skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah yes, sorry about this. we'll get some user permissions up soon for non-patients. most of the stuff we've programmed is patient focused right now. luckily, as soon as we do get something up for you (or just for you to see if you'd like), i'd love to email you.
SunLife in Canada is similar. The site is up but you can't do some things like submit an online health-care claim. My guess was/is they are trying to make it just a little harder to make claims.
Actually to really compare the weight the company had in its days it is more meaningful to compare its market cap to GDP.
Wolfram Alpha gives me 852 billion for 1967 so IBMs market cap was approx. 22.5% of that. 2012's estimated GPD is 15.6 trillion thus Apple has a mere 4.2% of that.
That was how big IBM really felt back then.
TQP, SSL patent trolls, on the move again
Google authenticator is great; can be used on many sites (gmail, last pass, aws) and is based on an open standard that is to implement on your own servers.
Oh, I kind of agree, but this just seems like "neener, neener, not the biggest."

To take a different angle, computers and electronics have only gotten cheaper since 1967. So maybe Apple should be compared to a deflation adjusted IBM market cap. How would those numbers stack up?
In that case use GNU httptunnel[0].

The tool needs an update or two regarding a few features (notably it only supports a single tunnel at once), but it pierces through literally any HTTP proxy, since it's really HTTP and not some CONNECT trick over SSL.

Then you just use your favorite OpenVPN over that, and make all traffic (including DNS, and except your httptunnel endpoint) go over it.

[0] http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
Peter, if you are reading this, there's one question I'd love to ask. Why did tou even buy Facebook shares in the first place? Just to say you owned a part of Facebook? It was a clear failure from the beginning when they hit the market, way overpriced - surely you must of known this too. And then comes why other question. Why sell now, after loosing so much money? If you were willing to take a gamble in the first place, you should of been prepared to stick with it for a few years - it might go back up, but that's only if FB manage to get their shit together.
Louis Vuitton Watch Collection Dedicated to New Store in Paris
The real solution is to switch to public keys. No more shared secrets - you just prove your identity by using your private key to sign an authentication challenge.
You do realise the British nukes are Polaris missiles bought from and serviced by the United States, correct? Put blunt, the UK wouldn't be a nuclear power right now if the US didn't sell them ICBMs.

I believe the "special relationship" between the US and the UK would still stand if the US asked for an Australian to be extradited from the UK to the US. The British just extradited O'Dwyer to the US for civil offences. Assange would most likely be charged under the US Espionage Act, which is a criminal offence.
You could identify it as ssh vs SSL because they have different unencrypted headers. So systems which check that you are speaking SSL on port 443 would block ssh.
Hey Sandeep!

Try the pourover method for coffee: http://lifehacker.com/5907612/make-your-own-pour+over-coffee...

You might have to buy some filters and a holder for it:
http://www.amazon.com/Cilio-Porcelain-Coffee-Filter-Holder/d...

If you want to try and get a taste of what it's like, I _highly_ recommend Houndstooth Coffee or Patika Coffee. They both do excellent pourover coffee.

In general, with any sort of coffee, beans are at maximum flavor anywhere from 1-3 days after roasting. Grind right before you brew and with the pourover method, go slowly.
I was able to get Chromium compiling on my laptop (2010 MacBook Air) in a few hours using one of the tutorials on their Wiki. Most of my time was spent waiting for things to download and compile. Why would you need a VPS setup? If you want to do it in the cloud, isn't AWS enough?
If you're from more of a math background (with maybe a little MATLAB knowledge). Python's a great language for machine learning and natural language processing tasks. Great glue language, lots of libraries, prototype quickly, scale with multiprocessing or Hadoop streaming or pycloud. Build your own analysis stack or classifier then display the results on the web with Bottle or Flask.
It's fantastic! With the addition of date/timepicker it'd be complete.
Did you even skim read the article? He invested $500k as one of their earliest investors, and turned that into $400 million. He sold when he did because of a lock up period.
Ask HN: When is the best time to post to HN?
1) Monday lunch time 12-2pm PT - people want to relax from work after the weekend
2) Weekend - nobody else is posting
3) Friday after lunch - people are getting ready for the weekend and don't take on major tasks
Because V is for vendetta?
Shift-insert has worked on Windows as far as I go back (3.1).
Standards say that +-addresses must work this way, and most receiving servers implement this correctly. I actually had more trouble when some sending service failed to send to such an address correctly.
I can only speak for myself, but I find facts such as these interesting.

And perhaps there's something less negative than "consumer culture" at play… humans are generally curious about and interested in extraordinary things. e.g. Olympic athletes, inordinately successful businesses and business people, brilliant artists, robots landing on other planets, etc.
>It's a disaster of the first water.
hahahahaha
But it's ruby, and not doubt ruby's tag along Mr. Rails! By your comment, one would think the guy was developing in PHP!
I read somewhere that it's common for people to plateau at a certain skill level, but some people overcome that. My google fu is not working for me, but I think it was to do with changing the approach. I've also heard of changing how you view yourself, imagining you already have the ability, "what would X do?" (Usain Bolt actually peaked and burned out when was younger, regained with a new coach, less training, and exercises to compensate for a congenital spine defect). i.e. Also, while at a plateau at one specific thing, there are many other things where effort still works (not overgeneralize from that one thing). I'm also plateauing (at discrete mathematics), so I'm interested in the answer here. Many creative people talk about leaving something that they are stuck at, and doing other things (perhaps a short break, perhaps for a long time) - then the answer (sometimes) comes to them, when they see with a new point of view. Talking to people about it can help (even "explaining to a duck").

Of course, maybe there are attributes that we can't change, like height, that seem as insurmountable barrier. While these may be a limitation in themselves, we may be able to work around them (e.g. professional basketball players under 6 foot http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-shortest-nba-players.php). And, well, there are invasive ways to increase height, medically.
Forgive me for derailing the conversation, but I've been following this thread about the Cathedral & The Bazzar: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188

In particular, I've found the discussion of autoconf to be fascinating. I think what fundamentally bothers me about Vagrant is that it feels like autoconf. By that, I mean it's a system which 1) hides a ton of hard work that users don't need to do to target multiple backends 2) accomplishes that hiding through complexity 3) further hides that complexity through an "easy" interface 4) generally just fucking works most of the time 5) is completely maddening to deal with when it does break 6) ideally shouldn't need to exist.

Anyway, I realize that ideals != reality. I also realize that I've got a learned behavior of reinventing the minimal viable tool from fundamentals to avoid dealing with the complexity of problems that I don't have. And furthermore, I realize that my learned behavior is of limited applicability outside of narrow environments, such as my own startup where I own the full stack and make all the rules.
It's not that simple. I would argue the OP got lucky, not right. Every business has to worry about assets - liabilities as well as revenue - cost. Amazon lost money for close to a decade before they pushed most of the comfortable, small, high margin competitors out of business.
In situations where you have a textfield "enter password" and another textfield "re-enter password", it would probably make sense to prevent pasting into the second field iff you didn't paste into the first field.

Better yet, if you pasted it into the first field, the second field should become disabled.

This is because usually password fields are not in clear-text but display stars for letters, so you don't know if you accidentally mistyped the password. But if you pasted it in in the first field already, there's no reason you should have to paste it a second time.
This is actually probably for legal reasons -- there is probably some law on the books that the exact date and time of official company interactions with the Secretary of State must be recorded in case there are disputes, and that for some reason of arcane legal text this must be during the operating hours of the office.
Related: http://blog.y3xz.com/blog/2012/03/11/stack-overflow-stop-blo...

I tried contacting SO about this, and got a negative response.
Ah the classic SSH tunnel. I used to use something similar to bypass the blocks in highschool. I used PuTTY to set up an SSH tunnel to my home server and it would host a local proxy port for the browser to use.
I've got an autocompletion feature up and running, but I'm usually not dependent from it. However, that wasn't my point. I wasn't complaining about long class names. That's just a bonus. I was complaining about the misuse/overuse of design patterns throughout the Java Standard Library as well as Swing.

See, design patterns are a thing that's nice to have but some of them are more like cheap hacks that have made it into an influential book rather than mandatory patterns. I'd go as far as claiming that some of these patterns are merely a way of hiding what's fundamentally broken about OOP in a language where it's the only paradigm and where it is strongly enforced - like Java.
If you are on linux, chances are you can just middle-click.
In 2004, when etsy.com was created, we all were pretty aware of the importance of specifying utf-8 when we setup systems.

How could a company, that now has 120+ engineers listed on the about page, get to 80+ databases without fixing this issue?
BitInstant reportedly launching BitCoin credit card within two months
CUBRID Database Processes part II: Basic Operations
I really, really loved the subnav, precisely because I use smallish width windows (routinely half of 1980px, thanks to window snapping) and at that size the left nav block feels like a complete waste of space (especially the huge blank area just below, given a height of 1080px).
It's easy to import AVI to iMovie.
Would you like to import and edit you AVI file to iMovie by a easy and effective way? This guide comes out to show you how to import AVI to iMovie with the great application of AVI to iMovie by converting AVI with the compression codec of Divx and Xvid to iMovie supported MP4, MOV, DV, HDV.
So, at least with gmail, you could implement randomly generated email addresses for logging in.

The question is, does this solve the problem and is it a problem worth solving?
Apple-Samsung CEOs talk fails.Juries to decide the fate of patent dispute
When you see people BUYING t-shirts which are blatant advertising of popular brands, then you reach that point where people identify themselves to a brand before all.

That has been the case for a LONG time already.
Work your ass off (...) So, in order to make the kind of
strides I made, expect to spend at least 10 hours a day,
six days a week dedicated to programming activities.

Important point is that you have to love those 10 hours. I'm pretty sure that if you do it just with the end goal in mind, it won't work. You mention this, but I think it could be emphasised.
Why do you need to do a MySQL upgrade you say?

"Up until MySQL 5.5 (released December of 2010) the UTF-8 support was severely hobbled." [missing some Japanese characters, including those used in many people's names, and accents]

http://mzsanford.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/
From what I understand, it was the oil, sugar, or gold of its day. Controlling the spice islands was akin to controlling international trade.
I dont get that as well, really, SOCKS is old news and I've used this several times.

Maybe they don't want the hassle of configuring the browser (or other sw)
The prohibition is that you can neither do work nor cause work to be done during the Sabbath. B&H's position is that order processing is "work", and that accepting a deferred order placement would constitute "causing work to be done" by their staff even though the actual work takes place later. Others might decide that the act of placing an order (rather than automatically accepting an order) itself constitutes "causing work to be done", and that would depend on the Sabbath hours at the customers' locations. A catch-all policy would cease operation at the beginning of the earliest Sabbath period and restart at the end of the latest (which could cause a very long shutdown indeed if extreme northern and southern latitudes are taken into account).
2 tsp of condensed sweetened milk + 2 shots of espresso, stir keeping the crema, top up with boiling water to 1 cup. Sounds a bit alien, but it's totally worth a try.
My school did this as well, but they claimed it was for maintenance reasons. Seemed like they were always tweaking it to withstand the load during course selection time. Maybe it's just easier to have regular down time than unpredictable down time.
Yeah, I've read a bunch of stuff from Agrawal before - his criticism of Groupon isn't particularly new. I'm not saying that his issues with it aren't legitimate (I don't really disagree with anything that he's saying), and his stance against Groupon is probably motivated by conviction rather than profit (he's made a great case for this on Quora at http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/04/06/is-it-ethical-t...), but it would be a lot easier to accept these types of things from someone without a horse in the race IMO.
For what it's worth, I think Facebook is a fad, and I think it's peaked. I know this is purely anecdotal, but most of my friends and colleagues deleted or abandoned their profiles long ago. The majority of the people I know that actively use the website are in their 50's and up. Like my mother.

I remember about four or five years ago when everyone was asking each other to look them up on Facebook. I never hear this anymore! The only time I ever note that Facebook is mentioned in conversation is with respect to their stock price or some privacy gaffe. And yet Google, Apple, and even Microsoft products frequently crop up in discussions I have.

... and I'm in the biochemistry field!
Funny thing:
German tax department designed an API around polling tax data primarily for companies. I have to find an english link to the full story, but basically:
- company develops api to pull data like a few hundret requests per hour initially, but API returns a 404 after an hour of testing
- later that evening API returns an error stirng saying "open from 9 to 12 and 13 to 14:30"
- next day tax department calls company saying that they cannot handle those requests as the API was designed to be used once a year and that they crashed the server on and on with the sheer amount of requests

:)
Some guesses:

1) Their backend crashes constantly during normal use, so they have to shut it down when nobody is around to babysit.

2) The form submits directly to some poor soul's email, who then has to copy it onto a piece of paper and drop it in a folder. To manage the workload, the form is simply disabled when this person is not around.

3) The job of "web server" has not been mechanized in this particular office, in order to preserve the charm that only comes from a web site lovingly typed in real-time by a hard-working civil servant.
Another Cloak user here - I was able to stream Netflix on my flight this week due to running it through their proxy. No infrastructure to run, and fully integrated with OS X's wifi selector. It runs on multiple cloud platforms to boot, so if someone is blocking EC2 you might have better luck.
I hope this doesn't catch on. At least with youtube ads adblock can block them.
A few years ago, PetroChina was worth more than one trillion USD at the Shanghai stock exchange:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7BA16...
I'm guessing they don't want to or can't provide overnight cover if it fails. The cheap solution is to turn it off when there is no support available.
Paying attention to what people do is often a good thing, but how many subscribers would you have if you had gone with blog+rss?
Une île, des euros 
Les gagnants de Loto, achetez-vous une île ! Ces petits morceaux de paradis, situés en Grèce et même en France, sont à vendre. Liliane Bettencourt a cédé son îlot, situé aux Seychelles à 60 M d’euros.
Link 404 for me.
In my opinion, there's a certain set of core rules, you need to learn, after which it's relatively easy to transfer your knowledge between programming languages and domains. I'm fairly sure you can get this fundamental toolbox in any language.

Btw. I don't agree with the sentiment that it's somehow easier to learn web development than writing device drivers or other closer-to-the-metal stuff. On the contrary - web development is chaotic and complex. Low level stuff is much more straight forward. It might be less accessible, but I don't believe it to be fundamentally harder.
DIY: Switching a light bulb with an Arduino
You shouldn't be able to see it with Wireshark, given that it's HTTPS, but you should be able to MITM it (assuming you can make yourself a CA, that's trivial).
I don't agree. If you've ever had a taste of one of apple's retina screens, you'd probably also see that it's a significant improvement. Text is so much clearer and easier to read that I feel it's less straining on the eyes.
>Style manuals have their place but are hardly scripture, and there are countless examples of great writers breaking every rule in the book. Indeed, Strunk & White breaks its own rules, sometimes when describing the very rule it's breaking (which is part of its charm [1]). So even if your claim were correct, it wouldn't prove anything.

Breaking a rule ocassionally is not the same as not having the rule on the first place. For one, they can "break their own rule" precisely because the rule exists. They break the rules they set with caution and only when the feel it is needed. That's the way it is with most rules, about writing or anything else. The rule provide a guideline for the 90% of times.
tl;dr

I'm in the optional semi-colons camp, and it is a bug in the minifier :)
Travelators (is that what they are called?) in airports always get me going. Walking the wrong way on themmoon strangely fun. Moon walking for the guy who can't dance.
Debugging the Web with Fidler
I don't really believe that time of submission has a great enough effect on submission ranking to actually warrant effort.

If your submission is good, people will upvote it. If your submission is bad, people will downvote it. There are certain cases where good submissions get downvoted, but it's not because they were posted at the wrong time of the day.
What did you start using instead of Vagrant? Jc.
I'd prefer Stylus over both LESS and SASS. Now that Bootstrap is relatively stable, I intend to port it.
Neat idea. OS X's clock can be configured via System Preferences to announce the time on the hour, half-hour, or quarter hour, but not every 5 minutes. For that, save the program below in $HOME/bin/saytime:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;
system "say", "It is now " . POSIX::strftime("%I:%M %p", localtime);

Then add the following line to your crontab:

*/5 * * * * $HOME/bin/saytime
Looks nice! I've been thinking about a project like yours and bought peerhealth.com several years ago with the hope of doing something like you have done. For other companies (which I'm sure you're familiar with), see also http://patientslikeme.com and http://curetogether.com (just bought by 23andme).
I think every minute spent thinking about which one to pick is a minute you could have spent learning either of the languages, I think it really doesn't matter which. Once you master one the other one will be a lot easier to learn as they're so similar. Just flip a coin, pick one now! :)
Java Trial Judge Slaps Google Over Disclosure Order
DNS tunneling, or, how to get around Gogo
Announcing release of Apache Kafka 0.7.1
Have you checked out the LESS code (instead of the compiled CSS)? The file variables.less has the same settings (with comments!) as the online customizer. It's much faster to tweak that file and recompile than it is to use the compiler.
Your post was hard to read because of your background image
http://cf.verboselogging.com/assets/headshot-44822a75dfeaa89...
I really do not like this new boostrap page. There's too much back and forth (left and right) hopping going on with my eyes. It doesnt feel very natural. It's like driving and then looking at the passenger over and over. I don't like it. Keep everything above the content and keep it full width like it was, but that's just my opinion.
My Rules for Consistent Happiness
I'm interested. My wife currently tries to do exactly this. The article might be encouraging.

But I cannot read it due to a big yellow square overlapping the content, so.. useless link for me.
Party Rounds: How To Get a High Valuation For Your Seed Startup
"Given that this whole ecosystem is supported by the team acquisitions..."

If that's what he's starting from, you can't trust any of the conclusions here. We make next to nothing from HR acquisitions.
Charlie Kaufman 70-minute screenwriting lecture
Well, in the Netherlands we used to have a bank whose internet banking site closed around 23:00 hours and re-opened somewhere in the morning. AFAIK it was because all actual processing was done in batch during the night. Somewhere around 2006 they implemented a new Internet banking infrastructure and now they're open 24/7.
This is just a speculation, but I think bootstrap-affix.js is their new baby. If there is one thing that the new navigation does well, it's promoting the affix js feature (scrollspy stuff).
Some people own stock.

Others just like stats. How much of the world's brain matter is used up by sports trivia?
The last 90mm pageviews of that Trillion are by a very different demographic than the 70,000 U.S. higher education students - Thus adjust the CPM accordingly ($0.05).

And it is only going to get worse.
We have a customer only allowing registration for a webshop during working hours(!). In that case, it wasn't about marginal power bills, legislation or anything of the sort. It is just because their system is not fully automated, so whenever a new user registers, a person in the other end gets an email end manually has to enter the data in another system (SAP), before the user gets activated.
"Work hard, write a lot of code, be transparent and be enthusiastic."

Sums it up for many industries. Just replace code with something valuable in your profession.
I work in the government sector, where there are defined salary scales and everyone knows everyone else's wage. I was a bit surprised by this when I came here from the private sector, but even more surprising was that it never causes any problems. It's a total non issue.

It's like penis size. I swear guys only get insecure about it because it is concealed. I'd bet it's not an issue in nudist colonies.
I want to understand the down votes..
As a parent of one young child, I find discipline the hardest aspect of being a parent. Holy hell it twists me in knots trying to work out when to draw the line, when to ignore and when to warn. Luckily my wife is better at this.