skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah we love it for two reasons:

1. Our users can send messages to us from inside the app. They end us using this to communicate with us more than email.

2. The dashboard for site owners is awesome. It shows you overall user count, who is logged in right now, each user's social networks (pulled automatically using http://www.fullcontact.com), and gives you a whole bunch of ways to filter the information.
The new age of shakedowns!
Raising funding is one way to punch through the hurdles discussed in the article. I think the point is that if you want to innovate, why should it take $5M in funding if you can demonstrate a good idea working. Answer: all the reasons mentioned in the article.

Small and agile is a function of penetration in the healthcare market --- the regulatory friction and customer requirements will slow them down considerably as they (hopefully) move past initial pilots. There a hundreds of small startups in HIT that get 1 or 2 pilots, but then never get past that point, likely due to the points in this article.

I welcome more and more funding in this space to help educate the buyers and realign priorities toward efficiency vs. status quo. But the industry does not welcome disruptions of any kind. VCs do, in terms of VC dollars invested.

I would make a guess that the ROI YC makes on its HIT investments will pale in comparison to other industries in the long term. Only PG will know.
Thanks -- interesting stuff
> What I'd like to see tho and I haven't seen it yet - is the ability to get the chargeback refunded in case I decide not to fight it. I know this usually involve some work on both sides, however I think this should be automated and the chargeback lifted if I decide to make Stripe's life easier.

This is unlikely to happen. The chargeback fee is levied on the acquiring bank (merchant processor) by the card associations which is then passed onto the merchant.

Best way to avoid chargeback fines is to have better fraud prevention process in place. Companies like Stripe are really just passing on costs that are imposed on them. Stripe offering to refund the fee if you win the case is a great gesture but only solves part of the issue with chargebacks in particular friendly fraud chargebacks.
Nice D3 example!

I predict we will see an "official" CLJS-in-CLJS around the time of the next Clojure/conj ;)
Thanks! It's nice to be proven wrong sometimes.
If there were ever a thread that was useless without pics, this is it.
What did I buy today? 
Kate Bingaman-Burt’s artful new mini-ledger, invites readers to answer that question every day, promoting frugality.
That's a fine description. I would like to add that those Tasks were actually co-operative, rather than pre-emptive like modern threads - at least in the versions of AmigaOS I had a chance to use. I think that was also true for multiple processes until AmigaOS 4 or so.

These features were available in libraries on other platforms since forever (I remember a Herb Schildt book from 1988 that presented an implementation in C for DOS!), but were culturally ingrained in the Amiga, and are still essentially fringe in other ecosystems.
Price isn't a competitive differentiator unless you're one of the rare birds like Walmart, Costco or Dell. Otherwise, ask any one of the hundreds of no-name Asian electronic companies how well competing on cost alone fares.
Yes, and once they have circumvented the record files to play withou 3d printing, perhaps there will also be some manner of online store where one may purchase these digital files, a store for tunes! :)
It could be, and has been, but now some fucker is attempting to patent it and ruin it for everyone else. See http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wjsteele/ultra-bot-3d-pr... for details.

"Is it open source? No... this design is so revolutionary that I had to patent it to protect my IP. This design has the potential to change the 3D printing industry. It affords many benefits that make it stand out above all other 3d printers."

It's not a new design at all, one of the first Reprap prototypes was a polar printer circa 2006 and there have been several other attempts at it since. Of course, because of the variable accuracy (least accurate away from the center) they don't usually get much use.
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Do you mean like http://haltalk.herokuapp.com/rels/signup? But every site will have different requirements or mandatory fields on signup, so there's still no "discoverable" way to sign up to Amazon and eBay and Google without a human looking at http://amazon.com/rels/signup and http://ebay.com/rels/signup, etc., in which case you're back to still needing to read the documentation.

I guess it's a slight improvement to know exactly where the documentation for a particular link relation will live instead of having to search for it, but it doesn't seem to solve an especially difficult problem.
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I'm frameworked out.
My vary limited understanding of that was it was closer to an emergent state on a surface vs. something that ever applied to an individual atom. Can you clarify what's going on?
I don't understand. It says the sale goes until January 3rd. Or was there another one that I missed?
AKA "not REST in any way, shape or form" AKA "good old RPC over HTTP".
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Damn, that is kind of spooky actually. I can't keep track of all the similarities... The layout of the project's directory structure, the TravisCI image placement, the README style...

I don't know, all I can say is you have excellent taste! :)
I'd love to see a movie demonstrating what this looks like!
Ask HN: Is there a database of Hacker news posts that I can download?
I want to download hacker news posts and support instant search on top of it. I saw that there was one such database before...but downloading is disabled now.

Do hacker news TOS even allow downloading and making a copy of the database?
And he's holding MTW's Gravitation tome in the photo!

BTW: Why do so few people pose with their favorite books (or holding any book) in profile photos, this was common when people had their portrats painted in the past. Has it become a turn-off?
Don't worry it's late in the day here and took me a while to work it out. It's a joke, draw.io is always free.
I'm guessing that the only way you could touch the mirror image of your finger is by doing so in the middle of the mirror. If you move the finger out toward the shoulder, I'm betting your arm would stretch off the mirror away from your body. I could be totally wrong though.
2012: The year of frameworks.
I guess the possible magazine sizes play a role here. I can't imagine a hunting rifle with a 100 round mag. And aren't most of them bolt action, that is, not even semi-automatic?
It seems to me that they would have construed it to allow taking enemy prisoners of war during a war. Wars, at that time were declared by Congress and has clearly defined victory conditions. Prisoners were expected to be repatriated at the end of the war.

Now we're engaged in hostilities not declared as a war and without clearly defined victory conditions. If enemies in that conflict are treated as POWs, their detention is indefinite. I'm pretty sure the Constitution's authors did not intend anything of the sort.
Well, from my read, it'd be theoretically possible to transmit at near-infinite bandwidth using quantum entanglement (since you just keep adding more entangled particles). There'd still be the latency of at least the speed of light though
> there's an inverse correlation between awesome-ness of directory name and chance-of-shipping, in my experience.

Sackboy's law? It's absolutely true.

Thanks for sharing that about LBP: it's great to hear that my nominative inertia is shared by such high company.
I thought the real reason for their recommend system was to solve the high friction of writing a recommendation.

It's a quantitative solution with a qualitative result. I.e. the more people who endorse your claimed skills the more you know there might be something about it.

I have both designers, developers and clients endorse me and I think it's a straw man to claim that it's simply because people want other to endorse them.
I'm Australian, and that's what we think of the word "Walkabout".

We roll our eyes at the tourists, then just go and do whatever it is we were doing.
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Could you give an example of an article you feel was a good use of time? I'm curious.
according to the wikipedia article it's a surface of micro-mirrors that work in pairs. so it's basically a pair of mirrors scaled down and repeated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reversing_mirror

not very exciting really.
No need to be sorry. :)
Neat ideas. I recall Dan Ariely of 'Predictably Irrational' noting that an effective method of exerting willpower was to mentally associate difficult / cumbersome tasks with positive rewarding ones. i.e. Watching a movie right after taking a medicine w/ many side-effects (so the medicine becomes associated with 'movie time' rather than 'side-effect' time.)
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>> I'm curious as to what questions it actually raises?

One could just post a link to the article and ask his opinion. I'm sure he would respond.
Why not do the minFraud check before auth? Won't that save you some auth fees?

minFraud is a very cost effective service. We have them as one of the solutions in our platform.
And by "wrong meaning of web," he means "the actual meaning of web." Apparently what we should mean when we say "web" is "the internet." I'm not sure what the benefit of this change of terminology is supposed to be.
> Can I get a perpetual commercial license for mxGraph today?

Sure, if you pay for it. mxGraph is dual licensed, being the copyright holders, we can do this.

> And how did you get permission to display all those customer logos on your page?

By having the clause:

"JGraph Ltd is permitted to reference you as a user of the Software in customer
lists on the JGraph web-site, in presentations to clients and at trade events."

In the mxGraph commercial license. A few customers remove it, most don't. Some have asked for their logo to be removed, we always comply. But these are all paying customers of ours that have that term in their license.
Or, that anyone hiring or interviewing you (recruiter or developer) will actually evaluate your work beyond that you have a couple repos with more than a couple files in them.
At least for me these limited time discounts are things that move my purchase project from "plan" to "execute" -phase.
Bush is a war criminal, plain and simple. That actually makes him a lot worse than rapists and murderers.
Surprisingly I work with a lot of MDs who think communication and lack of professionalism and thoughtfulness in software engineers is a significant hindrance to success.

- Medics have extremely busy schedules and so they don't want to have their time wasted by lack of data, lack of rigorous testing, and risk to their patients. Software pros work in cozy offices not splattered in patient fluids, from 11AM - whenever, and yet don't expend the extra effort to statistically test data, design efficient algorithms and user interfaces, etc., before throwing something over the wall as a MVP.
- The level of healthcare savvy among software pros is generally pretty low
- MDs seem to have a logic that focuses on quality, meticulous attention to detail, going the extra distance without added compensation, acceptance of hard and legally binding rules about ethics, data collection, privacy, security, efficacy, peer review, etc.. Run the same software program n times and you will get n different bugs, from the same software developer.

When you find a software pro who is willing / able to help on all the above, you do need to hold on to them (and pay a high market salary, with good health care benefits, and reward them for quality and precision vs. MVP attributes.)
I agree with the people calling the solution as bogus. I'm not a pro python developer, but I can sure vouch for the skills of many developers I've worked with based on my experience in working with them. And that's a fairly accurate recommendation.

Sorry the similar skill set limit is bogus.
Only real difference I'm aware of is the release schedule; as far as I can tell the plugins get major updates with IntelliJ releases, not alongside the separate IDEs.

(It's possible I'm wrong, just my observations)
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Use Shift (zoom in), Ctrl (zoom out) and the arrow keys.

The interface is similar to RTS games, click and hold to move in that direction, not like maps.
That's a really nice example of it in action. Thanks for putting in the effort to explore standardising links like this.

I really like the human discoverability feature that you've demoed, and gameche's point about being able to include resources outside the scope of an API is certainly interesting, but I'm still confused about the primary feature you championed, which is the ability to easily change URL structures.

You championed that as a core feature in your post: "make it painless to change your application’s URL structures further down the line".

dhh's retort knocked that feature on it's head, didn't it? Once you settle on coding against a particular section of an API, you're relying on a URL. Your feature works with an API depth of 1, but beyond that what is the proposed approach? To traverse the API from "/" every time, making multiple calls until you discover the right link reference which contains the latest URL for that resource?
You can type in whatever skill you want, including Murder, Genocide, and Rape.
Isn't this what the Link header is for? Why put them in the JSON?

The only reason I'm aware of is for compatibility with JSONP. Github's API normally uses Link headers, but adds a "meta" object for JSONP requests: http://developer.github.com/v3/#json-p-callbacks
This post seems hyper-defensive and hyper-reactionary. URLs are fundamental to HTTP web services - they're how the web works. Imagine if you visited a website in your browser and instead of link to the various pages, the page just printed IDs and you had to copy/paste them into the address bar after the domain name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
You know you're drunk when...

"You’re a celebrity and Tweet something highly offensive, racist or just plain stupid."

"You use your flashlight app on ur phone to try and find your phone."

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& a whole bunch more, enjoy :-)
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It depends. Its not always just about the ratio of chargebacks but also volume.

So you might trigger some flags with the card associations if you say have the following

1) 1% chargeback ratio
2) 1% of revenue result in chargeback
3) Have like 50-100 (forget exact number) of chargebacks a month for like x consecutive months.

If you don't fix the problem, then bad things happen like additional fines....etc.

So for merchants with very low volume, a higher chargeback rate is sometimes permissible. Acquiring banks have their own risk assessment so they may allow it or may not.
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I think the list was initially pre populated from your profile. It's not clear from the UI, but you can add skills to people, just start typing in the box after the last tag.

A lawyer has endorsed me for Objective-C and Subversion. I'm sure that's trust worthy.
Some friends of mine made it. Comments? Feedback?
See also:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/JugglingTalk.html?HN1

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SiteSwap.html?HN1
Can Big Data save my father from cancer?
Geniuses are getting brighter
You can't say with a straight face that the founders thought Constitutional protections should apply to everyone, even people abroad, when they declined to extend any protection to black men living in America. Or Indians. Or women.
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He's joking.
Why the world will beat a path to Path
it is an example of a discoverable API with discoverable documentation though, which is what you were asking for I think.. maybe not?
That code fragment is really just the pin-out of a block - or to a software person, it's basically a functional interface. Naming aside, it could be the pinout of a number of number things - it could an and gate like this, or one of the signals could be a clock and this is a register... or an entire delay line.

A really interesting mental-model barrier to watch hardware newbs overcome is to present them with designing a counter - and watching as the very first thing they want to type is a for loop, which is generally not how you'd do it, but almost reflexive to someone who has been programming for a while - particularly in an imperative style.
I have not listed any skills in my LinkedIn profile and I still get the occasional message from LinkedIn saying, "So and so has recommended you for Skill X! You should confirm this and recommend them back!"

More irritatingly, I was recommended for Rails by a few former coworkers. I haven't worked with Rails in a couple of years now and I don't know Rails 3 at all. Their recommendation is legit: I was reasonably skilled in Rails 2 stuff back when I worked with them. But their knowledge of me is outdated.
Have an idea I believe can change the world, can I get advice on how to fund?
I started the idea back in 08'. In a nutshell it uses one of the educational content management systems (online courseware) and makes educational content free. About 2 weeks ago I saw someone on TV that reinvigorated me on the idea.

I start in prisons and jails. Not only do we provide educational materials so that these people can get a top education but more importantly, the system is secure so that persons on the inside can have access to select professionals on the outside to help them. Some would be mental health professionals, others mentors. And it would allow them to do job interviews just before release. And the system will have materials specifically for that demo like domestic violence courses, drug addiction and so on.

And what really sets this apart is that I had a business man from Sarasota that was willing to turn one of his motels into transitional housing. While there the people would still have access to this program. In meetings with corrections officials they said that the biggest problem is that a lot of the people they see are not bad people, they just have nothing else to go back to so within 3 years 70% are back in prison.

Now how can this change the world? Because once we get the thing set up and running I want to develop a tablet like the $100 laptop and make it like a $50 tablet. These can then be distributed to any population that needs education. Here in the US it can be any low income or rural area. If we can get them into the hands of say young Afghan or Iranian women they can study from anywhere and get educated. All they need is a wifi connection that can be part of what we do in partnering with other companies to provide that. In one generation we can change the fabric of that society. Mothers will raise educated children and so on.

I tried to get it done back then, I got a couple people interested but couldn't get anyone that knew how to raise funds. Have Business plan and all.
Siri's reliance on Google cut in half with iOS 6
IIRC, Battery has been geometric gains since the 80s, at a single-digit percentage increase per year.
Yes, I've seen the "Upload in High Res" option in FB and usually use it myself - there is a big difference even viewing on screen and I've had some images grain very badly. I just checked the res is 2048 x 1366 - but I have no idea if that is good enough for print at that size. Guess it would depend on the image.

I very rarely print stuff these days but I can understand the convenience factor - I'm probably not your ideal demographic anyway since I very rarely print, it would not be that that inconvenient for me. Plus I only have one friend :(
If you have this phone number set up with Google, and if you have 2-factor auth set up, they will do this every time you login from a previous unauthorized machine. Wherever they're trying to log in, there will be a gate where they have to enter teh 6-digit PIN sent to your phone.

If you don't have 2-factor auth set up, I think they will still sometimes do it with new machines or login attempts that may look suspicious (e.g. brute force password attempts).

Thus, if google does have this number for you, it's very likely that someone is trying to log into your account (it sounds like, possibly your wife). The bad news is, they got your password entered correctly (or it was cached somewhere). The good news is, it's very UN-likely that that person will be able to get the PIN and proceed beyond the gate.

If google doesn't have this number for you, it's possible someone else provided it to them, accidentally or otherwise.

If you don't have 2-factor auth set up, go here and do it. https://www.google.com/settings/u/1/security?hl=en
Hi, I suggest you start your question with Ask HN: .

Also, the question is not properly phrased, it would be more understandable if you put it this way:

"Are you allowed to read technical books at work?" or "Are you allowed to read task-relevant technical books at work?"

I'd appreciate it if a native English speaker helps me with a better phrasing :) .
Historically governments where not limited in there power, it was just a question of which parts of government had which powers.

If the king / Parliament passes a law banning anyone else from warring blue clothing then end of story that's the law.
A video of this mirror in action would've been very helpful.
probably not actually SPAM - see my comment above.
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Absolutely true. That said, software should never replace human thinking (until the singularity, Ray) and the clinician must be the final authority.

Same goes for pilots - the software can help, but as too many pilots have discovered, looking only at the instrument panel (especially one instrument) is a bad idea, speaking from experience ;)
I got into programming in the 6th grade via "Interplay's Learn to Program: BASIC." It was a little corny (there's a host that cracks lame jokes), but it totally changed the way I thought about video games and programming. At any rate, I'd say that if you can find a "game"-like presentation for any programming language, that would be the way to go instead of a book.
Love GOG--they do a lot of work to get old games working on modern systems. Installing Fallout 2 on Win 7 was as simple as downloading, running the executable, and playing.

I'm loving Baldur's Gate I and II right now, so here's a (potentially obvious) question: should I get Neverwinter Nights? Or are they significantly different from one another?

Same question for Icewind Dale too.
There's not really a difference. Maximum speed of an airplane in the 20th century improved at what looks like a fairly smooth curve if you plot it, but there were lots of new technologies that were required to do so (e.g. forced induction, jets, etc.)