skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on your point about robotic manufacturing still requiring people, but I don't think you can say we will always need blue collar workers in factories.

Even without strong AI we will there's no reason to assume that robots won't take over practically all blue collar work at some point. I can't say how far into the future that will be, but I can't see any reason to think it won't happen eventually (short of some kind of mass extinction/new dark age/robot apocalypse scenario).
Um, the only problem is that the "new monopolies" aren't monopolies. I'll ignore the fact that the writer doesn't seem to know the difference between a monopoly and a monopsony.

But even so, somehow in this monopsonistic market, finding talent is difficult. Salaries are moving ever upwards, and you hear nothing but complaints from participants outside the alleged monopsony about how hard it is to find people. (I'm one of them.)

That doesn't sound like a monopsony. That sounds like a competitive market where demand outstrips supply.
This excerpt is pretty poorly written. He makes a bunch of assertions without adding much in the way of facts. I dunno, there may be a case to make there. But he certainly hasn't made it.
Would YC ever fund a not-for-profit startup, as a form of philanthropy?

Part of the reason I ask is that for-profit and not-for-profit organizations have different kinds of leverage, and for some activities not-for-profits have big advantages. It's striking that some major success stories like Khan Academy and Wikipedia are not-for-profit.

I imagine that having a YC-like model applied to not-for-profits might produce some remarkable new startups, maybe even entirely new types of startup.
"... saying that Dow Corning is not high-tech because it did not win the Apple iPhone business ..."

I didn't say that. I cited the reference. Corning Inc. has the technology to produce the product. The article cites lead time to set up a batch-run & lack of facilities. Corning Inc. lost out because the Chinese firm was able to meet the un-reasonable constraints, faster. Is that the real reason Corning Inc. lost? I don't know, I just remember the NYT quote.

"Dow Corning have kept significant amounts
of manufacturing in the country"

When an MIT hack reports Corning Inc. as an example of keeping manufacturing in the US and the NYT incidentally reports Corning Inc. loosing a contract to supplying a high volume, hi-tech manufactured product, something doesn't tally. What's the real answer?
Thanks same to you, if I get stuck I'll definitely take you up on your offer!
Yes, UMLS is indeed a great resource! I do think one could use UMLS as a core vocabulary but with specific application context. At my company, we use it for information retrieval of clinical trials. NIH itself uses it in several of their services (MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, etc)

In the context of EHR data-entry/documentation, using UMLS would not make sense just because of the inherent noisiness/granularity differences that come about due to the integrated view of the world. With terminologies like SNOMED-CT, you run into coverage issues and end up pre/post coordinating lot of knowledge.
Your comment got me searching and I found this:

http://adonit.net/product/jot-touch/

Looks pretty darn close to feeling like paper. Pressure sensitivity doesn't matter for your app, but their other stylus options are fast and accurate too.

Any chance your app will work on my touchpad?

[EDIT] They also have JotStudio coming out. The app works with the pen and "overwrites the default finger offset, giving you 100% accuracy with the world's most accurate stylus."

They have an SDK so you can also support their pen. Sigh, I guess I need to buy an iPad3.
Presumably Corning has other contracts. It's not that unusual to lose a contract to the competition, foreign or domestic.
I just can't break through delegation. Any suggestions? I do have many years of programming experience (C, Perl, some JS), but can't quite grasp delegation.
This is exactly one good reason for the emergence of additional geo-centric incubators / accelerators. I know that, in my own case, it would probably be a tough sell for my co-founders to up and move to CA for three months, since they are both married and have additional commitments that I don't.

But, luckily, there is Triangle Startup Factory, which has just re-opened and has funding for at least a few cycles over the next couple of years. This works because we could stay here if we are accepted.

Anyway, the point being, YC isn't the only game in town, especially if "town" is somewhere other than the Valley. Of course not every town has an incubator, but hopefully more will continue to emerge over time and spread the opportunity around a bit...
Out of curiosity, were you running wordpress? I feel like it's a pretty big memory hog...
The Internet at large, on the other hand, would be quite happy with Linode in this particular instance.

Was there some other way they should have contacted you?
> It's a nice principal, but unworkable in the real world.

Reference? Why is it unworkable?
AsK HN: What would you do if your coder switched out adsense codes on pages?
How do you audit to make sure that a coder doesn't replace your ads with his? How do you quickly audit this?
The risks you describe are all true, but mostly apply at traffic lights as well: a cyclist still has to navigate into the right-hand lane at a junction if turning right from a two-lane (or more) entry road.

In practice, modern design practice for roundabouts ends any separate cycle lanes well before entrances to the roundabout, thus allowing everyone to merge on approach in plenty of time. Also, the roundabout itself should be designed to limit both the number of potential points of conflict and the speed of traffic crossing those points if shared use is expected, for example by the use of solid islands and dedicated lanes that must be chosen on approach and then followed throughout in a predetermined spiral path around the roundabout. That means cycling on such roads is usually both more efficint and safer than cycling through signal-controlled crossroads of a similar scale.

For larger roundabouts, cycling around with several lanes of traffic is rarely advisable anyway and alternative provisions will need to be made. Although dedicated cycle routes like underpasses come with their own safety concerns, particularly at night and not necessarily anything to do with traffic, most roundabouts on that scale are signal-controlled anyway these days (at least here in the UK) so a separate system of crossings to allow cyclists to move around the outside like pedestrians can be provided.
love the math. thanks for sharing.
Facts About Apple's Business That Will Blow Your Mind
If you are a long time reader you surely must have heard of all this "social bookmarking" thing.

Basically HN readers post articles, and then vote on them. Crazy, I know, the kids these days. Anyway, that's how this article got on Hacker News, and that's why nobody gives a flying duck about your "attention being wasted".

Thus, your sense of entitlement is extremely arrogant, not to mention that your comment was rude. Besides forgetting that HN offers what the HN readers vote on, you also forget that you are perfectly free to skip anything you don't like.
Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be re-inventing something that Underscore already gives you on Backbone collections, _.each():

var mycollection = new MyCollection();
...
mycollection.each(function(model) {
model.set({'passesFilterXYZ': filterXYZ(model)});
});

EDIT: it also makes an entirely new collection instance representing the set of filtered models...this seems terribly inefficient compared to the above.
Apple has their description of delegation here: http://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/#documentation/iPhone...

Delegation is a design pattern in which one object sends messages to another object that has been specified as its delegate, to ask for input or to notify the delegate that an event is occurring. The delegate object responds to these messages in a custom way. Delegation is a common design pattern in Cocoa Touch apps because it allows you to provide custom behavior without having to subclass and override the methods of a complex framework object, such as UIApplication.

It's probably confusing, really, to read about the delegation "design pattern" as on Wikipedia. Instead, it's mostly just a way to avoid subclassing: specify another object, the "delegate", to provide the information or react to an event, rather than do something like subclass and override specific methods for an event.

I hope that helped, maybe a tiny bit. If not, here's a +15 voted answer on Stack Overflow about it: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1792862/188512
Basic start to a rigorous solution:

Input: A, B : integers

Output: directed graph G(V, E, w) (V = vertices, E = edges, w = weight fn)

V = {c1, c2, c3}

E = {(c1, c2), (c2, c3), (c3, c1)}

w(c1, c2) = A

w(c2, c3) = B

w(c3, c1) = 0

shortest tour is the only valid tour whose length is clearly A + B.
Does anyone else think the naming of PUT/POST actually makes things more confusing? I feel like if they were better named at least a little confusion would be cleared up.
It's (mostly) just events. Look at how many delegate methods contain the words "did" and "will".

Object A is going through its life cycle, doing what it does. Certain events there trigger delegate messages. Object B, A's delegate, receives these and does things, or not, as desired, based on the event.
I was hoping he had implemented filtering and paging by fetching and caching the required objects from the server (overloading Backbone.Collection.fetch or Backbone.Sync). Instead this is just slicing the arrays different ways; to paginate/filter with it you still fetch 1000 models and only show 10 at a time, or whatever option you pass.
Wicked! Thanks guys!
Hopefully their investors are savvy enough to understand that the YC experience would more than justify any of those details.
Google: (new) Policies & Principles
A large reason is because I'd rather the money go straight into their account, I don't want to be responsible for floating money in between collecting and payout...
Obama signs treaty worse than SOPA
In the United States, these kinds of things are governed by FAR 101. It's reasonably straight forward to become exempt from _most_ of the rules by following the criteria outlined in section 101.1(4)[1].

Roughly, these regulations correspond to making sure that if a plane were to hit your unmanned balloon on the way up or on the way down that the plane will survive and that your package won't be dragged along; and, that the package itself won't be hazardous to folks on the ground.

(IANAL) Conformance with the rules means that no single payload is more than 6lbs, that the side-wall density of your payload does not exceed 3oz/sq in on the smallest side, and that the cabling you use will break with an impact force of 50lbs. We could debate about how you measure impact force, but most folks in this hobby read it to mean "tensile" strength. For 6lbs payloads, to meet the density requirement, you want a box about 1x1x1ft, which is often why most of the pictures of payloads that people send up in the sky look about the same size and shape.

Last, you need to conform with the safety regulations in FAR 101.7. The gist here is that you need to make sure that your payload isn't a danger to others on the ground, and not a danger to those in the air. Compliance here is more subjective, but a parachute and padding box go a long way to making others on the ground safe.

It's relatively easy to file a Notice To Airmen (NOTAM) that indicates you'll be launching a balloon. A courtesy call to your local Air Traffic Control office wouldn't hurt either. If you don't have a local ATC, the nearest airport is good place to start.

My familiarity with these regs comes from actually launching several helium-lifted payloads to near-space a few years ago and talking through the regs with the FAA and ATC to make sure we didn't need an official waiver (we didn't). My group had a slightly higher budget, but we went higher, longer and farther than these young Canadians, making two launches within an hour and sending the first balloon about 2000 miles over 34 hours starting at around 80,000ft, and sending the second balloon + payload to 123,000ft with about 3 hours of flight time.

Like many enthusiasts, our project used amateur radio frequencies to communicate, which qualified us to be listed on the Amateur High Altitude Radio Balloon (ARHAB) website for our achievements, we're listed as PBH-9 and PBH-10, for the duration and distance records.[2]

[1]:http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn...

[2]:http://www.arhab.org/
I question what reasons someone would have to be unwilling to move to the Bay Area for 3 months given the amount of founders that claim that YC was the tipping point for their companies.

OK, just to give one example... my co-founder is married, and her husband is in graduate school. So either he'd have to interrupt his education to come with her, or he'd have to accept her running off to the opposite side of the country for three months, chasing a dream that he might or might not be fully sold on. We honestly haven't had the discussion yet, but my gut feeling is that this would be a very hard sell. And YC make it clear that they expect all (or at least a majority) of the co-founders to make the trip.

Also, we have a local incubator (Triangle Startup Factory) that is (potentially) an option for us, which would not require any relocation at all.

Given that, it's not exactly a "no brainer" to apply to YC. I'm not saying we won't do it (either now or in a future cycle) but it's not necessarily an easy decision.
Here is the original article, which has slightly more info:

They "checked to make sure the flight wouldn’t be dangerous or illegal", and they used forecasts from "a website that calculates a weather balloon’s estimated landing spot based on input launch coordinates, prevailing winds, and balloon specs" to time the launch so that the balloon would land in Canada in the US.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1120808--toronto-teens-s...
The article asks a valid question: "Why aren't the employees of the cartel members baying for blood?" Presumably it is because any compensation from their employer will be more than cancelled by damage to their career, by the same employer?

There is a monopoly at work though. Since prospective employers engage data mining companies to build profiles from any and all Internet content, and there is only one Internet, the Internet has a monopoly over employee's reputations. If your reputation is tarnished on the Internet, for example, by being named as a plaintiff against your employer, it will be tarnished with every employer.
what i meant with "work and attention" is "greater work and attention in bad working conditions". Apple products should be ,well as S.Jobs wants them, "perfect" despite the working conditions, like polishing that gorgeous ipad back cover in a non-ventilated room. While motorola's back cover doesn't require that polishing .
Agreed. Early returns should function as guards.
Agreed. I think they should get nesting right, remove @username in replies, and indent usernames slightly as base level. At least in the new system, you get realtime updates and page changes without stopping vid.
Ask HN: Are thank-you letters outmoded?
It used to be the unspoken assumption of polite behavior to send (mail) a personalized thank you note after an interview.

Have you yourself hired programmers? If so, I'm curious what your reaction would be to a personalized note, would it be 1) expected 2) a pleasant surprise 3) irrelevant data or 4) tacky ?
Minnesota's startup community heating up
wondering - does your state compile figures like this?
Whether it's still relevant or not CUDA has a lot of mindshare in the academic community. Partially this is due to marketing and having their product out first, but also OpenCL has to go through some more abstractions. There was a quite popular forum post[1] a while ago now where someone claimed a 5x perf improvement from switching from OpenCL to CUDA and, while i havn't tested it myself, it's the sort of statistic that sticks in your mind.

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1. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=109684
The Faculty Project [Democratizing top level education]
Android Screen Densities Explained
Instead everyone will continue to call the initiator of all that a "genius".
How To Increase The Click-Through Rates Of Your Tweets
On the contrary, part of my point is that cars are designed for city use, not road trips: "Cars are built for the city roads where they are overwhelmingly used, not for the once-a-year roadtrip to Florida." Ask the manufacturers; that's the truth.
For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews
If developer salaries grow out of proportion to the value they create (which IMO has already happened), that creates downward pressure for everyone else in the value chain - non-technical employees, suppliers, etc. Also, when the bubble inevitably bursts it will affect lots of people who never benefited from the inflation in the first place. Bidding wars and speculation are not always good in the long term.

[edit] Allow me to expand on that in a very specific way. I'm currently sitting in Bengaluru, surrounded by some excellent developers. What effect does wage inflation in Silicon Valley have on people here? Every time a Silicon Valley engineer's salary gets inflated by US$20K, how many people here are affected by reduced job prospects or raises? From that perspective, what's hard to see is how a bidding war among SV employers could possibly be a good thing.
Valve Announces Steam Mobile App
Wedding Logo Maker - Make the Designing of Your Marriage Monogram Easier 
If you are going for designing a monogram for your wedding, you must be sure that the design is unexceptionally wonderful. It should be able to generate an influential impact on the guests and successfully display the qualities and personalities of the bride and the bride groom.
I admire this guy's work ethic, but I am a little uncomfortable with the fact that this post is pretty much viral marketing for Priceonomics.
The way I was introduced to this was as a math trick: Pick a number 1-9, multiply by 9, then 12345679, and you get a string of whatever number you picked.

Also, pick any three-digit number, multiply by 7, 11, and 13 (or 1001), and you get your three-digit number repeated twice.
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Android is a Java based open source mobile development pulpit with its dedicated programming environment. However beginners with some knowledge of Java can also use Eclipse IDE for Android application development.
Cell Phone GPS Tracking: Knowing Where your Wife Is Without a Doubt
Nintendo chief promises to do Wii U launch right
Could they just have people sign non-competes perhaps? If you want to work there, it's just part of the package. Seems like a fair trade off to me, and everything is above ground.
If run correctly a Ponzi scheme can last a long time. As long as you can keep new people paying into the scheme then it keeps going. Ultimately the scheme falls apart when either someone takes a good hard look at the books or people quit paying in.

The key is to not let anyone realize it's a scheme to begin with. Hollywood accounting isn't quite like that since almost everyone understands that they do it.
Nice trick. It works in any even base b:

xy = b((x - b/2) + (y - b/2)) + (b - x)(b - y)

For b = 2 in particular, x - b/2 and x - b/2 are the negative 1's complements of x and y, and b - x and b - y are the 2's complements. More generally, they are the same kinds of complements generalized to base b.

Because of that symmetric relationship with complementation, I suspect there is a conceptual proof waiting to be found. By conceptual I mean something that isn't just blind formula crunching. That would get us much closer to "why".
Understanding Python's "for" statement
Technomancy on project automation and the poison of nondeterminism in Leiningen
the TechCrunch link posted today shows very strong evidence of collusion and criminal conspiracy, but I'd agree that this Harpers thing builds up a whole tower of empty, meaningless nada on top of that very solid foundation.
"He committed suicide in 1993 at the age of 44 by shooting himself in the heart in Angeles National Forest.[6]"

for me that smells as "assassinated in the woods but the case was never investigated"
Aren't noncompetes non-enforcable in California? (I'm not a lawyer)
How Google Analytics Can Track Your Email Or PPC Campaign
All these languages compiling to javascript makes me think we really need a more low level language to compile to for the web. A C for the web, if you will (like how a lot of Lisp implementations will generate C to compile). Not necessarily byte-code per se, but something at a low enough level that provides enough guarantees that it can be compiled into something that performs well without the need for exotic jit compilers and so on. Javascript is not that language.

(Obviously C can't be that language for the web (NaCl possibly excluded), but when I say C, I mean in the general profile: extremely simple and maps very closely to what the hardware is actually doing)
Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law
Working Long Hours Can Be Depressing, Truly
They are beautiful, especially compared to the built-in dashboard UIs. If you're looking for yet another piece of infrastructure code to give away for free, I'd love to see it open-sourced.
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Zynga's copycattin' around, and it's not the first time
http://www.totaldivorce.com/news/articles/process/man-jailed...
Les Français ne sont pas satisfaits de la santé de leurs finances
First 'Super Wi-Fi' network goes live in Wilmington, North Carolina
A lot of good points here.

Perhaps I should grow a thicker skin, but as a father of two redhead children I found the use of the expression "redhead stepchild" offensive. Mostly because I'd hate them to read something like that and think that there is something wrong with them.

I know it's meant to be a funny expression, and it's cool to make fun of redheads and all (isn't it great to find a minority that is ok to publicly ridicule without having to think about issues like racism), but perhaps the joke is getting not funny anymore...

or maybe I need to have a coffee and lighten up?
I know that one pretty well :)
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Otixo: Use all your cloud-based files from a single login
If you go to news.google.com and type in Craigslist you will get a vastly disproportionate number of negative/positive Craigslist stories. Muggings get reported, smooth transactions don't.

Shoot me a message if you ever need help with something.
Then what was the reason for the video? I guess I'm genuinely missing the point.
Nothing remarkable here.
Forget freeloaders, think traction. I can't imagine why I'd send bitcoins to this site versus just using Reddit.
http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/
http://try.ocamlpro.com/

I will actively contribute to your language implementation and use of these tools should you adopt them. With a proper type system, you can change the world. Without a proper type system, we will all suffer and kill ourselves by a thousand cuts.

If you have further doubts about the viability of this approach, see http://ashimagroup.net/demo/game/ooman/tutorial/ for a rigid body motion model in an OCaml WebGL game compiled to JS.
Don't underestimate stupidity. Only a tiny percentage of people want to know why that's the way it is. The big majority will call you names if you attempt to discuss the maths.
Stupidity is more popular and more appealing than reason.
Want to be popular, be stupid and appeal to the stupid.