skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to again qualify my status as a non-expert with regards to the surgical aspects of trauma treatment and biochemistry. I have seen similar articles about the foam, and I must admit I am similarly skeptical. The ‘Golden Hour’ is one of those concepts in medicine that everyone praises (it originated @ Marylan’s Shock Trauma center if I recall), but it actually does not have an evidentiary basis.

There are 3 categories of trauma patient, people who will die no matter what you do (hole in the aorta), people who will live no matter what you do (fractured extremities), and people where the outcome may be influenced by treatment in the field. My non-evidence based opinion is that the people in this 3rd population who have the types of injuries that would benefit from this foam will be rather limited. The aorta, inferior vena cava, kidneys and parts of the duodenum, pancreas and rectum are all retroperitoneal. Thus, filling the peritoneal cavity with foam could put pressure on bleeding structures located in the retroperitoneal space, but I would be skeptical. So this foam is for people who have don’t have large hemorrhage of anything in retroperitoneal space and don’t have a fatal mesenteric, liver, or spleen injury, but do have an injury to one of these structures that is sufficiently bad to warrant the foam. The risk of exposing patients with liver and spleen lacerations that could have been managed non-operatively (again, not a surgeon by any stretch but I believe this is a growing trend) to an unnecessary laparotomy isn’t mentioned.

The target audience for this item is going to be armed forces medics with (in my opinion) highly variable clinical skills. Expecting these medics to accurately diagnosis these injuries under heavy stress and not sacrifice time that should be spent on proven therapies like blood administration, tourniquet placement, warm blankets, etc. seems unwise to me.
@Trek

I do understand what you are saying and I don't want for a minute to imply that you are required to help, I understand that you are a volunteer. That said my point is that while you might not have liked the way he phrased his post, writing him off because of it is not what I would have done. I will be the first to admit that I can be a VERY sarcastic person if I put my mind to it and so maybe my opinion is biased to agree with the style and even enjoy reading things written in this style. Reading Delvarworld's post brought back many memories on trying new software/code (not ember specifically) and the irritation felt when something has such a high learning curve. However, I believe that it makes more sense to simply agree that the documentation could be better and possibly even invite Delvarworld to jump on IRC or discuss on the forums ways he thought the docs could be improved instead of ignoring him.

In my mind I saw it as someone explaining the steps they took to try something and outlining the various ways they failed in that endeavor and then you, a core contributor, coming down to essentially tell him to fuck off, it wasn't worth your time. I know that's not what you wrote and I don't think that's how you felt but it is what I got out of it. I think bphogan makes a great point with "I'm sure you didn't just dismiss it internally, so why did you dismiss it externally?". I don't know you, I have actually never heard of you , this was the first thing (to my knowledge) that I have ever read of yours and what I took away from it was that you simply didn't care. Like I said I don't think you don't care, it's just how it came across, at least to me.
Now to figure out how to make this work with a rotary phone...
We're especially proud of our RSS support because not only can we combine multiple RSS feeds into one, you can bring other non-RSS sources into your superfeed (think Dropbox/Github/Evernote/etc...). You can browse a ton of them here: https://zapier.com/app/explore?services=RSSAPI

Happy to answer any questions or take suggestions!
So docker container ABI is basically the kernel? You just create a filesystem image and docker starts that as LXC guest. You could build a statically compiled binary and put that as /bin/init into the container image, right?
Protobufs ported to Python 3
I would avoid using anyone else's images without their explicit permission. It's just safer that way.
> "Startup employees haven't risked as much but their risk is compensated with appropriate equity the earlier they join and the more risk they take on in the form of lower salary and benefits."

This is the part where we wave our hands and drop a smoke bomb.

You're theoretically right, but it never works out that way. For all intents and purposes, in the current state of the tech economy, there is no inherent risk to working for a startup. If my company went belly-up today I'll bounce off the floor juuuust fine.

Equity at this point is not being given in exchange for the risk of the company failing, it's given as a tool to decrease other forms of compensation.

And it's a shitty trade. Founders know it and experienced employees know it. The only people who are falling for this are the fresh-faced college grads who think 0.1% pre-dilution of your startup will make them rich.

But lots of engineers get convinced to take huge pay cuts in exchange for a pittance in equity, and to forego huge amounts of benefits that are worth real cash.

"Compensated with appropriate equity" is bullshit. If this was standard operating procedure we wouldn't be walking around acting like sub-1% pre-dilution is worth anything whatsoever.
What's a good Golang ORM that you could use in a production app?
Our CMS, Forge (http://factore.ca/forge-cms) is a semi-open source (in that you're free to use it for whatever you want but we don't have a community built up for it yet) Ruby on Rails CMS that focuses on rapid application development. It's VERY opinionated (moreso than Rails) but it lets you get things done really quickly and mostly stays out of your way on the front-end. Shoot me a message if you're interested in checking it out.
At this point I'm seriously considering dropping Rails as my framework of choice and reverting back to ASP.Net MVC.

Why?

1. Security fixes are released very quickly (good thing), but more often then not they break existing code (bad thing) - and while you _can_ wait for the next patch to fix those break points, you're left wide open since everybody can see what was broken and how to exploit it.

2. I'm not nearly smart enough with Ruby to apply 'band-aids' I read people write in Rails source code. I just don't have the time and energy to fix code in the actual framework when I need to be fixing _my_ code.

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So there you have it; I'm bailing.

It was a fantastic ride, Ruby is a beautiful language, but Rails is just a clusterfuck (_for me_).

I need stability and predictable behavior. If that means releases every 6 month to 1 year, so be it.

So long and thanks for all the gems.
CVS To Workers: Tell Us How Much You Weigh or It'll Cost You $600 a Year
"They weren't forgotten, that's why it's so hard to hire."

The labor force remembers, but the startups seemed to have forgotten
It is also how they rose to fame in the first place - they didn't predate Vimeo or YouTube...

The first TED talk was in 1984. That predates Vimeo, YouTube, and most of the components of the technology stack that are a pre-requisite for Vimeo and YouTube to make sense.
Did they send Schrödinger's cat with Voyager 1?
The /most/ important part would seem to be "That is why DigitalRev was contacted" - because it seems that they were NOT contacted, but rather SoftLayer were.

An obnoxious use of an obnoxious piece of legislation, followed by a smokescreen. More likely cock-up than conspiracy, but leaves a nasty taste.
Any bets on when this is going to be discontinued?
I totally agree. Have seen the same in Germany, with both US and German startups, both in Hamburg and Berlin. They talk all the time how cool is to work in nice locations in the city have a great Mac and being part of something great. I have always visited such an interviews, because wanted to be a part of these startup environment. However getting 30% less salary and no real benefits, except for talking to hipsters all day long, has never been the purpose of my life.
"Changing priorities isn’t a problem"

I love the irony.
Treat Your Kids Like a Team of Agile Software Developers and Lower Stress
Even the CIA is struggling to deal with the volume of real-time social data
> Online retailers can only use "authorised images" to advertise GoPro products? That is more than a little sketchy. They cannot use their own original photographs that they have taken and own the copyright to?

I maybe mistaken here, but I'm fairly sure reporting / reviews are classed as 'fair use'.

If this was ever to go to court, then I'm certain the judge would just throw the case out. However GoPro would never push it that far, their aim is just to take the review offline for the immediate 2 weeks in the hope that when it goes back online, most people would have moved on. Ironically though, GoPro have attracted significantly more attention to the article by trying to bury the review.

I say "ironically", but "deservedly" equally works. I hope this serves as a warning to other companies wishing to abuse DMCA take downs (though I doubt it will).
Hi. I have to confess I neglected my promise to contribute to the official documentation, but I haven't found the time..
An early look at plugin-free video chatting on a Nexus 7, powered by WebRTC
You know what is great about this article- the guy gets on there and gives super clear and relatable advice. Nothing fancy about his ideas or about his tricks for doing well at public speaking just straightforward clear advice.
Complete video of Structure Data Conference talk today.
"oops! an error occurred" On google chrome on windows 7

Not quite prime time ready? Or am I the only one?
Doh! Fixed while still within the edit window. Thanks for reading my post closely enough to notice. :)
As a contractor, if you're taking in 800 dollars a day, and buying your own health insurance, you are not taking in 800 dollars a day. In fact, your take home pay is probably less than his (at least on the high-end of the per-diem).

1. You're paying a higher marginal tax rate on your earnings than he is on his salary. Self-employment tax is a real bitch.

2. If you're buying your own health insurance, the benefits you get for the price are undoubtable lower than the benefits he gets with his (paid for) package, or you're paying through the nose. "Group plans" are generally better, and cheaper, than individual plans.

3. Should something terrible happen to you, or should you fail to find work for awhile, you are not eligible for unemployment.

I see lots of folks swear by "being a contractor" when they're young, only to start searching for a salaried position after a few bad experiences.

When I took over my company, the absolute first thing I did was switch every "contractor" to a full-time employee. It's better for both parties.
I've been amazed the typical equity for early employees has stayed as low as it has for as long as it has.
Ask HN: Visa Rewards
So was just curious- what sort of solutions are out there at the moment that would allow to give custom rewards to people based on what they buy/spend?
Searching in Market/Play sucks. Try to find Google Keep now. Impossible.
Is First-Mover Advantage Always A Good Idea?
What to say when your friend becomes your competitor
Thinking the same thing. But the medigel is that thing too useful to be banned by the Council, so ... yes.
To me, bikeshedding is a signal from politicians, judges, and other public servants, that they don't feel the problem is important enough for them to understand. Like us, they have limited cognitive resources (processing time, calories, actions-per-day, etc), so they have to be cautious about how they budget it.

How do we force technical information into the brains of our government employees?

OR

What incentives do we need to provide tech workers to be more politically active?
Before you put your data in this, make sure there's a way out because Google has the nasty habit of discontinuing its stuff.
I disagree. Technology is advancing at an extremely rapid pace and in the future it will require more knowledge and training to keep up, thus raising the bar to enter. Look at the medical field, for example. 200 years ago it didn't take much education or experience to be considered a doctor. Nowadays you have spend nearly half your life in preparation to become one.

Our industry is definitely becoming more popular but that doesn't mean that the demand is dying down.
If the risk isn't being compensated, I'm with you on that point. That's Bullshit! But the... "founders have a much greater risk/reward ratio than employees", that is not a fallacy in most cases.

In my own case, I've been working for 18 months with no salary and I don't consider myself unique. Most founders go down the same long long road before they bring on their first employee. I've learned that most employees (if they haven't gone through the process of founding a company) dismiss the amount of risk founders take on to get a company to the point of even being able to make their first hire.

The whole question seems like we should create a standard model for the risk reward and set equity appropriately.
So, to clarify...

socks=penis: funny

dongle=penis: ZOMG this is like LORD OF THE FLIES call the cops!
it's not roky erickson, is it?
>Any idea what product the original review recommended over GoPro?

Not sure, but the Contour ROAM line is one of their bigger competitors. Sony also has a line of compact HD camcorders in the same class.

EDIT:

Now that I actually bothered to RTFA, it appears the original comparison was with one of the Sony cameras.
This study is worth a skim: http://www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2012/1...
So many moving parts and cables. Raspberry Pi, an old phone, FreePBX, Asterisk, Obi100. Let's outcomplex the POTS.

Seriously, how about you show us how to register an Android phone with your SIP service?
The pricing is definitely odd. Some are a lot more than retail, some are a bit more than retail.
The issue isn't what hoops you should jump through before you publish a story. It's what you as a reporter need to do to serve your reader best — period.

You have to distinguish between reporters who should be out in the field — political and crime beat reporters, for example — and those whose field actually is their desk. There's no reason for many of the reporters at Mashable and TechCrunch to leave their desks. They're writing about hardware and software. They need to be there to test and use the tools in order to write about them. How is visiting a grieving mother going to help with that?

There's something else about technology reporting that people should keep in mind before they criticize: The industry is secretive. Except when you have access to inside, quasi-legal/ethical/reliable information sources, you as a reporter have no way of knowing the news until the company or researcher is ready to reveal it to you. That usually coincides with a press release, but that doesn't mean the work is merely regurgitating a press release. Every story means learning the tool; having the ability to learn quickly is not a negative. It's the result of an inquisitive, focused, interested mind capable of grasping the arcane and translating that into something meaningful for people who are counting on you to help them get their work done.

I'm a tech reporter and a subject matter expert in a few specialized areas. I would put my expertise against anybody in my field, and I'm certainly more knowledgeable than the PR people who put out corporate releases rife with technical inaccuracies. I didn't get this way by chatting up CEOs or interviewing the man on the street. I got this way by setting up my autism station and plugging away at it day and night, weekday and weekend, holiday or no holiday, asking questions of engineers when I stumble, then writing about what I learned in a way that people can understand.

My readers benefit from that. That's what matters.
All my finance friends make about 10x what my engineer friends make and work equally hard. If you compare engineers to lawyers, doctors, and executives we are very much underpaid.
I just checked Google Takeout, it's not listed there yet.
Well if it's a smoke bomb... let's change it. I agree with you there.

I'm a current founder and my first 10 employees are going to get a hell of a lot more than .5%
On the flip side, I've seen insane (from a US standpoint) rules on vesting at UK startups, like "the company gets all your options back if you leave."

Don't know if this is SOP or not.
I always advise folks who are looking to work for a startup to value their stock at $0. Will you be happy and enjoy the work you are doing for the salary and benefits alone?
"Newspapers make 80% of their income from legal notices in this state. That's the only thing keeping them alive." That's what a local reporter told me recently when he was discussing his retirement.

He also said most of the reporters have lost their jobs and only a tiny group remain. That makes sense, as the newspaper is now 20% the size it was ten years ago. There's maybe one or two 'investigative' articles each week and rest are AP news, local sports, or articles about local shops and what they sell.
I would have jumped on this a year ago.

The elephant in the room with every one of the Google announcements is that they've drained their coffers of trust/goodwill with the early adopter crowd, which is precisely the group you need to kick these things off.

Until Larry Page makes a clear, official public comment about this, I'm left wondering what is considered core product and what isn't. Is this? Is it an experiment? I get that this integrates with Drive, which is core product (it is, right?). Not the point. Using a new tool is me spending time and effort to learn/use/integrate into a workflow.

Until I know that I'm not going to be backtracking on this territory in two years when Google has another epiphany about strategy, I'm left feeling genuinely skeptical.
Remember Google Notebook?
Interesting. I was hoping this would mean that tasks would be taken out of calendar. I guess when you have millions of users, every action delights some and angers others.
I think your second point is the most salient.

Advertising does one thing, and one thing only: create symbolic associations. (Well, I guess web ads are a departure, since the goal is a click).

What does Coke's advertising budget actually pay for? Images of people having fun and drinking Coke, which are then distributed through every media known to man. Three billion just for Coke = fun, popular. Think about that for a minute, and you'll recognize it's almost impossible to comprehend how intimate symbols really are, how they turn something intangible into something real that you can buy.

Now let's look at the diamond. In my opinion there is only one association that actually drives the purchase. Diamond = marriage. And not just marriage. The loving side of marriage, the tender and personal one as opposed to the banal legal one symbolized by a certificate or the familial one symbolized by the ceremony.

You can come up with a story as to why you don't have one, but there always must be a story. The diamond needs no story, because it's already a symbol. I'd love to see some examples of the early advertising campaign the article discusses.
Font size and contrast matter, or why I won't read your blog post
What would be slick is if you did a soft phone on the RPi and skipped the ATA. Then connect the speaker, mic, keypad directly to the phones old internals.
Nice Stephen, was hoping to see you in this conversation.

I think this all comes down to really the fact that 2$ hosts have php installed by default and probably don't have shell.
It's not that black and white. But being profitable is definitely a great data point.
"But our letter did not clearly communicate this and that is something we will correct."

They should probably work on being super duper extra clear on legal notices sent to hosting providers that take down content.
I don't think it's fair to bunch all 400+ Y Combinator companies together like this. You'll probably find good and bad benefits packages with the same frequency across all small startups. Y Combinator certainly does not get their hands dirty in the operational, HR, or recruitment strategies of their funded companies; that's really up to the founders.

Perhaps what you want to say is that you don't like the benefits packages that startups with young founders provide, because they don't understand what a more senior engineer expects on that side of the compensation equation. That might be more fair.
The market is what the market is. While it may not be "socially equitable", senior developers are currently the perfect combination of high-demand and low-supply.

It is not "entitled" to demand to be paid the maximum value the market will bear for your skills. It is stupid to do otherwise.
Looks cool, you will probably be hearing from me soon about some design work. :)
All mates are attracted to money, some are simply more attracted than others.

> If the girl is even slightly intelligent she'll be able to make an assessment without needing a glittery ring.

Because she's clairvoyant? An expensive car can be rented or borrowed, a house can be inherited, bank statements easily faked. Men do these sorts of things. Frequently.

But a ring she has been pining on and on about? A ring she can easily get appraised? No. You can't fake that. You will need to fork over the cash and when all of your money is going toward regular expenses and all of a sudden you have to fork over 10K in cold hard cash, that's a strain and a fine test of a man's ability to withstand financial shock.

Wait til you have a baby. Now that's a real financial shock.
That's interesting, but it doesn't address to what extent someone in the City of London could skirt British laws or taxes as the article implies. In 1771, the aldermen of the City of London were able to bar Parliament from entering the City of London to arrest a newspaper publisher who had broken the law by publishing transcripts of Parliamentary debates. Does the City of London still have that kind of autonomy?
github: pau
I wish more sites would start using Persona, instead of privacy disrespecting FB or G+ login helpers. Even OpenID isn't as widely used as it could be.
Canadian Entrepreneur Evan Kosiner Wins Governor General Award
Founders risk it all to found companies and rightfully have the greatest reward. Startup employees haven't risked as much

True(er) a decade or so ago, but definitely not true today. Founders currently, if they're doing it right, risk a bruised ego and a submarket salary for a few years. Employee risk is about the same.
World newspapers, side-by-side
It's going to change.
What do you need twilio, raspi and asterisk for?

You just need an ATA and a sip account like callcentric.
drive.google.com/keep/ keeps giving me errors. I don't see how this is going to be an Evernote-killer for me though. (I am actually new to Evernote, but it's been wonderful so far.) I actually don't like google's unified product integration! If there was a clear way to export or use webhooks to retrieve these notes, I'd reconsider.
Annnnnd... fixed!
Quick Guide to Porting Prototype to jQuery in Rails
Same here, I used to be much more of a "hot-head" when it came to things like this (I'm still not perfect, far from it) but I try not to take things as personally, at the end of the day if it makes my product better then I should shut up and be happy.
> We also noticed that users dislike the NASCAR-style
> plastering of branded login buttons.

This reminds me quite vividly of Stack Overflow's login page. I can never remember if I signed up direct, with OpenID, or Google, or whatever else is there.

I've been starting to dig Mozilla and Firefox again lately (the last week of developer tools news cemented that), so I'd love to see their idea take off and gain full adoption.