skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, okay. I guess it was just confusing to me since they didn't mention CL at all in the post.

Any known reason why they didn't mention CL? Seems interesting that CL didn't really seem to do much with Forrst since they acquired it in March.
I don't think #2 will work without reforming the system to incentivize that kind of behavior. My grandmother goes to the podiatrist to have him cut her toenails (diabetes). There's barely any risk of her doing it herself, but he charges $200 every week for this treatment to Medicare. With her supplemental insurance, she pays nothing for these visits out of pocket. Why wouldn't she go?
You might take a look at this: https://makeyourlaws.org/
I was so ready to be the critical complaining guy in this thread... animated web pages are one of my top "don't do things just because you can" pet peeves. But the animation here is actually fine, it isn't hindering my access to content, it isn't jumping around and forcing me to look at it, etc.

Nicely done.

To others that would like to add some dynamic animation to their pages: take notes! keep it subtle.
May be Zurb can get it back to what it was ?
The High Cost of Poor Software Quality
From the Notepad: A Linkblog Supplement
He says he expects people to work full-time for about a month and will pay nex to nothing before he sees some code.

So yeah, I guess about one per month per person...
Should You Find A Co-Founder? With Noam Wasserman, HBS
There's a couple of issues specific to cooking and recipes that I feel are worse than other general information. Lots of home cooks and unvetted recipes use unsafe cooking practices--not cooking meat long enough or getting it hot enough (or storing things cold enough), it's common to gloss over or skip important steps, online recipes they can often leave out important details that would be caught by an editor. I recipe I made the other day just asked for 2 cans of tomato puree--didn't specify the size of the cans. My mom has a few excellent recipes that just list the ingredients and you mix the amounts to taste.

None of these are problems for people comfortable enough with cooking and know what you're attempting to make, but if you're trying to learn best practices I think it's easiest to find a reputable cookbook for reference. I agree with that the author said, many cookbooks are terrible. I think it's going to get worse with self-publishing and ebooks (I'm definitely not knocking them--but I think in this case it's going to lower the quality).

To your specific point, I agree with the sibling comment about it being an aggregate for the whole site and people linking to stuff they have no intention of making.
Actually Amazon owns soap.com. It's a more limited inventory but quick (1-2 days typically for most items) with free shipping over $49. I supplement soap.com with amazon.com as needed.
I am not sure about this. Every analysis of performance when it comes to Go shows it lagging behind even Java. It is simply not mature enough.
The Twitter stack
Soap.com is a Quidsi company which is a unit of amazon.
I'm totally curious about what you mean about deli cups and their life-changing properties. Just because they are cheap and semi-disposable? Because they stack so compactly?
That's my hope.
> and by holding the patent you ensure that no one else uses it against you.

A - Wouldn't they be protected due to f.lux being prior art? B - Would a competitor be able to get a patent on this in the first case? (due to A)
I was taking over his terminology, but you're right whipping is the correct term.

It depends on what you need it for. With my electric mixer it's easy to overwhip. It's probably just silly nostalgia and habit though (my grandmother used to whip cream with a fork).
Source? I thought MP3 surpassed CD over a year ago...

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/01/digital-music-...
Steve Jobs' Efforts to Support Ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd and Protect HP's Legacy
How to name your product, not recalling something stupid (or worst)
Can I borrow that? :)
I couldn't agree more. Also, sometime around when CL bought it, Forrst made some weird changes with sorting. Like if I'm on "Popular Posts" and scroll to the point where it loads in new posts, all of the posts are dated over a year ago. It's very buggy now-a-days, it seems.

Forrst has been a wasteland (like you mentioned) for quite awhile now. I feel like it's going to take a lot to get the original steam back.
> The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me

That's exactly the kind of website they should be preserving! The future people will be glad that we kept some ephemera around.

And I love that website - just so blue; and comic sans not used ironically; and animated gifs; and the guestbook.
It is a sunny day and a among his other wares a street vendor is selling umbrellas for $11.99. After you pass his stand it begins to rain, and you return to the vendor. The umbrellas are now priced at $15.99.
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I'd be interested to hear what you think of D.
In Poland, the government does fund startups. It tends to draw all kinds of scam artists which will take the gov money and create some kind of hopeless facebook-for-dogs website just to satisfy formal requirements. The funding system is designed to weed out such individuals, but obviously they are highly motivated (free money!) so many of them manage to game it anyway.
Rhapsody CEO: Freemium Doesn't Work
Anyone considering this offer will find this HBS professor's interview relevant to your interests -
http://www.thestartupslingshot.com/startup-slingshot/should-...
How to change the Name of Posts in WordPress
Tangent: I met Craig yesterday randomly in a coffee shop. He seemed really smart and gave me a few Postgres performance tips. I didn't know he was a big deal. I guess those are the cool twists of fate people talk about happening in the Bay Area.
How Your Money Loses Value and How to Stop It
Not exactly, I didn't mean that what you think is productive should be thrown out, no need to throw anything. What I meant, is that your cycle does not accumulate the entirety of this thing called life.
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet is that most of the high-end makers of pots and pans (all clad, le creuset, etc.) also sell their "seconds" at significant discounts. You can get them online and at some of their outlet stores. The defects that make them seconds rarely impact their ability to cook.

My opinion on pots and pans is that you should consider non-stick pans to be disposable. Even the best ones will have their teflon worn down over time. So I don't waste money on high-end teflon pans. I buy heavy duty aluminum teflon pans from restaurant supply stores. My personal preference for non-teflon pans is enameled cast iron and/or clad stainless steel pans. These pans will last a lifetime. So people should buy ones they're comfortable spending.
Can you imagine the poor accountant who has to figure out the taxes?
Interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meringue

There's way more to meringue than I realized.
Thank you! Turns out my skillet has lost some of its seasoning. Whether this is because or in spite of how we use it for spaghetti sauce so much remains to be seen.
> 1: Doesn't understand it

That's a condescending interpretation. Just because someone doesn't like something doesn't mean that they don't understand it.
Think of them like rigid zip-locs that you can also use for mise en place, to store spices and grains in your cabinet, individual portions of leftovers for eating at the office, vinegar and vegetables for pickling, and perfect portions of stock for freezing. Along with anything else you'd use a zip-loc in the fridge for.

The big thing about delis is that you'll simply save a lot more food, because they're so extremely convenient.
Maybe offensive to a hardcore nationalist...
None of what you said is either backed by facts or is actually worth remembering if you're trying to fix the problem.

I always read your replies to threads about health care in the US and I'm always left with two thoughts: "what does that even mean and how does it further the conversation?"

If you bothered to actually follow the link to the data (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CPOP/DBASSE_080393), you'd see that none of what you said is accurate. The US is either at the end or, sometimes, in the middle of the rankings for everything. The Violence graph is particularly interesting.
Learn from yourself.

Seriously, for a while, the more I read the more dogmatic I would be about meditation.

I would avoid Eckhart Tolle at all costs, he is imprecise with language and his forced separation of "observer mind" from "ego mind" clashes greatly with my materialistic point of view. He has some nice ideas, but frankly this forced separation is extremely misleading.

I could write a whole blog post on the problems I have with it, but it boils down to one fact: our mind, ego, thoughts and feelings are inseparable from each other. There is one consciousness, and my goal in meditation is to focus my consciousness on my consciousness. To watch the machine at work, so to speak. It doesn't involve shifting to a higher form of consciousness, it just involves becoming conscious of your own thoughts, feelings, and senses, and realizing that these are all components in the machinery of your mind.

Once you establish this, once you can focus on the sensation of sensing, the automatic nature of thought, or the inevitability of feelings, you become enlightened without really trying to. You realize that judgement is unnecessary, that the machinery is working exactly as it should be, and the "trouble spots" in the machine are not problems with the mechanism itself, but instead are an overreaction by the conscious mind to a perceived threat.

By observing the machinery without judging, you help eliminate harmful negative feedback loops that only worsen problems. The common phrase in neurobiology is that "neurons that fire together, wire together". Instead of focusing on a particular negative sensation or thought, and the pain it causes you, you can simply observe the negative sensation or thought as it is: the machine doing exactly what it evolved to do. In non-meditative thought, we see pain, recognize it as a harm to us, and the feedback loop grows as all the neurons associating this negative impulse with pain begin to fire.

The goal in meditation is to simply observe. Not to follow the path of problem solving. There is no problem. Your mind is working exactly as it evolved to. Simply watch it work, do not judge it, and you will find that the big problems you think you have are essentially trivial.

All that said, I would highly recommend Deepak Chopra's Seven Laws of Spiritual Success.
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Success-Fulfillme...
You could probably use a vacation away from tech.

Not trying to be mean. Just sayin'.
Show HN: CLAHub - Easy contributor license agreements with GitHub
Congrats to the Votizen team! Great group of engineers who have contributed a great deal to Django and Python.
If you don't like eggs, you can also do without the nonstick pan. That's all you'll ever really use it for. Even fish works fine in a well oiled sautee.
I'd love to see more of this. Very impressive work.
I wonder if the two groups are

1. the ones who discovered the "Slow" setting in preferences, and

2. the ones who didn't.

When the transition is set to Fast, I find it very jarring. When it's set to slow, I barely notice it.
Screen with videos before you meet
Flammable was invented precisely because people assumed "inflammable" meant its opposite. At some point, language consistency becomes less important than random fires being started accidentally.
Show HN: Bookmarklet that sends highlighted text to your phone
CLAHub is a side project I put together a few months ago, and just got around to releasing. It's open source. It's not finished per se, but I'd love to hear what you think.

Questions from the blog post: Do you use a CLA for your project(s)? Would this encourage you to add a CLA if you don’t have one already? (That’s not really my goal - just to reduce friction where CLAs are already valuable.) If you have a CLA, would you use something like this to reduce the barrier to entry and your overhead? What kinds of features would be useful?
Part of the problem is the people who like it insist that everybody must like it and anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't get it. I don't get upset when people talk about things that made their lives better, I get upset when they make unqualified statements about my life.
http://ankisrs.net/

I'm not sure what kind of cards you should make for this as I didn't use it to learn proofs (only starting uni this fall) but I've used it for everything from equations and syntax to poems.

The key is to break the info into the smallest pieces that still make sense. You'll also inadvertently learn a lot by making the cards.
How To Make That One Thing Go Viral
Lapka - $220 portable environment monitor (radiation, EMF, humidity, nitrates)
Grocery delivery makes a lot of sense in a lot of places (it's been going on in NYC forever).

What didn't make sense was massive capital investment to build their own distribution centers (billions) and expanding into markets where everyone who could afford non-food-stamp food had cars (Atlanta, Texas).

I loved WebVan in the bay area. In the Bay, the capital-intensive model was fine, although they could have bootstrapped by having kids run into Safeway stores as customers, which is what Instacart, Tesco, Safeway Delivery, etc. do now.
I would add one additional point of caution:

The Rails community seems unusually keen on the 'curl example.org/script | sh' as an installation method (see Pow.cx etc.).

I'd usually recommend reading these scripts before execution, but for now especially so as it would seem an obvious target if people are looking to leverage this exploit to acquire more boxen.
It's happening to "literally" as we speak.
A quick blood test, and lead level could be added in. There is an ethical complexity that may be on our doorsteps.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-cr...
Cuil's infrastructure was across the aisle from my cage :)
That system has worked in other creative endeavors as well, the whole 'landing page/sign-up' thing is a way to de-risk concept development but that may not be the issue here.

One has to optimize for the 'harder' thing being done. So if the challenge is getting the MVP written, then this order makes sense, the risk on the $3000 is less than the risk on the $5000. If the challenge is getting people to understand it, then doing the landing page first makes sense. From hmexx's point of view $8,000 is at risk either way, except he "knows" he can do the customer acquisition part but doesn't know if someone can do the "MVP" part.

One of the realities this discussion has highlighted is how little young engineers (and some older ones too!) value the whole marketing/customer acquisition thing. But the beauty of it is that when the risk arbitrage is low enough, that doesn't matter. One has to ask is there a 'funding round' that is earlier than a 'seed/angel' round? Maybe an 'idea' round. Two people come together, one proves they can execute on building an MVP and one proves they can execute by acquiring customers, then the pair take the next step (assuming the thing works and customers are found). This really side steps the whole "I've got a great idea if I could just get it off the ground" discussion into "What are you willing to bet?"
What are the key differences between the two services?
If someone "beats you to the punch" then they would have beat you anyway. If you have an idea that's so simple that it can be easily replicated from a signup / info page, it probably wouldn't last.
If that's what creaming whites means (adding cream of tartar for meringue), I probably just missed it because I think meringue is yucky. :)
Netflix Storytelling And Why You Should Tell Stories of Your Platform
Lytro Reveals Its Software Side At CES [video]
Yes, same here. Default 3400K is very uncomfortable on my eyes. 4300K fluorescent is bearable, but still annoying. I much prefer to change brightness if I need to ambiently adjust the screen.
Judging by the press release, no.

> We're committed to listening, participating and fostering a healthy design community.
I don't know where you get these opinions from, but I know it isn't Cook's Illustrated. And I don't know anywhere else to get well-tested opinions.
Maybe but it would be something of a miracle.

I can't really think of any cases where some web service was loved, and then hated and then managed to restore its reputation. Watching a formerly great service crash and burn leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of users resulting in a situation that I believe is much harder to undo than it would be to just create a "spiritual successor" follow-up with a different brand name.
But you then can never know what the actual real ini value is. The override should be a different interpreter state variable (if at all).
That's silly. Compare Sweden to Washington State, which is similarly sized, more diverse, and has the second best infant mortality stats in the US.

The point is that Sweden is a cherry-picked comparison.
Various pricing schemes:

Price what everyone else is charging ($5, $10, $20 per month)
Price according to value (you're saving people 200 labor hours per year, price it
at 200 * hourly wage)
Price at the ideal price (good luck finding it, and if customers catch wind
you're playing a/b games with them, barricade your doors)
Price discriminate (create different pricing options for basically the
same product with different features and attributes, maybe based on amount
of use, maybe based on premium features)

Another real world tactic: create competitors or offbranded versions of the same service. This can help support your branded cost by allowing unbranded seemingly less good products be sold at lower prices to price discriminating consumers. It can let you sell to two groups of customers as well, including those customers your competitors might steal. It can make your entire market seem that much more of a real thing since now there seem to be competitors in it. In can drive up barriers to entry since there are competitors, and since you have the various pricing schemes already covered.

The article mentions that you can't ask people how much something costs, what matters is their behavior. And that's true. But I think you can ask people to compare products and services with known prices to your new product. Do you pay for Evernote at $5 per month and Spotify at $10 per month? If you could only pay for one at $7 per month, which one would you pay for? If you could only pay for Evernote at $5 per month, or my new site that does X at $5 per month which would you pay for? And you can do A/B testing on those prices.
That's not what I meant at least. For meringue you definitely want a mixer, especially for the Italian variety.
Artificial molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing
It would be helpful if you could be clearer about which of those points "isn't backed by the facts" and which are "not worth considering", assuming those are disjoint sets.
not a lot of actionable information in this post. very fluffy. reminds me this comment that a poster made yesterday.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033493
Rejection Therapy: A Hundred days of "No"
OK, so you'd rather work for a guy who fires the adulterer the next day, not the same day that he finds out he's been poking his wife? Because he's taken 24 hours to "think it over"?

I can understand if the employee was caught stealing petty cash or fudging the time sheets; then you'd want some semblance of due process to gain absolute proof, give him a chance to resign rather than be fired, etc.

But adultery? Confessed adultery?
Hands-On with the Vuzix M100, a Google Glass Competitor
Sabre, the airline reservation system, doesn't use transactions either, for very similar reasons.
When I played with constructing my own language, one of my concerns was how much poetry and wordplay that a logical semantic consistency prevented. For instance, "I pick... you!" is impossible in a language where the direct object comes earlier in the sentence.
It's always a problem and a catch 22, you want to get customers, but also avoid competition, but I think the trend today is that stealth mode is not that helpful, there are so many ideas and if you believe what they say in the news, not enough developers to build them, your big enemy is a market with no customers, not a market with competitors. if you launch 3 months after someone in today's world, even if they manage to get a few thousands customers ahead, it doesn't make much difference in my opinion if you build it better, you'll catch up.

As someone said here earlier, idea is just a multiplier of execution.
We all know that prior art can be missed when issuing a patent -- I'd assume having it already in the patent system makes that less likely to happen, and easier to deal with when it does happen.
Companies that support remote workers win against those that don’t
How do you defend that if "right" for me happens to be walking around nude in public, or more extreme, shooting people that I disagree with?

The fact that is right for you to do something doesn't mean it's not right for me and others to stop you from doing it. Since they're relative, there's no inconsistency.

Incidentally, I find it amusing how you just implicitly judged whole societies (where walking around nude in public is/was the standard) as being morally in the wrong. I've always found the moral absolutism argument to have a disagreeable taste of superiority.
You can't extract all the information contained in a brain non-destructively. You'd need reproduce the neural graph, 10ˆ11 neurons with an average of 7000 synapses (connections), along with the type of neurons, the dendritic trees, the strength of the synapses, the map of active genes in each cell, and most probably other cellular parameters, like the state of the cytoskeletton. Probably even more.

It would require something along the lines of the Allen Brain Atlas Project [0], but much more advanced, since you'd have to extract all the information out of one brain. The Allen project has several atlasses, built out of different brains. They've yet to map the circuitry of a mouse brain (the project was started in 2011).

Even if it were possible to extract the relevant info, since the extraction would destroy the brain, you'd better have a conscious clone, which preserves the identity of the original. What happens to one's identity is also troubling, since you could, theoretically, instantiate several copies of someone. I'm not sure the identity would be carried over, actually.

By identity, I mean the fact that you're the same person in the morning that you were when you fell asleep. Your consciousness dissolves and re-emerges, and you're still yourself. We take it as granted, but it is extremely puzzling to me.

Another problem is that the relations between time and consciousness have yet to be understood. The fact that the brain processes information in parallel is probably important, meaning that a fast serial simulation by turing machines would not necessarily cut it, even with "massive" supercomputers. The level of parallelism in the brain will not be achieved in a long time in silico, at least not with the current approach.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Brain_Atlas

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Side note: you should remove the four spaces at the beginning of your post.
I'd imagine the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem has something to say about a brain upload. Maybe an approximate copy is good enough?
In fact, the majority of software installed on my 64-bit Windows 7 system is 32-bit. Sad.
Side note: is there a policy (on Amazon's end) for editing affiliate links? Could pg theoretically swap the tag to ?ref=yc-20 if he wanted to?
It's not often that the top item on HN makes me laugh. What a relief.
Charge what the market will bear. Yes, I haven't answered the question.