skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have nothing to do with the project, and I agree with you on the caching in tandem. I think my point is that those numbers might shoot way up tomorrow after a decent showing on HN (and presumably other places).

I really like the idea, the look of the game, and the execution of the site. I'm in for the full $10.
If they are doing studies to generate marketing claims, then advertising has to be part of the problem, in that it's a major vector for marketing claims. There could be other vectors, and I would be happy to eliminate those as well.

The total amount of money spent on pharmaceutical marketing is enormous. We would be much better served if doctors could pay for subscriptions to research companies that only take money from doctors.
... of the asylum he's been committed to after having to deal with one too many AbstractFactoryFactory classes.
I didn't mean to imply it wasn't ever possible. Just that the subset of things that it works great for is smaller than people wish, or believed. That "I'll write in Ruby and optimize in C when I need to" is a myth on the order of the "sufficiently smart compiler". There are things for which it just plain doesn't work. Things that are quite common.

Yes, you can make image transformations for your webapp fast by piping in a C-extension, because the C code can control the i/o and data organization as well as the algorithms. The integration surface is tiny. You can't, however, make the language's memory usage and garbage collection faster. At least not as easily. You won't be "dropping into C" to fix your garbage collection problems, at least not in the way people dream of when they think of "performance problems" at the outset.
It has 201 digits (it's on the order of 10^200), so it would be about 9.167 googol googol. Yeah, that's incomprehensible. Not the biggest integer I can think of (see Graham's Number) but I'd say it's big enough.
If the minimum tip size is big enough, it would be a Very interesting contribution to any thread... let's say $10-20 USD. That's enough to make it socially relevant.
Interesting point. Is VSRE something that empowers the respondent to choose: A "social out from a full polite response"? Or is it a "social obligation to provide a short response?"
From an expert: Essentials to great blog posts
He could, but based on his value prop above, I think there is much to learn before that's going to be possible. I'm not saying he can't, of course, rather that its going to be an uphill struggle that he might not get if he built a different product.
On your first point, do you think the corporate tumblr's have lead to commercial success? All I've seen so far as far as company tumblr's go are Denny's and National Geographic so I don't think I could make a valid assertion on the subject. I know that company Twitters usually seem very hollow so I'd love to be pointed to some great company tumblrs if you have them! I thought about your second point, but I personally determined that the intense amount of customizability wasn't a real reason for tumblr's success with its user base. Many tumblrs use the same 20 themes and those who overly-customize it lead down a MySpace-esque road. I've actually found myself being more annoyed with the immense amount of customizations. Please remember that I wrote this in an attempt to understand why users used tumblr, not discussing every aspect of the site. Finally, I joined a month ago so I imagine I missed the "overall shift" of posts, so I apologize for being unable to write about that!
I'd definitely give it a try. I don't know whether it would fit HN as nicely as it does Reddit, but there is just one way to find out, isn't it? :)

edit - I also wonder how it would evolve on HN. I could imagine using it here not for tipping, but for crowdfunding of sorts. With so many vcs reading this group, I'd expect people throwing 1-2BTC at a time at good ideas/ShowHNs to support some of the entrepreneurs.
Why not have it both? I built an open source framework that routes views in your iOS app based on their restful urls. If you have a native view, boom. If not, HTML.

If you release a new feature you just make an HTML template for it and it works in old builds. Then when you are ready for native, release the native view controller in a new build. Everyone wins! (Especially the users, which I why I wrote it)

http://RESTMagic.org
http://github.com/RESTMagic/RESTMagic
You could probably call it a meat-level communication hack or something.

I like it, but I'd probably use it in the subject line. Similar to how some people use <EOM> to signal that an email has no body.

Now let's see if it gains traction.
It's an interesting idea. People do get paid in this economy for saying purportedly clever and insightful things (newspaper columnists) and this is an effort at upgrading that particular economic niche. Bitcoins are well suited for micropayments, but it's not entirely clear that this idea is viable.

I also share mmastrac's concerns about comment spam. At most, this should communicate out-of-band somehow, using the HNSearch API: https://www.hnsearch.com/api
With eval language designers might have a delayed execution that could make compile-time optimizations less straightforward. Part of the toolset could have to be present during deployment time to be able to handle eval which happens at runtime. And yes, security concerns could also play a hand.

In Dart the code declaration is taken very seriously in many ways, and avoiding eval buys them more compile-time, loading-time and perhaps runtime optimization opportunities. I find that more than the language designers themselves, it's the end-users or developers that ask for more "bondage and discipline" from their tools. People who come from Java and C++ backgrounds, for example. They just can't have enough compile-time stuff aided by an IDE.
I was about the mention Thailand and Taiwan as two popular medical tourism places.

You're out $1-2k on the ticket, but paying a tiny fraction for great healthcare.

You just can't sue anyone later (but that is maybe a good thing).
Makes me wonder if you're based in North Korea...
That's rich coming from a company that charges 13% commission on sales (10% flat final value fee if you don't rent a 'store' by the month, plus 2.9% Paypal transfer fee, plus sundry other minor fees like the fixed 30c per paypal transaction, insertion fees etc.).
You cannot ignore the states. Cannot. That is not possible. To do that is to not comprehend (or not wanting to comprehend) how the US is actually structured.

Yeah, the states spend some money on defense and the federal government spends some money on education, but to claim that the federal government has the same responsibility for education as the states is a gross and stupid distortion of reality. To even talk about this that way is so dumb, it makes my brain hurt.
Not all progress is gradual. Sometimes we need a complete overhaul. In this case, I don't see the need, but if there is something that much better than current notation, then I would hope that it does supplant this.
He did everything right. Tried it in ruby, if it would have been fast enough this article wouldn't exist. Instead he applied good software engineering and found the right tool for the job.

This doesnt say "don't use ruby it's too slow". It's says prototype in your comfort zone and optimize. Isn't this what we all agree on?

Edit: auto correct fail.
It's great to see a company doing something like this and getting involved in the community this way, I took Dan Boneh's class on Cryptography some time last year so I've sent these guys an email and I will see what I can manage.
Yes. Nearly 20 years ago.

But don't worry the JVM can save you. http://code.google.com/p/jgo/
BBC article following reductions in successful suicides
(interestingly it says no reduction in number of overdoses. But we have a pretty good reversal for paracetamol-induced overdose - N-acetyl-Cystine - so they should have a pretty good recovery)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21370910
The Power of Attention
If you accept natural selection as a theory, the answer is obvious.
Amazingly, both his implementation and Ruby can be independently slow.
A) Weekends are slow news days

B) It's one of those ideas that combines a very common problem with a very simple solution.
It's an interesting idea, probably worth exploring.

It seems like email is exponentially getting harder to manage all the time. One thing I've noticed is if I send a reply from my phone that has the "Sent from my phone" signature on it, then people are 100% ok with short, blunt replies where they wouldn't be without that signature.
Quoting:

You'll want to be able to code proficiently
in any language.

That should probably be:

You'll want to be able to code proficiently
in *some* language.

I should think no one can code proficiently in every language, and to me, that's what the first implies.
'People "know" this already, but they don't really know it in their gut, and we think the reason for that is that very few people actually know how to implement the best-known attacks. So, mail us, and we'll give you a tour of them.'

As Hegel said, "The familiar is not understood precisely because it's familiar." Das Bekannte überhaupt ist darum, weil es bekannt ist, nicht erkannt.

I live this every day as a teacher. Students believe they understand, say, linked lists because they can recite all sorts of Linked List Facts™. It's not until you put them in front of a problem with a linked-list-shaped hole that they truly come to understand (erkennen).
>> "One of the first things I learned about Tumblr was that it's not like Facebook, Google+, or Twitter in that it's a "social network" mostly for strangers."

Is this not also the case for Twitter and Google+? Most people use Twitter to follow news, celebrities, and taste makers. And with Google+ it's likely you're friends and family aren't all on it and with Circles it's meant to be used to follow more than just that select group of people.

Edit:

>> "Tumblr did something remarkably intelligent; they made your follower count private."

I think that's a very good point. It prevents users feeling 'embarrassed' that they don't have enough followers. I'm sure Twitter sees huge numbers of people drop off after a few days because they don't have any followers - it's something I've seen amongst my own friends. I would argue though the followers aren't much of a reward system. I feel much more rewarded when I see my post get reblogged and quickly pick up steam getting reblogged by people that don't follow me. I think reblogs are the main reward system, followed by likes, and finally followers.
I've been working a bit on Ember Data documentation (particularly filling out the API documentation), and would love to hear the specifics of what you felt wasn't clear!

I know that the documentation right now is really lacking, but it's hard to tell what needs improvement when you're not the one trying to learn it :)
Depends on how you define the job of the doctor.

In a for-profit context, is the job of the doctor to maximize revenues? Or long-term patient health? In a customer service context, the customer is always right, after all.

And that's not even counting the doctors who get paid to manipulate other doctors and their prescription habits.

I am perfectly happy to blame pharma companies for the "everything should be solved with a pill" notion. After all, that's what the advertising tells both patients and doctors. One of the major goals of advertising is demand generation.

I will also blame consumers for falling for it, of course. And for having the weaknesses of character that advertising exploits. But I'm more willing to forgive the consumers, in that pharmaceutical companies are professional manipulators, while the consumers are amateur defenders against manipulation.
You are wrong. We know that the younger brother returned to his school 60 miles away from the bombing, and was seen at his school partying it up the day before the MIT officer was killed. Please get your facts straight.
That's not my perception from the "... Expected" bit, personally. It seems the social obligation would be on being short/brief.
Because I am being realistic. Ruby, C, Java etc have had decades to build a comprehensive set of developer libraries. Go hasn't.

It's a "cute" platform that I am sure will beat Ruby in a few benchmarks. But I don't see any reason why anyone would seriously consider it for a real world app.
Don't just read about the phone itself. Read to/at the end, where Bunnie describes the environment where this phone and things like it are coming to be.
I actually began writing something similar, but realised how spammy it would become, and canned the idea. The one on Reddit relies a lot on private messaging — which HN doesn't have.
I find "VSRE" unnecessary: if you write efficiently, anyone capable of a VSR will follow suit.
I think I grabbed the link from share and rdl grabbed the url from the location bar. When I noticed the dupe I considered deleting the post but that did not seem like the right thing to do because its not my place to remove other peoples comments.
Maciej did a good review here: https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/04/the_matasano_crypto_challen...
I immediately felt the same way and though NLRN - no long reply needed - or something along those lines might be more polite. Good idea though!
Also, if you write "EOM" in the subject, GMail won't complain about sending an email with no body.
This whole, "Ruby is slow," diatribe is just ridic.

Everyone here that has done any C/C++ or Ruby development would probably agree that if you're looking for number smashing, Ruby is just not cutting it unless you're into rockin' C extensions and getting what you want... for now.

Ruby, within a few years, will probably have some VM action, whether the JVM with JRuby or Rubinius wins out, who cares.

In any case, in like 5 or 6 years when we all have 50/100 core machines, Ruby's gonna be just fine for almost everything. Maybe by then we will be done arguing and just agree that Ruby is the nicest language to look at and develop in, even if it has subpar performance. Because if you're arguing something different, you've probably never gone from Ruby to C or Java or even Python... just so you all know, it blows.
A huge swath of the game industry is based on just this kind of architecture.

The engine is built in C++ and the logic is coded in some higher level scripting language. Seems to work fine for them.
>> "I've been using Tumblr for years and I still don't know how to directly comment on someone's content without reblogging it"

I think reblogging doubles as a commenting system. If you look at the original version of the post you reblogged it will show that you reblogged it with your added commentary. Most themes also make it easy to add Disqus just by adding your Disqus site name.

There is also the 'ask' feature which allows for more direct user interaction, and I believe there is an option on one of the post types to pose it as a question and allow users to respond.
Equally, why does the press always lose its head over guns?
I don't think it's a contribution to any thread, no matter the size.
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It's a great story because it's a straightforward technological speculation which then takes a twist.

That said, Arthur C. Clarke's The Star -- http://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf -- is weaker on the technology but stronger on the heartstring-tugging. It is also a great story, in a similar vein.

And relevant to The Star, but not really in the same vein, there's James Blish's novel A Case of Conscience ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Conscience
Make it explicit - VSRA vs VSRE, acceptable vs expected. But this makes the whole thing unnecessarily complex and I would prefer VSRA - I am fine with getting a very short reply. If it is not possible a, long reply is also fine but try to keep it as short as possible.

Different suggestions from the comments.

CURT - condensed unfussy reply tolerable
CURT - CURT unfussy reply tolerable
NLRN - no long reply needed
TCRA - très courte réponse attendue
VSRA - very short reply acceptable
VSRO - very short reply okay
VSRW - very short reply welcome

That got forked quickly. And we need a standardization committee. Or maybe a poll will do.
Google CEO Confirms that Glass Runs on Android
One technique that I saw recommended recently (here, possibly!) that works really well for version-controlled LaTeX documents is to write each sentence on a separate line.

Single line breaks don't affect the finished product, but separating sentences means that a change to one sentence never affects others around it.
We don't call 'scripting languages' 'glue code' for nothing.

If more people thought of FFI/RPC/etc. as just another pipe-and-filter framework, they'd be less reluctant to write properly-defined, performance critical, pieces in a more performant environment.

Then again, your use of a profiler and FFI/pipe/whatever is a secret weapon that seems to be one of the things that separate 1x from 10x engineers. :-)
Yes and No.
You are right in that Mt.Gox doesn't handle 80% of all btc-btc trade.

However many use Mt.Gox as their wallet so the TPB analogy doesn't quite hold that far, as Mt.Gox being taken down would mean these people wouldn't have access to their BTC funds stored in that wallet.

I should have mentioned this in my original post, but I was sloppy.
This is safe for online transactions like google play, amazon etc?
Considering I don't know how to shoot a gun, and I know how to throw stuff, I could at least throw the knife and hope the sharp end finds the target.
I'll have to do a raincheck (i.e. too little rain). Between the new job and the girlfriend (well, "ladyfriend") -- no open source this weekend.

If I can't get it done the next weekend I'll pack it up and email it to you. :-(
This is what I use Jabber for--Jabber messages have an implicit VSRE attached. In practice, it's just like email except that the replies are usually short. For me, Jabber messages get delivered to the same places on both my computer and phone, and take about the same amount of effort to respond to.

It has the added benefit of potentially being a real-time conversation as well--this sometimes happens with a flurry of short emails, but it's much more awkward.

I was hoping Google Wave would take off an neatly combine the two. But it never did :(.
Because we all deal with the too much email problem. Here's a nice solution. However, that solution won't be understood or used until it gets a critical number of eyeballs etc.
Yes, Mr. Asimov browses HN...
Rippln is spamming the fuck out of 4chan too.
True. I don't mean to suggest that it's going to be easy.
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If you know what Travatan is, you’re lucky
Travatan (travoprost) is a new medication used for the glaucoma treatment.
Travatan lowers intraocular pressure by increasing the outflow of aqueous humor.It is used for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure in open-angle glaucoma and increased intraocular pressure.
Correction:

I benchmarked the I/O improvement I was thinking about. It actually only resulted in an improvement of about 30%. Worthwhile, probably, but not as "dramatic" as I thought it would be. Mea culpa.
Great review and subsequent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574074
TL;DR: Parents, including fathers, who spend more time with their babies come to recognize their cries better.

Not sure if that's really as counter-intuitive as the article suggests.
The Peril of "Showrooming"
>Large parts of humanity have always had a problem getting water or food and it had nothing to do with global warming, rather politics, governance, and culture.

Yes. But not relevant. One has to remove such constants in order to see what's new.

So, while "Large parts of humanity have always had a problem getting water or food and it had nothing to do with global warming", now it also HAS to do with global warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification
I'd want to maintain the French aspect, esp if it's an alternative to RSVP....

Strictly: Très courte réponse attendue.
My preferred: Tout courte réponse attendue.

So maybe TCRA instead of VSRA...?
Your comment has almost zero content.
Oh well, I'll take it.
I still end up having to explain eom half the time.. kind of kills the intended brevity.

I wonder if we could also request a RAQE without being rude.. (response to all questions expected). My pet email hate.
Writing "efficiently" can be rude. Look at his example. You can't just reply with only the word "no", because that's rude.
A fan of the idea - giving people permission is a good solution. The word "expected", however, can carry different connotations. VSRO (very short reply okay) might be friendlier?
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/07/31
Not that easy, can take a couple of days while your liver shuts down. If a family member gets the person to a hospital, they can survive easily enough, but it does some damage to the liver. Horrible way to go :/
"Minimum Viable Heart Surgery."
That's what I was thinking. It'd be great to have a list of email on your phone and reply with a simple swipe menu (eg yes, no, ack, date, contact name). You could get through 10-20 emails a minute

I wonder if putting 'reply generated by short responder' at the end would make it socially acceptable
Designing for the Ideal
After 2050? How many would have to die from diseases, hunger and political tensions (countries grabbing for resources) until then? What impact will 40 more years of population increase?
> ... who wouldn't miss a few hundred dollars in tipping.

There's nothing preventing you from buying $1 worth of bitcoins (say, 0.01 BTC) and tipping 0.00001 BTC each time.
Is it a good one?

I read the article and the various replies from Goldacre and the author, including Goldacre's post of the passage in question. I find Goldacre far more persuasive.

LaMattina claims that Goldacre is cherry-picking data, and gives his presumably best example. But this example isn't "data"; it's Goldacre explaining the conclusions of a govenmental report about an incident where 6 experimental subjects nearly died. In writing about science for the general public, you need to give examples. This seems like a fine example for people to understand why a culture that promotes publishing everything could save lives.
I keep having to advise startups "it sounds like it might work, but that's going to be really hard. Maybe you should do something else".
Ask HN: How to learn basic medical information that everybody may need?
What Are the Top Things That We Should Be Informed About in Life?
I love Bitcoin. It is great for the free market, the voluntary market. However, I am against this idea because HN is our fun, not our job. Some things does not pay with money. Have a look at this: http://www.voxeu.org/article/blood-money-doesn-t-pay-new-evi...

And have a look at this nice thread: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25615/offering-actua...

At that point (Dec 2012) I thought Stack Overflow should accept bitcoins as bounty, but I was convinced that it isn't a good idea.
Is there a limit on the depth of comments here? I can't seem to reply to cjh_'s adjacent post. Anyway, he's correct that it's possible to keep all your coins on a Gox-hosted wallet. I kind of forgot that people actually do that. It's a really terrible way to store your coins, even if you use a more stable/trustworthy service than theirs.

There are much better ways to utilize the convenience of a web wallet without handing all your coins over to some sketchy website, such as blockchain.info's wallet system.
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