skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either way there are tradeoffs. I would be interested in seeing someone actually work out some numbers.

I figure innocent bystanders who get shot are hit by fewer bullets than the people who are actually being aimed at. Pulling numbers out of my ass, say innocent bystanders that are hit are hit by 1 bullet on average, and crims that are hit are hit by 3 bullets on average.

The questions to me then become:

1) how many innocent bystanders are being killed by those single bullets, and how would that number change if they were FMJ instead?

2) Given the average number of times crims who are shot at are hit, how likely is it that they would still be killed if the police were using FMJ?

I suspect these two factors work out such that FMJ would be slightly more dangerous to police, but vastly safer for the general public despite the increased penetration power. Police are signing up for it, so I am okay with putting them in more danger to keep the public safer; I am sure police unions would throw a fit over that though.

(I think it would also be revealing to examine if perhaps the lower penetration power of fragmenting rounds make police have a more relaxed attitude towards accuracy.)
I thought that the paywall was supposed to keep degenerates like me away from those cliques that formed during the early years of the term "blogosphere" Wasn't the whole point of this to make you pay to listen to people like Scoble?

The only people who care about platforms are people like us. The average user doesn't care about App.Net being a "more civilized" Twitter.
Simple Software, a Tutorial
There are wins for the companies, too.

When I worked for a midtown NY hedge fund, they made sure to remind us on a regular basis that just giving us a desk with a computer and power cost the company $2000/month.
This is helpful:

http://www.quora.com/Rock-Health/Whats-it-like-at-Rock-Healt...

We moved from Wisconsin to be a part of the V4 class, and it was amazing. To be surrounded by great business and technical minds who all give a damn about trying to make healthcare a bit better sustainably is really cool. I'd recommend it.
Show HN: Built SMS app for HackerNews
I would like to introduce you to the Text only SMS based version of Hacker News. The reason to build this was to help people get news without spending money on mobile data and be aware of what is happening around the world.
It's built on txtweb.com http to sms gateway, works probably only in india, but i have not tested from a International number.
You can send "@YCHN<space>news" as a SMS text message to 9266592665 to get the top 30 news feed as a Text SMS. It's free!
But normal carrier SMS charges might apply.
NOTE: if DND is activated, you won't get any SMS reply.
Interesting. I also have an anxiety disorder, so maybe there is some relationship there. We just need someone neurotypical to chime in and tell us whether it happens to them too.
Which off-the-shell RDBMS can handle queries over 3 billion rows?
Glad to see this. I really liked playing around with their API and even wrote a SMS <-> App.Net gateway client thing (https://github.com/Ell/appdotnet-sms/blob/master/app.py)
Don't invest in stocks to fund anything. Invest your money in an index over 10 years instead of saving it in a bank, if you're looking to make extra cash in the next decade.
I thought the reporting on the Q4 results that Tesla released last week [checks story] showed that some of those order cancellations preceded the publication of the New York Times story. Yep,

"Tesla expects to deliver 20,000 Model S cars this year. Right now, with its production line just getting into gear, it takes time for Tesla to fulfill its orders. As a result, there is a backlog of reservations.

"Tesla said 15,000 cars were reserved at the end of last year, below its expectation that it will deliver 20,000 cars this year. The company added 6,000 new reservations in the fourth quarter, which makes the 20,000 target look achievable.

"However, Tesla’s numbers suggest that a few thousand reservations were canceled in the fourth quarter. (Update: The Tesla spokeswoman Shanna Hendriks later said the company had 1,500 cancellations in the fourth quarter). Many customers were in line but pulled out when it became time to make a substantial down payment in cash."

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/teslas-earnings-indic...

Investors looking at basic customer appeal issues like that seem to think that Tesla Motors stock may not have as much upside as it appeared to have before the fourth quarter financial results were announced.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:TSLA
Medium Data: things to try before abandoning SQL
I think this is the answer, and I think it would have made sense if they'd called it a "device specific password" instead of an "application specific password".

I've got an asp (dsp?) for my phone (which all the applications that need one on my phone use), another for my iPad, another for each of my laptops, home computers, and my work computer. If I lose (or have stolen) my phone, I can revoke the password it knows - without needing to change any of my other devices.

Using the word "Application" allows everybody (including, I think, google's own security people) to make the incorrect assumption that the "iPhone mail password" is "specific" to mail - and only allows POP and IMAP to work. Instead, what "application" means is not the easily assumed "a piece of software" interpretation, but the "use to which something is put" interpretation. The decision and management of that "use to which a password is put" is not made nor emforced by Google, but is all up to _me_ (or, as it turned out, to any attacker who could lever one out of me).
Also, I'll point out the phrase "short sentence."
Out of curiosity, what do you use to get the movie images for the background?
Why not founding it again?
A crutial point of a startup success is timing. Maybe this is a case of founder's timing. Founders all the time decide to pivot or persevere. And sometimes, to quit. Why it has to be a permanent quit?
Three years and a good amount of experience laters, the founder can make it happen!
I think we may face a failed startup as something you shut down, that is not demanding any more of your time and money. But not something you must never again touch. Not dead, but hibernating.
I'm interested to see what uses people come up with for ADN's storage. If there are some neat uses, that could be a great incentive.

I don't disagree with the limit providing a great incentive to go paid, but when a free user joins, there is a point where the user decides this service is neat/useful enough that he wants to pay for it. I wonder if this limit might hinder people reaching that point.
Not in software, commit logs reveal everything.

Also:

"Our entire team knew they were doing very little work"
Shifting my Attention: Lessons Learned during my Corporate Life
After ten years working at Lockeed Martin I decided to leave my job and and pursue a startup. The decision did not come easy. I left behind colleagues, mentors, and leaders who had become my extended family. With their trust and support, I have grown tremendously as a professional improving my technical, mangerial, and leadership skills. However, a growing sense of dissatisfaction had crept into my life which are attributed to learning a few lessons during this period.
A lot of reinventing the wheel and a lot of 'small lookups' that delay you for a few days instead of a few minutes - while you get the relevant info from a non-local person or a book that you don't have on your desk.
Bitbucket: Pull Requests now with Reviewers and Smarter Notifications
I think there are any number of sources that are considerably less credible than congressional staffers leaving a hearing into exactly this matter.

And honestly, scare quotes?
If you got the same value proposition out of App.net that you get from GitHub (plus the whole networking effects) that would be true.

But you get what out of App.net? Basically nothing.
You probably could have done the same thing in one line:

cat *.log | grep condA | grep condB | sed 'some regex to get rid of dates, etc' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 5

Or something like that... Not very efficient, but it would work in a pinch. I actually do something like this all the time for large datasets. In the time it would take me to write something better, this set of commands is already done.
Just checked. It's being place on auction. A few days more to go. I may bid for it. But is it something to die for? What problems did you encounter by using a shortened version?
I wonder if someone's going to try to call this constructive dismissal. Probably somebody in a different state with a spouse who can't just up-and-leave.
The massages were not free. They were $80/hour plus tip. Or you could sometimes find 2-hour user studies to participate in that would give you a massage coupon, but it still required a $20 tip.
I guess it's because I have mainly seen FPGAs in time-critical situations (where CPUs can't be used) in which it was very difficult to predict their performance and they required lots of hand-tweaking

I suspect that if you used FPGAs for less time critical applications, you'd have more room for productivity tradeoffs.

Inside FPGAs though, the timing is not as uniformly discretized. It's about taking resources of routing distance from a large pool with a large geographical component, making it highly non-linear and tricky to predict.

Such details can be abstracted over. If you only create synchronous circuits, for example, these subtle timing considerations can be handled automatically.

W/r/t additional hardware, I meant hardware that configures the bitstream, such as a header or CPU interface, as well as power supplies.

I don't really understand why such additional hardware is necessary, I'm not able to comment.
If I were going in for surgery, however, I would like my surgeon to have recently researched the best current way to perform whatever he is going to do.

The surgeon (or programmer) who thinks he knows everything isn't the best one for the job.
Hi guys,

Thanks for listening to the feedback last time.

I'm around the SF area and if I use this how long will it take to get my new device as I don't want to be stuck without a phone?
1) A mega platform on top of existing EHR's won't be an easy thing. It would require them to play ball and large players, like Epic, probably won't.

They definitely won't play ball with a platform attempting to integrate all of them. That's just a risk; there's no upside. It's possible that none of them would welcome a "platform" at all.

But survey the landscape of EHR vendors. There are a few unique positions of strength out there. Each aspect of uniqueness defines a hypothetical market. The mere existence of some of those markets would develop an asymmetry that simultaneously penalizes competitors and solves a big problem for the partner. Build the spark of the market and you have a significant ally with a strong incentive to nurture your business.

Idea quality indicator: you want the existing player aligned with you, not buying your company (then killing it). They should need you externally.

I'm building a business on one of these hypothetical markets. I made my choice based on my personal capability and fit with the details of the problem. But there are a huge number of different ways to improve both the quality and efficiency of healthcare. (You don't get to solve big problems if there are no big problems.)
I'm not talking about loop syntax or stdlib argument order. I'll google around for algorithms or concepts or data structures too. I'll bring up the docs and study them to figure out what data structures I've got so as to do the least amount of work. Do you want to test the things I've already learned, or how quickly and neatly I can actually get things done?

And it's far too easy to start going down a long and winding dead end path when you can't incrementally run an algorithm. I've had a couple whiteboard interviews where I get the sense that I've gotten something wrong early on that's causing me trouble, and while stopping and pondering on it doesn't immediately reveal a problem (and oh shit, I've only got 10 minutes left in the interview, gah, well, guess I'll just keep trucking), running it once to see the output could easily do so.

It's nothing like real-life coding, is my point.

Also:

> A good whiteboard interviewer will be those things for you.

Would that they were all good ones...
>>Oh, not just seems like. It is. I baited them all.

So you're basically admitting to trolling? Nice.

>>and don't even begin to acknowledge the problem with the delay between cable-tv and legal internet availability.

We acknowledged it. We also pointed out that it is not a valid justification for you or anyone to pirate said content, because nobody is entitled to instant access to stuff that comes out. I don't know how to put it more simply than that.
DOJ lawyers don't get overtime.
I'm not anti-Facebook. It's a better, more accountable, place to spend money than in a print ad. But, there was a bait and switch where they encouraged businesses to pay to connect to users, then they devalued all those connections by requiring payment for each communication.

The negative for them is that they are becoming more dependent on a smaller number of large businesses. It may work for them, but it is riskier to have a less diversified pool of customers.
You've mentioned using processor cores a few times now. I'll assume, perhaps wrongly, that this might be a representation of your world when it comes to using FPGA's.

That is not my world at all. My applications have never had the luxury of being able to simply import an 8 bit processor core and a few peripherals and off we go into software land. Nearly everything I've done has been in two domains: real time image processing in hardware or beam-forming applications. In all cases virtually no use of canned modules could be made or justified. Sure, there's the SPI's and I2C's and a few other knick-knacks, but that's about it.

In fact, most of the applications I've done would end-up with external physical embedded processors because the high-speed FPGA resources could not be spared for low speed "command and control" work.

Maybe I'm living in that 0.1% you referred to?

Surely there are people doing more mundane things such as motor control, glue logic or battery chargers who might benefit from wiring together a complete custom embedded system within single Spartan FPGA and life is great. I can see that being a possibility. It just hasn't been part of my reality, for better or worst.
"...make everyone of us a doctor..."

That's a very, very bad idea. Should we educate people about their medical problems in a simple and smart way? Yes. Should we delude people into thinking they are doctors? Absolutely not.

"IANAL" is one thing but there aren't enough asterisks in your keyboard to save you from that bottomless pit of liability.
Right, but before a person is put into prison, that modification has to be discovered, investigated, and the person charged and convicted of a crime.

Meanwhile, the tool appears identical to an unmodified tool from the exterior.
Sent you one courtesy of backstitch!
>"You were saying that you don't understand women because of the functionality provided by Lulu's app"

I said that? Where?

I don't understand women who would want to talk, semi-publicly and on the record permanently in some DB, about having sex with their boss, at work, and then rating how he smells after said sex. Just like the line I quoted...

It's confusing, but probably not worth debating with a fellow fellow on a hacker forum.
LGPL means you can use the library for whatever, but you can't fork it and relicense it yourself.

I want contributions to come back to the project rather than going into distinct and relicensed forks. But, just using the library won't "virally infect" your code with GPL.

So what's the problem?
Both the HP and LG press releases say "LG will assume stewardship of the open source projects of Open WebOS and Enyo."

I'm the Enyo tech lead and I've got an offer from LG.
I'm pretty sure he's saying the guy/gal working from home with 4 kids running around can't be a productive employee. Which is probably true for most cases. Kids can be a giant distraction.
Sent you an invite!
I haven't followed app.net too closely, but was that fact that "[...] [they] initially conceived of App.net as a freemium service" a secret at all? From the tone of the comments so far, it's like this entire thing is a surprise.
I have a theory about this. It has to do with the fact that Fogbugz started as off-the-shelf software, where companies would buy the CD and install the software on their own servers. The hosted version came much later.

Considering that most of the original code base was using ASP (there was no .NET when they started), this meant that all of their source code had to be shipped with the product. They couldn't just ship binaries. So part of me wonders if the Wasabi idea was a way for them to have obfuscation and some protection against piracy and competitor knock-offs.
>But how would you know? How much less credible can you get than anonymous staffers sourcing HuffPo, regurgitated by Techdirt?

It sounds very credible to me. I don't doubt that, out of all the staffers involved, two would head to one of the bigger political websites to share their impressions about what's been a bit of a sensational case.

Would you prefer that HuffPo include a New York Timesean "according to two aides with knowledge of the briefing, who spoke under condition of anonyminity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter"? I'd be a lot more skeptical if it were highly-placed sources, but these aren't.
If nobody is willing to trade a currency, the currency is worthless -- also known as a collapse.
You Can't Do It Alone
One of my previous companies did business with Yahoo. Every single Monday and Friday was a "working remote" day for the dozen or so contacts I worked with.

If I had to guess this policy is less about the full time remote employees as it is removing excuses for the 40%+ of Yahoos on the 3-days-week schedule.
Yeah, forms in an email are tricky. Some clients actually do support them - which was a big surprise to me! http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/forms/

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
We've never needed to convict anyone of a crime to kill foreigners not on U.S. soil. Never ever. At the time of the founding, it wouldn't even have been a question. Of course it's the sovereign right of the state to protect itself in that way. Of course the only people protected by the U.S. Constitution are those living within the scope of American jurisdiction.

See: http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/317/1/case.html, http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/763/case.html
Positive role model for women hackers? [video]
Meet Shinji Kim, she's an up and coming hacker.

She has never worked in the games industry nor made a video game. One day last year (apparently), she just up and decided to quit her management consulting gig at Deloitte and Touche and make ShufflePix, a multiplayer picture jumble game for iOS. It's a lot of fun.

She designed the game, coded front-end and back-end, designed and executed on the analytics: It's like one-woman Zynga. But, unlike Zynga, there is no user acquisition budget, no army of journos salivating to put to print, no notoriety whatsoever.

Anyway, I found it pretty great to see a positive role model like this, taking a risk and going for it.
Happens to me all the time.

I use Evernote to keep track of the most common bash commands, API calls, syntax specifics, etc. Flash card format, e.g.

Title: Check if object is in a NSMutableArray
Content: containsObject:
I am of the opinion that beyond a certain level of complexity Stage one depends on Stage two. DF has been there for quite a while. Stage 2 should be done in tandem with stage 1.
Wow. This is the future of human/machine interface (until we get direct brain/machine interfaces (BMI) working with fidelity and no/little invasiveness). I really hope the actual product works as well and as smoothly as in those demos.
which isn't such a bad thing, if you ask me. I own a iPad, for some time now, and I still have yet to find anything that it's good at. Saying it's bad at not having a clear function or productive use, support for real computing tasks.

I'm sure some companies would love to see a world where we all access the cloud from iThinClients, but the reality of the situation is that even if the US had great broadband connectivity, nobody wants to deal with 5-200ms of UI lag or with glitchy client-prediction methods.
I think this is both true and false. True for the social media startups that do not capture user intent in any meaningful way, but false for those that do.

It's very hard to make money off of people posting pictures of cats on a general forum (e.g. Reddit), but maybe not as hard to make money off of people looking specifically for pictures of cats (e.g. CHEEZburger). The latter captures user intent much more powerfully than the former, and the value to advertisers is thus much higher.

My startup (https://www.zupstream.com) is focused around making it easier to discover and organize real-world activities with your friends. We believe that targeted advertising can work in this case, since users are specifically looking for things to do, and then making plans with friends to actually do them. If someone creates an activity asking, "Anyone up for dinner tonight?", presenting an ad for local restaurants right then will be much more effective than displaying an unrelated banner ad.
You could have said the exact same thing about Twitter years ago.
If this account gets an invite lovamova&#64;gmail.com, I think I don't visit HN daily for nothing.
And how will I find stuff in my own pile of notes? Googling :)
GitHub offers free private repos for academia.
I'm not familiar with this mod, but the BATF has a standard they (in theory, and most of the time) use for what they allow manufacturers to sell to civilians: a trained machinist with a normal machine shop has to take more than N hours to do the conversion. That's why a whole lot of open bolt derived from sub-machinegun designs had to be changed to fire from a closed bolt with a separate firing pin (the normal submachine gun design as I understand it, at least as of WWII state of the art, has a fixed firing pin in the face of the bolt, the H&K MP5 being a notable post-WWII exception).
Hey guys, can I use this in Miami?
Of course you should only compile to native code when making the package to distribute the scripts.
I'm a little unclear on the concept here, because this doesn't sound at all like Kickstarter.

Microryza sound like nothing more than middlefolk between my research and funding sources. They "vet"? And their domain knowledge in my field is...?

Am I missing the idea? Why do I want another layer between me and a funding source?
Really? That's quite a naive view.

Are people (men/women/gay) ever SURE about when to flirt with another person?

By this logic, half of the population would have never been born (which might have been a good thing, with respect to overpopulation and all, but that's a different argument).
So now you have your own app with which you can follow nobody.
I haven't found the sponsored tweets annoying at all. I mostly don't even notice them. I scan my feed and I only pay attention to the tweets which interest me. Everything else could be an ad as far as I'm concerned.

The number of sponsored ads don't seem high enough to make me feel like it's annoying.

As for Twitter clients. Eh, not sure I care so much. I just need a decent client which doesn't suck.

I think their recent decision sort of suck but as a user I don't know that I care too much.