skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least now I'll have to search for another reader. I've always were worried that Google knows too much about me. They can access my email, see what I search and download, and every news/blog that I follow.
Capitalism also allowed Bill Gates to make $60 billion so he could donate it to finding a cure for malaria.
Even if Bitcoin fails at everything except conversion into and out of fiat currency, it's still a major win. It significantly undercuts existing services for international payments while also circumventing currency controls, AML regulations, and censorship.
Yale Open Source Robotic Hand Initiative
Hey Matteo - I'm late to this party but as I recently launched our app bootstrapped from the profits from my consulting business I've learnt a bunch of lessons that might help you as you move forward. You're always welcome to drop me a line - simon (at symbol) staffsquared.com

All the best with your new venture :)
I rather think you confuse "rational" and "moral". If I suffer of illness X, and I have more money than someone who suffers of Malaria, then it may be rational for pharmaceuticians, for example, to look for cures against X.

The market is not moral, and nobody ever said it was. It is the outcome of the decision of the market participants, no more, no less. Whining about markets that are not moral is a primitive, yet very effective form of anti-capitalism.
> Our models break down.

This is a fundamental fact of how humans make models. They're never perfect the first time, and rarely (if ever?) are models every truly perfect. The most important hurdle for us as a species to overcome is the advancement of new models that refine our old ones; specifically, we need to become less averse to change.
3 UX Conferences of 2013 You Don't Want To Miss
Are you kidding? More people have malaria in the world than people that have ever heard the word "iPhone".
Well, yeah. Humans are pretty poor at basic risk assessment and very tuned into their own needs. The economic system doesn't matter much, its basic human nature.
Since when has Chrome got an RSS reader? The only RSS feeds I've seen in Chrome were plain XML that didn't send the correct MIME-type.
I don't know how accurate this [1] is (because the citation link is dead), but Wikipedia claims Veronica Mars cost about $1.7 million per episode ($2.1 million for the Season 1 finale). Each episode is 1 hour, so double that, and you assume that the movie would cost about $4.2 million if it had the same quality as the show. And that's not even taking into account that the director and Kristen Bell probably will do the work for less since it seems to be a pet project of theirs. Overall, it seems like it'd be really easy to make back the investment on this one.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver_%28Veronica...
Demo? Screenshot? How can those things be missing from a landing page?
Yet still all the newspapers worldwide have a Pope in their frontpage. What a frustrating coincidence.
Does this exist already as a service for websites? Because if I could access an API that did this for my website I would like to try it out. I have a situation right now where hooking something like this up would be useful to know if I have had hits especially if this was an android app(Xoom user).
> it allowed people to add pictures to their documents.

Which very well may be a good definition of technical superiority for the lay man :)
Script extraction vulnerability in Google Chrome
Joy of Clojure is worth revisiting after you've gained enough experience to be confident in writing Clojure code.
Yeah, that's kind of what I'm getting at. Sometimes it involves tasting, but not normally.
As an off-topic aside, it's worth noting that not all parts of the industry are so backwards in regards to bottle-sealing technology http://www.screwcapinitiative.com/ [edit: beware somewhat spammy industry-association link]

For instance, pretty much all New Zealand wine producers/exporters have been using screw-caps, even on expensive fine wines, since 2001.
perhaps but most, if not all, will be selling it almost immediately as they need to re-stock, these people use BTC to facilitate their dealing it is not an investment for them. Plus moving the market takes approx 100,000 BTC, that is about $5m, no vendor is going to be selling drugs if they have that much in BTC.
It was terse, but the parent's comment was helpful. Wouldn't you want to correct misspellings on your site? Especially in the part where you ask for money?
Minoxidil (Rogaine) and sildenafil citrate (Viagra) were both created to treat high blood pressure. Turns out they had side effects.
Yeah. If only there was some kind of standard that we could evaluate the competing implementations against.
Update on the Early 2013 Retina Macbook Pro Fan issue
http://mashable.com/2013/03/14/pi-day-videos/
Evolution is way to slow to be showing significant effects. The Flynn Effect is mostly a consequence of better nutrition and like increased height it's slowed down a lot in the US. Another long term trend in in reverse is people have stopped living longer in the US and life expectancy is decreasing.

However, poor and uneducated does not mean genetically dumb. People with really low IQ's are far less likely to have kids. Comparing people with sub 60 IQ's with over 140 IQ's the smarter people have more kids.
Show HN: SlideNote
It also means that male baldness is being funded.
Ask HN: How are comments ordered?
Let me preface this by saying that I am aware the submission ranking algorithm is something of a trade secret and I trust this thread about comment ranking will be removed as appropriate if inappropriate. Likewise if there is already a topic on this with the goods then please link it, and feel free to insult my Google Fu while you're about it.

Here's what I have so far:

1.) Karma is used to rank comments.

2.) New comments have only 1 initial karma point, yet enter the thread quite high (if not at the top?) then, assuming they are insufficiently upvoted, sink.

3.) I don't know how important to a comment's ranking its descendants are, nor the extent to which a reply's karma affects its ancestors.

4.) The 1 initial karma does not contribute to the poster's total, so seems to me like a way to +1 some part of the ancestors' ranking score calculation to represent that it has inspired one new comment of discussion.

5.) I have no idea what happens in a "tie-break" situation.

This thread is motivated almost entirely by a comment I made today which has been upvoted a lot more than I am used to being upvoted. It is a first reply to another comment and at the time I replied, that comment was near the bottom of the thread. I chose to reply to it because the poster was making enough of the same point I wanted to make that I could just say "Indeed" and then post my own comment without having to establish context. Given that the parent is now the second highest ranked un-nested comment in the thread, and I've got a lot more karma than I'm used to, I rather wonder on whose coattails who is riding, or if the two of us are sailing some kind of slowish coattail catamaran.
Aww it's pretty cheap to feed a child, but raising them in a socially acceptable way for your cohort might be expensive.
I hope you don't start saying that people who use adblock are guilty of copyright infringement. Or did you already say that?

Sadly, what you say is true and websites can add the no adblock requirement to their TOS. Then they can sue users who use adblock for unauthorised access (hacking!) or copyright infringement(running code that modifies their content). The next step will be to make a Blogging Industry Association. BIA can then approach ISPs for a "3 strikes followed by re-education" business deal.

The positives apart from the windfall in revenue - as governments/atittudes change BIA can push for imprisonment and bonded labour in lieu of the quantum of infringenent(based on number of pageviews with adblock on or based on bytes). Some countries will be even ready for stricter punishment. BIA then (with the help of sister organisations) can get into the lucrative prison industry.
You're supposing that the criticism is of Rob Rhinehart's abilities and character, but it's a critique of Rhinehart's nieve belief that the problem he's solving is a simple one.
Since there's no pharmaceutical company backing this study I dare to say it's pretty solid.
Joshua Ellis revisits the Grim Meathook Future
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/jeff-bezos-smart-people-change-...
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”.
Prostate cancer is dramatically less virulent, isn't it? To the point where the medical community is starting to say early screening can be a negative thing, because loads of folks get surgery for cancer that never would've killed them?
>.<

Spent night building the design and skeleton of an RSS service. Same concept, pay ~$5 so it's a sustainable business.

Didn't release on IndieGoGo yet cause no prototype. DumDumDummmm.
I'm not sure if this was similar to your business model, but there is a site called cinderellawine.com that does daily deals for wines and does pretty well. I had a co-worker that was addicted to it, I don't think he even drank the wine. It does show that there is a market for "mail-order" wine that isn't based on personal connections.
Rethinking RSS
You may enjoy this documentary: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-boy-with-the-incredible-b...

It is about a guy that can recite pi to incredible lengths. Very good documentary.
Far far rather have Bill Gates deciding how to spend $60 bn than Congress / Parliament. Just seems more likely to get bang per buck.
That's because consumers will allocate money to pay for baldness. That's where the money is. We all understand that, now please quit complaining and figure out how to get consumers to pay for other advances.

For example, we pay for Moore's law by buying new computers and iPhones every few years. We will start paying for huge advances in robotics once they can do more of the house chores and yard work. We need to get to the tipping point.

As for advances in biology and the cures for diseases, I'm not sure how to approach that. However, if we could funnel billions more from the consumer sector, we'll cure cancer, the common cold, etc. years sooner.
A related story from TIME Magazine in 2008: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1828417,00.html
Products should solve a problem
So Reader was a red-headed stepchild from the inception.

I mostly abandoned Reader for Twitter when Google made it clear that the one true path was Google+. My team used the share/comment features in Reader constantly, and got alot of value from it. And not just for blogs -- we'd subscribe to Google Alert RSS feeds and use Reader to annotate.

Google+ Hangouts are amazing. It's Facebook cloning is ok. But it is weak for the core workflow that Reader gave you. Twitter is close, but it's 100% public nature limits it utility for me.

At the end of the day, I lost a functionality that was valuable to me. It's too bad, but I'll live.
'Except for the last perk, can't change that one because it's claimed already.'

Indiegogo won't allow me. Because the perk is claimed already.
To add on. . . code is just a tool/component used to make other, more complex tools. And if the tool your code is used in ultimately makes the "hero/philanthropist/???" more effective, then you are still making a positive contribution.
won't scale for hundreds of feeds; I use thousands
Aaron Swartz MIT Memorial Speech
Hormone replacement therapy stops and in some cases reverses mpb. Maybe not the solution you were looking for, though.
Wednesday Inspiration: Stage Musicals Typography 
There is this blog, Broadway Typography, that brings together the two passions of its creator: typography and musicals. That’s when it hit us. Actually, stage musicals rely on typography quite a lot when it comes to promoting themselves. Those words need to ring tunes in your head the moment you make eye contact with them, right?
The world has seven billion people.

It is not just related to disposable income.

Why the average chinese for example, would care about malaria? He has other problems, the malaria mosquito does not do well in China, but other diseases do, they will care about their own diseases for example.
The health problem can be solved by using a non-dairy milk like almond milk (which is also objectively tastier). As far as snootiness, I really think it's just a matter of personal preference. I enjoy it either way, although it can certainly mask the flavor of bad tea.
How good is Firefox's rss handling?
Objective-C still cares about the C standard. Since it's a superset of C, the C standard that it's a superset of matters. So just as there's C89, C99 and C11, there's an Objective-C89, Objective-C99 and Objective-C11.

Certain C11 features (such as generic macros) could be very useful in Obj-C.
bonus points for referencing the Higgs boson in a post about A/B testing.
Is it actually self-flagellation? A less dramatic description would be "introspection." You could also replace "agonize" with "think about," etc.

I think it's healthy to explore these thoughts, as long as it doesn't consume you. The trouble with a blog post is that you necessarily come off as heavily invested in the topic you're writing about, but it is also possible that he just wanted to be provocative and spark a discussion. It didn't seem as negative to me as some comments have indicated.
As someone who has just started balding, I have to cry bullshit on this.

The only two medical treatments for male pattern baldness were found by accident... Minoxidil was created to treat blood pressure issues and Finasteride was created for prostate issues.
Pardon the skepticism, but:

a) No clear revenue model

b) Built on the (thus far, still supported) Google App engine

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
>"And no it's not travel if you are in the same country"

This is true of most places in the world but I strongly feel that travelling between regions of the USA is very similar to travelling to different countries. The northeast corridor, for instance, is HUGELY different from the southeast "bible belt". The cultures are distinct: food, architecture, dialect, history; I'm not sure how it doesn't count as travel!

Getting from South Carolina to New York is at least 700 miles. You can get from Berlin to Belgrade in that distance. And that's just on the same coast of the states! The west-coast culture is a beast of its own, to say nothing of the vast center of the country.

Suffice to say: seeing your own country can indeed be travel.
I find your statement regarding people wanting nothing more than news bites for casual conversation to be intriguing. I wonder how much consumption of information is for nothing more than to be able to converse about it.

When I was a bartender, I would often consume tidbits of popular sporting events or news just so I could hold conversations with my patrons. I had absolutely 0 interest in who crashed at Daytona that day.
Really, as far as my personnel spending priorities go Bill Gates has wasted close to 100% of his charitable donations. Which I would not care about, however he get's a huge (multi billion dollar) tax break on donations which is simply a staggering waste of money.

PS: Want to pay people to pray for world piece? That's a tax break after-all we don't actually need to repair roads and bridges or pay down debt.
We are working on it - http://reltrek.com. We have also prepared version for Android. You can test it if you want. Just sent us your email via sign up form on the website.

We will provide widgets for the most famous services, like Google Anqalytics, Twitter, Pingdom, etc, and also API for custom connections with users' websites, web applications, stores, etc.
Hire HN: Pitchfork is hiring a UX-minded Django dev
Hey all, Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com) is expanding its dev team. We’re looking for a someone with sharp UX skills and some level of Django experience.

If you want to hack on things like:

- http://pitchfork.com/peopleslist/
- http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/bat-for-lashes/
- http://pitchfork.com/advance/

and help push us further, this is the job for you. Your contributions will be seen daily by millions of people around the world, and you'll be a part of a design and dev team whose work has been praised for not only redefining music journalism, but influencing the medium itself.

About you: You should have real-world experience w/ Django 1.3+ as well as MySQL or Postgres. You should have a good eye for design even if you're not designing the project. You should love music; ideally you're familiar with the music we cover and the audience we cater to. Bonus points for experience with Jinja, Sass, Backbone, RQ, Redis, ElasticSearch or Solr, audio/video encoding, Vagrant; with AWS offerings such as EC2, RDS, SES, and CloudFront; with typography and grid layout fundamentals. Extra bonus points for familiarity with the infield fly rule, the ARP 2600, 2600 Quarterly, and/or Green Flash Brewery.

About us: We're a small team of full-stack devs. We move quickly and fluidly because the publishing environment demands it — not that we'd have it any other way. We juggle a few large sites and several satellite projects, so we make sure we spend our time coding, not staring at whiteboards.

We code a lot, we're rewarded by what we do (and win awards for it), and we've been known to have a beer while doing so. If you're interested in doing those things with us, send your resume and/or Github/Bitbucket profile to mattd /at\ pitchfork /dot\ com.
Capitalism used to include having to provision a private army
to protect your home, and keep the caravans safe from marauders along the trade routes.

Now it does not. In the future it will be more profitable to cure malaria than male pattern baldness.

How do we get there? I am not sure, but having one of the most respected business figures in the world holler about it will help.
Easy for a man with a full head of hair to say. Or is this just a swipe at Balmer?
It's actually very interesting to see how seriously confirmation bias taken by CERN/the collaborations. Not only do they carefully look at the properties of what they find to see if they found something else, but they also take into account other statistical details like the look-elsewhere effect [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect
Yeah, sorry about that.

What I mean is that on a wider level, public policy decisions about saving lives need to have a ballpark dollar valuation on human life in order to make allocation decisions.

It would not make sense to spend $20MM on an intersection upgrade which saves 2 lives per year when spending $10MM each on two other intersections might save 5 lives per year. It gets more complicated when you're comparing different things, like a dialysis machine versus a PR campaign for type II diabetes versus a traffic upgrade.

The minute you acknowledge that line of reasoning makes sense, it is easy to get trapped in this messed up alternate reasoning where the market cap of facebook is 5,884 American lives.
Intel's C compiler also claims to support most of C11, as, apparently, does Clang. That covers the popular Unix compilers. Microsoft seems to be the big outlier, but they don't even care about C99.

I admit, though, I have no idea what commercial compilers are popular in the Windows world. I am under the impression that you either used Intel's compiler, Microsoft's compiler, or a free port of the Unix toolchain, but I don't really do Windows development.
Google now more focus on those products which gives more profitability and revenue either direct or through advertising.http://leadsrain.com/
Lots of men die of old age with prostate cancer, not because of it. Breast cancer is a far deadlier disease, one that strikes more young people, women and men (rate of incidence about 1% that of women).
Minimally feed one? Yes. Feed, clothe and care for them "properly", so that measures of their total health (like for example, their height) wind up in strong greater-than-or-equal correlation with parents who are already decently-off? Takes a bunch of effort.
> So I guess you could call lack of semicolons syntactic sugar for semicolons.

Yes, exactly. Inconsistent sugar. My early experience with Haskell was that a lot of the syntactic sugar was (or seemed) very brittle -- combined with uninformative error messages -- much like missing semicolons can lead to -- even in Java iirc.

(I believe that is fixed now, however. I still remember it -- contributing to a somewhat irrational fear of Haskell :-).
Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Make You Use Email Again
Moving past Google Reader
The death of ideology appears to be a major shaping force in the 21st Century. Religion seems to be at least partially filling the vacuum. Most of the radical groups in the MENA used to be Socialist (PLO vs Hamas).

I suspect that this will not last and that a new ideology will arrive (demand is high, supply is low, very few competitors). Any bets on what this ideology will look like?
Are you looking for voice broadcasting software?
Voice broadcasting has simplified several tasks that a call center would otherwise have to perform. Apart from sales or telemarketing and customer service, call centers perform many other tasks.
Netvibes was down most of last night, and got a message this morning to bear with them as they've gotten a huge flux of new users. Great to see.
I know, I was deliberately exaggerating for effect.
Frustration and failure fuel Dyson's success
>but would detract from their focus.

Why not just stop the development on it and let the service to continue?

I never had any problems with Google Reader, nor do I want a particular feature to be added to it. It's fine as it is.
GitHub hosts tons of projects and pieces of information. Maybe the question shouldn't be "why does someone hate GitHub?" and should be "which of Github's projects upset someone?"
Markets excel at giving people what they want in the long term, too. For example, the Henry Ford you quoted built a car company that became one of the most successful in the world. There is nothing about markets that prevent entrepreneurs from selling innovative products and it happens all the time. Entrepreneurs creating new things and then selling them is so common that on Hacker News, people like Steve Blank and Eric Ries have made names for themselves encouraging entrepreneurs to listen to the market even just a little bit.
A Login Application with Things To Do Management and A Nice User Interface
It's a little more nuanced than that. 1.47% of women aged 40 will develop breast cancer within ten years, but only 0.34% of men aged 40 will develop prostate cancer over a similar time period (according to the CDC risk statistics).

0.01% of 30 year old men will develop prostate cancer within ten years, as opposed to 0.44% for women/breast cancer. That's a huge difference.

One of the reasons there is more funding for breast cancer is that it often manifests itself earlier, meaning the benefits of treating it in terms of years saved is much greater.
Google's secret X lab to reveal new project 'in the coming month'
Ya, but most couldn't tell the cheap stuff from the expensive stuff, wine scams are common here even at the most reputable high end establishment.
>Ideally you create a business model that lets you get your margin from the rich countries and the middle income countries, or through tiering customers in developing countries." He cited eye clinics in India that offer free lens replacement and other treatments to the poor but charges those who can afford it as a good example of a tiered system.

It seems like pharmaceutical companies come under a lot of fire for that kind of approach.
Hi mweibel,

I originally used Sequelize, but we wanted (a) noSQL support and (b) a bundled in-memory database.

Waterline has very good test coverage, and it's professionally maintained by my Node.js studio, Balderdash. We invest heavily in its development, because it makes our client projects better and faster.

Happy to answer any other questions about why we built our own ORM.