skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only comment is to setup a buffer vote in the contract so to mediate with a third-party in times of conflict.

50-50 equal partners means no one gets what they want. That is both good and bad.
This family of JRE attacks is far too common. Basically, when an unsigned applet runs, the JRE tries really hard to prevent it from creating a ClassLoader object. However, if you manage to create a ClassLoader object, it's game over -- you can break out of the sandbox and do whatever you please.

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Email sent. For the record, I think this is a great idea.
Also, in many systems (excepting Canada, where I believe there is no alternate private system) you can see a specialist with no wait if you're willing to pay for it.
I had your application installed for a while on my Galaxy Note, but it drained the battery so I had to uninstall it. Just downloaded it again to check if it still has issues.
C as a very thin virtual machine is a common conception and not an incorrect one--C runs on many systems with noncontiguous memory segments but presents it as a single contiguous space, for example.

C does no such thing. That is the job of the MMU, and C has nothing to say about it. You're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that a language without a runtime somehow has a VM. That's nonsense.
I'm pretty sure that would create the Singularity...
FWIW, the founder has informally responded here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=36587703...
This sounds almost tailor-made for YC to use as filter for their own applications. It's closer to their roots too, a tiny team with exactly enough money and time to do something.
The term "virtual machine" is already pretty overloaded. This isn't referring to virtualized hardware in the VMWare sense or a language/platform virtual machine in the JVM sense. Rather, it's talking about how C's abstraction of the hardware has the Von Neumann bottleneck baked into it, so it clashes with fundamentally different architectures like the Burroughs 5000's.
And if you want more details or help, see http://www.jailbreakqa.com/ - it includes a tutorial for jailbreaking iOS 6.0.1 on iPhone 4/3GS and iPod touch 4th gen, which has a tricky bit where you have to use the 6.0 IPSW (firmware file) as part of the process.
My US-based dad recently had to wait a month for a knee replacement surgery.

And, of course, for people who can't afford the inflated prices we've got here... the waiting time is infinite.
To the naysayers in this thread: You have several options here other than just saying 'oohhh, this is mean and nasty'.

- match the offer with a better one, so all those that would take up the OP would flock to you instead

- build your MVP, keep 100% and then do your own marketing. $5000 for 50% difference but you get to do all the work.

Either one of those would be so much more effective than just berating the OP or warning others of this evil and greedy person.
Most health care systems are grappling with costs and the demand for care outstripping the supply. It isn't a solved problem.
It's pretty cool! But I didn't like the name too =p... One more thing: 'n' and 'b' shortcuts not working on the Firefox (17.0.1).
Just to be clear, the prizes are account credit for 12, 6, and 3 months of the Tree Plan on SproutVideo. So, you'd get $600, $300, or $150 worth of account credit, respectively, if you were to win. Overages still apply. I had this in the title originally but it looks like the moderators edited it out.
CST's razor-thin Kickstarter watch raises full $200,000 in under 48 hours
What kind of point are you trying to make?

> And yet people from around the world fly here every day to have critical surgeries performed by the world's top doctors in state of the art facilities.

People fly to many first-world countries for medical care, including "Canada and Europe". Yes, if people have vast sums of money, they can receive excellent medical treatment in the US (as they could in many countries).

However, that's not the problem though, is it. The problem is that in general, most Americans fall behind in health compared to other first-world nations.

> but there needs to be some method of exclusion when demand is high and supply is low

Are you arguing that the state of health of the majority of the country is irrelevant as long as high-income earners can receive the best medical care?
Indeed:

To Save Money, Save the Health Care Act (Peter Orzag)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/opinion/04orszag.html?_r=3...;
He´s using the term VM, as a machine abstraction, wich C really is, in the same perspective the OS is a VM..

it will abstract you away, from device drivers, processor assembly, memory, (using files to represent a collection of data blocks in a block device)

C is a VM. but not the same way the Java VM is a vm.. cause that is a VM on top of another VM (OS and processor assembly)

its a software abstraction of a hardware system? its a VM.
We had battery issues until December, and everything should be fixed now. Thanks for downloading again and I hope it's better this time.
I still hope that Microsoft will eventually make Bartok part of the standard .NET tooling and with that a proper native implementation for C#.

Actually they are doing something like that already with MDIL in WP8.
I'm American, but I know a lot of people from Canada, and after many conversations, the "2 months for a specialist" is bullshit. In practice, preventative medicine and not having to fear to afford healthcare when you need it drastically reduce the demand on the most expensive and specialized doctors and practices because you deal with problems before they end up in the emergency room.

I have no health insurance right now. If I got sick in Canada, I would absolutely visit my doctor, get a prescription and diagnosis, and be on my way. In the US, I have to pray I don't have a severe disease and try using over the counter meds because I can't afford upwards of $800 doctors visits if they perform any tests. It is around $150 just to walk in the door.
If you installed it, I'd like to hear feedback.
I think "around the corner" type predictions generally fall into 2 camps:

1.Problems that we don't know how to solve yet, but we think we are close to based on "similar" problems we have solved.

2.Problems that we have a solution for, but it currently takes an unreasonable amount of time to use these solutions in practice.

Problems in class 1 are like AI in the 1960-70s, everybody thought we were super close to amazing AI based on discoveries we'd had, but these estimates were very wrong.

Problems in class 2 are like nlp and ml work in the 90s and 00s. A rather large chunk of 'wow' ml/nlp we have in applications today were pretty much solved 20 years ago, but there was no sane way to run them, certainly not on your cell phone.

Problems in class 2 are safer bets, there does seems to be consistant increases in processing power, memory, etc. Problems in class 1 are harder to guess because as history has shown, just because a solution seems similar doesn't mean that it actually is (shortest path is solved, longest path is NP-hard, shortest path touching all points once (ie. tsp) is NP-hard).

I think it's safe to say having Watson on our smart phones is right "around the corner" (20-30 years?) saying that we'll create "creative" AI, not so much.
> in the more temperate regions there's not quite so much water, and shipping it in from the ice caps would be expensive.

I'd see if I could use the atmosphere as a shipment mechanism.

> For the first colonists, I'm guessing they'd want to make do with as little water as they could get away with - meaning there wouldn't be any raising of fish unless they couldn't get away with not raising fish.

Farmed Tilapia ponds could serve as a reservoir of water/hydrogen. For a population in the 10's of thousands, it would seem to be a reasonable addition. For the first hundred, not so much.
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> There are no frameworks for doing common high productivity tasks in C, only low level system operations, or
> vastly complicated frameworks with terrible apis (>_> GTK).
> I'll just whip up a C REST service that talks to mysql and point nginx at it. Um... yeah. I'm sure there's
> an easy way to do that. ...perhaps...?

Search for libfcgi. It's nice and simple C library that can be used behind nginx and as the matter of fact anything that supports fcgi. In this case routes are defined on nginx. But just think a bit, it's nice little framework ;-)

Btw used exactly that few months ago.
I think of the proposition as an intro to a PARTNERSHIP.

I posted above that I'm willing to match the offer. I don't think of this as an "investment" so much as me trying to kick start a relationship where I'm a cofounder.

As such, I'm interested specifically in ideas where I believe I can provide value that the other cofounder doesn't, so we both benefit. I expect it to be an ongoing pursuit where I continue to work on the company.

Buying half a company for 5k and then putting in 3k of advertising only to walk away would be the wrong move on my part and that's not the intention I have going into any transaction that may result from this.
Cool let me reach out to you on github.
But that's exactly the point I was trying to make, albeit I wasn't very good at getting it across the internetz. Assembler is not truly "one language" it's actually a collection of mnemonics that are all extremely similar but based on specific architectures and instruction sets.

The point I want to get across is that for you C is a low level language. To the guy programming a fancy toaster in whatever version of an Assembly language C is a high level language. To be anally retentive and follow your comment about the ranking of languages, if I follow that logic then the only two low level languages would be C, Assembly, and perhaps a compiler complier circa the early 70's that whose name I cant remember. The difference between Assembler and C is extremely jarring in comparison to the difference between C and Javascript (for example).

One thing to note is that C is used a lot for low level systems programming and because of it it's so commonly described as a low level programming language. That said, writing low level systems programs does not mean that we're exclusively using a low level language to do so.
I don't know much about the state of CA insurance regulation. I live in MA.

Off the top of my head, it seems like mean premium prices is going to depend on a lot of different factors, ranging from demographics (younger folks make up a larger fraction of the population in TX than in MA) to cost of living.

I think your whole analysis fails because you're missing half of the Cost Benefit Analysis. You're looking only at costs, without assessing benefits. One might as well look at Somalia and proclaim how awesome it is to not have to pay taxes.
Google ignores India, Apple picks pace
This is a great deal. I posted not too long ago asking why there isn't more micro-funding available. This kind of offer removes the friction to getting started.

By covering the basics for an entrepreneur they can work pressure free with total focus on the project.

I could build several projects in that time.

I think the difficulty in this deal comes after the first couple of months when you have to earn your normal wage and continue to build upon the first version.
Not true in Canada. The Supreme Court ruled that the wait times in Canada violated the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms because there was no private option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoulli_v._Quebec_(Attorney_Ge...
I highly recommend using the 1 hour transition time instead of the instant one. It feels much more natural as your screen essentially dims as the sun sets. I've found that it's quite pleasant on the eyes.
I have done low-level and mobile programming on very restricted platforms and I cannot see any reason why in the world I would use C instead of C++. Basically there is always an opportunity to use C++ if you can use C. Myths that C++ is slower are spread by people who just do not know C++ well or are not skilled/clever enough to use it.
Understanding New Relic Queuing
Covers basic architecture and deployments.
Can't wait to get my preordered print copy: "Learn You Some Erlang" rocks!
JVM is pretty much the only platform, unless you want to be Windows-only. This however has absolutely nothing to do with Java browser plugin. The sooner that thing dies the better. Just disable the "Java plugin" in the browser and forget about it.
The best time/way to post to get the most response from HN readers
What is the best time/way to post to get the most response from HN readers?
Forget to place that NULL in the right place and boom!
What are Intel & McAfee preparing for consumer security in 2013?
Why I never got to launch my project and what I learned from it
You summed it up nicely here.
I want to see the rules it generates for using 'le'
Manchester honours the woman behind the pioneering music of Doctor Who
Agreed, I'd say I have half the items on that list at the most, and still manage to make good food most nights (admittedly my last soup came out like baby food).

And since it seems somewhat on topic, Hubbub are hiring developers, so if you love both food and technology we'd love to hear from you: http://developers.hubbub.co.uk/.

We provide an online delivery service for local independent food shops, because we love food too much to leave it to the supermarkets.
> "Instead of the romantic illusion of film, we see the sets and makeup for what they are. The effect is like stepping into a diorama alongside the actors, which is not as pleasant as it might sound… Never bet against innovation, but this debut does not promise great things to come." – C. Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

As a fan of the off-Broadway immersive theater production, Sleep No More, I have "stepped into a diorama alongside the actors" several times in the last year. It is a phenomenal experience.

Artistic expression does not require "romantic illusion", and even if it did, heightening the audiences sense of realism doesn't preclude it. I haven't seen The Hobbit yet, but I welcome the innovation.
I hate to see this, but it looks like the machine is getting some characters....scary...we are getting close to 2001...
so what is wrong with;

if(function_exists(custom_func) {
$x = @custom_func();
}

if((!isset($x)) || (empty($x))) {
echo('Custom Error');
} else {
//Do the work
}

This may be considered verbose, but can be useful if custom or "sometimes" installed libraries are involved
There is a built-in Layer search feature in CS6. http://d.pr/i/owMK
I wasn't aware they had one..
Looks like a great service. However, my reason to not using you however is that I'm tied in to the Amazon ecosystem. I buy all my new music on Amazon. I buy my movies, tv shows there too. Using you means I'm tied to another service for a specific need. Do you guys have tie-in with Amazon in any way? Amazon should really buy you guys (unless you want to stand alone)
I'm loving this entire thread. I wish HN had more brainstorming sessions like these.
CERN researchers don't share your opinion:

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
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My first thought was "what the hell does health have to do with accidents?", which I learned was justified by the first article I found after googling for "life expectancy without accidents": http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/11/23/the-myth-of-amer...

>A few years back, Robert Ohsfeldt of Texas A&M and John Schneider of the University of Iowa asked the obvious question: what happens if you remove deaths from fatal injuries from the life expectancy tables? Among the 29 members of the OECD, the U.S. vaults from 19th place to…you guessed it…first. Japan, on the same adjustment, drops from first to ninth.
Brilliant, reminds me of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orteig_Prize

25,000 price meant that hundreds of people invested a total of 400,000 in pursuit of the prize. Pretty much gave birth to the modern aviation industry.
For the same reason that if you put a hunk of chocolate in the oven and called it "hot chocolate," people would be confused that it's not a warm beverage of chocolate and milk.

That is, the phrase "virtual machine" is usually assumed to be the name for a piece of software that pretends to be some particular hardware. It is less commonly used to mean a "virtual machine", that is, not a noun unto itself, but the adjective virtual followed by the noun machine.
EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change
exactly. which means i need to rip everything. i dont. amazon should just take my cds and give me mp3s.
Having worked for Internet Brands (who owns vBulletin and several hundred sites that use it), I can say that appearance is not at the top of the list for forum owners. The things they look for are security, spam prevention, performance, management tools, and plugins. Themes aren't a priority because people go there for the content, not the looks. You might have an angle if you made a better interface for one of the existing forum platforms.
How many such projects will you be funding?
> It's not a problem that can be 'hacked'.

While I agree it's a political problem in general, there's apparently a lot that can be hacked. Starting with lowering the cost of diagnostics and improving the information flow... There were a couple of interesting companies interviewed on Mendelspod (http://mendelspod.com/) - if you're interested in what can be hacked, give it a go.

There are also projects like http://nhshackday.com/
Start-up lessons from Fight Club
This is pretty awesome, but I can't help myself see it rather cynically in that I don't expect it to expand to books or movies any time soon. Especially not books.

Ripping a CD is so trivial and such an old practice at this point, and so many MP3s can fit on a portable device, that buying a CD already de facto gave you the MP3s for free (except for the bit where you'd have to pay to get more Cloud Player storage if you want to use Amazon to host them in the cloud for you). So it's a cool freebie that isn't really costing much.

But I can't rip my own books, and the Kindle cloud hosting and syncing to the last position read across devices and everything is so damn useful that there are a lot of books I own physical copies of that I probably will end up buying again digitally. So, for me at least, doing this for books actually would cost the publishers and Amazon lost revenue, unlike for MP3s. I just don't see them deciding that that revenue is less valuable than the customer goodwill it would create.

Bundling a Kindle version and a hardcover version at a discounted price would be a nice halfway step, though personally, I'm increasingly moving towards a "buy on Kindle, find hardcover (sometimes used) if I really like it" strategy.
Apophis impact: New observation show it to be bigger, but no longer a threat
This has nothing to do with Java. It's a browser plugin issue. Disable the plugin and forget.
There is a startup doing exactly that (crowd-sourced investments), can't remember the name. If I'm not mistaken the US law wouldn't allow that until very recently, even still the legal details aren't clear yet. AngelList also serves that purpose.
That's pretty silly. Why?
IntelliJ Idea for Java?
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Sounds like you've left Denver already; that's too bad, because we're hiring Rails devs in the Denver area-- http://www.comverge.com/careers/
In Defense of Big Data -- response to recent criticisms of the trend.
I was thinking why a programming class can't be run online, but I imagine the local component is important to help students secure jobs in the students' hometown.
Personal Productivity for Developers
Very cool. Somewhat similar to my book discovery app http://quotab.ly (discover via random quotes). Where did you end up getting your data? Did you scrape Amazon or are you using their API?
What's your strategy for getting in the "Zone"?
My personal MVK cost a lot less than $970...
The applet I’m working on is rather specialised, so talking about that isn’t going to prove much. Others have pointed out some common examples from among the fields I mentioned, such as Minecraft, WebEx, and Danish government web sites. Each of these has a significant user base relying on Java applets.
Common Lisp is Just Lisp
You can kiss my shiny, metal, mainframe!
I love it, it has absolutely changed how well I sleep. Twice it's happened that I've had trouble sleeping, then noticing that I had turned off f.lux becausse I had been gaming earlier in the evening (gaming with f.lux is not a good idea).
Nothing that Watson learned from the Urban Dictionary could possibly be any dirtier than what I hear from enterprise people all the time:

"We use our deep subject matter expertise to deliver value through actionable advice that enables our clients to harness the power of best practices in order to shift their paradigms and achieve 10X deltas against competitive industry metrics."
It's ugly to see shift operator here? :-)
Is this offer only for US residents?
What can we do to close the IT skills gap?
Isnt high level relative. I was once speaking to a friend who is an electrical engineer. While discussing some dsp stuff with him I explained some asm instructions, and suddenly he says you are going high level :) I am pretty sure if he speaks to some physics/semiconductor guy he probably will get the same answer back from them
Nearbox – An app to know what’s happening around you
As I said, I have opportunities specifically because of the college I attended. A degree has also given me a chance to try other disciplines in the industry than my primary, giving me a chance to learn and try doing scenic art, technical direction, dance shows, and more.

The benefits of a liberal arts education span through the actual degree department too.
To folks who think C code is in general a mess of Pointers, macros, and goto's - Go download Postgres codebase,build cscope,open vim.. and try browsing the code.

Arguably, one of the most beautiful C-code bases you can get hold off.
"Google Search runs on a giant server farm. It won't really make a huge impact until it can run on a single PC."

Can you explain why your argument is valid, but the one above isn't?
WalletMap: Track your expenses with geolocation
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I question how well Watson would handle single questions at a time being asked compared to the millions of requests a day it would get if it was setup like say, Siri. Not that you are wrong in any way, they could certainly scale into an even bigger server farm and use the internet to deliver the questions and answers, I just wonder how much more server's they'd need.
When you're an expert in C, you tend to forget how much you've really learned. And not just about the language itself, or the available libraries, but about your own coding style. As an experienced programmer, you have habits and intuition that make developing and debugging your code vastly easier than for a novice. The reason that C has given so much ground to a language like Java is not that Java is intrinsically more powerful, but that novice and intermediate programmers can be much more productive with it from the start. Companies don't want to hire a 10-year C veteran at $125/hr to code up their CRUD app, even if one were readily available. They want to be able to hire interchangeable $50/hr Java guys with a bit of experience, who won't have to waste days at a time trying to track down intermittent memory problems or re-writing the wheel because they aren't aware someone wrote a C lib for something Java has built-in.
Beefing up the Python Shell to build apps faster and DRYer
See the above discussion about what he meant by "virtual machine." It's not what you think it is, and it does exist.