skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What annoys me is that the BB10 OS is pretty damn awesome. I would even venture to say that it's even better for developers than Google's Android platform for being able to get code running from existing code bases. It may not be running a world class kernel like Linux (it uses QNX) but it has a decent userland with lots of industry standard awesome libraries exposed, unlike the undocumented bionic and high level java you are forced to use on Android. It literally is a dream developing and porting code to it over Android (I work at YC startup that develops a tech for porting). Business decisions and past mistakes aside, it saddens me that BB10 is more prevalent so I can use it over the alternatives as an engineer.
> I think these factors combine to make for a life-time limit on the number of entries. Suppose you use SuperMemo for 20 years (7300 days) at 2 hours per day (14600 hours) and 100 new entries per day. That's only 1.4 million unique entries.. (this analysis is severely lacking and deserves more thought).

That's fairly similar to Wozniak's estimates: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/theory.htm

In the FAQ he estimates that probably 200k is the max for most people.

> Anyway, then I realized this was all stupid because I remembered everything anyway. So now I'm off SuperMemo. Hooray memory!

Fortunate for you, but the rest of us must make do with our fallible memories. :)
Indeed - https://www.guardian.com/
You're only being coerced if you are also coerced to not commit murder, not drink and drive, not steal other people's things, not rob banks, not set fire to other people's things, etc.

Calling paying legally authorized taxes coercion is abusing language to make a stupid political point. Calling tax-paying "generational theft" is the same thing.

Besides, you're missing the point of the parent statement--comparing slavery and indentured servitude to the "coerced surrender of the fruits of one's labor". That is, plainly speaking, total bullshit, and a misappropriation of slavery & indentured servitude for a stupid political point about not liking taxes.
What are your thoughts on say something like a video course? i.e giving it away for free and doing an upsell on consulting or stick to charging for the course?
Is Disney Bringing Nikola Tesla Into Tomorrowland, With Help From The Oatmeal?
It's true that Android initially didn't support touch; they were making a Blackberry competitor (http://www.talkandroid.com/109966-how-did-android-look-in-20...).

I'd argue that it wasn't because of doing a "good job" adding touch that allowed them to succeed. It was the price of free.

Even now all "touch" events are treated as 'click' events. And it's not easy to get access to the number of fingers on a view or to track them like iOS can.
> if one of the leading exponents gets the process wrong there is something wrong with applying the process to the real world

I'm more interested in extracting what works from a concept than slavishly following a cult leader. IME, being a "leading exponent [sic]" of anything doesn't make you infallible, even in that domain.

> Design up front, disguised as writing an API

The TDD literature I am familiar with doesn't advocate writing an API up front, it recommends writing essentially a minimal fact statement up front about the API, writing tests to verify that fact statement, writing code to pass that test if it doesn't already pass with the existing code base, and iterating like that. You could design more than the single fact that you make the test and code for at one time, but that's not a demand of TDD or even relevant to it, and is not, in most cases, consistent with the kind of decide-as-late-as-possible rule that the Agile and Lean approaches in which TDD is usually embedded prefer. I suppose it would make some sense if you were doing waterfall-adapted-to-incorporate-TDD, but why on earth would you do that?
I agree, for a lot of algorithmic bits of knowledge, it's better to study a dynamic set of questions revolving around the algorithm, and that's almost the same example I give in http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#prospects-extended-...

But so far no one has stepped up and done the programming & card writing to demonstrate it, aside from perhaps Khan Academy (they generate questions, AFAIK, and are supposed to have incorporated spaced repetition at some point).
Yeah, that is how high deductible plans work.

But if you are in a car accident and need to be airlifted, have a heart attack, etc etc, it is much better for you to at least have some cap on your out of pocket.
> When it comes to entering non-english text, touchscreens are fantastic for millions upon millions if not possibly billions of people for reasons other than "operating a shell".

And for — as you demonstrate — not just entering non-english text but seamlessly switching between languages even within a single convo.
I prefer automation because I don't like encountering people most of the time. Less anxiety.
"Racism"? No. What you're describing is nationalism.

All nations spy on other nations to the degree they can afford to do so. The US can afford to do a lot of spying, so it does.

It has nothing to do with people's race, and everything to do with their nationality.
You're right, absolutely. For newcomers, it's an uphill battle to market even if there's no competition in the space.
I think the better analogy would be if you had some sort of workout schedule and you had missed n workouts. Just bad performance doesn't indicate much: if I score a 2 on all my flashcards today, that's bad, but I'm not 'behind' since the cards' next review will just be moved up as necessary to compensate.
>Everyone outside of the immediate Apple tech sphere assumes, since I make apps for iOS, that I work for Apple.

Interesting. I've never heard anyone having this misconception. Everyday people seem to know that app developers are completely different from Apple or other mobile phone manufacturers.
Oh I forgot to mention another benefit of self deck creation: it grows with you.

Some words are so well known that new cards do not contain their pronunciation. A new card may have 7 kanji words but only the hiragana for only 2 of those words. Likewise a card may only contain translation for one or two words. As time goes on I also select more difficult sentences. In both cases a premade deck cannot match your learning curve like self-made decks can.

I must also give credit for AllJapaneseAllTheTime for getting me excited about learning and for how to use SRS.

A typical card of mine might be:
Front: エナメル質は歯の歯冠の最表層にある、
Back:
質＝しつ//quality
歯＝は//tooth
歯冠＝しかん//tooth crown
最＝さい//most
表層＝ひょうそう//surface

That example has every pronunciation and translation. A real card would not have 歯 at all since I know it by heart. 質 and 最 would not have translations. Also notice how this is not a full sentence. Japanese often features many run-on sentences so I split them. Also notice there is no sentence scope translation.

AllJapaneseAllTheTime now suggests a newer format which features partial-ization of compound words which should work better for new decks: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/10000-sentences-is...
The two removals mentioned by marco in his article were not a case of removing a free and replacing with a paid. In one case, it was removing the free competition to an already existing paid application. (Only works if there isn't other free competition in the market)

The other case has started to really annoy me - it's where developers are starting to remove their version 1 application, and replace it with a version 2 which you have to purchase. The only problem with that, is if you were perfectly happy with version 1, you can no longer migrate it to your next Laptop/iPhone - because it's been removed from the market. Somewhat defeats the value of keeping your content in the "Cloud" - you are back to square one where you have to have local copies of everything because you never know when the developer is going to yank your functional version.
I still see hope for how it could play out. I forget the details, but I think states have the ability to experiment with their own alternate exchanges. Like they can experiment with state-run single-payer. And if it proves to work well, more people will switch to it, and other states could grudgingly switch to similar approaches, etc.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the giant leap of faith you have when installing an app. There is no free trial, and most apps you can't understand until you start using them. One of the biggest gaps is games - most promotional videos do not even display in-app activity.

I think most of us would pay for instagram and twitter now. I would have to think twice about it above 20$/month. I don't think they could get to where they are with a paid app model.

I tried out a few ways to solve this problem. Better app landing pages. Better app videos. Nothing works, apps are an experience. Also their utility skyrockets in certain situations.

Twitter is essential when something major is happening, like an earthquake in your area.
Instagram is essential when you want to e-brag.
Yelp is essential when you have a group of people deciding where to eat.

The barrier to pre-installing the app needs to be incredibly low, and the ease of use for a noob needs to be low.
I also thought it was a joke, comparing the "contraceptive properties of the neckbeard" with the contraceptive properties of wearing Google Glass.
I'm not really sure why you would want that. A CLI spaced repetition means you make it much harder to display images and LaTeX, which are going to be used in a lot of cards.
Given that Apple are nowhere near
doing that and don't seem to be even going for that, why is that even a concern?

We have far more of a problem with Google in that regard, who do absolutely dominate search, and have clearly stated their wish to unseat Apple in order to have total dominance of mobile too.
Ripple has several huge problems that will prevent it from gaining as much steam as other cryptocurrencies.

First, OpenCoin pre-mined the XRP's so they could hack the cryptocurrency trend and make tons of money if their currency took off.

Second, Ripple is NOT a decentralized currency, but in fact a "distributed" currency, which is actually a much bigger deal than you might think. This means it has a single point of failure, can be easily abused by the creators, and is extremely vulnerable to intervention by governments and other big players.

(You can read all about it here: http://ripplescam.org/)

Bottom line: the strength of a currency depends almost entirely on the trust in that currency, and I have no reason whatsoever to place trust in ripples. It's a wiser move to put your money in a non-scam currency, like Bitcoin or Litecoin.
It's funny. I never cared about the NSA one way or the other. Now, I hate them a little bit more everyday.
That's the twitter/blog model for a lot of people. They give away really great content, build their brand, and then hold conferences/sell t-shirts, etc...

The only challenge with that is you have to be really skilled/gifted to get traction in a very noisy environment.

The other challenge with something like "consulting" - is that you don't get a lot of opportunity to scale - you are limited by the number of hours a day you can work (as opposed to conferences, where you are limited to the size of the venues you can book/fill)
I can't say this is terribly surprising, but it's unfortunate nonetheless.

I hope a successful implementation of the "online incubator" idea works sometime soon.
TL;DR: In states where Republican governors are choosing not to accept federal money to expand Medicaid, the very poor are getting screwed.

From the calculator:
"If your state does not expand Medicaid
You will not be eligible for subsidies in the exchanges because your income is below 100% of the federal poverty level."

The reason for this is that the law provided federal dollars to states to expand Medicaid coverage (pretty much free coverage for enrollees) to all people making < 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL), and so the EXCHANGE SUBSIDIES were only written to apply to folks above 138% FPL.

Problem is, the law didn't say that these (very poor) people could receive subsidies for the Exchanges if the Governor refused to accept federal dollars to expand Medicaid -- basically because no one thought governors would be so brash as to refuse free money to pay for the health care of the very poor.

So, yeah. Kinda sucks to live in a Republican state right now if you're poor and uninsured.
> Even Mr. Supermemo himself admitted that after FIVE YEARS of constant daily marathon memorization, 60% of it is gone within the first year of stopping (http://supermemo.com/articles/kowal.htm).

From the link:

> This is a translation of a popular scientific article about memory and learning written by J.Kowalski, Poland, for Enter in November 1994. Translator comments are placed in square brackets...
> Simulation experiments based on Wozniak's model of learning show that a student who stops repetitions after a 5-year-long work with SuperMemo is likely to forget 60% of the learned material in the first year after the cessation! [this figure has later been proven exaggerated]

Isn't that a rather dishonest description?

> I'll propose an alternative to rote memorization for learning: critical thinking.

Memorization fosters understanding: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#abstraction
I think the reason GPS is used is that measurement error in the accelerometer leads to pretty bad drift. If you could resynch the movements periodically it might work though.
The most important thing to note about this calculator is that it's based on CBO estimates, not actual insurance plans:

"Premiums in the calculator are illustrative examples in 2014 dollars derived from estimates of average premiums for 2016 from the Congressional Budget Office." [1]

And apparently, 94% of uninsured Americans will have premiums that are less than projected [2].

Even with those caveats, my costs are estimated to go down. This is very good news for me, as someone with individual insurance, because health costs are the dominating factor in my budget.

[1] Second paragraph of the "Notes" section under the calculator's results.

[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/25/obamacare_pre...
Some puzzles about boxes
CLJSFiddle
This explains it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature

In the ferromagnetic phase, the atoms are magnetically aligned and their magnetic fields adds up. If you increase the temperature past a certain point though, the atoms are jiggled enough that they can no longer stay aligned and they 'point' in random directions, and their magnetic fields cancel out.

This is a big problem in hard drives: If you increase the temerature of a hard drive the magnetic regions no longer maintain their magnetization and your data gets erased. A lot of hard drive technology (eg 'perpedicular recording') has been developed to solve this problem.
The suicide rates by nation in the article are likely higher than reported. I lost a sibling to what I believe was suicide but it was recorded as an accident. I also think under-reporting happens more in countries where there is a stigma against it. Nations with a high Catholic population in particular may under-report (my parents being Catholic would never accept suicide as a cause of death for their daughter). Suicide is viewed as a sin and many Catholics believe it leads to hell.

Also interesting is that many of the countries listed as having the lowest suicide rates are also the most Catholic according to wikipedia (Phillipines, Brazil, Mexico and Italy).
Almost every point for or against TDD in this thread is based on factors that go beyond TDD itself.

Many seem to have a bad taste in their mouths from experiencing bad tests, for whatever reason. Often this is a result of programmers who have yet to learn how to write effective, flexible tests. Proper TDD, just like everything in software development, requires experience, dilegence and patience in thinking through the problem space.

Developers who are for testing, at least in my experience, tend appreciate the side effects of writing tests; simplified interface code, code base stability on evolving projects and flexibility to change implementation without breaking features.

That being said, I agree that for new problem areas, TDD is often a burden. If you're approaching somethin new (a new tool, protocol or external api) it makes a lot of sense to write throw away code until your understanding of the problem domain evolves. At that point, when the problem is understood enough and the feature is to be implemented into a production system, it is appropriate to write a solution using TDD.

Ultimately everyone has their preferences and, depending on the problem and situation at hand, it's up to the developer to decide if the long term uncertainty of a code base without TDD is better than a short term gain in productivity. Both approaches are appropriate, given context.
>(which is more complicated and more expensive than just picking up the phone and calling BCBS.

Source?

>The other 50% will raise hell they are not paying $500 to the IRS, Obama will feel like a bully and Obamacare will be history.

I am not sure how you make that leap.

I think a lot of people will go for the subsidy. Especially people with kids. Two people who together make $30000 with three kids will pay $600/yr for coverage while the fine would be $1000. It only makes sense.
Website is down, but here is the email I received from one of the co-founders:

Hi

This is Joe, one of the people who worked to build nReduce last year.

I am writing today to thank you.

In traveling the world, I got to experience startup people's genuine desire to help each other. It is an amazing and beautiful thing and I want to thank you for being a part of creating it.

If I can be of help in the future, please let me know.

Best,
-Joe

-------------------------------------

And please join me in thanking some of the awesome people who built nReduce

Josh Schwartzman, Jacques Crocker, Ash Bhoopathy , Richard Lengsavath, Raemond Bergstrom-Wood, Clifton Fletemeyer, Elliot Glasenk, Shaf Choudry, Paul Eikelenboom, Louis Sayers, David A. Johnston, Erin Parker, Marcus Smith, John Sechrest, Eze Vidra, Daniel Kehoe, Scott Robertson, David Nagy, Jack Lin, Sam Schillace, Mahesh Bhatia and so many more.

We open sourced the nReduce code here. (You can build on Josh's brilliance)

Want to work on the opensource nReduce? Email me

Awesome other people that are working to help startups :

Angel List - Keeps rockin it
F6S.com - Helping Founders
Startitup.co - Startup methodology
Zana Project - Advice from experts
StartupWeekend - Weekend as a Founder
Hippflow - Helping Fundraise
CofoundersLab - Introing Co-Founders
"only his blog" (...and his conference appearances, and wildly popular podcast, and twitter feed, etc.. Marco is a well-honed promotion machine.)
> Snus is an awesome alternative to smoking.

Doesn't it cause oral cancer?
The federal premiums will be available on Oct 1.

California's premiums are already available here: http://www.coveredca.com/
How about snapping fingers?

Something like: http://mobiusband.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/finger...

But less detailed and with something that indicates noise emanating from the fingers.

Sorry for being too lazy to take a stab at implementing the idea.
Your best bet is Clojure -- usage is growing.
Compared to what? It's not like people and employers weren't paying for health insurance before.

(Okay, there's some low-risk folks who don't pay for insurance now, but they're basically offloading their catastrophic health risk onto society.)
I'm pretty sure this is fake because most arranged (consentual) kidnappings I've heard of have cost much more than $4.99/month.
"Being an Entrepreneur", and, "Be very much like Thoreau" are two very disparate goals.

But it sounds like Maciej's goal was not to be an entrepreneur, but to be able to support himself running a one-man business. Being self-reliant that way instead of depending on a job in someone else's company might be quite in agreement with the simple life that Thoreau advocated.
Maybe just the silhouette would work.
Demonstratively, you are right, as you have shown with Stack Overflow and Trello. But, I think it will take a while for developer mindset to adapt to this new idea. While in reality it may be more difficult to execute on the "old-fashioned" model, in concept it seems much easier to approach. I build something, and then people pay me for it, simple. The new model of I build something, give it away for free, and then come up with a way to make money from a niche part of that seems like a huge risk to take, especially for someone who has not had the previous successes that you have had (using the old-fashioned model) and so doesn't have the same reputation, connections, and capital to support their new venture.
You probably spent more time writing this comment than it would have taken to design something simple for them.

I do agree that contests are shit and that we never take part in them. This contest is unique in that he doesn't want a designer as much as someone who 'get it' and doesn't need any direction.
If you don't have tons of users/content then the problem isn't the server. If I had to guess its probably the sites architecture and code. If you want an inexpensive provider who uses SSD try Digital Ocean. They are dirt cheap and I've heard they are a solid provider, but I would look into the code first.
I can see doing risky things and accepting the risks (mountain biking, bringing but not wearing your life preserver kayaking, etc.). Just don't tell me you have a "good reason" for taking those unnecessary risks.
I just hope they make the courses fully functional on mobile/tablet devices. The 3 I've tried (coursera, udacity and edx) seem to be completely ignoring this area. Maybe it would help improve the completion rates too.
NeXT logo is plain awful. I know it comes with 47 page manual explaining why the cube should be rotated by 17 (?) degrees, what the colors mean and all that, but the simple fact is that it simply didn't match the sleek nature of NeXTs themselves.
Is there anything in the app store TOS preventing developers from releasing, for example, free versions that are 14-day trials, that are upgraded to full version in-app, or else stop working?

I have nothing against paying for apps, but after having been totally burned a bunch of times, I refuse to pay for an app I can't even try out first. Lots of people say "just look at the reviews", but they usually don't tell you what you want to know -- it's not a substitute at all.
Yeah, well...there were several different single-payer proposals in the mix, but none made it out of committee, because they were "too radical" to pass the House. And once Scott Brown was elected, anything that even remotely smelled like "socialism" (i.e. simpleton socialism, not real socialism) was off the table.

There are no solutions to this problem that don't involve either making consumers aware of how much they're spending on health care (thus aligning economic incentives), or removing the profit-seeking entity from health care altogether. So long as we have consumers who don't know/care what they're paying, medical and insurance companies who have a profit motive, and physicians who have no incentive to consider cost of care, we have an economic recipe for health care hyperinflation.

The "conservative" propaganda machine has thoroughly brainwashed our poorest and most vulnerable people into voting against their own economic self-interests on this issue. I don't know what's going to fix it, but until that day, we'll get "free market solutions" that make health corporations richer and don't do anything to fix the underlying economic incentives that are causing the problems.
>basically because no one thought governors would be so brash as to refuse free money to pay for the health care of the very poor.

Is it truly "free money?" I am sure stipulations come with it.