skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, music offers a whole different set problems for version control. Getting a traditional text diff on binary files doesn't do the user much good. We plan on adding support for Midi soon and that will make it possible to be more granular.
Nightly is a build off m-c every night. It's not particularly any more stable than a random m-c build.
He created svbtle - a private blogging platform

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/forget-todays-drama-dustin-...
I think you'll be pleased with PayPal. Their APIs and IPN aren't a pleasure to work with but I've got nothing but good stories about working with PayPal's customer support.

Something to keep in mind: If you suddenly start doing volume through PayPal they will flag your account for closer inspection and that may involve them freezing your ability to do anything with existing and incoming funds. It'll likely last a few weeks and then it's over. (Though since it doesn't sound like you're selling digital goods this may be a problem for you.)

Other than having to deal with that issue -- which is usually the horror story that people love to tell or reference -- I've been perfectly happy with them. They're Johnny on the spot and I can call them any time to speak to someone. Because they keep such a close eye on things, I've come to expect their calls whenever anything out of the norm occurs. It's great.

I love PayPal.

By the way, have you tried Yahoo Merchant Solutions (formerly Yahoo Store)?
I would add that "agile" development is a hard sell to institutional customers. They want one or two releases a year, tops. Certainly not monthly and absolutely not continuous. "Change management" committees will become your own little hell.
I use iMessage for this. It works great. It could be better. It works better than having a separate app I have to switch to. It works better than having to ask my friends to install an app that they have to switch to.

Still, I love that feeling of playing with a truly novel technology for the first time with a few friends, especially when it's presented in the raw with few extraneous features. There's a feeling of excitement and exploration that seems to decay in a year's time at best.
Wondering if Greece could/should be next.
> You can learn a new skill literally by browsing the Internet these days

Nope, you can learn of a new skill by browsing. And that's quintessentially shallow work.

I'd also point out that HN ( like the original reddit) was full of "hard" articles, that would take me hours to really understand and work through. While this kind of article still pops up occasionally here, its more common to just see easily digested blog posts now. I assume this is a normal consequence of HN's increased readership and regression to the mean.

The problem that this blog post addresses may be more generally applicable than the author thinks, but the existence of HN is hardly a counterexample.
Even they're cloning themselves? I think we're falling behind in the race
Pete Souza’s Portrait of a Presidency
In my experience, one of the most significant hindrances has been access to and communication with medical personnel:

- Medics, especially specialists / surgeons, have extremely busy schedules, often holding down both public & private patient responsibilities as well as performing duties for their specific colleges etc.

- The level of IT-savvy amongst healthcare pros is generally low.

- They seem to have a different logic to us IT folk, answers are nebulous for non-medics and hard rules are very difficult to pin down. Ask the same question n times and you will get n different answers, from the same respondent.

When you find a medic who is willing / able to help and towards the positive on all the above axes, you must hold onto them with a death grip.
Does it work like that? If you were bootlegging during prohibition, and convicted, would your conviction be repealed afterwards? It was technically illegal at the time.

Maybe someone with more knowledge of law on here knows if this is the case with patent law or not.
This will happen if the Facebook SDK couldn't be loaded. Perhaps you have a script blocker running?

I've filed an issue to fix this - https://github.com/firebase/firefeed/issues/3
Capacitive touchscreens were invented in the 1960s. Resistive touchscreens were invented twenty years later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_touchscreen#History
Britain is most violent country in Europe. Worse than South Africa and U.S.
The strength of pinch-to-zoom as a UI interaction is that it is direct manipulation. It has less to do with accuracy. Two-finger tap is a "computer command" to do something. Pinch is you doing the thing you want to do.
Its rare to see an updated policy that isnt filled with dread let alone something that makes your customers happier.
Apache plugin turns legit sites into bank-attack platforms
As a programmer, one of the most effective forms of deliberate practice I've ever experienced is to write a complicated piece of software, and then completely re-write it from scratch with a different approach (and then do it again).

Of course, that almost never flies in the business world. They'll ask you why on Earth the company should pay to build something again before they make money from it. However, it truly is a powerful engineering process for many types of problems.

The point is not to merely rebuild it for arbitrary reasons. Rather, to take stock of the benefits and the pain that arises from the current design, and to try completely different approaches. You do it because there's a nagging voice in the back of your head that tells you that you've left some "goodness" on the table ... that even though your current implementation "works", the problem could be solved better.

You've already "loaded the problem into your head," because you've solved it once. The second solution will improve in some ways and possibly regress in some ways. Often, the 3rd or 4th solution will be "right" -- which means, not perfect, but significantly better than your earlier approaches.

It seems kind of like learning the card game of Bridge by playing the same hand over and over to see if you can get it better. Or learning chess by starting from the same canned starting position and seeing if you can play it to completion better.
Read the update posted on the microsoft-watch.com article.
I'm CEO of Shopify. What's wrong with our USPS Calculator?
Thanks for replying. And yes I think you're ahead of the curve on this!
> How do you square this with the claim from the original article [...]

I think the article makes some dubious claims, mostly centered around a single human volunteer (!), using a mice experiment to back that up - I'll remain skeptical until it can be reproduced by another team. The inclusion of Traditional Chinese Medicine alone as playing a key role to curing the condition is a huge tipoff that something is amiss.

But even taking all those doubts into consideration, let's entertain the hypothesis that this bacterium does produce signals that make a person eat more. It's possible. But you still acquire the bacterium by eating too much in the first place. It simply couldn't colonize you if you didn't.

> Why, then, do some people become obese when they eat as their instincts tell them, and others do not?

My personal opinion is there are two big factors. First, lifestyle. People eat too much because that's simply how they live their lives. It may be because they only have access to high-calorie food, or because everybody around them eats too much, or because they have made a habit of eating too much. The second group (which I'm a part of) is worse: for them, food is an addiction. Many of them may already eat "healthy", high-quality stuff - so moving away from fast food does nothing for them. Eating simply has the same effect on them as drugs do on other people.
Good point. We should get that track on the live site. I'll let you know when we get it posted. Our project count includes all projects. Sometimes people remix a project but then never modify it. We screen this out of the Hot Projects feed. Thanks for checking it out.
Britain is not a country, it is an island that contains three countries: England, Scotland, and Wales.
Thingiverse Removes (Most) Printable Gun Parts
> When photography was first becoming popular, it was mostly used as a form of artistic expression.

No, it was mostly used for portraiture and things you could generalize as journalism. Photography as an accepted fine art is a pretty recent thing.
It's a really cool idea and I'd love to use it myself. I would prefer lossless tracks (all the examples I see are lossy MP3 or OGG), but that's a pretty small issue. Time-stamped comments, like in SoundCloud, would be pretty cool. And I can't figure out an easy way to see people's public remixes of a song.

The biggest problem I see is that you can't apply any effects to the master bus (since, of course, each component track is played separately). I don't see a good way to fix that. You might be able to do it by offering some VSTs for download, allowing people to engineer the mix to sound right on their own, and having a way to apply the same effects on the website. That's a really difficult one, though.

To combine different projects, some form of excerpting / tracker would be great. If I could select a fifteen second clip, loop that for a while against another person's song, I could do a lot with that without ever leaving your web page.

And even more importantly: time-stretching. I won't be able to merge tracks into other projects without leaving the page if the tracks don't line up in BPM. There should be a way to change that.

Seriously though, I really like this interface and I'd love to see it develop. A few musician sponsors and this could be huge. The best of luck to you.
I believe they would have to leave the Euro and return to a national currency. But that is certainly a better prospect than the austerity project Germany and France are wishing upon them.
Please spare us this trite bullshit. I see people trying to justify their inability to improve themselves all the time. "If I'm having trouble, everyone else must be too!", they think, instead of considering the obvious: maybe they just suck.

There will always be time-wasters and people who get off on bureaucracy. But I'm willing to bet many of us, especially here on HN, routinely get admonished for "forgetting" to do menial, time wasting tasks in favor of doing what we love. If you're wasting your time instead of taking every opportunity to learn you'll get no sympathy from me.
No, the government didn't have to force the 40 hour work week, as business, in particular, Henry Ford, found the benefits through studies he conducted at his factories. He found that productivity dropped after 40 hours of work per week, 8 hour per day.

Henry Ford also found that his labor expenses dropped (specifically, training costs) when he raised the typical wages to twice the industry average (to a whole $5/day!). He paid his employees twice the going rate, and worked them half as hard in order to make more profit. The greedy bastard!

(http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/ford.htm)
I'm with you on the one handed use, but I think pinch to zoom is awesome. It's very natural and its implementation feels "direct", not laggy. It seems simple now, but it's one of those "why is it that nobody actually did it right?" until Apple did it. Just shows you that the devil is in the details and the balance, not the grand concept of pinching to zoom.

I've owned lots of Palm-based PDAs and a Dell Axim with Windows Mobile, for my pre-iPhone touchscreen background. I was horrified at the prospect of owning a Palm Treo or anything with Windows Mobile at the time.
Even "someone who does not sell online" (i.e. a low-margin retailer) has to pay a $15+ chargeback processing fee to the ISO/processor/networks.
My impression was that they started the project by porting Left4Dead, but decided to release TF2 (probably because it's F2P and so anyone can test it).
I think the point the article is trying to make is that they would make more money if they didn't price out most (perceived) buyers.
In the current environment, health care IT solutions will go further if they help professionals and patients do 'more with less' instead of 'more with more'. The dynamics in the article are real, but there are tons of way around the challenges posed. The article to me says that the market has yet to be cracked, but the opportunity is still pretty huge.
The Humble Indie Bundle 7 is here
They are still porting games to Linux, and no its not wine. They are porting games to Linux with OpenGL from Windows with DirectX
A thief about to snatch your encrypted laptop while it's on and decrypted?
why downvoted? This is factually correct, unbiased and, I thought, a little helpful.
QT5's success will lead to sailfish,BB10 and other qt based project's success.And it's contest between C++ and objective-c.
Here are additional takeaways from your statement: things that sell in healthcare include 'time savings' and 'empathy extension factor' in addition to financial factors.
Thanks for sharing this.

I'm a musician and while I think the idea is great, I think the mechanics in the demo are too limiting for most remixing work. Typically if I'm working on a remix I would change the tempo, change the song structure, etc. which doesn't really work well with the 'versions of the original stems' metaphor that is used in the application.

Then again it may be interesting to see how people get around those issues to get the results they want. Often times having limitations boosts creativity rather than hinder it.
Interesting to see the future of Bullet Time, too. RED camera recently did a shot that they can't yet talk about, but the setup pictures of 50+ RED Scarlet cameras is very cool.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?87124-Scarlet-De...
You do not acquire bacterium by eating too much. You acquire them by being exposed to them -- kissing the wrong person, sitting beneath a contaminated window air conditioner blowing on you, etc. Yes, they then need to colonize you to become a big problem. You have zero evidence to support your claim that eating too much is a prerequisite for their ability to colonize you.
Google wants more cooperation with Apple [Illustration]
Open technology is largely orthogonal to patent reform. It has little or nothing to do with the other.
i'm still thinking the Surface Pro has a chance to replace my laptop or at least act as a backup.

what is the downside to this? i can't see any....
Tell HN: Pay me to think of a domain name for you
I was reading through some old HN threads on domain name registration and was surprised to see the number of people who said they hated trying to find domain names. I like thinking of domain names, and generally come up with lots of good available ones for any given project that I work on.

So here's the deal: Email my username at gmail with a description of your project and I'll get back to you within 48 hours with a list of available names that might be suitable. If you choose to use one, you register it and paypal me $80. If you don't like any of my suggestions, you pay nothing.

Anyone interested?
And the best game in town just got better. Score!
You also might ask: How did the US get to the top in the first place? It was not exactly known for respecting English and German patents in the 19th century...
New web-based game for trivia buffs
We are early in the process of creating a web-based game that involves trivia questions among other things. I'm looking for trivia buffs (guys and girls) who might be interested in participating in the beta. If so, please send your email address to mottwsc@comcast.net and we'll contact you when there is more information available.
My point was simply that they did it before there were cameras so there must be something beyond just attention whoring for the cameras.
Former NFL QB Jon Kitna finds ‘gold mine’ at his troubled old high school
Case Study: How SlugBooks Rebranded Through Emotional Design
Data.gov Moving to an Open Source Platform
I had a difficult time reading this article, because it provided no source or argument for: "When photography was first becoming popular, it was mostly used as a form of artistic expression." Which completely ignores how photography displaced painting in the genre of portraiture, and made it more accessible. Then Mr. Curtis explains haughtily that communication is the new use for photography and that of course is an entirely different thing from artistic expression. In fact, artistic expression is bad because it inhibits us! I highly doubt the majority of people using Instagram are engaging in a visual language of symbol and metaphor (oops, that sounds like communication!)

So we have it that communication is better when it's easier and we are no longer shackled by the editorial desire to not produce a bunch of junk. Now, Mr. Curtis says, we can communicate that we like the hit television show Breaking Bad by taking a photo of our screen with a thumbs up! What a glorious age we live in.
apparently not webscale?
I thought it had crashed too, lol.
> You're making a mistake. There wasn't $14bn in investors pocket that was simply moved to Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg created wealth. It wasn't simply moving existing wealth.

There was literally $14bn in investors' pockets that moved to Zuckerberg. That's how it works. They liked the cut of his jib, so they gave him money in exchange for a slice of his business.

If it hadn't gone to Zuckerberg, it could have gone to someone else, perhaps someone more charitable.

> In your parellel universe, there was less money to donate.

Zuckerberg may have created wealth, but he didn't create money. The money supply is controlled.

> No, that's wrong. When considering someone's impact on the world, you only need to consider their impact.

A person's impact on the world is determined by both the things they do, and the things they fail to do. We could argue at length about whether acts of omission ought to carry moral or legal punishments, but they are undeniably part of the overall impact that you have on the world.

> And it also, now, includes giving 500 million dollars to charity, which will probably save at least some lives (doubtful it will have no impact or a negative impact, imo).

My point is that, sure, Zuckerberg is cycling money into charitable causes, but in his absence the very same money may have been cycled in greater quantities, at a greater rate.

That's the bar at which you measure Zuckerberg's character.
That's where the "nutters" bit comes in.
How much money did it cost to come up with "pinch-to-zoom"? I bet I could pay a gaggle of 5th graders 10$ to come up with it (and several other ideas) in an hour.
Agreed, I often end up buying bundles where I already own half the games (or books like with the fiction bundle).
"Snapchat... . It’s an amazing app, and its insane popularity is just a hint of how I think we’ll use photos in the future."

Myself, and a quick survey in the room, of a bunch of various tech, and for that matter photography types - not one had heard of, let alone used Snapchat...
eh, sort of.

I mean, I understand the basis of this argument but pinch-to-zoom doesn't actually map to anything we do in the real world.
Wrote this case study for Usabilla's blog. Hopefully it provides some design inspiration if you've been thinking of doing a reskin. We had a lot of fun with ours.
Seems to me like it would be hard to get the side who would lose in the clawback to agree to do that when they had the upper hand when the settlement was made.
It really isn't acceptable to force someone else to sign up for one service to use a new service.
Too bad it wasn't The Power Of Nightmares (BBC 2004).
Deicing: Engineering Innovation for Ice Adhesion and Friction Control
Anybody else getting error connecting?

➜ ~ curl --head http://firefeed.io/about.html
HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable
Server: squid/3.1.14
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:33:50 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 3542
X-Squid-Error: ERR_DNS_FAIL 0
Vary: Accept-Language
Content-Language: en
X-Cache: MISS from row44proxy-postauth
Via: 1.0 row44proxy-postauth (squid/3.1.14)
Connection: keep-alive
I have been in the health care industry for a long while. Also, working on a health care startup. If people have questions, I would love to assist.
He's a talented designer and a couple of his blog posts were relatively well talked about a few years back (eg: http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html) and he capitalised on that. From what I understand of him he's not had any individual achievement that people care about but it's his ability to write with confidence that gives the impression he has a rich history of experience in all these many fields and so people choose to listen to him.

The site that he originally published articles through (http://www.dustincurtis.com) is worth a look just for the quality of the design. Probably his most effective post (the one that most people will have experienced the effects of) is this: http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter....
> If it is legal it is no scam. Making patients pay as much as legally possible is legal.

Really.

M.D. in U.S. here. Your profile page says you're an M.D., too.

Please reassure me that you are not a licensed physician and that you have no patient care responsibilities.

However, if you do see patients (or ever have), please comment on your medical licensing board's "belief system" on unethical (but legal) practices (even "business practices") as they pertain to the practice of medicine.

Maybe we're just having a little language breakdown here. Your parent comment sounds like you advocate for the use of "unqualified personnel" if it improves the profit margin. You comment below about "massaging the bill". Just above you seem to be winking and nudging your way to the idea that it's ok "legally" exposing your patients to the risks of certain tests like chest x-rays even if they're driven more by your own pocketbook or client's pocketbook (or your own paternalism) than by what's best for the patient, or perhaps what the patient chooses.

Unless there's some misunderstanding here, your actions are taking place in the wrong field. Medicine isn't a business.

Trying to turn it into a shady profit center is driving your actions toward grave difficulties with ethics, if not "legality".
Photographs have been used in newspapers as a form of communication for over a century.
Payments is not easy for a side project. That said, a few apps can solve this. Also why not the PayPal app since you're entering email as well?
The sentence you’re responding to is silly, but your comment is also completely off the mark.

Photography was used, among other things, for demonstrating medical conditions, for mugshots (and compositing many photos to capture a “scientific” “type” of different sorts of criminals or members of particular social classes), for scientific imagery, for understanding movement (Muybridge & al.), for propaganda (well beyond “journalism”), for faddish semi-scams (like the famous “spirit” photographs), for documentation of people and places (with types of photos it would be quite a stretch to call either “journalism” or “portraiture”), for making reproductions of other types of art, and yes, for fine art in itself (there were huge debates about whether photography counted as “art” going right back to the beginning, with the pictorialists e.g. famously making their images out of focus or otherwise blurry, scratched, etc. so that it could be “art” instead of a purely mechanical process). Indeed, nearly all of the uses of photography date back to the 19th century, they just weren’t as widespread as today.