skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "intense narcotic effect" of Adderall is due, by the way, to the immediate, large amount of it made available in the bloodstream. The whole point of newer-generation drugs like Vyvanse and Concerta is to change the bioavailablity of the drug to a small, steady stream, by effectively having the liver process and "activate" it at whatever speed the body prompts it to.

I'm sorry for what you went through, but it's not the same thing kids today go through.

(I say this as someone who was diagnosed with ADD after 23 years being unaware of it, doing very badly in school, letting relationships fall apart, losing jobs, etc. In retrospect, given the drug technology at the time, I think my parents made the right choice--when a teacher suggested they look into my neurological condition--that the treatments available at the time were worse than the disease. However, this is no longer the case.)
Interesting. Foodies actually refer to this as a balsamic reduction / balsamic glaze. Do you use a lot of balsamic vinegar?
Belief:

>It doesn't produce bad habits or bad intentions, because this is totally dependant on the persons character.

Science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
I think this is true but "working with the community" from the giant's perspective is often different than the community's perspective. I see Oracle as an extreme example, but prior to them Sun's lip service on Java early on really didn't help the community trying to improve Java but it did keep it moving along a path.
What about having Wowza Media Server with Rackspace and Amazon S3?
Pointless style gets a bad rap, but the idea that you're thinking of just the transformations instead of the data is a powerful mindset to have.
Never heard anyone call it Balsamic Dressing in my life. (US)
What tool(s) do you use to manage your CA? Overall, this is one of the bigger challenges... I don't know of any open source project (or even SaaS) that implements a full CA workflow including signup, approval, revocation, etc.
Ask HN: Video camera and microphone encryption at the driver or hardware level?
In *nix, are there any examples of microphone and video drivers or do microphone and video camera hardware exist that implement real-time encryption, so that all applications using streaming microphone and video data have to implement decryption of sound and video data to be useful?

I know this would place a greater computational burden on the system, but it would ensure that any software on your device installed without your awareness is incapable of eavesdropping on you.
Millet is a grain and can be ground into flour. I'm talking about cooking it as a grain (like most uses of quinoa).

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=100+g+millet
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=100+g+quinoa

Also, having too much of any one food is bad for you. I'm not suggesting that you start baking your own bread with millet flour - just that the next time you would cook up some rice or quinoa, give millet a try. It's a very healthy whole grain and can be a welcome part of a well balanced diet for many people trying to eat healthier.
That's what I said? edit: I realize it might now have been entirely clear, I was trying to be a bit discreet ;)
Pro cycalists already take risks; if their bike has an issue, or their path has an issue such that they fall they are potentially looking at serious injury. Not to mention the fact that prior to the test proper, the mechanism would be well tested to make sure it won't fall apart, and there would likely be many practice runs with additional safety percuasions until everyone was comftorable.

Also, how is powering the first human powers flying machine not good for a professional athlete's career?
It wasn't the technology that made auto-playing video/animations bad. Just because you can now do it with native html rather than flash doesn't make it ok.
http://www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=5642

article on the feminization of schools. boys (even those without learning 'disabilities' are not set up to succeed in 21st century school systems.
>would an added evenly-applied tax change competitiveness at all?

Any variable can change competitiveness, as companies may differ in their responses to it.

For example, look at fuel prices for airlines. When they increase across the board, some airlines may raise prices, others may cut back on services offered, still others may add baggage fees, some may focus on increasing volume on more profitable routes, some may lower prices and heavily promote their lower fares to gain market share, while others may risk prepaying for fuel at current prices or hedging with shorts, etc.

Point being, of course, that the same change that hits every competitor will produce different responses and effects. This can completely alter the competitive landscape. And, it's virtually a guarantee that you won't simply get some uniform, across the board price increase.

If we don't acknowledge this, then we are looking at the change in a vacuum, completely insulated from the realities of free market behavior.

>I could make the argument that the consumers are willing to pay more because they suddenly have more in their pockets

Yeah, I think I actually mentioned that in another post (too much risk/work to view another post mid-reply on this tablet). Anyway, it could definitely be the case that consumers can bear more, however, it is not neccesarily 1:1. That is, there are a lot of variables that might impact whether they'd be willing to spend that extra money on that product. Also, there is still some price that the market simply won't bear for a given product, irrespective of the extra money in consumer pockets. In any case, there is certainly no guarantee that companies can simply pass on the additional cost.

And, it can also be the case that some companies can, but others cannot, given their prior prices.

Just too many variables.
They were filming that?!

All joking aside, I only avoid mentioning the company by name to avoid linking it to any search results. Otherwise, I'm glad to talk about it because I consider it a strong trait of the company.
Just on the front page:

• White slide text against bright background photos is difficult and unpleasant to read

• A small yellow "Order now" or "Read our story" button with ordinary black text is easy to miss and not enticing to click on. Try CSS Button Generator instead: http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/

• Lots of things on homepage saying "Order now!" but I have no idea what it is I'd be buying or why I ought to want to buy it

• Lots of emphasis on "Read our story" but I don't have any reason to want to do this right now (maybe you're targeting only highly qualified leads who are already brand fans?)

• The homepage itself is confusing - it looks more like a restaurant's page designed to cater to people who are already deciding whether to dine there... that is, a page that simply needs to create the right ambiance to get people to take action offline. This design is not well suited to online commerce, though. If you want better conversions, benchmark websites that already convert - e.g., see Amazon.com; it tests religiously, and also sells food

Overall, if I'm hitting this website with no idea what it is, it's too confusing (too much info / too hard to read / calls to action to buy something or read something I know nothing about and do not yet want) and too generic-looking for me to stay.

It seems like you went for style first - and the style, from a purely artistic standpoint, is indeed very sleek and very nice.

It's just better at being pretty than it is at selling me anything. I might suggest a redesign focused on hard, practical sales, and once you've figured out what sells best in your niche, then work on prettying things back up, without sacrificing what you've discovered makes the site convert.
i would upvote again if i could. professional and fun site.
We both do. I've actually been involved in writing clinical analytics software since 2000, including having been one of the lead developers on software used by the FDA and top pharma. Jud previously had a consulting company in the space performing data integrations.
I like the fact that you triple-quoted that statement.
There's still a lot of room to push the laws of physics, although I'm not sure glass is the answer. I think manufacturing tolerances will be the biggest limit for inexpensive handsets.

If I play (hah!) stupid, I look at the flange distance and lens size for an SLR of any sort and compare it to a mirrorless camera such as the M9 or even NEX-7, I can get much higher quality on the same or smaller sensor with smaller lenses, especially in the normal field of view. This is purely based on that big empty space in the SLR. The main thing we'll have to give up is an expectation of a shallow depth of field, but "f/8 and be there" is why camera phones are useful anyway.

I've been impressed with the sapphire lens on the iPhone 5, all things considered. It's not what I would call a good camera, but perhaps coupled with a high-density sensor with an alternative pixel structure[1] and microlenses, it would not be unreasonable to expect 2013 "full frame" image quality in a mobile device in 2-5 years.

I don't want to burn my fingers trying to capture 4k raw video on my phone. Heat dissipation will become an issue, as it is on HDSLRs and MILCs.

[1] For example, http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Chuckle contentedly.
Your Starbucks Name Versus Your SEO Name
is this better than UpTo? seems like that is a like of "press"
What's so special about the iOS music app?
Why Your Kids Shouldn't Go to Harvard (even if they could get in)
What Ballmer forgot is that Welch himself said the "trim the bottom 10%" model didn't work once a company got larger than a certain size.

I'm not sure that size is the issue. I think that the percentage of deadwood a company has being static is the problem.

A typical 10,000-person company probably has enough deadwood to make a 10% cut safe: a mature company that's accrued enough slackers and incompetents can endure a cut of the obvious nonperformers and few will be upset about it. Even many of the nonperformers will agree, to some extent, that it's time. Besides, the company will have a cut anyway if it underperforms. But if you cut 10% every year, after two or three iterations you are cutting good people, and the cultural effects of that make the process not worth it.
I'm not so sure age is any indicator of principled action. Older employees have been worn down and want to get somewhere, young people can have more conviction in their principles because they have less to lose and more enthusiasm. And the opposite can happen too of course; young people can be easily misdirected, and older employees can have the learned cynicism and experience to see history repeating itself.
Verizon May Owe $14 Billion To Verizon for in Unsold iPhones in 2013
That's all true, but you also have to recognize the fact that the market for people like you is essentially saturated. To use a different example, this is why Adobe has abandoned selling boxed copies of Photoshop, and is moving to it's "Creative Cloud" rental scheme. That is the real benefit of web applications. It's not that they're easier for the user. That's a side benefit. The real benefit comes from the fact that you can turn what used to be a one-time purchase into an ongoing revenue stream. That's what Microsoft, Adobe, and all the other purveyors of boxed software are aiming towards.

Looking at it that way, PC vs. web is just a proxy for buy vs. rent. And, like it or not, the "buy" option is slowly being driven from the market.
For me it comes up as either the 4th or 6th result depending on whether you put it in quotes or not.

Interestingly the HN article it links to is the one the other day discussing how Google paid Adblock Plus to get its ads white listed.
Is it weird that Google's mission statement doesn't describe their primary revenue stream? I suppose they could say that they're making information universally accessible and useful to individuals as well as advertisers. But I don't know, their mission statement makes them sound like the best library ever. Not an advertising company.
Odd coincidence that today, I came across this late 2012 article, "What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated"

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/10/2/what-happened-to-the-f...

It's a detailed look at the failure of Diaspora, the secure, privacy-preserving app that raised $200K during the height of Facebook privacy concerns, but fell apart, with the founder eventually committing suicide.

I bring it up not because I think hemlis is doomed to the same fate, but precisely because the differences between what the OP aims to achieve compared to Diaspora makes it much more likely to succeed...if it's just a messaging app, rather than a social network that has certain infrastructure challenges, then it should definitely be doable (it goes without saying that the Pirate Bay co-founder probably has a lot more experience than the Diaspora founders)
While I'm happy to hear that some have found a way to control their "affliction," I've never tried Straterra and have no plans to start. As I alluded to in my original post, my ideological objections to drugging our "broken" children are more than simply pragmatic. And, even though I'm a mid-twenties male in college, I hardly ever go to class as I still can't manage to sit still long enough to listen to a 50 minute lecture. I read the textbooks instead and ace the tests.

Anecdotally (I use that word conservatively as I've read studies to this effect but don't care to look them up), I've found that those with ADHD, including myself, are more creative than "normal" people. Something about the non sequitur way in which our minds work. So it's a difference in strengths, not a difference in mental quality.

I also noticed I'm using a lot of quotes in my reply. I guess my cynicism is expressing itself through my sarcastic tone.
Astronomers identify blue planet where it rains glass
Emails attachments can be used as inline images. If an attachment is being used as an image, gmail no longer shows it as an attachment.

In the linked email, there were attachments used as images (as shown) and possibly additional image tags which source remote images.

There's no harm in auto-loading inline images. However, remote images can be used for tracking.
While (time = money): Optimize for Conversions
The industry has been drastically changing over the past decade. 15 years ago, all data collection was paper based. Then came Electronic Data Collection systems. Now, there are cloud systems likes Medidata Rave and Veeva which are doing exceptionally well. This change has created tremendous opportunity for new startups.

This is happening across all enterprise verticals, and this is why there is such an opportunity for enterprise startups. As Warren Hogarth says in the original article "There’s about a trillion dollars of enterprise software", much of which will "transition to [specialized] enterprise software... and create multi-billion dollar companies".
Where The Jobs Are (And Where They Aren't), In 1 Graph
So the mathematician at NSA who developed the SHA-1 algorithm that underlies a lot of higher-level crypto primitives... is he an oppressor or an individual making a positive contribution to the collective good?

How about the janitor who sweeps the bathroom floor at the NSA? Is he or she an enemy of humanity?

Hopefully you would conclude otherwise for both, but now you run into the situation where you have to judge individual actions and not just collective membership when assessing who is, or is not, an enemy of humanity. Note that I haven't even had to try to stick up for those 'just following orders'.

By all means, judge people on what they do; judge ideas on their own merits; that's all I've ever asked for myself. Just remember that sometimes good work may come from organizations that you consider evil. Imagine how we would have thought of the infamous Nazi Oskar Schindler, before we knew the real story of his factory.

Likewise, good people may have bad ideas, and those with good ideas are not necessarily good people trying to lead you to a good goal.
In further support of these points... Thinking outside the box, breaking the rules as a last resort to do the right thing and other similar actions can indeed produce the extraordinary results, in certain situations, the organization is hoping for after all. Yet this strategy will work only for the very top performers: Those who can sense and actually produce the truly largest "contribution" to their company (as opposed to what seems right, interesting or cool to them), even when it more or less eludes their higher ups; those who can do this while also being politically savvy enough to contain the consequences and sell their actions as actually in line with everyone's goals; those who are almost magical in being able to produce the kind of results others are very unlikely to do etc. It can work, I've seen it work, but I think it is important to realize that not everyone can or should do it. When it works, it is certainly a great boon to the career of the said top performer.

Know that by doing this, you may be counterproductive both to your organization and your career. If you take it to the extreme, you may become a friction rather than a "problem solver".

The most common pitfall I've seen is a highly technical person considering things like "refactoring", "getting it right" more important than getting to the finish line fast. Remember that you may be missing what's really the most important thing for your company at the time.

I've also seen commonplace "complaining" about inconveniences that are actually quite legitimate. It's just that you don't know all the facts or haven't been put in a position to produce the bottom-line results. Things look different when you're the one navigating the ship.

OTOH, I've seen this strategy work best when the very formal scope/objectives/deliverables of an effort are clearly wrong and would indeed lead to a subpar outcome for all involved. Implemented successfully, this strategy could produce outstanding results by forcefully course-correcting and then actually delivering great results. Remember though that you'll be blamed for everything if your course-correction isn't great, even if the original direction would also have been equally bad.
As a veteran at my company, I've let scrappy kids take the keys. It's always about them understanding the general direction we're going. I trust their judgement and their fearlessness to ask questions of those of us who've been around much longer.

Which actually fits into the jazz analogy. Jazz players work together in the same direction, there are rules within the rule breaking, even if they're unspoken.
One of my best friends was born and raised Mormon, and if you heard all the stories she has to say about her experience growing up, you'd consider it a topic of conversation if there is the chance that they grew up fundamentalist Mormon in Utah. On the other hand when I lived in North Carolina, I don't recall the few Mormon's I knew there to be any nuttier than Catholics or Protestants. With Mormons (and Baptists too while we're on the topic) at least, it seems that most of the crazy is kept to those who are most fundamentalist (which is generally true of fundamentalism in all its forms).

Her stories about growing up Mormon are only second to another friend of mine whose parents are at the very very top of the Church of Scientology, and has lived in the People's Republic of China for years because she can rely on the Chinese government's persecution of certain religions to get people kicked out of the country if they try to go there and do anything to her. IIRC she's already had to do that once.

Californians in particular have good reason to consider it a topic of conversation because the Church of Latter Day Saints actively meddles in California politics. Prop 8 spending is the most notorious example.[0] They weren't the only religion opposing it, but they certainly spent a boatload of dollars to defeat it.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8#Religi...
Are you referring to this xkcd? http://xkcd.com/349/
Great! I want to have a try.
As my macroeconomics lecturer once put it, "The purpose of exports, is imports!"
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Is everyone in this world a sell-out? :(
Yeah The Civil War, Women's Suffrage and The Civil Rights Movement were all "cute"
Had to scroll too far down to find this comment. Defcon's argument, which Secure Ideas didn't seem to get, was:

P1) This is a place for those who believe in openness, sharing, and mutual gain.

P2) Feds have been hiding the fact that they've been screwing us all along.

Conclusion: This isn't a place for Feds.

The blog posts states: "...but rather a continuation of openness that this event has always encouraged." But this is exactly why the Feds aren't allowed.
Veeva? You should stop by next time you're in Palo Alto, would love to meet. Email is in my profile.
Thanks for this. I'm relieved to know I'm not thinking the "wrong" way. :)

But, honestly, I could not articulate the problem as you have. I wish I had your knowledge. The idea of a "jump" really captures it. setjmp. goto. It's navigating memory. And nothing more.

I can visualize the problem, sort of - I just intuitively feel like sets, Lisp-like lists, and vector-based approaches, are the way to go in high level programming - but I do not know the right words to describe and argue my point.

As such, I doubt I could convince many high level programmers to abandon the use of iterations in the code they write.

Again, you have beautifully articulated what I could not. Cheers.
Was just trying to be nice, buddy
I don't think people generally care about auto playing if there is no sound. At least I don't.
I...

installed it,

came to the prompt about importing your contacts,

decided that I didn't want to do that,

found that I could not continue setting up the app without doing so,

deleted the app.
Good work, but tell us more eg. technology stack?
Most companies do something internally, but it's typically slow, expensive, out-of-date, breaks frequently, and is prone to errors.
My washing machine, microwave, oven, toaster and dishwasher all beep.
Sends me crazy.
And they all use the same high pitched, annoying, hard to locate tone.
Re-reading that does sound a bit insulting, I'm sorry that it came out that way, I don't mean any disrespect.

I grew up with a brother who had to take dexamphetamine or he wouldn't be able to do anything, he was a totally different person under it.
How is it free?
Are there ads? Is the project a portfolio-demo for an agency? Are they hoping to get bought out by Apple/Google, and then replace the app with a knock-off version discombobulated by the whims VPs and PMs?

Ah, the price is giving the devs a copy of my address book. To sell? rent? analyze?
I'm sorry but I don't agree.

Non-state terrorism is an evolving and emergent threat that's been amplified by the interconnected global world we live in.

9/11 spawned two wars and countless societal changes.

The geopolitical landscape has changed and we would be foolish to ignore it.
It probably doesn't, at this point. In fact, I bet they're probably trying to figure that out right now, and likely know already. I think the line "...and this is just the beginning." is very telling. Premium recipes or financial kickbacks for lead generation to other services seem like potential ideas for generating revenue in the future.
On Hunger
OK. Can you articulate why you object to me using those words, now that we're in apparent agreement that the target customer is actually an upper middle-class woman? I mean, I know why it would cause a few of my professors to sputter, but their rationale for that isn't persuasive. Maybe yours is.