skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still haven't read the studies. Your point would be much more powerful if you linked to a study and showed where they had gone wrong. (That's not hard; they typically use very small sample sizes. It's hard to randomise the groups. How was the blinding done? How are the effects measured? What are the confidence ranges on the results.)

But you should note that these are not quack journals and disreputable colleges - these are real journals and real researchers. Note that most of the reports are fair - "might be effective" and "deserves further investigation" tend not to be the language used by quacks.

Maybe I've misunderstood your point?
This is now my favorite essay of Paul Graham because it shares my thoughts.

The only thing I feel less comfortable with is that it emphasis financial value over a useful contribution to mankind. In my view the later is more relevant than a goal to become the richest person of the cemetery.

I guess this is a kind of perception distortion one gets when the main variables considered on a day to day basis are ROI, wealth, influence power, etc.

I'm aware that wealth provides a significant leverage to contribute to mankind's good, but it is easy to forget about this relevant next step by solely focusing on increasing one's wealth.

Open source is one example showing the difference and it also proves that we don't need to be a billionaire to significantly contribute to mankind's good.
Why would you want a touchscreen when you have a complete keyboard and touchpad? Touchscreen is just a workaround to make small devices actually usable. For any other scenario kb/touchpad is 100x faster and more comfortable. Unless you are lying down in a sofa just reading but then you don't have a laptop, then you have a tablet and we are back in the small-device-category.

I'd rather click a few hard keys or move my thumb 2cm than wave my whole hand in front of the screen.
It was Target and the New York Times Magazine, for what it's worth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
The UN has a useful news service. People wanting to read about Kony, LRA, wars in Africa, etc could get useful information from them.

(http://www.irinnews.org/)

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94941/SECURITY-Questions-over...)

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94794/Analysis-The-LRA-not-ye...)

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94657/GLOBAL-Fighting-for-the...)

etc etc.
While there may be a niche for your idea, it is common knowledge that the average Joe simply doesn't care enough about privacy.
I am a huge fan of old computers, and have a small collection of interesting items - Oric-1/Oric-Atmos (my first 'real computer with a keyboard'), a BeBox, SGI O2, Atari Portfolio, C64 and so on ..

I just wanted to say that there is still life in a lot of these old machines. My Oric collection has gotten more new releases in the last year than I remember having gotten in 1983, when as a teenager living in Australia, I was absolutely starving for new apps for the thing. The Oric scene is vibrant, and alive - if anyone wants to see some new apps being made for this aging platform, check out http://oric.org/ and http://forum.defence-force.org/ some time. Thanks to a newfound interest in the powers of these microcomputers, and an avid hacking scene: The Oric Lives!!
Do US carriers really still restrict tethering? That's really a shame, because the iPhone's built in tethering support is very good, and extremely elegant compared to apps and methods like this one...
Good read, but a repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2761337
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This is not a 'cutscene' in the pre-rendered-and-then-compressed-as-video sense. The site clearly states that it was rendered in realtime: it is a very short path to interactivity.
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They support both Java and Scala so not really an issue. In any event their support for Scala is the very reason I am looking @ play.
Dude, you don't have to tell me that. I've done it multiple times in past.
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For others who are wondering what you _should_ use, just Google ‘Amy Hoy selling digital goods’ (;
maybe its because of my search history, but I find google gives the best technical results.. and actually its when I do a search for something that has non technical meaning the technical results come to the top.
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Would it be possible for you to elaborate on what your email needs are and how they're not met?

Would your problems be solved by hiring a personal assistant (a real person)? Then the solution is AI and it's hard.

Or do you believe it's impossible for anyone but you to sort through your mail?

If that's the case, what we need is to make sorting email "fun" (more enjoyable than TV).

We may be looking for the Angry Birds of email.
Why is it that they think a single customer would be happy with 33% of a fee which is likely to be only a very small part of what their downtime cost them?

Not to mention that 16 hours time to fix is insane, unless all your datacenters had been blown up or war had broken out.
I think it would bring about enough breakthroughs for a lot more than one Nobel :-) But yeah, I'm definitely not the first one to fantasize about being able to correlate behaviors or even just basic bio signs across a big chunk of the population with the medical results.

I even think it'd be feasible to pull it together as a company, since there are lots of immediate potential benefits to using the things that would collect this data. A much better replacement for Life Alert, which works even if you're unconscious and can't press the button. Dieting aids, sleep aids, exercise aids, passive diabetes monitoring. It's a lot to bite off, especially as a startup, but I think a team that knew how to execute on this kind of product could roll out products serially and pull together that dataset. That dataset would enhance each other product in the way that each of Google's views on the internet (DNS traffic, browser feedback, analytics) help its core product. A hell of a defensible advantage. Not sure how one could convince that company to give up its crown jewels for the sake of medical research, though :-)
there were sites like this , swipely and blippy.. both failed as I don't think people in general are ok with giving out their purchases information... I'm really against giving permission to anyone for my email.
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I actually loved wave, I think they would of succeeded had it been tied in to your email account. I had to remind people to send me messages @wave.google.com or whatever it is. If all my gmail messages automatically went to wave and vice versa, I think it would of succeeded.
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Products usually have some piece of information which needs to be delivered to the customer. It can be the price of the product, instructions about usage, manufacturing date, name of the company etc.
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Yeah but until we invest as much time, money, and effort into defense against weapons and customized microorganisms as we do into their creation, we're running the risk of this young species (and maybe a lot of the other ones) disappearing very, very soon.
This all assumes conditions as usual. Which I think is a painfully mistaken notion. In an era of depleting fossil fuels, inferior ore quality of iron, copper and all the rare earth metals required to make modern electronics, water shortages and overpopulation, I doubt people will be worried about email overload in even 20 years. What's missing from this list are the real big issues of our time, such as quitting our reliance on fossil fuels, building a sustainable economy for the planet's resources, and creating a currency not solely based on debt expansion. In an economy with less energy surplus our problems will be more primitive than worrying about heart disease or faster computation or better search. Solving the shrinking energy surplus..., now that would be a really scary big startup of planet-wide implication.
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To be fair, you're reading quite a bit into that statement.

EDIT: Also, because it's not very clear, why do you think that the requirement to enable identification under 18 USC § 2703(c)(2) is not that much of a concern?
I'm honestly surprised not every hacker does this. The vast majority of popular browsers supports keyword searching either out of the box or via a plugin.
In regards to email, google wave took a stab at attempting to change the dynamic of communications but that project has now been shelved.

The difficulty in a new "email" replacement is overcoming the hurdles of engrained habits - see http://zenhabits.net/ for more on that psychology or even www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com (people see the inbox as a to do, that they grind through in mechanical fashion).

Think to tackle the problem of email is to put a new UI layer that wraps messaging into context while piggybacking off the traditional email protocol. For example, with my own work email we tag are subjects with TASK, FYI, MEETING, FOLLOWUP, FEEDBACK, etc. indicating what action we need done, helps with searching and labels now in gmail, however take that "context" element and combine with say www.trello.com UI concept of boards/cards in a visual dashboard type of style would be stellar.

I just imagine something like this on an ipad i am just swipping/slidding through my different buckets of communication (sort of like flipboard). KILL THE INBOX :)
Interesting. The apps my clients have asked me to write so far are pretty straightforward so maybe I could also get by with only a few devices. I'm certainly not doing anything that pushes the hardware as hard as a game.
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This tutorial is amazing, and even more amazing now. Thanks Michael.
Is there anything that lets you view how much network _bandwidth_ an application is using? I've looked before with no luck.
How Internet Companies Would Be Forced to Spy on You Under H.R. 1981

Excerpted from: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-internet-companies...

Because the actual language of the bill is somewhat vague, activists at Demand Progress have correctly noted that this legislation might force Internet companies to retain even more data just to be on the safe side. The proposed bill is an amendment to 18 USC § 2703, the law currently defining the circumstances under which companies that store electronic data on customers must disclose it to the government. H.R. 1981 is attempting to amend and expand this law in a way that “enables the identification of the corresponding customer or subscriber information under subsection (c)(2) of this section.”

So what is subsection (c)(2)? It requires a provider to turn over to the government without a warrant:

Name
Address
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Length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized
Credit card or bank account number
Again, sorry for the shite submission.

Some people enjoyed it, I guess.
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Nice one. Getting to know DTrace was on my todo list for the next few moths.
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Ah, but the difference between exclusivity and these deals taking longer than the average lifespan can't be discerned optically - I assure you that in the early days we were never for any reasonable length of time in a position to offer more than we did.

It took all our effort on both the business and engineering side to do what we did. And then iPhone came out, the world changed quickly, and in retrospect, we were reluctant and missed some opportunities. I would play that part and things after differently if I had another chance - but nothing before.

Things were more complicated then. I could go into boring details, but here's one example - MapKit on iPhone wasn't released until mid May in 2009. We had to maintain our own tile generation and geocoding infrastructure even after that for non-iPhones.

In the end though, international availability didn't matter because the product didn't resonate the way it needed to. Users in the US who weren't using it weren't simply waiting for their foreign friends to join. International availability would have brought more users, yes, but not success.
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Not sure. The "undefeated for 2 years" badge also meant that whoever did it first had serious boasting rights. Might end up being worth more than the 60k prize.

Saying the prize is 1M (it isn't!) is just eating the marketing.
Why the hate on SD cards? I mean, what's the reasoning behind this?
Let's add one more

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Prisons do not make criminals back into normal people. Prisons are expensive. Prisons are a big market. Prisons stay the same for the last few centuries. What is a better way to punish and a better way to bring criminals back to civil life?
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The tech exists, which is called fully homomorphic encryption scheme. But I concur in what olalonde says, average people simply don't care that much about privacy.
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I assume the retro web design is intentional :)
I disagree. She didn't have to have natural skin tones all over, and they didn't have to do a full frontal shot while she covered herself shyly, and the clothes they used didn't have to be so skimpy.
On linux there's nethogs. http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/

Apparently there's ntop which works on all platforms and has all kinds of snazzy features but I've never tried it personally. http://www.ntop.org/products/ntop/
The article really is worth a read if you build complex systems. My takeaway from this is that you shouldn't schedule maintenance work during "weird" times.

Had they not been deploying new code on leap day (UTC), the outage would have been substantially less severe. Code that uses dates and times will have bugs, because it's hard. Don't complicate things further.

So from now on, no more leap day, daylight savings time, or new years maintenance. It's worth postponing a day just in case.
Don't all governments have a monopoly over their country's prisons?
Yeah, me to. I've used Java for years without doing any Enterprise stuff, so to me Java has always just been a really good general purpose programming language that does OO a million percent better than C++ (from whence I came).

When I had to do some web stuff with Java I recoiled in horror from the mess that all that old enterprise stuff was at the time - XML hell! I gave up and just wrote a servlet directly.

What I'm leading to is that there is bloat in the Java space - that old EE stuff was god-awful, but extending this to say that everything in Java is bloated and over-engineered is offensive and ignorant. Some frameworks are heavy like old EE. Some frameworks are light like Play! There's nothing inherent in Java that means you can't have lightweight solutions.

But bashing Java is cool on HN...
cough http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/DATE_NOT_FOUND.aspx

And this is why you always use your framework's or language's date arithmetics library and never try to hack up a solution on your own. Date calculations alone are hard enough with the basic irregularities of month lengths. Add the leap years and it becomes even harder.

And don't get me started on times, especially once time zones and summertime comes into play.

Likely your particular hacked-together solution will fail at some point. And if it doesn't: was it worth all the effort you put into making it perfect, especially considering that somebody has already done it for your framework.

NIH at its finest.
This is like tactics and propaganda to get you in the army and which tells you you MUST FIGHT some other bad guy you only know from this movie. But essentially there are army A fighting army B over power to govern what goes on in that part of the world. Picking either one is legit choice. (or none if you don't want align yourself ).

I wonder what would propaganda movie be like if LRA pays same amount of resources to made it.

What if some rich guys pay this kind of propaganda movie against you one day. what would you do?
The KDD cup had some entries in 2006 on this idea. I found one of the papers by accident yesterday. It looks quite interesting, might be worth checking out.
www.daimi.au.dk/~ifrim/publications/kdd2006.pdf
www.dialog.com/products/guide/results/science_advanced.shtml

Dialog have been doing this over the internet for a long time. It's generalised search of the web I feel that is too expensive to tackle as yet.
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gains the confidence over ambitious.

Relevance dictates the shift.
> But African politics has failed to solve a pretty awful issue for 25 years.

American foreign policy has failed to solve all sorts of issues. It has in fact helped exacerbate many of them.
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I think in U.S. prisons are private enterprises.
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No, Facebook Messages and Facebook Chat are two different things.

http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/
Personally I like the trend, though like others I don't call them "redefinitions", it's more of a context switch and applying the phrase in a way its author didn't see. I like it because it takes seemingly clever or seemingly deep or seemingly insightful sentiments like "Programs exist for their users" and reveals their content-free tautological nature. The more tautologies we find the more we can focus on eliminating those from the conversation and talking about things that matter instead. Of course, sometimes the context switch doesn't reveal tautologies but actually harmful sentiments. You don't want a sado-masochist believing in the Golden Rule as a moral guideline for instance.
This, absolutely. It's fiddly to get Google to perform well now. Quotes everywhere and inablity to copy addresses from results ... bleurgh.
Steve Jobs regularily praised the people working for Apple, sometimes as a group, sometimes by name. Watch any Keynote to see that.
We're a YC company (www.post.fm) working on one of those ideas - email. We've encountered lots of headwinds as PG mentions, and we've managed to stay strong to our beliefs by keeping the team small and focused, and using our product ourselves to constantly remind us that what we're working on is better than Gmail.

It's not been easy admittedly, we didn't come up with some small idea that could grow into an email replacement over time, or some add-on to gmail to give us early traction, etc. We focused on replacing Gmail from day one. And that's no small feat, cause who wants to use a minimum viable email service?

We also realize it's a huge bet, and we may be wrong. But at least we're building something for ourselves, so we can't be too wrong, and that thought keeps us going.

Can't say I agree with "Email was not designed to be used the way we use it now. Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list."

Email was designed to be the electronic version of a letter - an async messaging channel. Not some to-do list protocol. But with increased volumes managing all that mail became difficult (I'm sure celebrities still struggle to catch up with physical mail). That's the problem we want to solve, by letting algorithms and better user interfaces help you manage your mail.

A to-do list is something different in my view, but naturally closely related (and should be part of the same application). A piece of mail often prompts you to create an associated to-do item, but today this functionality isn't integrated so we rarely bother.

Sure IM, Twitter, and To-Do list apps chip away at some of email's use cases, just like instagram is doing with facebook, but we're confident that email can be just as good if done right.

Now I just have to finish it and avoid thinking about my idea for the google-search-killer that would be oh-so-easy to try out ;)
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