skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to me that that private group of scientifically grounded medical practitioners who certified their members, but had different criteria from the state licensing system could be a very good thing.

Could be, perhaps. Now weigh that hypothetical scenario against what actually happened in history that led to the state medical boards being created.

> I doubt you're arguing that current state approved medical institutions cannot be improved upon. Why not allow alternatives to compete with them?

Because we tried that and it didn't work last time. It got so bad that self-proclaimed "doctors" set up self-proclaimed "medical schools" as a con, paid large sums of money for cadavers "no questions asked", and ended up getting people murdered.

Do you have some legitimate problem with your state's medical board? I'd suggest you take it up with your state legislator.

Besides, there are alternatives--some states have separate osteopathic boards that license D.O.'s rather than M.D.'s, yet licensed D.O.'s have the exact same privileges as any other doctor.
Hence the use of (what is called) "scare quotes".

Note that I put scare quotes inside of scare quotes, because I really disagree with that name. Irony quotes might be a better name, which would allow it to cover all different and separate forms of irony (sarcasm, tragedy, fate, etc).

But that's neither here nor there. The point is, "steal" is in scare quotes meaning it is using a word to express something other than its literal intention.
"You're much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession."

Exactly. So many students and young people see programming as an end, rather than a means. They might take a class in Java or Python or somethign, hoping to learn how to write code. What needs to be impressed on people is that you don't write code to write code, you write code as part of creating an online network connecting a billion people around the world or write code to create an immersive world that tells a unique story every time someone enters it. Despite the rise of DIY blogs and webpages, people still talk about programming as if they were an artist talking about learning how to paint in order to use a paintbrush.
Nothing probably. Very few people want to buy a pile of code with no users, revenue, or team to go with it.
That whole `corporations are persons' thing just means that corporations are entities that can sue and be sued.
Damn. So this is not about software cracking.
Viewpoint: How hackers are caught out by law enforcers
If C isn't suitable for projects with more than 10K lines, then praytell, what language should my kernel be written in?

I've been meaning to try Go for a while (the fast compile times alone intrigued me), but this type of post really just puts me off - if you're telling me that C isn't suitable for large projects, then that tells me you may not know C well enough to make that judgement.
Corporation are people?
Apple makes try-before-you-buy possible for app users
My first thought was "that seems a lot better than other industries". Wasn't expecting such a negative page.

Not that I'm against equal pay, but I was thinking it would go in a totally different direction.
How To Acquire A Struggling Web App & Turn It Around With Rob Walling
Is it? I don't much about them since I live in the U.K. it just seems generally when I've been travelling, mostly to less developed countries, that the airports aren't really that secure.
I had a great telephone conversation with Emil last night re: my Offer HN post. He's very smart, down to earth and knowledgable.

This is a great opportunity if you're looking to found. He's already eliminated some risk and validated part of his market.
Half the Battle Against DRM
They do plan (and will have) IO extensions ala Arduino. I can't remember what they call the daughterboard they're releasing.

Mainly what they want is software and cases. It's meant to teach kids computer programming and software basics outside of the Windows and OSX "don't worry about it" mindset they're currently growing up in. Robotics and extraneous hardware design is outside of their current scope.
It is the same with Sabu. They cought him mainly because he forgot to turn on Tor once and logged to IRC from his IP.
Apple’s cash pile - The tech giant should give cash back to shareholders
New iPad, here's what's new (and what is missing)
I don't see how Apple could tarnish its brand image by saying they were using OSM. As a matter of fact they could have improved their image regarding open source by supporting OSM directly, thus justifying the use of their maps.

I'm not going to say it was malice, I really think this was discussed during development and most of the people in charge thought it wouldn't matter and nobody would care if they used OSM maps and give no credit to it.
> Something tells me there’ll be a few drinks sunk in Bar Music Hall tonight.

As I've said before: The fact that people "celebrate" a funding event is really bass-ackwards when you think about it.

It says that the company couldn't figure out how to grow without bringing in a bunch of financiers, who have a low hit rate (3 go north, 3 go south, 4 turn into the living dead), who provided negative 10 yr returns even with Google in the portfolio, and who take 2-3% + 20% of exit from their own investors.

Definitely an excuse to drink, but not for reasons of celebration.
congrats ian and team.
It is stereotypical library but not stereotypical software project per se. Functions in libc have (by design) very strict interface and little data interdependency.

I would say SQL or HTTP server or game or a word processor where you have to retain sizable chunks of data in memory for longer periods is a better example of big C project. And that's where lack of automatic memory management and data abstraction in C makes it hard.
Is this HN's haberman?
Gorillas More Related to People Than Thought, Genome Says
It's very easy to finde the OSM Licence and even easier to understand that the most important they ask for is to be properly credited. Whoever green lighted this over at Apple is going to have a very bad day.
No, the same tile sets are used in iPhoto for OS X (part of the iLife suite) and some people claim they're used in Aperture (another photo editor but I've not used it).

Where they have used it, they used it as hint as to where a photo was taken. The more detailed info panes still use google's maps.
An average without a sigma, how useful!
Love this: "Design is incredibly strategic. Later, visual design becomes absolutely vital, and that’s really more the front-of-the-house way all that strategy becomes expressed. The two go hand in hand: to have both, design strategy as well as design expression, is a powerful combination."
Emboldened by Megaupload shutdown, Hollywood targets Hotfile
I do just that actually. Although my reasoning was more about how insanely cheap and reliable it is, and wanting to get familiar with the technologies for the first time.

I would say Cloudfront is actually overkill for a static site, I didn't really notice any decreased page load times in my testing, and having it purge the caches is another hoop you have to jump through.

There is something entirely geeky about it though, and it puts a smile on my face knowing how unnecessary the technology behind my site is.

I'd be willing to share my rakefiles for publishing this set up if anyone is interested.
Similar boat (heh) here. I did archery, sailing, and pistol. Ah well.
Anonymous are (I think) mostly using anonops. But I personally thought anonops have tor banned by default, so who knows.
Forked this so that it saves the current view (if unsaved) before reloading:

https://github.com/bradleyboy/BrowserRefresh-Sublime
This could become the new type of charity. Instead of giving money to an organization that wants to "fight cancer" you could give your money directly to the research project of your choice.
My Eureka Moment with Regular Expressions
> most people will just shrug their shoulders and think "meh, so what?"

AKA, Ipad3 is out, let's go shopping!
Thousands of spiders blanket Australian farm after escaping flood
A complete list of all major algorithms, in any domain
They didn't respond to anything and it was a single sentence of fluff.
Check eBay for parts! From a simple search I can see that a replacement back for the iPhone 4s costs about $4 including shipping. Nowhere near the $120 iCracked charges according to this article.
Just from the title I can tell this is going to present a completely objective, well thought-out, unbiased appraisal.
Megaupload Shutdown Boosted TV and VOD Services
My university in Michigan used to have a swim test as mandatory admission. The college is build on a river known for a notable handful of students and children drowning. To get into the school you used to have to pass a swim test because "you're living in Michigan which is surrounded by and filled with water".

Not sure why they dropped it.
That Naked Scanner Expose Video Is Exaggerated & Old News
Do you think It's a bad thing to learn how to be physically healthy? There have been plenty of studies that show a direct correlation between being active and increased brain function.
Social Passport Marries NFC With Social Media For A New Spin On Mobile Deals
Yale students - not enough coffee, or actual zombies?
How I built my blog in one day:

Sat down with Go, wrote a web handler (they already have http support). Added code to parse a tree of directories containing blog posts. Write markdown code in individual files in those directories. Blog code reads the markdown, parses it, and inserts it into a template. Add Disqus to taste and serve.

Final step: don't submit it to hacker news, profit :)
Apple A5X quad-core confusion, explained
Wrong discussion. This is the one about the blog, not OSM's response.

Not to belabor the point, but Apple explicitly refused to give credit the moment they published the App.

Despite whatever insinuations you might be making, of course OSM is pursuing their goals - goals which are utterly legitimate, legal, above board, intended to promote the general welfare and not for private profit or stockholder value.
Apparently, #EXPERT PROGRAMMER wins for efficiency ;)
It doesn't matter that Apple are a big company: they're still subject to the same rules as anyone else. This is by far the best way to have this issue resolved. Talking to people usually works a lot better than spamming them with legal documents.
Actually, as can be gleaned from the article's URL, it was originally misspelled and later corrected.
Mozilla and Yahoo over-promise on mobile
Torrent-less Pirate Bay Sees Massive Drop in Bandwith
Isn't Twilio is that platform?
> The post does not address the main criticism in the video, which is that the body scanner does not actually help with security.

I think it is the majority here that fell for the causation-correlation fallacy. Just because you can cheat a security system with high confidence does not make it obsolete on that grounds alone. Imagine a hypothetical security system that keeps you from taking any kind of firearm, but lets knives pass through. Well, yes, then the "terrorists" can still arm themselves with katanas and wreak havoc, but it did stop them from doing the same with Uzis, which might decrease the impact of such an attack.

> The TSA's post only makes sense if you live in a world where the TSA's job is to grow, expand, gain more power, influence and budgets. And so does your analysis of it.

It is a dangerous thing to evaluate rational argumentation in a political context - sadly something we see too often - especially if you want this argumentation to hold universally, including extending it to the Congress. All I'm saying is if you base your argument against TSA on the premise presented in the video, you aren't likely to be taken seriously by the same fraction who approved of this system in the first place and continue to support it. There are many good arguments against the body scanners and the TSA in general, focusing on a hyped viral video lacking a sound rationale only weakens your cause.
LED converts heat into light - conventional efficiency of greater than 200%
Speaking as someone who started literally from 0 in terms of developer knowledge a scant 3 years ago, and having been spat on, insulted and otherwise ridiculed for ever believing I could join the cult, I will say this: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I had code with security holes that you could drive a Mack truck through. I learned security. I had sloppy copypasta code. I learned OOP. I had inefficient code. I learned memory management processes and how to structure code better for efficiency.

Could those who spoke down to me have been more helpful? More coddling? Not said anything at all? Sure. But who knows how that would have stunted my growth.

It's good to have compassion, and it's good to care. But if you really want to be the best at something, you're going to have to want it. And if you really want it, when someone beats you down, you're not going to stay down. You're gonna learn how to hit back.

As far as ultimately being where you want to be, sometimes it's simply the luck of the draw, and you have to understand how large a role that luck plays, as well, especially when you're being enchanted by stories of multi-million dollar startup investments.
This review gives the impression that Dyson's book doesn't give credit for the Williams tube. It does. (The linked article in the Atlantic is guilty, though.)

It also links to an Amazon review championing Mauchly and Eckert; but there was a recent bio of Atanasoff (whose title I'm blanking on) saying basically that Mauchly ripped off Atanasoff, and von Neumann had plenty of contact with both sides, had a better grasp of Atanasoff's ideas, and probably worked behind the scenes to promote them and make sure they weren't patent-encumbered. (IIRC Atanasoff had a universal computer in mind but didn't try to make one as his first project because he wasn't going to get stuck Babbage-style taking on too much at once.)

Not to say this review may not have a point. I haven't finished Dyson's book yet.
Speed. Bcrypt is much slower.
Loved the last sentence, I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm exercising. "I'm getting ready to dodge a truck"
Volvo offering world's first pedestrian airbag
what tools do you use to edit? i loved using google wave to manage my drafts, and i haven't really recovered from that - i use google docs now but there's no great way to extract content from that in a way that will be fragile to changes in factors outside my control.
Growing a company takes money. Some people can manage to bootstrap it, and those people deserve a lot of credit. However, most can't. Employees need to be paid, and going from $0 to (($100k * # employees) + office space + hosting + etc) isn't something that can normally be done fast enough.

The challenge isn't to get funded. The challenge is to find a VC who can improve your valuation by more than the percentage they take. Finding that is worth celebrating.
Apple in antitrust crosshairs over e-book pricing
Another way to phrase this? Design is about more than just making things pretty.
Equipment procurement, funding for one or two assays, HPLC columns...

In exchange, the researchers tell a story...

It can most definitely work. Never did we mention replacing federal grants, either.

edit: There's so much more too! Fund creation of a plasmid, disarmed strain, knockout, protein fusion...

This can _so_ work. You can even focus on the things that will help multiple labs out.

You don't even have to fund labs--you could fund biotech startups in creating new tech if they promise to donate X amount to public institutions.
My own project (FLINT) is about 120k lines, and we're still going with C. I did spend a lot of time looking for a theoretical higher level language which could take us further when C ran out of puff, but we eventually decided to stick with C for the main project.

However, I did eventually spot Julia, which is totally awesome for my own personal higher level needs.
Awesome rocket!
I don’t understand what point you are trying to make.
Two asteroids named after Unix co-creators
Свой бизнес на дому, заработай на свое будущее здесь
http://zarabotok.kuznetsovboss.com/
The legs on those ethernet connectors are .100" centered, like the old DIP pins. Those are incredibly easy to solder and unsolder.

If this thing was surface mount, or had a hidden heat-sink pad in the center of the die, that would be way tricker. Nothing an assembly shop couldn't handle, but kind of getting beyond typical DIY work.
An Open Letter to Warby Parker
I think the same could be argued for Heroku and EC2 - no?
> One reader detailed the history of Pythons ternary operator

i'd love to see this
Unix and Node: Pipes and Streams
I'm pretty sure they can afford to buy their own map data. What would be nice, though, is if they put the cash into fixing up OSM. Somewhat like what they did with KHTML.
Two answers, really.

1) The Python community doesn't really like lambdas. It's almost always considered better style to declare a named function, even if it's a short one-liner. If it's already available in the standard library, use that instead of re-implementing it as an unnecessary lambda.

2) This is an adaptation of jokes that have been made about many languages before Python, so the code isn't very Pythonic to start with. Most of the complex ones have errors that prevent them from running, they're just for comedic effect.
So, what you're saying is "'X is dead' is considered harmful"?
The opposite is also true : There's a pretty fixed mark-up for 'cracked' Apple TV 2s. I imagine people are buying used ATV2s, rooting and reselling...
> The challenge is to find a VC who can improve your valuation by more than the percentage they take.

And considering that their IRR's are negative (they're not even making money for their limiteds), which VCs would that be?
Bullshit on the veil of secrecy defense.

Apple didn't need permission from OSM to use the data. They were not required to tell anyone about their plans to use it.

All that was required was copyright attribution in their published work.

If violating OSM's copyright carried the same financial risks as downloading illegal music, I suspect Apple's cost benefit analysis would have been different.

An army of lawyers, a huge reserve of cash, and a weak opponent unlikely to be able to vigorously pursue legal remedies led Apple to the probably correct assumption that the benefits of violating copyright outweighed the financial risks.

It is not as if the decision to drop Google maps was made by a Coop student or an intern. In a company with the sort of top down management of image that Apple employs, this was discussed at a senior level.
I'm really digging the last 5 examples, specially the web designer and enterprise programmers parts.

So true...
I'm not so sure this is completely the fault of Gov'ts. Healthcare services have less that -1 (1) price elasticity (2). That is to say, regardless of the price, the demand for those services go relatively unaffected. Would this be any different without Gov't intervention? Unlikely IMHO.

With Big Tobacco, "elasticity of demand for cigarettes is quite low. The amount of cigarettes purchased will remain reasonably unchanged..." (3)

(1) http://oheschools.org/ohech2pg7a.html
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
(3)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_S...
I would just wait until someone else wrote about it, then use their article.
I went with my friend to the Apple store last year with her cracked iPhone 4 and watched in awe as they transferred her data to a new one and gave it to her on the spot, free of charge. I got the same treatment a few years ago when the power switch on my Touch stopped working.

Interesting thing is they didn't ask to see a warranty either time, they must have them in their system for each machine.
I totally agree... and it reminds me to make sure we tell a great story.
Totally agree. It's a tiring issue that is constantly "looped" without real information.
See also: http://www.fundageek.com/ and http://sciflies.org/
The Pathology of Stabilisation in Complex Adaptive Systems
(This is how I contributed roughly $3MM of value to one company as a kid who barely knew how to program)

Care to tell this story?
"Computer programmer" is such a generic term that I think a 5% gap in average salary is meaningless without presenting it with other data. Web or Desktop? Windows, Android or iOS? What languages?

Language makes a difference. I know some languages fetch a higher pay. So if, for instance, more women are taking up a lower paid programming skill it is unfair to compare that salary with those of other programmers with a higher paid skill.

Geography makes a difference. I'm pretty sure a programmer in Wichita, KS is not making the same as one Mountain View, CA. So if more women are programming in a lower paying region it is unfair to compare with higher paying regions.

I understand that we as a whole have a much shorter attention span than in the past. But a single sentence does not make a good argument. I need more info before I'm willing to become outraged by some $3,432/year gap. As I look around my office right now at the programmers here, I'm sure we have a salary gap that big (or bigger)... and we don't even have any women programmers. ;)
I have worked on projects that occupy this space. I tend to think that it's ok for the client to have arbitrary read access, but for writes it's a better idea for the client to generate events that are then approved and applied by the/a server. The reason for this is that it's much easier to approve high level events than low-level change-sets.
At the time we choose sha1 because the password hashing for creating new user documents was done by the client, often in the browser. At the time there were no good bcrypt implementations in JavaScript. Here is the related bug tracker issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1060
Unlocking Autism's Mysteries
Wow! Just wow! So, he's reading about 500 emails per day, and writing over 100 emails per day, and spending about 10 hours per day on the phone, and has an average of 10 meetings per day... those numbers just don't add up. The meetings are obviously held over the phone, and he's apparently writing and reading emails while being in those meetings, but I still don't understand it. Are all his emails one-liners that don't require any thought or research? Is he some sort of genius multi-tasker? How can it possibly work?!
People who advocate IDEs don't define them as crutches, nor do they judge a developer for his preferred environment. You can add all the disclaimers you want, but you made your position clear. Stop trying to be condescending and own up to your words.
Drawn to Scale Announces Funding for Real-Time Big Data
You have to encode it properly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights%2C_Maryland_mayo...
"[Issue 9] is a C-like language...It is intended to be a systems programming
language..."

What? Google's Issue 9 is neither a C-like language nor a systems language.
Congrats! Well deserved :)
with a headline like that (and in all caps as well) I expected to actually see a chart on the page. This needs more show, less tell.
TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
The perception that someone is "forcing" "nerds" to exercise is superficial and reinforces incorrect nerd/jock stereotypes. Perhaps you didn't mean this in a serious way, but in my experience some people still think that MIT is all stereotypical nerds. It isn't at all.

People get up early in the morning on signup day in order to be the first to sign up for phys. ed. classes.

In addition to that, until they cut 8 varsity teams a few years ago, MIT had the most varsity sports teams in the country (tied with Harvard, I think). There are also tons of intramural sports happening throughout the year.

Everyone at MIT is a nerd to some extent, but by far not everyone is a "stereotypical nerd" (whatever that means). People are very diverse here and you'll find all kinds of stereotypes (if you are so inclined), even "jocks."