skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An HN PSA: Misdiagnosed Chronic Prostatitis 
I am aware this is hardly an HN topic, but HN readership, predominantly male with likely an average age of 38, is an audience that can benefit greatly from this.

For two years I was misdiagnosed by my Primary Care Physician and two Urologists with chronic Prostatitis. I was given round after round of evidently useless antibiotics.

After some research, I diagnosed myself with pelvic floor dysfunction. I approached my Primary Care Physician and Urologist and requested they refer me to a Physical Therapist who specializes in pelvic floor rehabilitation. They were both unaware of pelvic floor dysfunction and were apprehensive. I politely stood my ground and received the referral. After two months of weekly therapy with an excellent specialist my back, hip, and groin pain were gone. Continued management includes daily stretching and muscle awareness.

This is commonly misdiagnosed as Prostatitis and without care the symptoms can continue indefinitely.

http://physical-therapy.advanceweb.com/Features/Article-1/A-Male-Malady.aspx
What is the best alternative to Google Code Search?
People Sleeping Outside Apple Store for iPhone 4S
Clickable: http://physical-therapy.advanceweb.com/Features/Article-1/A-...
I agree that the problem doesn't seem to be quality so much as mindshare. Seems like the same thing that happened with the Zune. The product was compelling enough, but was ultimately too little, too late.

Many Android phone interfaces look and act differently. As a programmer this can be a nightmare

I've had a few Android phones, and I wouldn't call the differences drastic. I don't see how visual tweaks to the interface would make a big difference to developers. Seems like hardware and OS version differences would be a much bigger issue.

but more so as a consumer I can't just tell someone to buy an Android phone.

What? I wouldn't even ever recommend someone to just get any old iPhone. When I recommend a phone, I recommend the specific model that I think would fit their needs. Would you recommend someone to get any old Windows computer? Any old Mac, even? Dishonest argument.

Even as a Google fanboy, I recognize that Android has plenty of drawbacks. You've named only imaginary ones.
Windows phone unfortunately has become the "Zune" of MP3 players. It was better than iPod, the software was killer. The Zune pass was more conveniet than clunky old itunes but nobody cared. The brand associated with it was not cool and hence a superior product died a premature death.

As the article says, Windows phone is in the same boat. The interface is innovative and functional. The app library has most of the essential apps. Performance is pretty good and the reviews are great but the users don't crave it.

Microsoft's marketing and partner efforts have clearly failed here.
http://sp0t.org/videoriot
YouTube/WebGL mashup
My point was more abstract than that. The thread I was in was concerned with how when Apple makes big changes, they are called bold, while when Microsoft does it, they are called flailing.

My point was that the comparison must take into account the culture each company takes toward accommodating the needs and tastes of legacy/long-standing customers. Pulling out one example - the Ribbon in Office, which people still bitch about to this day, mind you - does very little to argue that Microsoft has a tradition of bold changes breaking existing user expectations. Such an argument would need to be much, much stronger.
Verizon blocking NFC payments competition on their network
- unicode characters (for instance you can't type in russian) -- try there http://demos.anyterm.org/shellinabox_nano
- speed could've been better, there's a noticeable delay when running something like `mc`

I haven't tried Gate One yet, but I did look very closely at your project at some point. Great work, btw :)
Sad to see Code Search go. I just tried a simple search for 'pthread_t' on both Koders (http://www.koders.com) and Krugle (http://opensearch.krugle.org). Both are mentioned elsewhere in the comments as possible alternatives.

Krugle found no results. Koders found results, but the response time was very large.

Both have a long way to go in being a viable Code Search replacement.

Hopefully Code Search just gets rolled into the primary Google search product.

NOTE:

I was just looking over the Koders results. It is tokenizing 'pthread_t' as 'pthread' 't', so the top results are not what I would consider useful. I'm sure I can change some settings to get proper tokenization for my languages identifiers, but that is more work up front.
Yes, one of the things Larry Page talked about in the earnings call yesterday was aggressive project pruning and focus. I agree that this is a good sign of Page's leadership.
I see the difference at cultural focus of Microsoft vs Apple. Apple is focused on the end-user experience, all technical, design and marketing considerations follow. Microsoft has come from a past where their focus hasn't been directly on the end user, rather it's on sufficient (but not exceptional) user experience in order to sell to businesses and system vendors. Furthermore, I feel like Microsoft has a flow of marketing/sales -> feature lists -> technical development which really detracts from the total system integration focus needed to make the end-user experience, well, magical.

To some extent, Google has a similar disconnect. Their main customer isn't the end-user, it's ad-buying businesses, and, with Android, handset and tablet vendors. Either way, it's not the end-of-the-world, but I think it's a key basis that leads to how the different products of the companies end up in terms of polish and integration.
To be perfectly blunt, the "much cheaper option", which I fear you may have failed to consider due to your current state of consumerist paroxysm, is to just wait until your current contract is up. You've presumably managed to survive at least a couple decades without Siri. Is the prospect of having to live without it for another 40 days really so terrifying that you'd rather blow $100 than wait it out?
Ask HN: Looking for an API similar to Twilio but for Video Conferencing
I've been searching for an API similar to Twilio but for Web Conferencing for months and haven't found anything. I'm familiar with all the current web-conference providers but rarely do they have an API.

The closest thing we've found in Vidyo.com, but talk about expensive! There has to be something out there.
I agree - I'm a proud owner of a Windows phone, but it was hard to even find a store that sold one. I wonder if having the Metro UI in Windows 8 will help Microsoft out with a little cross-pollination.
The obvious flaw; I have 1 pencil (his ruler pencil) and I want to measure something. I need to mark the location (with precision) but... pencils don't bend? The idea is theoretically great but I can't see it being practical. It's cute though, good luck to him :-)
So how much forestation would be required to reverse a significant part of the effect of the industrial revolution? Lets say the CO2 emitted in the last 30 years.

Would there be enough vacant area on earth to handle such an amount of forestation? In Europe, I could only imagine a significant reforestation if our agriculture becomes much more efficient.
I think its the former. Whether Microsoft's efforts pay off or not is yet to be seen as the OS is not even in Beta yet.
I think this is all going to hinge on weather Apple can match the speech recognition bar that Google has set. Without that (like the article mentions) all the AI stuff doesn't matter. Voice Actions can't use arbitrary grammer, and it's not as pretty as Apple's solution, or as integrated, but for dictation, it's pretty good; honed by years of Google 411 and who knows what other masses of input. Is Apple using a datacenter with petabytes of voice training, or is it Dragon in the cloud? I've got an Android phone now, and as soon as I get my hands on a 4S I'm going to put them through their paces dictating text and compare. From the reviews, it looks like Apple has at least matched Google in dictation, which means that Siri has a huge lead over Voice Actions due to all the other improvements.
This is great for implementing stackless threads and multithreading on AVR : See protothread for example
My friend group is the same, but this was always annoying because Buzz didn't go back into Greader. So I had one friend who would post to Buzz instead of Reader, but I would miss his posts unless I actually went to the Buzz interface, where I would still have to wade through all the Reader shared stuff.

I'm glad it's all moving to +. I can only assume that sharing from Reader will be connected to + at some point. There's currently a workaround for this, but it's ugly.
Hi Mike,

Thanks a lot for the prompt reply. The polish is largely thanks to a purchase from ThemeForest, I did very little on that front. The image slider was part of that layout, and frankly I couldn't think of anything to throw in there besides the images of the schools.

I will definitely check out Stripe, thanks. I saw their post on HN, my biggest concern was whether or not I'll be able to figure out how to set it up, since I've never really used an API and I don't know much at all about JavaScript. I guess we'll see.

Thanks again. In the unlikely event that you know someone who could use some pointers on any math or test prep, feel free to let me know.
For the nth time. This. Is. Linkbait.
Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran
Extensions have occasionally been dropped from gcc, sometimes because of conflicts with updated standards, sometimes for other reasons.
It seems clear that there are some differences between Microsoft's designs and implementations and Apple's. But if you compare, say, DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows XP, and Windows 7, it seems difficult to make the case that Microsoft's changes to Windows have not paid off positively for users on balance over the years. Certainly there have been missteps, but those missteps have, to date, always been overcome over time, and almost never by backtracking to the previous state of affairs.

Perhaps there have been sufficient missteps, though, that people feel they have both license and cause to second guess major changes.

Whether Win 8 itself ends up being successful or not is still an open question, of course. But I will be happy to wager that (A) there will be a major next successful version of Windows, and (B) it will look a lot more like the Win 8 Developer Preview than it does like Win 7.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ruler+pencil
More fundamental than the argument being made in this article is the rate of change.

I actually like Microsoft's Metro UI - I think it looks really good and makes a fair amount of design sense. I realize there are people who are with me and people who aren't. Now, that's not to say that I would or wouldn't take a WinPho over Android or iOS - I just like the way it looks and operates.

As a phone/tablet OS, it's great. But shoving it onto desktops this quickly is shortsighted (and, knowing what I know about Microsoft, probably a result of a bit of hubris). By forcing Windows users to make the switch to Metro (which is completely different than explorer.exe), Microsoft is going to create a lot of user backlash - it's a completely different computing experience than what Windows users have come to expect.

What Apple gets that Microsoft doesn't is that, while both agree that simpler, more elegant UIs are the future of computing, you can't just force an entrenched desktop user to switch to a mobile interface overnight. Lion introduced a number of iOS like features to OS X, but it didn't completely reinvent the wheel like Microsoft is trying to do with Win8.
The danger lies in being a company with a reputation of launching stuff and then not sticking with them. At some point that starts harming adoption levels of new products.

Edit to comment below:

"Trying and failing is a far better outcome than never having tried at all" is a great mantra for individuals or even small startups, but I am not sure how it applies here. I am still bitter over Google abandoning Notebook (which I was quite a heavy user of) and canning Calendar Public Search (search!!). I then reluctantly allowed my team to use Wave, only to have that one canned after building a process around it. No, it is not better for me that they tried and changed their minds (they did NOT "fail"
technically), because I could have picked another product at the time that did intend to stick around.

People look at Google, with all the money and people that it has, and ask "How much could it POSSIBLY cost to keep Code Search going? How is it possible that Google can't afford it?". The only answer I can come up with is (1) It can afford it (2) But it doesn't care to.

So sure, if you are happy to see Google launch stuff that it has no commitment to, great for you. I'm having better luck taking chances with startups and their products. At least they have skin in the game.

Edit #2: @joebadmo - but that is exactly what I think when I see a new Google product - "will it reach such large levels of adoption so that Google will keep it". And I keep getting it wrong - even for products like Wave and Code Search which I thought surely they are used internally and so will be kept around if only because of that - nope, either they are not used internally (if not, why not?) or even that is not protection enough.

Sure, startups and small-person concerns are also risky propositions, but let's not forget the numbers. 100,000 users are a "failure" for google, but they are a wild success for a small startup, at least the ones not looking for a big exit. If you inlcude app writers as "startups", their longevity is phenomenal - I have never had an app stop working on me because somebody turned a sever off somewhere. Perhaps I have been freakishly lucky. The only other product I have had to stop using because it was pulled was wesabe.com.
Fail often, fail quickly mostly applies to the failures you will have along the way during those 3 years. I am not sure it will take 3 years to break even, but the business taking a few years time to break even is definitely not in contradiction with the fail often fail quickly advice.

In fact, fail often fail quickly, if done effectively, will lessen the number of years to break even (IMO).
It would seriously make me vomit and be in awe if you could play these sequences back in the AlloSphere at UCSB:

http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/
What are the odds that this story gets picked up by the major media organizations?

It is just this type of undue influence that has seemed to emerge as the main issue for the Occupy Wall Street protests. It truly is a sad state of affairs when the government subjugates the interests of its own voting citizens to the special monied interests that lobby Washington. Few stories so clearly show how politicians value money over wise policy... the Citizens United case has only exacerbated this problem.

[Added:] The title is not descriptive enough. Should probably mention how IP legisglation was influenced.
The FreeCell Trick
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Fifteen years of KDE
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I'm surprised about the Code Search news. That seems to be squarely within Google's mission.
i think Github and similar hosted SCM providers are potential competitors. Atlassian’s line of enterprise products are also similar to our offerings. Github is definitely the company we fear (and have a crazy amount of respect and admiration for). At their core though I think Github and Backyard have different focus’. Github is focused on (and in my opinion succeeding at) being the best-in-breed Source Control platform, which means things like centralized authentication, deployment, continuous integration, internal communication, etc are not (currently) their focus. Backyard’s focus will be providing a complete integrated infrastructure platform. So while SCM will be an important component, it wont be the sole focus of our company.
No! I loved code search, I'd use it as evidence when proposing the deprecation of API methods in open source projects :)
I watched build a little bit but never got an impression that Microsoft was ever pushing metro as a ui standard for desktop apps. It was always menat to be for tablet and other mobile apps. If you don't see anybody starting a metro looking desktop app its because it's not suppsosed to be.
http://www.koders.com or http://opensearch.krugle.org
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The "apps" page was the homepage previously. I'll try to cut down on the faqs on the homepage, and try to make it more visual. What do you mean make it easier to post discussions and comments? Should I allow them to post comments, and on the next page have them sign-in/sign-up HN style?
You mean fonetik?
I don't know if it's just me, but I think you might need to rethink your market/angle. I've worked with a few startups and the last thing on our mind was "centralized employee authentication" and "infrastructure dashboards".
Thanks for the feedback. I think we can do a better job of telling folks what makes up their score. The exact algorithm does change, but general guidelines about what percentage comes from code, what from Stack Overflow, etc., and maybe what weighs most heavily in the code equation would be a good thing. Working on some tweaks to the "about" section of the site this weekend, so we'll try to incorporate a few of these things.

FYI - Code is king. Most of the score comes from code contributions, and forks and watchers are much more important than followers. :)
What If You Could Legally Resell Your Digital Music?
Latest Chrome on Mac for me as well.
the vertical scale of that graph does not make much sense
Patent blogger Florian Mueller lands funding from Microsoft
TuneUp Media's Rockin' New Office Space
I would try to find a way to complement GitHub, not compete with it.
oh yeah, typo :)
Google Code Search has been pretty broken (for my use case, anyway) for a while. I build Drupal Code Search[1] on top of their API back in 2008, and a few months later, they stopped indexing code from Drupal.org. Since then, 2 new versions of Drupal (6 and 7) have been released, and none of the new code has been indexed, making my site largely useless except for legacy code searches.

I guess I will just shut it down completely come 2012, I don't have any way to do grep-style searches at the same speed Google's API could.

[1] http://drupalcodesearch.com/
I think it's just a question of "Will this be a thing, or will this be dropped as a dud?" Microsoft has a history of pushing hard on things (Silverlight comes to mind) and then dropping it a year or two later when it doesn't gain enough traction, so naturally Windows developers are a lot more wary of the "brand new thing".

Additionally, for better or worse, Apple's hardware cycle tends to be a lot shorter than Microsoft's-- the fact that you can't upgrade a system piecemeal pushes people onto the latest and greatest, which means it already comes supporting the software for the same, as opposed to the people still using Windows 98.
I'm super-skeptical about this paper - I agree that more info on the GPS stuff is needed (this author seems to be making assumptions about how the correction procedures work that I couldn't find documentation for), but on its face, this just seems way like a way too obvious error to possibly be right.

First off, I encourage everyone to read the actual paper at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.2685v1 [PDF], I think many here are seriously overestimating the complexity of the author's claim.

I've mostly said this already on this thread, but it's buried near the bottom of the page, so I'll summarize the paper here, it's extremely simple:

0) If you're measuring time in the reference frame of the moving clock, you've got to transform the length between the stations in accord with the Lorentz transformation. According to this author CERN already did this, so it's entirely irrelevant to the discussion - I couldn't verify this, because it's not mentioned in the CERN paper he referenced.

1) What they did not do (according to this paper) is account for the fact that in the satellite frame, during the neutrino's flight the receiver station was moving towards the source.

2) time = distance / rate

3) CERN used rate = c, but they should have used rate = c + v because the receiver station was moving towards the neutrino.

That is quite literally the entire thing, check the math in the paper if you don't believe me. This is not a claim that CERN somehow misapplied special relativity, it's a claim that they simply forgot to include the motion of the receiver.

IMO this is far too elementary a mistake to have been missed for this long, so I'm suspicious. The CERN paper that the author references (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897v1) doesn't discuss relativistic corrections at all, so I don't know why the author assumes this mistake has been made, perhaps he's reading another paper that he didn't reference? From the OPERA one that he links (though I haven't read it in too much detail) I get the sense that if it was this simple, one of the many calibration tests that they've done would have easily caught the error (they talk about a lot of bidirectional synchronization stuff), so for now, at least, I would take this with a grain of salt.
This reminds me of some casinos (perhaps not the more sophisticated ones though), where playing certain games had a higher chance of success - if you had enough of a bankroll and staying power to last.

I like the underlying premise of how businesses take time to succeed. The timing varies significantly with the type of business though. For restaurants, I've often heard "5 years" as the tipping point. For certain kinds of web-based businesses, it can be shorter. And for capital-intensive businesses, perhaps much, much longer.

But basically, you need enough of a bankroll and staying power to last.
Signed up, looks interesting enough.
I would guess the other half of this initiative would be to only launch projects that have plans that involve profit. Like I understand killing something off if it doesn't catch on, but I don't see how Google Code Search could ever make Google much money over their normal search.
I also found the code search very useful, and usually used it to answer a similar question: does anybody use a Perl feature that is about to change (due to a bug fix, for example) or for which changes were proposed.

I didn't use it all that often, but when I did, I was very grateful for having it.
Did they give a reason for shutting down code search? I didn't see it but think it deserves some kind of explanation of the decision.
There is more to the time dimension than just chronology. The amount of time between events, the frequency of events, etc?
Also, a circle is an infinite set of points, so even if points were visible, you couldn't have a real circle without infinite points.
>he other is to suggest that on balance, Apple’s changes pay off positively for users while Miscrosoft’s do not.

I am curious regarding MS's big changes that you consider that didn't help users, Vista? Office Ribbon? Windows Phone 7?
We do store locations for all events and have easy links that send you to google map of that location.

We also allow all parents to send messages either to entire team or to individuals on the team (a frequent use of this has been for parents requesting rides for their kids!).
The iPhone 4S Is Siriously Smarter
Congress, wary of Amazon’s Silk browser, demands answers on privacy
Not all freecell hands are winnable.

(http://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/the-death-of-free...)
This isn't even news.
Woz praises the iPhone 4S on TCTV
As someone casually considering signing up for the free version, I would be interested in seeing a screenshot or two of what using the app looks like for the coach and for individual users.

Also, you just got feedback on a sports team management app for coaches from Phil Jackson!
Science Code Manifesto