skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worth taking a look at how Radiolab covered hookworms, the fallout, and this followup: http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blogland/2010/apr/02/...

The comments do not inspire much confidence either. To be honest I'm disappointed in Radiolab for being clearer, and addressing some of the crazy there.
What? The whole point is that Spotify and Pandora are doing things legitimately via advertising or subscriptions and paying the appropriate royalties.

You can get very rich by giving away others' creations for free. Sites like the PirateBay are profitable and MegaUpload seemed to be doing very well for itself until it was questionably taken down.
Name suggestion: "Dose."
"Leverage": one rainmaker partner lets you hang 8 associates off of them on a project. The partner may only bill $600 an hour, but the associates bill $300, and they cost less than a third of that. This essentially makes the partner's net economic impact for the firm $2.2k per "hour" or north of $4 to $5 million per year.
It's an interesting idea, but why would I use this over an app for my phone (pretty much any smartphone or an iPod touch) when the app is free or $0.99 one time. A quick search brings up an app by Drugs.com, for example. Are there any compelling features that would justify $8 a month? And if so, you need to make sure people know about these features.
That chart is misleading. The use of the "visible spectrum" to illustrate gradations of "delta" in the IR band is redundant. A luminosity scale, in grey or monotone (say red?) would be more appropriate from a visual design perspective. No?
The jquery version is easier to write, and less prone to error, but in the native version it's much more clear what's actually going on.
Apple's products derive a lot from the look and feel of other products eg http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secr...
I think it's even simpler. Only Apple had the supply chain to build an affordable device. Everyone else knew the outcome would be too expensive relative to the feature set.

I love my iPad, but there's no way I would pay $1500 for it. It's just not that good. Only Apple could build one at a competitive cost.
Only Apple had the supply chain to deliver a product at a reasonable cost.
It's against the Facebook ToS to have more than one account.
Problem with that is technology typically can't be both cheaper and yield the same performance. It can be cheaper but yield less performance or more expensive with higher performance. The more expensive technology typically is a sustaining technology, but the problem here is that not enough people want to pay more for a clean technology so we can't start to make it cheaper without government funding. It almost doesn't matter what we do because we will be dwarfed by the CO2 output of Asia if it uses conventional fossil fuels.
And the reason is simple, it only took Facebook that long to go from 1 million to 1 billion users. It's successor will probably be able to do it in half that time. I bet we're only a couple years away from that eventuality.

It's possible, but the alternate hypothesis is that Facebook now has a sufficient number of users that network effects will keep those users locked in, provided that the company itself doesn't do anything ridiculously stupid.

Which will happen? I have no idea: the future is hard. But a plausible story can be spun in either direction.
Agreed. This seems far too expensive.
> (Dare I guess it was written by a white affluent young male?)

Yes, us awful young white males are never sick.
Your understanding of the Planck length is incorrect. From the article you linked:

"According to the generalized uncertainty principle, the Planck length is in principle, within a factor of order unity, the shortest measurable length - and no improvements in measurement instruments could change that."

There is no claim that it is the smallest length possible, and there is certainly no claim that every length has to be an integral multiple of the Planck length.
About #3 - source?
>> Why are PDAs suddenly that weird uncle you never talk about and only see at birthdays?

> Because they ultimately failed in the market.

I have always seen the iPhone as a hybrid product. To call it a phone with PDA functionality, or a PDA with phone capabilities is just semantics in my opinion.
The article does not do a very good job explaining anything. The description of the algorithm is much more interesting: http://www.jeffreykegler.com/marpa
I don't begrudge Apple the necessity of obtaining patents for things that shouldn't be patentable in our broken system- otherwise they would be the ones getting sued. However, the use of them to attack competitors that independently developed technology is what bothers me, whether it's Google, Apple, Microsoft, or a do-nothing patent troll that is doing the suing.
Not to mention that Spotify and Pandora are making it possible for young, poor people to be active music consumers without turning to piracy. When I was in high school, my options were to pay $15 an album, and thus only have access and exposure to a tiny music collection, or pirate music, hear a lot of great music, especially from smaller artists, and drag my friends to their concerts every time they were in town.

Now I'm in college and still broke, but I pony up the $10/month for Spotify, and I continually encourage my friends to do so as well. They've created an experience that's dramatically better than piracy (even with nice private trackers), pays out at least some to the artists along with the moneypile that goes to the labels, and enfranchises people like me. I've always listened to an extremely wide selection of music, and now that I can pay to do it, I'm very happy to.

And I still drag my friends to every good concert in town.
Just like to add that there are innovations in terms of manufacturing that affect the marketplace at large that are solely due to Apple requirements.
I'm talking about Gorilla Glass (factory funded by Apple so the inventor of the substance could churn it out for iPhones) and now Retina displays. Did Samsung build their own Retina production plant?

I also don't buy that essentially saying: "go find your own way to do this." Stifles innovation. Quite the opposite IMO.
I would argue that the more you own, the more you have to lose and the more vulnerable and fearful you are.

The less you own, and the less reliant you are on others and material possessions, the more at peace and happier you will be.
It likely existed on the first light-pen devices from the 80s. Apple just happened to popularize it.
I'm not seeing where they went back to it... It says:

"Mr. Ilagan, who is 59, said they watched the video 'very, very carefully' but decided to move on when the two weren't swayed. 'We didn't want to get bogged down,' said Mr. Ilagan, who works in marketing for a company that makes circuit boards."

Maybe I'm misreading it.
>> You're missing the point that some cells, essential to our survival, are never replaced, and when they decay, we die.

> These cells can be replaced via stem cell therapy ...

Brain cells replaced by stem cell therapy? Have you given this any thought? A brain cell replaced by stem-cell therapy is empty -- it's not a replacement for the cells that contain the memory of your fifth birthday party, or that contain your knowledge of Calculus.

There's a reason brain cells aren't replaced -- it's the same reason you can't swap a running hard drive for a replacement that has no data written to it.

> "age" is not an abstract thing that kills you.

No, not abstract -- apoptosis is not abstract, it is a fact of life. And we have a very poor understanding of it.

> Are you saying that Alzheimer's disease and heart disease and going blinde and getting fat and losing your muscles and sex drive are good things?

Only you said that, and the remainder of your post relies on an argument only you have made.

> but you don't think we can cure the diseases of aging, so you find excuses for why they are actually good.

1. Stop making arguments for other people.

2. Learn the science. You have suggested stem cell therapy to replace brain cells, but without asking yourself what brain cells do, how they function. You would do well to learn that first.
Grids of icons are pretty obvious too - even on portable devices. Palm Pilot had 3x4, in 1996.

It's interesting to see the row of buttons at the bottom of the screen. Samsung clearly is influenced by that styling, rather than the single button on the iPhone.
I have the right to watch anything I want to because I need to understand my own society. And I can't have my money going to these organizations that are hostile to my interests.

The best solution is for these media companies to simply cease operations. The world will be no worse off if they just stop producing digital entertainment, a huge chunk of which is just propaganda anyway.
If it's genetic, as you assert, then what hope is there?

Drugs which target the specific pathways triggered by the gene.
was about to comment on that, too
Correlation != causation.

It could be that men with some medical condition are both likely to father an autistic child and to postpone child-rearing for health reasons. Heck, the autism itself in a very mild form might be such condition - a mildly autistic man could be likely to pass more severe autism to his children, and have problems finding a mate.
I wonder how much of that combined $380m ended up in the artist's hands and wasn't consumed in industry "fees".
Thanks for your feedback! I thought $8 a month might be reasonable, but if I get enough data telling me otherwise, I will definitely lower the price.
Oh bullshit. We were doing finger operated gesture user interface on the Palm in 2000 (pie menus on virtual buttons for consumer electronic IR remote control interfaces). Lots of people were using touch screens with finger gestures. The Palm included a stylus, but if the interface was designed correctly you could certainly use it with your fingers, and pie menus (self revealing gestures) worked just fine, and there is lots of older prior art and research about touch screen pie menus and gestures.
Trees are commonly directed. Single in edge per node is the important distinction.
If you're only targeting modern browsers (latest Chrome/FF/Opera/Safari, IE10), is this still true? I was under the impression the recent browsers were standards-compliant enough that you could use vanilla JS.

Of course, most developers still have to target older browsers, but for a private Web app where you know your target audience, this shouldn't be a huge issue.
Uhm, no. The Atari Jaguar was a 32-bit with a 64-bit bus to memory not 64-bit addressing or registers. It would not be counted as a 64-bit processor particularly since it used a 68000 and its GPU was 32-bit.

The Amiga CD32 beat it to market by a month. I would argue the whole Atari game line based on the 400/800 should count, but others peg the Amiga as the first with a GPU.

GO Corporation was formed in 1987 and can be read about in the book "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure". Atari was a little late to the game.
Artist Rafaël Rozendaal on moving from Flash to HTML5
> Didn't realize those were "must-haves" for a smartphone (an enterprise smartphone, maybe), because I never did that with any of my Windows Phones prior to getting an iPhone. I used my Windows Phone for my consulting work, by the way.

The _vast_ majority of the smartphone market at the time was enterprise. The consumer smartphone business didn't exist in any significant way. I had a Wmobile phone and didn't use exchange either, however you and I were an extremely small minority. Apple's inovation was changing that, opening up a real consumer smartphone market.
I would be very excited for Spotify to start signing artists directly, without the major label middleman. It could let Spotify turn a profit on those artists while simultaneously paying out more to the people making the music.

As an insider, pvnick, do you think Spotify could ever pull that off without burning the bridges of its current label deals?
None of those have a touch based UI. Touch means finger touches.

This is dishonestly revisionist, given how common it was to see people thumbing through applications on Palm devices. That Palms came with styluses doesn't mean that they weren't touch-friendly in a lot of ways, and that should be taken into account.
doesn't minify or gzip at all - talk about code golf. does it lint?
Yeah, some things are hard on FF, but impossible elsewhere.
No, I don't think Apple is claiming to have invented lcd displays, multitouch, capacitive touch screens, solid state storage, 3G or any of the other core technologies used in an iPhone. I don't know why you think they are.

They're claiming that they introduced what has now become the new standard way of interacting with a mobile device, and are seeking to protect aspects of that design from another large corporation that seeks to profit by emulating their work. I'm mystified as to why people find this surprising or worthy of criticism.
I think one of the things that separates our points of view is that I see Iron Money, the apps and service, as the product, with the API as a great extension for helping developers build cool stuff on top of their data; I don’t really see the API as the product I’m trying to push. Point for point:

1. This makes sense and is what I thought would be my biggest hurdle. Thankfully, this has never really been an issue. A lot of people are surprisingly willing to trust their finances to a third-party they don’t know that well.

2. I agree, although I think it’s even more valuable to have professionals audit the source code. Both together is probably optimal for security.

3. I realize that, in the example you cite, it was helpful to have the source open, but in the case of a (usually) consumer product, I don’t think this argument holds much weight. Iron Money mainly targets young singles and couples who want their finances on the iOS devices and Macs, and having it be open-source rarely plays into the decision to purchase.

4. I agree. I don’t think Iron Money is really marketed as a closed-source library, but the point stands. In any case, I would probably open the source if the service was shut down.

Thanks for taking the time to write up your thoughts; they definitely provide food for thought.
Interestingly, if you look at it the other way around, "probabilistic" is a good way of describing analog output. Something I read many years ago on computer history claimed that one of the reasons digital technology displaced analog was the inherent lack of "exactness" in analog.
> Sigh. I'm sick and tired of people twisting reality to fit an Apple anti-hero narrative.

It'd be disingenuous to claim that no subsets of people, on HN and elsewhere, twist reality to fit an Apple hero narrative. Looks like people just have different points of view.
Back in 2009, I designed the same thing. I've had trouble with people staying around for free, never mind the monthly fee. Then again, the trouble could've been with me rather than with the idea. Good luck.
Yeah, static is probably the way to go. Know of any good tools to snapshot it?
Turn those phones/PDAs on and we'll see how "similar" to iPhone they were.

I just can't believe how some OpenSource-loving people could go soooo much astray and become total jerks who twist the facts just to prove their point.
I can't be the only one getting tired of sites like this making the front page. Really? It would be one thing to see someone write a legitimate article on why they think the move to JS frameworks is harmful and/or the benefits of using plain JS, and for that to make it to the front page. I'd be interested in that perspective. But this is just somebody being snide. It's the internet equivalent of the kid on The Simpsons that points and goes "ha-ha!" There's no content. We can't have a discussion around a smartass joke like this.
I would add that you can have a lot of fun on a Laser that goes for £5,000 new and anything down to £500 used. I am very happy with ACs coverage both TV and web and it is the first thing ever to bring this sport to the forefront.
Now that you bring it up, an interesting observation on my peer circle pre-iPhone:

All the enterprise users I knew had Blackberries. Everyone else I knew bought their own Windows Phones (and some Palm users) and most did not use Exchange. So maybe it could be argued that to some degree, Windows Phones were the only equivalent to a "consumer" smartphone at the time.
> Brain cells replaced by stem cell therapy? Have you given this any thought? A brain cell replaced by stem-cell therapy is empty -- it's not a replacement for the cells that contain the memory of your fifth birthday party, or that contain your knowledge of Calculus.

Maybe if you replaced all cells at once or something stupid like that, but that's not what is being suggested here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments#Brain_dama...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_stem_cell

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120420105940.ht...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/16/stem-cells-inj...

From a quick search...

> No, not abstract -- apoptosis is not abstract, it is a fact of life. And we have a very poor understanding of it.

You have a poor understanding of it. First of all, a lot of the diseases of aging come about because apoptosis stops working and these malfunctioning zombie cells hang around and gum things up and produce erroneous signals/proteins. Rejuvenating the apoptosis process is part of the SENS platform. Cells that commit apoptosis are replaced all through your life.. It's when that process stops working well that things go wrong; they don't go wrong because of that process.

In other words, apoptosis doesn't make us old, it keeps us young. It's when it stops working well - along with other things - that we get frail and sick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negl...

> 1. Stop making arguments for other people.

I asked you questions, and you didn't answer them.

> 2. Learn the science. You have suggested stem cell therapy to replace brain cells, but without asking yourself what brain cells do, how they function. You would do well to learn that first.

Have you read Aubrey de Grey's book? It goes quite deep into the biology of his proposals (and he cites the papers that go even deeper). If you haven't, you don't even know what is being proposed so how can you know if it makes sense or not?

http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthrough...

I'm sure your public library also has it.
That's not correct. If something is a syndrome it is more likely to be a single distinct illness rather than multiple distinct ones.

I.e., suppose 50% of people suffer headaches, 50% suffer nausea, and 50% suffer aching back. Further, suppose 12.5% (= 50% x 50% x 50%) of people suffer all three symptoms - in this case, the three symptoms put together are NOT a syndrome.

On the other hand, suppose 40% of people suffered headaches, nausea and aching back together. In that case the three symptoms together are a syndrome.

A syndrome is probabilistic evidence that there is an underlying cause of multiple co-occurring symptoms.
> Lots of people trust closed source applications though. QuickBooks, Turbotax ...

No, they don't trust them, they use them because they have no choice. And the problems caused by Intuit's closed-source business model are legion:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/computers/intuit_turbotax.htm...

The above sounds like a recitation of distrust, not trust.
> Touch means finger touches.

According to who, you? Feel free to argue around the technological improvements Apple have brought, but to argue that everything everybody has always called "touchscreen" isn't that... makes no sense.

And even by your strange definition of a "touch based UI", were Apple the first company to create capacitive touch screens? Hell, I don't think they were even the first to create phones using them, if I remember correctly LG beat them to it with the Prada? Not to mention how many people used Palms etc. using their fingers rather than a stylus.

As to working out how to ignore stuff like knuckles touching the screen... wonderful, I'm sure Apple did a great job in this area. I haven't used enough devices to really have an opinion of whether they were the first to perfect this, but it's irrelevant. Nobody is claiming Apple haven't done some stuff better than other companies - but even if you can definitively say that they created the first really good touch based UI, that's not the same as creating the first touch based UI.

You know what I expect from HN? Civilised discussion. All I've seen from you is rudeness, arrogance and a holier-than-thou attitude that could be summed up by the last part of your profile description.
Wow, even jQuery is written using vanilla-js.
If life expectancies go way up, I think your view will come to be seen as just common sense. Most fantastic things seem different when they become a mundane part of everyday life. You're ahead of the curve.
The original image is fine. What is gained by faking the sky? Faking the sky, and adding a note to say that the sky has been faked, is fine.

Fixing red-eye is borderline and needs to be done carefully. Someone fixing red-eye and obscuring a coloboma has distorted the image, and distorted truth.

Can you really see no difference in fixing a photographic defect and adding in stuff that was not there?

Obviously it depends a bit on where the image is used, but I'd hope that any publication would list the changes made to a photograph.
Nope:

TypeError: document.getElementsByTagName("p").filter is not a function

Because you don't get an array, only something array-like.
You have to be careful, many people who laugh at design patterns turn out crap spaghetti code. At least with design patterns, you are at least attempting to separate traversal from operations on the elements as with visitors. People who don't like them often turn out huge monolithic algorithms which is an even worse crime.
I wouldn't be so sure... you need to be really careful, especially if you're in the US. HIPAA can be tricky to navigate. I doubt your TOS will trump HIPAA in court.

I'd be very, very wary of storing any sort of patient information on my own server (e.g., what medications people take, mapped back to identities of patients).

This is pure speculation, but unless you designed your backend to be HIPAA compliant, I'd imagine you may be very liable.

I say all of this as a former medical imaging software engineer who dealt with many HIPAA compliance issues.
Also in the native version, you know you're only doing the work required. The jquery one will be doing a lot of extra useless inefficient grunt work to achieve nothing. Making it incredibly slow in comparison.
This enumeration is done the wrong way. You enumerate over a DOM node list which looks like an array, which includes enumerable properties like "length". This means that the variable "p" at some point will be "length" and "length".innerHTML = "..." will produce an error.

The proper way is:

for( var i=0, ps=document.getElementsByTagName('p'), len=ps.length; i < len; i++) {ps[i].innerHTML = 'Hello.';}
Was anyone else surprised by the performance penalty of jQuery? Over 400x hit for getElementsByTagName! I'm curious whether this is more due to cross browser checks or determining the what type of selector was used. To the source!
The knowledge you gain through this experience and the people you share it with will make you much more valuable to future companies, especially other startups.

The danger being that you rank up from being worth $30k a year to $60k a year (and convince yourself that this is great progress), while your buddies at BigCo have been stagnating in their march from $100k a year to $120k a year.

Seriously, though: like the mindset about focusing on career growth, but don't ignore BigCo. I personally couldn't stand working for one but you can learn things and meet people at BigCo, too. That's one of many reasons why so many people go with BigCo.