skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if you want to succeed your crowdfunding campaign you have to basically spend money first. I mean, this whole post is about how they happilly spend $5k to get in a position where they can raise money..

So what's next? Crowdfunding the kickstarter campaign?
Oh for heaven's sake, why is icon-* being deprecated? I stopped using Glyphicons because they switched to glyphion-* .
> We just signed up for Salesforce but haven’t installed yet.

Too late to say don't do it! For anyone else, don't go with Salesforce or with Dynamics! Install vTiger and pay 2 developers to look after it full time and add what you want. It will save you a fortune in money and frustration.

You think I'm kidding...just you wait...$11 per gigabyte, per month...an online CRM from Microsoft that can't talk to Exchange online...it's madness...
Who cares?

I own an iPad 3, the first of the retina devices. It's pretty underpowered, and the size can be frustrating. The new mini may be great for me.

I know tons of people who have been holding out on getting a mini because they wanted a retina display. Now you not only get the retina display, but you get the size you want, it's light, and it's got some power.

I can't think of a single consumer who, before buying an Apple product thinks, "Wait, would Woz buy one of these?"
An easy-to-use, high security replacement for usernames and passwords.
I doubt this will happen anytime soon. Pixelmator is heavily dependent on OSX-specific tech, like core graphics. Porting it to other platforms would require basically reimplementing all this functionality from scratch, making it performant, and then recreating the entire UI.
Grammatically speaking, you might be best off with,

Make good-looking pictures spectacular.

Or:

Turn good-looking pictures into spectacular ones.

I think "good-looking pictures" is an awkward phrase that negatively affects the whole sentence. Personally, I would go with:

Turn a good image into a spectacular one

or, brevis:

Make good images spectacular
Ask HN: Which programming languages teach learners the most?
I used to see, in Sky Mall magazine, a colloidal silver injector that would spray through the skin to treat dermal infections.
quarnster, would you explain the what the backend/frontend split is for?
How-to configure keyboard layouts in GNOME 3 (video) - Linux notes from DarkDuck
Layer styles are HUGE with photoshop work. Once they get that under control, I wonder what else they'll need to make a dent, maybe some design maven to vouch for the tool

I am downloading now. I've always loved the simplicity of the app, very Mac-like
And digital literacy (for the want of a better term) doesn't necessarily require knowing how to code.
My doctor friends have been warning about this for 15 years, and the situation has continued to worsen.

MRSA was a bit of a wakeup here in the UK, but the main 'solution' was concentration on cleaning hospitals rather than developing new anitbiotics.

It is my opinion that unfortunately it will require high profile people to start dying before support is galvanised.

It would seem from the outside that HIV/AIDs started to be addressed when superstars like Freddie Mercury started succumbing.
I feel silly for asking, but will I feel any form of zero gravity at this point?
It's not an impossible scenario but have the decency not to wrap this 'End of the world fantasy' as a fact or certainty.

There have been plenty of those before you and there will be plenty more to come. Y2K, Nuclear War, Swine Flu, Global Warming, Apocalypse, take your pick.
Ask HN: What would you like to see in a WordPress wiki plugin?
MediaWiki is ridiculously clumsy. WordPress has some plugins that provide wiki functionality, but they don't even come close to touching the usefulness of something like MediaWiki, so decided to build a feature-rich alternative. However, I want to get a sense of what features I should work on.

Here's what I'm working on:

- Search: instant redirect when exact match is found Revisions:
- Flag/"report this article" with predefined customizable messages (spam, lack attribution, etc.)
- Buddypress integration
- Frontend user management (ban, block IPs, etc)
- MediaWiki-style "Special" pages (New pages, Recently updated, etc.)

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What other features should I focus on to make this a killer app?
Irrational Startup Fears
Analysts Beware! A Machine Has Its Eye on Your Job
Hunt.Gather.Snack. - Healthy Snacking Subscription
Got to slide 413. Get a freaking hobby or something. Maybe a dog. Go outside a little bit.
> It's so incredibly unnecessary for so many different types of work, yet people still do it. Trained monkeys.

It doesn't help that finding remote work is extremely difficult. Or at least that has always been my experience.
Cash For Bugs
Tell HN: What Scares Me About the Tech behind Healthcare.Gov
We are all aware of the problems with the new roll out of the healthcare.gov website. The large amount of JS files being sent back and forth, the slow down and the inability to sign up at most hours of the day. But thats not what worries me.

What worries me is if this thing was so POORLY designed on the UI side, what do you think it look like on the back end side? Do you actually think they offer encryption, data protection and have taken the time to implement industry standards to protect our most important information?

Seeing that the front end is soo poorly designed, I don't really have any faith in the back end. This is what the news should be wondering, questioning and even guessing.

What say you? Do you believe they did good on the back end?

Please don't bring Politics into this. Its a purely technical talk.
>> "Apple has made it so easy to upgrade OSes"

I think this is the key. Last night it took only a few clicks to download and install Mavericks. I walked away, came back a couple of hours later and it was finished. My stuff was exactly where I left it.

When I used Windows only crazy people upgraded. Most people did a clean install of the OS then spent days reinstalling software and putting files back where they were supposed to be. I would have to wait until I had a few days free to make sure it didn't affect my work.
Ask HN: Mavericks Safari Web Inspector vs. Chrome DevTools (vs. Firefox)
To those who have upgraded to Mavericks and poked around a bit, how does the new Safari Web Inspector stack up next to Firefox's or Chrome's Dev Tools? Are there any specific things that will cause you to switch over to/continue to stay away from Safari? Anything novel or enticing?
I have to agree. There are many antibiotics in the pipeline right now as well. The recent GAIN legislation and other FDA initiatives have spurred the development of new antibiotics.

Antibiotic resistance will continue to be a problem (obviously), but we're going to have effective antibiotics available to us for the coming decades.
I think it's too easy to say that overuse of antibiotics is what brought us here. In the article it says that companies stopped developing new antibiotics when development costs became too high to justify given the narrow market.

Now, if doctors were to use antibiotics only for very serious infections, a last resort method, then pharmaceutical companies wouldn't have had the incentive to develop even the drugs that we now take for granted, because the market would have been so incredibly small to not give them enough reason to invest in development.

I think we would've ended up in this very same position anyway, it was just a matter of time.
just wanted to say I recommend your book in my own latest ebook, which I used Docverter to build. I freaking love Docverter btw.

(my latest ebook = http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-ebook-software-...)
T-Mobile (Congstar=Telekom) also one rolling out here for 90€

https://www.congstar.de/handy/alcatel-one-touch-fire-weiss-o...
Refuse behaving like the average (ahem, mostly american) and don't ask for medicine for benign illnesses.
The article is generally pointless, but also poorly-checked:

> Apple does offer a 128GB iPad Air, but the iPad mini maxes out at 64GB.

In fact, there is a 128GB iPad mini:

https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/specs/
Woz: “I don’t have broadband at home"

Why?
I was in Berlin this weekend and absolutely loved it. Somebody knows some nice resources for jobs in Berlin? Im a Rails / Javascript / iOs developer.
Every company has their faults.

Apple is so much worse than Microsoft, business practices wise, in nearly every way. But they're a minority, and they compensate for their rapaciousness with a level of quality and attention to detail that nobody else does, period.

Linux and their ecosystem is like the Borg. Everybody will be open source eventually, and if you don't get on board they'll just clone you. And eventually they'll win. Look at how far gimp has come. They're gonna get everybody sooner or later.

Google wants to be Microsoft in the worst way, but has not yet achieved the level of hubris that would allow them to forget that a new search engine is just a click away. And it is. If google pisses us off enough, they could be wrapped up overnight. And they know it.

Microsoft, on the other hand, is a mean competitor that doesn't really do quality and has its roots in the nineties when it OWNED EVERYTHING. And it still owns the desktop, and office productivity. Which is the company, frankly. Anything else they do is window dressing or a loss leader in search of finding their way back to the center of the universe, which isn't going to happen. And the beef people have with them comes from our remembrance of their tender mercies when they ran everything everywhere. We, the consumers, are vastly better off in a multipolar tech world, and its difficult to imagine anybody allowing a single company to accumulate that level of monopoly ever again.

Plus Microsoft astroturfs for pr like nobody else, so fans are automatically suspect.
The only ones I can vouch for are Mastering Modern Payments [1] and Sketching with CSS [2] - both of which have been enormously helpful.

A few more thoughts: these authors seem like a very reasonable set of people, if you had issues with their books they'd probably give you a refund.

Personally, I'm glad that we're done with the days of going to the bookstore and the technical section being dominated by 3 inch thick books that regurgitated the standard documentation of a programming language to pad things out.

1 - https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
2 - http://www.sketchingwithcss.com
That's because it's a free upgrade that improves speed, battery life, adds multi-monitor support, and removes the dumb leather interfaces. This is the first time since Snow Leopard that I felt new OS X was an upgrade; not a downgrade just to continue using Xcode.
It's customizable in the LESS or SCSS.
haha. I'll stop being snarky. :)
Paint is enough for my photo editing needs, but I still need to show some love. Because it's a product from my country - Lithuania.
Yes, not a big deal to you, but when there's only 3 million people, it's something to be proud of.
Awesome! Thanks!

Edit: Purchased! FYI if you want to crib off of the stylesheet for MMP it's in here: https://github.com/peterkeen/mmp-builder/blob/master/templat...

You should be able to grab the CSS out of there and set include it in your Docverter call with other_files[]=@filename and css=filename, assuming you're pushing Markdown. If you're pushing HTML just drop the styles you want directly in the header.
In one Colombian town, women say no sex until their demands are met
Does the 10000 Hrs practice apply to specialized fields only or in general?
Based on Dr.Anders Ericsson's [1] studies and earlier Herbert Simon's comments the 10000 hours rule was popularized after Malcom Gladwell drew attention to this assertion in his book Outliers. Does it apply to mainly specialized fields like Chess, Medicine or any intellectually challenging fields which require specialist knowledge or also to general fields like Politics, Management or Acting (?) which are by definition more general in nature. [Politics or management or acting also require specialist knowledge in a sense requiring in-depth knowledge of international affairs, macro economics, emotive expression control etc.,] The question arises because I have observed many instances of people switching over careers into these general fields late in their careers and shining. (e.g., actor turned politicians or house-wife turned politicians or people who started acting at an expert level from the very first movie). May be my classification of general vs. special fields could be wrong. But I thought this was an interesting question at least in these three fields (may be more) to ponder over?

[1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/DeliberatePractice%28PsychologicalReview%29.pdf

[2] http://allaboutwork.org/2012/11/21/malcolm-gladwells-10000-hour-rule-doesnt-add-up/

[3] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/08/psychology-ten-thousand-hour-rule-complexity.html
Why the DEA Stopped Testing Cash for Coke
Again, I think one with deep understanding would know that leaving it unset would result in zero, but also know that initializing it declares intent of the original author, and is thus useful.
So FontAwesome 4 isn't backwards compatible, right?

I wonder how much faster it is.
Eiffel
Teaches Design By Contract
and really good object oriented programming.
Even absent rebinding, I'm at a loss as to why the loose pages can't simply be sent back in an envelope. The loss of the spine is unfortunate, but it doesn't necessarily render the originals useless. (And I can imagine cases where it might even be preferable.)
And then there's their stand that Open Source is un-American.

http://www.salon.com/2001/02/15/unamerican/
Vectormator is awesome, but still can't export to either EPS or SVG.

I'm hoping they add it soon - SnapSVG, the Raphael replacement, supports animating SVGs created in other apps: http://snapsvg.io/
How to Help anyone on Twitter using Simple Search Queries.
Tell HN: What Scares Me about the Tech behind Healthcare.Gov
We are all aware of the problems with the new roll out of the healthcare.gov website. The large amount of JS files being sent back and forth, the slow down and the inability to sign up at most hours of the day. But thats not what worries me.

What worries me is if this thing was so POORLY designed on the UI side, what do you think it look like on the back end side? Do you actually think they offer encryption, data protection and have taken the time to implement industry standards to protect our most important information?

Seeing that the front end is soo poorly designed, I don't really have any faith in the back end. This is what the news should be wondering, questioning and even guessing.

What say you? Do you believe they did good on the back end?

Please don't bring Politics into this. Its a purely technical talk.
Apple is playing a slight of hand trick here. Mavericks isn't free. Apple makes higher margins than anyone else in the PC hardware industry, and you can only run OS X on Apple hardware (I'm talking broad market here, not hackers). What Apple has done is combined the hardware and software in to a single SKU.

No one gets all excited when a new version of iOS is free because that's just "the way things are" in mobile. I think the strongest reasons for paid OS updates on the Mac in the past are because of precedent. When IBM chose to license DOS from Microsoft, they created the operating system pricing model that would define all future operating system pricing models in the consumer market. Apple has always charged for OS updates because that's just how OS updates were done.

Apple has learned a great lesson from the success of iOS and the app ecosystem there. The consumer doesn't want to buy hardware and operating system software, they want to buy a device. That device should fulfill their other wants and needs, which are delivered through software that have been abstracted through the term "Apps".

A lot of people fear a wholesale re-implementation of OS X as a giant form iOS that runs on a laptop/desktop. I don't think that's where Apple is headed. Rather, Apple is going to apply the same broad strategies to OS X, but will maintain a distinction in the actual implementation (tactics, if you will).
My guess is to avoid polluting the class namespace.
How one company landed a great valuation on a 24-hour deadline
Smalltalk -
Teaches what OOP should look like what is to leave with "objects all the way down"
What is the difference between a class method and an instance method.
How an IDE and syntax aware source control looks like
I signed up with HN to get articles related to C, yet they're about as common as hens teeth.
I've just executed a word search on this comments page: 18 instances of "static", but no mention of "volatile" or "extern", which is the same situation in several textbooks on C.
The article mentioned looking at the assembler output of a program, but didn't give any hints on where to learn some assembly.
I would also really like to see this, but it doesn't look like it'll ever happen. Linux doesn't have any good alternatives to Photoshop, GIMP just isn't there in terms of usability. I use GIMP for quick edits, cropping, etc. But I just can't use it for more than that.
I guess to downplay product launch from a former founder doesn't seem to be "entreprise" mind-like.
Is a cut artery from plastic bottle shrapnel more "cut artery"ish than a cut artery from a smashed duty free bottle?

And before you say "bombs hurt multiple people, sharp things only hurt people one at a time.", let me say that I would put a large amount of money on somebody with a glass bottle causing more bloodshed (measured objectively, in pints) before being shot by security then a punk with a soda bottle and dry ice.
I teach high school computer science near Stanford. Depends on the age of the learners. For kids in school, programs like Alice or Scratch are a fun way to start because they're more visual. Lego Mindstorms are a fun step up b/c you also get to build something that moves based on your code. After that Python is great. Then HTML/CSS/JS/Ruby on Rails so they can build their own web portfolio or web app. MIT has a program called App Inventor (http://appinventor.mit.edu/) that is similar to Scratch and lets you make Android apps using drag and drop code pieces.
I feel a lot less silly now for avoiding medical treatment unless absolutely necessary all my life.
Isn't free Paint.NET sufficient on Windows as 'light' Photoshop?
Haskell
Teaches what functional programming really looks.
Githug: A tool which provides 40 different scenarios to learn git.
Four Serious Math Libraries for JavaScript
Wasn't it Steve Ballmer who called Linux cancer or something?
While lulzsec were having their fun and getting mainstream media attention I had an excellent conversation with my Dad. He asked me simply who I thought was behind this kind of "hackivision". I explained that it was most probably intelligent but bored teenage kids living somewhere remote. I went on to tell him about the difference between script kiddies and real black hats.

His take away lesson was that if smart and bored kids could defeat the security of all these serious sites then the people who are actually really good at cracking into things and doing it with out being noticed probably have free reign over the internet.

It was pretty easy to convince him to start using complex pass phrases and not reuse them.
Seriously, this is the only rational response. This is what rational people do: weigh opinions and make their own decision. It's as if we're trusting this guy with our bank account information or something.
One of the best ways to combat the problem is to speed-up detection speeds of bacteria. Lots of companies are tackling this problem. One of them I've been following has made enormous progress in reducing these detection times.

They've reduced MRSA from 18-24 hours down to 6 hours. Salmonella from 24 hours to a 30 minutes. Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 21 days to 1.5 hours. Etc.

http://nanologix.com/test_results.html

Stopping these problems before they get the chance to spread is how I believe these infections will be slowed, as antibiotics become less effective.
Typical VDH nonsense, full of logical fallacies and anecdotes. Strawmen and Non-Sequiturs galore.

Example: (1) In the Bay Area, the majority votes for Democrats. (2) Many rich people live in the Bay Area. (3) There has been an influx of private school applications.

Therefore, rich liberals in the Bay Area are sending their kids to private schools because they don't like Hispanics.
Right...
Meta comment: If you check out the source of the page, you can see the <h1> and <title> tag read "Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine. But He didn’t Believe in It." - that's the original title I saw / submitted the article under.

Since then the "but he didn't..." has been dropped by Slate from the article itself (I'm guessing as a result of A/B testing by CTR% or similar on Slate's side).

Would kind of suck to be the author of the article in this kind of scenario, watching the title of your article change based on the whims of the web (I guess in that sense its not really your article...)
Petition: Open Source code of healthcare.gov
> I walked away, came back a couple of hours later and it was finished.

FWIW, yesterday I installed Mavericks on two Macs. On a Late 2009 Mac mini, the installation process took 40 minutes (upgrade from Mountain Lion). On a Mid 2012 MacBook Air, the installation process took 30 minutes (upgrade from Mountain Lion).
Google Earth narcs on an Oregonian marijuana grower
Telling your "career story" - why the same storytelling rules apply
I don't see how it is a crowded market. Apparently Sublime Text is good enough to make a living as a paid-for, closed source piece of software, in spite of the existence of tons of high quality open source editors like emacs and vim. That alone suggests that commoditising it as an open source product would indeed add value.

And if the sublime text author had followed your argument, Sublime Text would not have existed. "Textmate already exists, and so do excellent open source editors. Why bother cloning textmate on windows?"

I for one would be very interested in an open source Sublime Text clone.
CastleDB - The structured static database
> Playing devil's advocate here: what's bigger than an overhaul of an entire nation's healthcare system?

High-level leadership positions in offices whose scope is the entire executive branch not just the healthcare piece: his position for the entirety of the Obama Administration has been Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget (and about a year and a quarter of that he spent as Acting Director of OMB, as well).

Or, being responsible for leadership on the entirety of the nations economic policy -- he's scheduled to move into a position as Director of the National Economic Council on Jan. 1, 2014.
I wouldn't be so hard on him. Teaching physics, we often find ourselves saying things like "the ball wants to roll down the hill". It seems to be natural to talk in terms of agency when trying to make concepts intelligible to the relative layman.
People tend to communicate with similar people, more than previously thought
RabbitMQ messaging concepts visualized using D3.js
The Autopsy of Chicken Nuggets Reads “ Chicken Little ”
This is a really big deal, and should be getting more visibility. I think the good news here is it opens the door for a more targeted approach. Current antibiotics are a nuclear option, they wipe out the good with the bad. Thats very bad when a majority of the cells in our body are good bacteria that play a role in our immunity and health. You can see how this leads to a reliance on the nuclear option.

If this is the end of the Age of Antibiotics, I hope its the beginning of the Age of Probiotics. Working with the good bacteria and developing more targeted strategies of taking out the bad. Snipers, not nukes. (Im no scientist but perhaps learning from how good bacteria fight off bad bacteria is a good place to start) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100324094717.ht...