skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing IT for over 25 years, and I can assure you there's nothing irrational about fearing vendor lock-in.

I'm all in favor of using services like Heroku if you're in a very early start-up phase with less than a handful of people or for weekend side-projects, but once you start building a serious business depending on a PaaS is just as suicidal is letting your business depend on someone else's API.

This invariably ends in drama.
> "Chief Architects do not make decisions about killing products."

No, but if you were trying to convince people you weren't forcing them into Google+, but Google+ was presenting alternatives out of their sincere love for the people, you wouldn't use the person who made the decision now would you?

And who better to stand up and ask "how can we help" than one of the people who will later take to the Google Blog to say "look what we added to Google+ because you asked for it?"
Big Brother Camera Security Returns To The App Store
node-git just calls the git binary, which you won't have in the browser. This project is definitely needed.
I'd like to believe that people here on Hacker News are smarter than that.
What exactly are the risk factors that lead up to this type of event?
Ask HN: Creating case designs
Hi everyone,

I'm interested in developing my own case for my Raspberry Pi computer. I have a design idea in mind but am wondering what it would take for me to take my design all the way to building my prototype? I am assuming that I will need to provide some design specifications but how will I locate someone to build my design? Will I need to source my own materials? I am completely new at this so I would really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks!
The Gmail app is slick, but extremely slow for me (on iPhone 5), as in "it's really annoying every time I use this app but I've moved away from native Mail and inertia is a hell of a thing." Other people I've talked to have had similar experiences. I'm excited to try Mailbox.
With Google you are the product, with Apple you are the customer. I like Google but I trust Apple.
I don't trust Chrome with sensitive data.

It's not that Firefox is so much better. But Mozilla doesn't have Google's motive or ability to cross-correlate data-streams.
The original commenter is correct -- this is intended to run fully-client-side.

We provide a set of security rules and authentication that allow you to control access. Authentication tokens should always be generated on a trusted servers, either ours (in the case of Firebase Simple Login), or yours if you want to generate custom tokens, or a third party service like Singly.

Our billing structure is very similar to a CDN, where you are being charged for actual usage on a multi-tenant architecture.
Second that, although I never got anything but the mail to work (no contacts, cal, tasks) and since evolution is a piece of crap (at least the version that comes with FC 18) I had to use thunderbird which doesn't have cal. But it's still worth it!
4D Printing self-building space stations
Sprained my ankle very badly on January 1. Had an x-ray (nothing broken, yay). Got some crazy painkillers and some Diclofenac gel. Waited for about 15 minutes. Never saw a bill and didn't pay a dime.

And by that I mean besides the roughly 300 EUR that's taken out of my pay check every month now that I'm gainfully employed. People less fortunate get it for free, of course.
Agreed. In fact, I'd like to see anything resembling evidence that a) "fewer and fewer kids [are] getting into programming" and b) if so, that it's caused by some devices being locked down.
Samsung does commodity microelectronics manufacturing. I don't know of any technology that Samsung can uniquely provide. Apple can switch manufacturers in a heart beat.

Do you think that Foxconn does Apple's design innovation?
You can even get a specific flavor of feed, in some cases.

/feed gets you an RSS feed on WordPress.

/feed/atom gets you the Atom feed on WordPress.

/feeds/posts/default gets you the Atom feed on BlogSpot blogs (no RSS there, AFAIK).

/rss gets RSS on Tumblr (no Atom there, AFAIK).

Edit: trying to fix broken formatting.
> This article didn't seem all that great. It just claims "the prices are higher"

They buried the reason: “It’s very much something people make money out of. There isn’t too much embarrassment about that compared to Europe and elsewhere.”

Profiting off of the sick and injured has zero shame in the US. In fact, if you can drive the patient to bankruptcy, then you have maximized the take.

For some reason, there is no outrage. Previous generations would have used the word "profiteering", but the word seems unfashionable to apply in modern times to medicine or the military.
"When I asked for a point of comparison, he said Detroit was 4%."

The stats on Detroit emergency responders are utterly embarrassing. You pretty much can't count on police, fire or EMT even if you had a gunshot wound in a burning house and the shooter was still there.

So I'm guessing the issue in Detroit is less about technique and more about no access to trained responders.

*And to be clear, I'm not blaming the emergency responders in Detroit for the problem. The city is huge and spread out so it takes a long time to get to the scene, there's no funding for additional outposts or training, and the jobs are dangerous making them unattractive to people with other options, and there's a higher than average amount of serious crime and emergencies.
Would those things be better if they were privately run for profit? My personal opinion is that there are certain things that you can't allow the the private sector to run because it leaves too much room for abuse by individuals looking to make a profit. As a Canadian who's mother is a doctor, the one thing that really bothers me about the healthcare system in the US is that from a business stand point insurance companies are more profitable the more claims they deny, which really doesn't sit well with me. I'm not saying our system is perfect by any means, or that the US doesn't have a high quality of healthcare (if you can afford it). But the thought of someone making a profit on someone else not get a medical treatment that they need leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I thought that price included VM Fusion -- as in for $30 more you get the provider also.
This is definitely something that affects all browsers. That said, things are a little different with IE since it does not provide an extension marketplace or a fine-grained permissions model, which Chrome (and Firefox) do.
You have reason to believe that Reader's usage went down in two years?
Do people think health care taxes on cigarettes is a bad idea? As a smoker who pays extremely high taxes on cigarettes here in the UK I have no problem with them.
Hmm... maybe what they oughta let you do is filter out posts from people that go out to "Public". I don't want his public or her public or that circle's public, but if they post to a specific circle that I'm a part of, send it on.
I spent the night in an ER once after being knocked unconscious during a mugging, grand total of 5k which half was for the 8 block ambulance ride. Mugged twice!

All jokes aside I learned the value of employer provided health insurance.
> unless it is suspected that there may be body armored opposition

You mean like in the case where someone deceives them into thinking someone well-equipped and violent is in a certain location?

Swatting is a hard problem. We can't really put strong authentication in place because of the asymmetry of needing anyone to be able to report a violent crime in progress at any time at any location. And the anonymous report is, indeed, cause for suspicion that a crime is being committed, and if that anonymous report further claims that the bad guys are heavily armed and/or wearing body armor, that is cause for suspicion that they may indeed be telling the truth and the bad guys are ready to rock and roll at the drop of a hat.

It's a sticky situation.
MIT Start-Up Directory: The Digital Shingle Project
If you happen to know every pl from Clojure to assembly, why on earth wouldn't you list it? The more languages you know the better. If someone disagrees with that statement, then that's stupid people you don't want to have anything to do with anyway.
Because in the US there are vastly more MRI machines and they are newer.

France has 1/3 the number of CT machines per capita and 1/5th the number of MRI machines per capita compared to the US. And the US has the highest number of MRI scans per capita per year in the developed world (4 times more than French citizens).

Stats: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2009-en/04/...
Poolside=wet surface; EMTs may not have been dishwashers in a previous life (where you learn the dishwasher shuffle for moving over wet surfaces). Doesn't surprise me they'd walk with care.
This runs amazingly well on iOS.
Are you suggesting that we'd be better off with private security forces replacing the role of the police and army?
My eyes... my eyes!!!
I was going to add the same thing. I was following this when the news broke in 2011 (both Popular Mechanics and Science News had mentions) but nothing since. Since it hasn't gone black (aka 'secret') and has fallen off the "projects" page [1] of Mueller's lab, I'm guessing it doesn't actually work.

[1] http://www.egr.msu.edu/mueller/

EDIT: Found another article [2] that suggested late last year there was supposed to be a 25KW exemplar. Since its now close to the end of the first quarter of 2013 and there isn't a press release, I'm further convinced that their ended up not being anything to talk about.

[2] http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2012/08/wait...
Why we’re excited about Mailbox getting acquired by Dropbox
Falls apart on IE7. Love what you've done though. (Note to employer, UPGRADE MY COMPUTER)
Im sorry for the OT but looking as to how a developer/designer working at/on Grouptalent could read this:
I really dislike the typography on the site, the font is way to thin, small and low contrast hence I had a hard time reading it, even when zoomed. It made me only skim this article even though it seems interesting.
This might be also lots of overreaction.

I've met two very intelligent women (That don't know each other) that for most things have very reasonable opinions.

But throw "child abuse" and it is like telling a robot to hide in a corner in a round room, they just break and if they could they would pass laws about instantly killing suspects of child abuse.

When I try to argue with them of how "x" or "y" is bad idea because of its side effects, they always reply: "I don't care, EVERYTHING is worth doing to protect children."

And then I understand why so much politicians use "for the children" rhetoric when they want something.
It Was Only A Gift.
Victor and Valentine have been a normal couple ever since I have known them .Victor and I went to Beverly Hills Junior and have been buddies from first grade. He is one of those friends who I can share each and every challenge I face and Victor would only offer his helping hand. I remember him staying with me at our house after my grandfather died. I was very close to grandpa and his death only left me overwhelmed; with the help of Victor I was able to overcome it.
About four months Victor was diagnosed with prostate Cancer at Jones memorial Hospital. I could not believe it at first as I had thought that the disease affected only older men. There was no question; I had to be there for him and Valentine.
The two invited me to visit the hospital with them. The doctors advised him to have an operation to get rid of the cancerous tissues in his prostate. I remember the devastation on Victors face. Victor’s biggest question to the doctor was the effect of the surgery on his sexual performance. This was no shock to me, as I knew this question was eminent to every couple. The doctor made it clear that Victor could be okay sexually after he had fully recovered from his treatment. I saw Victor turn to Valentine and kiss her; I thought this was an assurance that all will be okay!
Victor took the surgery two days later and after he was later discharged. I made it my duty to visit him each and every day to check on his progress.
Victor has made Full Throttle OnDemand his sex companion.
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I believe they're both in the query string, but you're right - code is what's sent by way of the client. access_token is exchanged between the servers.
It makes total sense to tax the hell out of it, because it causes a very real health care burden. Doesn't change the dark humor of it though :)
I believe he's proposing that startups do more effective validation of candidates, not less work.

The information reported by references (or cold calls) can be vague, misleading, and limited by anti-defamation policies.

On the other hand, information gathered from their publicly shared code, interviews, hanging out, pairing, coding problems, etc. is much more relevant to your question. Will this person fit our startup?
MRI exams, 2009 :

- US 91.2 per 1000 inhabitants

- France 55.2 per 1000 inhabitants

Better usage ratio => lower price
References are not an opportunity to engage in "networking 101." The advice recommended in the post belies a poor screening and interviewing technique.
Health care costs in the US can have the same effect on the population as a tax even though it does not get go through the government. The goal should be to lower the healthcare cost per person, not squabble about who is paying.
Not to mention prices are and always have been variable depending on whether you're an individual or insurance company.
Great article. Also recommended is Positive Money http://www.positivemoney.org/ who aim to highlight this and change the banking system.
Chicken, together with its eggs system has always struck me as very professional feeling. Plus, bind (dead simple ffi for C stuff) seems like a huge win where C is required.

That all said, I've become quite enamored of Clojure's various data types. Does anyone know if there has been an attempt to create things like immutable maps, vectors, and whatnot for scheme (esp Chicken Scheme)? I found a blog post a while back that talks about FSet for common lisp, but have failed to find an analogue for scheme. http://blog.thezerobit.com/2012/07/21/immutable-persistent-d...
Either that or take away the legally protected monopolies that doctors (licensing of physicians and accreditation of medical schools, both of which are used to restrict the supply of doctors to ensure US doctors are the highest paid in the world), hospitals (certificates of need) and drug companies (drug patents) all enjoy.

If these monopolists didn't have the government protecting them from competition, they would not be able to gouge consumers so hideously.
I generally agree with the article. We deploy apps to EC2 instances and physical servers. It seems fairly effortless these days, so I don't get the appeal of Heroku, especially considering the cost and price/performance ratio.

That said,

font-weight: 400

please.
What was it, like $10? It still works to this day. Not a bad deal in my book even if they never update it again. It generally "just works."
Securing MongoDB on AWS
IARPA(.gov) Experiments With Alternative Reality For Intelligence Gathering
Gambit also has (imho) a much easier FFI. (Once you get used to all the ___arg1 and ___result stuff.) So it really is easy to bolt on C -- and even C++ and Objective-C -- code to a Gambit app.
> No need to even change your caller ID, just hide it.

Is 911 unable to triangulate calls if you hide your caller ID? I doubt it's that simple.
> If possible, find people who have worked with the candidate that the candidate did not suggest you talk to. You need to do this discretely - e.g. don't call their current boss to ask how good they are thereby screwing over the candidate, or alternatively causing their existing employer to make a big counter offer.

You are not doing a security clearance background check on your future employee. It's one thing if your friend bill worked at company X and you casually ask him about bob when you have a chance encounter one day.

But it's completely unacceptable to engage in this kind of espionage. The reason is that the candidate has not been informed of it, plain and simple. What you're advocating is tantamount to spying. This person might not think it's worth you digging through the coffers of his past just to work at your company. Did you ever stop to think that?
How does this work? Is each rename a commit? That would really clutter up your history if for example you are trying to rename 10 .cc files to .cpp
Ask HN: How best to cook a steak?
I know there's lots of contention in the startup community on this issue so I'm going to ask it straight:

What's the best way to cook a steak ?

I have 30 minutes to make this happen. The steak is a small sirloin medallion (x2).

[edit: I have slightly longer now as my wife has just stepped into the bath ! Thanks for all the suggestions - will keep you posted]

[edit 2: Seasoning - http://twitter.com/whyleyc/status/312662132124692480/photo/1]
The problem with taxes on cigarettes (as I see it) is that most of the time it's not proportional to one's income. A tax that is not progressive is inherently unfair IMHO, as it places a heavier burden on the less fortunate.
EDIT: Someone mentioned that cigarettes are a life choice but I personally believe that to be more of a nice theory than a fact. In reality smoking is huge among people with lower income, due to lack of education about the risks, cultural factors, advertising, etc. (see http://www.gallup.com/poll/105550/among-americans-smoking-de...). As a result, a higher burden is put on people who tend to smoke more on average, which are apparently the very same people who don't have too much money to begin with. Still their mistake to be spending the little money they have on a drug, but it's one of those "easier said than done" things in my opinion.
First, it is good to look at this on an international perspective, but an entirely separate article can be done on why an MRI costs $1,080 for a patient with insurance and the same treatment would be arbitrarily more for an uninsured patient usually about 4x as expensive. This issue has gone to court in California (2006-2008) resulting in over $1 billion dollars returned to uninsured patients because Courts found hospitals were illegally "price gouging" uninsured. However, price gouging uninsured is a practice that continues around the US, for example in September I received 17 stitches from a FL hospital and the bill was over $12,000 because I am uninsured. I recorded the entire event on my phone including asking how much the stitches would cost and the staff telling me the bill would be $2,000 if I were insured. I challenge the bill since I was quoted $2,000 for the treatment and my bill was $12,000 and when I produced the video of the staff acknowledging different price structures for insured and uninsured the hospital immediately agreed to cover my entire bill.

Second, I can not believe the Washington Post would publish an article titled "Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France", "America" really? I try to never comment on a spelling or grammatical error, but honestly we are talking the Washington Post who should know to use "US" not "America".
Could... someone tell me what Mailbox is? (i.e. what makes it special.) Their website is weirdly devoid of an explanation.
I'd say: whatever language you know the best is the easiest to debug.
"Multi-region images

We’re not quite sure why AWS doesn’t support this, but images on GCE are multi-region (“multi-zone” in their terms)"

Whilst images are not multi-region, you can now copy them[1] across regions with AWS.

[1]http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/12/announc...
At the moment if we're over capacity we'll find a time that works for you and deliver the package to your door. Going forward our plan is to install higher capacity units in neighborhoods that require them. You're right though - non-optimal usage is definitely a concern and we're working on processes to help tackle it.
We talk a lot about disrupting businesses here; there's a reasonable number of folks in the audience who want to do this to health care. Likely no deeper than that, but understanding the entrenched solutions in a market can be valuable if that's your plan.
Why Google Reader (and RSS) Really Died?
It seems to me that it didn't need much in the way of support. I have been using it for several years and have never experienced so much as a glitch. That could be down to excellent support, of course, but to me it seemed a mature product that could have been left to run exactly as is for any length of time and nobody would have complained.

I just don't see why they couldn't have just left it running as-is, without any support.
We've just released a free Lean Canvas Tool
This is the RasPlex project, at http://rasplex.com/
Just an idea, but would it be possible to 3D print it through an online service?

googling

Check these out!
http://www.shapeways.com/search?q=raspberry+pi
Plain old CPR by itself, with no ambulance on the way, is very unlikely to help. (That was another interesting tidbit - people almost never "wake up" while CPR is being administered).

Ambulance + plain old CPR, however, is much more effective than Ambulance + yelling "ITS GOING TO BE OK!" or playing Angry Birds or whatever. I don't remember the stats on effectiveness of performing CPR while waiting for the ambulance vs. not, but they were persuasive.
> Health care is an unusual product in that it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, for the customer to say “no.”

But there are other products that we absolutely need to stay alive that don't suffer the runaway prices we see in healthcare.

The best example is food. You can't say no to buying food.

So why don't food sellers have us over a barrel? Because consumers see prices and force the many providers to bid competitively against each other.

My point is that inelastic demand is not the fundamental cause of high costs in healthcare. It has much more to do with the many layers of abstraction we place between patient and provider that prevent price signals from passing through.
When I took a CPR class a few years back, we were told that the point of "Samaritan CPR" was really just to keep the person going until a first responder got there, but that the chances of survival past 5 or 10 minutes got increasingly low without actual medical attention.
Extensions found at https://addons.mozilla.org/ get reviewed by a human. If there are issues with the code (obfuscated, security risks, etc) the add-on is not approved.
Yeah, like there is no problem whatsoever in places as different as the Netherlands, and Australia.

But you're right it seems to be working fine in the US for muslims. Something certainly related to the american culture and how open it is.
OK, you don't get promoted etc.
But promotion isn't one and only motivation, right?
For two years there wasn't one Google employee who added one feature to Google Reader just for fun? Ouch.
Sign up to get it. Once you create your lean canvas, you can just share it with everybody.
For a site turning over 10million a year he has just made them an extra 10 million a year.

Now here is my question: From what I understand consulting is different from implementation. If you go into project management and supervise the process of implementation everything can be value based.

But what happens when you stick to a classic consulting perspective i.e. leave the implementation for others to do? Meaning when patio11 would pack his bags after running through his presentation and recommendations, what is he going to bill his value on? Based on "predicted" savings/revenue?

I somewhat fear that value based consulting draws the consultant into the nitty gritty of implementation, almost becoming a project manager of his suggestions for optimizations. And if somebody else screws up along the implementation process, it is going to stick with the consultant's reputation.

Can anybody comment on that?