skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some major flaws in your argument here. First, remember that someone creating content of any kind, digital or not, is not automatically entitles to compensation. Even in the days of CDs, someone had to physically buy the discs for them to make money--and if the music sucked, they didn't. There are plenty of reasons why someone would create content without expecting to be directly paid for it: reputation, enjoyment, contributing to the sum of human knowledge and the human experience. Why do scientists do research? Yes, they are salaried, but they are not getting paid for their "content" specifically; their research is released into the world for free (hidden only behind journal pay walls, a separate issue).

As for your comment on non digital domains, it suffers from the same flaw as previous arguments above. When you get your teeth cleaned or your car towed, it is NOT true that the dentist for example could still clean other teeth. He can in the future, but during the time he cleaned your teeth, he could have been cleaning someonje else's teeth but wasn't because he was cleaning yours. There is an opportunity cost there. With digital files, there is no such cost. It makes no difference whatsoever to a file or its creator whether it is shared one time or a thousand, since the creator isn't doing anything differently nor investing incremental time or money for each additional share.
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I am also beginning to find this browser update treadmill very tedious.
There's no word wrap when you add multiple words, the large size of the text requires an unnatural scan of the eyes, and the single word default is of questionable utility to someone training for 100+ wpm. Typeracer is more fun.

Keyzen itself actually has the benefit of training typing on all of the symbols on the keyboard, something that "Keyzen Words+Plateau" seems to throw away entirely, unless I'm missing something.
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This is a terrible article not Hacker News quality. The article's claims about Elon Musk comments aren't well sourced and come a week after he said it - leading me to believe this is blog spam.

Here's a better article covering the same topic (but still not that great) : http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/elon-musk-with-jobs-gone-go...

Elon Musk's comments on Apple and Android aren't even that important - he's talking about much more interesting things in that techcrunch article.
In theory - The reality is there is not a working compiler except for a few special cases.
There is a setting for that, look in the bottom bar. I had some friends test it out and got the same complaint.
Might be prettier, but I find the text shadow, low contrast gray-on-gray, and the diagonal background pattern distracting from reading/typing. Also, this is a typing tutor but I can only see one word at a time? I always read/think ahead when typing.
To be fair to the original poster, you didn't post his entire statement. If you look at the entire statement, he made several intelligent points about TCM, any one of which could have been the starting point for an intelligent conversation if you disagreed with what he had to say. Lots of comments on HN could be considered a "middlebrow dismissal," but this is not one of them.

On another note, the original statement in question kind of reminds me of a Steve Jobs quote:

"I really didn't want them to open up my body, so I tried to see if a few other things would work."
It all sounds pretty defensible and true, but it mostly just boils down to facebook being underwater. venture partners are herd animals, tried and true.
Yes and no. Curing cancer is going to take more than "traditional chinese medicine and the many energies". But it's not written that it's going to require 4 years of college and 4 more years of medical school. You do still need experts, but there's no theoretical limit to the contribution from people without formal training.

People can develop an incredibly deep level of knowledge about a narrow topic of interest to them (ie, life threatening illness). The internet is a thing now...people can can learn and share a remarkable amount of information. Even new purely academic research is made public after a few months.

The idea of "open source cancer treatment" is a very promising one. This v. 0.1 may not be the best. But if this is like any other new idea or technology, in 5-10 years we could be seeing the most valuable product of crowdsourcing.
I like it.

Suggestions:
As a user commented on another post, it's a bit tough to type fast without seeing more words on the screen. I settled on 3 words at a time which was okay('ish).

I'd be interested in trying it with the timer bar going from left to right instead of growing from the center. Would give things more of a 'race' feeling.

The sound effects are nice.

Nice resume site, btw. You're very accomplished!
Is there a Twilio alternative where I can send SMS without controlling the number? I've seen some android apps that allow you to call from somebody else's number, but if I want to do it through SMS is there a suitable API?

This is for a legitimate purpose - we would verify ownership first, but we want the person to continue using the number (e.g. their iPhone) without hinderance.
The play The Crucible was not a cliche... The play was an allegory comparing the blacklisting of actors for suspected communist sympathies to the brutal humiliating executions of innocents for the invented crime of consulting with the devil.

The fact is that metaphors and allegories do not necessarily suggest the magnitude of compared incident are themselves comparable. Attacking such comparison for having an imbalance of severity is intellectually bankrupt. Reading suggestions of absolute equivalence into them is to not read them as an adult interested in mature conversation; but rather argument.
I tend to agree, usually when I see these polls I think of them as feeling out the community's opinion rather then 'let's take a vote and pressure pg to follow the result'

Especially since I think pg doesn't particularly care about most people's opinion on this (nor should he)
Ask HN: Is it possible to send an SMS through a third party?
I've been playing around with Twilio and SMS for a few weeks now, and I'm wondering if it's possible to route texts through an intermediate party. Specifically, I'd like the end-destination reader to only see that the message came from the original sender.

Example of desired outcome: I send a text to Twilio with directions of who to send to. Twilio sends message out to recipient. Recipient only observes that I sent the message.

I have worked with DKIM authentification to handle this problem for email, but I don't think much of it carries over.
I've talked with 50 or so US marines (used to live near a base), most of them grew without father for different reasons, usually jail.
I don't know how efficient it is, but learning to type with Typing of the Dead is certainly the most fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead
There is a setting for that, look on the bottom. The setting doesn't make it perfect but it is certainly better.

I used the design from the original key zen which is fairly pretty but I now realize not optimal for typing.
My grandmother has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and this video further confuses me. The reason that I want her to get better and do not know what will work and what won't scares me. For example, some say that she is really old to take chemotherapy and then some say that traditional medicine is bullshit. Not sure where to look anymore.
Probably not worth solving, certainly not something I would solve myself but...

I'm up late all the time working. True nightowl you could say. The earliest I'd go to bed is 6am. I sleep during the day and wake up around noon at the latest. I don't lack sleep, this schedule works for me. Point is, I'm up late and I'm sure there are others like me.

I get hungry often. I don't cook. Few places if any are open. Those that do are unknown (what little and inccurately Yelp tries to cover with hours filtering) and certainly don't deliver.

Broken solution, I'd like a list of all places open late, what they serve, and a way to get it delivered. I'd pay premium for it. I would task rabbit it or something but I don't know many rabbits working that late and certainly not a good enough resource to figure out what places are open. Not changing my sleep schedule either, f that.
This is exactly my issue. It's not acceptable to say you want to infringe upon speech, but it's perfectly OK to advocate torture, death, imprisonment or suchlike for people you don't like. Of course, such actions are also restrictive of speech in two ways - directly, since being dead or incommunicado is an insurmountable barrier to expression, and indirectly, since members of the group in question are intimidated from speaking up - but since the deleterious effects on free speech are incidental to the proposed harm, constitutional modesty is preserved.
You can take any complex web site or app and say it has functions beyond some math theory. But just hacking around is often enough for a good enough solution.
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You'd like the weconsent-guys (led by John Wilbanks) which tries to fulfill all of the given aims by a) being a central repo for medical data and b) introducing the required legal paperwork (for example, a license or contract which prohibits to identify anonymous participants based on their data)

http://weconsent.us/

AFAIK, they are still a bit in the early stages but you might want to keep an eye on them.
I think most people who type quickly anticipate the words they're going to type in the middle of a prior word -- I know I do. The "unit" of typing is something larger than a word. I think most typing tutors give you the words coming up to simulate that anticipation.

Being presented a sequence of random, isolated nouns, verbs, and adjective doesn't seem like typing to me at all, or at least no kind of typing I've done in practice.

Example sequence: swat repetitious defensive tousled pimpled rerun closure poke weigh

This seems more useful for improving, say, my typing dexterity and my vocabulary. :P

Here's a fun one for programmers: http://typing.io/

Edit: I see now I can change the number of words displayed at the bottom of the page. Not great affordance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
thanks, never knew about this
I don't think he's claiming "bug free" -- and if I remember right, people have already found "bugs" and he claims to have a patch that he'll post soon. There's a huge difference between minor errors that invalidate the proof but can be fixed easily once they're noticed and fundamental errors where the proof is just wrong and can't be fixed. So most of the bugs that you're talking about don't really matter (of course, "bugs" that seem trivial at first might turn out to be fundamental irreparable errors, but that's a separate issue).
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That's actually a great point - something I didn't think of when I suggested python since I don't know scheme :D
Maybe this is reason enough to learn scheme soon.

For practical considerations would you still choose scheme, or would you try and see if some massaging of python can get you the desired results - purely because of the simplicity and adoption rate of the language?
Thanks for the quick feedback, and for giving an alternative option. But it doesn't do what I need: show the word _before_ I finish the previous word. I look at the next word as I'm typing the current word (something like: parse word, start typing, load next work, repeat). If I can't see the next word until I've finished the current, my overall speed goes _way_ down.

Please understand that I'm not trying to be difficult, but that this is how I normally type. I'm interested because I haven't found the best typing app yet. But for a typing test to be accurate for me, it has to conform to the way text (or my train of thought) normally works.
It looks interesting. I was having trouble deciphering your plans though. Why would I need a "standard" versus "business" niche job board? I got to thinking what sort of target customer I'd be if I needed one plan or another:

* Standard - Small/Medium business. They want a personal job board for their postings, and they'll dump everything on one board.

* Business - Recruiters. If a recruiting company is serving a general field (say, oil & gas), they'll have perhaps 2-3 niches that they fill, perhaps engineers & managerial.

* Enterprise - this stays as is, a single large corporation may want to host multiple business groups or departments with their own job boards.
Only 70 WPM? Talk about a blow to my ego.
What does "I don't cook" mean? You don't like to cook? You don't know how to cook? You don't have the physical means of cooking?

To me that sounds like the real problem to solve.
I pay $X for clothing (I haven't calculated it, but assume it's relatively average for a man who doesn't wear suites). I'll pay $2X if you can make me well dressed.

Key point: I need to trust that your decisions are correct. What I want to pay for is not thinking about this and knowing that it's handled.
>> similarly to how people have been prosecuted for "hacking" by retrieving information through trivial tinkering with public URLs

I had no clue that happened. Scary.
Totally hated this, which of course means that you're on the right track! (They say that your software should evoke strong feelings).
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There is a setting at the bottom of the page, it is still not perfect but it is there. I just changed the default to 3 words at a time.
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My point is that this man is searching for a cure. His form of cure is a beautiful, inclusive, democratic thing (I mean that with no sarcasm) including art, doctors, other patients, support from other run of the mill humans, and the treatment opinions and recommendations of people that are formally or informally trained in treatments that are not scientifically valid.

Your suggestion that I am undertaking 'middlebrow dismissal' of this man's work and passion misses the point of my post entirely. Which I will reiterate for you, is not that I disagree with this man's idea, or the general principle, but that there is no filter or adjustment in place to take treatment suggestions and approximate a 'better treatment'

A deeper point you raise is, does every point of view have merits, and should it be given the same airtime as all other views. This is particularly important when someone's views begin attracting a lot of attention: The good, or valid, ideas should be supported, and the invalid suggestions should be weeded out by discourse.

I believe that any patient has the rights to make their own treatment choices, and they should not be judged as a result of those choices (Unless they are a parent deciding for an incompetent child, however there are many legal cases that establish when this should be possible)

But this patient is influential; what he says will influence other patients with his condition; I have 2 issues here:

1) It breeds 'back door' legitimacy for fraudulent treatments

2) Some alternative-inclined patients may choose to opt solely for those treatments, which will kill them.

So this error with his model should be pointed out, that a more perfect use of modern communications technologies can be used to enhance the patient's quality of life and treatment.
I have a major frustration with payment providers — even contemporary players like Stripe — that can't offer a 3rd party payments system. That is, anything resembling a "marketplace" where you sell things on behalf of someone else, take a cut and pass on the rest to the content creator requires the integrator to come up with a half-assed payout pipeline. This often results in sending cheques and/or making PayPal payments.

My dream would be a product offering that offered pass-through payment processing, so my vendors have an account and give my store a key. Payments go directly to the vendor, and a pre-negotiated amount or percentage is automatically collected and sent to me. Both me and the vendor pay the same processing rate.

I have several concepts I'd love to build and launch, but all of them fall down because I can't easily justify a 2x2.9% transaction fee.
I am a big fan of concept maps, which are graphical representations for concepts and the relationships between them. Sometimes the edges can contain verbs and the concept map starts to contain entire sentences.

For example check out the concept map from my upcoming book titled "No Bullshit Guide to Math and Physics": everything you need to know about Calculus and Mechanics in just 200 pages.

http://mcgillweb.alwaysdata.net/concept_map.png (generated using CmapTools)
I would like more users to register my side project (http://getmousetrack.com), but I can't seem to convert anyone who visits the project site. At this point, I think I would pay for some service that gives me honest feedback on my landing page and maybe suggest ways to improve conversion rates.
anyone else disappointed by what the article turned out to be about? i was expecting someone who had found ingenious new ways to deal with some entrenched hollywood practices.
> Being presented a sequence of random, isolated nouns, verbs, and adjective doesn't seem like typing to me at all, or at least no kind of typing I've done in practice.

That's the point. It's to build up muscle memory in the fingers so you use the correct fingers for typing. It's to bypass bad habits you may have learned with regular typing.

It is much harder to type those typing drills, but they do help when you're building your rhythm and speed.
>>What if they all overlook some crucial aspect because of the way they were trained, or their entrenched / ingrained assumptions?

>This happens surprisingly rarely. It helps that we are trained to constantly question our entrenched assumptions.

It also helps that finding a counterexample to a widely accepted proof tends to enhance one's career and reputation.
I'd be a LOT better at this if my brain didn't convert the ⎵ into a _ all the time.

Which kind of makes sense, because "⎵" is more like "_" than like " ".
The commenter will have to come to that conclusion on his/her own, if ever. You projecting your values on to them in a patronizing tone that doesn't answer his challenge is not a helpful contribution to the conversation.
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This isn't my problem, but some of my friends were talking about it: something like Kickstarter, but for consultants. The genius of Kickstarter is the "transactional" (in the database sense of the word, wherein a set of operations is packaged so that either all happen or none do) nature of the thing: either the money is raised, or not; and if not, it's all returned to pledgers. If the consultant gets enough pledges/work to cover the next N months (N = 8 to 12) then they get the money and can start out as consultants. If they don't, the money goes back and they continue with their day jobs.

One of the problems with consulting is that it's really hard for most people, while employed, to line up enough work that they can become consultants in the first place. Most people will never get the chance, even if they have the talent, because they can't front the initial financial cost. This keeps a lot of people out of self-employment who would otherwise be a better fit for it.

The Kickstarter-esque idea seems strong, but the biggest problem with this idea is that people who have serious ($150+ per hour) work to offer generally don't solicit on the Internet if they can help it. They prefer to source through word-of-mouth, which is pre-technological and broken and leads to that imbecilic situation where you have to be in to get in... but I don't make the rules.

That's why I haven't pursued it. It's one of those startups that requires fixing people, and any startup that goes long on human nature is facing extremely bad odds.
It is also weighted, more common words appear more often.
http://www.feedbackarmy.com/

"Simple, Cheap Usability Testing for Your Website.

Start a usability test for your site in two minutes. Submit questions about your site and receive 10 responses from our reviewers. The cost is $20."

I know folks that have used them, and loved it.
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That is a problem. It uses a custom font left over from keyzen. I'll try and fix that.
I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc.

My main challenge is being overwhelmed with information and I can't seem to find a good place to get started on any project.
> However, we asked you to do that for not.

naught.
Mozilla puts 64-bit Firefox for Windows on hold
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He didn't make several intelligent points about TCM - he made a single dogmatic one, which was patronising and contemptuous to anyone who's actually interested in the substance of the original post.
As long as Apple is making more revenue and profit on iOS then the largest Android vendor (Samsung) then Apple hasn't lost. Android has always been destined to become a bigger pie. It was meant to replace feature phones. But that pie is split by multiple players.
They just need more relevant streaming content.
I've looked at Mind Maps before, which I assume are similar. They look interesting, though one would need to make sure they don't overwhelm the reader. I think collapsible content could help with that though (and with linear outlines too).
OnStar gives Volt owners what they want: their data, in the cloud
When I first turned over my copy of the issue, I was holding the magazine by the corner exactly as one would hold a portrait iPad mini. In addition to showing the actual size, I think having it aligned with the edge of the magazine is meant to give the impression of holding an iPad.

Anecdotally, I thought the effect was neat, and spent a few more seconds than I otherwise would have on it.
I believe 'ROM' is used here to refer to a large in-memory dataset which is 'read-only' for the duration of the operation – but not actual ROM hardware memory. So it's 'ROM' by the demands of algorithmic speed only.
There are already a lot of services that do exactly that. I remember one that was pretty addictive where you'd give feedback on other people's sites in exchange for points that you could use to get feedback on your own.

But some quick googling should turn up a lot of similar sites.

And by the way, I don't want to be harsh, but you don't even tell visitors what your service does. How do you expect to convert anyone?
Here you go :)

http://balancedpayments.com
That's interesting, I bet that's why they put it on the edge. I never thought of that because I was reading the magazine on a table.
Yeah I can't even type that character on my keyboard so I can't play
Tim Cook: Elon Musk likely to lose to Toyota in Automobile market.

This title/article serves no other purpose but to take half of the top ten keywords in HN and pack them into one post. Elon Musk is a smart man, but his experience is far outside the smartphone realm, and his reasoning is as insightful as an MSN/Yahoo article circa Steve Jobs passing.
Wow. I was going to write a reply, but then I realized your own comment is a perfect reply to itself!
As I punched out a few of these, I found that I had a hard time just typing letter by letter. I'd stumble over letters and make mistakes. If I read the words, I could type them consistently without mistakes.

I use the US Dvorak layout, but I can't imagine that's relevant.
Bonobos does this already at about that price point. Just buy all your clothes from there and you will be good.
That's exactly the point -- you need to try to keep up. This slight frustration is the part that makes you get better ;)
Thanks for pointing out the Chrome vs. FF. I'll take a look.