skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody has a problem that "medicine actually saves lives" - that's what medicine is supposed to do, isn't it? The problem is when that life-saving medicine becomes unavailable due to it's pricing, which means sheer death!
"One man's trash is another man's treasure."

"one animal's effluent is a rich man's delicacy."

ok, I'm done.
Considering Google Glass utilises cloud storage on presumably some kind of LTE plan I don't see high quality blu-ray or even DVD ready video recording quality anytime soon from these things, it's just not plausible high quality video can be captured and streamed via any network as fast as it is being captured (unless Glass has on-board high storage, but I haven't heard of any).

You are somewhat right in that people have said "x will never be as good as y" and were proven wrong, but that isn't always the case. In this instance I don't see Google Glass replacing any day-to-day camera. Mobile phone camera technology is a good example, mobile phone cameras have become a lot better in the quality of; video, imagery, lenses and sensors they have, but due to constraints such as; battery life, storage capacity and smaller form factor will never be good for more than happy snaps. And while lots of people are content with happy snap quality, to say that Google Glass in the article will ever be of high enough quality to record palatable professional pornography is a misguided and incorrect statement.
It's always seemed crazy to me that just because electric cars are non-polluting, people forget that dangling on the other end of that charging cable is probably a coal-fired power station.

I've never seen figures on this before but it's nice to finally see something quantifying that. This study found: "For a European average power generation mix, and if you use your car for 150,000km, you could hope for a 25% improvement [in global warming impact] relative to a gasoline car"

and also points out that: "some cars make almost double the impact on global warming as conventional cars. This is mostly because of the raw materials and energy needed to build the lithium-ion batteries."

I'd love to see more data around this. I'm not anti-electric but it does seem we could apply our efforts, natural resources and budgets more effectively to other places, like loft insulation.
Grad student lives in a van to avoid debt
You're missing one of my favorites, "Involving undergraduates in research." Especially for top students, I feel this element is key (I'm biased).

Even for undergrads with no desire to go on to do academic work, it's a good experience to work on a well-defined but hard problem that fundamentally might have either no solution or where the answer is "that doesn't work." It provides undergrads with confidence when they go on to their next job because, frankly, most students will never encounter anything as mentally challenging or technically risky in the rest of their career, entering it with a BA/BS.

Not saying that as a bad thing. Companies (startup or established) have plenty of other risks and challenges (social, business, process, quality, integration, dependencies, schedule, etc.), but the pure technical "is this even possible?" ones are the sort of thing you don't sort out mid-flight with a full or even partial team staffed up --- though you might have some PhDs (Google model) or 15+year veterans of the area (MSFT model) working alone to figure that out before you ramp up a full project.
Meet the Bitcoin Millionaires
Taking a cue from reddit, it would be cool if someone started casualstackoverflow, with less strict moderation. Bonus points if closed questions can be imported.
A case of a misplaced dash in a markdown file...

Fixing, regenerating, deploying. eta 10 minutes, thank you very much!
In the case of MD5 and SHA1 the length (of the output) is fixed to something like 160 bits. So the length of the output will always be the same regardless of input length.

There's no way you could take the complete works of shakespeare , pass it through SHA1 and then take the output and somehow reverse it (the 160bits) to get the complete works of shakespeare back out because too much information has been destroyed. It's effectively an extreme form of lossy compression.

What a good hash function should do though is ensure that small changes in the source guarantee a completely different output hash.
'Gleevec is under patent in the U.S., but not in India'
This is a biased article, Novartis tried to gain one more patent for existing drug with slight modification.

see 'Calling big pharma's bluff' http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/calling-big-pharmas-blu...
Any network engineers out there? You may be interested in committing to this.
Just Get A Programming Job
While disappointing, it's perhaps not surprising that the umlaut in "Schrödinger's Cat" caused trouble. The fact that the apostrophe was ruled too risky as well, however, is an indictment on software engineering as a profession.

If people are scared to put basic punctuation marks in the names of things, out of fear that badly-written software might break as a result, then that is a sign of just how far we still have left to go.
For me in Chrome on Mac OS 10.8 instead of an emoticon it just shows a sqare. Safari showed the cat.

The square looks like the qed symbol, I thought the article was about a proof or a box. Both worked fine in my mind :)
Really? Because it's pretty prominent. It's the first attention-seeking detail after the Buy Now button.
Love AngularJS. My grips so far :

- Directives : I'm no JS ninja so even after those egghead.io I'm still lost, but it gets better !

- jQuery : Angular kinda want to kill it whereas I think it should play nicer with it, especially for plugins. AngularUI jQuery Passthrough (or custom directives) should not be necessary IMO.

- Expressions : they are powerful but there is almost no documentation about them and I feel like an idiot sometimes. Thank god for Stack Overflow ... (where in the Angular doc can I learn that I can do ng-click="[action_1, action_n]" ?).

- Views helpers are usually put in the controller. That doesn't seem the best approach, or maybe people put them in a service and inject it in the scope from the controller ?

- Providing initial data : I usually put data in javascript variables and get them in the controller and assign them to services or the scope. Is there a better way ?
So why can't it continue to be the catch-all, when anything else doesn't work?

Opening up the TLD-space and .com being the catch-all aren't mutually exclusive, after all.
Check out Sanergy. They're collecting human waste using custom toilets in Nairobi slums, and selling fertilizer and electricity.

http://saner.gy
This thing is seriously cool. I really think using this kind of technology based on Street view or similar data sets could really create some very cool in browser games, maybe even with some social elements. Anyone up for the challenge?
Looks pretty cool, but the embedded video keeps breaking after 2 seconds of play.
PAPI?
Sorry but america does not subsidise the health systems of the world , it just sad to see you argue so much when in all actuality your being fleeced tax payer wise & health insurance wise . Your health service doesn't really seem like its there to help most just the rich people.
I was going by the CIA factbook.

It lists Bosnia at 6.1 (50% lower than the Wiki).

The Wiki entry claims it uses the CIA factbook as a source. So I'm not really sure which source that Wiki entry is relying on.
Please, stop making the inspector lose focus immediately after you open it. It's very annoying.
I like the idea, and the design is fantastic, but I question whether the quotes you chose are thought provoking (and maybe even preachy to some) rather than inspirational.
Fewer than 2% of drone-strike victims in Pakistan are senior al Qaeda leaders
Scrappers are doing it every day.
Back in an earlier time my wife's aunt and uncle used to drive a truck into Denver and pick up the food waste from area hotels to feed their hogs (when this wasn't forbidden by the USDA).
The newspaper group I worked for at one time threw out a LOT of waste newsprint and I knew someone that would stop by the dumpsters daily to gather it and then make pots to grow seedlings in.
There is a regular crew of people around here that pick up unwanted pallets and simply haul them to another site where they are in demand (in the same city).

As with everything else in business you find someone who needs X and then see if you can locate a source for a price that allows you to make money.
Ask HN: One-up Silicon Valley and its ambitions for the music machine?
Does listening to new music played on the radio (and through music services) leave you underwhelmed and bored? For example, would you pay to listen to music services if they only played music recorded after 2007?

I have cofounded a different kind of media startup that's hard at work developing these efforts and I think I've found a Technical Co-Founder and a CTO; however, I'm looking for creative persons/technologists that would have an interest in making a very, very positive influence on music.

I'd like to hear from persons that may be interested in either helping the efforts or offering their advice.
Send a message to me at vossjehns@gmail.com.
Also in South-East London: http://www.selchp.com/
well, I do use it. That makes us two ;) I prefer grove over all other hosted chat services since it pretty much is IRC with archiving and "private". Works with any IRC client, so everyone can use the client he prefers - web, CLI, ... The protocol is simple and open and there's a ton of services that can actually integrate into IRC.
There're tons of garbage collection mom-and-pop companies serving small and rural neighborhoods. Believe it or not, they need software to run their business, and the current one sucks. Most of software designed for garbage collectors is just a simple ugly-looking billing software, but how about (1) Something very user-friendly that looks like it was made in 21st century? (2) The ability for customers to see a portal where they can manage their account and pay the bill and, MOST IMPORTANTLY (3) The ability for the software to optimize routes for garbage trucks, so they can eat less gas and collect garbage faster, thus reducing labor costs. Right now #3 is based purely on human decisions, which is probably wrong. I'll bet you #3 would sell well, especially if it was integrated with the other parts.
Zuckerberg Launches Technology Lobby
well, self hosted is an advantage. Hipchat is a closed service IIRC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5530662

"The issue the Indian court had with Gleevec patent application is that it only rearranged the molecule in a new crystal pattern"

...in other words the American patenting system is more corrupted than India's. Reading again my last written sentence I can not but awe - I never thought I might ever compare America with India and find something less corrupt in the last one!
CNBC has a whole program on people who do:
Trash Inc. The Secret Life of Garbage

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38830389

I haven't seen it, but they promote it heavily for the days that there is no trading.
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> Rejecting the Gleevec patent application is not the only step that the Indian government has taken to circumvent patents on cancer drugs.

It's not circumventing the patent. It's not granting the patent. People think that patent is some kind of innate natural right and if you manage to trick one country into giving you monopoly you are somehow in the right now and other countries that don't see the point of giving you similar monopoly are circumventing your sense of entitlement.
In fact, some participants in the mailing list discussion proposed adding non-alphanumeric characters to future release names just to see what happens. (...) Peter Robinson proposed the project go right for the goal and choose "DROP table *;".

We need a courage like this! ;)
Is there any plan to expose some of these new features (subpanes, docking mode) to the developer command line tools as well? Being able to do something like this would be very nice:

inspect body --font
console open --side

(That aside, developer command line tool[1] is already a big productivity booster. You should check it out if you haven't.)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/08/new-firefox-command-line-h...
Very nice. Made a custom hyperlapse, but it's like driving around at 1000mph...
White is better than brown? Isn't white just brown with the brown removed?
How exactly is extracting the maximum possible revenue from people for giving them something that saves their lives NOT evil?
He was sarcastic.
Chemo sucks, because of the sides and the low improvement in meaningful outcomes.
It's still one of the best treatments we have once

As someone that is in preventitive medicine: It's a bit more complicated.
But one of the hardest part is changing peoples habits. Besides the rather crappy data available on prevention/diet etc..
Sensationalism and fear can help some to change their life. But there are better (more positive) methods.
Because the US government claims jurisdiction over ".com".
which you need in a lot of cases for search engine crawlability.
Socrata Releases “Open Data Server, Community Edition”
Also look at the other side of the equation, acquisition and installation. How many OSS projects have "git clone <git-hub-repo>" as the first step of their install instructions these days?
I haven't tried out the app yet but I have to say I really like the site. The icons on the bottom part of the homepage as well as the language tone make you feel like someone's really there. I've never been a fan of time management apps but ill give it a try with an open head. Anyone else used it?
Why Is Microsoft Married To 16:9?
Longest gif? aka How to beat Snake
I guess it makes sense, if you think about it. I mean, why on earth would people vote democrat if they weren't tricked into it in some way?
Such a useless comment. Everything you mentioned was arrived at by research which everyone shared when the vast majority of the research was happening...
Thanks for answering the question: you have NO idea how science and medicine works and instead prefer regurgitating ideological bullshit.
Breakpoints are limited - In chrome, I can watch for events and have it break on them. If I'm wanting to debug minified code, in chrome I make it readable and set breakpoints.

Would be nice to edit the JavaScript as well in the process of debugging it. JS Breakpoints currently (in nightly) block loading of the JavaScript file the breakpoint is in. The file is loaded, just not visible in the debugger.

From the tools, no way to see data like cookies or local storage (Cookies can be seen on the network tab, but it's not the same). Chrome has this in a Resources tab.

Chrome's timeline.

The style editing options in the inspector are limited. Sure, the style editor is a colorized text editor, but there is no easy way to edit styles as in Chrome. Chrome, I can set states and work with them without worry. Editing CSS is also easier with auto-complete. Basically, editing in CSS in Chrome is better than in Firefox.

There are a lot of little things. They are catching up. I can get some of these things in Firebug, but then I'd be using Firebug.

Finally, the console is limited. In Chrome, I can bring up the console on any section. This is important, as it lets me use the console while looking at the information I'm currently working with for reference.

There are things I like, and I'm looking forward to the day it's comparable and meets my needs.
Somehow you don't even need to know what Git is to browse and download things from Github.
Mt Gox hacked?
Agreed - they are fantastic books.

His website is at: http://www.badscience.net/
I do think he is from Dutch origin though (Because he talked in the past about one of his experience with QNX in the Netherlands)
Bet you could autogenerate simulator rides from this pretty awesomely...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulator_ride
Look at his answer. He wasn't.
My father has been in remission now for coming up 6 years, the chemotherapy worked quite well I think.

He never smoked, didn't really have GMO crops even available to him to eat for most of his life.

I don't get why people like to have this idea that avoiding cancer is as simple as shopping at a more expensive supermarket. In a way it's almost a culture of victim blaming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining
"the transaction network is excellent and high-quality."

Really?

I thought the transaction network was already struggling with SatoshiDice and the volume of transactions it's caused? If that is the case then the network is going to have a lot of trouble coping with increased use in future.
Could be, but apparently a lot was http://rochestermade.com/
I'd argue it is worse that almost all languages can not be used to name things. A pain that many computer users in non-English speaking countries feel regularly. As a German I set all my devices to US English for this reason -although this causes other problems.
The apostrophe is really just related to shells and scripting and should be a bit easier to fix.
I knew it was just a matter of time before American xenophobia came to HN.
I would kill for a fresh version of Escape Velocity (MMORPG style)

:)
Twitter’s Big Challenge: Too Much Twitter
In the UK it's normally a few local individuals bonding ADSL lines together at point x where the service is an acceptable speed. A few microwave links later and it's ready to be consumed by 10-100 people. It's not real competition, it's not cheap, and it's not well support.

It's a poor replacement for fibre to the cabinet.
CocoaControls for Android: AndroidViews.net
It is too late to buy ASICs now.Not only because people from batch #1 and #2 have a significant advantage but also because of the companies that already have a lot of hashing power.

In 6 months assuming the batches are released and some companies build their own massive mining centers, your ASIC will be useless...
I think their role is a bit more complex than that. In most universities, there is a teaching and mentoring role to undergraduates, which I think can play a huge role in the direction of those students careers. There is also a domain expertise that gets built around these people - they become walking encyclopedias of their field which has value for society, government, and industry to take their advice. Also, like your TED link, I think there is an 'incubating' role for tenured professors - some profs have an incredible amount of innovation that gets inspired by and spin-off from their labs. Particularly if the prof has entrepreneurial tenancies or at least values commercializing and/or implementing outcomes of their research.

If you want to get university or country success compared to production of tenured professors, its becomes even further complicated. I would argue that the opportunity for collaboration and funding for students and equipment is close in importance to skill of the tenured prof. This is probably what you are saying with paying more to the empirical sciences (along with more tenure spots) - and I agree with you on that.

The reason I posted is as an interesting addition to the common conversation on HN of the role of academics. I think a tenured professor is a quite good job and role. In contrast, nontenured senior academics are IMO not that well compensated (salary or otherwise) for the amount and skill of work they do, at least compared to industry or entrepreneurship.

(Background: I am a PhD student, but looking at entrepreneurship rather than academia long term. I find it concerning the number of my friends and colleagues planning academic careers vs the number of positions that will be open).

Thanks for the TED link, I hadn't seen this one and its a very interesting field. I'll have to restrain on comments to keep this on topic.
The NPR Planet Money podcast just released a podcast Tuesday on Bitcoins: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/04/09/176688096/episode-...

It was the first time I had heard about Bitcoins, and so did many I think!
The trick to good software design
"Data is the lifeblood of Design" Designers use startups to become better
I always thought this was just a reference implementation for SignalR. In fact David Fowler is the author of both. I never considered Jabbr a long-term "product", instead just a really involved side project.
Engage your customers - MailChimp integration for cloudbase.io
Okay, nice. Did you also remove the need for clicking those tiny arrows to expand?
As far as I know, companies are supposed to make profit,they are not charities. Especially if you are so large that you sell shares in company, then you have a LEGAL obligation to the shareholders to always take decisions that maximise profit over everything else(unless you can show that selling your product cheaper is going to bring more money to the company in the long run). This is not "evil" - this is just how these companies work. It's like what Steve Jobs said,when he was asked by Obama what would it take to bring his business back to US, out of China. And Steve said very correctly, that there is nothing he can do - if the production is cheaper in China, they have to go that route,since they have legal obligations to work in the best interest of their shareholders. (and I am not saying this is a good thing. This is just how this entire system works, and if you opened your own company, you would have to play by the same rules,no matter how noble you were. If you want this situation to change, change the system)

The only way to combat this is to have a national health care system,that sets their own prices for drugs it buys from companies. If my country says that the maximum it can pay per box of Glivec is $3000, then Novartis can't do anything about it. Well, they could decide to not sell the drug at all, but they would rather have some money than none.
Congratulations on getting up and doing it..
I think there's no doubt in anyone's mind that electric cars themselves are reliant on the grid, and if its a coal burning station then obviously you're burning coal to drive. I hope that as greener energy forms such as solar and wind catch on we'll be able to really reduce our carbon footprints. While we as consumers can make a personal change on our end and go electric/hybrid it's really up to govs to help make the grid cleaner with legislation and regulation. It's kind of sad that individuals can't go all the way but I want to be optimistic about this. Maybe combining your own solar panels + electric car can some day in the near future get us where we'd want to be?
What about the poor quality of the new PCs (laptops / desktops) ?

In the last years I never heard anybody saying "I bought a new PC and it's great" but rather "I got screwed buying a new PC".

Lenovo, Dell, HP! WHY U NO BUILD GOOD PCs ANYMORE?
Looks unlikely.

Link was pasted by this guy:

•[hindu] (~igor@ppp178-210-8-22.tis-dialog.ru): purple
•[hindu] +#mtgoxlive
•[hindu] cameron.freenode.net :Vilnius, Lithuania, EU
•[hindu] idle 00:05:13, signon: Wed Apr 10 20:18:28
•[hindu] End of WHOIS list.

Usernames and Passwords copied from another paste : http://pastebin.com/Kd093NQi

Anyone understands Russian? - http://habrahabr.ru/post/176037/#comment_6124579
>>>pink slime is such a red herring

So you think cast-off meat soaked in ammonia is a good thing? No, don't argue any science with me here. There is no way in hell this can be spun into anything good.
A friend of mine runs Compost Now (http://compostnow.org/). Very cool business, but not without its challenges from what I can tell.