skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next time, you can be first.

I've long had "issues" with the madness that tech startup culture inspires. MVP should be IVP, where as IPV = Initial Viable Product. If one really learns "lean" methodology, MVP really is IVP, but no one seems willing to actually pause and learn. Sad.
Wow, how old are you? How long did the 93 country journey take? Average time of stay per country? That's amazing, really.

You should an reddit AMA.
It all comes down to choice.
You can buy e-stim boxes especially made for zapping the nether regions on males and females alike. One of the configurations on the ET312, called "tri phase", combines a two-conductor plug placed near the prostate with pads placed at each feet, and the end result is utterly wild. It's really unfortunate that most guys are too hung up about their own bodies to explore it.
I've got a vibe on order now, so I should have results tuesday. :)
Why don't film makers put the first 10 minutes of a film on Bittorrent a week or month before release? This could offer many of the advantages and still allows them to earn direct revenue. I know some have tried similar models and other studies have shown leaks help the success of a film.
It actually has a bug, which causes balls to fly through each other occasionally.
No reference to stock tags? i.e. $AAPL
Hah, nice, and I'm one of the banner ads and I had no idea!

I actually started slashdong as somewhat of a joke 8 years ago, and now I travel internationally speaking on the subject. Life is weird.
Who cares what the multiplier is. If GA costs $1/yr and your own mail server costs $100/yr (just making up these numbers), it's still worth getting right. Just focus on the bottomline cost to yourself, and figure out if it makes sense.
You're thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation.
It would be lovely if the market provided incentives to these same experts to spot overly vigorous coding; to spot patterns associated with fraud.

Maybe that's happening?
Well, they already make trailers and put them to every videosharing site possible.

If you add all footage from the trailers, it can be about 10 minutes, maybe more.
Don't use "RT". Use proper retweeting.
Fighting to keep penmanship alive
Should certainly be added now that Twitter supports it.
Nice idea.

This could be updated to include a submission form where folks could submit javascript libraries to be included in the collection.
Feelspace belt
These people should not have any trouble sending to Canada. I would like to build one of those belts too. I don't know the Arduino system though. I am interested in your project. Please contact me. Dingerma@juno.com
Flashing bogus press credentials is not cool. It makes it that much harder for actual members of the press to do their job when there are fake reporters running around working on self-serving fake stories.
One might say Amazon and the web are already in the process of doing this.
Israeli Army’s Social Media Director Poses as Obama in Blackface
I've never bribed anyone but have lived and travelled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean. I've never paid a bribe, but have been close to it on a couple of occasions. I have generally avoided it by playing a dumb tourist or talking Danish to them. (I'm fluent in Spanish) but from Denmark.

It depends really much on how you travel. I don't know anything about you, but from the sound of it my guess is you backpack. If you're a backpacker, you probably don't have a problem as cops rightly don't see you as a good source of income. If you look really touristy you're probably fine as well most places.

If you're a resident expat, traveling in your own or a rented car you're right smack in their target market. And yes anyone can tell the difference between backpackers, tourists and expats. If you hang around in any expat watering hole you will hear all the worst stories (likely somewhat exaggerated by Rum).
I wondered how to handle native retweeting, given that it doesn't show up as anything other than the original tweet just in a different timeline. I ended up just including "RT" as a convention, but it could probably go in as a section or something.
Yes, but how alarmed we are about some things, and how tolerant we are of others is largely irrational.

For example, living near Denver for a year will expose you to more radiation than living next to Fukushima during the accident would. This is because there's high radon in the Denver area geography.

But I'd bet if you asked all of the couple million people if they're safer from cancer in Denver or Fukushima all but a handful of nutbars and nuclear industry folks would answer Denver.

I don't mean to just be an apologist here: we should care a lot about toxic releases of all forms. But right now the discussion is entirely dominated by alarmism and there's little accurate information. This is disastrous because it means we direct too many resources toward lessor risks, and the media and population as a whole ignores larger risks.
For massive blockbusters they do find a negative effect, the positive impact is mainly for lesser-publicized movies without the massive advertising budget funneled into them.

It's always hard to tell with statistics, but I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that the extra publicity from file sharing outweighs the negative effects for those smaller movies.
Yes I do. All of them.

I'd rather pay for something which is not ad supported.
JSTOR provides free access to Wikipedia editors via pilot program
I would think it would be possible to actually use a smartphone

One vibrator that uses a smartphone: http://www.vibease.com
Super clever title and article for getting HN attention, but also pretty interesting.
Ask HN: Java or Python - Stack Selection for Enterprise Apps
Hi All,
I'm aware of the current trend to build SAAS based web applications. I have an idea for an application that would contain sensitive IT information targeted for large enterprises.

The CIO's and CTO's I've worked with in the past would want an onsite solution for this type of application and it would probably not be targeted well for smaller companies. Also most decision makers at the companies I would target would want a solution integrated with their internal security infrastructure (SiteMider, LDAP, Active Directory, etc).

My background with webapps is mainly in three stacks Python/Django, PHP/codeigniter and Java/Spring. My preference is to work with python/django and I feel it would be more than capable for this offering not to mention bringing the app to market faster, however I am afraid that IT rules, politics, internal standards could make it more difficult for me to close sales if I go the python route.

The downside to developing in the Java/Spring stack is the time and effort involved in development. The upside is that Java on Tomcat appears to be the defacto standard for enterprise installations. It certainly is not hurting the adoption of Atlassian products.

Does anyone have some insight from with this aspect of product development to help me steer my stack selection decision?

Thanks,
Ian
another popular syntax is the MT: Modified Tweet
Seems like the JavaScript has become the glue to hold everything together now. I took a look at TodoMVC and I was a bit frustrated. I don't believe MVC has to be this cumbersome. Chaining callbacks, spaghetti inheritance; certainly better than a Jquery DOM mess but I wish there was something a little more straight forward.
I found some time.

First and foremost, there is simply no recourse for smsm42's argument, no recourse that that holds reason to a higher degree than nationalism.

Particularly,

nobody cares how they behave once they fulfill that one simple
condition - they don't murder anybody, don't blow up stuff and don't
kidnap and behead people they consider infidels.

This remark doesn't allow for American acts of war to have any degree of inaccuracy. If you take such an idea as fact, you and I shall never find agreement. While perhaps my insults betray their hasty inception, the idea is so inaccurate as to warrant it's correction being, in my mind, an act of human decency.

Now, let's move to the matter at hand.

The crux of tokenadult's argument is that, above all:

Americans and other people in developed countries get to lead
civilized, advanced lives in the Twenty-First Century.

This is the element with which I find fault, and where you may find the division between myself and those who follow the causality constructed by propaganda. For there is an extreme fallacy here, one that is perpetuated endlessly and has set the tone of our generation.

How, I ask, can we lead civilized lives while actively participating in war?

There is a disconnect between the technologically and socially liberated, wonderfully progressive population of Americans imagined in tokenadult's words and the utter chaos and violence unleashed in the reality of ground invasions and air strikes. The problem with tokenadult's argument is that this break in the chain of causality is a complete illusion.

Now, you may argue, how can a "civilian" be participating in a war they did not decide to enter, and was in fact prompted by a major attack?

To which I would reply, I'm not talking about the conflict in Afghanistan.

I'm talking about the drug war, and all its brutal ramifications from the international to the local. I'm talking about the return of slavery manifested in our prison economy. I'm talking about trade agreements both national and private designed to create entire populations of debtors. I'm talking about the very concept of health care that hinges on salary. There are many more.

These are all wars we fight daily, contribute to endlessly, and support in our very existence. Not only our tax dollars, but our attitudes and opinions are weapons in these wars.

tokenadult looks around and sees a peaceful utopia. I look around and see a society rampaged by violence, racism, sexism, and class warfare. This is not a future I wish for Afghanistan, or anyone at all.

And I certainly don't think we can get anyone anywhere by force.

Time's up. Now let's go write some code and get on with our lives.
It's true for now, and for the near term (read: couple of years). The trend for the 3D printers is that they'll both get faster and use different materials (or same material with different properties). That way, you can print everything in-place, from batteries, the board, and enclosure. You won't be able to replicate chips for a long while, besides really simple electronics, so it will probably be pick and place.
We had the exact same problem (also around 4 years ago). The large companies which have the volume of tweets to need a service like this don't care too much if there is fancy machine learning behind it, but do care if there's sufficient marketing/brand knowledge to deliver the exact things they want to see in the right format.

The two angles that worked out best were finding larger organisations which wanted to deliver this kind of "cut through the noise" information to consumers (e.g. picking out reviews), and delivering broader "market intelligence" (e.g. showing what's being tweeted about car buying in a certain area for a car dealership, vs. just monitoring that dealership's name/accounts). Good luck.
It's sad to hear that such a young man is in the last stages of life. Clearly he has earned the title of visionary and internet pioneer.

If you read the messages being sent to him on that list, it's interesting that so many of them start with "We had our differences but...". One person even wrote "I found discourse with him to be insufferable at best."

I can imagine he spent a lot of his time arguing with people.
You don't have to run it yourself if you don't want to.
Plenty of people will take that work of your hands for a reasonable price. Oh and they will give you an actual phone number you can call.
Not a complete counter example, but on a domain I run with external mail, gmail enabled but MX never setup, sending a email with google apps gmail, from me@mydomain to you@mydomain sends the email to the external provider
How am I supposed to have anything but contempt, if even 25% of what he writes is true?

Don't want my contempt? Don't run your country like a corrupt shithole. Seems simple enough.
I don't understand your comment.
Obviosly from what you say you were not involved in any ilegal activity, so how does your experience compared to the one from the guy from this blog??
Useless video, I can't read the slides at all.
I think they did -- it was called Apocalypse Now.
This is alluded to in the article - the "programming a VCR" comment. I can see how using a dial or buttons to control it just wouldn't feel right. Waving your hands? Maybe not quite there yet either (how about a NeuroSky?), but a neat hack regardless.
Excellent quote. This idea can be applied almost everywhere, and I wish people would do it more. It's easy to simply declare that some feature is a result of blind stupidity, but rarely correct.
Movie trailers are awful now. They generally show you all the important points of the movie and all the best SFX. Sometimes the movie is worse than the trailer. First 10 minutes sounds great - you'd know if you want to see more or not from that but it wouldn't [in most cases] give the whole plot away.
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Most people aren't really natural entrepreneurs or businessmen, and do best when they're employed by someone else (which is why most people work for other people rather than owning their own businesses). I don't see why doctors would be any different in this respect, as there's no reason to think that medical ability and entrepreneurial ability are correlated.

The same is true of programmers, of course. Although it can be hard to remember when reading startup-soaked HN stories, most programmers are happily employed by other people and aren't off founding startups.
Hi ross,

I just used the service to test my website. I really liked it. In my case, downloading the videos would be somewhat important.

Thanks a lot, I'll definitely be purchasing tests.

Somehow I managed to get two tests when only one should be free.
I didn't propose any solution at all. Merely point out that it will be a very difficult problem indeed. Technology seems to be bringing us to a point where indefinite life extension is possible at exponentially increasing cost.

Eventually the simple reality will be that there are more people whose lives could be extended than can be extended, even with our entire economic output allocated to that purpose.

We correctly recoil in horror at the thought of "fair and impartial" authorities rationing those resources because we instinctively know that once government gets involved, those decisions will be anything but fair and impartial. At the same time, it doesn't seem that the free market as it is now will perform any better because health care is a completely inelastic good and the "free" has been riddled with monopoly and regulatory capture. Either way, right now it looks like the rich and influential win disproportionately at the dire expense of the less well off. This is the big looming problem.

It's a deep rabbit hole, but the point is, it's a tough puzzle. It might take moral mettle equal to or even greater than winning a global war against a genocidal madman bent on world domination to solve it. We've got our work cut out for us and then some.
Have you been to DRC ? What he says applies to borders at such countries. Having been in similar situations (minus the drug dealing), I think His advice is spot on
Regarding Elon Musk, I think it is irrelevant if you get more energy out of solar panels vs. biofuels as that is simply the wrong question because you’re getting two very different types of energy out of each. Solar produces electric power which needs to be moved across a large capital intensive grid and also has to have supply and demand balance in realtime, solar has problems producing power when it is needed. Biofuels are high density portable energy sources that work with a trillion dollar base of invested infrastructure.

The portability/infrastructure view can be seen by a market based approach.
One MMBTU of natural gas delivered at Henry Hub, sells for $3.50
A Barrel of Brent oil sells for $110 a barrel
6 mmbtu’s of Natural gas has the same energy content of a barrel of Brent, or you could buy the energy content of a barrel of oil for $21 with natural gas. The FORM that a unit of energy comes in matters a lot.

Regarding Elon Musk’s claim on nuclear power plants I think there must be an assumption he’s made that I’m not aware of. On it’s face I don’t believe this is true, there likely is an important assumption missing like perhaps every single inch of the site is covered. Also even if the absolute outputs of energy are the same because solar isn’t going to always deliver a steady planed amount of power output, peaker power plants are going to be needed when days are shady etc. changing the economics.
The FORM of energy matters, Nuclear power plants run for months at full capacity and when they need to be out of service that is planned ahead of time to occur during times of the year when demand is lower. My job at Enron was to know everything about every Nuclear power plant in the country because there was a lot of money to be made in predicting if one wouldn’t be able to produce.

The compressed air storage investment that PG recently made is all about the timing and form of energy, being able to shift those has a LOT of economics value.
PG
The History of Film
Note to GNOME developers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Vigorous coding is just as legal as paying as little taxes as allowed by the tax code. People are paid to make sure everything done strictly follows the letter of the law, with every t crossed and every i dotted.

OTOH, fraud is easy to catch - if the case repartition suddenly changes, or of there are some mistakes, something must be happening.

But the present incentives are for making rock solid, court-proof claim cases.

It induces all kind of interesting changes- like making sure 5 different health professionals all considered the patient was in end-of-life to qualify for a more lucrative palliative care.

As long as there are the 5 signatures on the paper (and in a 2nd line of defence, proof they saw the patient - like signatures, agendas, etc) it's as good as printing money.

One would have to be really really dumb or overtly greedy to engage in fraud.
Another one that I see every once in a while is the ^SIGNED - when an account has multiple users they sign it with '^' and their name or initials.

Example: https://twitter.com/bing/status/1955295086
https://twitter.com/bing (the bio mentions ^nb and ^nm)
This is a bit of a bait and switch, because all of the options the author lists are solving problems (even if just improving upon existing solutions, you are still solving sub-problems of existing solutions). Instagram readily solved a problem: photo editing / stylizing had been difficult and/or expensive prior (yes, I hate their filters as much as the next guy, but most people find some value in it). It may have not been the first app to do it, but it still solved a problem.
Desktops are outgrowing me, and I'm worried
>Even if there is some financial gain, more is lost when the fundamental IP rights are stolen. //

Apart from your failure to demonstrate an understanding of the difference between unlicensed duplication and denial through theft this bit still doesn't quite make sense to me.

Are you saying that the IPR are worth more than their direct fiscal benefit and that this benefit is some how reduced even if more money is made by the rights holders?

Could you expand on your reasoning?

If the findings are correct then for some tortuous infringer's then yes it would seem the most likely causality is that their unlicensed use of the material is of benefit [in promulgating the cultural worth¹ and] in bringing more financial benefit to the industry. If.

- - -

¹ but who cares about that!
'Park facing downhill'. I love it. I've read before that Hemingway used to leave his writing for the day in mid sentence, so when he sat down the next morning, he had somewhere concrete to start. I'm not sure how true the legend is, but it's a technique I use often with good results.
Please god do not go and encourage those around him to do anything.

The guy is in hospice, which means that the family and the doctors have agreed that his disease is beyond treatment and will be receiving only palliative care. More bluntly, the goal has gone from recovery to a comfortable death.

I'm sure you mean well, but at this point the very last thing the family needs is amateur doctoring. They need love, quiet support, and plenty of space to process and accept what is happening.
Your point is exactly correct.

However, the major side product of corn based biofules is distillers grain which is animal feed for Cows/pigs. There is enough demand there to actually consume all of the distillers grain produced.
Glossary of common abbreviations from http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/retweeting/retweet-glossary-syn...

RT Short for “Retweet.” This is even sometimes spelled out instead of abbreviated.
via Similar to HT or MRT (below), via has lately simply become more of a catchall, often seen simply as an alternative to using “RT.” But ideally, it indicates a modified tweet.

HT “Hat tip” This is a way of thanking the person who brought something to your attention. It’s sometimes used interchangeably with MRT (see #3 below).

MRT or MT Short for “Modified (re)tweet,” this usually indicates that you’ve edited the retweet a little, otherwise only a very small amount of editing can justify sticking with a regular “RT.”

IRT Short for “In reply to” or “In response to” (or very rarely “Ironic Retweet”).

OH “Overheard.” Similar to HT if attributing to a specific Twitter username. Otherwise, just another popular Twitter acronym

/by The preferred method for author attribution. Sometimes used with no slash, e.g. “Great article by @user”

/cc This is just a way of including another username in a tweet so they will be notified of it. It comes from the email cc standard to send a “copy” of the email to another person. “CC” originally stood for “carbon copy,” coming from the old business letter-writing standard. Also commonly used with no slash, e.g. “I love this pic [link] cc @user1, @user2″

ta (British) or Ty (American) is slang for “Thank you” that some use: “[Tweet text and link, if any] ta @user”

QT Means “quoted tweet,” favored by Japanese Twitter users.
Fastmail recently reworked their whole user-interface, hiding and removing many good options in the process.

Their support queue is backed up days, to due to dissatisfied customers.
There is a C++/Cuda library with a python frontend that I am starting to play with that is from one of the guys who works with Hinton. It is written by Alex Krizhevsky and has lots of tools for training feed forward networks with lots of different connection topologies and neuron types. If I am not mistaken this was the library that was used in the recent Kaggle drug competition that is referenced in the article. There is some good starting point documentation here as well to look into, as long as you know enough about the mechanics of Artificial Neural Networks it has some really interesting stuff in there.

Here is the link:
http://code.google.com/p/cuda-convnet/
Ask HN: Freelance Developer - Who retains ownership of code?
I'm a developer with my own S-Corp, writing iOS apps for clients of various backgrounds.

My question -

When you work on a project for a client, do you typically retain ownership of the full codebase, or retain the right (ie: ownership) to use snippets in future projects for other clients? How do you approach the code ownership situation?

Would it be fair to say that ownership of all compiled and source code related to the project is the property of the client and the developer retains the right to use code snippets? Does anyone push to share ownership of the codebase?

Thank you in advance for feedback and your thoughts.