skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funding the expensive regulatory process (which includes clinical trials and all the rest) is very easy to legislate. For example, grant a company some limited exclusive rights for commerce/sale of a drug they have funded through clinical trials.

A commercial restriction on the sale of a drug would be far less onerous and legally problematic than the current patent system.
Voice Search is Voice Search. Google Now is just the predictive notifications and the cards (the notifications being the more signifiant part). The two are separate.

Voice Search has been available since Froyo, IIRC -- although in the past it would simply show search results rather than respond with a voice for anything other than a small set of phrases. Voice responses for more general Knowledge Graph queries is new in Jellybean. (Long-press the search button on an older phone, like a Nexus One, to trigger it.)
I don't disagree on the PITA factor. But its not a death-knell. Provided that it is outsourced at payroll or via a bank relationship, etc. In that sense, this is just another legistated subsidy to these industries.

But the only awkward case is n=4, where they need +1 to do the paperwork =].

But analytically, A 3 to 6% increase in labour cost only kills a very weak business plan. Consider the edge-case example: Even with 100% labour expense and a 6 month runway of cash, you are running out of cash 1/2x6%=3% sooner? Thats ~3 business days (240/2x3%).

Again, its massive brain damage. Until it gets outsourced. But in theory it should be no more difficult than a pre-tax Medical savings account, or a pre-tax Transportation voucher system, etc (which almost everyone already has).

But even BigCo's outsource this crap to PayChex or what not.
I went to public school in Fairfield County, CT. The paucity of attention given to actually educating children compared to reputation (and tax dollars spent) seems about right.
You can try chinese tea. It tastes horrible with sugar.
Ask HN: Review my startup idea
This idea hit me in the barbershop the other day. My barber is quite busy and he has a sign-in sheet that no one uses. So the three barbers have to remember who came in before who. Furthermore, they are forced to have the awkward conversation of asking would you like me to cut your hair or do you want someone else?

This is my idea: a mobile app that lets customers sign in and pick a specific barber or any. Then his/her name gets added to the list on the barber's phone to let the barber know who's next. This app would also have two important features. Customers could create appointments through the app (I currently have to awkwardly text my barber who sometimes doesn't write back). And I could have the user sign in with their phone number or their facebook name. Which would allow the barbershop owner to keep track of the 'churn rate' of specific customers. While giving him a way to contact customers regarding new specials or just reminding them to come get a cut.

Has anything been done in the tech sector for barbershops? Does this sound viable? I'll do customer development interviews if I think there's potential here.
Yeah, I thought my timing was off with Elite. Thanks for the correction.
If the author only limited the "success" category to a 1KM radius, that is awfully narrow for the search for an entire city name. If we say anywhere within 10KM (6 miles) is success, I wonder if iOS5 blows iOS6 out of the water even more.
Marijuana is a real psychedelic at the doses found in the best pot or hashish. It can also cause horrible panic attacks.

Alcohol at high doses is very mind-altering but just not very interesting or appealing. Past a few drinks it's all downside.

By the way, I've seen a guy at 0.40 BAC and it is fucking ugly (and extremely dangerous).
Would the innovation have happened if Apple hadn't driven it? Not any time soon.

Maemo, Openmoko, and Android all serve as counterexamples to your claim that Apple was the sole driver of recent smartphone innovation. Our smartphones might look a bit different now had Apple not released the iPhone, but they would still exist. Industry consortia were developing higher-bandwidth data standards (a Danish friend told me in 200[012] that 256kbit/s access on cell phones was already widespread), companies were experimenting with different form factors, operating systems were being developed, etc.

In my view, your definition needs to be tighter to cover scenarios such as these.

Perceived scenarios such as these are often a product of missing information.
Demolishing Heisenberg with clever math and experiments
I'm not sure how comparable the employment numbers are given that Samsung does more of their own manufacturing whereas Apple outsources to Foxconn (or Samsung) et al. It makes Apple look like they have a much larger percentage of U.S. workers when you discount the six digit number of factory workers making iPhones in China.

But let's go ahead and assume Apple employs more U.S. workers per device shipped than Samsung. It's still the case that the money gained in litigation doesn't go to the workers. Apple isn't going to hire any researchers or manufacturers with $121B in the bank that they wouldn't have with $120B. The people who get the extra money are the shareholders in the form of either dividends or stock price, and the stockholders are again predominantly large institutional investors for both companies.

Where the economic effect comes in is that those investors will now expect based on past performance for Apple's stock to improve and Samsung's to decline, and so increase their holdings in Apple. If Apple as a rule employes more U.S. workers than Samsung then this is ostensibly a good thing for the U.S. because then Samsung may not have as much available capital to develop new products etc. and Apple will have more, so Apple will be more competitive in the market and need to hire new employees to meet demand etc. There is every possibility that this doesn't actually happen because Samsung can afford to take the hit and keep doing what they were going to do anyway and Apple doesn't have any productive internal use for the extra money, but if it does happen, that would be the national economic good that Congress would be interested in preserving.

But that's where we get back to the premise -- does the patent system help or hurt? Apple's U.S. employees are the researchers, not the manufacturers. Having more sales because the competition has been damaged by litigation and can no longer compete effectively will cause Apple to need more factory workers to sell the extra devices, but those workers are in China. Conversely, by harming the competition's ability to compete, Apple is less in need of the R&D jobs that employ U.S. workers, because the bar has been lowered as to how good of a device Apple needs to produce to make the sale, so why spend more on R&D? Why even spend as much as they might have against a more competitive Samsung?

The point is, funneling money into U.S. companies doesn't inherently produce U.S. economic growth or provide any benefits to U.S. citizens. And if it simultaneously causes economic inefficiency, it can in fact do the opposite.
There aren't similar economies of scale for supplies, living quarters, extra fuel, and so on.

There are - carriers have things like post offices and cinemas, which you don't get on smaller craft.
This can have some amusing results when the input isn't as Google expects. For example, in my office the conference rooms are named after streets, some of which are also cities. So when I have a 2pm meeting in Folsom, I get a notification a couple of hours before telling me I should leave soon so I can make it to Folsom, CA in time.
Amazon now loaning capital to sellers
I don't see any reason to consider all those who haven't experienced various altered states of consciousness to be inherently untrustworthy. That said, if you haven't experienced these things then you probably can't fully understand the large swaths of civilization that were inspired by them: art, language, architecture, writing, film, religion, etc. And the odds are that if you can't fully understand something, then you can't properly value it.
I skimmed the comments and did not see this obvious suggestion: you are not really drinking tea, you are drinking tea-coke. Just start drinking the real stuff, a few leaves of green Chinese tea in hot water. I usually go for longjing tea. It is a tad sour with chocolate fragrance. No one would ever add sugar in this dope.
High-End Pricing: Differentiate or Die (Not X for Y)
The entire mobile industry pre-iPhone?

This is and endless argument, you either acknowledge that they pushed it forward or you don't but there wasn't a significant application platform, touch was nearly nonexistent and even dismissed by RIM, and while many of these things might be dismissed as obvious, Apple made it stick and they beat the entire current crop of competitors to the market.

Everything is easy once you've seen it done...

Take the typical Nokia and Motorola device from 1997 and the typical one from the iPhone launch, biggest improvements? More SMS and the phones got a little bit smaller
It varies, but usually I compress my diaphragm to force air from my lungs past a set of vibrating membranes which produce a base tone, then modulate that tone using the various muscles in my mouth to produce a set of distinct acoustic patterns which my conversational partner can decode. If that's working well I'll also modulate the frequency and volume of the tone itself to encode additional semantic information, but that's not strictly necessary for communication to take place.
Anyone genuinely indifferent about voting is not going to be well-informed and do it wisely; letting them stay home is a pretty good signal/noise filter that's hard to object to. The only problem that mandatory voting solves is prospective voters whose abusive employers or families wouldn't permit them to vote otherwise.
To be fair, the stigma attached to people who use these drugs is, I think, wrong. I call it "wrong" because I think the negative associations with "doing drugs" contribute to the rate of bad experiences and, given that people are going to use drugs, I'd rather they not have bad trips.

I think it's unwise but not immoral. And a person who has taken a drug and is having a difficult experience shouldn't be thinking thoughts like, "this is wrong and I knew it is wrong and that's why I'm suffering" because that will enhance the bad-trip/panic-attack element but, instead, "I made a decision and now I'm having this experience and the only thing I can do is learn from it".

I like the Eastern approach to morality better than the Abrahamic one. Negative actions aren't "immoral" and don't make you a "dirty" person; they're unskillful and, given that we've been in samsara for a long time, we've all done a lot of extremely unskillful things.
Something like this, which can also string together what I do across phone, tablet and computer would be even more interesting.
The fiber present in fruit blunts the impact of the sugars they contain (addressing the "quality" issue I mentioned elsewhere). Fruits differ strongly in their glycemic indices (apples are low, grapes tend to be high), so they're not all the same. That said, whole fruit (as opposed to juice, in which much of the fiber is removed) is a reasonably good food choice. Especially for breakfast or post-workout.
I would really encourage you to revisit that assumption. I'm sorry to challenge you on this, but unless the tea you drink has very low levels of caffeine, you are ingesting quite a bit of the drug each day, levels that would cause dependency and addiction. The fuzzy head thing is a typical description of caffeine withdrawal.

Why do you think otherwise?
For me it is really simple: other people get to use their bodies as they see fit and I get to use mine the same way. I don't judge my friends that drink, smoke or do drugs. If that is what they think is the best way for them to live then that is their freedom.
Intentional name collisions ("mromney") and impossible-to-google names ("N", "hat", "john") are fairly common on IRC for just this reason.
I don't know you, and I can't comment on Colombia, as I have never experienced it. Of course, I can enjoy life without that possibly hazardous trip. I'm only suggesting to you that there are non-governmentally approved,very worthwhile, and perfectly healthy experiences that you are missing out on, as I have chosen to pass on Colombia.

Each to his own. I enjoy your posts enormously. Maybe some day you will have a change of heart and post about a life changing mushroom trip one day. Stay loose!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/03/drug-in...
I should have remembered 'Mote', thank you.

The first one to overload the others' shield won.

Lasers, nuclear-tipped torpedos, all add to the energy budget. Pent up energy cascades _in_ when your field collapses.

'Brenda' by Larry Niven, set in the CoDo Universe, has as it's backstory the cleanup job after a really large fleet engagement.
There are many kinds of tea, some with more, some with less caffeine. For a lark I finally tried the lightest in caffeine tea that there is: hot water. And as long as the sugar was there the same kick was present. As far as the science of it is concerned, I have no clue what the exact pathways are but the effect is tangible enough that I think I can rule out psychosomatic effects as well, though it is always hard to be 100% sure of this.
> There are two significant factions in the Python community: the scientific group and the web-dev group.

You forget the animation group. And the hardware/embedded group (Raspberry-Pi, anyone?). And the C-wrapper-writing group. And the sysadmin group. And and and...

The Python ecosystem is very large and diverse. That's part of its strength, and part of its weakness as well (it's very difficult to "herd" all these people, as this 3k migration has shown), but don't make the error of reducing it to the most vocal sectors -- they're not necessarily the most significant ones.
In Economics we call creating a unique product and/or brand Monopolistic Competition[1]. Almost all of our dynamic pricing ecommerce clients are monopolistic competitors. It makes sense for them. If they are competing on amazon, they are a price taker, if they have something that only they can offer and it is reasonably desired then they need to discover the price point that makes them the most profit.

I get a list of all the stores that sign up with us and go through to check out their products and make sure they are setup and happy. During this process, I'm always amazed at how creative people are at creating unique products and brands, as well as differentiating on support.
Hair salon / barber specific CRM systems already exist. Every shop I've been to has a computer in front the same as any retail establishment. They put in the names of customers when they come in and ask if they are requesting anyone specific to cut their hair, and that goes in too.

At the very least, every chain hair cut place has such a system already because they use it to keep track of employee hours, clients per hour, revenue and tips paid by credit. The national chains even have membership cards and customer reward systems integrated into their POS systems.

Here's a list of 145 hair salon software systems: http://www.capterra.com/salon-software

Many of them have iPhone/Android apps for both ends.

If your barber shop still hasn't tried anything but a sign-in sheet, maybe it's not a burning need for them.
Open source FPGA 'assembler'
Huge. Period.
If you didnt already do volume on Amazon, now you will try. Looking back at the start of AWS a few years back, i shudder to think what this does for small businesses nationwide 5 - 10 years from now. Amazon's underwriting the internet with AWS, underwriting small ecommerce cos with its seller programs, and now underwriting the financing side with this lending program.

Wonder what their protections are/how they will deal with defaults?
I agree the kid was basically a domestic terrorist who got gratification from making someone miserable - but I wonder if this writer would be so outraged if the kid was some young anti-racist ruining some Holocaust denier's career and life.
The web UI was slow and I didn't realize it was web-only until I bought it.

Can I get a refund?
Glad someone found and posted this. I'd been using PyKeyLogger for the past week (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pykeylogger/), but this one has built-in analytics. Hopefully someone beats me to a Windows version.

Suppose I want to combine this with other personal time-series data--can anyone suggest a good tool and workflow?
As long as they still cranked out out new, popular
products, companies like Apple would continue to profit by
being the first to market, which often confers a long-term
advantage.

Apple being first to market? When has Apple ever produced anything novel? Personal computers, MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets; were all invented by other companies. Apple's virtue is superior execution, not being first to market.
The reason I didn’t suggest this is that industry-specific law feels like a byproduct of the lobbyist culture that has lead to many of our current problems and pre-existence doesn’t justify its continued creation. But, overall, I think you’re right and this is the pragmatic solution.
This information is useless.

edit: Googling at least one of these brought up a Facebook account with the exact same non-coincidental username. :/
OK, so $1B goes from Samsung to Apple.

But what is the cost to the US economy of the fact that we now have only ONE* company left who can design and market handheld portable electronics?

* One might argue that Motorola isn't fully dead yet.
Your first two sentences contradict each other. In addition to that, there's quite a few assertions and leaps of logic in the rest of the post, especially in the last sentence.

However, the point is, artificial sweeteners have been around for quite some time, and there haven't been any indications that sweeteners cause cancer. On top of that, there have been numerous studies by the FDA and other organizations in Europe, all coming to the same conclusion. So unless you are implying a lack of credibility in those institutions, I don't see how claiming "sweeteners probably increase chances of cancer" as anything but fear mongering.
This also happens to me. The conference rooms on the floor I work on are named after landmarks in Manhattan. Meeting invites often say something like "2PM in Battery Park". So at about 1:30, my phone vibrates and says it's going to take 25 minutes to take the subway there. Heh.
The key is that software development is an unavoidable sunk cost. Once it has been paid, it can be ignored in terms of considering per-unit pricing.

The actual marginal cost of each unit of software sold is pretty close to zero. This is what makes it so fantastically profitable compared to almost anything else.
> I've read in a few places that restricting your diet to 600 calories a day for 2 weeks has shown a reversal in type 2 diabetes. If you believe you're pre-diabetic, perhaps this may help? If it works for full blown diabetics, could it also work for a pre-diabetic?

That's excellent information. Thanks!
Yeah, DC didn't drop at all, in fact I think it only went up as well...
95% of existing tourism spending. There's a big untapped market out there.
Could we use open source tools to improve politics?
Are you going to go through with it? I'm looking for a good excuse to just gtfo of dodge for a while
Why I switched from iOS to Android and why I am never going back…
I have been using Google Now for a few months now and it has been amazing.

Example 1: One night I was going to a Roots concert and I went through the venue's website on my Google Chrome on my laptop. Then, right around concert time, Google Now alerted me to what subway I should take to get there.

Example 2: I searched for the Phillies score once on my tablet, and now my phone tells me about the score of each game. Again, I never asked.

Example 3: After 2 days, Google Now guessed where I lived/worked and what time I left for work most days. I don't use any check-in services or anything like that it really just guessed. Then it started telling me what time I'd have to leave home/work to get there on time based on the current subway schedule. Exactly what I wanted, never asked.
I would absolutely go to one in Boston.
Huh, I didn't even realize that was possible. Seems like quite a bait-and-switch to build up a community under the guise of a nonprofit, and then take it for-profit afterwards.
MUNI averages 7-8 MPH, which is why a short round trip across San Francisco takes two hours (assuming it even shows up). It's exceptionally hard to start with awful at-grade transit and somehow make driving so much worse that people stop doing it. "Traffic calming" isn't bad enough, it just produces unpredictable and impatient driving.
If someone says "tl;dr", I assume they mean "it was too long; I didn't read it." If you want to provide a summary, then perhaps just call it that. (Although I think your summary mischaracterizes an actual test.)
Sucrose (sugar) is a glucose bonded to a fructose.

HFCS is a solution of unbonded fructose and glucose. The most common HFCS is 45% glucose / 55% fructose.

HFCS may be worse for you if fructose is worse for you. That said, the concentrations aren't that much different.
Immediately after abolishing patents, let's abolish Federal Reserve (who suggested the patent thing)
Why were they posting 3,800 names of people with a foot fetish?
> Everything is pretty much exclusively English. It'd be such a huge disadvantage.

So, you're saying it's inconceivable that someone could be competitive in the field without English skills, not that programming in another language period is inconceivable. I'm totally down with that.
Replacing Grub With Syslinux - jasonwryan.com
I've been trying to find a good window management tool for OS X since I switched in January. This is the first free tool I've found.

I installed the binary but have a really weird issue. It takes 10-15 seconds from the time I press a key to the time that the action is taken. During this time period, the Spectacle icon on the menu bar has a spinning cursor.

Maybe I'll try the original Spectacle app to see if there's a difference and I'll report the issue.
Exactly.

I think you're right on about sugar. The amount of it that people are consuming is ridiculous. Obesity in the U.S. is a real problem. I've seen people ruin their lives with soda. One person I know is at least 300 pounds (135 kg) and most of it is from soda. He drinks, on average, 4 20-oz (590mL) bottles per day. That's 960 empty calories, or a pound of fat every 4 days (!).

Also, I know a couple people who are now dealing with the end stages of diabetes. Really ugly stuff.