skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not correct. When I run it on IE, first it asks permission to run ActiveX controls on my browser, which I don't allow if I trust.

Then of course, it is just like Flash, it can track your mouse.
what platform? I just fired up a version of FF on Mac OS X with the identical version you are using and everything seems to be working.
It is called "Order Sets". 3 very large companies are doing it.

1) Zynx : http://www.zynxhealth.com/Solutions/ZynxOrder.aspx
Very dated and expensive.

2) Provation : http://www.provationordersets.com/index.aspx
Slightly better but small market share compared to Zynx.

3) Elsevier : http://www.clinicaldecisionsupport.com/order-sets
New player yet to launch. Cloud based.
Had Quora ever not jumped the shark? A website that was put together in the first place by Silicon Valley insiders with the appalling usability that Quora has never made sense in the first place.
Unless the data is random (which is to say the additional layer of crypto is probably not buying you much) you can do e.g. frequency analysis on the output of the cipher. If you have a reasonable sized corpus (given how biased the PRNG is, probably a few thousand characters is overkill) you can probably break it effortlessly.
RegexPal - An Online JavaScript Regular Expression Tester Tool
Scanning and reading are not mutually exclusive. In my opinion (and as someone who leads testing at Adobe), scanning is a style of reading that has become more commonplace with the Web -- a medium that is extremely copy heavy (a good thing!). People who understand how to write copy know how to get their copy read. Generalizations like "nobody reads" serve to keep everyone down EXCEPT for the people who know -- based on data -- that statements like it are erroneous.
I'm not so sure it's as much gloom and doom as the author portrays. If Microsoft doesn't try to maintain it's business division software dominance on the most popular platforms, that line of business is doomed. And it's not a small business [1]. If Microsoft executes well on these apps and ties in Office 365, SkyDrive, Lync, and/or Sharepoint, this would leave them with a very nice recurring revenue stream and continue their productivity application dominance.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/10/microsoft-1q13-earni...
Students helping students launch startups
Cool, thanks for the suggestion. I had a little trouble creating an account, but I finally got it working. Installed the app and looked around it. Seems slightly less polished than Skitch, but it seems to do everything I need it to do. I'm using it, and just sent the link to my company's devteam.

You can change one setting and it will copy the direct link to the image into your clipboard - Perfect! That's exactly what I want it to do. :)

Thanks again, you made my day!
build something that makes sense and it's simple
I don't understand what do you want to build, anyway

"A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other ..."
Simulating explosions helps determine maintenance for nuclear warheads?

It's not completely unreasonable: they need to validate the computational models that are used to check if an aged nuclear weapon will explode.
It costs $399 for an individual license, so there is a cost barrier. I balked at the cost of MonoTouch, but since playing around with it, I've got to say- I think it'll be worth the money. I just wish it was a little more affordable to hobbyist developers like myself.

EDIT: I just noticed that they had a 25% Black Friday offer. Damn.
You don't need an mvp to asses demand. Go on forums, get out on the street and ask people.

1) Get them to agree [or disagree] that the problem exists.

2) Explain your solution and get a reaction.

You should already have some idea of demand before you write a single line of code (other than the code they wrote for this simple page)
In my experience: This is true, but it's true for everything. They're still predominantly scanning your copy because they're trying to figure out if they're in the right place and what they should do. Would they be able to pass a test on your copy afterward? Maybe, maybe not. But they wouldn't be able to pass a test on any other aspect of your site either.
"I just cannot fathom how people could be truly pulling off these sort of stunts and can sleep soundly at night."

The same way they do it in the corporate world, I imagine.
How could something that is not worth deleting once be worth deleting at a later point? What is the GAIN of deleting an article?

It seems the only purpose of deleting is to make Wikipedia appear more Serious Business. If Wikipedia TRULY wanted to be a repository of "human knowledge" they could send articles to "Wikipedia Ephemera" and only delete articles that are pure spam. Why not this?
I'm sorry, but I won't pay for google so I can't use it.

Glad to hear it, have we seen any blogs from them about why they felt it happened?

http://news.thehackernews.com/474 <-- How To Communicate If The Government Obliterates The Internet
Responsive is the Mobile Web of the Future
Does anyone find it completely insane that the iPhone (4/4S/5) doesn't show up in the top 10 for Consumer Electronics? A little bit of massaging going on there?
Agreed, unless the definition line spans multiple lines. Then ()'s are necessary for readability.
Check out this monosnap.com thing that piranha posted in the next comment. It seems to do the basic stuff that I needed from Skitch.
Diary.io Diary.io Diary.io

Good to see you man! Heard your pitch at Startup Weekend Delhi
"The professor does not understand how the world spins around nowadays."

I'd love to hear you explain that to a partner after being caught red-handed. Of course, many people DO just this after being caught cheating. Blame the partner, blame "the system", blame everything but themselves. It's immature and destructive.
And you're complaining about crappy browser security and you're then supporting IE6? Why support such an outdated browser when you know it has numerous well documented and unpatched vulnerabilities?

Yes, yes, I know, the powers that be need this support for some explainable support even though worldwide IE6 usage is <1% etc etc. Whatever, it's just not worth the hassle. Show them a message and tell them to upgrade or use an alternate browser. I refuse to take any work on (I was freelance until recently) which requires IE6 support, and is a specific question I ask at interview time.
I tried using core.match to turn arbitrary Clojure expressions into Disjunctive Normal Form. I found that doing sequence matching ended up being less readable than I expected (from memory):

(match exp
[([not ([or & rest] :seq)] :seq)] ...)

From the looks of it, solving this problem using strucjure might be a little more elegant.
One of the main issues here is that medical care is largely non-procedural and intuition-based. That's why doctors have to spend years doing training, followed by years of experience. Their "checklists" are created one step at a time, per-patient.

This is exactly what needs to be changed in order to disrupt healthcare. Once medical care becomes procedural (ie generated by smart software, per patient, based on the patient's electronic health record which includes genomic and molecular data), we can begin replacing highly specialized doctors with non-specialized ones (and eventually with nurses). Of course, there are probably tons of areas where "simpler" checklists can be made to have a significant impact on outcomes (for example making sure the right patient gets the right drugs, etc..).

Clay Christensen's book, Innovator's Prescription, goes into a lot of detail about how this will most likely play out:
http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-Sol...
I also mention that this is how a government built on a system of justice works, I do not claim to place that moniker "de facto" on any particular government (in whole or in part).

Rights don't come from the state, they are a consequence of individuals needing to be able to act upon long range plans while interacting with others, and to be assured that values they have acquired will still be at their disposal in the future. One only needs rights to things one plans to use when other potential users may contend for it. Relying on a social order that defends rights is in one's best long-range interests.

Laws that define and penalize "anti-competitive" behavior are orthogonal to capitalism, in that capitalism isn't about competition, it is about investment and return. From a legal standpoint (principles of justice notwithstanding), the remedy for anti-trust behavior is rationalized not as a complete termination of property rights (destruction or redistribution), but commands to take or cease action (interference) to compensate "injured parties", or forced reorganization to hinder the offending activity from recurring. Nominally the property still exists with its owner(s), although it has become encumbered or splintered into multiple properties.

The ability for a government to own and acquire real estate puts it at odds with (perhaps) its chief purpose, defense of the property of the citizens, especially when it gives itself the coercive power to grab when all else fails.

Suspension of rights in times of war is why we are warned about the rise of the total state under conditions of total war. The "war on terror" is the current excuse for the non-defense of many rights, not just property.
A super nice online regular expression tester from a guy (Steven Levithan) who knows his stuff (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449319432/?tag=slfb-20)

Uses XRegExp http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/07/xregexp-javascript-lib...

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So essentially we are obsessed with triviality, materialism and celebrity.
I wonder how the vibration will work out. I'm sure they have it figured out on new installations, but what happens after a crumb or dust bunny gets wedged up against one side of this thing; or after it gets a bit off-balance.
Thank you GE, wait for the Chinese version to come out, who knows they would be already shipping them on mainstream products.
The problem is that when an idea is in the embryonic stage it's often difficult to pin the central elements down that may be protectable. As you allude to, when you have something tangible like code then you are in a much stronger position. It may not be too late for your ideas, but by the same token you may not actually have anything to protect.

On a wider point, much depends on what your new employer will think of the fact you are working on side-projects that may compete with its own ideas. Regardless of who came up with the idea first, they may not want a new hire to be working on similar projects when their energy could be directed at the company's own similar project.

Of course they may be perfectly happy for you to continue but it's of course vital you properly map out that work done on your own time will not belong to the company. In this regard, as the other poster says, you would be well-advised to speak with a local lawyer.
But that's not exactly a "final" decision - if the section grows, it can easily be factored out into its own article again.

With any dynamic process, an individual snapshot (or even a few) might not be representative of the larger outcome or trajectory.
Very Optimistic. Having worked on this problem around the year 2000 in the Norwegian health care system and also in the public sector you'll quickly find that funnily enough doctors don't agree on what is the "best" procedure most of the time. Even in Norway where they register every single cancer patient, treatment and outcome it's hard to make up completely standardized treatments for cancer and that's just a single disease. Most countries don't have anything close to that.

What could be damn useful however is good old fashion infection checklists. Since the time of Joseph Lister there have barely been any progress in infection control at hospitals. One might even say there has been a substantial regression. Even something as simple as replacing all the steel door handles with copper would help (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-442135/Could-coppe...).
Google Gets A Second Brain, Changing Everything About Search
As the other comments to your very helpful comment point out, the real art of writing copy on a website is to write it so that it fits the hurried reading style most people bring to websites. The webmaster who writes scannable, actionable text that actually answers the questions of site visitors will dominate competing websites.
Maybe they need to install multiple coolers in a sequence to the entry of the exhaust and intake? So its like you have a guided air flow with these coolers as boosters to push air in 4 possible directions to the exhaust port.

Manufacturers will probably have to make sure the chassis of the gadget is air tight to increase efficiency.
Yes, but write-once-run-anywhere solutions deliver mediocre user experiences on every platform. You don't want your Mac app to look anything like your Windows 8 app. With Xamarin you separate the presentation layer of your app from the rest of the app, and the only thing you're rewriting from platform to platform is the UI. Typically this is only about 25% of the code (though of course it can vary). This is how our customers do it on Android, iOS and Windows, and now they can extend their apps to Mac and still deliver an amazing Mac app.
I imagine users going directly to a site like barackobama.com or xcandidate.com would be more inclined to read, not skim. It might be as simple as "this guy is running for President, maybe I should read this stuff."
I agree here with some of the comments. It needs a little bit of work on the front end.
I'm pretty satisfied with http://www.rosehosting.com services. They have servers in USA and UK.
This makes a lot of sense to me. As Roughdraft's Peter Boyce pointed out, young founders need less and less funding to get started.

This whole thing reminds me of the recruiting craze in the NBA. Remember when guys like KG really drove the trend of skipping college and going straight to the NBA? Recruiters started looking earlier and earlier to find the best talent. When I was like 14 I remember starting to see SLAM magazine articles about the best middle school players in the country. Recruiters tried to befriend the most talented earlier and earlier.

This is what the recent news of Roughdraft.VC and Dorm Room Fund remind me of... VC's trying to find founders who aren't looking for funding and maybe haven't founded something yet. And the best way to find them? The students on campus who are the most helpful and have built the most trust with these "about-to-be-founders".

That LITERALLY is the definition of Peter Boyce.

For those who don't know the story of Boyce, he is the essence of everything startups at Harvard. If you are working on a startup there, you have probably received advice/feedback from him -- or been told to reach out to him. I believe in Roughdraft.VC, and I believe in Peter Boyce.
FinTech Startup Weekend Pushes for Innovations That Work with Money
I've had a Mac at home since 2007 and had a go at doing some python programming on it a few years ago and gave up. I got 2.7 installed, virtualenv, even Qt but eventually a few things broke and I ended up switching to programming in a Linux VM.

I might have another go now I've got a shiny new Mini with ML on it. If i have problems I'll give Enthought a try.

Given the popularity of OSX with developers it's shocking how few Python libraries have good OSX binary packages. A few times I've found the easiest platform to work on is actually Windows. For example with PySide for a long time the binaries in all the Linux repos were out of date, OSX support was intermittently flaky, but the Windows installer was complete and up to date.

Yes I know you can compile from source, but I am a Python programmer. I develop software in Python, not C. I wonder if the poor state of binary packages for OSX is actually because it's a Unix variant. i.e. module developers deliberately choose not to do binary OSX builds because hey, the users can just compile from source. No, we can't all compile from source. We're not all C hackers, that's why many of us use Python in the first place. </entitled rant>
That's some horrible selection bias. What about all the people who built something without asking anyone and it was a complete flop? What about all the successful products that did do market research?
The problem is this. At some point, in every checklist, you need to interact with other parts of the hospital. For instance suppose that one step is to refer the patient to neurology. What if you're in a country hospital and there is a neurologist on call, you can't simply call that department. You might have to make a decision about whether this is a case that requires an emergency call. So maybe you need to do another checklist, just to decide whether to leave a note for the neurologist in the morning, or to make an emergency call.

Suddenly your standardized checklist is no longer standardized across these two hospitals.

Multiply this by a myriad of checklist across a myriad of different medical facilities with a myriad of different differences, and suddenly the dream of a standardized set of checklists becomes impossible.

This does not mean that the effort of creating and following checklists is not worthwhile - it most certainly is. However if you start out expecting to achieve an impossible dream, then you're guaranteed to be disappointed.
Second order effects can be quite surprising: as gasoline replaced whale oil as a fuel source, it also increased the demand for cars. This accelerated the practice of whaling because whale oil remained extremely desirable as the lubricant inside transmissions.
Thanks for the feedback. We definitely have two classes of customers - businesses and professional developers who can't believe how cheap our products are relative to the value they're receiving, and hobbyists who are more price-sensitive. It's tricky to balance these two.
Herself. Judging from the final line, A girl can dream.
Is that a comprehensive list, or just selected good investments in retrospect?
This touches on a misgiving I have about pair-programming.
I’d recommend you to try Wrike! (http://www.wrike.com) It’s really powerful project management software with real-time newsfeed, Gantt chart, Workload view, email integration and many other great features – actually all you need for efficient project management. The app is online, so all team members get notified about all task updates in real time both in Wrike’s Activity Stream and via email. As for the sub-projects, in Wrike all tasks are organized into folders (it can be projects, departments, clients etc), so subfolders may be used as subprojects.
If Java is a terrible language and horribly designed then why do people still use it?
A few minutes after posting that, I realized that a band-stop filter would work fine for spoken word. However, that might add a different set of tell-tales to the recording.
Xamarin's stuff looks really nice, but I really wish they had a non-profit free tier. I can't even make opensource Android apps without paying a lot.

The other problem is the lack of linux support for their SDK. Seems rather odd, considering Mono's roots.
Given that this language is essentially a slower, more verbose version of an assembly language, it's extremely hard to imagine. It offers literally no benefits aside from being silly, so naturally people will use it when they want to be silly.
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Managing your Music Collection in Ubuntu
Amazon Device Messaging Beta Now Available
I think that those things are not even new. There are already decision support systems(medical expert systems) and protocols of evidence based medicine - for standardization.

And research works around the world is flowing into those systems and improving them.

And the line-infection rate checklist the author talks about, does exist for something like 10 years.

Those are the relatively easy parts.

The hard part is: how do you change the culture of medicine, from "cowboy style" that comes with a lot of authority for the doctor, to a more boring job , with much more subservience to machines and protocols ?
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Himself, actually :P
It's not so much effectively impossible as it is not possible to win with it in the market.

NASA has been able to produce high-quality code, but even their stuff is not 100% bug free. Even if you consider it to be close enough, their cost is incredibly high for the amount of functionality, perhaps 10-100x the usual. So while you're slowly building a nearly-bug-free system NASA-style, you get beaten to market by another guy with a buggier system that gains popularity and becomes entrenched before you even ship.
Energy Medicine – Noise-Based Pseudoscience
IKVM.NET is a suite of Java-to-CIL conversion tools, and it used primarily with Mono: http://www.ikvm.net/
Errr.... no?

I've never heard it used to refer to someone from actually from Spain.
Oh, I understand entirely. To a large company a $999 license is practically a rounding error given expenditures on other products out there.

I don't have any great suggestions on how you can fix it, just a lament :)
I sent this to a friend who's deputy head at a school in the UK about 18 months ago and they're now using it to great effect in a few subjects:
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...
Seven essential ingredients of a high converting homepage
Aside from spam and pages that exist merely to advertise products/companies/etc, it seems like most are those examples aren't necessarily bad, and if no one is using the articles, it's not like a huge number of static text/image pages are going to be a massive drain on resources.

Perhaps the answer to this is to allow for "personal" wiki pages that can be approved for inclusion into the main body of Wikipedia.

From my perspective, I would rather have lots of extra fluff in Wikipedia that I will never see rather than whole subjects being deleted from the site on the whims of a few jerk admins.

Edit: And you seem to be defending the deletion of BBS history under the guise that "Else spam would be everywhere!" which isn't an argument I agree with.
Those are both perfectly reasonable to me. There are in fact languages that would interpret your example #1 incorrectly, so if someone wants to disambiguate I have no qualms. Your example #2 is sort of braindead, but in a more complicated expression, where 2 3 or 1 were method calls or something, I would appreciate the parens.
Personally, I think computing power has hit the point where Java desktop apps and applets aren't that big a deal. I've got one running on my desktop right now. It runs for day's on end without being a significant burden to the rest of the system.
You misunderstood me. I am looking at it from the opposite perspective - as an honest student, I would protest against a test that can be so easily cheated on.
It personally pains me not to support Linux, but we get such a tiny fraction of our customer base coming from Linux that it isn't worth it. Not to mention that there is effectively no "Linux" platform and you have to select a subset of distro versions.
The other problem is the lack of linux support for their SDK. Seems rather odd, considering Mono's roots.

I suspect that they make the vast majority of their profit on MonoTouch (Mono for Android is great, but Java and C# are similar enough that there is a lower barrier). With that in mind, there isn't much point in focusing on Linux- you can't develop for Mac or iOS on it.