skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats, this is awesome news! I contributed to a couple of patients when I first saw you announce this on HN because I like the 'direct to patient, 100% utilization' nature of it. This is a reminder for me to go back.

I see from your website you are a 501(c)(3) charity. I will submit your organization for approval for the matching program at my employer, which I like because it allows me to 'stick it to the man' by donating to all kinds of things my employer might or might not support (this doesn't fall into that category though). They also match volunteer hours by employees at $17 bucks an hour (after the first 10 hours), which can be a great way to get free work and free money.
Agreed. So, it will be interesting to see if the generic anti-viral negatively effects us as a species; and what we'll do about it.
Which city is best for my startup?
Hello,

Which city below is most supportive and known for its tech startups/startup ecosystem; or in other words, where would you take your tech startup? I have a few options:

Cleveland, Ohio /// Detroit, Michigan /// Memphis, Tennessee

If you could also explain why, that would be great.

Thank you.
It's much more likely that you're creating websites that fail accessibility guidelines and that many people are forced to zoom in to read.

100%/16px is standard for article body copy.
The crazy economics of mining asteroids for gold and platinum
http://blog.cueup.com/announcing-a-new-name-new-free-service...
designers and users need to speak up about it , that trend is silly , horrible and i'm sick of it. Does it work on tablet ? maybe but it doesnt work at all on desktop, and they did not vanish obviously. The heck you dont even need designers anymore , there is no design at all on these website. flat , no texture , no balance , nothing ...
You should really download the judgement and read it before you accept that set of comments as factual.

Apart from the Trip Advisor and Yelp reviews, the judge addresses the lot of them.
I used to have ilictronix on my feed but it disappeared a while ago, moving the blog to heroku makes sense as to why. Will find and re-follow
WikiLeaks film script leaked to WikiLeaks
I looked through your links and don't see anything about Keith Rabois being gay. That he was might be common knowledge, but it's not intimated on those sites.
"I've never been so excited about anything we've funded."

That's great! I'm excited that you're excited. I imagine we'll see a lot more non-profits in YC shortly. Will 2013 be the year of many such non-profits, like 2012 was for hardware startups?
Facebook to pay $20 Million in 'Sponsored Stories' Settlement
Great suggestion. We hopefully will make money from them! As a non-profit, we're able to earn money just as a for-profit would. The only difference is that we are required by law to invest any profit back into the organization to ensure we're never personally profiting off of the generosity of others.
These numbers are not mutually exclusive. The caption for that graph is "% of respondents who have worked with a particular language".

Some high percent of developers in a web company have most likely worked with Javascript. Let's say it's 70%, then that's (roughly) 70% of developers who work with Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP, and ASP.net, among others. This is also true of SQL, which is the number 2 result.
Huh. I started working directly after high school; less than 2 years after I graduated, I was The Tech Guy at the largest ISP in Chicago, and just a few years later a developer at the first commercial vulnerability research lab.

I never really even had a chance to think about a degree.

Maybe now I should!
"SO should admit the shortcoming and ban all security questions (other than pen-testing)."

You can comment on answers and even suggest your own.
Those were my thoughts exactly. I actually wrote him to say that he should expand that piece into a book. It would be unique.
Is Intellectual Property Broken?
> I think the US law here is dumb, but it's the law.

It is what it is, huh? 'It's the law' is a dose of propaganda so you don't feel bad about being forced to do something stupid.

A legal collision sounds so polite. To me, this resembles gang behavior. People want to gamble, so fuck the State. Statists are the hypocrites who let you buy lottery tickets at every corner store.

I agree with you that this isn't limited to the US, but the US wields pretty heavy influence and repercussions for disobedience.
The obligatory link for any discussion of a speculative plea for research funding like that is the article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Check each submission to Hacker News you read for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed in the submission.
No, it's smaller on the outside.
Speaking of Kiva, is Watsi going to need volunteer translators? Kiva has a great program where people volunteer to translate loan applications into English, and excellent infrastructure to support it. (My wife has been a Kiva translator for a long time, and might be interested in translating for Watsi, since she specializes in Spanish to English medical documents.)
This article linked from the parent actually seems a better explanation.

http://dankennedy.net/2013/01/24/the-swartz-suicide-and-the-...
This is an extremely important point - there was an epic mass delusion: Real estate can only go up. It permeated not only all of finance, but all of politics, regulators and the general public. The very same people who would have laughed the president out of office are somberly acting indignated that bankers get clean out of the mess they made. Everyone is washing their hands, and the one thing everyone can agree on is that we like banks the least.
What it's like having a kid
Anecdotally, I've found myself in situations which would easily qualify as sexual harassment more than once. Each situation would have been "OK" by your definitions, on the surface.

Trying to judge risk in terms of gender or apparent orientation seems a bit silly to me.
Does anyone actually know how can we donate to that research? The whole thing seems to be very poorly coordinated. I got very excited about previous news regarding DRACO. Now I see even more news and I'm basically at the "shut up and take my money" stage. It's the first time ever I'd be happy to donate right away...

And here's where the things break down. Where's a paypal button? Where are the bank details? Where's more information?

"If more than 10,000,000 people can contribute to the re-election campaign of a certain President of the United States, just think what we can do with DRACO." Sure we can. But here's the problem:

google: "draco research donate" - give up after 30 min with no relevant results

google: "obama donate" - first link is to https://contribute.barackobama.com/

Now please! Help me help you. Give me a chance to donate something.
Anthony you and your HypeM team continue to bring the magic of creativity, engineering and fun to us music heads. Bravo
And how is Cue doing since?
The judge's decision makes it sound pretty black and white to me: http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/private_property/forfeit...

I find that Mr. Caswell took all reasonable steps to prevent drug crime on the Property.

In any event, property owners are not obligated to become “substitute police forces.”
Wow, almost like it's the EPOCH and there was a bug that set unixtime to 0.
> I'm not talking about relationship. I'm talking about informing affected parties about it.

Yeah, it's really feeling like you skipped the part where I explain why the nebulous nature of the relationship might have affected the disclosure.
Yes, there are people all over that need help, and that definitely includes those you mentioned in the US. However, there are existing organizations already working on that, or other organizations yet to be created that could lead the charge.

Watsi was founded on a few simple principles, and 2 that we apply to every possible treatment are "low cost, high impact". Unfortunately, health care in the US is not low cost. It's ridiculous.

I hope one day we can collaborate with an organization or 2 that will take on the challenge! Until then, there's Give Forward, which does a great job itself.
That was the joke :-P
What’s Wrong With iTunes 11: Visual Design Isn’t Information Architecture
I don't understand. Maybe we have different professional cultures. Why is having an undisclosed relationship with another employee the worst possible business decision? (Certainly in my culture I can think of much worse decisions one person could make).
As I noted in the Github Readme, this tool will not generate code that you will able to REcompile. My tool does a lot of things, but straight-up repackaging/ripping off other people's apps is exactly what apk2gold is bad at.
Free As in Sexist? Free Culture and the Gender Gap
> If Watsi didn't exist, many of the patients on our site would have likely died. How do you quantify that impact?

Roughly, by comparing it to the number of people who die in other hypothetical scenarios. You can't get exact numbers, but you can do a damn sight better than saying "it can't be done".

> How do you prove that all the donations made via Watsi would have been allocated to some other cause had we not existed?

Of course they wouldn't. But what if, instead of creating Watsi, you had put the same effort into advocating for more efficient charities? (This is a serious question. I actually wouldn't be completely shocked if it turns out that that would have been less effective.)

> Nyaya Health, which was rated one of GiveWell's "Standout Organizations" last year.

However, they didn't estimate its cost-effectiveness. And on that metric... I go to your website and see that $1000 can stop someone from maybe becoming infertile, and that just doesn't seem like it can possibly win against malaria nets. (Looking deeper, that seems like one of the lowest value treatments available, but I don't expect the others to win either.)

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you guys are doing this. I'm not convinced you're doing the best you possibly could, but you're doing far better than me. I absolutely think your impact on the world is massively positive. But I don't anticipate donating to you myself any time soon.
Well, this service doesn't really seem useful to people that live outside the US. E.g. "A Good Day to Die Hard" won't be released until a month later in Australia, but the website indicates that it comes out a month earlier. Aggregating the release dates would be nice.
I agree, odd that he wouldn't let them know.
I check out the Hype Machine daily, for about 3 years now - keep up the great work!
She's most likely jealous (of something she already has but has to share and is still paying mortgage on) and grasping at straws. It's something humans do.
Just wanted to throw out a huge congrats to Anthony and company for all the work you've done on the site. It's become my entire new music source over the past 4 years and I'm excited to see where it goes!

Job well done, I'm still waiting for an official Android app though :)
The judge's opinion certainly makes the man sound like a victim of persecution to me. From it:

The evidence was consistent that no law enforcement personnel ever attempted to communicate with Mr. Caswell about any potential safety measures which could have been taken at the Motel Caswell to reduce drug crime at the Property. Moreover, the numerous law enforcement witnesses offered very few suggestions even at trial which are not already in use at the Motel.

Also from the opinion:

I reject the Government’s argument that Mr. Caswell did nothing to safeguard the Property. Rather, there was a clerk at the front desk 24 hours a day for security purposes. There also was a camera in the main lobby and a sign warning guests that suspicious behavior would be reported during the entire period in question. Moreover, the Property was well-lit both in the front and back, a security camera was added to the back parking lot, and guests were always required to fill out registration cards, a procedure that was tightened after the police suggested copying drivers’ licenses. In addition, Mr. Caswell and the Motel staff reported suspicious behavior to the police, cooperated fully with the police, gave the police access to rooms and registration cards, and generally maintained good relationships with law enforcement. Police were free to and did drive through the premises regularly on patrol.

The opinion's at http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/private_property/forfeit... - I'd recommend people read it before concluding there had to be some sort of government intervention against this man and his property.
We're switching to stripe.
Just experienced this a month ago as the man as well. "Intense" is the only reasonable word I could possibly use to describe the experience. I can't even imagine going through it from the other side as a woman and, oh man, the things we leave out when educating people about giving birth. Fatherhood is pretty cool so far though!
The purpose of the sanction is to deprive one country of revenue, so presumably the prevailing price in that country.
Next up, a YC L3C (a hybrid for and non profit)
"At this time, many buyers of investments didn't do that at all."

All consumers are all the "buyers" of junk mortgages in the end, but there's no way that we knew how junk they were when the executives were willfully defrauding us.
Wonderful. But the site's zoom setting don't allow for expanding the post/photos to the width of an iPad. Very frustrating.
Heymann, Peters says, thought the Swartz case "was going to receive press and he was going to be a tough guy and read his name in the newspaper."

The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again...

EDIT: The notion I was trying to capture is perhaps better expressed by saying, "Be careful what you wish for." Heymann got all the things Peters accuses him of wanting, just not exactly in the form he was presumably hoping to receive them.
"Someone could go to a MOOC to learn the stuff, then get the assessment from UWisconsin."

That is the model I expect to predominate in the long term, actually.
Willful ignorance was rewarded in huge, HUGE bonuses.
I mean a sly ex-cop/PI is going to pose as a delivery guy and wake the kid up at 8AM after he feels safe and gets sloppy, and get him on camera agreeing that he doesn't really own the place.
Something like that is my guess. There are a million tricks that they will use, depending on how resourceful and stubborn they are.
The origin of the Solarized colors
H.265 Is Approved
Pastebin mirror for non-Quora users: http://pastebin.com/hxvpjabr
You're definitely correct about the flash, I think the second reason is that the aspect ratio has been altered. The 350x290 image is displayed at 300x275.
This is so they can ride out the end while the degrees mean something. I live in WI and am familiar with what's going on here with the higher-ed budget.

If you give people a test they can take online, how long do you think it will be before the answers get out there and people are just easily getting degrees? The degrees will mean less than they do now.

I can tell you from both the student side and the teacher side that students who cannot perform the tasks required in their field can still pass tests. The "fizz-buzz" failers, for example.

I will be 100% okay with this approach, however, if they are performance-based assessments. The college I teach at is moving in that direction - students must practice for and demonstrate the abilities for the competencies.

I've never been a believer in tests, so I like performance based learning, especially for programming.
Fabulous.

Original source: http://www.paris1914.com/
Will the movie touch upon this particularly meta plot point?
Sounds like the UNIX time epoch but in a timezone in America, e.g. EST (UTC-5), making it the day before.
It's going to take you a while to learn the architecture of your company, and you will probably not learn all of it. It can take months to learn how even a simple distributed system works. My suggestion is to do the work that they throw your way.

You will most likely be working in a small area of the architecture (for example WebServices). Learn your small bit of architecture first, and become an expert on it. You will naturally start learning about other pieces of the architecture through your own (if you are building Services you will learn about where you are getting your data, etc). However, don't be complacent, force yourself to learn the pieces of architecture that connect to your piece, and move in a direction that makes sense for you. If you are starting out building services and want to do more front-end work, learn about the rendering stack, etc that is consuming your service. If you're more interested in the back-end, start learning whatever database you are consuming in your services really well.

As you grow in the company you should constantly do this. Once you become more of a value than a liability in one area move onto the next. This process should take months, if not years, so be patient and give yourself grace.
For what it's worth, you'd probably be a good candidate for this Johns Hopkins research survey:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/1795sk/the_psilocybin...
Surely you don't have to touch the hardware. Just hand-editing a patch file before applying with git am is enough.
Beautiful. Similarly, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled Tsarist Russia in the decade before the revolution, taking fantastic color photographs with three plates and color filters: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
Steve Wozniak is "Embarrassed" by this Clip of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs
mygarett@gmail.com (if you could?!)
It strikes me as odd that a company should be automatically given privilege to the personal relationships of its employees. Maybe I'm not fully understanding the situation here but I cannot see any reason for why an employee's relationship with another employee should be of any concern to the company.
Mr. Rabois's story has the ring of truth.

Consider the following, which are presumably objectively verifiable facts:

A. Mr. Rabois doesn't name his accuser. If he was looking to inflict damage on them, he'd publicize it.

B. The accuser is seeking a payment of "millions of dollars."

C. The relationship began several months before the accuser's employment with Square.

D. The two came into relatively little contact at work.

These facts all show a high probability that the relationship was consensual, and also give a low probability that the accuser will be able to produce conclusive proof of coercion, such as:

. Texts or emails from the accuser saying Mr. Rabois's advances were unwelcome or made him uncomfortable.

. Evidence that Mr. Rabois gave the accuser job-related threats and/or rewards in exchange for the continuing relationship.

This does not conclusively show, of course, that Mr. Rabois is innocent. Nor does it mean the accuser doesn't have a solid case that will stand up in court. But based on the available information, this does seem to be the likelier outcome.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but imagine we gave (2) more teeth and a greater frequency of enforcement. You don't have to put the ability to initiate such proceedings in the hands of defendants so long as the people who can do it are fully independent and properly funded. Which is not a solved problem, granted, but it could conceivably be worth investigating solutions to it.

And am I the only one who found it alarming the extent to which the plea bargaining system eviscerates almost the entirety of your list? If someone innocent pleads guilty against the expense of a trial or the risk of an order of magnitude or more higher penalties, how many of those safeguards disappear? Suppressing evidence becomes irrelevant, no jury, no appeals, what does that leave? The Grand Jury that would indict a ham sandwich?
We are completely surrounded by embedded devices, and their numbers are growing exponentially. Everything has a computer in it. You might be shocked to know the power that's in some of these devices... your cable box might be a quad-core 1.2GHz ARM.

Currently, your common options for embedded software are:

* bare-metal with C, C++, or ASM

* load a full OS (i.e. Linux) and run an interpreter to get access to higher-level languages

There are a lot of domains where the problem being solved doesn't require particularly high hardware resources, but requires quite advanced software design. Implementing something like a modern Blu-Ray player's UI and high-bandwidth/low-latency AV in C is rough. You spend a LOT up front on software development costs, and pay more in the maintenance phase. Alternatively, you can save on development and maintenance by running an OS and using high-level languages and existing libraries... but then your board price per unit skyrockets because of the extra processing power, RAM, and flash that you need to support the OS and interpreters.

Access to a modern programming language at a "bare-metal" environment is the holy grain for embedded. It would change the world.

Unfortunately, it has always been practically impossible. And likely still is.
Is the title hiding on purpose? Also, should the menu bar be fixed?

A List Apart is certainly ahead of me when it comes to what's up with web design, so I'm honestly not sure if it's supposed to be like that or if there's something amiss.
The government appears to be able under current forfeiture law, to sue property that was involved in a crime. Such as a motel that was used to make meth. For example "US vs. Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Dollars" http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/461/555
He doesn't really address the "dancing monkey" issue at all - just dismisses it.

His entire career IS founded on surprising Chinese people that a foreigner can do this or that. The main goals expressed in this answer are to keep pushing up the bar.

The success of this IS founded on negative, dismissive stereotypes about foreigners as something like animals. This is why it is so funny when he talks like a person in Chinese. Animals can't talk like people! Amazing!

Note that nothing like this is even vaguely possible in the US for a Chinese person. It is just a person. Tons of ethnic Chinese have naturalized and been fully American for generations. Most people are used to the idea of ethnic Chinese being American, or a Chinese immigrant naturalizing. It is not socially acceptable to talk about a Chinese person like a funny, ridiculous animal.

I guess it is true that it is Western bias to think that Westerners are not funny animals, but so what?
Ah yes, the day we sold our bus.
Everytime I look at historical photography my first thought is "All of those people are dead." And yet, here we are with as many humans as ever and the world is still alive and ticking.

Startup/business takeaway: don't underestimate humankind's ability to transition into and out of roles while keeping the machinery moving.
You got it backwards when you said "fitting together" is a subset of "creation." Creation is fitting existing unused materials together into a more usable form. I believe we should encourage people to fit together existing programs rather then encouraging people to build stuff "whatever the language, whatever the library, whatever the framework".

If everybody uses whatever framework without concern for compatibility it will inevitably lead to enormous bloat. I have no problem with getting things done quickly to fulfill non-software needs. However, when it comes to software one of our most important needs is to reduce bloat by encouraging sharing.