skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will an infinite number of spy programs solve the problem of the government putting critical infrastructure on the internet?
It's totally cool if you're happy doing what you do. For some people "to be happy" means NOT to got to their simple 9 to 5 job.
Interestingly, VHI does research into other voice issues.

http://www.voicehealth.org/research.php

However, the survey does not give you the option to select for other conditions say, RRP.

http://www.voicehealth.org/research.php#rrp

One would think that they would try to capitalize on the publicity of Larry's post to try to gather as much data as possible for various conditions and not just vocal cord paralysis.
> I really can't understand how many people consistently talk about having hundreds of tabs open. What are you so afraid of closing a website for? If it's that important, you will remember to go back to it later. Usually, it's not.

Well the hacker news homepage for instance.

I typically go down and middle click on any story I find interesting, and the comments section to go with it.

This can easily end up with 8-14 tabs open.

Now repeat the same thing for my Reddit frontpage (or just /r/programming!) and I can easily hit another 30 tabs within a couple of minutes.

Every URL someone posts in the comments that seems interesting also gets opened in a new tab. An active discussion easily results in another 5-10 tabs (and remember, that is per discussion thread!).

If one of those tabs goes to Wikipedia, then I'll middle click any links in the Wikipedia article that sound relevant. This can add another 10 tabs easily.

Within 10 minutes of turning on my computer I am now easily up to 50+ tabs.
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Of course. A true Perl user has no need for sed, when there's "perl -pi -e".
Many thanks for providing sources and context. I'll ad this to my Amazon Wish List.
"concurrent by design" != "can be concurrent / has threads"
Ask HN: Chairs for use w/ standing desks?
Yes, that is a bit ironic, but it’s a serious question:

I am now happy to have a standing desk at work. It is not the expensive kind that rapidly changes height, and I do get tired of standing all day. Thus, I’d really like to get a “tall chair” to use sometimes in front of my standing setup.

I’m hoping for recommendations for such a chair.

I understand it’s lovely (and ergonomic) to have something solid to rest one’s feet upon while sitting, so my ideal setup would involve a chair with a nice, adjustable footrest, or perhaps another object suitable as a footrest.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and suggestions!
> If all it takes is a little bit of money laundering to get your bank shut down,

Don't be ridiculous. You have to both launder money and not give any of it back with campaign donations. Only then do you get shut down.
Mobile advertising reinvented. 
Say goodbye to the banner ads.
You measure this by looking at your competitors. And when you're as successful as Weebly compared to theirs, it's a reasonable conclusion that the purported repercussions of this behaviour are close enough to negligible.
To be fair, Apple (and I'm sure Google) does this too. There is no doubt in my mind that Apple is going to announce a milestone of it's own tomorrow[0], a day that just happens to be the day of the Google I/O keynote.

[0] https://www.apple.com/itunes/50-billion-app-countdown/
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Glad to see you're still alive Moeed!
I don't understand, so you sync the video with the transcript or do you extract the transcript yourself from the video?
Having just finished benchmarking a new project I'm writing on nearly all EC2 instance types I have to say nothing beats benchmarking.

Create a spreadsheet, write some benchmarking tools, make sure you aren't actually benchmarking another service the instance depends on (db, API, etc) and go to town. Vary # of request/sec, # of parallel requests, # of app workers/threads/etc.

Write down all your results and then compute amount of 'work' (reqs/sec, computations, db inserts/updates, etc) vs hourly or RI pricing. That should get you some good numbers on what instance type is most cost effective for your workload.
Facebook's custom Android app build system, Buck, is now open source
Are you sure Alice or Bob weren't using the TomTom version of Skype? From what I understand, that version is especially modified to comply with the regulations of the PRC.

Disclaimer: work for Microsoft in China but clueless about how Skype works here.
> What's the criteria for modification. How much must you change an object before it passes. Maybe if he covered it in fake rhinestones he would have been OK.

I think this would be something that Etsy should clarify. I imagine that if each case was hand painted with a different design it would have been OK.

But what if instead of a real painting, it was just splashes of color? Or a stamp print of your logo?

Sadly, I'm guessing your rhinestone comments dead on.
We "generate" it, through speech to text. But if Youtube has a human made transcript, we're using it.

But also we're doing some NLP, and image analysis too. You can check out what we do here: http://veezio.com/features
American Made Does it matter?
I have been working very hard for the last year building a website that only sells american made items for men- if this is a real movement, why are my sales so low? www.tipthompson.com the second question is simple- is open share software considered duplicate content in search results?
also education. Free higher education is the absolute best eugenic program ever devised-- if your kids are smart, society will invest limitless resources in making them succeed-- because it hurts absolutely no one; it's pure carrot. Instead of getting soaked on tuition, parents whose kids get into top schools should get paid.

The only countries whose education systems I'm familiar with are the US, Japan, and England. In Japan, public universities are of higher quality than their private counterparts, and their tuition is much cheaper. You do get the effect of smart kids studying their butts off to get into a public (national) university like Tokyo U. or Kyoto U. because they can't afford a private college tuition (though annual rates are in the range of $10-15k, much more reasonable than the US). Iirc England is somewhat similar, with reasonable rates for the best universities (Oxbridge, for instance)
Money laundering is about legitimizing the source of money and isn't facilitated by the unit of exchange: dollar, yen, rupee, peso or bitcoin.

Post-2001 and the Patriot Act, bank tellers, stock brokers and insurance agents have all become lay intelligence officers under "Know your customer" compliance requirements. Informal value transfer systems, barter/black-market, are only a problem in terms of taxation.

Mt. Gox and money exchanges were functionally brought under these KYC compliance regulations and it is only a question of time until bitcoin users will have to speak about the source of the money. Sources are important because that's how taxes are levied.

If you can show you have paid taxes on your money, it's rare to have a problem.

We have systemic trillion dollar annual deficits, so tax collection efforts are being ramped up. It's why you get 10,000 IRS officers hired instead of 10,000 doctors for a national health care system reorganization.
Sorry if it's a little slow guys, our servers are in Europe and it seems it's a little slow from the US.
Is it even fully comprehensible why this particular configuration looks like sand?
DPRK, its all about the branding.
Dyn Free/Non-paid SLA Updated
that's a hard design decision.
I think you're unfairly blaming weight training for the effect of cessation of skill training.

When, due to injury, I became unable last year to perform either the snatch or the clean and jerk, I was relegated to being able to do whatever it is I could. Lots of less complicated exercises that don't share any patterns in common with either of those two lifts.

At a recent experimental trial of my technique after 15 months away from the two lifts, it came as no surprise that I came kinda bad at them now.

Do I blame the other weight training? No: I realise that these two lifts require constant practice to remain smooth, precise and efficient. It's the same for other inter-muscular coordination tasks. If you stop doing them, you get worse at them.
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,3...
Brings you to the start menu.
I don't have any personal hardships with the existing system, but whenever I see my statement of benefits where a doctor bills $X and insurance pays them $X/4, I always scratch my head and think, "This is normal? There has GOT to be a better way!"
We already have bytecode options. Flash, Silverlight and Java plug ins. If mobile browsers all supported Flash and Silverlight...

At this point our hope is improved Javascript features in the next release...
A former acquaintance of mine (and noted scumbag) recently pulled this scam for a movie he made about (and with the backing of) a bunch of chiropractors. Raised over a quarter of a million dollars. He's since absconded with the funds to pay for his mansion/porsche, sent no dvds, and is now funding the sequel via Indiegogo.

I have always admired the man's ability to sniff out a good con, although the second film is having quite a bit of trouble getting a similar level of traction. I'm sure he'll be fine-- it's hard enough to get the government involved in regular fraud, let alone... whatever dubious legal standing funding a Kickstarter has.
How Estonia became E-stonia
> Obviously. Every country in the world spend money in defense, the difference is the percentage of the GDP spent.

Kind of like healthcare.

Where, germane to other arguments made in the thread, the US also spends a larger share of its GDP than other developed countries, so, no, other developed countries aren't able to provide universal healthcare through public spending because of a "security subsidy" from the US; there able to do so because their mostly-public healthcare systems are more efficient than the US system which splits costs between public and private systems nearly evenly (with a slight private bias.)
Lync is used by a lot of enterprises.
Now I see that our disagreement is over definitions. To me, "blind rejection" of a quote is "I don't care what this quote contains because of who said it. I have stopped listening." Maybe that's what thrownaway2424 and jrajav meant, respectively, or maybe not. By the principle of charity, that's what jrajav should have considered thrownaway2424's comment to mean, but of course it is also possible that jrajav didn't consider that interpretation.

In any case, by "blind rejection" I meant "automatic disregard", not "automatic disagreement". I certainly agree that automatically disagreeing with a person, regardless of what they say, is a losing strategy except in the very specific case that you've encountered and conclusively identified the fabled Omniscient Lying Labyrinth Guard.
I'm all for bodyweight training (you are your own gym, convict conditioning, al kavadlo, naked warrior, barstarzz, coach sommer, calisthenic kings...), and have better results than with metal, without the pain, but this is not it. Seriously, not one exercise for your back, but useless crunches? Do some yoga sun salutation, add some resistance by tensing your body and you have a by far better workout in the same amount of time than this.
Not in the US. In the US it has never been more than an unofficial professional title (like "phd"). How you clearly know its not a title is that it's not granted by any entity, not has it ever been. Anyone can call themselves "esquire" unless they do so in a context that amounts to unauthorized practice of law (just like with "doctor"). You can sign your letters "D9u, esq." just as you can sign them "D9u, M.D." though either might be the first step in a course of action leading to unauthorized practice of law/medicine.
Really surprised by this change in policy...kind of annoying to those of us who have these accounts (and have been actively using them) for years. The free accounts were great for my personal stuff, and the more robust paid services for work. Now they're forcing me to manually log in monthly...boo.

Sounds like I'll be losing my dyn domains soon!
> 90s sitcoms used to always entertain

They lost me in the 80s (I watched a ton in the 70s).

Never could manage to go back.

Edit: I came up with two exceptions

1. Jon Stewart
2. Pinky and the Brain.

For different reasons, both of those could get me to turn on a TV.
It's not "snake oil" in the sense of something which has no effect. It's just that it's so utterly unbalanced and poorly thought out that it's ultimately very little better than nothing.

Posted elsewhere in this thread but very much worth reading, a devastating take-down of the piece:

http://elsbethvaino.com/2013/05/should-you-do-a-newspaper-wo...
Possible allusion to this scene in Inglorious Bastards? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZouZSlNSc (The slightly phonetic spelling being of the last word in the clip)
I suspect that you are being overly optimistic about Bitcoin's likelihood to change the face of the planet. There are so many economic and technical problems with Bitcoin that it is nothing short of a miracle that it became as popular as it is now -- and that popularity is not even a blip on the radar of global finance.
I thought he was being sarcastic and poking fun at the common HN sentiment, but it's pretty clear from his other comment he is serious. Hope I don't have to deal with dogma like this when I join the workforce.
Here are some cool ones I found:

Traveling pyramid: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,0,1,1,2,2,1,3...

Coral-like tendrils (turn up the speed a bit): http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,3,1,2,2,1,1...
I'll try:

I don't think it is fair to criticized parent for expressing his broad opinion on economics in this particular case. There is a wide body of political and economic thought which believes that capitalism in general is a system designed to create scarcity, social and economic stratification. This vein of thought is particularly prevalent in communist and anarchist circles (see, The Conquest of Bread, Kropotkin, 1892, for a progressive criticism of historic economic systems).

Granted, most everybody who uses this website willfully engages in capitalism. However, quite a few do not, and are simply compelled to participate in it. To somebody in the second group who perceives what appears to be a notably frivolous use of money, it is particularly galling to for that same act to essentially further the aforementioned stratification.

For that reason, the comment is relevant.
Ho ho ho, the gov't discovers blackfaxing! What a merry bunch of pranksters they are. So funny! Seriously though, I'm sure there's nothing to see. Whatever the gov't does they do for our safety, and I feel foolish for suspecting otherwise.
Maybe, but I'm willing to bet it's a very small number compared to how many could die if the electrical power grid went down or land line telephones or the water system. We didn't give up privacy and freedoms to protect those systems, why would we give them up for the internet?
Isn't that part of source maps?
I think the idea was not "breath training" but to reinforce the muscles in the walls of the throat which can relax and obstruct the airway causing apnea.
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> European nations would not be able to afford universal healthcare and all the welfare if they had to pay for their security.

European nations that provide universal healthcare spend less (as a share of GDP and per capita) on healthcare than the US does. So, while they may get a "security subsidy" from the US, it doesn't make sense to say they wouldn't be able to afford universal healthcare without it, since the universal healthcare they have is less expensive, as a share of GDP, than the non-universal healthcare the US pays for while providing the security subsidy.
How I got 100K users for my startup with $0 marketing
Actually DHS takes the lead on money laundering investigations. That would be ICE, part of DHS. And remember that the Secret Service is also part of DHS.

But DHS/ICE/HSI's mandate is so broad it's difficult to know what they're targeting here. Could be money laundering, could be something else. Their mandate also includes drug smuggling and computer crime, for instance.
> Also, I don't understand why his routine is so lopsided as to favor the lower body.

Most of the muscle mass of the body is in the hips and legs.

If you dislike squatting frequently (personally, I luuuurve squatting), look up and try the Greyskull Linear Program (GSLP). Here's a handy summary: http://i.imgur.com/ADuFA.png
Very nice! What about video SEO? Do you know which impact your product has on SEO?
If I put the transcript on my youtube page (in description) and/or on my webpage? What can I expect from that?
Yeah, I'm undecided.
just a few bad apples?

Yeah, 95% of them are making all the rest look bad.
Homeland Security seizes funds at main Bitcoin exchange
Homer Hickam raising funds for Kayla and Kiera Wilmot Space Academy Scholarships
They likely have no idea where he lives. If he were to say, "Look, I live ___ blocks away from you. I'd love to buy you and a coworker lunch and you can watch me build one -- I'd like to avoid having documentation of my process, as that's a competitive advantage for me", he might get some traction.

Probably not, though, if the emails are that much like form letters.
> In all the gyms I've been to, I've yet to see a big guy who was doing a stripped down strength focused routine...

Visit a powerlifting gym some time. I cross-train at one.
That's their problem. Kickstarter isn't exactly duping them.
Basically we "feed" all this data to Google through schema.org, and also reupload all this on Youtube.

Search "ron conway startup school" on Google to see what I mean.
If you had them calling you everyday, you'd surely want to block the calls instead of calling them back and requesting them to stop calling. (I realize emails are less intrusive.)

And I don't care much for the company, I just want to use their services. I don't want their email barrage flooding my inbox. I shouldn't have to put up with it just because I'm an 'adult'. Spam is pretty much anything in my inbox that I didn't expect and don't want.
I didn't see that link anywhere from the homepage, thanks.

Very interesting. Are you guys planning video summarisation?
Looks a lot like XposedFramework:

https://github.com/rovo89/XposedBridge/wiki/Development-tuto...

Xposed has allowed me to iterate much more rapidly on framework tweaks, and also keep them much cleaner (since now I just have the "hooks" instead of directly changing Android framework). Also, I can run on more devices because I don't have to replace some framework JAR which the vendor tweaked substantially.
It's the project creator's choice. They're frequently viewable by everyone.
pretty sure this is click fraud
Agreed: The process pictures are not for public consumption, so his competitors would (presumably) not have access to them. Perhaps he can get them to sign an NDA? :D
The way it works is that you use "go install" to download your dependencies and then check them in locally. Adding a new library is like any other commit. Upgrading to the latest version is easy - just run "go install" and commit again.
Okay, I give up. Why is sacrificing privacy and freedoms a necessary condition of protecting the electrical power grid, land line telephones, or the water system?
The majority of Etsy sellers I see sell primarily through Etsy; those who sell elsewhere generally only do so through their own personal sites. Etsy (or at least the mainstream corners of it) is much more "boutique" than Alibaba et al, and sellers can demand much higher prices for the same goods. That's one reason there's such a big problem with resellers: people can simply buy things off Alibaba/Amazon/eBay at regular prices, pretend they are handmade, and sell them on Etsy at a much higher markup. So that's possible, but it doesn't really jibe with my experience as an Etsy user.
Well, its 2013, you can't talk about php frameworks and leave out laravel. And I think you should've also mentioned the cool set of packages available on composer.
> Lifting weights in general has been shown to improve cardiovascular health; obviously not as much as pure cardiovascular training, but the science is pretty conclusive that it has a positive impact on your heart.

It is worth noting that the adaptation of the heart to weight training is different to the adaptation caused by traditional "cardio".

Weight training causes the heart walls to thicken because, during muscular contraction, blood pressure spikes and the heart must beat against that pressure. For heavy compound exercises the spike can be very high (which is why weight training is contraindicated for some trainees).

Cardio training however is aerobic -- the muscles begin to use blood-borne glucose and oxygen. This means that the heart must deliver more blood per stroke and so ultimately, the heart chambers grow larger.

Both adaptations have a positive impact on heart health. For most people doing both strength and some conditioning work is good.
This is shitty by Etsy. However, AFAIK it is well within their rights.

When you use a service like this, you are essentially paying someone else to manage parts of your business - the convenience/risk trade-off here happened to come out against this particular person.
saurik wrote a comparison of Xposed and Substrate that may be interesting to you: http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/id/34058d37-3198-414f-a696-73e...

> That said, at some level the libraries are fairly similar: the core mechanism by which a method is hooked in Xposed (swapping it out for a JNI implementation) is actually the same one that I described in the talk I gave on Substrate at a conference called Android Open in 2011. The result is that there are some similarities in the functionality offered by the two frameworks.

> Thankfully, Substrate's injection mechanism does not conflict with the one used by Xposed: therefore, if users or developers would like to have both frameworks installed, that is actually possible. There are some places where the two libraries "disagree" (such as Xposed totally removing the Java security model that Substrate preserves), but the resulting behavior is harmless.
Nevertheless, they have to try to deal with it. Their brand is homemade and vintage. That's why people come to Etsy instead of eBay or Amazon. If their users feel like they have to slog through mass-produced stuff to get to what they want, or worse, if they feel like they are being scammed into buying fake homemade items, they will stop using Etsy.
> Are the beneficial effects of free weights really that much better that they offset the risk of injury? Honest question.

I would say yes. There are health effects of resistance training (with weights or bodyweight) that cannot be obtained through other means. The incidence of injury in weight training is lower than for many sports, including "safe" options like soccer.

Also, I dunno if you've ever sat in on swimmers bitching about overuse injuries.
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Humming is a vocal exercise. It engages the vocal cords.

Not sure why you think humming/playing kazoo should be a good exercise for someone who has damage in the vocal cords. E.g. the common medical advice for someone who with a hoarse throat (due to a cold etc) is to let it rest, i.e., refrain from speaking. But I'd be happy to see studies proving that wrong.