skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a hacker or a small software house and have them build a prototype. A lone guy is probably better for you, cheaper and probably easier to deal with.

Now, importantly, don't project it as the next startup idea. Instead make it seem like it's just some mundane task that's common in your line of work that your fictional employer would like to automate. From what I can tell this is not some idea that is common knowledge outside of the medical field right? I don't think you need to worry that much.
Anonymize != de-personalize, and this doesn't do either, unfortunately -- though is a good start at protecting yourself.
I liked the idea. Hope OP delivers
It would be vaguely interesting to know from study participants how unique their browser is.[1] Mine appeared to yield the same result whether in incognito mode or not, but I can't really see Google using this approach.

Your point about Google trends is counterintuitive but evidence-supported, which makes it particularly interesting. It may well be that they are looking at outcome measures after search personalization, and abandoning personalizations that yield no results. Or perhaps a certain volume is required over time for a particular query before triggering an automated personalization trial. As you say, it's a black box, so who knows.

[1] = https://panopticlick.eff.org/
The CPSC doesn't care if you buy magnets! They only care about how they're marketed! The CPSC is not trying to keep magnets away from you. They are not trying to abolish any kind of magnet. This isn't the war on drugs. They care exclusively about one specific packaging.

And, if you're a complete freaking moron and buy magnets and stuff them into the mouths of your children, well, not to sound too callous, but the CPSC isn't going to care so much about those magnets.

They'll probably care more about the quantity of lead paint you must have somehow ingested to make such a dumb decision.
I agree. I follow the cocoacontrols.com Twitter feed and this is exactly the same order of recently featured projects. Not cool.

BTW, thanks for the site Aaron!
"where he complains that installing Eclipse is... well, exactly the same as installing it on every other version of Windows"

Let me look at my watch... it's 2012. That, there that you wrote right there, is exactly my complaint.

(and yes my imaginary watch only has the year on it. Man they go by fast these days!)

but was not able to hit the start key on Windows and type "Command".

herp derp, ya got me.
I wonder if PyPy has a similar bug - since PyPy can do a much better job at sandboxing Python programs, it might be especially important how it handles tokenization of those programs.
http://www.eachdayisagift.com/ looks like the one, but if it's not I also found these:

https://www.mysterygiftmachine.com/
http://www.ifting.com/
http://www.GiftLizard.com

btw: the search box at the bottom of the page works pretty well :)
Does editing time out after a while? I'd never noticed that before..

Anyway... s/cardiac artery/coronary artery/
Well, the reason I was being, honestly, a douche about using Metro, is that this is the future direction of Windows. I don't expect their roadmap has a desktop appearing at all in Windows 10. Maybe not even in Windows 9. It's a transitional thing.
I brought up the Diginotar hack because the security of the Digid system depended on an organization that was so thoroughly owned up that it was forced out of business, and I felt like that was relevant to a discussion about centralizing the authentication of citizens to a single organization that could be trusted to get things right.
I find this HN concept of the Java programmer as a 'blub' programmer really offensive.

I've coded C,C++ for years. I really like Lisp, Clojure, Python. I've dabbled with Haskell and OCaml. And I LIKE JAVA and NOT because I'm old, stupid or don't fucking know better.
To put this in context, I live in New Jersey. I understand the concerns about security with email voting. Though I think the bigger issue will be the lack of power and access to polling stations. Even though power has been restored to the majority of households there are still ~500,000 households without power. Who knows how many polling stations have been affected. In addition many areas have curfews and limited access either because of downed lines, blocked roads, and or flooding. Even with all this I have a feeling few people will be voting via email. I think NJ is just trying to give people as many options as possible because of how large of an impact this storm has had.
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You asked why people don't take the Metro or MARC/VRE. I explained that it doesn't go to where people want. Having to use two modes, driving then rail, is a huge deal breaker. From where I used to live, I'd have to fight through route 7 traffic for 20 min to take a 35 minute train ride, or I could just keep driving for another 45 min. When you factor in parking the time saving is nothing. Yet in the NYC metro, I live as far away as I did in DC, and can easily walk to the train. As a result, something like 10x as many people use commuter rail in the NYC metro per capita. And Westchester isn't exactly super densely populated. It's just smartly designed, unlike the horribly sprawling DC suburbs. You have walkable little towns of 5,000 people served by a rail station instead of the cluster fuck that is Fairfax County.

Traffic is god's punishment to northern Virginia for letting subdivision developers basically do all the urban planning for the last 50 years.
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The latter statement about cases requiring endoscopic surgery comes from the American Pediatric Association.
...so cheap
Yes, the whole discussion is predicated on if Bell Curve were accurate.

I'd gone back to race, not gender. I think I've seen studies which say African-Americans are as much as a sigma below general population of the US, and certain Jewish or Asian populations are a sigma above, which is 2 sigma net, which is HUGE. I don't know if I buy these studies, but to the extent that IQ measures scholastic aptitude and culture vs. innate genetic intelligence, it's possible.

Engineers at large companies are maybe 1SD above the mean; founders or "10x engineers" at startups are 2SD+.

So, a 2 sigma difference at the 1 and 2 sigma above mean levels would be huge, which is observed in the population of startup founders and famous startup engineers. But there are plenty of other explanations which would account for exactly the same observation even if there were zero difference on population "aptitude" -- it's just one plausible explanation.

(There's also the argument that Asian immigrants to the US are potentially the top of a 3 billion person set, and the total number of African-Americans is something like 30mm. But the Ashkenazi Jewish population and African-American populations are on the same order of magnitude in the US.)
You've never heard of C++?
Unfortunately 'Republican' has become synonymous with the extreme-religious-right - itself a likely small subset of all Republicans. It's this 'subset' who actively promote certain world views - a popular one being that evolution is only a 'theory' or a hoax. It's no wonder those views attract the occasional joke or ridicule... it's low hanging fruit. Really easy, and really funny.

I'm not a US citizen, so can't vote, but if I could I would very seriously consider voting republican, but for their extreme views on 'social' issues. I suspect I'm like a lot of other people in the US - fiscally conservative, socially liberal. Sadly for the Republican party, people like me are really only left with a choice of voting Democrat when faced with the prospect of our schools teaching our children that the Universe was LITERALLY created in 7 days.

Just my $0.02
Sorry, meant to say depersonalize. Care to expand why this doesn't work? Just ran the same test, and I see the exact same results.
What's that from? Did you host a mirror for Imageshack?
My standard "learn a new language" project usually is a calculator... touches many aspects but I have grown bored of it. A phrase extrator is simple but can be much more complex, might try it next language!
I'm a fan of Win 7 in fact. If there were no Ubuntu, I'd be using it (I've been dual booting it since it first came out).

I see a lot of people saying "Hey, Win 8 is fine, just use desktop, here's a start menu replacement, bleh bleh bleh". That's missing the point. If all goes according to plan, the desktop is doomed and Metro is the future. Microsoft's only got it there because Windows is still in transition. So I'm trying to use Windows 8 in as Windows 8 a way as possible, not like Win 7's little bitch.

So far it seems that's a doomed experiment. For dev I'm going to have to go full desktop, oldschool. Of course.
I'm puzzled why people buy popcorn in bags (with nasty fake butter, etc. -- there's actually a disease, Popcorn Workers Lung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans).

You can just use regular paper bags, put some popcorn in, and pop it. It works fine. There isn't a microwave susceptor or anything like that in the bag. (some tv dinners actually do include materials designed to heat up from microwaves to directly cook the food, particularly foods with low water content which would otherwise not get cooked well in the microwave.)
My pleasure, glad you like it! :)
Military researchers closing in on breast cancer vaccine
That quote reminds me of Mitch Hedberg's color joke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El65C0u_J3U
And how do I meet with my customers? How do I watch my users using my product? I know we have technological breakthrough using products like Telepresence, Skype but they'll never ever replace inter-personal communication. Especially, things like watching users play around our product and understanding the problems with our product.
The isn't exactly true-

http://www.focusontheuser.org/
And here is the pertinent revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gravity&oldid...

It survived for almost three and a half hours.

I like the note at the end of the revision page: "This version of the page has been revised. Besides normal editing, the reason for revision may have been that this version contains factual inaccuracies, vandalism, or material not compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License."
Given your continued insistence on trying to change the argument to one about the elimination of all small round magnets, I can only assume that you're either trolling or just completely unwilling to think about other people's positions. You certainly don't come across as stupid enough for it to be anything else.
Will Regulations Kill The Sharing Economy?
At this point, its all pretty personal. There are only two of us on the team, and the 888 number actually gets directed straight to my cell. I hear what you are saying though, the plan is to build it out, but I wanted to get in front of customers right away, and figured this was a good compromise. I thought about things as a "fancy" landing page.
Also, it's not in Transilvania.
Opps, now that you mention it, that's a bizzare colour choice - I'm one of the "7 to 10%" (according to Wikipedia), so didn't even notice! Now fixed.
This is very cool.
How many printers have signed up?
I think it's a return to historical standards. Teenage is a construct of the modern age, which prolonged schooling more and more, keeping young people out of active work life, to an extent that is detrimental both to these young people and society, IMO. Historically, a male of 15-16 was a man, he could work and get married to a girl even younger. Now, I'm not advocating teenage marriage, but teenage implication in work life.
Personally, I'm a lot more tolerant of referrals the more "credible or responsible" the referrer is.

1) If the author of a book writes a ~10 page article (free) or posts a chapter, and includes a link to "buy my book", I have zero problem. In fact, I'm glad he made it easier for me to buy the book from Amazon, saving me a step.

2) If someone sets up a site (like Box O' Truth, an ammunition/firearms performance test), then includes links to purchase tested products (and potentially discloses that Federal gave him a bunch of Flitecontrol #00, and Benelli loaned him an M1 for testing), I have no problem buying through those links.

3) An author who has a following (say, a known expert in cycling) who throws some links to products he likes and reviews, especially if it's a product he owns already.

4) Someone who is a domain expert and reviews products he doesn't really like, slightly disingenuously. Although in some cases it makes sense for say a skiing expert to review a beginner product that he personally doesn't use; that's closer to 3. A Canon shooter who includes a Nikon body for comparison (without actually reviewing it) is more like a 4 or 4.5.

...

6) Random lists of products, like "top 10 new items for the new year" from publications like Stuff or Wired or whatever, largely selected through vendor promotion and who buys display ads.

...

9) Ubuntu stripping out referrals from some packages and replacing them with their own (some audio package?)

10) Malware which secretly appends an affiliate tag to everything a browser goes to, without a choice.

Antipathy starts around 5, and jihad starts around 8.

I think Referly in this case is around a 3, and in the worst case is around a 5 or 6.
I like this. You never see Techcrunch or any other tech blogs covering some of the maddeningly mundane aspects of a startup life (for good reason: its boring). From the outside, a startup seems like all code and growth and glamour, but the "CEO is the janitor" motif is nothing if not true-to-life.

More mundane things I'd like to hear about: HR, accounting, customer support or general management. Those end up being real pains for startups, and we never know it until we experience it.
I just don't see the angle. A respected blog posting affiliate links is about my limit of 'earnestly recommending products and happen to be making commission'. Referly seems primed to create low-authority (quality is irrelevant) lists which are then posted to various community sites, much like you have just done.

You might be able to save some credibility by also including non-affiliate links so users are given an easy-to-act-on choice, but I cringe for even possibly helping.
In my final year of university, I worked on a project to build a device that induces therapeutic hypothermia. Following graduation, 3 friends and I decided that there was enough need for this device to pursue the venture full time. We won a few business plan competitions, received funding through a small incubator, and set out to improve the outcomes of cardiac arrest patients.

Two months in to full time work, the four of us were walking back to the office from from lunch when one of my colleagues collapsed of a sudden cardiac arrest. Similar to Dustin's friend, mine was immediately treated with bystander CPR and first responders were on the scene within 5 minutes. Unfortunately however, my friend was not as lucky as Dustin's. He is no longer with us today and it's devastating to think that his life was taken at the age of 24 by a cardiac arrest.

As someone who has been extremely close to this topic for the past year, I can't stress enough the importance of basic understanding. People who seem to be "very healthy" can still be impacted by cardiac arrest. A sudden cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack. Bystander CPR and the use of automatic external defibrillators can have a significant impact.

"SCA kills more Americans than lung cancer, breast cancer and HIV/AIDS combined." [1] So please spend some time understanding the risk factors that contribute to cardiac arrest, take a CPR course, and educate those around you. I really believe that a single individual can have a significant impact in a situation such as this.

[1]http://wwwp.medtronic.com/Newsroom/LinkedItemDetails.do?item...
Thank you.

> a person who searches for "Harry Potter," and then for "Amazon," actually wants "Harry Potter" results from Amazon.com Inc.

For my case, this would never be true. I would simply append "amazon" to the original search. Now, I could probably train myself to not do that, but I don't want to. I don't want my search engine to have any kind of state, but unfortunately Google thinks I want the opposite.

I guess I want Google to be purely functional. The same query will give the same answer, no matter who asks it and no matter where in the world it's asked. I certainly don't want Google to create a little filter bubble just for me.
We haven't formalized "sign up" per se with the printers, we have relationships with with a bunch though, the site says 100s, its not quite there just yet, but hope to be in the next couple of weeks.
I've found that having plenty of fruit on hand is key to being able to work long startup days without feeling like crap at the end of the week.

Non-perishables are somewhat overrated: most food will be eaten (especially once you know what people like and what they don't like), and having a few dollars' worth of fruit go bad each week is a tiny amount of your food budget.
Exactly, to all of the people worrying about the fact that he's 16. I don't think it's really him doing much of it. I've seen these deals happen before, where an investor gives someone some money, brings in their executive team and outsources development. If you look at the list on the about section about five agencies and freelancer teams are working on the app. I've met a few people that are over the last few days.

They are basing it on his age (Nothing wrong with that) because they seem to have a huge agency or press team working to get two BBC headline's and coverage in all of the big publications.

The worry with this is if all fails and the app doesn't take off (As it didn't the first time and with most companies) will they all stick around and will the investors put more in? This is why I don't particularly like this model.

All the best to him and the team though. I'll be interested to see how it goes.
"What are you doing?"

"Oh, just writing a transcription of the video"

"But we don't need a transcription of the video. How about an insightful comment?"

"It's OK. I'm just writing a transcription."
I dont watch hulu.com videos period. And i smash hard drives to pieces before throwing away old computers. I dont see how this would be possible. Maybe somebody I dont know somehow managed to get my login, sync it with chrome, and watched hulu.com? I find that highly unlikely... but I'll try to see if i can find a spot within my google account to see all the devices i have chrome synced with.
Yes I did feel it necessary (and accurate) to use that phrasing as a reaction to the phrasing in the article. Quote:

"Is it hard to update? No! Android devices can be upgraded through the settings without having to pay for the new version. Here is how simple it is!"

My manner is to be direct and to match the rhetoric of what I'm responding to. You are right that it can be seen as unnecessarily confrontational - please downvote as appropriate.
It's disturbing just how bad some of ImageShack's code is, not only from a functional standpoint but from an aesthetic one too.
Show HN: Urbany - The Ultimate Location Mashup
UK might not have the right solution but they're trying to work at the problem while we're letting the problem get worse.

Slander and content of speech is tough to regulate because it's not black and white. I think we should still kick around ideas that try to control blatant lying but I understand how unrealistic that could be.

Personally, I think limiting campaign spending might work. Again, still extremely tough subject to solve but the current trend isn't good for our democracy.
I know the guy who's starting this, and can tell he is seems fairly motivated to make this happen.

I can't wait to see where this will go, too!

Sidenote: I'm on my own "startup paradise", a very small rural village of west of France with a nice weather :-)
I wonder if there's issues with his age and owning a business? Can anyone speak to this? Would his parents have to be involved?
I recently did an on campus interview with Microsoft. Before the interview, they sent me an application to fill out with my basic information, interests, etc. The application looked like absolute garbage if you opened it with Wordpad, Libreoffice, or Google Docs. I ended up downloading a trial version of Office just to fill out the application.

So the only reason I've ever had in the past few years to use Office is that other people still use it, and Google Docs and LibreOffice are not perfectly compatible 100% of the time.
The bookmarks have no variables at the end, unfortunately. All the URLs look like this: http://www.hulu.com/watch/419957

I've visited everything i visited up until a few hours before this happened & nothing. Not a single video or random url popping up in my history.

I dont have any other devices that were even on at this time, so it wasnt google chrome history syncing from another one of my devices.

One thing that has been brought up is seeing what devices are synced with my google account.. and seeing if somebody else somehow has their browser (and their history) synced with my account... and thats why it's showing up. I doubt it because im pretty protective of my credentials, but you never know.

I'll report back what I find.
Ugh. HR (even just payroll, but also various disclosures, insurances, etc.), lawyers, physically printing and getting people to sign large numbers of forms, etc. all are annoying and have very little room for positive differentiation.

Picking out an office and furnishing it also sucks, but at least you might do particularly well on it.
Yes, what you said sounds plausible and is indeed intuitive, but we've found it empirically to be untrue.

In fact, on fresh private mode browsing (cookies cleared) when people searched for the same result at the same time, we still saw significant variation in results, even in the same country and on non-location results.
Don't worry, you won't burn in the pit of spam hell... we don't want to be a spam site. The sad thing is that my credibility is poorly reflected in this Referly post, but if you were to read it in the context of distributionhacks.com, daniellemorrill.com or the Twilio company blog it would have a totally different meaning. And that is the secret we have uncovered I think... the results of my experiment will be forthcoming

This is also why Klout is such a bunch of crap.
In the grand scheme of things, it's better for Microsoft that you pirate Office than use something else - so really you are not punishing them for their mistake by doing that.

Your continued use of Office, will mean people can continue sending Office documents and you can send them too, if you used something else that whole system gets disrupted and people you work with consider new tools too. If you share your doc with Google docs for example, their copy of Office for that task is useless and after a while everyone might be using it, in my view it's a much better workflow than email documents around.

Just my 2 cents [I don't think anyone should pirate software by the way].
I helped Alex out with some extremely basic form-swapping JavaScript way back when the site was brand-new, and the was a hidden tribute page for me for a while.
The redditor in me laughed. The HN user in my wants to be able to downvote you.
Stalking is not legally, and his videoer freely admits to stalking.
Also, Jack Link's brand beef jerky is disgusting. Really. almost any of the commercial stuff is disgusting.

If you don't make your own, my favorite is http://www.bigjohnsbeefjerky.com/

It's actually made from tolerably good meat, not overly processed, and is cut into nice thin slices which are easy to eat.
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The site doesn't work on my iPhone, but that's not why I'm leaving a comment. I wanted to compliment you on the great domain name. It's clever and catchy. Very brandable. Nice work.

P.S. And don't forgot smartphone users.