skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Mailbox. I like it to do the normal, read/archive thingy fast. But for serious mailing, Sparrow still wins. Aside this, it was clearly normal to see them acquired by other grande company.

Mailbox was free. No business model. Their own business model surely was acquisition. Did you thought they were last to the point of an IPO or charging for their service? Me not.
Getting started with nosql and symfony 2 - an ArangoDB tutorial
You know what, more power to you. It doesn't fit a use-case for me, but damn do I love seeing tools made more accessible. Although I'm really interested in hearing about how you're going to port the incredibly 'Linus' C code into Javascript, there's a huge amount going on and it's often not, well, that awesome to read.
Bigger installed base => more capital costs to be paid for.

Trying to roll down medical costs to one- or two-line sentences is really dangerous with the US health care system, because so many things you could normally expect in a functioning economy aren't there.

In fact, increased access to medical devices and procedures may drive costs up with no change in patient outcomes. This was a pretty well-discussed article in economics circles a few years ago that talks about the phenomenon: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_...

We do get something for our expensive MRI machines (lower wait times), but I doubt anyone, or even the invisible hand of the market, decided it was a good trade-off. It just happened.
Good to hear this finally made it to presentation! It's been in development for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337237 has some discussion about the tech.
> It is hugely more convenient and usable than cron. Once you have it, you immediately spot lots of opportunities to factor systems into scheduled jobs that you might have avoided doing if it meant you had to deal with cron.

That's actually pretty interesting. Can you give a few examples that fall out of having a more fine grained (millisecond) resolution?
I have no numbers, but the non-Google addresses are much older (one dating back to the mid-90's) and have been liberally strewn around the internet for well over a decade.

They both get several times more spam than the much more recent business-only Google address, yet if their filtering lets through one per month it's a lot. I can't even remember the last false positive.

The majority of the mail that ends up in my Google spambox consists of legitimate email from reputable sources (Amazon, Facebook, Google itself), and barely any actually spam. Extra annoying: perfectly fine email from our own services regularly gets flagged as spam by Google, and we often have no f-ing clue why.

And don't get me started on Google Groups spam filter, which for some reason is even worse. I have to turn it off for any group-address I want to make accessible to non-members.
"Don't be evil"

et tu, Google?
Finished a 2-day first aid+CPR course today, the stat was that ~0.2% (or was it 0.02%) or people getting CPR have their heart start without a defib (AED or at the hospital) (also am a biomed engg researcher working on arteries but not the heart directly). CPR is bascially to keep the person somewhat oxygenated until they can get a defib (such as from an AED). A study found a 39% boost in likelyhood in surviving to being discharged from the hospital if AED+CPR was used compared to CPR alone [3]

An AED disrupts the fibrillation of the heart - often an outcome of a heart attack. Fibrillation is basically different parts of the heart firing randomly, with the effect that not much blood gets pumped. A defib (from AED or otherwise) is like a hard reboot of the heart, to try to reset the heart so it all contracts together again.

Consciousness is more to due with a neuro-state, which is affected by blood flow so its a symptom of the heart problem rather than the problem itself.

Also, as someone else mentioned, heart stopping /= death anymore, it is determined by brain activity [2]

[1] http://intensivecare.hsnet.nsw.gov.au/cardiac-arrest
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death#Diagnosis
[3] http://depts.washington.edu/chru/May-20-A-Wicks-2_JC.pdf
Ask HN: What are the risks of working remotely?
I'm a JavaScript engineer with a couple of years experience under my belt, but I'd like to get in to remote working. What are some of the risks involved? How likely is it that I could produce work for a company who then don't pay me?

I'm mainly looking at working for overseas companies, so essentially this would mean me being a contractor for other companies rather than being in a salaried role. I've done what I assume is the usual grunt work by searching for the companies on LinkedIn, attempting to Street View their office addresses, etc.

Any advice?

Thanks
Article's from 2011. From Wikipedia: "As of mid-2012, no news of the vehicle-sized engine had yet been made."
This past week I was listening to a paranormal radio show where they discussed these different definitions.

They claimed in the early 1800's people would be brought into large rooms after they had passed, and were put on tables until the corpse was literally rotting before burying them. This had to do with cultural fears of being buried alive and having people who were supposedly "dead" waking back up in their coffins.

It was a rather long, but very interesting discussion. I'll try and find the podcast.
2. Anyone who uses a DSP / other system to perform a task they want (agency) is doing some form of programming, and that is valid, as it is a step on the path of literacy.

Well, it's the path to literacy in signal processing (or whatever domain it happens to be). I learned to code >25 years ago and I still sort of like doing small things in assembler or throwing something together quickly in C. But I really don't like dealing with collections of big lengthy text files for projects of any magnitude. It's like reading a description of a painting that begins in the top left corner.

Put another way, text is the problem. Why, I ask myself, don't IDEs automatically generate dynamic flowcharts? Why do I have to spend so much time typing to create structure, when I want to focus on algorithms? Have a look at this software, which is aimed at roboticists but has other applications; it has modules that let you drop into Ruby as needed (and there's another version that allows entry of C or assembler) but doesn't require you to work that way if you don't need it. this is what an IDE ought to look like.
No unified inbox, etc.
Facebook's Mystery Hardware Maker Expands Worldwide Empire
Sloppy me. I would of course be referring to arithmetic syntax or notation. And you make my point exactly: there is many ways to express arithmetically heavy operations in a natural, readable way.
I'm a bit intrigued. As the main developer of a Git library[1] myself (in pure PHP, not depending on the git binary or esoteric extensions), I have no doubt that the actual parsing of the git objects and packfiles will be very much possible to achieve in a browser environment.

[1]: https://github.com/e-butik/Gittern/

However, there are technical considerations. For example, pack files can get pretty large (indeed version 2 packfiles supports files > 4 GB), and I doubt browsers are optimized for random access to large files (so you wouldn't have to load the entire file in memory). Another potential problem would be pushing and pulling. The dumb HTTP transport is obviously possible to use (but rarely supported anymore), and the smart HTTP transport should be able to get working, but for implementing the git protocol, or git+ssh you'd need regular sockets, which AFAIK browsers don't provide.

I do however wish the author the best of luck with this project, and since I see that he's here, I will leave with links to a few resources I found useful:

* http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals

* http://opensource.apple.com/source/Git/Git-26/src/git-htmldo...

* http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Git/Git-17/src/git-ht...

* http://git.rsbx.net/Documents/Git_Data_Formats.txt
Exactly.

Axing the reader makes my private and professional life/work way more complicated. That is the first time that a Google believer like me feels they pulled the rug under me.
Why is that a problem? With something like Dropbox itself, there's potentially timing info exposed that would let you discover if someone else already had stored that file. But surely e-mail is far too asynchronous for that, and obliterates any timing information.
According to Wikipedia, there are 1.2 billion Catholics. So this is $143 per customer. Or putting less than $3 in the collection plate every Sunday.

Wow, that actually seems kinda low, even considering that a lot of Catholics live in places that aren't as prosperous as the US.

And it's really even less, because as the article notes, they have other sources of income like healthcare payments, investments, and tuition.
It looks like it is on github pages: https://github.com/overthecs/overthecs.github.com

I don't mind the ads. If its a useful tool, he can feel free to monetize on it.
I love Marcello and am a fan, but this is an emotional, not well thought through reaction.

The best leaders, the best organizations, the ones that create excellence, are those that are as good at saying no as they are at saying yes.

I've worked at a large company. It is easy for outsiders to think "oh, they have infinite resources and can do anything". This is not the case at all.

I am not much of a Google fan. I dropped Reader about 2 years ago and have used NewsBlur since. The only Google product I like is Chrome.

Google will continue to be successful, not by doing a bazillion little things poorly, but a few things, really, really well.

And to do a few things, really, really well, you have to be excellent at saying no. Google has decided Reader is a little thing it could not do really, really, well. So it is saying no.

I applaud that. (Even if it's caused NewsBlur to become almost too slow to use).
What are "influencers" going to do about it? Give Reader a bad review? Complain about the death of a product no one knew existed? I don't see how they have any leverage in this situation. The comparison with Microsoft's Word Count incident seems weakly relevant.
Makes a lot of sense.

As an average Joe, I am preparing to go on Google-free diet come July 1. Firefox, Bing, Outlook. Will find a reader somehow. These are the daily habits which accumulate over time and provide GOOGLE what it needs to survive. So will do everything possible to cut down the ...
FYI, this hasn't been true for 3 years now: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2010-03/m...
Samsung's Galaxy S4: What the Apple analysts are saying
At it's height Detroit was a city of ~2 million people. As of the 2004(?) census, the city fell below 1 million (~800k?) and lost a lot of Federal funding, spawning the constant budget crisis; furthering the downward spiral.
I will explore this as one of the possibilities. I'm not dead set of reimplementing everything myself. If using an existing JS library and finishing it or compiling an existing C library using emscripten is the best, then I'll do that..

The point is I'll spend the proper time to evaluate all the options and fill in any gaps needed to have a solid solution.
Thank you - I couldn't say this better myself. You have captured the essence of a problem with Google - trust.

After GAE and treatment of "non-essential" products under Larry, I have lost the trust in Google as a reliable business partner, regardless of any technical advantages their offerings might have at the moment.

A small shop like ours can't rely on a partner who can change major aspects of a product without any concern for its customers. And when the trouble comes, being left at the mercy of a random Googler who might come to the rescue if you are sufficiently Internet famous is not a recipee for building a stable business.

Thank you, but no thank you. I'll stick with companies who are relentlessly working on improving their products, driving prices down and care about their customers even if their products might be behind in some areas.

Until Google proves that they care and are in this for a long haul, my business goes somewhere else.

Oh, yeah, this applies to personal usage too - good bye Google Reader, my most used Google product...
Show HN: Unofficial Pinterest API
Hmm, so after trying this I'm not exactly impressed. The menu visibly lags and it just sits and... well, either does nothing or the screen goes blank when I try to play a relatively simple video. This is with a preexisting plex setup that works fine.

I'm running on an original B, but the site mentions nothing about the split - so maybe it only works on the 512mb models (I really wish they had changed the name, though the site says "A Raspberry Pi mini-computer" is required, and I doubt it works on the A, so they don't seem to be explicit any way).
Some of the thumbnails are super stretched out vertically, like 30 cm tall.
I'm aware of what both mean, and that you can't be in both states. It's the highlighted words whose incompatibility I'm questioning. That VFib can last minutes in some cases doesn't mean that it doesn't quickly lead to asystole in others.

In fact, quoting from the linked Wikipedia article on VF, "If this arrhythmia continues for more than a few seconds, it will likely degenerate further into asystole ('flatline')."
Huh? Musical ability is about as intangible as it gets. And programming, once you get past the noob stage of mastering syntax, doesn't depreciate either.
They may be much older, but if your Google address is @gmail then I guarantee you it gets far more spam, just from scattershot spammers.

As an anecdotal example, I have an email address that's been strewn about the internet for almost 2 decades. It's currently hosted on Google Apps, but it has a non-Google domain. I get a spam message in my inbox maybe once every couple of months.

I also have a gmail address. I never use the thing. But it gets inundated with spam, and every month or so when I go look at it I have to clean lots of junk out of the inbox.

Since they're both hosted by Google, I'm forced to conclude that the gmail one gets many orders of magnitude more spam merely by virtue of ending in @gmail.com.
It's the same as IP traffic, really. Calls can go through any number of providers. You can spoof phone traffic just as easily as IP traffic.

While this seems to get stated a lot, it isn't actually true at all: spoofed IP packets get no response (I should also add that most providers flag and drop packets that have no business originating from where they did, so spoofing IP is usually a completely non-starter to begin with), or rather the response goes to an entirely different place (as if you spoofed someone's number to call 9/11 but only the original number can actually hear what the operator is saying). There are a couple of examples of very large providers misusing BGP (usually accidentally), but it is immediately identifiable, completely tracked, and rejectable.

It's not even desirable, what you're asking.

What am I "asking", given that you've gone to such lengths to declare it? If someone has a phone on AT&T or Verizon or even Skype the provider should be able to essentially sign the call initiation. Much like TCP, the world phone system has a routable infrastructure (otherwise it would be impossible to call a number because where does it go?), and such a mechanism is hardly far flung when we're talking about emergency services.

Yeah, there are some services that can't abide by that, and they should properly be flagged as "completely anonymous, untraceable call" and get the credibility such deserves.
It's not really that hard. Backing up is relatively easy (offlineimap or similar) and you just need to forward the Gmail account to your new one for a transitional period, while you gradually change your address.
Thanks for the links. You are correct that I probably won't be able to support all git repos because of memory constraints and unless I get special APIs from the browser I won't be able to do git protocol or git over ssh. I do feel pretty confident that I can implement dumb and smart HTTP though.

Even if this library can't be used for everything, it will allow a whole lot more use cases that are currently possible.
If this was stayed to allow it to go to the circuit appeals court, does it only apply in the Ninth Circuit?
I don't know what's going on, and I prefer to trust the FSF, but I notice that they are wilfully misrepresenting the statement by pergu@google on the operators@xmpp list, and so are you, cs702.

Per said, a month ago, "is there anything you can do about it in that case, otherwise we will have to institute very tight limits of invites per day being sent from federated domains", speaking about specific domains, and speculating about a possible future strategy.

FSF says (paraphrasing): "we have this symptom, we're convinced it's for this technical cause... " (so far so good) " ... "and this email thread says that Google is doing it on purpose". Bullshit, that thread says nothing of the kind. Stick to what you know.
The vast majority of spam is rejected before even the sender address is known.
Most of the money is made, at root, in one of two ways: oppressing other people, or destroying the natural world. The political, legal and social frameworks which enable these acts to be performed are then encoded into the structures which govern the wealth so-created, and that wealth can no more flow to constructive ends than water can flow up hill.
I can see a pattern here. :-)

Again: people, run your own shit. Stop playing the google roulette.
It is more a combination of the small and vocal user base and the message it sends to them about Google being open to cutting any product that has a usage they don't think is significant. Those people who see Google cut a product that they have adopted into a regular usage will probably add an asterisk to any recommendation for adopting a new Google product. There is no certainty that the lifespan of that Google is dedicated to that product. With the shutting down or Reader, it sends a clear message that almost no product of Google's is safe and that we should all be wary of what of theirs we adopt into daily usage.
So true. I ask a question on the paid support plan and I got an answer copied from a blog I already googled. After several back and forth and escalations, I keep getting the same unhelpful answers and gave up.
That wasn't quite the point -- it was that the influencers cared about the word-count tool. (You might also notice that Word currently has a word-count tool.)
Your uncalled-for sarcasm is burying several important points.

First, when doctors in the US are sued they need to show they met the "standard of care." If every other doctor in your community is doing MRIs, you have to do them to, even if they provide no health benefit to the patient. Even if you think that MRIs are leading to worse patient outcomes, that's not the standard you are being judged by.

Second, being sued is a very expensive proposition, even if you did nothing wrong, and doctors are very risk averse of going to court even if they are perfectly confident they did nothing wrong and can prove it.

How does the doctor "know" that it's not? Should they not "make sure" instead of just "know"?

While they can have benefits, all medicare procedures have costs as well as side-effects. In fact, some procedures can decrease patient outcomes, meaning even if they were absolutely free you wouldn't do them. They still get done, because whenever anyone talks about effectiveness research, someone else has a fit. (If Democrats suggest it, Republicans talk about the government getting between you and your doctor. If Republicans suggest it, Democrats talk about how they are putting profits over patient health.)

We can't have the grown-up conversations about what procedures are and aren't worth spending money on, because someone insists that all doctors should "make sure."
If they were rolling it into G+, they would have announced that first. It simply doesn't make sense to lose your users and then try to regain them, instead of providing a migration strategy.
The development environments have certainly improved. Now we don't have to deal with Java's MIDP, and we can instead deal with Android Java, a much nicer flavour.
The right way to respond to this backlash would be to make Reader a paid app and tell people it'll stay while enough pay for it (and of course be transparent about user count etc). I can't see Google going that way though, it was free and if they don't want to pay to support it there's no reason to expect them to.
I for one vote "yes". I was starting to receive lots of spam requests from within google talk. It was really annoying. Whatever they did it stopped and I'm glad for it.
For any Extension developers, there are some workarounds to avoid asking for the "tabs" permission.

If you just need to know when a tab is visible for your content scripts to do things, use the Page Visibility API[1].

If you want your Extensions background scripts to notify all content scripts of something, you can rely on `chrome.storage.onChanged` event. The storage API does not warn users about permissions[2]

If anyone's interested in code samples, I could through some snippets in a gist.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-page-visibility-20110602/#sec-p...
[2] http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permission_warnings.h...
What exactly is your issue with it?
I think the slowly refers more to "slower than you'd expect when you have a dead man on the floor".
Twist-Ties vs. Plastic Clips: Tiny Titans Battle for the Bakery Aisle
Airbnb open sources its scheduler
A recent good alternative to Chef and Puppet is Salt.

I first had a look at it about a year ago, when they just introduced state management, had lousy docs and rathe small community. It's massively improved in the past year, the docs are plentiful and useful, and the community is growing.

It took me around a day to get started and prepare a masterless (ala chef-solo) config for a typical django setup we use (nginx, postgresql, standard django/pil deps, virtualenv), and a few less-standard things (node, less, apache fop) to try my hand at something a bit more challenging than a trivial setup. Definitely an easier learning curve than Chef, IMHO. There's also a Salt module for Vagrant.
If you go read the abstract of the study cited, you should note that the mean age of the physicians interviewed was 68. I think hospitals do a lot of unnecessary CPR if the wishes of the patient are not known. If someone expires after a long illness or after a very difficult surgery there is little and less chance that perfunctory CPR will be helpful. There is a lot of difference for a relatively fit person who collapses on a treadmill. The odds are stacked against them but its not nearly so futile.
Okay then that is a completely different scenario.

In this case 9/11 is treating the calls as critical because they are shown to them as coming from the subject's house. If they instead popped up as a pay-as-you-go phone from an unknown person (recall also that all cell providers have to provide credible geolocation of calls, which if you're going through a Western cell tower you cannot spoof) that is ten states away, yeah they might not send the SWAT team.