skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, it's true that by some metrics (government debt for example), Estonia is doing pretty well. But Estonia's private sector debt (personal loans) is still over the top and is actually killing the workforce right now. Because of these loans, the wages aren't rising, even though the cost of living is thanks to joining the euro zone. http://statistikaamet.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/eestist-valja... (Estonia's department of statistics blog) has statistics about the year 2010, where the graph shows the most dominant age group of emigrants are men in the age of 25-29 and most people leave the country because of high unemployment. That's men and women leaving in their best working age, most of whom will never return.

So, yeah, Estonia might be doing fine by some short-term metrics, but in the long term austerity measures have done irreparable harm.
> Apparently they are quite comfortable encoding as many as 120 instantiations of their videos.

There is more to it than just the number of videos (or storage requirements). You can get dedicated hardware h264 encoders easily (and relatively cheaply), not to mention the decoders in mobile devices. There's also quality to consider, effective quality per MB (important when targeting mobile devices), and all the things that fall into that (motion handling, prediction, etc).

I don't claim to be an expert, but from what I've read Ogg & WebM are fighting an uphill battle on the technical side of things. Part of this is no doubt due to h264 patents, but it's a shame the free solution isn't also the technically superior one.
“Please don’t let us name the browser after a feminine hygiene product!”

Ironic that this was a concern, given the later iPad
Flies are not predators for spiders.
path prefixes only generally apply to ./configure scripts when you are generating makefiles.

As paths to libs and stuff are hardcoded as part of the ELF spec, it becomes difficult to implement something like this and ive not seen a package manager that can do it.
That's the beta site and it seems to be down at the moment. Have you looked at http://www.tryfsharp.org/Tutorials.aspx
Calling the browser 'Safari' is weird, if you think about it. I remember trying to teach my mom how to use the iPad to access the internet:

"First press the home button"

"Ok"

"Now tap on Safari"

"But I don't want to see animals"

"..."

And that's when I realized why Internet Explorer was so successful.
Complexity. Target achieved.
ah the power to unilaterally change terms, knowing your customers have essentially zero alternative.
Thanks for your reply. I was considering using wxPython for my next project. But this licensing leans me towards Pyside+Qt.
I have just finished reading the entire report including the supplement. It seems that the reason this bacteria was killed off is that the diet changed the pH balance in the gut. The report mentions "Bitter Melon" as killing the bacteria (Supplementary Figure 1. Bitter melon markedly modulated the human gut microbiota in in vitro experiment) Supplementary document, page 33. I couldn't find an exact reason for the subject taking the pre-biotics but I would suspect that it is to help re-colonize the gut with 'good' bacteria.
I've always felt that picking a solid name is one of those things that will never happen while I'm thinking about it intently. Glad to hear it's the same for the big boys too...
Has anyone here actually tried using OnPatient? Last time I used it it was terribly laggy and seemed like the programming was being offshored or done by interns or something. Also it was really unintuitive to use.

I'm not sure what was going on with it but it seemed like it needed a lot of work.

This was a few months ago when I used it, maybe in October.
> though all games in the Humble Indie Bundles support Linux > so hopefully they are added to Steam soon

Darn. This what I'm waiting for as most of my games are from humblebundle. Well at least uplink+defcon should work :)
12. Ironically, when we work so hard and with such passion on perfecting our craft and producing output worth sharing, we often don’t find the time to share it.

Maybe it's because I've been thinking a lot lately about how I should start blogging about my life experiences, that this stood out for me right now. I am guilty of #12 — I find myself so deep in working that I forget to pull out and actually take time to self-reflect, write about it, and share it. I think reserving time to write and share your experiences can be a helpful part in the "perfecting our craft and producing output worth sharing" process. The saying 'there is no such thing as no time, you can always make time' pops into my head from time to time. Both ideas sound nice to me, and hopefully they’re things I actually incorporate into my habits for the upcoming year! Thanks for the post :)
In an interview he said he was unpopular in high school and it didnt bother him, so being unpopular because of IV doesnt bother him either. He's like a bitter nerd maniacally extracting his revenge on the world for his unhappy high school years.
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Patents are not rewards for invention. They are compensation for willingly disclosing what would otherwise remain trade secrets. That's why the application has to describe the invention in enough detail for others to implement it (not merely recognize it) and why it must have been kept secret until the examiner's decision.
Hi FireBeyond, your email is not listed, but I'd appreciate it if you could email me as I have a few questions. I am curious as to what companies you may have meant when you said, quote:
"There are entire companies devoted to nothing more than this - taking a ICD9/10 diagnosis, some procedure codes and massaging the bill to get the biggest possible bill".
I had searched before for exactly this and found very little to lead me. Any help would be appreciated.
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I'm happy this guy exists. Sure, we can use logic to deduce ideas aren't property. But not until a troll comes around do the masses pay attention. I hope he makes a fortune making a mockery out of the mockery.
It's an overreaction with only upside though, since the only two possible outcomes from their overreaction are (1) TOS remains the same or similarly ominous, or (2) the TOS becomes more benign as a result of NatGeo's and others' overreaction.

If (1) is going to happen anyways, then there's no downside to at least posturing an overreaction.
Hi lucidrains, I'd be curious too what kind of thoughts you have about the health startup field. If you'd like to email me, I would love to chat.
There is also the issue that a Steam game may have dependencies on different versions of certain libraries than those which may be shipped with popular distros. You also have to think about people with custom PPAs etc.

I think it makes sense for Steam to be isolated from the rest of the system as much as possible.

It is also helpful to Valve if it is as consistent with Steam on other platforms as possible.

Game downloads can be pretty big and take a while too, I'd rather not have apt locked for an hour while it grabs some large game update.
At first glance, this list is a bit of a joke. Just on the first page you see Acco Brands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCO_Brands) and Agere Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agere_Systems), which shows that not even the most rudimentary fact checking went into this effort.

Unfortunate, because I think they're trying to add transparency in an area where it's badly needed. But using such a blatantly inaccurate methodology undermines pretty much everything they're trying to do.
I think many of you in the Hacker News crowd will recognize this problem that I'm yet to find a solution to myself:

mkdir [blinking cursor]

Then 30 minutes passes and you didn't end up making that thing anyway since you got distracted while thinking up a name for it.
Other attempts at this task:

1. Google search: feldman-giants-among-us.pdf [+]

2. http://www.indiegogo.com/iv-thicket

+ Read this paper if you want to get a general idea of how IV operates.
This whole thing is getting a little ridiculous. I expect "the masses" to react this way, but not actual entities who should have legal counsel.

It happened to Pinterest: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/23/pinterest-terms-of-service...

And Twitpic: http://readwrite.com/2011/05/10/your_content_your_copyright_...

Plus the fact that few of these "journalists" are pointing out that Twitter currently has these same terms makes me wanna dust off my tinfoil hat.
There is a strangely titled book written by one of the early Microsoft employee called "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates" which describes authors interactions with Myrvold. It's a very enlightening and entertaining book to learn more about how Myrvold works.

One of the incidence in this book is as follows: Myrvold one day thinks of an idea that shadings in the picture can be compressed using electromagnetic equations. Basically look at the shading as charge field, solve EM equations to find what set of charge at which positions would produce that field. Then the position of charges becomes the description of the field. Trained eyes would immediately see issues here and discard this idea as naive version of optimization problem. However Myrvold probably has a patent on it.
I have designated an in-prog folder and call it 'dev'. Everything in dev is strictly modifiable.
Do it again and see the reaction now.

Safari is not for one time use.
I don't know - when I first heard the name, 'Safari' made sense to me after a moment of thinking about it. Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Safari - all named around the theme of discovery.
I learned a lot from your dialshield website. I went from knowing nothing about your website to knowing exactly what it was within 30 seconds. Well done.
All the commentary here and no one has mentioned Google's effort to automate a similar task: building 360° rotations of children's toys for holiday shopping. [1]

[1]: http://www.google.com/shopping/product/4502510368537277191?p...
I think it's more about trust. The TOS might have been more permissive before but we trust instagram not to do anything too crazy.

The new TOS, although less permissive overall, signaled a specific intent to do some crazy things.

Especially in light of new ownership, the trust is being strained.
Prior art is usually resolved by the patent office (or the patent trial and appeal board). It's only after they rule against you that you can take it to the federal circuit.
foo? bar? qux? metasyntacticvariable? potato?

name it something. mv works if you need to change it.
Kickstarter hasn't been very prompt with making changes to the business model or tools -- the only things I've seen added have been related to newsfeed and social promotion.

There's also some value to this being an independent organization, and also they'll be able to handle indiegogo or maybe even self-hosted kickstarter-like services (which ultimately need it even more)
I always start with a codename. And for the longest time I've used the surnames of foreign scientists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_scientists
The name Safari is still one of those mystery to me, I like the name, and my guess it properly came from the idea of Navigation -> Compass - > Safari. Although i was expecting a post to truly reveal the mystery behind the reason for such a name.
I've experienced a lot of chargebacks, unfortunately. For some reason some gang of people from Vietnam keeps using my site to verify stolen credit cards work. Originally this all happened through a third-party service which I had no control over (I couldn't preemptively block suspicious transactions). I switched to Swipe and eventually saw the same fraudulent transactions coming through (one was 50 charges with the same card with a minute of each other).

Sick of it all I finally got minFraud setup and working with Braintree as the payment processor. So now, I use Braintree to authorize the card, then do a fraud check through minFraud. If the fraud level is low enough, I submit the payment for settlement, otherwise I void it.

Since putting minFraud in place I haven't had any chargebacks.
Hi Colin, thanks for the kind words! We've definitely talked about those ideas :) Right now, we are only taking signups for our beta, and working with a few select KS projects to get it off the ground before opening it up to more project creators. Launch and pricing details soon—we'll keep you updated ;) Please feel free to email us at hello@backerkit.com if you have any further questions and suggestions! Thanks again.
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Well, it's not like the apt-get solution is a whole lot more elegant: http://thecodedecanter.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/installing-m...
Or sports utility vehicles.
The different combinations work really well together.
Well, it fits with the theme. "Safari" is Swahili for "journey" or "trip" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari#Etymology)

That fits it in with the browsers of the time:

Netscape Navigator

Internet Explorer

I would guess the code name 'Alexander' came from 'Alexander the Great', who not only traveled a lot, but also conquered, just like Safari was aiming to conquer the Internet. They must have ignored the 'die young' aspect of that connotation.

Safari also has the right feelings associated with it with almost everybody. Some will think "hah, killing elephants", others will think "paying people to help me watch elephants, so that they no longer need or want to kill them", but nobody (nowadays) will associate negative thoughts (exploiting the natives; killing rare animals) with it. And, apparently, there also is a link with surfing the ocean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin_Safari. I think that may have led to thinking of the name, but I doubt that is strong enough to choose the name.
Spot pricing I hope! =)
Damn. I should have used that joke in the essay.
They have a mandate to grant patents. They have a certain budget to fulfill that mandate. I imagine (although I don't know) that they do the best they can to grant valid patents within those constraints.
Iceland is much smaller than either, yet it is the poster child for this thread.

Using 2007 as the starting year for Latvia and Estonia is kind of cherry picking. See here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/the...

Note that the MR post is polite and humble, and gives fair consideration to both sides of the issue, unlike just about anything written by a certain ny times columnist.
I'll write another post about why we called it "Alexander." You're not far from the mark about it being related to "Alexander the Great." But not for the reason you think.
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And yet all the countries that have slashed government spending and backstopped private debt have also taken a nose dive in GDP. Eppur si muove.

TLDR; Keynes advocated government spending on infrastructure (increased collective efficiency) not pointless hole filling.
You should have graduated concurrent user limits there. Rather than 1000 across the board, start with 100 for the "Candle" plan (the name "Spark" would be a great fit too), 1000 for "Bonfire", and 5000 for "Inferno".

Also, what happens if you exceed the 1000 concurrent user limit? For example, your site is momentarily popular and gets 1500 people trying it out for a few hours then goes back down under 1000. Is there burst pricing? Do connections get dropped? Is there a grace period, like the way 95th percentile bandwidth billing works?
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they they use "Britain" as a casual term for the UK, in the same way that people refer to the USA as "America". And yes, the word "country" is not properly used.

I was very surprised by the thrust of the article however; I had assumed that the US was much more violent. Especially given the dearth of firearms in the UK. If this is accurate, it is extraordinarily puzzling, at least to me.
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As the famous, slightly modified from original, saying goes:

"There are only two hard things in computer science. Cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."
I don't think we have entered the long term yet, so how can you so confidently say what the long term effects are?
You are arguing for having a very narrow selection of people to be interviewed, don't you think that stunts your knowledge if all you would read/listen about is people in popular tech start-ups? Entrepreneurship is so broad, I love the diversity of people on Mixergy and I get inspiration from the most unlikely guests (whom I've never heard of).

If you really want to listen to people you have already heard of, it's damn easy to pick and choose from the interviews...so my question is, what's the intent behind this submission?
A similar, gesture based interface was present in Johnny Mnemonic (1995). I can't recall if it included pinch to zoom, but the gesture based interface was there.
Apparently it's been fixed so it works in the page now, but why on earth would I want to edit the URL as a navigation method?
In our embedded systems class we were required to define all of our constants, just to add another level of description to operations. It definitely helped to navigate spaghetti code.
I let out another sigh of despair when I heard this. It feels like Dropbox is moving further away from my use-case and into media wonderland.

I use Dropbox as a serious tool for synching and sharing files between my own computers, and with quite a number of other people and companies to do the same. My Dropbox work files are over 50gb. I'm willing to pay for this, and of course do so.

My photos these days do come from multiple sources. However with 11 years of digital pictures, 20+ mb per picture from the latest camera (and thousands of shots) and with a new Go Pro Hero HD in the house, the amount of data storge required dwarfs the capability of Dropbox and my capped Internet connection. The 500gb plan, meanwhile, is $500 per year. That's a lot of money but also insufficient space for photos. I also don't really want to share that many of them, and if I do, then they go straight to the sharing site de jour.

So I see Dropbox as a professional tool for work files, but an overpriced amateur tool for pictures. The app and website seem to keep pushing me to turn on photos, and I wish they would stop.

But yes, Snapjoy does look nice, and if priced correctly could be a tool of choice. Just play nice with iPhoto, Lightroom and Aperture.
Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time
I'm curious about how pay for particular positions at particular companies trend over time. It seems a little tricky to find the data since glassdoor doesn't seem to offer additional breakdown by year. Other sites don't seem to have sufficient datapoints. What has your experience been with annual raises? And do you find salary-reporting sites to be accurate? Or possibly filled with outdated data?
Actually, austerity means the government using a lot of it's money to bail out failing banks and other private institutions and then saying it has no more money for the people and social services.
This is very good visualization. It brings out the fact that number of summits have exponentially increased by number of death only linearly and with very slight slop. This means w have gotten exponentially better at summiting over time.
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Great story. It shows that doesn't matter if you are Apple or a solo developer, product naming is hard. Actually, as the OP, I find coding easier. Nevertheless, we can't ship products with placeholder names. I have a little brainstorming process that goes like this:

1) List the name of all competitors that made into the business plan; // this is important mainly to avoid problems

2) List of nouns that evoke a basic understanding of the root problem the program tries to solve; // I know it's obvious, but finding a name right here create an instant connection with your target users

3) List all the features that make the program stand out; // Again it's obvious, yet this is a great source of names

4) Mix and match all these these words, throw them into a bucket, and sleep on it for a while;

5) Usually, after some days have passed I come back, and weed out the crapy ones; // and...

6) Work a little more on the rest with a dictionary, if needed go back to 3;

7) Finally, when I have a short list of good names I try to find domain names;

8) mkdir <project_name> // or mv <old> <new> :)

How do you go about your process?
Good start, let's invalidate the millions of other software patents from Samsung, LG, Google, Facebook, ...
Nice comeback from MySpace Tom
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Perhaps to someone sufficiently well versed in the field and its recent history, including who said what and when, the innuendo could be clearly read. I'd venture to guess that most readers could not; I certainly couldn't.
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But why is the icon a compass though?
We use Pokemon. The reason? Nobody gets too attached to the name Jigglypuff.
Im just entering my final year.

Like you I think there's plenty of room for disruption, not just on the medical devices side but also in terms of efficiencies.

So the three companies you reference are basically disrupting devices that cost thousands of dollars (ECG and otoscopes/dermatoscopes) - great for bringing down the costs of clinics or solo practitioners. A lot of these devices I think are probably being angled at the home user as well (particularly ECG) but the clinical relevance of giving a patient their own rhythm is pretty minimal... I mean if they have a dicky heart they likely have a pacemaker or ICD which will record suspect rhythms themselves.

I'd be fascinated to talk more to you and see where you are taking this because I think you are really saying is that if we give patients their results or order their own (bloods, EUC, any ELIZA etc studies) then we will be empowering them to make better health decisions. I have my own opinions on this based on what i've seen and if you're interested in discussing further my email is in my profile - although seems like you have a lot that would like to talk to you!
The official statement at http://instagram.com/natgeo reads:

'@NatGEo is supspending new posts to Instagram. We are very concerned with the direction of the proposed new terms of service and if they remain as presented we may close our account.'

(The Fast Company article does not provide any additional value, it does not even quote the original statement.)
Right, it's the contracts, exactly like the parent post said...
It's not that scale hurts; there are many benefits to scale. But obviously, it makes some things harder to deal with. Iceland has a population of 320,000 or so people and only one major city. Politics is a lot simpler with a population that small.