skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people ~aren't~ happy with big businesses, either to do invest in, do business with or work for.

If you could get a boring 9-5 with a big business, be treated with respect, get paid well, have health insurance and a pension, more people would go with that. If you could invest in index funds and get 10% return a year you might do that. When your bank charges you more fees than a check cashing establishment, you look for alternatives.

Startups appeal to people looking for something better in these three domains,
I'm back and will get back into the exercises and post as soon as I can. What's others' status?
I live in Austria and have to pay about 40 to 50% tax on any income. At least I know it's going towards things such as free universities, free healthcare, unemployment insurances for everyone. Makes the pill a bit easier to swallow.
On the tangent, this may be the 10th article of this kind i've seen, the 1st time it was nice to discover macro shortcuts, now I feel something is wrong.

Emacs documentation is large and well written, yet we discover features with google, it's not even centralized, let's avoid duplication of efforts and reinforce emacswiki. Maybe integrating emacswiki with the standard emacs distribution in some way ? (if it's not done already.. which would render this little rant finally funny)
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I used it to build some simple topologies to parallelize collecting statistics over huge data sets. I never got around to doing dynamic programming using a 0mq topology, but I wrote up some fun plans for it.
Typo (missing space) in the "Developer" blurb on the right:

"Developers will benefit from having access to designers. Get help on your portfolio, findsomeone to develop your iPhone app, make a prototype of an idea."
disclaimer: I'm the author

Any suggestions for other emacs topics I should blog about?

Thanks for your interest.
That sounds ideal but then how many hours in a day do you think you're working? sleeping? I'm not saying you need to reach some optimal number but don't you miss having a bit more structure?
Cool! Love the idea behind this.

I'm working on something similar - (v1 already live: http://gun.io) - want to collaborate? Shoot me an email: rich@gun.io - I think we can help each other!
I'm not sure how easy this would be legally, but they might be able to set it up to drop most of the $50k into the employee's 401k.

The employer + employee contribution limits are currently $49k/year, so even if the employee is contributing their $16.5k max, you could mitigate a hell of a lot of the taxes.
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they don't have iphone/android builds available, which is the most interesting part of the site
Yeah, I'm aware of the trend. It's probably just me, but no description at all combined with the expectation of me watching a two minute video I can't progress beyond in an obvious way really turns me off. Your site is not the first one I've closed out of when a demo video comes up.
Everyone has great points here. I took up intermittent fasting where I eat within an 8 hour window. Normally, I only eat one huge meal per day. It saves me time too. I also use a kettlebell and keep it by my workspace (It basically taunts me to workout). In 15 minutes I can get a full body workout and I have left my work for that time and cleared my head which makes me way more productive for the rest of the day.
I agree this feature would make for an even more enlightening experience. Color/shade the highlighting as a function of its total lifetime on the screen. Words that are typed and deleted immediately after are the darkest yellow, words that live longer (like until the 2nd editing pass) are a lighter yellow, words that survive to the final remain white.
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Linux will never work properly on a laptop or any interesting consumer hardware. VM is always the way to go. The stable drivers on uniform virtual hardware solve the problem in a way real hardware driver will never be able to do.
> There is surprisingly little incentive for a founder to avoid screwing over employees.

Other than being treated like toxic waste by every prospective VC and business partner until the end of time.
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I prefer this instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CHXwXvWvs
Good point. Cultural fit is very important. Most creative companies seem to have a bias against "suits". Given the situation that they invite you despite/because of your more "unconventional" background, they are most likely not looking for a "suite character".

Btw, I would love to see your CV/application letters since you are obviously doing something right with your applications.
Impressed to see 'England' become 'United Kingdom'. Not so impressed to see that 'Wales' wasn't similarly treated.
"It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack 'em." -Goodfellas
Hover by eye tracking would make a lot more sense, and the camera is already there on most touchscreen devices.
In the past, I've used 2 buffers to solve this problem.

I'll fill one buffer with the text I'm editing, and the other buffer with any 'arguments'. Then I'll just write the macro to switch between buffers and grab arguments as necessary.
You're seriously proposing going back over 25+ years of applications and rewriting them all to talk to a "service" instead of the database? Over what protocol, CORBA, DCOM, SOAP, WSDL, some new thing? And what about third party apps that connect to the DB, have the vendors rewrite them too, to talk to your whizzy new "service"? And what language is your service written in, the fashionable one du jour, that in 10 years your successors will sneer at as "legacy" anyway? And it's as reliable and high-performance as your most mission-critical application, since now it's a single point of failure and a bottleneck?

Ho ho ho. Website experience doesn't translate to real database work.
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Iberian fellow here. How do you manage to funded your company in the US?
Seem to be prepending IDs in front of the descriptions

445StyleJam ( stylej.am ) is...

122TransCal is an easy to de...

121Idea is simple. Build an ...
Or a chat program in 10 lines. :)
You are right, but those outside forces are really strong. I had to fight only to study abroad, which is seen as a waste of time and possible drawback on your cv (because you spent time studying abroad instead of studying for real...).

The only way not to sound like an Italian just complaining about outside forces is to leave the country. But than that is also not useful for Italy. So, you see the problem?
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I typed UK. The only option offered was Ukraine.

I'd actually much prefer a country selected that was based on geography with a Mac OS X dock-like magnification so I can choose my country easily.
The easy way I do it is to make however many copies of "test0" I want, then make a trivial throwaway macro where I move my cursor to the number I want to increment, and hit M-x rolling-increment-number-at-point. (Of course with autocomplete...)

Here's my definitions:

(defvar *rolling-counter* 0)

(defun rolling-increment-number-at-point ()
(interactive)
(incf *rolling-counter*)
(skip-chars-backward "0123456789")
(or (looking-at "[0123456789]+")
(error "No number at point"))
(replace-match (number-to-string (+ *rolling-counter*
(string-to-number (match-string 0))))))

(defun clear-rolling-history ()
(interactive)
(setf *rolling-counter* 0))
Ah, but he wasn't involved in this study -- one of the researchers had worked with him on a previous study, and that's why his name came up.
This sounds like a very good idea. I'm going to see my lawyer tomorrow and I'll tell her about your suggestions (this one and sending the documents in Spanish). Thank you so much!
I could see how the majority of people are "in lust" rather than "in love" with startups because of the opportunities they present. Independence, self-sustainability, and escape from the corporate world are all things I think certain people lust for.
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On a similar note, I've always found it kind of amusing/frustrating that forms in the US make you fill out city, state, and zip code, when in fact the zip code indicates a specific city and state. I realize that's a huge database of geolocation data to keep as part of the program, but I wonder if there could be some kind of lookup that goes on behind the scenes and fills in the city and state if the response is quick enough (and allows the user to fill it in manually if it doesn't).
Part of the Chinese belief of lack of control is the amazing amount of influence Confucian ideals still hold. How can one control one's destiny if they're beholden to their family, their elders and society. It's hard to be an innovator if individuality is discouraged. I'm not implying that Chinese men and women can't innovate, but I suspect they're disinclined to believe they can. It would be selfish to create a startup and risk failure which could jeopardize one's livelihood and therefore one's ability to continue the family. Also, failure would bring shame to the family. (There's a bit of stereotyping here, of course, and I'd love to hear from people who have spent time in Asia and could give me a more complete picture).
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thnx will look into this
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This is an incredibly divisive mentality. The word "balance" gets thrown around a lot, but it's commonplace for a reason. Both engineering and "design & reality distortion" are valuable for a start up. You have to balance the two.

You're always going to have power struggles in startups. That's the nature of the beast when you put highly motivated, competitive individuals in a room, but the smartest of the players know that with the help of everyone around them, their chances of success increase many times over.
IPhoto computes city/state automatically from zip code.
In the UK it's quite common for forms to ask you to type in your postcode and they then ask you to select your address. Because the postcode is very dense (your house number/postcode is unique), this makes address entry very easy.
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not as bad as working at home and living with bad roommates. I stopped leaving my room, it made me a total agoraphobic.
A great book and one that I am reading diligently as I work up to re-entering the world of blogging. I stopped blogging half a dozen years ago as I was making no money and using plenty of time. This time I intend to manage the time aspect more carefully and apply some gentle moneytization techniques.
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A side point that came up at the time: if Apple offered no support, we'd mainly lose a good Swing implementation.

So without Apple's help, we could still use OpenJDK for non-GUI applications. I believe SWT would be fine as well, so Eclipse would remain viable.

Now with Apple contributing into OpenJDK, we have the best-case scenario.
I imagine these are the sorts of things that can be tuned quite easily, define more synonyms for each country etc.
Amazon will soon be the Nokia of tablets and eReaders. Not fancy, but cheap.
The trigger here is hover, but the effects could be useful when triggered by other events, or as part of a timed presentation like a lightbox.
the OP is full of shit, read this :
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/11/10/start-ups-an...
Each time I consider trying another IDE, I turn on the sometimes available "use emacs keybindings" feature.

Then I quickly remember I use the macro feature constantly and back I go to Emacs.
While it's better than traditional country selector, I think there are some possible improvements here. I started typing Ger (as in Germany), and first suggestion was Algeria - wouldn't it better to sort them by popularity/language version of my browser/ip geolocalization, instead of repeating old mistake of putting stuff in alphabetic order?
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I'm 4 months into my second working from home experience. First time I was in a room on the main floor with french doors right by the front door and in constant view of wife and kids. This time I'm in a basement, out of view, so that's helped maintain separation.

If you have kids, I came up with "Ticket Time" to help assuage the guilt over not hanging out with your kids while working and give them something to look forward to so they don't wander downstairs on a whim. It works best in the summer when they're not in school.

The kids get a playing card in the morning and they can use it to come down and spend 5 minutes with me. We'll throw or kick a ball around, play a quick game of UNO or something like that. They love it and its fun for me to have some time with them that I wouldn't have in the office.
Hey

Portuguese here as well and I can vouch for just about everything phatbyte said as well. Anyone that has a little bit of success, in the eyes of 95% of the population did it either by a) corruption b) stealing c) abusing people/employees. People just don't believe hard work is a key to success. Heck, even when I change jobs for a better pay my own parents complain about it, they expect me to die in the same company I started working.

On another note, where care you in Portugal? If in the north/Porto, send me an email if you want to catch a beer. Always looking for same minded individuals for a chat.
One should not be forced into product decisions by namesquatters or other external behavior of that ilk. Designing, building, and supporting a new product is a big longterm investment (even if it's just a Free/Pro version).

The story behind Instapaper Free's cancellation covers some of the reasons: http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free
While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly.

For those of us in Canada, typing "ca" should probably rank countries that start with the "ca" prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with "ca", finally followed by countries that just happen to contain "ca".

I don't see much use in showing "United States" as the first match for a user who has typed "c" and "a".

The same problem exists for the prefix: "uni". The list in that case is:

United States
United Kingdom
Réunion
Tanzania, United Republic of
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Let me get this straight: you're taking a stance against reading books? Fascinating.
I'm asking you to think about obscenity and offenses thereof in a completely different way than you're used to.

This means that the use of obscenity is directed at someone or something, intending offense thereto. Yes, he's asking you to support the offending of a third person (or thing), mythical or not. He is acting as an offender (whether there is a being to experience being offended or not), and he's asking you to take the role of offender as well.

Do understand: there are times when initiating offense is appropriate. There are times when asking others to join you in initiating offense is appropriate.

Some people in the audience may not want to share in offending the subject of the offense the speaker is initiating. Thus, by using obscenity, the speaker may alienate some of the audience. Now, question is, was that necessary?
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The database is not huge at all, fewer than 10k entries, each of which is a key-value pair. It's bigger than I'd want to include in a client-side Javascript file, but it's certainly small enough to keep on your server.

The only problem with this is that, while all ZIP codes have canonical names, some also have additional allowed names that users may identify closely with. So, if you auto-complete the canonical name, the user may think that you've made a mistake.
will be there .. ya!
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Thanks. I probably should have caveated that statement with some qualifier. I'm not particularly worried about it in the short-term timeframe in which I expect to be earning my bread as a practicing surgical pathologist. I absolutely expect at some point, machine learning will have progressed to the point to be able to perform my job as well as I can. I just think that using it in a clinical setting is a long way off, and far before we get to that point, we will be using pure molecular techniques to diagnose and classify cancer. If I had to list the tasks that I would imagine machine learning to be able to do at an expert level before my eye/brain combination could be replaced for diagnosing cancer on glass slides it may look like:

- Segregate tissue from non-tissue (ie. blank slide space)

- Classify the tissue (epithelial versus mesenchymal/stromal, mucin/matrix,
exogenous material, etc).

- Decide if it is normal or abnormal

- Decide if it is native to whatever organ that it reportedly came from or is it
a metastases from somewhere else.

- Select appropriate immunohistochemical stains or other ancillary tests (eg.
molecular assays).

- Appropriately interpret the immunohistochemical stain (eg. is it a nuclear stain
or cytoplasmic, or both, or membranous).
Is that staining true staining or artifactual.

- Interpret that in the clinical context of the patient's history.

And it has to do all of those things and correct and account for bad preparations from the laboratory, inconsistent staining from day-to-day and slide-to-slide, non-representative biopsies from the surgeons etc.

I think at the end of my career, they will eventually haul my carcass off of my microscope (hopefully!) in 40 to 50 years hence. I imagine that we will have made a ton of progress with computer vision in pathology, and will be using it in an adjunct fashion. To help with analyzing results and other tedious tasks that computer vision is well-suited for. But a lot of medicine, and especially pathology, is making intuitive connections and conclusions with inconsistent and incomplete evidence in day-to-day work on individual patients.
The reference to "$99/year; covers up to xx application submissions" is clearly wrong. "xx" as the number of submissions might be the clue.

If you click thru to signup it reads:

Benefits of a Developer Account
- Develop, distribute & manage your apps
- Download the SDK
- Get documentation, contribute on the forums
- Free - annual fee waived for a limited time
- Always free for Open Source Developers

"limited time" here being ... always. Its always been that way and there is no sign its going to change.
As long as we aren't dumping ridiculous amounts of money into startups that have no hope of ever turning a profit or making a significant impact in the world somehow, I think we might be okay.
Working from home in a foreign country for two years now. Biggest takeaways:

- Working from home on my own projects is much more fulfilling than working on someone else's.

- No matter how much money you earn, most people assume that people working from are barely scraping by, or somehow non-ambitious.
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"uk" doesn't, but "gb" does :/
How about an email application that handles keyboard acceleration really well? This can be done easily with Silverlight (in or out of the browser), but not so much with HTML. That's why Gmail has crummy keyboard handling. In Thunderbird, I can tab my way around the entire interface if I want to or use keyboard shortcuts.

I'm sure the Gmail team could do a bunch of hacks to fix this, but that's the problem. You have to hack-up everything to make HTML work well as an application platform.
Until you live at an address not in most people's postcode database. If you're lucky, you get to enter your address in manually. If you're unlucky, you're up for a phone call or total rejection - a few times I've had to collect parcels from neighbours.
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To my big disappointment I failed to bookmark the service. I'm fairly positive their link was posted in a comment to on a story at y combinator a short while back. The author said something along the lines of: 'I didn't like it at first, but now I can't live without it'.

Their tour video featured a case of an indie record label that went through the process of choosing, restyling and recording youtube bands.

They had a tabbed interface kind of like http://www.cohuman.com/

Sincerely hope anyone can help me out. This might not be the place to ask these kind of things but I figured I'd give it a shot.
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Fine. Let's compare it to any native grid that runs on your preferred OS then.
This can be diplomatically difficult.

The linked implementation only lists Taiwan as "Taiwan, Province of China". I could see this being interpreted in many different ways, with either side being insulted. (Maybe that's best.)
You say "particularly in moderately-differentiated tumors" -- I have a few questions.

1. Why did you specifically point out "moderately-differentiated?" I ask because my wife has a tumor classified as poorly-differentiated. I'm wondering if the middle ground is unique/harder to diagnose in some way.

2. Would something like this come into play during the initial biopsy or after the tumor is removed? I ask because she has a mastectomy next week. I kind of assumed the nature of the cancer was already figured out with the estrogen+ and her2/neu tests. We never really received a "score" - just a breakdown of the good and the bad characteristics and the suggested treatment plan post surgery - which includes both anti-estrogen drugs AND herceptin.

3. Does it make sense, at this point, to try to get her into Stanford for this C-Path test?

Any input is appreciated.
My main complaint about old country pickers and this one is non-prioritization of countries in the list. Yes, I understand that this may be a sensitive issue, but how much likely your customer is going to be from Canada than from Cameroon. Or if I start typing 'CA' in this selector, I get American Samoa and Antarctica before Canada! Let alone my old acquaintances Cambodia and Cameroon.

Same for Russia - you get Aruba, Nauru and Burundi higher in the list.

So here is my non-PC suggestion: rate countries by population or GDP per capita, so countries where your customers are more likely to be from will be closer to the top and thus easily accessible with fewer keystrokes.
Uh, he's talking about YouView and GoogleTV... not YouTube.

Sure, the YouTube content will likely still work under HTML5, but I guarantee that most people use their GoogleTVs and YouViews to watch actual content—most of which is on sites like Hulu and played with Flash.
Why is Antarctica on the list?
"Tipping point" is another one
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They have been enabling this feature for kana-kanji conversion in Japanese keyboard since when iPad was first introduced (iOS 3.2) and enabled it for iPhone in iOS 5.
That's great as long as the money is coming in. It's when it's not coming in that my priorities shift, and that causes strain on everything.