skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pleased we're able to reach a level of civility here; FWIW i apologise for my ad hominem attack.

I do not think that treatments are either binary Alt-med or science-based; rather there is a spectrum; I didn't make this explicitly clear however left the door open to this when I said I support lifestyle treatments.

I agree that the evidence should speak for itself but as I point out in another post part of the problem with CAM is that you are dealing with 'true believers' - people that will deny the research that has been done and claim that none has.
The truth is a huge body of CAM has been looked at, and tested scientifically; most of it has been found to be wanting; some has been found to be useful, and is now 'medicine', some of it has still not been looked at.

So in this sense when I say something to the effect that 'this treatment is not good and may kill people who would likely be better treated by a different method' what I am implying is that the treatment has been shown to have no effect, and thus is already invalid.

Should I wait for other people to decide? I don't know. I am opinionated and a passionate advocate of better healthcare and increased scientific awareness. Sometimes I express my points of view.

Should all the evidence be available on all treatments - like, for example, on this blog/Cure page? Yes. But what this site is, in it's current incantation, going to lead to is impassioned descriptions of treatments based on belief, and not evidence.

Additionally, and again, I make the point that if someone is, for example, undertaking Traditional Chinese Medicine and 'Homeopathic Chemotherapy', whilst at the same time undergoing conventional therapy - Chemo and Surgery +- Radio, and the treatments are successful, the person involved is as likely as not to ascribe the success of their treatment to the alternative treatments than the conventional, evidence backed treatments.

Which gives the alternative treatments backdoor legitimacy, whilst having no efficacy of their own, and distorts the perceptions of those newly diagnosed that are desperately seeking help and answers.

So i am interested to see where this goes, how 'open source medicine' turns out and how it's put together; I don't think doctors should have a monopoly on medical knowledge; or feel that the only legitimate advice comes from the devotees of the cult of medicine (as it is often made out to be), However I will not be quiet about the dangers posed by unfettered access to 'folk' remedies and recommendations based on a n=1 sample size, or 'cousin's uncle's sister's gardner' type treatment recommendations.
What's preventing someone from purchasing a GPL/BSD license for the source code, and then hosting it publicly (with licenses intact) somewhere, say, github?
The device has basically no profit for google

Citation? Not trying to be flippant, but I'm not sure how we know that?
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limiting supply to cause extra hype? that it works! except nintendo's been doing it for years
No, those should be weak/strong. Thanks for good eye.
I hear you, but are you sure that would be legal? It's public information, but the compilation wouldn't be cheap or easy to build and maintain. I'd think they'd want to get paid. I heard of a similar issue with time zone data compilations a while back.

btw, PayPal provides this service for free.
Updated the FF about 30min ago; try again now :)
This is what i'm wondering about. How will they deal with fragmentation besides going to the lowest common denominator?
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Naw, the nexus 4 is way too big for my tastes.

Still, lots of people were talking about it very approvingly and all it seemed to get was good press... I never got any sense of a "debacle".

Apple Maps, now there's a debacle... :]
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Have you thought about forming a US corporation (C Corp or LLC)? Yes, you would have to pay some taxes, but you could choose a low/ no tax burden state like Delaware or Wyoming.

Assign a local agent, with physical/ mailing address, and open a US business banking account is pretty much all there is to it (not all). I've actually considered offering this as a service, but convincing myself there is an actual need has been difficult.
Government is the least efficient allocator of resources. For every dollar put to use, many more dollars are wasted due to incompetence or fraud. California's Proposition 30 was a wake-up call for me; despite all the political advertisements to the contrary, the many billions raised for "education" went entirely to shore up the teacher's bloated pensions and benefits fund.

Entrepreneurs are some of the most efficient allocators, because they are decision makers with a vested interest in the outcome. This concept is so rare as to practically not exist in the public sector.

I'm not opposed to higher taxes. I am opposed to throwing money, mine or anyone else's, into a black hole. Convince me that the extra tax dollars will be spent wisely and that society will see a net positive return at some point in the future, and you have my support.
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http://www.ponoko.com/
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Public Private Encryption for kids!
Generally agree. What we are learning about our own product is that customers will either pay us really nice amount OR not pay us at all. We started out thinking we'd charge $29/mo. Now we are up to $99/mo and so far, we haven't had a single rejection as a result of pricing. Plenty of guys just don't get the need for our tool - but it isn't the price. Guys who get it just gloss over the $99/mo price.

That said, I can tell you that at least for a start-up, crossing a certain threshold can mean the difference between just being able to purchase the tool or needing your boss' approval. For the last start-up I worked at, the treshold was closer to $50 or so. We wouldn't think twice about tools in that vicinity. Soon as it crossed the $100 mark, we'd need the CEO's okay. My feeling is the upper limit on that shifts greatly depending on the different segments within enterprise but that is my one data point.
500 Startups and YC's investments in 9gag were puzzling to me until Paul explained their plan and their traction to me. They're compelling. Don't blame the founders for the actions of the community, largely in the past: 9gag has a future.

Reddit was bought before it reached the heights it currently inhabits, but 9gag has a chance as a pre-exit company to inhabit a similar space for a different demo internationally as well as move into some pretty interesting verticals.
I feel like I'm in swim practice. Holy hell.
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He's also a pilot and pianist and he's only 22. I'm now asking myself where did my life going wrong?
I think he's right in a way, and wrong in another way. The combination of metro and desktop programs being used together in Windows 8 is somewhat of a usability nightmare. However, only using one or the other primarily works great.

On my laptop for example, I primarily use the desktop features and regular programs. The only time I really touch the metro-styled areas is when I search for a program or file. This sort of a workflow is almost exactly like one would have on Windows 7, and isn't hard to grasp at all.

On a tablet, users would primarily use the metro-styled area (or only use it depending on their version of Windows 8 I guess). I suspect that this wouldn't be too mentally taxing, although I haven't tried it.

The problem then is that this kind of use still basically then divides Windows 8 into two different operating systems, which seems to go against Microsoft's goal of merging the UX on different devices. I don't know if there's a real answer to this - I guess we'll see in the next Windows version as the article states.
I think it's because 9gag is the site that redditors like to mock.

I'm not sure I blame them.

https://9gag.com/gag/5553078

https://9gag.com/gag/5920690
"Why do you think there no question? Do you have evidence?"

Firsthand experience. Saying it's quackery is like saying that colors are superstition and quackery because you can't prove their existence. Anyone (or certainly the vast majority of people) can experience these phenomena, if you haven't yet then it shows lack of intellectual curiosity and initiative.

As it stands though scientists are currently working on cataloging the various states from traditional buddhist literature and then cross referencing those with various other traditions and teachers. This should be done in another couple years, and once that's done this will enable more and better quality research into what people actually experience while meditating or doing yoga.

Everyone I talked to at the meditation retreat I did had the same sorts of experiences though, so I don't think there is really much doubt about what further research will find.
Fred Wilson's specialty is with larger consumer/enterprise investments (http://www.usv.com/investments/) vs Dave McClure's speciality is in smaller investments and also international.

According to Dave, it seems like there's so slowing of momentum for growth with the smaller (base hits) he sees both domestically and internationally. And I appreciate his blog post that champions the consumer web.

But I wonder with Fred's observations if people might need to be a bit more wise with consumer internet plays if raising funds might be more difficult than previously. I also wonder when you combine both Fred and Dave's observations that maybe you see an opportunity for bootstrapped ventures to start out a lot smaller, maybe even w/o outside funds.
Here is the link to the proof:

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20...

And the preceding three for context:

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20...

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20...

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20...
Patrick and his brother John are two of the smartest cookies on the planet that I know about. These guys will go very far, and I'll be cheering them on all the way. They are not only successful and smart, they're genuinely nice, and that's a pretty rare combination.
Well, my number one defense has always been (regardless of operating system) to (a) not visit shady websites, (b) adblock, and (c) don't open email attachments from untrusted senders.

I've been using the free version of Sophos (http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antiv...) on my MacBook for a year or two now, and haven't seen any problems yet. I'm not sure if that means it works, or if I just haven't caught anything yet.
Brought to you by jashkenas no doubt.
There's no rigour to this. It's just idle self-indulgent noodling.

Seriously man. It's a lot of people and enough doctors working together to achieve something. Things like:

- He is cured of cancer

- Other people are cured of cancer

- New things are learned about how to treat cancer more effectively

... and probably other things that can't be predicted, but which could possibly turn out to be far more valuable.

That's the point to remember about innovation - which I consider this to be; you can't predict where things may lead, and often what you discover is different to what you expected.

But to me that's why this is interesting; I've long thought that there could be place for the processes we see in open-source projects (as well as startup companies) in medicine.
This might be the nicest summary I've seen of the Lisp style of metaprogramming or, if you prefer, homoiconicity.
The way it's coded, there are 2 conditions that move it forward: either pressing space, or the timer expiring. Pressing the space thus is not an error, but rather the condition that moves the text forward. Also, as I mentioned below, the timer gets faster as you get more words correct.

The original study used only a timer, and had the same frustration which you speak of here.
Permalink: http://kwelia.tumblr.com/post/36569269722/bay-area-rental-pr...
There are two kinds of apps: entertainment and utility. Retention is not a problem on the latter, almost by definition impossible with the former. How many movies would you watch every day of your life?

The mobile world actually likes churn, it means that you can sell the same spot to the same user over and over again.
Government is the least efficient allocator of resources? Says who? How many wealthy individuals are sitting on piles of money right now because they are unsure of the economic climate and therefore are not going to invest? Who better than the government to take it away from them and then invest it into public infrastructure and consequently stimulate the economy?
Note to self: move to higher ground/buy a canoe.
That has nothing to do with the article. No matter how inefficient the government is, they still need money. And the article is about who pays how big part of that money.
I am confident people might believe something they don't understand to be an insult..
Bug report: if I hit backspace at the end of a line, I'm not allowed to correct my mistakes!
looks good, thanks guys! I think I'm going to give that one a go.
Is 'sexy' the new word now? How long until the 'sexy ninja rockstar developer' jobs start showing up?
Loosely related with the article, do you need to give significant share to "locals" if you're starting a company in the US? For example, in Malaysia and Singapore (CMIIW), unless you put huge amount of money up front, foreigners are required to partner with locals and give >50% share to them. I.e. foreigners cannot have majority share if they start a "normal" company (not big).
Django 1.5 will include alpha Python3 support.
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For background: Dave believes in companies with straightforward revenue strategies with measurable traction that could hockey-stick but haven't yet. He believes in a lage and talented mentor pool to find the design, data, and/or distribution problems standing in the way of accelerated customer/user growth to add the value needed to get to the next level. He looks for companies that could exit 20mm-500mm but wants MORE exits rather than larger ones. Kind of the opposite of how YC seeks to grow it's portfolio through a few huge winners.

THEN he believes in doubling down when the signs of that "next leveling" emerge.

I feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding of 500 Startups on HN so I wanted to try to get that out of the way. In my opinion there is room for 500 and YC to both grow without getting in each other's way, perhaps actually helping each other on the few companies they agree strongly on.
I agree with Dave's conclusion, but my rational is different: the trend towards enterprise is precisely what will open up the consumer space. It's the same force that has left enterprise relatively uncrowded in recent years.
Liquidity hacking: How to build a two-sided marketplace
Ask HN: Why does AirBnb need 800+ employees?
It seems like they hired incredibly fast. Their LinkedIn page shows 800+ employees.
As someone who ended up on the three-week backorder list, there was quite a debacle. Mostly around Google's inability to communicate, both internally and externally. Their staff is inconsistent at best about anything beyond toeing the party line, which is "they'll ship when they ship". Because they aren't communicating with backordered users, and they're not providing any way to pre-order, they've completely blown this holiday shopping season (just as the article predicts). The Apple way through this would be to berate us for being impatient, but at least they'd be talking. And they'd certainly be taking emails and cash now for phones later.
Hire 5 guys in China? He literally can't pay more or the cost of doing business overseas wins. The golden arches has to pay more because the night manager can't live on a different continent.
What if they'd just sent a box of the shredded documents to Gawker?
Why does it alter your opinion of YC?
No, you don't. You can even incorporate as a sole proprietor without any locals having a stake at all. Ditto in Canada and most of Western Europe with some exceptions.
Anybody aware when will nexus 4 be available again for purchase? All I saw last was an official Google+ update that mentioned 3-4 weeks. (yes, whatever Google tried to do with limited stocks in first batch worked on me)
Well, I meant more of an all-in-one product: the company would provide a few different options of base vibrator units with minimum case size/dimension requirements, and the customer creates the custom case; the product would be shipped fully assembled. I suppose they could outsource the printing to Ponoko, though.
It's interesting to see people put their studies on hold to pursue something they loved.

I don't quite understand why they moved to San Francisco; the article didn't really make that clear.

I'd love to have a cup of coffee with either of them though. Great people!
Sold out immediately - not ideal but not a debacle.
Missed black friday sales opportunity losing all momentum - that's pretty bad.
But zero communication from Google and no additional product nearly a month after launch - that's a debacle.

If phones don't start flowing very soon, they will also miss the christmas gift market. A real pity, such a well-priced quality phone could have really set a new benchmark.
'Entrepreneurs' are terrible at allocating capital. Just compare the ROI from venture capital funds vs the S&P 500 over the last 20 years to get some idea. And no the vast majority of CEO's of a fortune 500 company are not Entrepreneurs for any reasonable definition of the term.

PS: It's important to include failures and opportunity costs when you talk about Entrepreneurs or your basically saying lottery winners are great at allocating capital.
What gives the government the right to 'take it away from them?'
I understand, but there are no open standards for MRI scans. These applications were not meant for wide consumption although I would agree with you that the device manufacturers should at least provide a way to export that data in a more consumer friendly fashion (JPEG, H.264 video files.) Even better, hospitals should act as a proxy advocating for patients rights & demand export options during the procurement process.
Yes. And I liked it ( I was puzzled by the UI for the 3 first days.)
Besides usability and esthetical considerations, MS has done something very clever : Javascript as a first class citizen for building apps is a game changer.
Performance in Unity
Amazon's dead serious about the enterprise cloud
WebP only seems to support 8-bit integer component values, which makes seems pretty backward for a new format.

Higher-bit depths and floating-point components (ala OpenEXR) seem an important feature for any image format that hopes to become a future standard. 8 bits were maybe sufficient in 1990; not so much today. Even microsoft eventually got that clue with JPEG XR...

You only get so many chances to define a new standard, so going with something as lackluster as WebP would seem to be a mistake. JPEG XR, despite its MS origins, seems to be vastly superior. [JPEG XR has licensing issues with the reference implementation (it's from MS after all), but that's not a fatal flaw...]
Wealthy people don't "sit on piles of money". That money is either held in a bank or invested. If it's in a bank, it is able to be loaned out to others looking for access to capital now. If its invested, it's being used as capital in a business (assuming it's and equity investment).
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Not quite. Proofs, in practice, are not programs. They do not contain every detail, nor are they written in completely consistent language.
I'm with you. Until the federal gov can prove it is willing to even attempt a balanced budget, is willing to stop giving handouts (to both the wealthy and the lazy), and proves it will actually invest in something other than bad cars and banks, then there's no reason they should get anything more than they already do.

If you keep feeding a monster, all you get is a bigger monster.
Why HTML5 provided more tricks than treats in 2012
Nice data, thanks for putting it together. Would be really cool if there was a link to an enlarged version of the table as well.
Shared with two friends in chat and said, "prepare to be challenged."

Their responses:

"Two seconds in and I'm pissed."

and

"This is infuriating"

So congratulations? These are both people that do extensive amounts of work on the computer but none of it involves copying quickly.

For me, I'm a bit curious why words per minute matters for people. It seems like the only time typing so quickly matters is when you are copying things down (written or spoken). Don't you think it is only a matter of time before no one will have to copy something down into text format manually ever again?

I have little knowledge about how the brain works when copying information but it seems that when someone is working hard to quickly copy something down they are not analyzing the meaning of the content nearly as well as if they were sitting and listening. It seems like time could be better spent.

I still think this is an interesting site. I would love to improve my typing accuracy.
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They have the guns normally. Force tends to be its own right.

That said, Californians complaining about government isn't surprising, they have the worst possible state government of the union. Their bias is understandable, but entirely their own doing.
>How many wealthy individuals are sitting on piles of money right now because they are unsure of the economic climate and therefore are not going to invest?

So what? It's their money.
If you can reduce the act of registering a Delaware C Corp and opening a US bank account to entering my billing details, you'll have my business.
What Great Leaders Have That Good Leaders Don't
Hey Warren, instead of an income tax, don't you think a wealth tax would be better?

Oh, I thought not.
These two things are not mutually exclusive.
The important things to do in this case are figuring out which part of the website is header, nav etc and not refreshing them while navigating.

It is not about performance savings, it's about the user experience. Functionality like this can be baked into websites today (basecamp-next et al), but surely it will get easier (I am thinking semantic element which already tell the browser what is a <nav>).
I guess what remains to be seen, is that if outsized returns are off the table, whether you will still see big budget stuff that pushes the industry forward.

With something like Game Of Thrones you can see the results of a much bigger budget compared to things like Rome and Merlin. The new push towards virtual sets might be able to bridge the quality gap between the real big budget productions and lower budget content at the moment.