skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the classic ways in which developers justify not starting things because of unfounded fears of success. Fears of litigation are vastly overblown, because nobody cares about your business and won't for a while yet.

ToS: Feel free to grab from any of my businesses and find/replace as necessary, or use WordPress.org's one, which they've "OSSed". You can have a lawyer write you one, if you want to spend a few thousand dollars, but it is unlikely it will meaningfully affect your outcomes.

Legal liability: Your main way to avoid liability is not pissing anyhow off so much that they want to sue you. You can incorporate an LLC cheaply, and should do so when you hire, take investment, want to sell to the Fortune 500, or are instructed to by your lawyer or accountant.

n.b. You can also buy insurance for this. It may be called professional liability or errors and omissions insurance. My business' policy runs about $3k a year. (The quote you get will likely be sensitive to what you are doing and how large your business is.) I only got it after 8ish years into the business, after I was in charge of hospital data and attempting to get largish deals done with megacorps, who required it as a checkbox in their purchasing process.

Launching an app/website under your full name is not a bad idea. You're going to be discoverable regardless, it will just cost modestly more money, but not nearly so much money as attempting to sue you, so if someone is that peeved you're going to get sued regardless.
Use verbose naming in JavaScript
Bootstrap 3 Goes Mobile-First, Now Reportedly Powers 1% Of The Web
I have used it for a few weeks too. Google needs to fix the ordering interface to focus you on stores you already have purchases pending with. If I can save a buck at one store but that causes two-store delivery fees.... oh the headache.

I worry that Goog isn't getting valid data - the clear reason to run the trial - because the selection is low (compared to Prime) - and the multi-store fee is not active. They could bump the per-store fee up to $1 per store, and get more valid data.

My primary desire for same-day is groceries (milk and bananas) but I admit I live a 3 minute walk (literally) from a nice little Mexican grocery that has an in-house butcher, milk and most veg. It's good to get into the sunshine for a few minutes.
This one appears to have lived and died as a prototype. Any mention of it after this article has only referenced what original information and images are available on the prototyper's 2010 site. [1]

Fab@Home seems to be closer to digitally printing food, though it doesn't seem like any time soon: "Lipton thinks that fabricating a dish of steak and potatoes from scratch is still 15 to 20 years or more in the future." [2]

[1] http://www.cmarcelo.com/cornucopia/

[2] http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2013/03/19/3d-printing-ta...
What is the implied model behind assortative mating?
I also really love the multiple inboxes. My inbox is significantly easier to parse.

Once in a while I drag a message elsewhere to train it, but no more than once a month...
That's a convenient fiction. Care to back that up with some evidence?

In particular, how do you account for the fact that more health insurance (Europe, Japan) is less constly than the abomination known as the US healthcare system?
Your comment left out the single most important piece of information: the country in which the treatment took place. I have no plans, and thankfully no need, to go abroad for low-cost treatment of any sort, but someone reading your comment might, and the key fact you omitted might stop them making a horrible mistake.
There's money to be made cleaning toilets, too, but that doesn't mean it's a very good fit for Google.
To the honest, You are honest; to the perverse, You are devious.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Kings+22&version=NIV

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=numbers%2011&ver...

http://www.biblestudytools.com/2-samuel/22-27-compare.html
Limpieza de cemento
> You just feel its cheaper as $1 = 60 rupees. There you get a straight 60x value of your money. That is what it is at the end of the day.

I find the vast majority of people are tripped up by currency conversion, but I'm surprised to find this on HN. In Japan $1 = 100 yen, but certainly I don't feel I have 100x in buying power. A bowl of ramen will cost me $8 in SF; an equivalent bowl will cost me 800 JPY in tokyo.

Let's not even get started on the Korean Won...
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Play With an Interactive, Virtual Ubuntu Edge
The thing about wars on abstract nouns is that it's impossible to negotiate peace with an abstract noun.
There was a time before copyright and authors did have trouble with their works being used by others for profit without recompense. It is likely the same would happen now if copyright didn't exist at all.

Very short copyright could work, though.
Hackers Use Laptop to Control Car
> the tunnel would be opened up to the outside atmosphere. That would immediately ruin the resonance and all capsules should come to a screeching halt.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my intuition is that this would also lead to quite a bad explosion. I mean, the amount of energy I imagine it would take to initiate a standing wave between LA and NY should be massive, (and certainly not a small amount to maintain it either, though far less than the initial amount if it truly stores the energy well). But if it is _storing_ this energy, then any rupture should release it quite... quickly. No?

A standing wave is not nothing.. it is a huge amount of pressure oscillating back and forth in an underground cavity. A controlled hole in the cavity wall could release it properly, but a crack in the side could effectively lead to rupture, couldn't it?

Another thing, if the air pressure inside the tunnel is indeed quite high, the train cars would also need to be pressurized. This leads to some other potential dangers.. not to mention the time to pressurize would be added to the total trip time.
I know much smaller sales-based companies (aka SEO) who hire someone to do exactly what you describe.
Let's put aside the fact that it's a one-man project for one second. I tried building it from sources for an hour before giving up: it depends on lots of custom packages which it fetches and custom patches [1]. Okay, so it has a really tiny C core [2], upon which lua modules build up the rest of the editor. I'm impressed: yes, this certainly qualifies as a programmable editor. It has some interesting ideas worth exploring; thanks.

As an open source project, it is a total failure. If a potential contributor can't clone and build the sources in under 10 minutes (or an hour!), it's no better than a research paper. It hasn't been packaged for any major distributions, and it has no users.

p.s- I did manage to grab a fairly recent build from AUR. As far as out-of-the box functionality is concerned, it's absolute rubbish; opening files and navigating buffer is a chore, and I couldn't even get it to indent properly.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/artagnon/6102996

[2]: https://gist.github.com/artagnon/6103013
> parseInt("123")	// base 10 => 123

The radix is not always 10 by default, it's implementation dependent and sometime it even depends on the number to be parsed. "8" will be parsed in base 10, "08" in base 8. Always specify the radix [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Even general questions are dominated by answers from people with "Indian-sounding" names.

Yeah, that's pretty annoying, isn't it?

But if you have a filter to blacklist 'Indian-sounding' names, then what about all the people who do what I'm doing: Use an alias that happens to mask my 'Indian-sounding' name?

How do you get rid of all those people?
Be Careful of Negative Array Indices
In agricultural terminology you can either pay people 'by the day' or pay them 'by the hundred yards'.

I have worked in both types of systems and can see merits and pitfalls in both.

In the former system there can woeful output whilst in the latter there can be woeful quality.

Neither of these are inevitable.

In a salary system, if the lazy/incompetent can 'get away with it' and the industrious/competent aren't acknowledged it has a poisonous effect on the organisation.

In a fee per item system the lazy will earn less automatically but there needs to be careful monitoring of the quality of the output with particular attention paid to people at either tail of the output distribution.
Also people with high output (because of poor quality) can drive down wages for everyone and create a treadmill where the quality of everyones' work suffers as they try to maintain their income.
What free market? What prices? Free market from price shopping you say?

You got hit riding your bike and are bleeding profusely from your abdomen. The ambulance driver asks, "There's a hospital 6 minutes away but they don't post their prices publicly (who does?) and we've never brought anyone of your condition there before. We think it will probably cost between $500-$10,000. But there's a hospital 45 minutes away that we know for sure will cost $400-$800. What do you want us to do?"

Let's suppose the government mandates that all hospitals must post their prices publicly. But you're bleeding to death. Can you really go shopping now?
Love the file size / file count transition!

OT: I recall old and apparently abandoned Windows program called "Overdisk"[0] for examining entire filesystem, which uses similar visualization pattern and for me is pleasure to use while decluttering hard drives.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=overdisk
What about Andrea Jung on the board? No hyperlink for her profile and she was fired as CEO of Avon last year (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-05/avon-executive-chai...).
Same here, got salmonella in Los Angeles eating at a subway. Point being, you can get sick anywhere, other factors include your body getting used to new organisms.
>Is is just the education is cheaper

In Russia medical and other uni education free if you can pass entrance tests.
Hey that's a great idea. I have a feeling it would have had a better chance of success in the US.
From the article:
"Instead, network operators can degrade traffic by failing to upgrade connections without severing them entirely. The public won't realize that's what's going on unless negotiations become so contentious that one party makes them public—or a government decides to investigate."

I don't think the US government (or those of its several states) is competent enough to regulate the complex interconnections between networks. I predict that the major ISPs will be able to find new tools to degrade network conditions faster than regulators will be able to sanction them for it, should the government choose to go after this fight at all: the essential abandonment of the wholesale provisions of the Telecommunication Act of 1996 ended the possibility of reasonable widespread competition for broadband: lack of choices is why this is a problem in the first place.
The Doctors and Engineers from the best institutes of India are comparable to the best in the world. You will regularly meet them in American or European hospitals anyways doing consulting. It's a poor comparison. Some of the hospitals in India are comparable to any top-class hospitals in the world. In the end, you will be visiting such a hospital in India, not small time ones.
Our residents do work 80+ hour weeks. Until recently, it was 100+ hours.
I was expecting John von Neumann to be listed as the inventor:

The system also includes a processor for executing the computer executable instructions, and a memory for storing at least the computer executable instructions.
Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, a popular hospital in Bangalore, publish procedure charges (in Rupees) on their website. Might be interesting for comparison.

http://www.jayadevacardiology.com/procedure_charges.html
I remember the glory days when YouTube would buffer the whole video from where you started, at a very uniform speed. If you wanted to jump to somewhere in the video and it was buffered, there was no rebuffering.

ISP's or not, it is infuriating for me as a user to see a website get significantly worse as it gets bigger and bigger.
I've always been fascinated with naïve set-theory, and how it was refuted after it's apparent inconsistency, the famous Russell's paradox of the set of all sets that don't contain it self, and only contains it self if it doesn't etc. So supposing it's False, yields True, and supposing it's True yields False.

But what fascinated me was not the Russell's set, but it's inverse, the set of all sets that contain it self, lets call it S.

For the statement S is a member of S —the set of all sets that contain it self, really contains it self— yields True if and only if you suppose it's True, and it yields False if and only if you suppose it's False.

S is therefore always consistent no matter the value. Both values are correct, but never at the same time.

I don't know particularly what it means, but the fact that you can do this, makes me wonder if this super-consistency is applied anywhere else in the philosophy of science, but nobody has ever realized the equivalent inverse, and therefor never demonstrated the inconsistency.
Clojure is crazy, its pretty sexy logo and code seems to take over the world.
"Well in India their cost of living is lower"

I am not sure it is true anymore. If you compare cost of living in a good infrastructure or similar lifestyle you will find India is expensive.
I am sure many will disagree but just go ahead and look at cost of decent housing in any Indian metro.
We too have crap doctors in India like anywhere else, may be they don't sound too expensive when you go by USD conversion.
plain text != reversible, isn't it?
I agree that his linguistic and academic contribution is of the highest order, but I'm not so sure about his political analysis.

Here are his comments in 1977 regarding the reported genocide in Cambodia [1]: "We do not pretend to know where the truth lies amidst these sharply conflicting assessments; rather, we again want to emphasize some crucial points. What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that Cambodia has suffered. Evidence that focuses on the American role, like the Hildebrand and Porter volume, is ignored, not on the basis of truthfulness or scholarship but because the message is unpalatable."

And on the veracity of reports about horrific slaughter made by Cambodian refugees: "Refugees are frightened and defenseless, at the mercy of alien forces. They naturally tend to report what they believe their interlocuters wish to hear. While these reports must be considered seriously, care and caution are necessary. Specifically, refugees questioned by Westerners or Thais have a vested interest in reporting atrocities on the part of Cambodian revolutionaries, an obvious fact that no serious reporter will fail to take into account."

Did Chomsky show poor judgement by discounting such refugee reports? Was the evidence of genocide really so muddy in 1977 that you could not 'know where the truth lies'?

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2779086.html
I use a similar one for OSX, "DaisyDisk"[1].

[1]: http://www.daisydiskapp.com
But that's still just as bad. It doesn't matter if one person or a thousand people reads someone else's password in plain text. It's still technically a breach in security regardless of if they work for the company or not.
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I can assure you that the doctors doing 1-2 CABGs per day are not making $30M-$70M/year.

Alas I don't know how much the hospital takes, but I know that there are ~500,000 CABGs per year. I suspect that we as a nation are not spending $50 billion annually on CABGs, but I could be off.
Sometimes people forget that being a scientist is a job like many others. And everything that is rewarding is more or less an addiction. So, yeah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz
The world's first crowdsourced, affordable supercomputer
Something tells me that after this incident - the NSA is pulling the records of all congressmen and lobbyists looking for dirt (blackmail). For love of country and patriotism they will not let congress cut their funding.
> so expensive it's cheaper for people to fly out of the country, pay for accommodation and even some spending money

... and even a few years of college tuition or a small mortgage ...
What's your source? A quick Google search indicates that someone made up that supposed quote.

Pop Quiz! Who said, "I can see Russia from my house"?

Answer: Not Sarah Palin, it was Tina Fey.
"greed" is generally a code word for "incentives are too complex for me to bother to try to understand."
Flynn - Docker based Opensource PaaS needs $5000 today
Anyone know of a company(ies) that can make the difference?

They have $68,495 of $75,000 of the campaign

http://flynn.io

FYI - I'm not part of the Flynn team but like the project.
New bounds checking ISA extension from Intel
What you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent article were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
If you think that's an acceptable thing to say, :%s/white/any other race/g and re-read your comment.
Some commentary at RWT: http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=135174&curposti...

Seems like they make a big effort to keep pre-MPX (compiled) code interoperable with the new bounds checked pointers.
I was tempted to mention it. But what I am writing is hearsay until such time as this doctor goes public with it, if he ever does that.
If it's true it would cause a major controversy in the EU.
It's easy to get excited, but I remember the hype surrounding the Segway.
In my organization, we have a data center. For my own side projects, I have used linode, but I am considering looking at PAAS solutions if they aren't too expensive.
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If Mark Zukerberg decides that he wants me dead with no retaliation on himself, there has to be someone with even more teeth than he can hire. And that is the point of a government: we give it a monopoly on legitimate force in our society.
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I believe you're excluding the middle here. Why are the only options "we either give one party a monopoly on violence", or "no such monopoly exists, therefore the rich and powerful can kill whomever they want". Why can't, say, the monopoly on violence be abolished, but have that policing and judicial role be performed by private law?
Purpose of a surveillance state?
Other than possibly preventing crime and terrorism.
Religion is a far more decentralized, organic, community-based institution (at least in America). In contrast the American government is a distant faceless bureaucracy, and even if a small subset of its employees are elected that doesn't make Americans feel better about it telling them what to do. But Americans are perfectly happy teaming up with their neighbors to help the elderly in the community once a week with their church groups.

Religion as it is practiced is not the bogeyman of liberals' dreams.
I've just installed this in Chrome and tried it on two videos and it is working great: the videos buffer quickly and seeking is fast and doesn't force a rebuffer. I've had problems with Firefox on YouTube, also trying the opt-in beta for the HTML5 player, but it didn't work. Cheers!
Amazon Web Services launches New Edge locations in India
>The point is that the author is assuming everyone will immediately know and understand that acronym, but meanwhile, when I conduct my search, I am forced to assume that my chosen definition is correct, wihout actually knowing for sure.

If you don't know what the acronym means, then the article is not meant for you. The author did not write it nor intend it as a general introduction for newcomers to learn the basics.

It's about some some specific techniques in a specific field.

With your logic, why stop at explaining TPS? He would also have to spell out IRQ, explain what IRQ interupts are, what is a tasket, what does it mean to 'pin' a process, what NoSQL means, what's this Redis thing he mentions etc etc.

(That the author of TFA abuses the acronym is beside the point).
Ask HN: carry a gun, wear Google Glass?
Looking at the Zimmerman case, I think that if I were living in a country that permitted armed self defense[1], I'd be trying my damndest to get my hands on Google Glass.

Assuming for a minute that events in the Martin shooting transpired the way Zimmerman said they did, it would have been to his definite advantage to have been wearing Glass and have recorded events as they transpired.

So, for those HN folks who go armed - with firearms or otherwise - would you consider using Glass in this fashion?

[1] I live in Australia, where self defense of any sort is frowned upon, and armed self defense will land you in a world of legal hurt. Decent folk who go armed here tend to fly under the radar: umbrellas, canes, torches, that sort of thing.
NSA animation Pixar style
Wow, thanks for this, it's exactly what I needed.

I started from LYAH and the only thing missing from it were some exercises so I could retain the information that was presented in each chapter. Otherwise, it's a fantastic book.
Did you consider using alternative materials?

If you switched to 3D Printed materials, I think the costs would be much less and you could have funded it with the amount of money you already collected.
A large majority of medical care is not for people in imminent danger of dying. Even procedures for people with the time to shop around are vastly overpriced and do not have prices posted publicly.
"Drawer Liners for Men" - tumble dryer sheets suggest that you place them in drawers of clothes to give the clothes a nice fresh smell. That's a good idea, except all the tumble dryer sheets I've tried smell a bit horrible. I want something like that (doesn't need to be a tumble dryer sheet) but which has manly scents. I don't mean Woodsmoke and Whiskey, but maybe some kind of sandal wood or cedar wood or somesuch.

"Aircon will stop working if you open the windows" stickers. Or, if I'm grumpy "Close the fucking windows if you want the aircon to work". - I see many people who open windows instead of waiting for the aircon to start working.

"A Better, Nicer Wikipedia" - WP is great. Except, it's full of crud and some of it is thoroughly toxic. The meta stuff is bizarre and hateful. Pick an arbitrary limit (10,000? 100,000 most important articles? The 10 MB most important articles?) and fork those off. Pay experts to review the articles, and pay writers to re-write them. Make sure every article has an introductory sentence that defines the topic, or at least gives it enough context for people to know what it is. I'd pay to be part of that community. I'd pay to subscribe to downloads of it, updated every month.

"Price Comparison Website for UK Broadband that Compares Total Cost of Ownership" - the UK has a bunch of price comparison websites. Unfortunately, for broadband, they only compare the bullshit offers that broadband providers offer. I'd pay for a website that compares that actual cost of each provider over the time of the contract. With maybe some margins each side, to allow for comparison over different contract lengths. As an example: (http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/packages/) Virgin Media is shown as being 18 months, at £4 per month. But it's actually £4 for 8 months, and then £14.50 per month, which is bad enough, but you also need to get Virgin Media phone for £14.99 per month.
"Get rid of health insurance"

... and people would start up health insurance again because it's absolutely needed. Silliest thing read on HN in weeks.
The purpose of the surveillance state is to preserve the existence of the surveillance state.