skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure my company is not alone in offering a wellness program with incentives that include reduced health insurance premiums for increased/consistent physical activity and preventive care. How do they know you performed physical activity -- they issue you a pedometer or allow you to connect your Garmin/MapMyFitness/Fitbit/MyFitnessPal/etc account to the program. It's brilliant, and the $0-75/mo employees can save on insurance is a strong motivator, as is the $50/mo gym reimbursement (as long as you connect your account to the wellness system and visit at least 4x/mo), and other perks.

What I would really like to see is an open standard for data formatting, similar to the IPC 2547 CAM-X series of standards for industrial equipment output, so it'd be easy for 1) developers and 2) consumers to shop around without worrying about losing their historical activity information. As you mention, this is a serious consideration for everyone, and it's incredibly annoying to feel locked in just because you can't get your data out (or even better, out and then into the next system). A personal example: I really like Runtastic and I have a couple hundred miles logged over the last few months. However, it's a European company and not nearly as popular in the US as Endomondo, Runkeeper, MapMyFitness and a few others. This means I'm missing out on the social aspect, which itself is a motivator. I'd like to try out some other apps, but I can't import my Runtastic data. Argh. (Runtastic is really great, btw.)
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Your company should consider investing in some top women.
You could always submit a patch.

talks about the experience provided by the command line compiler, contrasting
-Clang output to GCC 4.2's output in several examples.
+Clang output to that of GCC 4.2 (current when the Clang project began)
+in several examples.
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What you say about college students is probably true now, but that has yet to have an impact on the wider pool of developers. Since college Java classes often start with interactive applications, stepping into Android after a bit of AWT is natural. I predict college Java courses will soon enough acknowledge that Android is interactive Java and start with Android.
I'd say for most Angel's it's 40% Market/35% Team/25% Traction. After all, a great team with traction but in a small market = no meaningful exit. But a great team in a large market can use funding to grow traction. And an Ok team (you're not sure on them) with real traction in a big market is probably worth the gamble (you can always encourage a key new hire if you see a deficiency)
Luckily, I've found the source code to be very readable and easy to understand, which isn't something I can say about a lot of JavaScript libraries.
The problem is not limited to any specific government; the problem is that you are doing something inherently insecure when you allow a service provider to generate, store, and utilize your private keys. Exploits by law enforcement are not the only problem -- spies, criminals, etc. can also exploit the weakness.
It seems one can not express the view that a dictionary made a mistake without someone helpfully pointing out that language changes (over time, even). We know that. We might know that, be well-behaved descriptivists, and yet still think that this definition is wrong. Because we don't think that an ignorant habit on the part of certain 14 year old girls means that the language has actually changed yet. It's a judgement call, and it might just be that displaying this definition shows poor judgement. That doesn't mean that it won't be justified in another 40 years or so.
Software developers are users who experience software. Might be a different category of software, but user experience is still king.
Ask HN: A music player for the colourblind?
Hey HN, I'm currently designing a reskinned UI (as an API extension) for the website 8tracks.com, a popular music discovery website.

The catch? I'm optimizing it for colour-deficient users first, and the rest of us second.

You might wonder why. Well, my personal experience started when I was around seven years old. I began experiencing excruciating migraines almost daily, and was taken to my optomotrist where I was diagnosed with an unusual type of sudden-oncur colour deficiency preventing me from distingushing darker shades of colors. Dark green and brown was particularly bad, and my school often took to the habit of drawing in colour on our chalkboards.

Fast forward 11 years, here I am a successful systems administrator and in my spare time an FOSS web and software developer.

Right now I'm developing ateTracks, originally a project to download songs from 8tracks.com, but since evolved into an entire UI replacement.

My site is still very alpha right now and I need to come up with some more caching before releasing to the public, but this is our design for now:
http://puu.sh/41vxP.png

This scheme seems to work best for me, it is easily indistinguishable, and it doesn't leave me with a headache. But that's just me. I'd love input from the rest of the community on aesthetics and my fellow sufferes on how to improve upon it.

tl;dr: I'm making a website for a broad and niche community at the same time. Take a look at our current design: http://puu.sh/41vxP.png, read our philosophy, and leave your opinion. All criticism is welcomed!
Update to Amazon's Flow app adds text recognition capabilities
In case it wasn't clear, I was voicing my doubt that any company would actually build such a line for $6B claimed by Musk, not an opinion that it was unduly expensive.
Some of the most emo shit I've read in quite some time.
I feel compelled to remark that they wouldn't do this just so they could flip the switch and screw over some people holding bitcoin. The NSA has easier ways of screwing people over.

Instead, as PG and others have hypothesized, the sovereign behind btc will have achieved a new worldwide currency system, that naturally, they will participate in, perhaps from a somewhat advantageous position (premined blocks etc).

The last 3 sentences of your post are a non-sequitur imho.
IBM definitely has a clue (certainly when you view them primarily as a shareholder optimizing entity).
I think you're right, but I don't think the breakdown is as drastic as 99%. Traction is most important by a wide margin, because it proves that you're doing something right. This is a capitalist society where the market dictates what succeeds, and if the market dictates you're succeeding, then you're a hot commodity.

As far as YC goes, most HAVE traction by Demo Day, significantly so. It's not like these companies have an early beta with 20 users and are raising on a name. Most of the time they achieve early traction from a combination of YCs guidance and the fact that if you get into YC, you're typically a pretty good entrepreneur and have a higher likelihood to succeed.
If you think only 14 year old girls make this mistake, you're literally wrong.
>Things like Science and the Military channel almost certainly would not survive in an a la carte world. //

This is kinda crazy; but I'm willing to suspend disbelief.

People who want to watch the station won't pay as much as the company can make from advertising to people (on that station) who primarily don't want to watch the station?

If I make shows on two channels, A and B. Then sell access to those channels forcing the carrier to take A+B when they only want A. Aren't I just charging more for A - which gets paid - but needlessly filling B with programming?

Is this just so cable companies can offer "100 stations" as a headline in their advertising?
From the posted link, the new features:

> Scan phone numbers and URLs: Flow can decode phone numbers and URLs, so you can quickly scan and dial a number or launch a website.

> Scan and copy small snippets of text. Our "Snippets" Beta feature lets you decode and copy small chunks of text, or trigger searches.
Thx for making the silver searcher. When I'm dealing with large scale git repos it blows ack/grep, etc away :)
If people wanting it made technology feasible, we'd have had flying cars in 1990
There are all sorts of things in Ubuntu that I'd have to "completely disable" in order to make it do what I want. So what if I can pick apart the code and rebuild it? I don't ever want to do that.

Honestly - let's weigh the options here. With Windows I may have to beat the OS into submission once in a while, but I'd have even more work making Linux even fulfill the most basic requirement like...oh say, having "file creation time" stamps. (Now I know Ubuntu currently defaults to Ext4...but seriously - why did we need to wait so long for that?)

I'd rather pay Microsoft every month to use their tightly integrated, high quality computing ecosystem because it actually offers what I need with the least amount of hassle.
My son will never have a TV or computer in his room. We will severely limit his TV intake and computer usage. We are active adults, hiking, biking, YMCA events, and will include our son in as much outside activities as possible.

That said, I think it's silly to go to such an extreme and do "zero" screen time. My wife regularly let's my 15 month old play Fischer Price games and he's probably watched three or four Dora the Explorer episodes and a handful of Nihau Kai-Lan shows and maybe a couple Curious George shows. He doesn't seem to be able to watch an entire episode for the most part, and he is still way ahead on development milestones.

Could he be further along? Who knows, he could be further behind. I think it is as bad to be neurotic about these things as neglectful and uncaring to be honest.
L Ellison Is An ASS Why Did You Put Him On HN
Pitfalls to Avoid When Joining Someone Else’s Startup
1.2.0-rc1 landed three hours ago: https://github.com/angular/bower-angular/releases/tag/v1.2.0...

You should be able to specify this version as you do others in your bower.json.
Core Data has to be the single-most difficult framework Apple offers (From their own documentation: "Core Data is not an entry-level technology.[0]"), so it makes a poor "ObjC is hard" starting point. Other than the message syntax, Objective-C is no harder to learn than any other language of it's type. Frankly, I think Android is needlessly complex, give that nearly ever app needs some combination of Activities, Receivers, Providers, etc, not to mention it's take on threading.

0. http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DataMan...
The release is ready to go for bower as of a few hours ago. Just use 1.2.x in your bower.json and it'll install the latest 1.2 release (which is this release candidate, currently).

The same goes for angular-resource, angular-cookie, angular-scenario, and the newly created angular-route. They are all versioned along side the main library, so use 1.2.x as the version for all of them.
You are right about the market, but I would say that traction changes the opinion for any team (as it is a very subjective evaluation). And team usually perceived as great may generate some doubts if they don't have traction.

EDIT: Thinking a little bit more, I guess the market dictate how much money you raise and for how much equity. But if you are fundable or not, I still think is about traction.
> It seems one can not express the view that a dictionary made a mistake ...

But the dictionary didn't make a mistake. The word "literally" means what most people think, as well as its opposite. A dictionary's purpose is solely to report how people use words (it describes, it doesn't prescribe), and it got this use right.

> It's a judgement call, and it might just be that displaying this definition shows poor judgement.

That depends. Is this new definition out in the wild? Apparently so, in which case the listing is valid. Over at Webster's in the days of print, if a word was used with a particular meaning in ten recognized publications, it became official.
Just head on over to Bootswatch and pick out your favorite theme, that's your new bootstrap :p

My favorites so far are http://bootswatch.com/cerulean/
Oh crap. They'll need a way to do an "emergency suck" on the whole tube, won't they?
Well, whatever the license, here is to a bright future! That a rising tide may lift all boats.
Now on BootstrapCDN - http://www.speedawarenessmonth.com/bootstrapcdn-now-serving-...
Where does the money come from in that case? Does the Government writes checks to keep things up and running then? Or does it prohibit declaring bankruptcy?
This can be done by searching for a person's name, clicking "see more results for X". Then click on the magnifying glass beside the person's profile, and click photos.
Do you have write-in candidates in Washington? I'd see what I'm proposing as more of a platform for introducing new ideas and gathering popular support for them. You just need to identify who is credible to bring forth those new ideas, and give them a platform first.
> They should just remove the first definition.

No, not if both definitions are in use. Dictionaries are meant to describe, not prescribe, and both definitions exist.
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I loved the inter-lingual web page linkage visualization project. Any idea why Traitor won the contest? It seems very similar to regular "create inverted index with map reduce" problem, or am I missing something?
Is that really worth it though? I can crawl 3 million pages in less than 24 hours without any real effort on my part. Or are you going to provide 3 million of the most useful pages? Depth or breadth first crawl?
If they're public (or posted with privacy levels allowing the viewer to see them).
Yeah, let's kill it off!
What the best blogs have yours may be missing
I think you are right about YC. These teams usually do have traction.
This is not at all surprising. Other online dictionaries list both definitions as well, on the ground that a dictionary's purpose is to dispassionately report how people use words, not try to be consistent when people aren't consistent.
If Perl is so great at getting shit done, then maybe they should have written Perl 6 in Perl 5, then they might have gotten shit done in less than a decade.
That's kinda the point of this article. He's got a bunch of macros and idiosyncratic commands.

At 11:30 in the video:

"Camel this is a test" -> thisIsATest
"Studly this is a test" -> ThisIsATest
"Jive this is a test" -> "this-is-a-test"
"Dot word this is a test" -> "this.is.a.test"
"Score this is a test" -> "this_is_a_test"
"Mara" -> selects all text on screen
"Chik" -> delete

He says he'll release his code in a few months.
Is it interpreted as singular, "an attorney", or can you send NSLs to everyone in the American Bar Association for a second opinion?
The Jockey
The alternative is for some "authority" to tell people what words mean, rather than ask them. This is not what dictionaries are for.
it's per capita. Total fraudulent transactions/total transactions in each country.
The difference is that Hushmail sold out and did perform the password sniffing. Lavabit shut down instead.
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Yeah, I hear The Hyperloop pods have been designed to fit the Model S.
> yet still think that this definition is wrong. Because we don't think that an ignorant habit on the part of certain 14 year old girls means that the language has actually changed yet. It's a judgement call, and it might just be that displaying this definition shows poor judgement.

You might think that, but you would be incorrect. This usage is very common, and much more widespread than 14 year old girls. Maybe the people in your circle don't use it that way, but the plural of anecdote is not data.
Radish is cool. Is there an open source or commercial implementation of the idea elsewhere?
UK viewers would easily pay 50¢ to stream an episode though, that's only ~30p. For a series they'd be paying that once a fortnight it seems (USA sourced shows appear to be doing fortnightly showing now?), so > $1 a month.

How can taking 3 times the monthly subscriber profit for a single show harm them? Are they really making more selling that one show to other networks than they take selling their whole network to customers?

Instead it looks like it's $2 per episode on Amazon Instant, which is USA only or at least not in the UK. Instead UK has LoveFilm which doesn't have individual episodes and apparently requires mailing a DVD for you to watch Breaking Bad.

I've seen adverts for this show in the UK and find it weird that you can't just buy it and watch it.
Anyone ascribing to efficient market hypothesis doesn't watch the market very much.

Considering that the efficient market hypothesis came out of academics studying the market, and has been tested in many ways, your hypothesis is somewhat suspect.

Was Apple really worth several hundred billion more last year than it is now? Either it was extremely overvalued then, or it was extremely undervalued at < 400. Or both. There is nothing efficient about the market. It is volatile and driven very much by emotion on a day to day basis.

It appears that you do not actually understand the hypothesis that you reject out of hand. The hypothesis is not that the market knows the true value of the company, it does not. It is that the best available information on what the price of the company should be is already integrated into the current company price.

As information shifts just slightly about likely long-term prospects, the best estimate of its price can move a lot. This is not news. Nor is the fact that unavailable future information will change the price. Nor is volatility.

Now if you disbelieve the efficient market hypothesis, then fine. However any inefficiency that you discover, once it becomes known, will naturally stop working. I've seen this happen with several that I knew about. Over time the efficient market hypothesis tends to work better and better.
> If you think only 14 year old girls make this mistake ...

It's not a mistake -- people are free to use words any way they want. Also, the "literally" entry over a Merriam-Webster shows Norman Cousins using the word this way:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

2 : in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins>

Language isn't a science, it's an art. This is an example of artistic freedom.
I like to deliver my occasional spelling correction comments like this: "Polite spelling correction: word, not werd". Opening the comment with "polite" seems to be a very good way to flag that you're not trying to engage in any power games or whatnot.
I'm not sure what you think those links demonstrate: Do you suppose that someone makes a choice between a cup of sugar/syrup/etc, or a cup of prepared rice (ergo, 75% water)?

White rice is 90%+ very simple carbohydrates. It has a glycemic impact on your body extremely similar to straight sugar, from a gram to gram (of carbs) perspective. Now as the other poster mentioned there's the matter of fructose, though that is an area that has a little too much pseudo-science right now (it has become the new boogyman).
I'm fortunate enough to have the resources to run my own email server. I host a few VMs on a dedicated server and had some space left for a Zimbra 8 installation.

I hate to promote pay-for's, but their Open Source Edition is still very flushed out.

If that's any interest to you, I'd be happy to host a few accounts. Canadian servers so standard CIRA and Canadian Privacy Protection Act rules apply.
When I literally want to use the word "literally" literally, I will now say "non-figuratively", as in "I non-figuratively cannot believe it's come to this."
The worst I've had was the following:

- Go to buy a product, get all the way up to the checkout and abandon for an unrelated reason
- Go back and purchase the product at full price
- Get an email with a discount code for abandoning my cart the first time

Left a very unpleasant feeling of being stooged. If I'd only known to abandon my cart first...
Nikola Tesla... Wireless transfer of energ...--nevermind.
Counterpoint, from http://theweek.com/article/index/241002/how-the-wrong-defini...

>Much to the chagrin of grammar-lovers everywhere, it turns out that this informal (and completely incorrect) use of "literally" has actually been added to three established dictionaries, as Reddit user andtheniansaid pointed out.

..."completely incorrect"...!
Yep. The difference in one role (management) the conditions you're describing read as signals of activity. In the other role (development) it reads as noise interfering with the activity you're working on.

A "successful" company probably already has a culture that's going to be hard to change, but where management is trainable, you can sometimes improve things by giving them something else like else to focus on, like commit logs, test suites, or ticket updates.
Is there some reason to think that Lavabit was not grabbing user passwords in any of the 24 warrants they complied with prior to shut down?
I don't understand why AOL hasn't been shut down yet.
I am really surprised that Australia drives more revenue than Germany, Canada or France.
All have much greater populations and all are similarly wealthy nations.

However language probably is a factor...
What's the current infrastructure? Do you have a dedicated server, or some smaller VPS's? I manage a few dedicated servers that get resold as VPS servers, and if you'd like to talk infrastructures I'd be happy to help.

Backups depend entirely on the type of service you're running on, but Rsync is a good idea as well.
Early in Buffett's career he had the advantage of believing in value investing before that idea was widely accepted in the broader market. It is easier to make a profit in an inefficient market than an efficient one.

The inefficiencies that he was exploiting are generally harder to find these days. But today he has other ways to make money.

This is not to say that he is not an extraordinary investor - he is. However he's benefited from many advantages beyond just raw investment talent. And as a practical matter, any investor who thinks that they can easily replicate his success is likely to fail.