skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UUID thing I think is a non-issue... RFIDs are already in passports, credit cards, student IDs, etc. Having a UUID on the RFID that is associated with a secure database seems like it would solve this problem.

Then the problem becomes, how do you get doctors and hospitals to use something like this? Creating a private database that providers could optionally use seems doable. The hard part would be creating a large enough percentage of adoption at first. After that, more and more providers would see the benefit of using the system, and patients might even start asking for it, or preferring hospitals that have it.
> The old saw in Silicon Valley is that venture capitalists won’t touch hardware investments.

TIL that the old saw is written by someone who's been around SV less than ten years.
The article also mentions that these are non-native, but why is that relevant? Is the suggestion that in an area in which catfish are native, they wouldn't exhibit this behavior?

There must be areas in which native catfish are hungry and in proximity to birds. Maybe it occurs there too.
thanks for the information. Speaking as someone who has worked in the search industry for many years I am surprised to see this. For me, setting up an ES server on AWS and pushing content directly into it seems pretty trivial, but I get the business analytics, dashboard etc.

The meta tags seems like a reinvention of og?
One mom was a former RN who formally studied a number of alternative medicine disciplines to keep her sons alive who were anaphylactic to antibiotics. Another is a lawyer who runs a website for alternative treatment info. These are educated, knowledgeable people who figured out what worked to help their children after experts had written them off. The fact that they are mothers meant they got to observe the person they were helping up close, over a long period of time. They became more familiar with the problem space than most doctors, who typically spend about 15 minutes with a patient before writing a prescription for a drug. Medicine was not always like that, but it often is so today.
I don't disagree with you, but 70 is a pretty large study for something like this. Many drug studies use fewer people.
Nike-backed accelerator to support a new wave of digital fitness startups
It feels like you are asking for a secret quick fix that somebody here might know of - but it doesn't exist. You have to be upfront and honest. This is all part of what being an entrepreneur is about. The survival rate of co-founders is really low, and how it turns out is all up to how you handle the situation. Be upfront and honest and just get it done, don't let it drag on.

How you handle this will test your character. I know some people who are terrible at confrontation, but some of the best entrepreneurs and business people that I know are professional and just get it done - keeping it to strictly business and not making it personal.
Multiple hundreds of gigabytes of RAM still costs a non-trivial amount of money; certainly it costs a lot more than SSD. You may see more bang for the buck with SSD in many applications.

The article acknowledged up-front that HDD may make sense if your working set fits into memory.
This used to be case - there was a setting to not require the password until a bit after the App Store launched. They removed the option after bad press/complaints from parents re:their kids purchasing things - I believe the iamrich app, which cost $999 for a picture of a gem was the app that got the most press.
Well, outlook.com / live.com email is pretty nice nowadays. I'm tempted to forward my personal gmail stuff there for a while to see how it holds up.
I have similar configuration. Fedora 64Bit, chromium and gmail work fine. No plugins for chromium, no sync, only a gmail tab is open. I use firefox for everything else. This bug seems interesting!
I thought it was unfair you were being downvoted, I counteracted that.

It more accurate to push data (and many of our customers do) but most people with web sites are not able to do that. We are working on making our crawler as fast as possible (for example, we just released incremental updates: http://swiftype.com/blog/incremental-updates.html) and paid users will be able to crawl as frequently as necessary.

Regarding Google Custom Site Search...let's just say we don't hear of people switching _away_ from Swiftype to Google Custom Site Search. IMNSHO, our product is already better in just about every way.
I'll reward +1 internet to anyone that reply with more weird smiley-faces! :)
I wonder what the privacy-law impact of this will be. While all of us will probably agree with a system like this to help locate convicted felons, what about people who simply miss Jury Duty, forget about a court date, and so on.

In an era where every HR professional worth her salt Googles every applicant with a serious shot at the job, this could prevent some people from getting much-needed employment.

Worse yet, in instances where this causes people to be weeded out before even a phone interview, there is no effective way (outside of Google and the NSA) to track this type of behavior and the possible labor law violations that could result.
> "True, but then if you buy your first $50 worth of media every month and then pirate the rest. Those unlucky enough to be in the second group get kinda screwed."

His original argument was that those in the second group receive increased exposure of their work, which if you think about it, is almost just as valuable as cash itself.
> Students in the study then participated in a competitive reaction time task, which is used to measure aggression.

Ok, if you have fast reflexes you are a violent person now?

This is extremely misleading.
Using Dept to Finance a Startup
It's not a loan, it is the remainder of the investment.
Startups are the Sport of Silicon Valley
X-37B Takes Off Tomorrow
The traditional answer is that I would use it to promote and capture mindshare for a startup accelerator. An innovative improvement to the traditional answer is that I would pay people 1 cent for every upvote they receive. The first hypothesis is that this would increase mindshare and quality of discussion, the second is that this would in turn have a positive effect on the quality of startups in the accelerator. (I'm defining "monetize" to mean "make money using".)
Police Warn Against Using Apple Maps
I love my consumer SSD backed database, but don't get visions of 380,000 IOPS on a real workload quite yet. Like any radical performance increase on just one component it's more likely to just reveal a non-disk latency bottleneck somewhere else in your system.

Be aware that the performance characteristics of flash are very unlike spinning disks, and vary widely between models. You will see things like weird stalls, wide latency variance, and write performance being all over the place during sustained operations and depending on disk fullness. I chose Intel 520s because they performed better on MySqlPerformanceBlog benchmarks than the then-current Samsung offering [1] and because of OCZ's awful rep [2]. I hit about 5K write IOPS spread across two SSDs before my load becomes CPU-bound, which is nowhere near benchmark numbers but pretty sweet for a sub-$1k disk investment.

It's also my understanding that non-server flash drives like recommended by the article do not obey fsync and are suspect from a ACID standpoint. RAID mirroring does not fix this--if integrity across sudden power loss is critical you might not be able to use these at all and will have to find a more expensive server SSD.

[1] http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/04/25/testing-samsu...

[2] http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-...

p.s. the RAM benefits the article mentions are real and potentially huge. My query and insert performance has gone from having heavy RAM scalability issues to it hardly mattering at all. This is all on MariaDB on a non-virtualized server; I'm looking forward to better SSD-tuned databases in the future doing even better.
How a massive marketing campaign can drive new customers
Black Friday Online Sales Reach One Billion Dollars
For the first time ever, online purchases on Black Friday reached 1.4 Billion dollars, a 26% growth since last year. Cyber Monday sales, however, were not affected and, in fact, grew 17% turning it into the busiest online shopping day in history.
I thought about that, but presumably since so very few people use sentence based passwords, crackers don't optimize for this use case yet. Regardless it's quite a long sentence and that should afford some additional protection against this kind of attack, i can imagine 3 or 4 word sentences being defeated by this kind of technique, 30 words seems a lot more difficult
Does this mean Arduino is stepping away from the all modular, shield based boards towards more complete, all-in-one boards? Also, I'm wondering how the Esplora is going to be better than a standard Arduino board, with added shields. I mean, I can see the point of an Arduino based game controller, but why the extra sensors?

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just curious about the decision making progress!
I think this goes to show that how much you have control over depends on who you are and what it is. The CEO of a company doesn't control everything but he has substantial control over the fate of the business. It's not helpful for him to dwell on things he can't control.

Traffic accidents are the sort of thing that, as a society, there is plenty that can be done to improve our chances that we're not doing yet. There are also a lot of things you can do as an individual to improve your changes (driving fast in fog is obviously a bad idea even though people do it all the time). But of course you can't control what other people do.
If you can 'pick up' a pizza presumably you preordered, right? Connect to the web interface of your torrent app and preorder the media you want.

There are also programs to torrent a file in order if you've managed to run out of all other media and have no subscriptions.
Business people are obviously important in startups but tend to be dispensable. Find another co-founder, there is a surplus of business types. If you can sell your idea and vision to someone while being technical you'll have no trouble finding another partner. Good Luck.
+1 Win7 x64 too right when Gmail went out. And I thought it was an isolated WTF.
Yes. This. If you turn off adblock, you see ads like "How does mom in [Your geolocated city] make $55/hr staying at home? Find out how!" all the time.
Unless you don't have to put on pants, I'd still call the Pirate Bay more efficient.
Why? What do you think can go wrong?
Microsoft adds people and places to its Snapshot sidebar
By having two Directors and using Linux HA (High Availability) tools to monitor and take over.

http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.failo...

Also check out HAProxy http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
Oh, sure. But the bigger picture -- one password/authenticator device allows access to your whole life -- still applies.
If they do offer a display, it's almost certainly going to be in addition to the set-top box. A sort of "this is how it should be" offering that's tightly integrated and reasonably high quality, that competes in the segment of the display market where there are decent profits, but where most consumers simply don't shop. Not unlike the situation with Cinema Displays themselves.

As for revenue: AppleTV is, up-front, a logical necessity to keep iTunes relevant as "living-room video" becomes increasingly digital. They'll likely integrate cable "packages" not unlike the way they've done Hulu/Netflix/MLB and use the thing as a "break even"-ish business to make the whole ecosystem more attractive. Which is to say: there needn't be a whole lot of revenue for this to be a necessary move for Apple.

Though there's a good chance chance Apple may do an app store for the AppleTV, in which case gaming is likely to not only drive set-top upgrades on an iPod schedule ($100-200 a pop, upgrades every other year or so), but also reinforce iOS device sales for smart-controller/second-screen-style game and app functionality. This has the potential to combine (direct sales and 'halo' sales) for iPod-like device revenue.
1) Well, I'm really addressing the idea that an Apple TV would be Apple's "next big thing", which is almost always how it's presented. People aren't talking about Apple selling TVs as a hobby, they're talking about Apple selling TVs as their next huge product line. If Apple comes out with a "hobby" TV product that has no significant influence on their balance sheet, I'll consider myself correct on this one.

2) I addressed that in my comment with "appears to be little room to grow". Unlike the smartphone market, everybody, and I do mean everybody, already owns a TV. Maybe there's some secret sauce that can make a lot of those people buy new TVs, but it seems unlikely. Keep in mind that while Apple massively grew the smartphone market, they're still minuscule compared to the overall mobile phone market. It looks amazing at first blush that Apple is selling ~100 million smartphones a year when that was the size of the entire market in 2007. But it's substantially less amazing, IMO, when you consider that the mobile phone market overall was over a billion units/year in 2007. Apple really just nibbled a small portion of the larger market. I'm having trouble finding decent figures for the global TV market, but it looks to be vastly smaller than the mobile phone market was in 2007, let alone in 2012. Unlike smartphones, there's no larger market to convert people from, and people mostly already own enough TVs.
> Lazy computation has its disadvantages. Still, impressive gain.

After reading the article I don't see anything about lazy evaluation. What am I missing?
As Marijn himself said ACE ≈ furniture CodeMirror ≈ timber [1].

Ace is more optimized for code -- multiple selections, indent guides, better folding.

Codemirror is smaller, and have better support for non english text (variable size and bidirectional). Also new features added in v3 -- lines with variable height, arbitrary widgets inside code, are quite impressive.

[1] http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/talks/goto2012/#4
Wow, a lot of people use Chromium over Chrome because of "omg botnet" - I wonder why Google downtime would cause vanilla Chromium to crash?
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The new maps drop a major landmark on my street in Atlanta. We went from dead quiet to non-stop traffic. Not good when people are driving 30+ MPH staring at their phones in confusion.

It's been 1.5 months since we've had everyone we can think of submit the problem. Still not fixed.

What does it take for Apple to actually "fix" an incorrect pin location and label?
Codemirror is much more pleasant to develop with, and also (IMO) much better to use.
People are already seeking better life quality in smaller, country-side cities. I recently bought a place in a mountain resort 2 hours outside of DC. Housing there costs 30% what it would cost in Montgomery County or Fairfax, it is insanely beautiful, and they have more reliable power/internet. I was told by my realtor, the home inspector, and a local bartender that there seems to be an influx of programmers moving to the area.
What's wrong with regular javascript?
Teses things seem neat - but must be impossible to debug.

Why can't people build alternatives to javascript that run IN the browser themselves?
Shuttleworth: Ubuntu’s goal is one OS from phones to supercomputers
Hell, cochlear implants are pretty damn close already, and we are making progress on the optical equivalent. These technologies, plus 20 years of improvements to them, are really only a mere application away from giving the user augmented reality.

I think the only real question is will the economics of the implants permit "casual" usage.
Tor used to command 'Skynet' botnet
IMDB is down
Patient records held to ransom in Australia
My password is 24 chracters long, and fully random. I don't memorise it. I use Aladdin to type it for me. http://igg.me/aladdin-key

Aladdin is trying to improve the current situation of people using simple or identical passwords everywhere by removing the need to memorise passwords. Aladdin works with Windows, Mac, Linux as well as Android and iPad.

Aladdin is a USB key(board). No software needed.
Marissa is "pushing for it"?

If she wanted it done, it'd already be done.
This seems bizarre in retrospect, but somehow none of the above had occurred to me before. Thanks for taking the time to type it and enlighten.
> better folding

I'd argue that's not the case. The folding in CodeMirror v3 is on par with or even more powerful than ACE's.

> indent guides

If you mean the vertical rulers, they're not built into CM, but you can add one with a few lines of custom code.

> multiple selections

Should be coming to CM soon! https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/CodeMirr...
That's a good point that I considered; ultimately it's a tough comparison because I need to compare "popular" apps. A Windows twitter client that is super well designed but only has 2 users isn't a representative app (e.g. it's not reaching enough people to positively affect the Windows brand). QuickBooks, with 5+ million Windows installs is a super well-known app. The other accounting packages on Mac OSX are much less used.

However, you could use Xero, Harvest, or Freshbooks as examples of alternate accounting packages, and in my opinion all of them are better designed than QB.
I simply stated that those that engage in piracy should be honest to themselves about their own motivations.

No You didn't. You said, among other things:

The whole piracy political movement is manifestly obviously just rationalisation

These are two very different statements. A pirate can be both honest with himself and part of the political movement for reasons other than rationalization. You were the one who established the strawman.
That would deprive someone of their washing machine.

Oh no, your shitty analogy has fallen apart~
Clearly, there are different usage regimes where different solutions will make sense. Nonetheless, there's a really strong case to be made that SSDs have entered a sweet spot in terms of price/performance for databases, and this trend is only accelerating. Here's one discussion of the rationale: http://www.foundationdb.com/#SSDs.
How about scaling that ES server to 100,000+ queries a day? ;-)

We support a few og tags as well, but our goal is ultimately to be able to make very flexible search engines without code, so the person managing (say) the help section of a website can make an amazing search engine without involving engineering.
Lower barrier to entry. Gives someone with no hardware experience enough to play with right out of the box.
Buddy could add a shortcut to http://OKCupid.com to friend's iphone home screen and accomplish the same thing, without password.
Limestone Offers a Cheap, Efficient Way to Capture CO2 at Power Plants
"I can just tell that the business plan he is working on will need to be re-done."

The code will have to be modified in all likelihood, and the whole business may have to pivot. While it would be ideal to find someone who makes you a millionaire on the first attempt, it's probably more practical to find someone who will keep chopping at the plan until they get something that has a chance.

The first version of the business plan gives you a document to critique and improve. It is perhaps overly optimistic to expect it to withstand contact with reality.

Good luck.
Right, I somehow missed that part. Sorry about that :)
There's a theory that it actually is one cigarette that gives you cancer -- the tobacco in that one cig absorbed radioactive material and triggers the cancer. That theory supposedly explains why a great number of smokers don't get lung cancer. I'd find a link, but I'm at work.

A more apt comparison for the article might be cigarettes & emphysema/heart disease. Not saying I agree with it, but it'd be a better analogy.
There will always be poor people, but quality of life goes up for everyone. Just look at e.g. how many people own computers/TVs/Cell Phones compared to 20 years ago.

World wide (outside of my native US), I have less of an idea.
My favorite quote:

"Flash is 10x more expensive than rotational disk. However, you’ll make up the few thousand dollars you’re spending simply by saving the cost of the meetings to discuss the schema optimizations you’ll need to try to keep your database together."

Lots of great technical details presented in a commonsense style, well worth a read.
Is the culture of YouTube beyond repair?
Is this actually useful? Has anyone tried it? The examples are quite simplistic. I would like to see a more full featured app or site before I invest any time into investigating it.
The correct solution is to abstract away the database from the developer. An ORM forces a square peg into a round hole.
I think that major question here is:

Why is control of the electrical grid accessible to the
internet?

People usually have delusions of grandeur over hackers causing a meltdown at a nuclear plant or something, but no one seems to question why the ability to control a nuclear plant needs to be hooked up to the internet.
I too thought immediately of Swiftkey, and wondered if Swiftype will have branding and/or trademark issues.

OT, but Swiftkey is actually working on a swype-like input called Flow. http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/
HIPAA, for one. If you want to design, build or market anything that deals with patient data, you better build a hoop-jumping machine first.

Reluctance to change, for two. You have to convince most hospitals to change from whatever they have installed now to your system, or you have to make your system 100% compatible with the current hospital systems, with minimal changes.
Panoramas. Up, down, and all around.
You have to start creating customer funnels. This could include writing a blog for your target market, doing a speaking tour for shoppers and getting them to sign up, just a few examples. Make sure to get creative with it. Last but not least, I'd refrain from using the word "cool" when describing your product. You should think about how Ultimate Gift Lists adds value and is more unique than your competitors or how people shop now. If you're to do this through your product and vision, that's when people buy.
I was getting regular chrome crashes (same time as my co-worker) till I signed out of chrome so it wouldn't sync bookmarks, etc..
The Bounty Hunt
Cool idea, but I don't like the comma between "new, newtab"... I get what you're trying to do here, but I feel like it's a huge glaring typo staring me in the face. I'm not well versed in English grammar rules, but I think it will be alright to omit the comma.
I only used the terminology 'average middle class' because the parent had. I'm British and terms like working class and middle class seem to have slightly different meanings in the US so usually I try to avoid using them.

Also, even if it is not much of a win for the wealthy households, higher property prices generally mean higher rents so it disadvantages the class of people that rent. A similar argument applies to housing benefit in the uk, which is something you receive if you are poor (working or not). The recipient doesn't really see the money, but it helps to keep rents high so it's more of a 'landlords benefit', much like your mortgage deduction seems to be of more benefit to the banks than home owners.
TIL wearing a black shirt and blue jeans is "copying" Steve Jobs.

By that measure you should probably be angry at this guy:

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/files/2009/08/89460317.jp...
I noticed that none of my comments in my google document saved after I recovered from the crash.