skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in, and emailing you now, for the exact same reason I applied for Pinboard's PIC-PC within minutes of it going live. I have an idea for a project that I really like and find really helpful. I think others will like it too. I'm also really really busy. This will give me just enough of a push to actually DO instead of just think about it, and enough of a backing that I can get SOMEONE else involved once it's built, so I don't have to spend all my free time running it, while working full time.
Nuance Has Bought Virtual Assistant Specialist VirtuOz
I give you 50% of my company which only owns 50% of the parent? ;) (just incase it isn't obvious....i'm not actually planning on taking this up just joking around a little)
I didn't mean to imply it was simple, just that there's nothing magic about how Watson's knowledge is stored. Obviously at this scale any change is unlikely to be trivial.

Given the wide range of unstructured sources Watson uses, and given that the linguistic rules they use to extract facts are likely to frequently change, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume they'll have a process to make building its knowledgebase and models from sources fairly straightforward.
Social Sites for Families: More Personal than Facebook
Oh, yeah, I guess I should have said something along the lines "excluding Austin".
http://superuser.com/questions/201613/disable-java-plugin-in...
I'm looking for resources and training that doesn't involve any religion or new-agey bullshit. There seems to be quite a bit of research indicating some meditation is good, but it's hard to find anything that doesn't have some religious/unscientific BS component.
There's a lot to be done - granted the majority of pinball failures are mechanical, and they're hard to reduce simply by the fact that you're flinging a heavy metal ball at a decent momentum against mechanical components.

Some of the actual mechanical designs haven't changed in decades (the flipper mechanics are pretty simple and cheap and well-understood; the payoff in "redesigning" the mechanism has almost no chance to pay off in the long run) but there are improvements that can (and have) been made in overall servicability. Modern machines are easier to access (in general), components are easier to remove (in general) and the diagnostics built into the software are light-years ahead of what used to be typical. While there's still a fair amount of skill in being /good/ at repairing pins, modern pins seem to me to be much easier to maintain by an owner-operator than they've ever been.
Professor of Computer Science
Some macbooks have a light sensor, It would be great if this app used that. Sometimes you are at a dark room, even if it is daytime...
I had the same attitude you do (not a criticism, just a fact) and I enrolled in a mindfulness course in grad school. I, too, an not very spiritual, and I tried my best, to no avail. I think some personalities types are more prone to embrace it than others. That said, yoga DOES work for me, because I approach it as a physical activity, with calmness involved. I'd recommend trying yoga. Take classes with a few different instructors, to find one that "works" for you.
Don't do this in rwd - maximum-scale=1
After reading another post I thought you should know, not to inadvertently screw people over by not letting them zoom into your site on a phone
It's all about cloud Kaizen...
> But what if your wrong, how do you properly handle increasing your price on existing customers?

I think "properly" is to go about it in a way that is fair to everyone. If you have a customer base who sees value in the service you are providing and the raise is within reason they should stick around. If it is a very disruptive price increase you can always grandfather customers in or give them a X-month run way.

>Also, how do you know if it would be better to increase the price and maybe get more per customer, or decrease and maybe get more customers? How do you test that?

Why not just A/B test your pricing structure? Unless your customers communicate in the same channels you have little risk in charging Customer A one price and Customer B a different price.
Agreed, though I'm entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, so I'd prefer ALAC from iTunes. Since I prefer to rip my CD's in ALAC, I would have no need to buy the actual CD. Of course, I suspect that's why the labels have been holding true hi-bitrate files back from the likes of Apple & Amazon.
The overarching point in the erlang example is that the bug stemmed from something in erlang itself. C and the standard library are sufficiently documented and tested that there is no ambiguity. (Regarding the natural counterpoint on indeterminate expressions like I++ + ++I, the language specification is also clear on the nature of indeterminate forms)
Casual users (including kids) have been creating art with Photoshop for some time now.

At any rate, there are multiple free software packages that can do the "creating art" job at least as acceptably as GIMP. Consider MyPaint or Krita.
Zurb Acquires Forrst
Cooks Illustrated is uneven about liking Tramontina, probably because Tramontina's product lineup is uneven. It's the top recommendation in their moderately priced 12 inch skillets from a month ago, for instance. Numerous other products of theirs are "recommended with reservations".
The great innovation debate
They're grappling with costs because their professional ethics require they treat people who can't pay, yet their business obligations require they don't treat those people until it's serious and likely expensive.

So because X number of people get X-Rays that will never be paid for, providers have to try to find some amount they can charge those who do pay, to cover the difference. And the trick with that, is that insurance companies know damn well what X-Rays should cost and have the bargaining power to squeeze out much of the padding in the cost of an X-Ray. [1]

Which means those costs are eating into profits in a big way and has healthcare providers struggling to make the math work out. Particularly for those that service poorer areas, where fewer well-ensured patients can offset the cost of uninsured patients.

And when you don't have a lot of slack in your budget, it's pretty difficult to add beds and professionals to increase your ability to supply healthcare.

[1] Which is another perverse incentive for the hospitals to use new machines/drugs/methods when old ones will do just fine. Firstly, they're incentivized because their profit is largely function of the percent of raw cost the insurance companies allow for profit. So an X-Ray++ brings in more profit than a bog-standard X-Ray for the same amount of professional time.

Secondly, because newer tools are by definition not yet commoditized, they can squeeze more 'buffer' into those prices, until the insurance companies can sort out what it 'should' be and more hospitals get in on tool X and begin essentially competing with one another, by accepting lower rates.
On the other hand if someone beats you to the punch after discovering your market research, you wasted time and energy.
hmmm, I guess you caught me there. I wish I had been more specific.

I find many list-based posts, short, and linkbait-like without any real sort of information, often covering broad topics with general statements. Or, on the other hand, provide 10 links to 10 places with 10 images and no explanation whatsoever why those ten links were chosen. I don't see the trend as prevalent today as it was last year where every post was a "Top 10 SEO tricks" and each "trick" was just a synonym for the same thing, eg "1. Write better - because writing is good. 2. Better content - because content is good. 3. Quality material - because quality is good".

I definitely do have a certain structure to my posts. My headings allow easy scanning but I also offer detail on each topic.

For example, when I discuss "Unreliable Hosting", I try to explain WHAT I did wrong and WHY.

I feel like it's hard to get away from such a structure.
Well, yeah. The point I am aiming at is, meat comes from the bodies of living beings and it's important for those of us who eat it (including me) to understand that fully.
Yeah, I use a smooth steel. These knives get truly dull. I sharpen them myself with wet stones and I've tried various angles on the blades. I have 5 victorinox chef's knives of various size. And two victorinox filet knives that I use for cutting fish and breaking down large cuts of meat. The filet knives last a long time because they very rarely touch the cutting board. But for the most part I use a MAC chef's knife.

In about 9 months time I will have dulled all 5 victorinox chef's knives and the one MAC knife I own. And the MAC gets more than half of the load during that time.
The College Tuition Bubble May Be Bursting…Um, Yay?
C is the language that doesn't force any preconceived notions about how the world should work onto you. Sure, C strings are NULL-terminated by convention, but even that is something you can almost completely ignore if you want to build up your own parallel stack of software that does it differently.

It is for this reason that C (and sometimes C++) are what people use when they have a new idea about higher-level programming abstractions. With C, you can be totally free of other people's big ideas (and their associated costs/complications) and invent something new.

Anyone who wants you to give up C in favor of their language/framework/VM/runtime is selling their own vision for how the world should work. That's fine and sometimes buying in will save you a lot of hassle. But what they're offering was almost certainly written in C or C++. Essentially their pitch is equivalent to "I have written the last C program you'll ever need."

In the early 90s that was Perl. In the late 90s, Java. In the early 2000s, .NET, then Ruby, then fast JavaScript.

This history is an oversimplification of course, but the real question is: would you really prefer a history in which we had, at some point, decided that the current VM that was in vogue should become the new replacement for C? That we'd tailor all our hardware to it, and no future VM would be "native" but would have to run on top of a different VM?

C is the key to why we have general-purpose computers that can run a wide variety of different languages efficiently, and why programs that need to be particularly efficient can always drop down to lower-level programming to get extra performance.
Most studies on social media (FB in particular) suggest the best time for exposure is... Well here's a good article on it! http://allfacebook.com/socialcode-best-practices-engagement_...

Hope that helps (at least with the social media angle).
Is soap better than Amazon in your experience? I'm a heavy user of amzn for a lot of this stuff, but hadn't heard of soap.com.
Yeah - CSAs have their place, but you are constrained to local vegetables in season, and often you don't know more than a day in advance what you are getting. They are great for supporting localvorism, but it doesn't cover the "hey come round to my place tomorrow, I'll cook a green curry - oh hell I need japanese eggplants".

Frankly vegetables and bread are the main thing I would want delivered quickly and often - pantry staples I can stock up in one big monthly trip, it's not really a big deal to fit that in.
Years and years a test was made in a little city in Switzerland. The results where scary.

There have been lots and lots of accidents. So many that the authorities decided to continue the test, but only at the condition that bells (like the ones cows are wearing) where added to the cars, so that pedestrian could hear them.
Zen studios pinball games are a nice blend of physical pinball emulation and video games. The tables have pretty good physical properties, but there are things in the games that are difficult, expensive, or downright impossible to do on a real machine and lend themselves nicely to an arcade equivalent.

On the flip side of the coin, Pinball Arcade strives to emulate classic games exactly as they were, so the games may be more "boring" to some, but appeal far more to the portion of the market that's played them before.

Pinball Arcade actually emulates 4 machines that I also physically own. Sometimes it's easier to fire up the video version of the game than play the real one. I know to some that's heresy (and to me it is as well) but the video versions are a LOT quieter, and are easier to walk away from if needed. I would be a rich man if I could design a "pause" button for a physical pin, I think.
I really appreciate it, thank you. I'm very motivated to get accepted and do exceptionally well in your program, I will dive into this prep work asap!
New Look, Mobile Apps, Github & Exceptional Integration
Thanks to the others for explaining vesting, they are spot in.

Basically, you don't want to end up in a situation where your co-founder can take off after 6 months and still have 50% of the company. Co-founder==co-worker, in the strictest sense.

Conversely, if the $8k is to be treated as just investment (which would not fall under vesting) he should be taking much less than 50%.
Interesting that they chose $10 for breeze, when Google groups is free

:-)
If you're C code is portable then you've chosen the wrong language. C is best when assembly would have been appropriate but you want to write something in a more maintainable, higher-level language. C shines when you need to optimize for a specific operating platform.
http://muis.co/abhishiv
Arrington = R Kelly. ROFL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
I have so much better luck with the stick blender for mayo and hollandaise that I actively avoid the standing blender for fat-based sauces. Ultimately, if you're not going to bake much and you're not going to make beverages a lot with it, I say ditch both the mixer and the blender and get a decent stick blender instead.

A large straight-sided sautee does double duty as a skillet.

Interesting how neither of us think the food processor is a vital purchase. Especially because I use mine all the time, but, yeah, not in my "MVK".

PS to everyone else: if you don't make mayo, you should try; it's extremely easy and very very good. 1 egg yolk, salt, tbsp of tart liquid, maybe some dijon. Mix, then slowly pour 1 cup oil while running blender. Done. Got some sriracha? Mix in after you get the emulsion going. Amazing.
Nothing minimal about that list. "Mininum" kitchen can probably be had for under $100.

Never put the words "Thomas Keller" near "minimum."

I have some allclad D5, it's great. If you're looking for nonstick, pick up Tfal's pro nonstick line on amazon - saute pan runs around $30 and is Cook's Illustrated favorite pick.
They may but in practice they allow it. I've bought two sets, both with discounts, so far.
Cool. As an alternative to Bootstrap, I really like the foundation framework (being a non-designer)
For services the best thing to do is to start at what seems to be high (but not so outrageous that people label you a kook) and scale back as needed. Nobody will complain if next month's bill is smaller than this month's.

For actual shipped products things are much more difficult, if you price high and people buy but not enough people buy and you then lower the price "too soon", the early adopters will feel understandably pissed. See: Nintendo 3DS.
(I knew this philosophy degree would come in handy)

The author may not know it, but part of this article is describing something occasionally known as the judgement-action gap. It's a point in psychology/philosophy typically brought up in moral reasoning, specifically because there's very often a massive discrepancy between what people say they will do and what they end up doing in any moral situation.[1] This is no doubt true for saying they would pay X for Y.

I think the judgement-action gap is an extremely important thing to remember at all times, especially in the realms of business deals. If a commitment isn't on paper, it's not really a commitment. (Money counts as paper, too.)

Alas while I think the gap is a neat principle, I'd rather read an article just on that principle than one titled "How to price something" that culminates in the advice "make up a price, actually sell it and see." If that's all the advice you have, then even asking for people's opinions of what they'd pay for it is more useful than a 100% arbitrary number. It seems odd the article would offer no real solutions.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hey! Wait a minute!

I hate to be the typical HN cynic but the last line reveals that this is not an article at all but a thinly veiled advertisement.

While the article doesn't actually say how to effectively price something, I had no idea what Basecamp Breeze is and now I do. 37 signals blog, you've got us again![2]

[1] My favorite example of this, though a bit dour, is "the only moral abortion is my abortion", a long list of stories of people who are morally opposed to abortions, yet still getting them: http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/anti-t...

[2] I'm always surprised that 37signals posts get upvoted extremely quickly, seemingly regardless of content. It's not a bad thing per se, just a surprising thing.
hard of sight people need all the help they can get to cross the road, and many of them do rely on car noise to some degree.
True, but cast iron should be seasoned. If one doesn't season the cast iron, they are screwed anyway.
CES 2013: Samsung reveals phone with bendable screen
I couldn't find an authoritative story behind the title "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good", but people generally interpret it as a humorous take on poor translations-to-English, such as the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme, or the title of the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Structuring your Sass - folders
Where I discuss how I structure my Sass folders in a project
Is this using LibreOffice on the server to convert DOC to PDF or SVG or flash?

Is the source code available?
Yeah ... not having SuHoSin for PHP 5.4 means I haven't deployed it yet. I want to upgrade, but I like the extra security SuHoSin gives me.
There is a lively conversation over at ux.stackexchange about the usefulness of carousels here: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10312/are-carousels-ef...

Theres isn't a lot of data to support the claims, but its a nice read anyway.
Wikipedia’s travel site’s official launch coming soon; what to expect
Instacart's per-item prices tend to be far higher. I might use them if they raised the delivery fee and removed the item price gouging.
I don't know where you're getting your figures from, but our monthly per employee rate is closer to $500/month in CA (with a family it's like $1200/month).

It's going up like $20/month for 2013. Which is immaterial, since it was ridiculous to begin with, because the entire system is broken.
Except that they do. A friend of mine currently in school seems to be spending half his time writing Android apps. I find this a little disgusting, since it's like teaching political science students by asking them to write speeches for current politicians, but I guess industry is king.

I'd be okay with it if it were a vocational school, but it's not.
http://stereopsis.com/flux/research.html

If I wasn't clear: I can trace insomnia to f.lux being disabled; I'm not aware of it at the time, but then the next day or so I'm like, "oh, yeah, f.lux was off, shit." It's not like 11:30PM rolls around and I realize f.lux is off and suddenly I can't sleep.
You know my identity but not my e-mail? jed@jedsmith.org. Fire away.

I'm realizing I might regret this, but if you want to contact me out of band, I'm offering the opportunity. I also don't expect that you will.
No, it is Yesterday.
If I were OP, $5000 for a -in my opinion- promising application delivered within a month? Sign me up!

Honestly, I'd probably pay $5000 just for some good ideas if disclosure didn't ruin the concept.
Wait, I thought Forrst was bought out by Colourlovers back in March[1]?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/design-community-colourlove...
I know a lot of gay people in the tech community in both SF and NYC (and at MIT). Not many lesbians, but that's due to lack of women overall (and they are probably well represented in the overall small number of female engineers).

A surprisingly large number of transgendered people. My first contact with a transgendered person was finding out the ~40 year old female IRCop on EFnet who was married to a woman was originally a man. Really confusing for a 13yo, but it was great to first encounter someone that different from me in a safe setting where I already respected that person's technical competence and general reasonableness.

It's kind of funny that in the military, where the whole LGBT rights thing was a big issue, one of the biggest predictors of "would you be ok with LGBT openly serving" was "did you know someone who was LGBT and a good soldier otherwise" -- if the first gay person you met was some horrible example of humanity independent of being gay, it was pretty easy to assume all gay people would be like that. If the first one was a great soldier (like 1LT Dan Choi), you'd be more likely to support gay soldiers as a class.

I think part of the problem with it is that most LGBT people are basically invisible about sexuality in their work settings -- which is awesome. I don't want to know about coworkers who have weird fetishes for objects, or blondes, or whatever. If it comes up in the context of "oh, I can work late, my husband will take the kids..", that's a great way to learn a coworker is gay. It isn't something you need to hide, but in a work setting, there's no reason to flaunt any traits unrelated to work.
I got that. Imagine this chain of 50% companies growing to some length. That could lead to a subprime mortgage crisis in a teapot. =)
It was. It was sold to Zurb by CL.
Tres profesores desarrollan electrosensibilidad al instalar el wifi
Hot Chocolate Better in Orange Cups
See also the price drop for the iPhone back in 2007 (33% drop 10 weeks after release [1]). Resulted in an open letter and apology from the CEO [2].

[1] http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/the-iphone-price-d...

[2] http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
Wondering what you mean by this:

> most people who search for prepared dishes aren't actually going to prepare them
That's a fair point. However, I don't think the author had that in mind as they specifically mentioned WP's growth affecting (stunting) Nokia's growth. Still, your point is quite valid.
[Posting under a throwaway account]

I used to be a diehard Forrst user. It was an awesome community--a core site that I contributed to and drew from everyday. Then, last March, they sold to Colourlovers...and everything went to hell. The quality of the posts went way down. Feedback went down. Comments became vehicles for spam. Community standards were no longer enforced. Forrst right now is a wasteland compared to what it was a year ago.

What ZURB is buying is not what Colourlovers bought.
in metropolitan areas, major markets such as whole foods already deliver for ~$5. If anything, this type of business streamlines the process making it cheaper. Lot's of things can be done to make this process more efficient (i.e. good algos for who should deliver what where when).. After these processes mature and delivery gets cheaper, this service can be extended to more retailers. There is your (simple example of) strategy to scale.
Maybe you and hmexx could work together on a YC app.
They go to your website, see price A, then they switch IP address and computer (e.g. they visit your website again with their phone) and see price B.
>Trader Joe's already delivers

I hadn't heard about that before, so I looked it up. I couldn't find any TJ delivery site, except an unofficial one from 2011, but it looks like they got sued by TJ.[1] The official TJ website says that they don't sell online.[2]

1: http://domainnamewire.com/2011/08/14/trader-joes-sues-grocer...

2: http://www.traderjoes.com/about/general-faq.asp#Online