skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting way off topic here, but paying off a loan early (especially that early) will often hurt your credit score more than help it, particularly if it it the only active personal loan you have on record.
Do you like curry? Chicken curry? Beef curry? Mutton curry?

Thai style, the various China styles? Indian?

Green red yellow?
China listening in on Skype - Microsoft assumes you approve
With 250 million monthly connected users, Skype is one of the most popular services for making phone calls as well as chatting over the Internet. If you have friends, family or business contacts abroad, chances are you are using Skype to keep in contact. Having said that, you are probably not aware that all your phone calls and text chats can be monitored by the censorship authorities in China. And if you are aware, chances are that you do not consent to such surveillence. Microsoft, however, assumes that you do consent, as expressed in their Privacy Policy.
I liked it in principle - hated it in practice. The scroll-triggered animations were annoying. My internet happened to burp in the middle of reading the article and I was left with a lot of blankness and loading, until I reconnected AND refreshed the page.

The animations started playing right as soon as I scrolled on to them, meaning they were partially obscured until I scrolled to a certain point. If I accidentally passed that super special point, they were abruptly obscured on the opposite side by the rest of the article.
If you read enough survival memoirs you start to see elements of these stories common between them. One of those elements is concern over how one will be seen by their peers for expressing caution.

I don't like to speak authoritatively about most subjects, but I feel very strongly about this one thing. Vanity has no place in the back country. Gosh, in a group of 16 people, not all of whom are acquainted, if at least one doesn't think you're a sissy then it's plainly impossible that everyone is well informed of the risks being taken.
hen there was Will's quirky name, Super Happy Friends Home, which only the Japanese would love.

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I just saw a talk by him yesterday where he confirmed what you can read (and see) here, http://www.will-wright.com/willshistory7.php

Not that it has anything to do with your point, but still :P
National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding [pdf]
Patients Reflect on Life with a Common Brain Malformation
People thought of this before--just place two mirrors at a 90 degree angle. The guy's innovation is to make it very smooth.
What if he is...gasp... A person from in India who moved to the U.S. and is now looking for a job after doing all the stuff that he says he did. Is it that big a fucking deal or is that tin foil hat of yours permanently stuck?
You might be interested in learning more about Priceonomics (http://priceonomics.com/), a company does price comparisons for a bunch of stuff. I don't know what their engine is written on but it's certainly something custom, and that's most likely the way you want to go.

They also have an amazing blog (http://blog.priceonomics.com/) where they showcase products and nifty stuff they do with them. They use Tumblr for this part of the site but you might as well go for Wordpress or whatever you prefer.

No matter what you choose, you want to separate both parts of your site, and the comparison engine will most likely be a custom solution (Ruby, Python, PHP, doesn't matter).
> I don't know if it would then charge though

An Android device would charge as quickly as if "fast charge" (charging with data lines as well) is turned off permanently. It's a considerable drawback, because now it will take four hours to charge up instead of two.
Well, let's just say a lot of things don't work in linux either. Depending what you're building, sometimes it's reliant on a certain gcc version, or distro. Generally speaking, compile from source is usually the last resort if the package can't be found via apt-get, and occasionally you'll have to tweak the makefile or the ./configure script settings. Any time you're building something that isn't extremely popular, you're likely to get build problems.
Hi guys, I'm the organizer of the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup (www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech). It was a great talk, and Fred shared a lot of relevant feedback for entrepreneurs working on enterprise technology.

Here is a video of his keynote for anyone interested: http://youtu.be/k_ZpbESDkAc
I tried that. But the original Master of Orion still beats it.
I don't see a reason for general use PC in the Hospital (or any other company). Your Christmas shopping is not a business priority. :)

Philips and Siemens runs Windows. As far I remember the GE scanners were RedHat.

I do agree with the "ripe for disruption". Hopefully DrChrono, Practice Fusion and others will force some change.
Now the NK citizens will be arrested if they don't play this game day and night...
I just read a comment about not being able to make "anything but rice" on a rice cooker. That is certainly true, but this variety is extremely large. Just google 'biryani', an Indian dish that is made of an aromatic combination of rice and veggies/meat.

Since most HN readers are likely to be non-Indians, I would just like to point out: its incredibly easy to make delicious Indian food, and its incredibly easy to make biryani on a rice cooker. The spices are what make Indian food delicious, and these come packaged in small packets at any Indian store (Some even have recipes on the back). Look at a few recipes, try them out and surprise your gf with your amazing cooking skills :)
Fred Wilson keynote - Network Effects and the Enterprise
Ah, if "on the road" means plugging and unplugging external monitors, you've caught me in my "oh I should have thought of that" spot.

I haven't had to do that in a long while. I have a permanent desktop machine so my laptop is only for at coffee shops or working at a friend's place. I can certainly understand how hotplugging can be a disaster. Thankfully, I have noticed an improvement with that with Nvidia's more recent driver releases, even possibly as late as the ones resulting from their work with Steam.

Anyway, I've been running Wayland builds on and off for a month now, let's hope that paves the way for minimizing these problems even further.
Boxed stock is different - read the ingredients/constituents and use it appropriately (it is very different from actual stock, if you understand what stock consists of). Boxed stock is generally not a substitute for stock, like how sugar is not a substitute for salt.

Possible to use together though.
There was a problem last year when the "other" folder was implemented, you'd get important messages that were completely missed (many people I know missed things that genuinely mattered) and Facebook needs a way to get around this problem. A small arbitrary fee is a perfect solution.

If Facebook wanted to allow marketers to message users directly why wouldn't they build a system for it? I can't see how this is an attempt to make revenue... it would be an awful decision. How would a marketer even know who to target?
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Weird, maybe everyone you know is old. I don't think I know anyone that cares about Apple because of Woz. Many don't even know who the heck Woz is anyway. Apple has hacker cred because they do have lots of engineers working on products that we use, like gcc-llvm, or webkit rendering engine, etc.
Because most people have enough sense to keep bash scripts to a few hundred lines at most and switch to a saner language for anything more complex. In a language like TCL intended for larger-scale development it's just a bugfest waiting to happen.

It's kind of a moot point though. Javascript is unstoppable in the extension language space now.
Really good points. Product is ultimately responsible for the user experience. The PM or head of product may not be a legal expert, but they better be an expert in knowing their users. Stakeholders signed off on the ToS or ToU. Each bears responsibility. However, Product is directly responsible for the outcome which is why a strong voice is needed - one that can say, "No Way!" when necessary. Of course, if the decision is made higher up the chain, then this just supports how deliberate the ToS change was - deliberate and worded exactly as it was intended. The wording was definitely unique enough that someone knew what was being asked for - legal expert or not - it was pretty clear.
2.3MM people sign Sandy Hook sympathy card
So... I know some victims of domestic abuse, for example. Whose abusers would gladly pay to ensure that their message gets through to their erstwhile (and now, once again?) victims.

FB, do you really not have a clue, or do you just not care?
You're not reading my cites. I'm talking about food deserts in the US, places where the only place to buy food is a convenience store with either no fresh foods or massively overpriced fresh foods.
"No, that's not a conspiracy. It might be something else, but it's not a conspiracy."

It has the same effect as one. And "conspiracy theory" is usually used to wave away bringing the actual dynamics up. If the "conspirators" aren't even aware of it that just makes it worse, so how is "it's something different" any solace? Yeah, it's the same thing, but worse. It's like a conspiracy, but it requires intervention because it's not one, and insight will not end it.

"I read "Manufacturing Consent."

Which is about big business routing around democracy as a potential problem via propaganda.

Here's a quote from the man I transcribed from him speaking:

What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government. So if you don't like something, you know, your wages are going down, you blame the government. Not blame the guys in the Fortune 500, because you don't read the Fortune 500. You just read what they tell you in the newspapers... so you don't read about the dazzling profits and the stupendous dizz, and the wages going down and so on, all you know is that the bad government is doing something, so let's get mad at the government.
7 years working (assuming US) + some positive number of years in school is enough time to slough the indian style english quirks. You would be surprised how many people born in india that have moved to the US actually speak american english (even if there is an accent). I've yet to see any evidence that this person is not an overseas developer fishing for contract work.

And yes, I've dealt with enough people that claim to be based in the US but turn out to be in India that I take everything with a grain of salt. And if you haven't, you probably haven't tried to find an employee or contractor.
I think voltage is assumed to be 3.7v, the voltage practically all phones use in their batteries.
I wonder what would happen if Facebook attacked micropayments. If they could replicate the iTunes model, e.g. "Pay with Facebook" for applications, in-store purchasing, etc. then the cost of acquisition combined with lifetime value of the customer could be quite precise.
Do you really have big data?
what do you mean how would a marketer know who to target? Facebook is the wet-dream of marketers. They have so much info on everyone - what are your likes, what school did you go to, when you got engaged, married, divorced, etc.
I think most of the lightning cables actually have a chip inside, like thunderbolt. It may look like a simple cable, but there's some electronic stuff inside.
Thanks. I already know "Ratio" as a good introductionary text. I shall get the others as well.
Who made the call to fuck the users? Whoever it was, fuck that guy.

Instagram is a company. The leaders are responsible for that unethical behavior and I'm not going to excuse them out of some bullshit appeal to programmer loyalty.

The fact that these are peers is MORE reason for us to be calling them out. Do you really want your profession to be associated with this sleazy behavior? They are poisoning the well for all of us.

Tech people today have the power and money to reshape the entire world. Yet so many of them are focused on extracting a few dollars through grossly unethical behavior. This is not praiseworthy behavior in any sense and you should be ashamed of yourself for defending it.

If my peers are going to be as sleazy and ethically bankrupt as, say, politicians or wall street bankers then I don't want them as peers. I would gladly throw them under the bus to protect the reputation of all tech people.
So far, the ratio of build issues I've run into in OS X to the build issues from version mismatching in linux is approaching infinity.

egrep, gdb, and the few other things I fought last month in brew were not uncommon things. They were all things that were preinstalled in Ubuntu. Furthermore, I haven't had to build anything from source other than the projects I collab on in years.

I don't know why we're quibbling about this, it's generally accepted among Mac devs... it's a small price to pay if you like the OS X user experience. I haven't for some time now so the developer tools lacking and the competition of better linux DEs have tipped that scale. Trust me, I still love my MBA.
Facebook tests paid messages to strangers
has not been proved...yet, and is currently under review by the math community.
I think what will end up happening eventually is that the price of using Facebook will be 1 message delivered to you each day from a targeted company.

Advertisers will bid against each other for that coveted message each day, and Facebook will figure out how to maximize bids. For example, even celebrities will be targeted, so companies may end up paying $10,000 per message for them, while a typical person may be $1-$5, or something like that.
It was 'cool' because it's a really nice mobile app experience. Flickr didn't have this until, uh, a week ago. (& that app is absolutely Instagram inspired)

It was obviously going to 'go south' with the FB acquisition, though.
The Floppy Disk: About Antiquated Metaphors in Icons
Well, it's not really drm -- the chip in there is used for lots of stuff. There was an article about the thunderbolt cable (which has a similar design to lightning) where it has a chip inside that cable as well. Note that thunderbolt was actually designed by intel.

I think lots of future cables will have these chips in them. In thunderbolt, the chip mutiplexes & demultiplexes the data. Perhaps the idea is that speed increases can be had just by upgrading your cable instead of upgrading the port.

In the lightning cable, the chip is also responsible for determining the orientation of your connection, since the connector is reversible.
What is the Definition of Big Data?
Have to agree! You need to gain some experience in both areas and then chose based on where you feel more at home.
I clicked that link ready to laugh, but he makes a persuasive argument. I feel like I've been tricked.
So did this actually test if the phones were vulnerable? I know my phone doesn't turn on usb mass storage mode without asking; but this article doesn't even mention other methods.
No, it's not called the rule of law. It's called reading your personal ideology into a 300-year old constitution because you're too cowardly to actually come out and pass laws or - Heaven forbid O noble Americans! - amend the Constitution to line up with modern times.
There are also some patents that are blocking innovation at the moment in the commercial 3D printer space.
Whilst you need to be more of a generalist in a startup, you also need greater depth of experience. Having a small amount of experience in many different areas is unlikely to get you a job in either area. Better to be good at something you enjoy and then broaden your skill base into other areas.

Based on your question, if you already have some front-end skills and JavaScript knowledge, then you might find NodeJS a good place to start with the backend. At least you don't have to learn a new programming language and its best practices.
I was a HUGE user of the 'Favorite tweet' -> 'Send Link to Readability' which allowed me to queue up a reading list before hopping on the subway in the morning.

Unfortunately, the Twitter Favorite hook has been discontinued and now I read more books on my kindle :(
Didn't downvote, but they could just as well take 20% of the bond as a fee.

Facebook could also charge $1 and give 50c to the user for receiving the message rather than keeping the whole dollar.
exactly. I know the founder. He originally had no plans of creating an alternative to kickstarter. He wanted to create great hardware products and use Kickstarter to fund the development. After running into Apple approval issues for POP, realizing how a less than honest company could ship a shitty product and keep the $140k that backers had provided, he realized just how bad kickstarter is for funding & creating hardware products. Not only is he giving the money back - this inspired him to create a better alternative for creating and backing products. It is a classic founding story.
It's understandable given that all foreign companies face the same regulations . But what annoyed me for years was that Skype made it very government-friendly:

1) The redirects are made quite thoroughly. Even if you type something like us.skype.com you still get redirected to Tom-Skype, where there is no link to the international site.

2) When you've managed to get a Setup.exe from the international site, it still fetches and installs Tom-Skpe. FFS even the Chinese government can't make something this government-friendly!
Silverlight -- how many other sites than Netflix do you know that use it? That is the only non-MS site that I've ever seen it used on.

Anyways, there's been lots of talk of SL dying[1].

1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/8929362/84473
IFTTT is powerful because it allows your average user to 'mash up' (sorry for the lame term) API calls without any programming knowledge whatsoever.

There's alot of potential out there for simple user-friendly integrations between services. I'm really excited to see how they progress... democratizing platforms is a great business to be in.
Temperature:

- Rice cooker: Cooks until water evaporates/absorbs, then warms
- Crock pot: Cooks at a steady temperature, usually for items immersed in a liquid (for water, that's generally around boiling temperature), without evaporating the liquid. In general, more convenient to keep the liquid at a fixed temperature.
- Crock pot (Expensive ones): Can set specific temperature (instead of just boiling or low/high)

Evaporation:

- Crock pot: Tends to minimize it, for long periods of cooking items in liquid

- Rice cooker: Minimizing evaporation not a concern/engineering-constraint

Insulation (insulation of heat in total; not about ergonomics):

- Crock pot: Generally better insulation/less-heat-loss, as it is used for long periods of cooking

- Rice cooker: Insulation a much lesser concern as expected period of use is smaller

- Insulation affects energy consumption

Pot material:

- Crock pot: offers a variety of pot material

- Rice cooker: generally metal (sometimes with coating)

- Affects what leeches into the food

- Insulation characteristics can be better or worse (energy consumption)

- Cleaning costs (weight, handling, sticking)

- Heat distribution across the food (fine detail that isn't relevant to someone who asks this)

- Retention of flavours/substances on pot surface and in pot (probably fine detail as well)

- Reactions with food (fine detail)

Cost:

- About the same cost for the same size and quality (similar components: thermostat + feedback circuit + heating element + pot + insulation)

- Rice cookers are a bit simpler because it has only 1 temperature setting (something set a bit above boiling point of water) => simpler = cheaper

- Rice cookers are simpler because they do not need to minimize evaporation => simpler = cheaper

- Rice cookers are simpler because they have lower priorities on insulation => simpler = cheaper

If you cook soup/stew overnight with a rice cooker, you'll need to start with a lot of excess water, and end up with much higher electricity bills.
"otherwise the message is received without a cost to the sender"

Sure FB could take a cut of each message fee but that wasn't the OP proposal
What will startup / tech geeks do if today was the last day on Earth
The sad part is that people are just realizing this. This should have been obvious from day 1.
When life gives you lemons make lemonade.

1. Apple rejected the cable. To those who say "just go USB", it was
supposed to be a seamless product and that destroys aesthetics.
Image is everything in product design.

2. In parallel they were working on Christie Street, to solve the
issue of non-refunds on Kickstarter.

3. So why not turn something bad into something good? Get some press
for their new site, and also issue refunds for everyone. How else
would they issue refunds? And how does anyone lose in this situation?

If anything, this seems like a great and fair way to deal with the issues at hand.
Really great job on the format. Well written.

All of which goes to naught when flash BSODs W7 on page 6.

The heck?
See you at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe! The cocktails are awesome. And most importantly .... Don't Panic !
And Facebook appears to currently be on another round of testing the boundaries. Today, we learn that the messaging restrictions we set will no longer be strictly respected. The thread where I happened to learn of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949110

Interesting how this all follows on the heels of the FB 'vote to eliminate voting' thing, the other week.
Hi HN,

I mainly built this tool to do an exhaustive search on the primary keyword so that you don't have to settle for secondary keywords.

Feedback/Suggestions are welcome.

Thanks
Speaking as a lawyer, I would say that upwards of 99% of the comments in this thread are full of crap; people confidently throwing around opinions or even supposed-knowledge without any real knowledge of constitutional law. The disheartening thing is, I know HN participants tend to be more intelligent than the average person. It makes me marvel at how our nation functions at all.
Everyone keeps mentioning Flickr. Granted, I never used Instagram, but all this got me thinking about wishing for a way to upload and share my photos with friends and family without giving them to Facebook or Yahoo.

Such a thing exists. http://theopenphotoproject.org/

I have it setup with my own Amazon S3 bucket and it's pretty neat so far.

They don't have an official Android app yet, but in true open-source fashion, they have an alpha version available on Github. https://github.com/photo/mobile-android/OpenPhoto-Android-Ap...
> It's pretty trivial to have the client hit the root on startup, and then cache that and never make another call. API roots don't change very much.

That's true and will work in most cases, but perhaps not when client sessions are short-lived.

> Basically, you can fold elements of the collection up into the parent, and the client will automatically make less requests.

Now it looks like my choices are to either fetch more data than I need, or make more requests than I need.

> Best of both worlds.

Well, both best and worst of both worlds. Each approach needs to stand up to cost-benefit analysis alone or I doubt it's worth maintaining both.

I do see advantages in these patterns, but I think some of them are more theoretical than practical, and I'll take the practical advantage I see today over the theoretical one I might need in the future.