spend all day traveling through Switzerland. Everybody who studied at one point in their live knows that this can be the case especially during exam times. There is one or the other budget accommodation Zurich which offers a room for students like this. But back to topic, the first day of university is not fun at all. The buildings are huge and it is often hard to find the right room. On the other hand, it is the best day to get to meet people. Everybody (or at least almost everybody) is new and sitting next to a person who doesn’t know anyone either is easier than trying to integrate yourself into an already existing group. So, for all freshmen: Enjoy your first days, don’t get stressed and find out, where your room is before you are late for class.
Love this. Great work - looks very slick!
okay. so, i always wanted to ask this. under privacy settings -> apps, there is a option to turn of all platform apps where i could select a few applications or all, and turn them off. but, the button to click on to turn them off is _always_ unchecked for me!

screenshot for reference - http://i.minus.com/itBcjOfzcchw4.png
Tell HN: Buenos Aires Meetup next Friday
I'm a developer based in Buenos Aires. I'd like to meet more people living here who are into startups and technology, to see what we can hatch together.

When: Friday Sept 30, 8PM

Where: the Starbucks at Malabia 1720, Palermo, Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Just in case, my email is fpereiro@gmail.com

See you there.
Usage statistics and crash reporting are strictly opt-in (and the default at install is opted out). There's also sync, but you must explicitly enable the feature and log in.

That leaves five other places where data is sent back to Google for things like search suggestions and malware detection. You can find an explanation of those features and instructions on disabling them here: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=11...
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What sort of non-flight work do they do? I'm honestly curious, and I don't know any professional pilots. I imagine there's paperwork to fill out before and after every flight, and maybe mandatory training...
Works on any Unix-like system, from Solaris to AIX to Mac OS X.

If a directory is empty, remove it with "rmdir". (It is safer to implement a cleanup script as a series of "rm" commands for files and "rmdir" files for directories; that way, if the directory happens to contain anything you didn't expect, the unknown files will be preserved. The "rm -rf" approach is a bit of a sledgehammer that can have unintended side effects.)

A particular gotcha on Linux is that a trailing slash on a directory path follows symlinks, whereas a lack of a trailing slash does not. This means that "rm -rf xyz" is very different than "rm -rf xyz/" if "xyz" is a symbolic link to a directory: the first one deletes the link only, and the second one deletes the entire directory that the link points to!

Symlinks are also misleading when mounted by other operating systems; e.g. when mounting a network drive on Windows. Deleting (from Windows) an item that happens to be a symlink on the Unix side will have the effect of following that link and destroying an entire destination file or directory, which is different than what "rm" would do in the Unix shell for the same path.
I tried to look at what chrome sends to google with wireshark, and there are quite a lot of connections made to google servers, but it's all encrypted (ssl). So I actually have no way to know what is sent to google.

Did someone make a detailed analysis of what info gets sent to google on a default install of chrome?
The same thing also applies to Android.
Biggest ommission: How to build/code/produce your product.
Quick survey for people with app ideas (non-dev type)
This is a quick 3 question yes/no survey for guys that might have an app idea, but don't have the means to develop it (not as in money, but as in dev ability). This is a business school project...any responses would be appreciated! Thanks!
I'm from Mexico .. my company is: Guali.com.mx.

We do adwords assistance for company's in Mexico, we started this with $300usd 15 months ago and now we have around $8,000 usd on the bank and like 25 paying customers (each give us at leas 80usd each month)

We also applied for "Startup Chile" Program and we got selected yesterday .. they will give us $40k on equality-free money.

I'm 24 years old .. i started my project just when graduated and I'm really satisfied with the accomplished goals by now.

And yes .. I'm from a third world country .. if you want excuses you will find a lot, if you want a way to succeed .. guess what? .. you can find a lot to.
Check out Nasper's portfolio; they have heavily invested in successful Internet and media companies in emerging countries: http://www.chubbybrain.com/investors/naspers/investment-port...

In Brazil, the four friends in a garage to multi-million dollar company story every young entrepreneur tries to emulate is the shopping comparison site BuscaPé.
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I'd like each parking meter to have an API.
When you park, you tell your phone what the API endpoint of the meter is, via QR code or whatever. Then you can continue to monitor it, and pay the meter, remotely. Or if there are ordinances forbidding parking more than N hours it alerts you.

Probably wouldn't happen as cities are addicted to parking ticket revenue, and there are unionized meter readers.
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> "Final reads", the CT scan report that counts, cannot be read elsewhere.

Why not?
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Small sample size.
I noticed awhile back that even if you disable Chrome's safe browsing feature, Google still sends data to their server. I'm not sure if this is still the case today.

http://superuser.com/questions/236637/how-to-disable-google-...