skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the comments; you bring up good points and I was probably being a bit expansive.

When I was a medical student, I used to ask patients, just prior to discharge, what their hospitalization was for, what their primary diagnosis was, what's the follow-up, etc. I was absolutely disheartened at how few people had any clue whatsoever (though some were due to poor communication on our part). But then again, as a patient it's a ton of work to really be on top of your care. I've tried tagging along with family members who were hospitalized and even I had to press to follow everything.

I've never been hospitalized, so maybe I'm not able to understand the emotional impact of being in those huge, strange buildings on the other side of the white coats (which I refuse to wear anymore for a lot of reasons). I've been on prescription pain pills once, and quit after 2 days because they made me so sleepy; I preferred the pain. So I'm constantly struggled to really get inside the mindset of any patients who don't articulate their thoughts.

Yikes, don't know where I'm going with this. I'd like things to change, but have no idea where to start.
Don't mean to be a shill for Coursera, but if you enjoyed this article you might like Coursera's crypto class: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto I found it really challenging in some places, but also quite fun.

Udacity also has a crypto course: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs387/CourseRev/apr20... I haven't tried it yet, but it looks a bit more in-depth in some places than the Coursera course.
Is this really warranted? Hasn't Apple won?
For the Home Workshop, a GPS for Power Tools
This is pure hyperbole. It would take one of IBM's Linux IT people half an hour to modify the Ubuntu disc image to remove the offending package.
I think it's interesting to point out that this is Rob Pike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
Although every time I've attempted to use it in the last 48 hours, they've all been full. I think it's because they're offering $25 in taxi credit (presumably to encourage taxi drivers to join up).
Not a fan. We tend to react to offers like this as if they were obviously equitable: after all, we're getting paid for the time even if we're not good matches. But the offers are never equitable, because they're almost invariably calibrated to your starting salary. In other words, "we'll pay you for two weeks, and then, if it works out, we'll commit to paying you indefinitely".

In the real market, a commitment to pay only two weeks comes attached to a drastic jump in your rate. If you expect a $100k offer, your 2-week rate isn't $50/hr; it's probably something much closer to $100/hr. There are a lot of reasons for this:

* Your cost basis as a contractor is higher than your cost basis as an employee; for instance, you're paying ~2x payroll tax, and paying to maintain your own health insurance.

* Your full-time salary includes a sizable discount that buys continuous payment, even when you aren't being utilized. A contractor doesn't make a dime when they're not doing billable work.

* Your rate includes the opportunity cost of not doing whatever else it was you could have been doing (if there's nothing you can be doing except accepting this offer, I guess you can't really negotiate it --- but then, fix THAT problem, stat.)

There's more not to like about these temp-to-perm arrangements. For starters, in a lot of jobs, the first N weeks of your employment are going to be your least productive. A lot of that time is going to be spent ramping up. One wonders whether offers like this are a manipulative way of getting people to work their asses off to minimize ramp-up cost; that practice would obviously be abusive.

Downthread, 'gruseom says he wishes offers like this were more common, because the risk of a bad fit with a new role cuts both ways. But it doesn't! Employment virtually everywhere in the US is at will. If you're in a bad fit, just leave; or, better yet, negotiate with the company owners, confident that you have a strong BATNA (what do you have to lose?).

If you come across a gig that wants to do this temp-to-perm dance, and you're amenable to it, my advice is to ask instead to just do a series of contracting gigs at a reasonable rate instead of taking full-time employment. Let the prospective employer get used to the idea of working with you, and do that at a contractor rate, so that when the time comes to cut over to full-time, your salary requirements automatically look sane in comparison.

More people should learn how to freelance. If a job's going to force you to do it, seize the opportunity to do it right.
This could be a good conversation to have. I'd be interested in chatting with you in-depth. My email is in my profile.
I am tiring of people struggling to try to monetize all web traffic. It seems like some people just cannot accept that there may be noncommercial elements of the web and that those elements might be extremely popular. They might even be the most popular elements of the entire web. Imagine that.
IPhone, iPad, and iPod Benchmarks - 10x increase since 2007
Tech workers making $200K+/year, if it takes them an hour to get to the caltrain station on MUNI, that's a lot of money just gone. And again, these guys are coming/going to the same place, why not just give them a bus that is almost point-to-point? That is fairly efficient/environmental if that is your bar.

But I agree on the last point; but offices should be built where people want to live, not the other way around. Twitter is in SF for a reason. But then people don't all want to live in the same place; some have kids and prefer suburbs, some are younger and prefer the city.

Edit: facebook -> twitter. (face plant)
I've adopted a biphasic sleep pattern of sorts by chance. It started by occasionally falling asleep when putting my son to sleep, and when I'd wake up I'd compensate by staying up longer.

After a while I realized it works very well for me to got to sleep for a couple of hours around 8 when he goes to sleep, and then stay up for a few hours before going back to sleep - I usually feel very mellow and relaxed when waking up after my first sleep period, and then very energized after I've been up for a little while. I get far more done this way than by trying to make myself work on stuff at the tail end of a long day. In fact, I'm coming out of my "mellow and relaxed" phase after my first sleep period right now, and is about to start working on a project...

Sometimes I end up "exploiting it" by cutting my total number of hours of sleep drastically, and feel little ill effect as long as I compensate with sufficient rest the following evening.

Occasionally I'll combine this with a 30 minutes nap at lunch time. If not I'll usually spend that time meditating instead.
What I don't understand is why apt-get is better than dpkg. You haven't explained that.
Time that nobody wants to or should need to spend, and time that isn't necessary with other distros.
Many people thought the same about live journal and Blogger in the early 2000's, then Wordpress came along. This (and diaspora) are Wordpress for social network profiles.
Drunk on Cloud Kool-Aid? Time To Sober Up
This reads like satire — I mean it's a clever idea but I feel like it falls into the 'too cute' category, subject matter aside. Will be curious to see a follow-up as to whether it worked, was a disaster, or turned out to be a hoax or publicity stunt.
Nuts. One of the reasons the stops are kept private, is to keep rents from going up near the stops.
Exactly my thoughts. If any civil engineering out there could answer the question: Could this type of coordinated action lead to some 'cascading failure' in the water system? Or it would just drastically reduce the pressure, and that's it?
Yep, one of my favourite things about the Linux desktop has always been it's relative lack of adware/spyware/whatever.

Thing is , I imagine most of Ubuntu's current users are savvy enough to just remove this and get on with their lives therefor grossly reducing the affiliate revenue they would get.

I actually wouldn't necessarily be against some amazon integration into the OS, for example having a 'shopping' lens might be convenient, especially if it let me manage my cart and track shipping etc all from inside my OS.

I don't even understand how this is especially useful to amazon anyway. I usually use the home lens to search for programs, what use is knowing that I typed in 'sublime text' to amazon?
That sounds like a new olympic discipline!
"Science Fiction Condition". What an incredible way of putting it. Thanks for the link!
I think this is sort of a 80/20 situation, where the last 20% of the project is taking 80% of the time to complete -- the project here being the "migration" from the physical to the
digital world. That's why change is not so palpable. This project is a great one nonetheless: we're redefining how humans relate to each other, how we handle and share knowledge, how we collaborate. I think these changes affect society in a more profound way than some great new device or technology.
Hadoop will make Java more and more relevant.
Ironically, "sum += e.size()" is conceptually not serial at all; the order that each iteration runs is not relevant while you could restructure the computation into a tree of partial aggregations.

The work around in Java, using a Cell<T>, is a hack that gives you the updatable mutable variable you need without too much ugly overhead. so something like...

cell = new Cell<T>(); ... { ... cell.Value = ... } })
I would easily pay $500 a month for a service like this.
Are We Really Getting Smarter?
I think the point isn't that is impossible to be able to do a clean install of an OS and apps (Time Machine included) you have already paid (premium!) for but the fact that it is non-trivial and very much involved - all the things for which the Apple system stood against. Most of the newer Apple products are a black box which cannot be fixed unless even the technically competent users take extra efforts(^).

And this is coming from Rob Pike[1].

edit: (^)Or you take it to the Apple Genius people, who just have the correct tools.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
ClojureWerkz: Collection of open source Clojure libraries
Admins and reviewers do have some special abilities -- you might have been made a reviewer (or topic admin) and not remember it happening!
Show HN: Ebay for the color blind, a Chrome extension for easier browsing
Sorry, but no, you must have right to work laws confused with something else. The link you posted has nothing to do with the Libertarian Party, even a comment points out that the Libertarian Party has "not adopted a plank in favor of Right to Work laws" and that the column is "the opinion of the author".

I quote from your link:

> “We support the right of free persons to associate or not associate in labor unions, and an employer should have the right to recognize or refuse to recognize a union.”

Right to work laws prevent employers from mandating joining a union. To support right to work laws would be to deny the freedom of contract between an employee and a worker. Your freedom of association from the government gives you the ability to choose among employers who may or may not force you to join a union. And if you get a job for a business that does not mandate union membership, you can still join a union, as that is an exercise of freedom of association.
Twitter, you mean? Facebook is in the middle of nowhere by the Dumbarton Bridge.
Interesting in that his industry veteran status gives this merit or interesting in that his employment makes him a shill?
Corporations wouldn't be able to seek rent from the government, if the government wasn't offering it.

Anti-trust laws should be thoroughly enforced if rent-seeking is seemingly required to save the economy.
If we accept the point that were just in the middle of the transition , and look a little bit forward, we'll see:

1960 -> 2025

Air travel -> life quality telepresence and group meetings globally

Expensive education -> free, high quality education for all

Antibiotics are great(but easy) -> tons of very difficult medical innovations(transplants,printing organs,cancer treatments,diagnostics, AI in medicine ...)

Everything needs workers -> So much can be done automatically, at extremely cheaper cost and extremely rapid pace.

Dirty energy -> Clean energy at competitive price(at least available if not deployed)

Manual cars -> automated cars (?)

We love lucy -> Extreme variety of content

Monopoly -> addictive digital experiences

It's easy to see big changes when you look over 60 years.
After struggling to find what the current re-sale of my iPhone was... I decided to make this extension. It makes greens more lime green and reds a darker red.

I hope it helps some people, and please let me know if the colors need tweaked for others!

The source is up on github: https://github.com/AdamBrodzinski/ebay-color-blind

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/WjXYp.jpg
Good point. I'll get to changing that so it is more helpful.
That's not an ending, that's a continuation of the progress we've been making for decades. Someone just wanted to write a bitchy article in Wired because they aren't in Minority Report yet.
Article title as I see the article by following the URL kindly submitted here: "How the world’s oceans could be running out of fish." So I see from the URL that there must be an alternate title for this article, which the submitter used (as is quite fair to do). This is an example of an article title that asks a yes/no question for which the answer is yes.

"Entire species of marine life will never be seen in the Anthropocene (the Age of Man), let alone tasted, if we do not curb our insatiable voracity for fish. Last year, global fish consumption hit a record high of 17 kg (37 pounds) per person per year, even though global fish stocks have continued to decline. On average, people eat four times as much fish now than they did in 1950."

This news report is consistent with many other studies I have seen of this issue since the 1980s. The Grand Banks cod fishery

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/grandbanks.htm

which seemed inexhaustible as recently as my own young adulthood, has collapsed. Many species of ocean-going fish have largely disappeared from the human diet in many countries, not because people no longer like those varieties of fish, but because those varieties of fish are no longer readily available.
Automated home brewing system
Having globally usable handheld networked computers with location capability and voice and video communication capabilities that is simple enough for the average person to use is a pretty big innovation of the past decade.

Just look at the latest smartphones, they are amazing. That much computer, network, sensor and display power in that size of a package is incredible and real innovation even if it has been evolutionary over the last couple of decades rather than a single point revolution.

It has made room for a massive amount of minor steps in app development filling in the space created by the modern phone. There is still room for improvement, more accurate location will open further possibilities
They're actually not legally allowed to take payment, so giving customers free credit is the only method they have to make the system usable.
Anatomy of a SIM Card
Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he knows what he's doing.
There's a couple of startups that do exactly this for individuals and startups.
Here is one that I did a quick search on: http://www.ridepal.com/

Here's an article on these guys: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/ridepal-to-help-b...

Also, if there's a market, why doesn't someone on YC solve this problem?

The GBus was started as a 20% project by a single engineer. He got a group of fellow coworkers together and charted a van to commute to work.

When I was working in Finance in NYC, a bunch of the traders got together and chartered a van to drive them to the office in Stamford, CT.

It's really not a hard problem to solve.

Edit:
Here's another: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&i...
BART around the bay wouldn't actually address the problems that the shuttles do, though. If BART had been built in San Mateo County, it would have followed the Caltrain right of way, which isn't anywhere near companies like Google and Apple. For companies that are actually centrally located in the peninsula cities, there is Caltrain.
> More people should learn how to freelance. If a job's going to force you to do it, seize the opportunity to do it right.

OK, will do. :)

This job, though, is for employee #5 at a place for an ambitious startup and with people I've heard of before who have done t hings you've probably heard of. At first, I wasn't so sure about the 2-week try out but knowing who the people hiring are...all of this mixes together to just kind of confuse me about it.

These people are relatively well known and don't have a bad rep, it's a super interesting concept.

I take it my BATNA is to just quit with the proceeds from the 2 weeks? I'm employed elsewhere but can get time off.

Also, thanks for your comments. We've chatted before off-and-on and you're always insightful and helpful.
I honestly think that this line of thinking is now outdated. There will be a mental revolution for those who believe in this, because the rest of the world believes we are already in a revolution.. Stop being negative, make room for the people who are ready to innovate. Quit hating, in less words. There are generations who are adapting to this new environment, even if they don't realize it.

I'd say this: stop focusing on the negative and start being creative-- this article is just a bunch of bullshit excuses that will in itself slow innovation. Feed the hungry, don't kick them when they are down. "We" young entrepreneurs need inspiration now more than anything, not criticism. Big ideas are going to happen, regardless of you believing in them (yet).

The tools we all have access to is unbelievable. If you don't feel like the future is already here, and it's just prime time to start making the new generation of innovations using these tools, you're going to be left in the dust.

Innovation never goes anywhere it just needs time to adapt, I think.

Come and see me 5-10 years from now, and maybe I can say I told you so.
Check out RidePal:
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/ridepal-to-help-b...

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For employers wishing to reserve a certain number of seats on specific buses at certain times, RidePal plans to sell subscriptions, starting at $250 a month for companies of up to 50 people. That subscription is credited toward fares, which start at $8 a seat for trips within a 10-mile zone and go up to $589 for a monthly pass within the largest travel zone, which extends up to 75 miles from the pickup location.
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This Will Blow Your Mind!
Already had a taxi assuring me the trip from the airport to my place was well under $20, as I had only a $20 bill and no active credit card. I asked him before hand if he was absolutely sure and that I wouldn't be able to pay more. I had 30Kg of luggage so I figured it was a good idea.

When we reached $20 at 70% of the way, he said "so ill bring you to the nearest ATM and you'll pay the diff ok?". I said no. He opened the door. I walked home. With my 30Kg. Yay.

I'd certainly take a non-taxi company whenever I wanna be sure. Sorry for honest taxi drivers.
In my experience, Time Machine works great. What doesn't work great are the absolute pieces of crap that Seagate and Western Digital are pawning off on us as viable backup solutions. They are just plain garbage. The controllers are unstable, and the drives are invariably refurbished. (And don't even get me started on the 2.5" drives with embedded USB controllers and no access to SATA ports.)

I went through a couple Seagates and a couple WD's, each of which would corrupt the Time Machine volume repeatedly. The last straw came when I had an internal drive failure on my MBP, and my existing Time Machine drive would not even mount, and Disk Warrior, Drive Genius, and TechTool Pro (in that order) were of no help.

I switched to using a Thermaltake USB3 dock, with 3.5" WD Enterprise drives. I have not had a single issue since. You get what you pay for in hard drives. If you are relying upon them for backup - don't go cheap. It isn't worth it!
Just out of interest, were the old guard who refused to learn the (non-IT) systems engineers? I've had similar experiences with senior engineers and am trying to work out how (or whether) the field should be saved
This is fantastic.

Previously livIng in Noe Valley, I'd see these all here time and often wondered about exactly this.

Note to google if your reading this; tell you damn drivers to stay out of the left lanes on 101 when it is not a commuter lane - your drivers are HORRIBLE and I have seen them cause congestion and near accidents on many occasions.
The bottom line of the commission? Aren't they a government agency?
I'd love to try out f.lux but I am a little wary of installing a binary that messes with my xwindow settings. I wish the source was available...
Some sources, the only organization for DC taxi drivers is the DC Professional Taxi Driver Association [1] which acts as somewhat of a lobbying group.

Licensing is handled by District of Columbia Taxicab Commission [2].

[1] http://www.dcptda.org/
[2] http://dctaxi.dc.gov/dctaxi/site/default.asp
It only took a few hours because I had no idea how Jenkins worked or what it did or how to write jobs. I use github because it has a lot of nice UI features on top of Git plus the social stuff and the fact that it's my resume. Maybe one day we'll be doing continuous integration to production and I'll look at your product.

(btw the github counter thing isn't very accurate)
Taxi commissions make a significant amount of money from Taxi medallions. They can cost anywhere from $200k-$1 million dollars each in some cities.
> I think the point isn't that is impossible to be able to do a clean install of an OS and apps (Time Machine included) you have already paid (premium!) for but the fact that it is non-trivial and very much involved - all the things for which the Apple system stood against.

I'm not sure I agree?

Apple's always optimized for the average person's average case. "Those of us that need to maintain machines" aren't the average person engaged in the average case activity; they're engaged in a corner case activity and should have the knowledge to swing the non-trivial (but still trivial) ISO extraction method.

This is a small inconvenience for a small section of their customer base with a big upside: updating one OS version to the next over the internet is dead-stupid easy for the non-technical majority.

It beats the hell out of what for years has passed as Microsoft's version of selling you an OS upgrade over the internet; paying for a download of an .iso, figuring out what to do with an .iso, burning it, and using it is easier for the "those of us that need to maintain machines", but way out of reach for the non-technical majority. It's optimizing for exactly the wrong case.
Sounds like he had a bad day. Oh well. Probably as much of an unproductive waste of time to write this long, passive-aggressive blog post.