skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Sometimes this leads to a situations that non-fully proven alternative treatments can offer better results with less side effects than current medicine practice."

Maybe you're right. Care to point to some specific cases?
I agree, but banana plugs can be added to regular speaker wire pretty easily. Most just have a simple flat-head screw which holds the wire in place, so you don't even need to warm up the soldering iron.
Could you share the site for your friends eCommerce?
I was looking at it on Chrome/Mac. Where it doesn't look messy but I just thought the font/size/weight choice is poor.
But this is just absurd, everyone has access to them, why not to allow everyone to use the suites and advance the sport clothing? Same thing happened with skates (of all things): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clap_skate and everyone just switched to the new design and continued racing.
Just to point out open-source does not equate to non-commercial. Even if all you do is to report bugs, barter is a valid form of commerce and you are exchanging time for a better product. Also, Oracle Linux and RHEL, despite being paid for, are open-source. Scientific Linux is compiled from Red Hat's sources (as is Oracle's, mostly)
It's true that the vast majority of demand-side platforms are bidding on the same impressions, so the differentiation really comes from technology, service, and usability. For example, the main component of building a campaign on SiteScout is scrolling through a really long list of websites and entering individual CPM bids. Between LeanMarket's slick category-targeting UI and auto-optimization, I think we handle this process much more gracefully.
An older piece with some good background:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/blade.html
It's troubling that a city district attorney can compel the disclosure of non-public information without a search warrant.

It's equally troubling that this lax standard is applied so routinely in the most trivial of cases.

If we accept that participating in non-violent protest on the street instead of the sidewalk now justifies heavy-handed police action, we have bigger problems than loss of privacy.
This is fantastic. I love the status indicators. I would go one step further and show little, live thumbnails of each person on your contact list—sure, you might get caught picking your nose, but that could happen when working with people in real life, and I see these tools as trying to make remote working as real as possible. Live thumbnails would be a very natural way to check if someone is at their computer, on the phone, too busy or stressed looking to disrupt.
I think this how Yipit started. They initially were looking to do bar deals in nyc. http://viniciusvacanti.com/2012/03/26/how-getting-rejected-b...
Value of Destruction
Did anyone else cringe at Hipmunk's use of the phrase "hard-earned venture capital"?
I down-voted your comment. I don't believe in down-voting without giving a reason for having done so. Here's mine:

Your post adds no value whatsoever. Think twice before hitting "reply" if all you are going to do is post a negative comment that is utterly irrelevant.
This unfortunately sounds like something that can get people into a lot of trouble. It's a lot like the Carrier IQ debacle last year, where diagnostic software was left on some cell phones, and everyone went apeshit over it.

All it takes is for a single customer to leave the software on there and have it get distributed to their customers, and it might turn into a big privacy scandal all over again, with not only the customer but this company being dragged in front of Congress.

I would suggest adding code into your library that either forces a pop-up or gives a message saying that the app is currently using your software, so that it warns developers using your code that it's still activated, before they send it off the the App Store. The last thing you want is for this to get accidentally installed by unsuspecting end-users.
> many residential users have provider-provided hardware

Yep. Even if I bothered to find a replacement for my combination cable modem/router, I don't know if the ISP / cable company would "talk" to the new hardware. Probably not contractually required to do so.

I'm reminded of the liberation of phone handsets from the phone company - up until the 1980s, most everywhere, it used to be that one could only connect to the network a phone leased from the carrier.

The issue of who controls (has root) on all the computers we supposedly own, starting with internet access routers and going on to printers, smart-phones, e-book readers, game consoles, disc players and TVs, is a vexing one.
What cable do I plug in for Internet?

This right here is the Truman show, not the Internet.
Nicely done! I really like the philosophy behind the prismatic but I don't find myself using it. I've mentioned this several time, their content density is very low. Probably because it was designed on a giant cinema or 27" display and not on laptop.

I would suggest cutting the size of each article smaller and providing me with a context navigation on the side. Like a simple TOC would be fine.

Also I would suggest letting users recommend articles. I know this is all about AI, but probability works in aggregate and machines don't have egos and do not get excited if someone else shares their recommended articles.
Feedback: this service looks oriented toward teams managing complex applications in production. $5 is never an appropriate monthly price for those folks. Even if it's just one developer (consider pinboard.in, for example). If that one developer needs hosted Graphite to monitor his/her app it's worth considerably more than $5 to that developer.

Also: I understand this is likely your MVP website, but you should at least link to a page about Graphite, even if it's not on your website. And screenshots are going to really sell this thing.
I'll take your word for it Thomas. I'm quite familiar with your work.
How Lady Gaga's manager reinvented the celebrity game with social media
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This submission is like a parody of HN.

First, it's based on a Wolfram blog, which should have been submitted instead of this. Perhaps it was. I don't know.

Second, cue up the "I hate Wolfram because he has a big ego" chorus which always runs on ad infinitum whenever the man's name comes up.

Third, it's a post from The Atlantic -- yet again. Can a day go by without multiple posts from that place appearing on HN? Is The Atlantic so incredible to not even get the mandatory blogspam comment that any other attempt like this would receive here?
</rant>

Come on guys. We can do better than this.
Twitter logs the IP address of every single access to the site (though it is not made public on the web).

IP address + timestamp + ISP subpoena == physical location.

Also, you can bet that Twitter is internally storing all those significant location digits, even if they don't publish them.

This is the troubling part.
So you don't have to go thru "enterprise sales people" to get onboarded, does that means the company can't afford ad review?

If they allow rich media for every one with 2cents, i can't think of a better platform to distribute malware.
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We are seeking highly motivated and talented software developers, statisticians, IT/DevOps people, and SQA engineers who love to use bits and pixels to provide insight into the structure and meaning of data. If you have an interest in building innovative software to store, analyze, and visualize hundreds, thousands, and millions of genomes within seconds, drop us a line.

We are currently located in Redwood City, and are starting to look for office space in SF.
http://stationxinc.com/Station_X/Careers.html
Reminds me of Charles Stross' books Rule 34 and Halting State. LEOs (law enforcement officers) are required to wear such "life-loggers", and IIRC there's some sort of checksum on the video's integrity. There's an unobtrusive backup recorder for certain situations, and (of course) cases where the LEO will disable all of their recorders, with the attendant concerns of abuse.
It seems like there's a much greater scope for casual/ad-hoc delivery than production, based on the safety/certification issues. Of course, there are still potential risks with poorly trained/equipped transport workers letting your food get too warm|cold|stale, etc.

I was thinking a little while ago about how we're almost at the point of making the digital timer pizza-box from Snow Crash a reality -- or in my scheme, something more useful, like a data logging thermometer.

It might be a little clunky still, but if you established some sort of ongoing service, an upfront purchase/loan/amortised lifespan device might make it practical to have a little temp + humidity + realtime clock with bluetooth/nfc comms to talk to your phone when your food gets delivered. And you have a solid audit trail if anything turns out dodgy.
The rule of law in the USA is gone. The feds issue 60k+ NSLs annually, and you never hear about those. Because there's no oversight whatsoever, we have no idea how many of these are issued against people exercising their legal rights in the ways that the police state simply doesn't find convenient or appropriate.

It's time to leave.
Is kanban the new ... that just reads _odd_. Kanban has been around since the early 1950s. It's not new anything.

Works great for manufacturing. Where it seems to fall down - in my limited experience - is when you try to apply it to IT.

JIT / lean just doesn't work well when you get into the IT ghetto.

It's still very much a craft discipline. Industrial processes don't work so well there.
Nice! I was hoping somebody would make a remotely controlled DLNA controller to fix these issues. Just setup BubbleUPnP and it seems to work with PlugPlayer on my ipad--most importantly music actually continues even when the ipad is asleep. For some reason I don't have volume control or the ability to pause (but can stop), but at least I can listen to an album and browse the web. It's pretty sad that DLNA alone completely fails at this task.
Shoot me an email at james@brewerhimself.com sometime; I'd be interested to hear what you think about Udacity. I'm taking the Introduction to Statistics class right now myself.
And where do I signup?
Just in case anyone is confused by this comment, though, this isn't a jQuery plugin.
Maybe the district attorney isn't really interested in proving the defendant was on the bridge, but is using this trivial case as a pretext to get at his social network.

The DA requested not only his location, but IP addresses used to access Twitter plus all email addresses linked to his account.

Source: https://www.eff.org/cases/new-york-v-harris
I'm not sure how number 2 actually helps with security. If the hashing method is deemed insecure enough to stop using, would you not want to update all your users passwords stored in db to using a newer method? One method of doing so without having to reset passwords was posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4083883 .
Such great domain name. Kudos!
That thought would have been helpful before I wrote the post. Damn.
> Sometimes this leads to a situations that non-fully proven alternative treatments can offer better results with less side effects than current medicine practice. And since risk for many alternative medicines is low it makes sense to try them.

This is a strange sentence. So this hypothetical alternative treatment has been shown to work better and with less side effects and also that it's risk is low, but is only "non-fully proven".

If you showed low risk and better efficacy and less side effects then that's pretty much fully proven. What's left?
House of the Future (1957)
How long has the App Store been around what nearly 4 years ago ?

It seems to be 'scaling' just fine.
When is it easy to retrofit later?

There is a third way that is not poison:

No need to reset the passwords at one fell swoop.

When you decide to do a new password storage function:

New users get the new hash right away.

Calculate the new hash and the old hash when the user next logs in.

If the old hash matches, the user has logged in, and now calculate the new hash and store it over the old hash in the table. Perhaps make a note in a separate column that the hash has been converted.

Eventually, when all users have refreshed their passwords, quietly remove the old way.

Zero user involvement.
Basecamp and Highrise both have free tiers so 2 of its 3 services are freemium.
SAAS.
It's all bullshit IMO. My team's morning scrums have devolved into 15 minute meetings with each member of the team basically saying "I'm doing the same thing I was yesterday; piss off".

I prefer Zed Shaw's methodology: http://programming-motherfucker.com/
The Q is the very same useless concept of the original nexus one desktop dock. The original dock at least came with 3mm plug and a cable to convert to 2 rcas.
Six Fundamental Laws That Control Your Business
Live thumbnails are in development. We're working on balancing privacy with utility (we don't want to accidentally expose the text of emails, for example).
it needs gmail like 'help' screen
Sounds like a cool new platform to check out!

I've contacted them about starting some campaigns for both myself and clients, and looking forward to seeing how the system delivers on its promises.

Like kposehn said, if it is really that good I'll be moving a lot more of my budget to it. Would really take a lot of the time and effort out of large-scale media buying.
And no green flag in the right margin for me... :(

(Latest Safari on Lion)
This reminded me that I owned some CSCO, and I need to sell some stock anyway. Sell sell sell!

(I laughed when I saw how _much_ CSCO I own -- I bought it in high school, also total it's worth about $250, and that is apparently about the same as it was worth when I bought it.)
The Visionary and The Pivoter
Is there any way that a small ad buyer (a few hundred thousand dollars a month) can participate in the auctions directly, bidding in real time rather than going through a middleman that does the work for him (which is what LeanMarket seems to do)?
The problem I see with software patents is that they're usually attempts to patent ideas, but ideas aren't patentable. The implementations of most of the ideas in question are obvious and therefore not patentable.

I don't think that we, as a society should decide to allow ideas to be owned, so I do think we should crack down on trivial patents.
> "collect roughly ~13% in commission from hotel and airline bookings"

Hotels probably, but I seriously doubt this for airlines. After all, a 13% commission would likely put the airline in the red for that booking.

Flying is one of the lowest-margin businesses in existence, and makes discount retail feel like a walk in the park.

> "HipMunk also launched their hotel location-based mobile app this year. It is very well-designed but I’m really not feeling it."

I really agree, and it's really too bad, because I love their flight-booking product and I'm really rooting for the team, but both their hotel booking site and mobile apps are IMO worse than the incumbents, which falls well short of their "kicking everyone's ass" bar that they set for flights.

Confusing button placement, unclear comparison tools, incomprehensible color-coding, and a location-centric search... I just can't get behind it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Magi...
I will never understand you people that use that.

Just spend a extra .70 and have the cable screwed to a damn male plug.

Nothing worse than screwing the wires every time
Great feedback! I'll defeantly look into that. Zipcar or the like would be fun to try
Check out https://github.com/mranney/node_riak by the guys at Voxer.

Less documentation right now, but it runs in the world's biggest production deployment of Node.

(and it's not written in coffee script)
> I was prepared for 48-hour, Adderall-fueld workdays

Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Ok, I'd love to give it a shot. Auto-optimization has always been a pain point for me, especially with lower impression/higher EPC campaigns.

How soon will you be sending out invites?
Isn't this a trend in biology? Where less virulent strains of viruses out-perform more severe ones because they don't kill their hosts? Ebola is its own worst enemy because it kills its hosts, and kills them relatively quickly. I seem to recall reading that influenza or typhoid had become less dangerous in the last 100 years or so and they were attributing it to this, but I'm coming up blank on the google searches.
The TL;DR is that the patent system is horribly broken and this is a shell company from East Texas trying to take the VC money of a hot new startup (among others).

The more interesting question is whether or not they'll get stuck in EDT or not. People have found several tricks to escape that particular jurisdiction only to have the trolls invent new counters. It sounds like they've filed a Declaratory Judgement action here, but it's hard to tell. But DJAs can be quite complicated[1]. So you can practically have your case dismissed as not yet "ripe" only to have them turn around and sue you in a jurisdiction where they can get money out of you fast (usually East Texas).

What I'd like to know from grellas is whether this particular DJA appears likely to succeed? Because I wouldn't be surprised any more to see it fail due to some oddball procedural trick, only to have them file suit in their home court the very next day. I even remember one time where a patent troll even abused a quirky local court rule in East Texas to file a day early and gain priority. In fact, I think that was complications arising out of that case that led to the shuttering of the excellent Patent Troll Tracker blog.

[1] See, e.g. http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2012/03/3m-v-avery-walking-t...
Your idea is okay, but I think you're describing the earliest stages of developing social skills. Eventually, you don't to walk around with some idea in your head, you want to spontaneously interact with people in an interesting way that will make feel good (intrigued, empathetic, enlightened, excited, whatever).

Having things prepared to talk about is a great stepping stone and a useful tool. So is filling your life with interesting things to share with people. So is being authentically interested in others.

It's awesome that your thinking about social skills. Social skills are crucial! Just don't go with spelling your name backwards, that is lame, and anyone cool is going to immediately think you are lame after you drop that bomb, even if they don't show it.
I don't know the backstory, but I was working at iTunes when the Hi-Fi was announced and nobody could figure out what the hell it was for. If it had been a high-capacity iPod (rather than have merely been an admittedly nice speaker setup) many of us would have bought one. But it wasn't, and we didn't, and it died a quiet and deserved death.
Jason Fried on the thinking that went into new Basecamp, new focus
I couldn't help but notice the Creationism flame-bait thread on that article (bottom). Thank god :) hacker news is at a higher level of thought.
They were all worth reading though.

The average attention span of the internet is not the best guide for an informative writing style. I like the fact that you will get long thought-out posts on here as it means people are actually expressing themselves with some level of depth rather than worrying about the needs of the easily bored.
For the sake of completeness, there's also http://www.pythonweekly.com/ that I know about. Sadly, not being a Pythonista I don't know how they compare.

And in the interest of healthy self promotion(!) http://rubyweekly.com/ http://html5weekly.com/ and http://javascriptweekly.com/ ;-)
I really don't think that this has anything whatsoever to do with closed vs. open source. This is definitely a case of Cisco over-reaching. The genesis of the problem isn't really connected to closed source. There are plenty of closed source systems that don't even approach these kinds of issues.

Would open-source prevent this kind of thing? Probably. In this case, someone has to make the hardware, supply and maintain the infrastructure, so the problem is probably a little more complex than the simple contrast between closed and open source. There really aren't a lot of large open-source-everything projects out there (hardware + software + mechanical + whatever else) to know how this would play out.

Hardware, as a business, is really capital intensive. Software isn't. A college student in a dorm can sit down and write software that gets distributed to millions and reaches every corner of the world. And the cost of doing so is virtually nothing.

To replicate this in hardware is almost impossible (yet). There's a lot more to it than just designing and building it. There's support, warranties, regulatory requirements, etc.

Here's a dumb example: Who wants to be responsible for the lawsuit when an ill-designed piece of hardware kills someone because it does not deal with high-voltages in a safe manner?

Or another one: Who wants to be responsible for a recall of thousands or even millions of devices if they are found to be defective in some way?

Again, regardless of the contrast between hardware and software I don't think that this issue can be used to champion the FOSS flag.
I wondered the same thing. Maybe just block Flash totally and only allow HTML5 for rich media stuff?

Other than that, I think it looks like a great idea (love the name) and could have a decent chance of going somewhere (assuming enough small biz firms are sophisticated enough to use it).

Edit: or maybe the plan is that the ad exchanges (e.g. Rubicon) do the vetting, since they're in-between leanmarket and the publishers?
>Let's ignore the underlying platforms that originally made them: search, ads, and arguably GMail for Google; and reaching critical mass on the social graph and ads for Facebook. Those were developed long before the developer culture we're discussing here.

Huh? Do you think they started out as straight-laced businesses with traditional project managers, and then arbitrarily decided to get rid of them after they became successful? Their cultures were always like this; did you see the recent story here on how Facebook was in its 30-person days?
You can pretty easily at that size. OpenX and AdBrite are both easy to get started with, let me know if you want an intro.
Fried discusses some of these issues in a recent mixergy interview:

http://mixergy.com/basecamp-build-products-that-people-love-...
I'd guess your ipad has to stay connected anyway, not for the data streaming but to control the video ?
I highly recommend subscribing to this newsletter. I've been receiving it for a few months months now and it's been really good. The curators are well aware of the latest developments in the community and it shows. The articles highlight the important bits. It's really nice and useful.
Startups, Failure, & Enthusiasm
I prefer the "getting shit done" methodology.

Find the least amount of process necessary to get your work done and make sure everyone knows what's going on and has reasonable expectations.

It's honestly not hard to do this, and you don't need a crazy methodology to do it.
Love this. I've been doing more and more "experiential retailing" stuff with iPads (and giant perceptive pixel panels in openframeworks/c++), so this would be awesome to see actual app usage happening in-store. How does it deal with recording iPad 3 retina size? Is there any impact to performance?
Is JS on? Works on all versions of Safari we've seen, including Lion.

Can I blame that on my co-founder? He's responsible for cross-browser issues :)