skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa. Wasn't expecting that. Firstly, do not let go of your intense need/desire to fix this. There's someone out there who could really use your insights.

Reading through, couldn't help flash back to circumstances I've been through personally. The flawed medical system isn't new to me. Been called a hypochondriac. Prescribed tons of antibiotics. 'Irritable bowel' 'stress' 'migranes' 'whitecoat blah'; how quickly they'd come up their diagnosis. And, I'd gotten out (almost there) of my messed up state through a similar path as yours. Via massive dietary and lifestyle changes. Though, certainly nothing compared to what you've been through, and I've been trying to raise hell against the med community for quite a while. My folks are doctors; so I've had an insider preview of how bad things really are.

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Back to the CF community,
Would it be possible to get them on board, if you started over from a different perspective?

You've probably seen http://crohnology.com/. Certainly could derive a lot of inspiration from there. (including the HN post)

Existing communities might be harder to penetrate. Especially ones that're heavily moderated. BUT, I'd bet there's a ton of folks who share your opinions about the med community, and the ways they diagnose & treat symptoms.

What might the other reasons for why you've received those strong negative reactions be?

I'm all for the simulation/game idea. I'd even recommend starting a movement over on Kickstarter, if you don't mind the publicity. Although, it might be better if you'd build a new community from scratch first. Share your story, tell them what the goals are, speak of your vision. Trust me, it'll resonate with a whole bunch of folks. Much like 'crohnology' did.

AND, like you'd mentioned, the folks most active on these communities might have been there for quite some time, and to suggest something disruptive would do nothing but ignite a wildfire.
Could possibly start with those who've been diagnosed recently. The clueless ones. Perhaps the ones who haven't yet reached out for support. At a point where they're confused, looking for options, and they're just hoping some (usually clueless) doc has all the right answers. Of course, you'll still have to answer the question about how you'll actually get to them. Google adwords & seo, if not anything else.

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Lastly, I'm not sure you should pursue this with monetary goals in mind. Although, it'd be ridiculous to ignore the possibilities. Imagine all the positive press/attention/network/connections you'd attain, by starting a 'movement'. In a day and age where every other person seems to be trying their hand at the popular little social gizmo idea of the moment, making a real impact ensures you'll stand out like boeing 747 on a highschool playground. You've got a great story here. Leverage it. Save some lives.

Would you be willing to discuss your thoughts on how the simulation/game would work? What would the flow be like? How might it convince them about the changes they'd need to make?
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This is Why They Hate You and Want You to Die
Just look at tumblr vs posterous(yc). Tumblr is winning because of:

1. better design
2. usability
3. great social layer

Essentially, they're both simple blogging platforms. It shouldn't matter if you're competitor is YC-backed, deal with them the same way you would deal with other competitors: out-think, out-work, and out-innovate them.
Just guessing but: lab machines, buildings, purpose-built networks/processing centres, etc. I don't know how the production is organised, but assembly lines may be included.
PHP is widely used because of deployment, not because the language is awesome. If you reboot PHP you need to keep the deployment easy as well.
Revolutions Are Infinite: The Activist Threshold & Occupy Wall Street
There's always room to reimplement X in your favourite programming language.

It might start as a lightweight rival and yet it will continue to grow in the same trajectory as its rival eventually.

I would recommend more people to read, analyze, and understand the history and nature of software.
I think its safe to say that Reddit won that war.
I've been happy with Kokki and Fabric, no complaints yet: https://github.com/samuel/kokki If I outgrow it I'll be happy to switch to chef or puppet, but it is still convenient to keep everything in Python.
Guessing the brands here is quite difficult, because the color samples have come from many different sectors. I don't think many people would be able to differentiate between the blues for LinkedIn and AT&T, or the magentas for Flickr and T-Mobile. However, if you showed me a blue sample and pink sample and told me they only represented social media sites - or mobile telecoms companies - then I sure as hell could tell you which one each is.

As a guessing game, I really liked "Unevolved Brands", where logos were reduced to circles and solid colors:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamsblog/sets/72157625155090...

http://unevolvedbrands.tumblr.com/
Puppet is quite lightweight, and since Puppet configs are written in a DSL, the language shouldn't matter. Please don't reinvent the wheel just because server-side JS is cool right now.
CFEngine is the "granddaddy" of configuration management. It's been around something like 17 years at this point.

CFEngine spawned Puppet spawned Chef (rougly speaking)

I never got involved with BCfg2 or lcfg so I don't remember the history behind.
Why so few women at the top, still?
i want to install adobe flash on a colleagues iphone, I cant
MYOB to invest another $100 million in R&D
The title inside the main file is a little more honest: "A pure CSS vector drawing library" meaning that the vectors created are CSS only (not Canvas).
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How can programmers help the Occupy movement?
What sorts of tools/services could software engineers build to help the Occupy movement?
I don't think you know what you're missing, actually. I recommend trying it out. In fact, you should be using Puppet or Chef even if you're just one guy with just one server to manage.

The reason is that by encoding your configuration in a metalanguage such as Puppet's, you have described your environment independent of the actual box. If the box goes down and you need to swap in a new one, you just run Puppet again, and it will magically turn into the old box.

If you need to replace the box with faster hardware, for example, just run Puppet on the new box, and it will (if you have done your job properly) become identical to the new one. Suddenly need 10 boxes to handle a load spike? Just boot up 10 cloud VMs and point them at the Puppet server.

Since these systems are modular and lightweight, you can easily describe hundreds of vastly different boxes using a single configuration.
What do you consider to be missing in the current configuration management tools?
Looking for a startup technical cofounder
I've been working on a website for some time now, however it needs to have an improved UI, the website is 90% completed but without the ui that would be ideal. The website is a startup and prelaunch. So currently is not profitable, I am looking for a technical cofounder that would be willing to work on an equity basis, someone who is well versed in php/mysql/ajax.

The website has some traction with 700 prelaunch signups. I have a planned route to market through channels currently available to me.

The website is an online platform which allows users to create there own branded pages with there own unique url, allowing them to sell, put up classifieds, bid on project through our tender system and is predominantly based around branding. Not only would I like to have a programmer but also someone that can be part of the business to seek which path we should go down and seeing how to make it more consumer facing with improvements to the UI and general features.

I have a strong business background, knowledge of SEO and have been able to get the website to reach this point of completion through hiring programmers abroad, however now I need a tech guy based either in the UK or USA, preferably the UK and even moreso the west midlands, allowing for meetups.

If you are interested please contact me at

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Probably to some people, sure. For totally 100% from scratch projects, it might be nice - may be harder to deal with existing code bases that you want to extend or integrate with, no?
I'm assuming you mean 2012, but yes.

YC has funded competitors in the past. Notably with email CRM addons where YC basically funded all the major players in the market (Etacts, Xobni and Rapportive)
I read a blogger who knows North Korean situation extensively

http://tttkkk.lj.ru/

And the curious thing he tells: North Korea now has a surge in a small businesses (who of course bribe the locals to exist), but no mafia. No organized crime. Crime is low.

In most of the rest of the world crime would explode under such conditions (it did in ex-USSR after it reverted from planned economy), but in NK - it didn't, for some reason.
What Happens When We Die? (Bullshit?)
The Future of Digital SLR Cameras
Those are all good points, and we know the layout needs to improve.

I would add though that once you've gone through the basics, you find yourself primarily living in the Type Reference, which is arranged alphabetically.

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html

Always happy to get bug reports, feature requests and feedback on the docs...

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet-docs
All of those years spent trying to educate my family and non-technical friends on the difference between RAM and HDD and explaining how it is confusing when they tell me they couldn't install a program because their laptop was "out of memory".... wasted!
A little while ago is a bit of a stretch. BOTH communities have moved far and beyond the state of things in that article.

The fact of the matter is that X vs. Y is ENTIRELY subjective. It isn't a sporting event where there's a clear cut way to call a winner.

Some people like Puppet. Some people like Chef. Anyone trying to decide between ANY software - whether two competing client libraries or something as critical as configuration management owes it to themselves and the company to try all the options. The one that's best is the one that encourages you to adopt configuration management.
FWIW, a 2-month old NYT article on the situation of Christians in Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/magazine/in-egypt-the-lure...
I hope the "less ';' like javascript" isn't implemented in the same way it is in JavaScript...
It would also be interesting to have these clustered by unlabeled industry and try to guess the industry.
Something that wasn't visible in the article: Not that Puppet is extremely better here, but I really hate how much manual tweaking Chef requires after installing from a package and the experience in running it needed. You cannot easily scale it (indexed database pretty much needs to stay in one place), couchdb stops replication at random and it seems that chef doesn't deal well with document versioning in general since I keep running into a situation where the cookbook is not on the list after uploading, or a visible cookbook cannot be deleted. It also sometimes requires reindexing for some unknown reason, or the attributes don't work properly in search.

I prefer to work with Chef much more than Puppet (as a user/developer), but I wouldn't want to be responsible for running Chef cluster itself. There are too many different elements to learn and take care of. Unfortunately official hosted service is very expensive, so there's no good alternative once you need many nodes.
Keynote Fever: Jobs and Zuck Look-a-likes
Came here to say exactly that; so much fun :-)
Let's say I am invested in stock A, rate of return is (a). Stock B looks like a better investment, returning (b). I have some gains in A (ag); if I sell A to reinvest in B, I pay capital gains tax (t) on the gain, reducing my investment in B by the same amount.

It is only worthwhile to make the switch if I make enough more in B to cover the loss in capital that was taxed away. In mathematical terms,

(A + ag) * (1 + a)^n < (A + ag * (1 - t)) * (1 + b)^n

The larger t is, the higher b has to be to compensate for it, or the larger the number of years (n) have to be.

This is the reason why people invest in unproductive tax shelters - the tax rates make them financially better investments, although they are worse for the economy. One thing Reagan did was eliminate many tax shelters in exchange for lowering the marginal rates, this had the economically productive effect of shifting capital out of tax shelters into more productive endeavors.
The embedded XML reminds me of Facebook's XHP: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/xhp-a-ne...
[IANAL] He was invited for what was effectively a performance. Stanford probably has a standard copyright agreement for performances at the venue (i.e. the stadium), much like a football game.
The Google+ notification spot is introducing a lot of distraction to the search pages that are Google's Golden Goose... I wonder how much that's costing them.
http://1000memories.com does a good job of collating the information, but you're right, a print version would be awesome.
Google: all of the above.

Employees must hate that. How do you get company swag that doesn't look like a harlequin outfit?
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Asians are slowly realizing that culture of conformity is not going to work anymore.
That does seem a fair way to go about it. Do they allow offsetting that exemption with capital losses?

So if my capital gains are $10,000 one year, and -$10,000 the year after, is my lifetime exemption back at $750,000?
Why, when "rebooting" PHP, do you still keep the inane non-object arrays? Why not either/both create a syntax for manipulating arrays, or promote arrays to objects with their own methods.

When I see special functions which exist to do basic array-as-list operations, like his `add()` function, my eyes roll. Then I see arbitrary, inconsistent use of the dollar sign to indicate variables and they start to bleed -- you either have a dollar sign or not, but pick one and make it work.

When the language designer adds features at whim, without considering whether or not his implementation is keeping consistency or breaking it, well that's how you get a language like PHP in the first place!
It would be really cool. In fact, I was thinking about that right now.

Just convert and bingo, instantly deployable on 100% of php hosts. For local development, a script with --watch a la sass, or maybe a single index.php for converting things on the fly...
> I would add though that once you've gone through the basics, you find yourself primarily living in the Type Reference

Yes, that's were I ended up. I'm way beyond that level now, but I sometimes have to look something up in the docs, and always have to hunt down the URL to that particularly page.
Will the problems be available after the contest ends for those of us who are not in school but wouldn't mind a bit of practice?
It's not "just" playing catch up. It's partly playing catchup, and partly expanding on it. And to be fair, the credit should go to the Siri team more so than to Apple as a whole. They innovated and Apple bought them and added polish.

So why are some Android users less than impressed at the gushing over Siri? Because we've been able to do many of the things you see in the video demonstrations for a long time now. Some examples:

"Navigate to <local restaurant name>"

"Text <person> <some message>"

"What is the weather in New York?"

"What is the time in Paris?"

Siri integrates more features in a polished way and also adds context to the queries. By context, I mean that the interpretation of the next request can depend on the previous requests.

While little has been released on the actual technical constructs of these systems, I would imagine that they work somewhat similar to this:

1 Translate voice to list of text interpretations.
2 Guess an intent based on each text interpretation, combining the translation and interpretation score. Pick the action of highest score.

The intents need to be hand coded. Siri likely modifies the second step by allowing intent inference to be based on the last command or couple of commands in addition to the current request. That is the innovation, and I use the word innovation lightly as I'm sure the idea has been thought of in academic circles.

A lot of people seem to think "you can throw anything at it" and I seriously doubt that is true. The library of intents might be large enough to fool some people, though. It isn't revolutionary, it's a well executed incremental improvement on what we already have. It's worth mentioning that there are also other applications such as Vlingo that try to expand the capabilities already present on current day systems.

None-the-less, Apple's excellent marketing team seems to have convinced people that this is revolutionary and that Apple should be credited with yet another huge world changing innovation. The media needs it's heros and there can't be heros unless the valuable contributions of the many people whose work led to this point are forgotten, marginalized, or simply reattributed.
bcfg2 works well. It aims toward 100% fully managed servers (i.e. package dependency management, full /etc management) more than Chef/Puppet (but other than DoD/banking, 100% management isn't worth it). Other reasons I prefer Chef are 1) solo mode, 2) more dynamic recipes with ruby 3) more out-of-the-box resources (dirs, files, templates, users, etc)
Well, that was intentional. I'd like to think Siri as a person; she is supposed to be intelligent after all. :)
Not that they don't have a point, of course.
I think it might be elegant in small doses - just look at C#'s LINQ. Also, it's a nice strategy to lure newbies away from string concatenation and give security for free...
Nigel, that's an excellent move.

The one persistent thread I've seen with "support-based models", notably Red Hat, is that ... the tools leave you requiring support, and yet the support still sucks (in large part because the support engineers have to use the same crappy tools you do).

I'm not going to pretend I've got the Free Software business model sorted out. But I have noticed that project goals and incentives do line up with results. Debian has a social contract, a constitution, and policy, and the tools to support these. From an ease-of-use / ease-of-maintenance perspective, Debian (and its derivatives) blow RPM-based systems out of the water. And to be clear: the distinction is much less the packaging formats (though that's part of it) and far more the use and management of these tools.

I think there's someone who died recently who made the end-user experience key. While his organization struggled at times, it's emerged in recent years as an absolute behemoth which suggests ultimately that the alignment he chose is better than that of a principle rival.
Here's The Man Who Inspired Steve Jobs.
It's not so much what I consider to be missing as what others don't seem to be finding in them that encourages them to bolt on functionality into "incompatible" tools:

http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2011/08/22/the-configuration-mana...
Will they sell their chips to other vendors or will Apple treat the chips like their OS and not allow access beyond their sphere of control? Will they put in hardware-level controls to prevent jailbreaking?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer
Wro4j - Web resource optimizer library 
A tool for analysis and optimization of web resources. It brings together almost all the modern web tools: JsHint, CssLint, JsMin, Google Closure compressor, YUI Compressor, UglifyJs, Dojo Shrinksafe, Css Variables Support, JSON Compression, Less, Sass, CoffeeScript and much more.
New Nike+ online Game based on Stepcount. Great Gamification with the iPod nano.
I think this problem solves the wrong problems.
I'm looking forward to playing with this.

If you run into the following while installing:

"Unknown Grovel syntax: CFFI-GROVEL::BITFIELD"

You may need to download the git version of CFFI[1]. The 0.10.6 CFFI release doesn't have bitfield grovel support.

[1] http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/cffi/cffi.git

I hit the above bug using what I believe was the latest quicklisp distributed version of CFFI.

Edit: Point to the official CFFI git instead of a fork and a patch.
Inside Sean Parker's Totally Deluxe Off-The-Hook Spotify Party
"Overmentored and undersponsored" really resonated with me for two reasons - first, there aren't that many women in a position to act as sponsors (either as CEOs or angels), and second, because it's hard to ask someone to go all-in on you.

Women tend to showboat less than men, and want to let their work speak for itself. Unfortunately, it's never going to speak as loudly as an ace self-promoter.
I would by that for a dollar
Huh? Seems pretty clear from that that smartphones are obviously wearable computers.
Yeah, which is why the "post-PC" terminology has a propaganda tone. It's not going to be "post-PC": more like "pop computing" or "computing lite".
Seems like there should be a better solution to this specific problem than lowering the marginal rates.
what might make sense is to only implement the SPL stuff, and force all array access to be objects implementing the SPL interfaces. it would hurt 'ease of use' compatibility, but would enforce as a standard something that's already defined in PHP.
Firefox was the first with a Web Audio API. Google has an alternate API. Neither one is a standard. Both are great ground for experimentation though.
The Sony strategy.
Here's your +1 to get you out of gray area, but WRT "Wrt. unfair advantage" you should really read up on HFT in detail. All of HFT is based on the premise of getting an access to the order flow a split second sooner than everyone else. To get such access HFT firms pay very hefty fee to Nasdaq and other exchanges. That's where the unfair advantage is - not in the use of computers, but in an exclusive access to the information that not even all banks can afford.
A better approach might be to go the CoffeeScript way or better still, contribute to php itself. Sure it might take longer but languages take years to catch on...
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Exactly. As I was reading, I was thinking "yeah, record players were invented a 100 years ago, who needs MP3 portable players?"
Let me rephrase: What is the main difference (feature wise) between the Exynos 4210 and A5? What technical backing does their marketing have (9x better this and 100% faster that).

Samsung is pretty explicit about what their SoC contains: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/product... - well they have to, opposed to Apple they're selling the chip seperately.
Hyundai are advertising that they have an ultra-modern (relatively) environmentally friendly steel plant in order to lower GHG emissions and control quality.
An interesting play.
"But for Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, Soho, and the Lower East Side would all have been reamed by a 10-lane, double-deck superhighway."
Hmm. I posted what I could find in Google. I specifically googled for Mint and Mint.com but none of the titles suggested this infographic. I can see now that the "What's inside the house of WB" link was what I was looking for. It assumed it was literally what's in his house. What can I say, it was late night.

Thanks for the original(?) link. Perhaps next time you can be nice about it. (That's not my site btw, which you could easily have determined by making the 10 second effort to read my comment history.)