skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an excerpt from National Technology Day 2013 press release[1]:

The First product which is Blood Chemistry Analyser & Compact Portable Mobile Lab developed by Sh. Amit Bhatnagar, an IITian with the assistance of TDB. This Analyser supports the analysis of 23 parameters which includes Haemoglobin count, Blood Glucose, Urea, Uric Acid, Creatinine, Total Protein, Bilirubin, Cholesterol, Triglycerides, SGPT, Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphorous. Cost of testing all 23 parameters on this device is less than Rs. 120 per person. The analyser is capable of analyzing 4000 samples during a day. The Blood chemistry analyzer costs around Rs. 80,000/-.

From press-kit photo[2], I guess product is marketed under the name Accuster Mobile Lab[3].

[1]http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=95923

[2]http://pib.nic.in/newsite/photo.aspx?photoid=47147

[3]http://www.accuster.com/product_details.php?id=P14&cid=C...
I'm all for basic computer literacy and making it easy for anyone to learn any skill, including programming. As I wrote in my TP article I am not trying to keep programming exclusive. But computer literacy has been pushed in schools since the 1990s -- I worked on several curriculum products aimed at improving basic computer literacy. I agree with Mr. McDonald that formal education at all levels is not doing a good job teaching computer literacy (or much of anything else).

Programming includes computer literacy but goes far beyond basic comfort with computers and ability to use end-user tools. Mr McDonald may have been talking about computer literacy and I just missed it, but he didn't use that common term anywhere. Instead he referred to coding, programming, APIs, Python. He wrote "...you'd be well-advised to learn how to speak computer code" and "...learning basic computer language," two turns of phrase I wouldn't expect to hear from a programmer. He encourages "dabbling" with Python. He concludes with "Once you can claim familiarity with at least two programming languages, start sending out those resumes." That isn't espousing computer literacy, it's espousing learning to program.

I don't disagree with Mr. McDonald's sentiments about the mismatch between jobs and college graduates, though I would look beyond the Comp Sci graduating class if I was hiring. I disagree with the idea that everyone can or should learn to program -- learn and use a computer language. That's an idea that has gained traction lately and Mr. McDonald is just repeating it in puff piece for his own company (my opinion).
Due to a specific strand of Christianity. In the Southern European countries, for example, we have the opposite: plenty of Christianity inspired swearing.

I've mentioned it here before, but Your Mother's Tongue: Book of European Invective is a great and extremely funny book on the subject.
A nice feature of Bezier curves (and B-splines) is the convex hull property: since the curve must lie within the convex hull of the control points, any point outside the convex hull cannot be within the area bounded by the curve.

So if you have a set of points and need to test which are inside a curve, you can immediately eliminate any that are outside the convex hull, potentially saving a lot of computation.
> I didn't know if it was some composition style, or focus effect, or anything else

It's all of that and more. Her technique in exposure, action. composition is wonderful. However as I am browsing her portfolio I keep finding myself delighted in her ability to reveal hidden worlds in the mundane.

Take for example this child playing in the dirt. He's been caught in the act, of what is surely an innocuous game. But he is wearing a jumpsuit, a coonskin cap and has a pack of
matches, it speaks of so much mischief.
http://www.vivianmaier.com/portfolios/travels/?pid=122
Nice article.

The one thing I'd like to see the data for is the notion that the poor in America are more likely to try new things. This has not been my experience -at all-. I hadn't even heard of a Montessori school until I came to Palo Alto, CA. The idea that the poor are more likely to try things would make sense, but as an Asian-American growing up in this country, I noticed that the poor Caucasians were more likely to be set in the their ways than the rich Caucasians.
Since money is fungible, I see it fairly easy to game the system. (Spend actual cash on drugs, buy necessities to trade for cash or drugs, etc )
It's simply low-class and adds nothing. Extra words from an author that cannot make a point without pointless, useless, extraneous, immaterial, unrelated, redundant extra words.
All of the GSM ones tether fine. The Verizon Galaxy Nexus needed rooting or a workaround to tether.

That was more so a Verizon issue that Google's choice. Also remember that Verizon had disabled Google Wallet on that model in favor of the still not launched ISIS.

It's a moot point now because the Nexus 4 is GSM-only.
I once worked in a place where the size and location of someones office was so important that it seemed more important then getting work done or the success of the company. It was really sad and my coworkers often seemed like a bunch of children to me. I'm glad I left. Now when I visit a company with offices, I'm always weary of the politics involved.
Storytelling 101
If you're going to post a giant list like this without any screens or up-to-date links, at least add some bullet points about positive and negative things for each app or something. Otherwise I might as well just search "hacker news" in my iPhone's app store (or just Google).
I like it, looks great. But I would like to see your education/certification/experience presented on the website. I would say that is kind of mandatory when saying you teach "The Right Way" of something.
Apps will give you a few more obscure datapoints that web analytics won't but I'll bet that very few companies actually use them. I doubt many even study bounce rates when they present you with these app download modals.
Really? In the UK we have both (with the more common March mother's day), and it seems really sad that schools are basically not mentioning father's day any more because of the obvious issues. I didn't know most of the world didn't celebrate it at all though, that's really sad.
Since I became a convert to the "put your own VM in the frameworks and add a cute language for your core logic" kind of school of thought, I seriously cannot see the value in Obj-C and the Android/Java thing. I've been writing code in these environments for decades: I'm now seriously addicted to Lua.

2 years of Lua work, and I absolutely cringe with the idea of having to go back to Java/Obj-C/C++, in any context other than to push a bridge across the VM gap to some framework.

Its a smaller language, its lighter. It performs quite well, and can be put almost anywhere there is a lib.so file (so: everywhere). Choose what you want to link with, extend the external API's with Lua, and leave the whole problem of obscure languages for the young 'uns..

So, its not so much about my desire to pimp Lua, but my point is this: You can choose whatever language you want, actually, to develop a core host environment with, but use a very simple, sweet language for the majority of the work.
So do BSDs.
Steve Martin has that skill: Planes, Trains and Automobiles, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWRxPDhd3d0
I fully agree with the basic point. Forcing these "download our app" doorslams is annoying and mostly pointless. I would never download an app for most of the sites I use, preferring the linkable, cross-platform web experience instead.

This is particularly annoying for me because I actually use an Android tablet as my "programming workstation", and so I get these popups on both my desktop service and when mobile.

Of course the irony us that tumblr where this site is hosted has such a pop-up as well... http://imgur.com/uPMetSR
I was just discussing this with a friend today. We both had front page stories on HN recently. He reported 6k of 6.8k[1] leaving within 10 seconds and I saw that 11k of 13.5k[2] left within 10 seconds.

This is probably minority behavior, but I will often use Instapaper to bookmark articles for later, and then read a batch together. For most in-depth articles, I probably spend less than ten seconds decide whether I should click "Read Later" and then leaving, even though I do in fact read later.
In my research during a (somewhat fruitless) comment transaction here on HN about pirates (actual salt sea-dog type pirates) I came across the following story which I think some of the people commenting here might find interesting... I'm in the process of writing this up as a sea shantie:

A pirate captain by the name of Bartholemew Roberts captured a British official by the name of Plunkett who had double crossed a company of pirates and shot them down under a banner of truce - few things could enrage a pirate more! Old Roberts was incensed and, upon finally capturing Plunkett, took to cursing him in the most foul and heinous of language - of which a pirate dialect was primarily composed. Seeing himself a dead man and with no other hope left to him, Plunkett stuck out his chest and being a proud and experienced Irishman, gave back a measure and then some more in such illbegotten slights of character on Old Roberts name that the crew hung limp and incapacitated with laughter. The whole exchange inspired such a regard for Plunkett's tongue that dispite his crimes against pirates, the whole company agreed to send him on his way no harm done.
Is your state’s highest-paid public employee a coach?
There's also a "laziness" factor whereby dropping F bombs left and right starts to feel like a cop out vs thinking of some cleverer ways to articulate feigned outrage.
Yeah. It's hard to tell which combinations of skills will be useful. It also changes over time. Math + programming ("Data Science") is in much higher demand today than it was 10 years ago.

Knowing what people want + programming is valuable because it falls into the framework of (doing the right things) + (executing well.) Then something like teaching skills + programming leads to the Khan Academy, which was something that essentially wasn't possible before.

On the other hand, I would assume that programming + juggling doesn't have much synergy-it seems like most things you could do with programming + juggling could be done either with juggling skills or programming skills. Somebody will probably prove me wrong, though ;)
Spot on.

"It's starving people rioting to reclaim common land taken as 'enclosures' by the rich people." == Complaining about having to click a cancel button on a mobile browser.
Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS
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A Guide to Matchmaking Sites for Co-Founders
Being anti-"GMO" is as ludicrously anti-scientific as saying that evolution is a lie, except that not believing in evolution doesn't affect anyone else, whereas opposing "GMO" food leads to starving children.

You can start here if you'd like to educate yourself:
http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-c...
straw man.
There's nothing wrong with UTF-16.
Ask HN: Hosting with good upload and download speeds
Hey all,

Working on a project at the moment that involves processing large files downloaded to the server. We usually use OVH but are investigating alternatives that have better upload speeds. Has anyone any suggestions?

Thanks,

j
Really nice video, great advertising idea. With the focus on video at the beginning though, I couldn't help but think how if you said Youtube instead of Twitter it'd pretty much all fit, interesting to see them become more and more about media.
It is a metaphor: we can all put up a node or rails site ourselves in a VPS but these companies are serving a different market.

I will certainly focus on making it easier to understand. Thanks.
Or you could be trying to thread a needle while overdosing on PCP.

The possibilities are endless! :D
China uses 网吧 to refer to any internet (or gaming) bar. 网(wang) means net or network. 上网 means to go online... Phonetically they even often use 因特网.

So, in other cultures a character exists... besides, why not using @, or the wifi symbol which also suggests Internet access.

It makes no sense to use this in the first place.
Understood. Other services do accurately measure this however. ChartBeat[1] tries to differentiate between users who are reading, writing and so on. Re: your example, it does literally keep track of how far you scrolled as well.

Unfortunately, my personal website is not their target market. Plans start at $9.95 per month: infinitely more than my hosting cost and also overkill for whenever I'm not front paged. It'd only really make sense for me if it had pricing based on usage, which I can almost guarantee they'll never launch.

I'd argue that Google Analytics is vague in defining or explaining their terms. In a perfect world, yes, they'd offer "pings" to see if a user is active, but even without that I'd at least hope they clarify their terms.
Misunderstood terms lead to misunderstood statistics.
The less misunderstood statistics, the better.

[1]: https://chartbeat.com/
Yeah, it just made me chuckle :)
Have done so. Thanks.
There is no genius idea
When I was a 12 year old skater punk every third word out of my mouth was an F bomb.

I hardly ever swear anymore. It's not so much that I perceive it to be rude, but that it seems to show up more often as a placeholder than anything else. To the point where any power in the word is completely gutted and it comes off as lack of confidence in communication skills. Similar to people saying 'like' or 'um' all the time.

Now how Linus/Zed Shaw use it, and as well how it's used in a site like this, all I have to say is, awesome.
Love your man's way of putting the point across.

Never seen the point being made so fucking clearly. ;)
On a positive note, almost all of these offer to say "no" to the app.
By "obscure datapoints" are you referring to my contact list and geolocation?

Apps can gain access to all sorts of information inaccessible to the browser.
"The results of the new comparison have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal." I would read this article with a grain of salt. Although as a university student I can attest to seeing myself and my peers sleep deprived. I make sure I get the sleep I need now.
Yes, "Wheat Belly" does an excellent job of explaining exactly what modern wheat is and how it's different from the wheat of 10,000, 100 or even 50 years ago.

As for "Superwheat", well, note that 'super' refers to productivity, not to nutrition. Farmers will like the 30% yield increase, however you may not enjoy having "Superwheat" eviscerate your GI tract.
Lots of internet cafes in the world use a large @ on their signs to suggest internet access. It seems more evocative for the general public.
Reminds me of this Onion piece on the new Sony fucking piece of shit:

http://www.theonion.com/video/sony-releases-new-stupid-piece...
Natural doesn't even mean natural, especially in the US. Europe has a middle ground between natural and artificial flavorings called "nature identical", but in the US these can just be called natural.

Personally, I don't have a problem with this, but most people don't realize it or other things like how that 100% natural, not from concentrate orange juice is really made.

Also, for "organic" fruit and other foods, maybe that matters, but flavorings and other ingredients only have a requirement to be 95%+ organic content. One company I know of sells flavorings that are mostly organic water/alcohol/other diluents, but then the other 5% can be anything and you only need very small amounts of concentrated flavorings which can be anything "nature identical".
Fuck you. I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZhpf3sQxQ

George Carlin, inspired by Lenny Bruce
It's not all that different. Although, Fries aims to deliver components just how you'd see them in a native Android app (check out Android Holo Dark theme) and employs Android UI guidelines. Most prototyping frameworks out there all look iOS-ish. That's where Fries is different.
When would you use it?
Imo, GP is right. A couple of well placed F-Words in an article do make your feeling apparent. Dozen swear words per paragraph is distracting. Even in real life nobody swears that much! (May be sailors do. I have never met one personally).
It'd be nice to see an argument for why it is important for the Internet to have a logo in the first place.
Can anyone count those who read translations without link to the original article or to the HN discussion?...

Do this stats make any sense at all?

Rephrase: can anyone count positive effect of the articles mentioned on HN and further discussions to them?
Ditto from Boston MA.
Specifically, it is monkey patching the unary - and + operators on array, and has a clever global method missing.

The unary operators `def -@` gets called when you do something like: `-[1,2,3]`.

So in the example code at the bottom, it's doing `bar =+ [x | x <- [1..3]]` that's better parsed as `bar = +[x | x <- [1..3]]` (note the spacing difference).

Hacking unary operators has a long history in silliness in ruby. See also: https://github.com/jicksta/superators
I did consider the possibility of Instapaper, Readability or other similar apps, but as you say I couldn't imagine they'd be the majority, even on the relatively tech savvy Hacker News.

As an example of alternate HN clients, hckrnews.com had 124 referrals, ihackernews.com had 85, HackerWeb had 77 and PulseWeb had 48.
That's a grand total of around 300 out of 13.5k.

I'd imagine Readability and Instapaper to be big but probably only some small multiple of that at best.
(#) seems like a logo for Twitter, not the Internet. How about :// as a logo then? Or why we even need one?
NT claims better flexibility, however it is Linux, which can be used from Cloud to Cluster to Desktop to Mobile to Small-embedded devices

NT is deployed in all these cases too.
Why is this needed? Are people really so lazy that they can't just type "the Internet"?
If you want to sell a million dollars' worth of product, there's a quantity/quality of sale ratio. You can sell a million people something that costs a buck, or a thousand people something that costs a thousand, or one person something that costs a million. Hidden inside this is a problem that affects all startups, not just education... there's no money to be made selling to poor people, because they don't have much money. Poor people aren't thousand dollar customers, generally. If you want to get rich selling to them, you need deep/broad market penetration.

So to make money on an education business, you either need very broad use (at least six figures of users), or something of very high value to those who can afford it - the thousand people for a thousand dollars model (much more than that, and you're actually selling to institutions).

When we say "startup" around here, we're specifically talking about a pretty narrow economic model... angel/venture funded software companies targeting $10M-$100M+ annual sales in less than a decade. It needs those hockey-stick graphs to justify the investment. How do you get that?

There are probably spaces that can be exploited by startups - mobile software that simplifies the lives of college students in the under-$100 range, for example. But really, I think the innovation mostly has to come as entrepreneurship within institutions.
You've completely missed the point. At the moment we have a free web and we can use a variety of browsers to access it.

If instead we can only access the web via apps and those app are controlled by the likes of Apple or Google, then we don't have a free web anymore. Maybe today the apps are free (as in beer), but maybe tomorrow they won't be. We would no longer be in charge and the web would have been appropriated by business interests.
I'd buy server hardware on eBay, rent some colo space to host them in, install OpenStack on them & rent VPS' to clients who need cloud services.
Why is this posted here?

Is it interesting because it's a former Microsoft exec?

Is it interesting because people don't know that this claim is false?

Is it interesting for some other reason?
> there was a poll of some sort

As chris_wot said,

> Your "informal poll" evidently didn't include the userbase.
See this post on a related topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5694664
I ask myself often why we still use inches in the EU: for pipe diameters (we still use NPS instead of DIN), trouser sizes, TV/LCD diagonal sizes (that seems to be changing)...
There are very real problems with buildings that cause health problems in people: mould, especially in poorly maintained air handling systems, vapours from paint or new furniture - and they are often hard to track down.

And now this fellow comes and wants to blame everything on wireless internet. Words fail me.
I iz from da (#)
I know you're joking, but FWIW United lounges are by and large better than AA lounges. Free beer and wine, for one.
The oldest city in the US was established by Roman Catholics - who spoke Spanish. The first English Speaking settlements were commercial.

But more to your argument, Roger Williams was a Puritan, but anything but a prude. He figured that going to Hell was punishment enough to justify practical acceptance of non-believers in this world.

Our National myths don't necessarily conform with the facts, amigo.
In Denmark we have a drum n bass band called f.u.k.t. I was told that when touring in England, there was no chance in hell that even the most hardcore toaster would pronounce it "fucked".

My impression has always been that England is a very well-mannered country, even in the ghettos (of course they swear, but it just seems that a sense of etiquette permeates the country)
This is really a great post. I think the title under-sells it.
For 1: Rural places in India have Primary Health Centres (PHCs); they're basically clinics with basic health-care facilities[0]. I believe these PHCs would benefit from such portable blood analyzers, as setting up a full fledged diagnostic lab may not be economical. PHCs would have doctor, nurse and pharmacist; so operating these kits shouldn't be a problem. Also, from the linked article, it looks like Border Roads Organisation is already using these kits.

For 2a and 2b: I am not sure how effective it will be in long run, in filthy environment :)

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Health_Centre,_India
This is ridiculous.

How on earth did he land a Job as president of Microsoft?

Or is this just some ploy to prop up his future public speaking career?
I submitted this 2 years ago but it didn't catch:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/new-street-photogra...