skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall costs: 2.291 Trillion

$7,638 per person per year. That just can't be right. I and 90% of the people I know haven't made a significant trip to the dr or hospital in years. Where the fuck is that money going?
"Hey, cool, a .NET tool!"
see weird design
"OK... wheres the actual tool?"
tool is nowhere to be found
"Well... OK. No need then."

First piece of feedback - good UX is a good idea.
It's more of a tech demo than an MVP considering he is selling a game. The only substance of interest right now is knowing that, yes, this is an engine that can render a voxel world.
I think he's referring to the M part, as in he does not feel it meets the minimum requirement for making this a viable product. (Acronyms have meaning)
This is fairly a widespread and well-known phenomenon. I'd suggest that you start timing the difference and tack on the appropriate multiplier.
How the 'internet of things' can spark an open source community
Ninja Blocks puts a power into the hands of developers and users that has never been realized before, and which could be the genesis of an open source community of makers.
What you are seeing is an the output/result of a stack trace that's been parsed. There is a backing ruby file that will take a stack trace and generate what you're seeing.
In the meantime:

http://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html
>Lately, I wish we had more Microsofts in the world paying attention to things like backward compatibility and long-term support, and fewer Googles and Mozillas and Apples who are quite happy to push out updates that break useful things that worked before.

Did you mean forward compatibility?
When Your Body Doesn’t Know Left From Right
Also interesting to note that 16% of large space rocks are binary or triple systems...
Best book to manage programmer/dev team?
I'm a dev myself but managing a team of programmer/dev is a different ball game. I've been doing it for sometime now but still dev is a bunch of cats, if you know what I mean.

So what are some of the best books (or learning resources) you actually read that helped you for real?

I know the usual suspect, Peopleware and I plan to buy if it's wasn't the fact that it's a bit old.
Perhaps, but most of the iconic photos I remember aren't ones that an iPhone could take. Just take a scroll through Boston's Big Picture blog.
That I can run this in a browser without plugins is definitely a selling point for me.
The easiest way for insurance companies to drive costs down is to find technicalities to not have to pay at all for the most costly ~.5% of their customers and stick them with the bill.
> I don't mean to be a negative Nancy about it

Sure about that?
Elonmusk: 1st firing of Falcon 9-R rocket
I've had a few things I've wanted to do with ePaper but have never found a decent development kit -- everything I found when I searched last year was along the lines of a small, thin strip. No big panels like you'd find in a Kindle.
Can someone explain what the use case of vine is? Why would I want to use it?
Stamplia - HTML E-mail Template Marketplace
Making money for intermediate bloggers
Palo Alo, CA. Palantir is looking for Server Side Quality Engineers. Check out our (Linux) Server Challenge to learn more: serverdebug.palantir.com.
Hes not talking about Python imports, hes talking about pulling Python packages through pip or one of the dozen utilities to do so from pypi. Though I do feel pip has been standardized on enough to solve that problem.
Looks to me like they're replacing GIFs. Short clips, muted by default. If they succeed this will be a welcome change for the internet because video compression has advanced significantly since the days of GIFs.
There isn't a growing dichotomy, there is a migration from 2 to 3. We have passed critical library mass I feel in Python3 space and now it is just waiting for the world to catch up and just use 3 already.
Multiprocessing is a terrible solution to the GIL. You gain parallelism, but you are then required to serialize/deserialize and duplicate every shared object.

In Scala/Java, I might build a single immutable object (taking up e.g. 1kb) and transmit it to 10 actors. They use it as needed and let the GC deal with it when finished. In Python, I need to serialize it, transmit it 10 times and use 10kb of memory to store the copies.

The GIL is a flaw in the language. We should accept that. There are workarounds and hacks, but the GIL is still a flaw.

(Incidentally, my background is in python. My usage of Scala/Java is far more recent.)
Ask HN: Looking for UX designer willing to build his portfolio
I'm looking for an inspired and talented UX designer, willing to build his portfolio by participating in open-source projects. You would be working with me, the code guy, and together we would put some ideas in practice, most of them just waiting for a decent UI and proper UX.

There are no commercial intents, just ugly open source software that a developer is ashamed of showing the world. Proud of the code, but the design... not so much. Currently, it's just a bunch of wrapped-together Bootstrap stuff.
Sick people, rather than people who are not sick, are responsible for the majority of healthcare spending: News at 7.

See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028 (Table 3). 80% of your lifetime healthcare expenditures will be after age 40.
Regular minecraft player here. Your blocks are way too small.
Vine crashes with full-length music video embed
Via eBay, I bought some 50's thru 70's era Chicago SunTimes vintage 8x10 file prints. Apparently, someone acquired their physical archives? The skill of photo journalists in those days was astounding. There were beautifully composed photos of the 1968 riots -- while people were rioting! I'm not suggesting that today's PJ's aren't as skilled, but it's certainly easier with a DSLR.
MITRE makes protecting iOS apps and data 1.e3 times easier
"business model was skinner boxing rube middle america housewives with no self control"

That quote made my day. HAve you been reading Gibson or Stross novels lately? :)
This is a common misconception about Stackless Python.

Stackless still has the GIL - it facilitates concurrent, not parallel programming. Stackless Python programs run on a single core, with cooperative task switching between microthreads.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/377254/stackless-python-a...
This smacks of coming up with a conclusion first, then massaging "what ifs" and unsubstantiated viewpoints to support the conclusion. Historians should operate in the reverse.
Would be nice if every post had a TLDR;

Maybe someone should hack a tool, point an URL and get a TLDR; version
You are braver programmers than I - trying to parse my modest sized email archive dug up more encoding issues than you can shake a stick at.

It's kind of like encoding on the web, except no one ever looks at it, everything is inline, and there are just as many ways to get it wrong.
I imagine Compute Engine prices will go up in the same way App Engine prices did.
What is a Dyson sphere?
I can help. email me at my username at gmail dot com.
For the sake of clarity:

Tendons link muscle to bone;
Ligaments link bone to bone;

He tore a ligament, and it was replaced with a ligament, not a tendon.
I'd rather just let any citizen/taxpayer pay the medicare or medicaid rate for a medical procedure out of pocket if he wishes. That's even lower than the insurance negotiated rate, and hospitals/doctors would have every right to exclude all medicare/medicaid patients if they want (many private doctors do, but generally hospitals don't, since they depend on the volume from medicare, and there are some other benefits for residencies).
I really don't feel sorry for anyone who work(s)(ed) for Zynga. This company milked the whole "social gaming" bubble for every drop it was worth. Every game they made was a clone of this or that, and they used every spam trick in the book to get more clicks, and every single employee at that company knew 100% full well that they were part of a modern day ponzi scheme that would blow up once Facebook become uncool.
Note that all this only applies to those whose priority dates became current due to the USCIS fiasco of July 2007, and filed I-485 at that time. Everyone who started the GC process later and is waiting for their PD to become current cannot invoke AC21. Frustrating!

From the page you linked:

"Hundreds of thousands of people were able to file I-485 applications under the July Visa Bulletin of 2007"
I have a similar situation with multiple countries and friends and family back home. Facebook is a good tool for that. Sure, the toolset itself is only ok (crashy app, opaque list-management, messy UI). But more than half of the value of Facebook is NOT the tools it provide, but the fact that almost everyone is ON it. A stellar social tool startup would be of no use to me considering it would take years before the people I need to talk to are memers, if ever.

With that said, Facebook is slowly reducing the Signal-to-Noise ratio, and it's an ominous sign for the platform as a whole.
I would start with iOS. With each of these paths, you will be ready to build your first project.

Books

http://www.amazon.com/Objective-C-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Gu...

http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Edition-Guides/d...

Videos

http://www.codeschool.com/paths/ios

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/ios-development
Thought I'd share a SS.

I used Firefox's full screen mode since WebGL's fullsceen mode would exit to normal mode when taking a SS.

http://i.imgur.com/UpNjiBJ.png

you can see how the last 2-3 lines are low contrast and hard to see
Right. If you're spending a lot of time in the CPython interpreter, you probably don't care too much about performance anyway. The CPython interpreter is a hell of a lot slower than using Numba or Cython (which can operate without the GIL) or PyPy (which is an completely separate codebase from CPython, although it still has a GIL in its typical incarnation), or many alternative languages. As soon as you're out of the interpreter, the GIL ceases to be an issue (e.g. NumPy releases the GIL while performing array operations).
Nuance buys Tweddle Connect for $80M
Please, if you're going to present a demo, take time to add a toggle for look_y * invert where invert is 1 or -1. :(
VS 2013 is for Windows 8.1.
More Facebook Woes ..
Link is down for me.

Server Error in '/' Application.

Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
I got told years ago to practice talking in front of an audience of stuffed animals. Practice making eye contact with them, etc. and pace your timing as if they were real people. As corny as it is, it's helped me.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a WARN act filing by Zynga with the state of California for 2012 or 2013.
http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN...

My understanding is that WARN Act notices are required to be filed in CA for layoffs of more than 50 people by larger companies. (Perhaps the LA office has fewer than 50 people?)

Ex-Zynga employee who feels like returning the favor? Make friends with a plaintiff's side employment lawyer. Here's one: http://www.girardgibbs.com/california-warn-act/ (I'm guessing they make waiving the right to such suits a condition of the severance, though.)

Note: I am not a lawyer and I have no idea whether Zynga violated the law. I have no affiliation with the firm linked above. I do not necessarily believe that filing a lawsuit will deliver either emotional or financial vindication, and I have no idea whether or how it might affect one's future employment prospects. But I do believe that all companies should be required to follow the law as written.
I'm not really sure what your issue is. You use twisted. Twisted is currently being updated to support python3. Gevent has a branch which passes tests for python 3.3: https://travis-ci.org/fantix/gevent/builds/3588293 Is there some major library you are using that has no plans for python 3?

I'm not actually seeing an issue with python 2 -> 3 transition which is what my original comment was asking about. I see a lot of negativity surrounding python 3 and talks of fracture, but no actual evidence of it.
Ah. I wasn't aware of these government-centric definitions. I got mine from here, which presumes that the agent is a person rather than a government: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/
And human medical procedures that aren't typically covered by insurance. LASIK for example, imagine what laser eye surgery would cost if it was billed like an ACL reconstruction. Instead you have to pay yourself and doctors compete, the entire bill (at a nice place) ends up being what a couple of ACL knives cost.
An expert would know the ecma spec inside and out, know what javascript does differently from similar procedural languages, know how to approach performance and memory management issues, know common practical development patterns, know the DOM and the new HTML5 APIs, know the differences in the implemented capabilities of commonly used browsers, and have studied (or helped write) one of the open-source implementations.
Ask HN: Should you sign an NDA while interviewing with a stealth startup?
What is people's experience when interviewing with stealth startups - is it usual to be requested to sign an NDA to see the product but before an offer has been made?
Undeniably? Not quite.

Your reasoning is really faulty because you aren't accounting for overall growth in the industry. If the world Irish population increases by 20% does this mean that the Asian population shrunk? Of course not.

Consider that Tablet and Smartphone platforms are in addition to flat PC sales.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/01/tablets-cro...

http://www.wcu.edu/ceap/houghton/edelcompeduc/ch1/handhelds/...

Same goes for the world wide web in general. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-web-sites-are-are-th...

You can't say logically that because there are more rails sites there are less Microsoft ones.

C# is pretty popular here: http://langpop.corger.nl/

here as well:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

And that doesn't count non-C# .net ecosystem languages.

Could there be an exodus? Sure, but your reasoning is just wrong here.
I think of an MVP as the least you need to do to demonstrate an unmet demand for a product or concept. For a game, that means demonstrating a gameplay concept that may be worthwhile to expand upon.

Thinking about early Minecraft, the creative version became an MVP in my mind when it got multiplayer and a variety of building blocks; the gameplay element there being working with others to create artwork. The survival version became an MVP when it added monsters and an infinitely generating world, which allowed exploration and, well, survival.

But if you look at Skycraft today, it's billed as a "creative voxel adventure game", but there's no adventure. It fails the basic test of what defines a game: there is no gameplay. It needs some sort of basic challenge to overcome, goal to reach, or ruleset by which to reach a win or lose state (to be clear, it doesn't need to be a fully fleshed out concept or demonstration: Pong is an MVP for a tennis game).

Skycraft does, however, demonstrate a very cool block-building generator done in HTML5. That's a very cool tech demo, but it's not yet a proof-of-concept of a game.

To get to an MVP, it needs to add some gameplay elements. If it's supposed to be an adventure game, there needs to be some sort of undertaking or goal to work towards played out through an experience the player has.

But beyond that, if you're going to try to create something that's a new spin on Minecraft and show there's an unmet demand for it, I think you have to demonstrate at least one gameplay element that Minecraft doesn't have. Skycraft doesn't have that yet.

And there's definitely a strong case to be made that there's a demand for games like Minecraft that have a different vision: there's at least a half-dozen "ripoffs", just as many (if not more) games that can directly trace their lineage through Minecraft, and hundreds of mods for Minecraft proper that radically change how the game works.

I almost wonder if you are interested in creating a new take on Minecraft, the easiest way to get to an MVP is to create a mod for it first and worry about the engine after you have something that's fun.
Those weren't your options. As with most things health related in the US, someone else was paying (the "insurer" in this case). Given the choice between you paying $2,400 in the US (and the insurer paying an amount you don't see or care about), or you going to the UK and paying 3,000GBP plus accommodation and tickets, I'll bet you pick the former.

It is in the insurer's interest for you to go somewhere cheaper as it saves them (not you) money. There are various press articles about this happening such as this 2009 article http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-22-medica...
Ask HN: Looking for a web app posted on HN I saw a while back
Just a few weeks ago, I saw a web app posted on HN that uses a url to find the first image on google image and show it to you. e.g http://website.com/iphone would show you an image of an iphone. I vaguely remember the title as "say it in words" or something similar, but I had little luck finding it. Can anyone point me to this gem again? Thank you.
It's interesting that so many people don't like this common class of article (I cloned X of Y in Z time), which I find very positive and hacker-like.

You are actually posting a common class of comment, which I don't much regard, but is unfortunately a formula for lots of karma.

X clone is not nearly as good as Y original for Z reasons. And of course the implied statement, or explicit in this case, that the hackers who made it shouldn't show so much pride or ambition.
How special are we talking about? There are 100,000 of these surgeries in the US every year (and then tons more globally). It's not like this is a part for the space station.
Go multi-platform with either Cordova(free), Monkey (cheap, http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/ ) or Gamemaker (more expensive for mobile). You'll have your prototypes ready in days instead of weeks for the last two and maybe even without hiring anyone.
Yes.
http://hamburgsteak.sandwich.net/writ/bad_ideas/
Agreed.

The cherry-picking on this topic is extreme. One guy claims Lehey was the leader of the U.S. Military during WWII. He was not. He was the senior-serving military official, who worked as chief of staff to Roosevelt. You could call him an early CJCS, or you could just use his title: chief of staff. Marshall was probably the closest we had to a senior person actually running the war, as anybody with a modicum of WWII history can tell you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall The only reason to pump up Lehey is to add authority to the quote, which was made years later during a completely different political situation. When you see this kind of thing, it never bodes well for the argument.

But you beat down one red herring and three more pop up. It's like talking to those 9-11 guys. They already know the answer. Just a matter of selectively arranging facts in a convincing narrative.

The author gives it away towards the end "...There is real resistance to looking at the facts. But perhaps this should not be surprising...They fill an important psychic need."

Well there you go. From the author's comments, and those on this board, I take it this is supposed to be some kind of argument between "patriotic" Americans and the facts (as told to us by the revisionists), instead of what it is: rewriting history to suit current fashion.

I actually wish the revisionists well. Maybe they can get their way and we can go through 100 years or so of believing that the A-bomb was not the proximate cause of the end of WWII. Then a new fashion will take hold, and we can come back to believing what 95% of the people at the time it happened believed. The neat thing about this is that people get educated about history. Frankly, if history is your passion and you spend time on this and know your stuff, I could care less which theory you pick. These stories need to be remembered.

Whenever this topic comes up I reminded of this quote:

But perhaps George M. Elsey, a young naval intelligence officer assigned to the Truman White House, provided the best reply to revisionist historians and others who question the decision to drop the atomic bombs. Asked by David McCullough for his biography of the President (Truman, Simon & Schuster, 1992) about the decision, Elsey replied: "Truman made no decision because there was no decision to be made. He could no more have stopped it than a train moving down a track. It's all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing. The whole goddamn war was a horrible thing."

http://hnn.us/articles/44729.html
My point was more that you cannot judge a country based on 1 law.

And also, what's the big deal of banning chewing gum? :)
It's called "begging for it."
I've been waiting for this. Now, only if a single one of the android phones had a decent camera, I'd be in business.
It's more of a tweet-like approach to posting videos. The way I see most of my friends using the service is as a companion to Instagram, when they want to express a moment in a series of small video clips instead of in a single photo. I suppose you could call that "replacing GIFs" but it's more like YouTube than it is like Geocities.
> $7,638 per person per year. That just can't be right. I and 90% of the people I know haven't made a significant trip to the dr or hospital in years. Where the fuck is that money going?

Even if the people you know were somehow a representative sample, that's not all that surprising. A significant health event can easily cost orders of magnitude more than $7,638, so even if 90% didn't have one in a period of several years, the average cost could still easily be $7,638 per person per year.
You have the privilege of tarring the commanders of US forces as war criminals "of the highest gravity" because of the sacrifices US soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines made during WW2.

If you haven't already, do some research on how the Japanese fought at Okinawa. At the defensive plans they had in place for defending the Home Islands. The toll of an invasion would have been horrendous for both sides. This is without dispute by serious historians.

Your idea that the Japanese were "relatively contained," implying that there was no need to do any further action is almost laughable as a military or political strategy.

When you go to war, you should go to war til the other side cries "Uncle."

Furthermore, the idea that war should be "proportional" is also a sophomoric argument without merit. War is hell for a reason. If someone engages you in war, you fight them to the death. You don't go back and forth in a tit for tat manner that negates all of your advantages and magnifies theirs.

And to lump the A bombs with what Japan did to China? Read up on the Rape of Nanking. Or find out how many Chinese civilians the Japanese Army killed on the mainland. Or how they treated POWs during the Bataan Death March.

War is hell.
> I also like being able to run my own software on my own devices.

Don't use an iPhone :) Vote with your wallet!
And for the Windows 8 lock down of Linux, there are still numerous ways to get a Linux-enabled laptop, or to ensure that what you buy will work well.