skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good doctors are pattern matchers. In complex cases they do research by reading books or asking others, but they already have a good idea in what's going on.

A doctor that can only recognize diseases like the common cold is not a good one. Your example is exaggerated and also, the patient may already be dead by the time the investigation is over, which is worsened by the fact that aggressive treatments (like strong antibiotics) can do even more damage, so a good doctor has to have a pretty good grasp on what's going on already.
I have a Nexus 4 and it's beautiful. I love it. But I don't really consider it an "LG" phone because look at how strikingly different it is from their other models. It seems that because they carried the Nexus brand, they had to follow the Galaxy Nexus' design, which might be a standard for Nexus phones now. I wouldn't be surprised if the next Nexus phone looked the same.
I get the feeling this is more of an example client written in js. Look more to the server and its API rather than how client implementations are served.
Don't the people who would use a service like this already have the money to use a consierge or assistant who would do the booking for them?
The other numbers (solid bars) seem reasonable.
Cutting the Ceremony in Programming Languages
Brazil next, right?
I don't like use of the term "crowdfunding" to mean charity drives or group buying. Those already have perfectly good phrases to refer to them. Crowdfunding, that is, initial equity funding of a company by a large number of small shareholders, does not have any other handy linguistic handle, and it is the term used in the US law that this article is talking about.

TITLE III—CROWDFUNDING
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Capital Raising Online While
Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act of 2012’’ or
the ‘‘CROWDFUND Act’’.
This isn't what you asked for, but you can unclose a tab by pressing Ctrl-Shift-T
I've spelunked the code a bit, but I am having trouble determining what is running where (JS is not really my bag). Even the stuff in the client/src subdirectory has server-like parts.
Ooooooooo neat!
Good for you for reaching out. You should provide links to your backgrounds and projects and maybe expand on your interests.
In quora it is like you can ask any dumbest of the dumb question and people will compete to answer them instead of downvoting the question. If you are asking the same in stack exchange you will get kicked out of there. :p
I don't know if it's recommended but for simple cases where I just want to trigger some methods on multiple models I just use a concern: https://gist.github.com/byroot/5036110
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Anything in an orange box is an infringement of the YCombinator mark? The Aptiverse logo doesn't have a white outline and is a different font, not to mention a completely different letter. There is certainly no confusion for me.
Because Steam is easy and it always seems to work as expected. They also have a great catalog. I've spent more money buying games through Steam than I have with any other method.

Edit: I forgot the Sales. Those damn Steam Sales get me every time.
Here are some of the important comments:

tamar from Namecheap saying they will accept bitcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/197h9g/namecheap_co... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/197h9g/namecheap_co...

Here's a tweet verifying tamar's identity: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/197h9g/namecheap_co...
And you should add the unprefixed version of a property to your CSS even if it isn't yet supported by browsers, to future-proof your code.
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It's irritatingly slow starting up for me. Once it's going though, it's rock solid and fast enough.
16-Year-Old Jack Andraka Invents Cheap, Accurate Cancer Test
I feel like I own my storage on Dropbox to about the same extent that I own it on S3. Do you not feel like you own cloud storage? Is it because we're just renters? I'm really quite curious what you find ironic.
I hate that HN is now a stream of crappy "I hate <company du jour>" posts. Ugh.
Fyi, to link to a specific time from another page you need to do &t=15m10s rather than #15:10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t...
And I wonder how they qualify as "makers" since they hardly released any game for years now. And let's not talk about HL Episode 3...
Lecture on how to play Blu-ray movie on DVD player
This is a lecture on how to play blu-ray on DVD players. DVDFab Blu-ray to DVD converter will make it posibble to enjoy blu-ray and blu-ray discs on DVD players. Learn more about bluray to dvd converter at: http://www.dvdfab.com/blu-ray-to-dvd-converter.htm?ad=hcj
And which major browsers support all of that?
Shut up about the Surface Pro not being to stand on your lap!
Babies can hear syllables in the womb, says research
Is that for an S3 like service that you can just upload an unlimited number of static files to? Or do you have to maintain a server too?
I opened Steam three times in the past hour and it updated itself every time. Ask me tomorrow and something else weird/buggy/slow will have happened.
I disagree. No one's asking for a literary masterpiece, just a simple and organized explanation of what we're looking at. I would argue that the value is more in the process of creating this simple explanation, because it forces you to empathetically examine the code from a a foreign mindset, and from there to re-order and organize the code in a way that's amenable to conversational (simple) explanation.

This explanation may include requirements and other concerns, description of alternatives and why they were rejected, references to other parts of the codebase, and its high-level design intention (i.e. vision) in order to guide the direction of refactorings and extensions.

None of this requires analogy, symbolism, foreshadowing, subtlety of tone, or even a mastery of diction and syntax. Anything resembling Yeats or Dostoyevsky is counter-productive.
Nice. I'll have to check if that's an option for mine.
time to start the side business of masks, hoodies, and face paints.
Yeah.. I'm on Chrome 25 and was disappointed to see this.
It's awesome. I like it.

Watching Sonsuzdongu's (infinite loop in Turkish) progress since it's founding, I find it an exciting new company which I hope they are able to influence and improve the work environments of programmers in Turkish companies by being an example.
Aaron Swartz Was Targeted by Feds Over His Activism
Read the other comments. This requires the Pepper plugin API. This is not backward compatible with NPAPI where system calls are made by the plugin itself.
Really? Let's write a shopping list on a piece of paper in JSON and XML. Which one would be more similar to the way we write down lists in real life?

XML:

<list>
<items>
<item>Milk</item>
<item>Eggs</item>
<item>Bread</item>
<item>Butter</item>
</items>
</list>

JSON:

{
"list": {
"items": [
"Milk",
"Eggs",
"Bread",
"Butter"
]
}
}

I don't know that either one is particularly close to the way I'd write down a list in real life, to be honest. This is a pretty trivial sample, and neither is especially hard to read/parse by a human. But the JSON still looks closer to line-noise to me. :-)
From what I remember, people originally got on Steam because that's how you got Half-Life 2, which the world was clamoring for. They put up with the problems until it got better because Steam was how you played CS and HL.

As for the DRM... has it ever really been onerous? The only case I think of is if you don't always have access to an internet connection, and they have workarounds for that, though they admittedly are imperfect.

True, the hypothetical/potential failure modes suck - being locked out of your account and losing your games; Valve goes out of business and you lose your games; you're offline and can't switch to offline mode and thus can't play your games until you find an internet connection. That said, I've always been of the impression that most people don't mind Steam's DRM that much because doesn't stop them from doing what they generally expect to be able to do and want to do with their PC games, which is sit down at any PC where they can log in on Steam and play them. This is unlike DRMed music and movie files: sure, DRM prevents you from making unlimited free copies for your friends, which I think most anyone would agree is reasonable, but it also can prevent you from doing things like changing formats or resolutions or storing/viewing from certain devices.
Or in the new tab window in the bottom right there is "Recently Closed" where you can unclose tabs and groups of tabs.
The R in WEIRD is "Rich".
Lovebird  for Thunderbird: The newest thing usually isn’t the most important
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IOS 6.1.3: Clap de Fin pour le jailbreak EvasiOn
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Besides, Steam is just a delivery platform. They make money on games, not Steam, so as long as it is good enough...
I never really thought about it this way. Nothing will probably ever stop Valve from being successful, but I do think they would be more successful if they contracted out half of their work (i.e. the boring/uncreative jobs).
Google already requires that you name each ASP and provides a table listing the name, the date it was created, the date it was last used to log in, and a link to revoke it.

They'd just need to add an option to modify those. The OAuth entries on the same page list each's entitlements, though you don't have the option to modify them.
I don't agree with this. Good developers realize that no work is beneath them. Getting things 'right' takes hard work and part of that work can be menial at times. Part of being a good engineer is understanding that completing a project is both glamorous and boring at times.
I didn't spend whole lot of time on checking all the features but I liked the templates and specially try-online tool. Templates are clean, easy to read, and close to final HTML. Compared to other templates it is much better in terms of features and readability. Love the fact that the compiler is already built-in, which is very important for performance.
FTA's comments:

> all is good when the money is flowing.

That really struck me. Everything is all good when the money is flowing. It doesn't matter whether you work at a bank, a law firm, a defence contractor or a sales agency - no matter what the structure, or how people are organized, everything works when the money is flowing.

Now, what I'm really interested in is catastrophic failure.

What goes wrong when the money stops flowing? From what I've seen historically - the same things go wrong no matter what the place (see GFC effect at various companies back in '08).

How is Valve going to deal with the "always losing money" proposition?
> Would, could, maybe and might.

How about "Is beginning to"? See, for example:

http://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/melting_permaf...
Wow, for a "three things you need to know" title, this article was surprisingly informative. Combining attr with :before is a nice trick; I'll be on the lookout for my own reasons to use that. And calc sounds great.
You should submit the permalink directly.
Linked Gamasutra article just copy/pastes selected content from the Econtalk podcast, adding no additional content or commentary. Nice reporting Frank Cifaldi!

Original content: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm...
In my country government officials are usually paid to be this stupid. I can't imagine USA government officials are this stupid for free.

I know ... never attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity, but come on! Someone sure got at least a nice car out of it.
Your entire argument has been hung up on how what was said was not said the way you would prefer them to say it. Here's where you call them stupid:

As such, it reflects badly on their engineering department, and there is a strong implication that this is not somewhere that a studious engineer would choose to work.
Previously submitted, with much previous discussion.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Death+Singa...

It helps everyone here to submit stories with their canonical URLS (without trailing referrer codes and the like).
Night owl? So are we. Amicus is hiring developers in NYC
> Human beings are irrational and sometimes do things that
> aren't in their economic best interest out of principle
> or ethics.

Humans might be irrational sometimes, but this isn't one of those times. "Rationality" has no meaning outside of the context of a goal . . . the sentence I quoted makes it seem like you're saying people should only care about their economic (do you mean financial/material?) interests.

You also said

> Think about it: if I murder somebody, then offer you $100
> not to tell anyone, would you take the money? I certainly
> hope not.

so it does seem you aren't actually suggesting that.
The issues page is the best you have for that, sort by popularity or something like that.

That's one of the only things I'm frustrated about - I wish there were a clearer list so that I didn't have to troll for tasks that need doing, or ask a core member on IRC/campfire
Recovery Oriented Computing
What's missing is negative reinforcement. If not through a management hierarchy, some sort of Customer Pain Index is at least required. Every crash, every slow load, every extra click, every reported bug, every support call would push the index up.

Edit: though, to contradict myself, this is still as gameable as all hell if you do something silly like connecting it to reward and punishment.
How to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in 4 steps
True. Sorry, I'm new.
Students warned not to get involved in money laundering
I am quite frankly shocked.

You're telling me that trying to shoe-horn complex application logic into JavaScript is not just going to magically work, and that generating views server-side and using minimal JS to provide "cosmetic" improvements still works best?

</sarcasm>
You can accomplish the same thing as flat files by using something like Amazon CloudFront (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/) -- CloudFront caches your dynamically generated pages and serves the generated page from cache rather than hitting your server each time.

See http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/dynamic-content/
Former vice president Gore spoke at Google a couple of weeks ago (promoting his new book). One of the research projects he mentioned was "spider-goats", goats that are genetically engineered to secrete spider silk along with their milk.

Some details in a news article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/14/synthetic-biol...

Given the value of the silk (and presumably the difficulty in mass-farming spiders), this seems like an attractive idea -- as long as the scientists do the math right and don't end up with spiders the size of goats or something.
Looks fine from here.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com
Won't the assistants and concierges wind up using a service like this?
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I've said elsewhere, whenever Valve comes up, that we really have no idea how well it works. It's so fantastically swamped with money that they can pretty much run it any old how and still be "successful".

There's a mixup in correlation and causation here. Similar mixed up conclusions are reached by people looking at other fantastically profitable companies.

Do you like scenario planning? Shell "proves" it works.

Stalinist management? Apple "proves" it works.

Velvet sweatshop? Microsoft "proves" it works.

Data über alles? Google "proves" it works.

Self-directed workplace? Valve "proves" it works.
I think Steam is proof that most people don't really care about DRM too much if it meets two conditions:

a) it doesn't affect the consumption experience too negatively.
b) the platforms pros (e.g. ease of distribution) outweigh the cons (i.e. DRM)

I can't remember the last time I cursed Steam's DRM system, honestly. Most of the time I don't even think about it.
That's a good point about Nokia's choices not being binary, though part of their earlier problems were related to Nokia exploring too many options: Symbian, S40, Maemo, and Meego.
> [...] focus on optimizing DF with multithreading and GPGPU stuff.

You should probably start with algorithmic improvements.
Apple charges $99/year for their iOS or Mac appstores, which has a far greater reach. So perhaps they've set their price too high.
Didn't you flag this thread? So why are you posting in it?

Rayiner is an AC, if he's a lawyer beyond his claim he should stick his name on his profile, until then he just claims to be a lawyer. Grellas is a lawyer.

Since the lawsuit never came to a conclusion you can claim that you can see into the future all you want but the sentence was never passed so you don't actually know how it would end. All we have is what Aaron was charged with, and we know is that he took the push to get him to face jailtime very seriously.

There is no certainty in going before a judge, performance in the past is no guarantee for the future.

It's quite possible that Aaron would have just been 'slapped on the wrist', but since it isn't your head on the block I think you should lay off. And even 'just' being labelled a felon is apparently a small thing to you, to me it would matter a great deal so if that's all there was that is too much for me.

I understand you have a problem with people breaking the law and not getting punished, let's hope that one day you will move beyond 'level 2'.
Who cares? Put that thing on with the Oculus Rift. You'll want to capture the full range of motion, because you'll determine gestures by their interactions with the virtual environment.
Well wouldn't a concierge/assistant be using it then? The value here is the network, which allows for greater flexibility when scheduling flights.
This is the problem I have with Lastpass - someone could hack their servers, replace the javascript encryption file to send the decryption password to their server, and get all of your passwords.
Creating a caste system can lead to unhealthy social dynamics.

The only thing that works is deliberately cultivating a culture where driving out the old bads is as important as creating the new goods.

Put another way: for self-direction to work, the culture needs to rank improvements as highly as novelty. Possibly higher.
I think a good way to measure the success of the management methodologies you mentioned is by looking at how happy the employees are. Four of the five companies in your list are full of horror stories describing terrible corporate bureaucracies or abusive/ignorant/incompetent managers. In contrast, everything I've heard coming out of Valve has been overwhelmingly positive.
Neat, but will they turn a blind eye to domains registered with false information?
Idea Otter - quickly store ideas for later, and see other people's ideas.
Not necessarily. At least in the case of my company, both the salaries and people's anonymous reviews are extremely accurate.
Look on the bright side, we'll have a new sport: Spider Goat Jousting.
Google does intentionally make it a little more difficult to do what you are doing by refusing to ever show you the password again once it has been generated. You have to store that "unmemorizable" sixteen letter password somewhere.

The workflow they seem to encourage is that an "application" asks for your password, you open a browser and generate a new ASP, then save it in that app and forget it forever.

By "application" they mean "something that asks for your password." Thunderbird or iChat, not IMAP or XMPP.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - equity based crowd funding is a bad idea. It's a bad idea, just like easy e-trading was and still is a bad idea back in the late 90's for the average investor.

You know why?

Normal people suck at investing. Period. They just aren't equipped to make good investment decisions - they can barely handle regulated housing/stocks/bonds. The average investor isn't trained in the most basic aspects of finance, isn't qualified to determine the merit for an arbitrary startup, often has a day job that is in a completely separate industry and is just fodder for pump and dump, pyramid schemes and scammers.

Professionals aren't that much better - but that's a whole another discussion (and they're playing with OPM).

This is just setting up bubble 2.0. It also reminds me of another odd thing we have with investing. There's no minimum qualification or licensing needed to become an investor. Odd - seeing as someone investing their live savings as an individual is quite literally playing with what is in effect a life-time's worth of money.

Now - I'm not against pre-orders for products/experiences - a la kickstarter - which I think are absolutely brilliant, and other stuff that is seen as pure consumption (not investment).

What I'm against is what stuff like this will lead to. It's the people investing in Social Media Startup No. 3015 with $5 million in life savings at a $25 million post valuation in 2016.

That's what's worrying.
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As a gateway to all their games, is Steam critical to the company?
Interestingly, one of the jurors reads "Hacker News", according to this: http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/02/13/54833.htm
Google has a company-wide index of satisfaction which they try to maximise.

Microsoft is the only company I've heard of that has (or had) "Morale Budgets", completely within the control of the programmers. In the 90s, according to McConnell, Microsoft would go to any lengths to protect and improve morale.

I can't speak for Shell or Apple.

The point is that people are mixing correlation and causation. There's no reason to think that Valve's self-directed model is the cause of their success, just as there's no reason to think Google are successful because of how they manage their people. In all these cases the massive profitability is pretty much exogenous.
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$200K? a 10-year veteran at google had $80 IPO shares, $200 share grants, $400 share grants, $600 share grants...
Oh, Windows does it too--but that's per app, not per tab. Apparently quite a few people like to listen to music on youtube while playing my game with the volume off :)
display:none vs visibility:hidden is a need-to-know
display: inline-block coupled with font-size: 0px on the parent is huge as well
inset box-shadows are pretty cute too
Look at societies that haven't transitioned from tribal kinship identities and belief systems. Their lifestyle has changed little in thousands of years.
If you are excited with this feature, you should probably try "click to play" for plugins.
That's sort of unfair, I think. Off the top of my head, there was the new Counter Strike late last year, Portal 2 the year before, plus the level editor/sharing update last year, DOTA2 in beta at the moment, constant updates to TF2, recent OSX and Linux ports of most Valve games and Steam, the Source engine and related tools, the Steam Box project, the mod workshop for some games, Steam Greenlight, and whatever games they've yet to announce still in development.

Considering Valve Corp as a whole supposedly has a total of only about 400 employees and is acting as a developer house, publisher, and 3rd party distribution system rolled into one, I think they've got a pretty fantastic churn rate.

EDIT: Just want to say I wasn't the one who downvoted you.