skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been involved in picking health plans for my startup, I am not optimistic. It was a giant pain in the ass. The number of variables seems much larger than car insurance, and the consequences murkier and more severe.
Practical applications for the math you learned (or didn't) in school
You are confusing all sugar as meaning "glucose", but there are a number of sugars.

No I am not confusing them. I know there is a difference.

When he just calls it sugar, he's making it easier for people to relate with.

He goes back and forth between calling it sugar and fructose. His advocates are often anti-sugar zealots espousing zero sugar diets & parrot his "sugar is poison" line. I also doubt if we changed all the fructose in products to glucose, that would really make him happy nor do I think that is a real solution. You still need to burn the calories if you're eating them.
Seems to me you'd lose too many people to "Just Too Hard" syndrome for the strategy to be worth using too.
>started removing what they considered to be fraudulent votes during the blackout period

I doubt they'd begin this process while voting was still taking place.
By your definition of the term 'startup', the early Apple wouldn't have qualified.
The iPhone Almost Had a Physical Keyboard
Is there a way to get it to open a file in a new tab instead of the current one? (instead of having to :tabnew and then invoking ctrlp)
The app opts-in to a strict Content Security Policy <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSP/>, which disallows 'eval' entirely. It also severely restricts where and how JS can be loaded with the script tag, setTimeout/setInterval, and event attrbites. It's essentially intended to make sure that only the JS that shipped with the extension can be executed.

There may be undiscovered exploits, of course, but CSP severely reduces the chances.
1. Can the PCI card transmit in any frequency (up to 4GHz)? Is this allowed by the FCC?

2. Wireless protocols are timing sensitive. Can the card load up a program to process signals? Similar to a kernel in a GPU?
Mexico passes law to compensate victims of crime ~ Daily World News
Thanks for the feedback! I have been considering removing the pictures next to the feed. You're probably right about it competing for you attention.
Yeah, I added MTurk as a possible explanation in one of my edits before putting up the post. It would be a more expensive, but harder to trace way to do the same thing - MTurk is effectively a human bot. One giveaway would be that most of those IPs are likely to come from outside the US, and since most of these sites only serve US (and Canada/UK in the case of PM), it'd be easy to tell that something was off if you knew that fact.
I'm wondering if you have any tips for people who want to apply to YC with a non-software idea? Or some info as to what they can expect once they get there? It's got to be a different experience.
During the application process, he tweeted that just under 14% had no idea: https://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/184079333323837440
im looking and i cant find the source. i must have been zoning out on that commute and remembered it wrong.
Well at least there aren't semicolons in JSON.
This is okay, but you talk about "cloning" objects by giving them a different variable name, then you talk about constructors, and then you VERY briefly mention the "prototype" property -- which is actually the secret behind it all.

I feel like in any overview of JavaScript you HAVE to mention two things: 1) constructors aren't classes, they're non-magical functions (it's the "new" keyword that actually does the magic) and 2) inheritance works through a prototype chain, not through a class chain. Once you understand these two things (which will blow your mind) the rest is easy. (EDIT: okay, then there what "this" does in different contexts, but that's details)

This article is pretty elucidating: http://livingmachines.net/2009/02/creating-javascript-classe...
I'm a 17 year old programmer and Rails developer, and I'll be interning with a New York company this summer, late June to late August. I don't know how in depth these are going to get (HTML & CSS are a few years back for me) or how late into the summer these will run, but either way I'd love to be there--whether to learn or to help other young people get involved in code. Seems like a fantastic opportunity to meet other young programmers. Keep it up!
> "I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives"

What could possibly make somebody want to do that? Are there any examples around of people doing that?
nice! Took me fifteen minutes to build a native tabbar on an html5 app. And the tabbar's not laggy like jQuery mobile :-P
"Spine aims to simplify MVC, it is lightweight ( 7k ) and integrates well with CoffeeScript. Backbone is bigger ( 5.6k ) and depends on the utility library Underscore.js ( 4k ) that makes up for some of Javascript missing features."

Someone failed at math or failed at making that sentence understandable...
Add a way for me to put this as my search engine in my firefox search bar.

Please.

EDIT: In trying to accomplish this task I found an add-on that lets you do this for anything.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search...)
Linux Memory Images - with kbeast rootkit
Scale up is damn expensive. When you need that 64 core 96Gb machine to run it all on with 6 replicas will see what I mean.

Damn expensive, eh?

As it happens I bought a couple boxes that size just recently. Except with 256G RAM instead of 96G. They cost $8500 per shot. That's not even 2 months of salary for a single developer.

Don't underestimate Moore's Law.
Care to elaborate, rather than simply posting a flame?
Ask HN: ACM membership?
I've been invited to an organizational meeting for an ACM chapter at my college later this week. I took a look through the brochure and got the impression it seems to be targeted more towards students looking to go on in graduate studies.

Is this the case? In other words, what are the benefits of being an ACM member?
The US government already runs a fine universal health insurance program. It's called Medicare. I was the advocate last year for a family member with a serious illness, and it worked beautifully: she got the care she needed, and we never had to deal with a bill, a co-pay, or a question about whether insurance covered something.

The only evidence I saw of government bureaucracy was when the hospital send somebody around to make sure everything was fine because it was especially important to them to make sure Medicare patients were getting all the care they needed.
And note that anyone can buy and sell stocks. And yea, the wrong incentives can be worse than no incentives at all. The increase in CEO compensation AFAIK were actually helped by making it public. I wonder what would happen if it was made private again and CEOs could control it themselves like in the 1970s.
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What if the gastrointestinal bleeding is the cause of the decrease in cancer?
Otherwise we might run into a bug in JSMin!
I started like you, but never made more than a few bucks. I unlocked Nokia phones for a couple of friends and then charged ~$3 to other kids. I probably made less than $100 overall.

This was when Nokia phones could be unlocked by simply inputting the IMEI and phone network on a VB calculator and getting the code. I did tell them how it was done, but back then few people had Internet at home or knew how to use it, whereas I spent many Saturday mornings on the public library using their machines and connection.
For what it's worth, quite a few of the original iPhone Dev Team members got hired by Apple, and they tried to recruit all of us. Not sure about the later iPhone hackers, but in the early days they were trying hard to get all of us.
I absolutely love how they are making such major changes as late as version 5.2. I also love that one of them is goto.

Lua is terribly impressive. Someone needs to make a transpiled language targeting Lua and JS. They're semantically close enough that this might not be too complex. If it worked well, it would be an interesting alternative to Node.js, since you could write the server-side for Lua coroutines and so on. Not to mention its performance.
You made my day. Haha, thank you.
Anyone know why so many Duke basketball alums participated in the round?
Toour - http://ontoour.com. Lets you create tours with things to do while traveling; you can include locations from different countries in the same trip. Currently in alpha.

Disclosure: it's my app.
The walled garden grows tighter, to bad this has zero to do with security.
If you haven't seen it already, grab a copy of "Getting to yes". It's a quick read and research based.

Best of luck.
Is there a good inexpensive hosting option for postgres aside from just running it yourself? Sort of like RDS on Amazon? Alternatively a DBaaS host for postgres?
Nice!

One suggestion: when a cluster of markers are clicked, pop out all of the children of the cluster - you can do this by setting the 'zIndex' of the marker.

Also, it would be even better to dim out all of the other markers.
Mozilla Firefox 12.0 Final Release on Downloads App
Great library, dude. People often ask how to do this, I will definitely be pointing them towards your library.
A semi-related question:
Isn't padmapper using a bot to scrape websites? Isn't it mapping craigslist, which specifically says, please don't scrape us, we don't want that?

Just wondering out loud some.
Hulu encouraged by its innovative new "pay-for-stuff" model
Maybe bunnie is interested in going to work for Per Vices. Those guys seem set on demolishing the world with their one-wireless-chipset-rules-them-all approach.

Would be an awesome combination, especially given his previous learning experience at Chumby and his new open-source hardware platform that he's working on.
I see an Altera FPGA on the card. If that's user-programmable, this thing will be awesome. Hell, I'll buy one in a heartbeat.
Interesting. Without knowing what kind of system you're talking about I'm suspicious that I'd use this. I certainly have distributed problems like this where a logical concept is broken into a number of steps, and while I want to distribute the steps.. the effects of them to the entire system might not be realized until all of them are complete.

I generally wouldn't defer that responsibility to the database though. I'd more often handle this as multiple database transactions that advance a state machine, at the end of which consequence-inducing-events are fired off.

The idea that process A tickles the database into some state expected to be understood (and only seen by) process B seems like too flimsy a contract to me.
Exactly what I was thinking in 2001 => http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/The_20Other_20search_20engine

Glad to see someone did it now...
Investors, especially on convertible notes, are usually fairly hands off and non meddlesome. It isnt like they are all execs or on the board.
I completely believe him. Even though XML is really verbose I saw quite a few folks adding these types of things in XML comments.

So this wouldn't surprise me one bit. Would be interesting to see some real-world examples though.
I'm not too sure about aspirin, but long-term use of NSAIDs seems like a good way to screw up your stomach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-steroidal_anti-inflammatory...

Happened to me, and I'm only 20. Apparently doctors prescribe these as painkillers all the time, and the gastrointestinal bleeding that sometimes results is one of the main ways prescription drugs kill people.
I'm a Hulu Plus subscriber and $7.99/mo with ads for TV is still way better than $50+/mo with ads for TV.
Call me lazy, but this is why I don't use Postgres:
Amazon RDS is MySQL

Its that simple. I can spend a lot of time setting up and monitoring a Postgres cluster, or I can spend about 5 minutes configuring a MultiA-Z RDS instance. However, the moment Amazon offers Postgres on RDS instances, I'll make plans to switch.
Congrats Guys. Per Vices has all the signs of a product that, like Apple, starts out as a hobbyist project for hackers and ends up disrupting the world. The Internet has disrupted TV channels and movie studios, and now the wireless monopoly is the last bastion that these guys will take down.
Right, I get that creating incentives like bonuses won't get hard workers to work harder, but my point is that a worker's "total motivation" is something that is within the employer's control, if you count work environment, schedules, type of work, etc. to be within the employer's control. So while it may not be necessary to create direct incentive programs, to me, not demotivating somebody is exactly the same as motivating them, but it is being treated as if it is a special case. Treating workers well is a way of motivating them. Not treating them well is a way of demotivating them. If you don't do one you do the other, so it isn't sufficient to say "you don't have to motivate people, just don't demotivate them."
To me, this is only a big deal if it applies to Hulu Plus subscribers. Otherwise, this doesn't matter at all, because cord cutters (like me) can get their TV for $7.99/mo instead of for free. That's still a hell of a lot better than $50+/mo with cable.

If this does indeed apply to Hulu Plus, then that REALLLLLLLLY sucks.
This is literally the most motivating thing that has happened to me in almost a year. Short, sweet, and describes my exact situation. I'm glad to hear it's not just me.

I get motivated when I am able to accomplish goals.

I get demotivated when the owners sell me on a pitch that they asked my advice on creating. When I tell the truth about our product's technical status, I am being difficult and not a team player. When I sugar coat things, I am yelled at when the product isn't what they hype it to be.

That is demotivation. Instead, just let smart people build your product.
Facebook’s Design Director On Crafting A Design-Led Organization
Here's another way to put it: Your hardest problem is to build something that a lot of people want. It's really hard to do that. It's worth focusing all of your efforts on that than trying to be profitable on day 1.

It is very unlikely that you will be extremely popular and not find a way to make money. It is very likely that you can figure out a way to make money but not be very popular.

Making money is, relatively speaking, easy. Focus on the hardest problems you have first, not the easiest ones.
I really dig point #2. My only worry is the current state of security in Firebase.
I would consider it deception if I was being told it was free the entire time until the sign up step told me it cost money. Allowing me to try this before registering is more likely to get me to sign up.
It was great. I went and we managed to get a minimum viable product out of it.
I had to deal with some of this the other day when I was distributing a binary that I wasn't dying to have easily linked back to me.

go build -ldflags "-s" .

will strip some (all?) dev info out of the binary. Or at least it go it some my path information didn't appear when running "strings" on the binary.
No, yes, no.
Strange but much appreciated!
There are also only 26 likes on the video; if someone was motivated enough by the video to go vote, there's at least a decent chance that he would like the video as well.
No. I went with the specific purpose of living life in its purest form. No technology to interrupt life. I did it as an experiment too. The only thing that I missed was GPS but rest other things were superfluous. So I've realized only GPS is a "painkiller". Rest other things are vitamins.
The US federal government recently banned all baby cribs whose sides move down, with no apparent consideration of cost-benefit tradeoffs and little public discussion. The ostensible reason was to prevent the few dozen infant deaths per year from defective cribs of this type, regardless of the effects on other sleeping styles that are probably more dangerous.

These are not the sort of people you want in charge of all health care.
The exec Statement and A Python Mystery
Another of his hacks that i found quite notable was a man-in-the-middle attack on HDCP-secured connections to overlay video in any HDMI video stream and gave a nice talk about it.[1]

[1]http://hackaday.com/2012/01/21/overlaying-video-on-encrypted...
> I'd never heard of Window Functions

Go ahead and give it a shot. Once you get used to it, you cannot live without it.

Another killer feature in my opinion is the recursive query: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/queries-with.h...
They should have taken the $6 billion Google offered and still come out as heroes
Time to short the stock?
Certainly not evil. It allows me (as a user) to properly gauge whether or not I'm interested in your service before I provide any personal information. It's a win for me.
In fact I did exactly that. I scheduled one way trip using Internet. But I came back home without any help from web. Asking indigenous people solved that problem. And I also had those good ol' printed maps (instead of Google Maps) of that area.

I highly recommend this type of adventure. Its a lifetime experience.
> Why are we happy? We are not. Terminal emulation needs to die

Yes, but the proposed replacement for UNIX consoles is a Google web browser that requires you log into Google in order to use it?? I don't think so....
I think by this definition Groupon is a tech company.
The CDDB/FreeDB format requires you to parse comments... http://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html

And people do all kinds of nonsense with HTML comments. A very bad idea is often the fastest to implement.
This happens frequently enough thanks to YouTube's rather non-discriminating python scripts that the value of YouTube is significantly diminished with respect to promoting free and open culture. With all the pandering to copyrightists its been doing, YouTube heading for a steady downward spiral.

Move on to greener pastures, brother. The world welcomes your creative contributions.

Anyone here on HN have some useful suggestion for platforms still respectful of fair use?
And so instead, people embed parsing directives in the JSON itself.
One of my Heroku hosted apps has been down for 3 hours, and counting
I started with Logo Turtle...
None of these companies are "trying to be sneaky with an exit strategy". They are trying to grow very large, independent businesses. If you build to flip, you are most likely going to fail -- it's just not a winning strategy.

But putting off revenue != built to flip. Having a ton of usage and figuring out how to make money is easy. Getting a ton of usage is hard. They are focusing on the hard problem first, and the easier problem second.
It's not hard to imagine if you sorta hold your breath and let yourself get a little dizzy and think hard about XML you've had the pleasure of messing with.

I quickly get visions of version numbers, customized namespace declarations, typedefs, strftime date format strings...
So corporations are slaves?
Agreed. Huge dick move on behalf of Apple. If in fact the warranty was/is "transferable" (haven't read it myself) than you weren't doing anything wrong. Should have kept the business going.
_Why? Ha ha! What a joke!
Disclaimer: I have no more knowledge than what's up on their page, a lot of this is professional guesswork.

1. It most likely can. They are probably hoping to not bother the FCC by treating it as "test equipment" (that's what Ettus Research does), leaving the responsibility of compliance with the end-user.

1b. I doubt they're getting as much as a Watt out of that board (personal estimate would be a peak of 10-50mW, [10-17 dBm]) so in ideal conditions, significantly less power than a cell phone or wifi signal. Still enough to be trouble in some bands, and it doesn't change the regulatory situation.

2. There is an FPGA, so there is a physical possibility. It's not a trivial thing though, and working with FPGAs is even more remote from what most programmers are used to than working with GPUs. If I had to guess, the plan would be to capture/transmit bursts, with processing in between, instead of real-time signal/protocol shifting.
I don't know. I haven't really spent a lot of time looking at this to get a good feel of the quality. But consider this, NYT tends to be a secondary source: e.g. book reviews (books are the primary source), science news (scientific papers are primary), business news (market movements and press releases are primary), etc.

Now consider, if I'm interested in some particular thing in science, is it better to get the NYT science reporting or just get the professor's publication and research page on their university website? Filtering out the top-n sites is more likely to turn up the professor's site near the top of the pile rather than after all of the popular sites' second and third level reporting.

Is this better? Depends on the audience. A "popular science" goal would argue the former is the better as science news simplifies, abstracts and popularizes complex science (with varying degrees of quality) while a scientist would prefer the latter.
Backbone.js requires Underscore.js. Total it is 9.6k. that is > 7k
The author is doing an AMA on reddit right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/szzm7/iama_technology_...
The premium is showing there though. This trade isn't even profitable unless grpn goes below $9 (and even then earnings are only $9-grpn_price). If grpn goes above $11, you lose grpn_price - 11. In other words, this is like shorting, only with $2 less on the upside - and that's where the premium shows. It's cheaper than buying straight puts, but way riskier.

(Also, a lot of brokerages won't allow you to write naked calls)

Disclaimer: I own a few grpn puts.
Isn't G.I. bleeding grounds for a trip to the emergency room?

This seems like a bigger risk than dying in a car accident by a decently large margin.
I was not Google's job of sinking Groupon. It was also every investor's job to check the books before the IPO.
Broadband connection for temporary events
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I was a member of the ACM for a couple years in my undergrad. All I ever really got out of it was a subscription to the (fairly good) magazine "Communications of the ACM".
or say Javadoc @ directives....sigh
The neatest part about the HDCP hack is that all the overlay stuff is done on-the-fly in the FPGA, without any easy way to actually dump out the unencrypted content.

That makes it much harder to use for actual DRM stripping, and thus easier to argue that it doesn't qualify as a DMCA circumvention tool.
I think that removes the top 1,000 or 10,000 across all searches, not just "ruby".
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How Microsoft is Scaring Apple
A conspiracy involving that many people that did not leak at all? Very unlikely.
Revenue != Earnings
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The most important part of this story is that he educated himself as a high schooler on the concept of arbitrage.

Unfortunately, he succumbed to the concept of leverage.
//: I approve of the choice to omit comments from JSON.
I think you're probably right, but do you mean that as a "dig" against millionshort? You may be entering meta-meta-contrarianism: the hipster of hipsters. :)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...
Not JSON, but here's a truly horrible example of Internet Explorer using specially formed comments to take different actions: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
Sounds like the kind of story an attorney would concoct after the fact.
Shameless plug: see Bunnie (from this article) and other hardware startup guys at MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop

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I was exactly thinking this when I was halfway reading the article. "Why not just add a property as comment?"