skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll chime in here with my experience.

I am not someone who generally suffers from claustrophobia, but as a tall person (6ft 5in) who is by no means fat, I can honestly say it was one of the worst things I've had to do. My shoulders are broad enough that it felt as if I was uncomfortably wedged within the machine, and that I was far enough inside the machine that should something go wrong it would be impossible for me to get out unassisted.

Perhaps it wasn't so much claustrophobia in my case, more my total dependence on someone else to get out. I am definitely not looking to go through that experience again any time soon.

I think there are definitely things that can be done to improve the experience.

Also worth noting: I do realise that these machines come in different sizes, but they are also expensive to purchase (replace), so I am not holding my breath for regular updates at every hospital when they can add another inch to the diameter of the chamber.
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> When have they banned competitive technologies?

Many times. One of the glaring examples - competing browser engines on iOS.

> Vorbis is old but newer (at least the integer version) than AAC which matches it for quality.

Yet, AAC can't be used in an interoperable way because it's patent encumbered. Vorbis can, but Apple still refused to adopt it. Control conflicts with interoperability. Open Web requires interoperability. Apple obviously doesn't care.

> I won't concede the language to you.

I'm calling them closed, you can call them restricted, non free or whatever codecs. The main point - you understood what was implied.

> W3C requires royalty free open standards which is great but does not make that the definition of open standards

Neither does anyone else make such definition. It's not formal and shouldn't be. The main point that it should be clear what's implied, to avoid word play, when some call standards "open" (so fitting for the open Web), while implying that they are encumbered by patents. It caused problems in W3C in the past.
Don't just make a price up. Buy Strategy and Tactics of Pricing immediately, it's a relatively short textbook that will teach you what you need to know.

The headline here is that you're not selling to consumers. You are selling to businesses; if you can demonstrate value then you can ask for a generous fraction of it in your price. With some smart segmentation you can divide the market into a few different groups, some of whom are rare but prepared to pay much more, others who are more common but only prepared to pay less.
PG charts acceleration of YC applications since noon
The whole article sounds like an advert. TGTBT
You can differentiate the cases by the conjugation of the object though. "nain Annan" (genetive, "all of") is marrying Anna, while "nain Annaa" (partitive, "part of") is fucking Anna. But yes, learners of Finnish should definitely be careful with that verb ;)
Thermos bottles and ice?
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Yes, I'm pretty sure hotels have ice making technology now.
Why do you need to copy it if you're never going to use it?
Occasionally it does make its way back into their article, but ideally in the same way anything else does: as a factual description of something that happened, cited to third-party sources.

That one gets fun.

I occasionally look at my sisters' Wikipedia pages and laugh at the mistakes which I know about, which I can't fix because what is already there cites third party sources which were wrong, and I don't know of third party sources that have correct information.

If I really cared I could get it fixed. (Just ask my sisters to make an unambiguous statement somewhere that I can quote.) But in the meantime I get a chuckle out of things like Wikipedia thinking that I don't exist...
What you need to know about the fundamentals of great design
You don't have to work in a field to be familiar with its problems. You can also be a user. But one way or another, you should understand the problems well.
The sicker people are, the less claustrophobia seems to stress them out

Medical-tech-in-a-past-life here. I think it's more that the sicker people are, that both they have more experience with getting tests, and they're more interested in fixing the problem than feeding on the attention. Really sick people are tired of being sick - a test at a hospital is not a highlight of the day, but a drudge. It was rare, though not unknown, to see either a very sick person or a long-term sufferer make a fuss in my experience.

Someone who does make a fuss could very well be genuinely sick, but usually they hadn't really mentally accepted that fact yet.
Chrome removed Apps from new tab, here's a fix
When opening a new tab in Chrome, it used to be that the apps were displayed. However, the recent update of Chrome removed this feature in favor of their search engine page. Completely superfluous, because search can already be performed from the addressbar, which Google called the omnibox because of this.
I cannot see what this has to do with security. At the end of the day, it is the data that attackers are after and the app needs to be able to access it whether it is virtualised or not.
Very interesting story. Do let us know how it turns out.
Thanks for responding. I wonder if we just have too many friends on HN? We are not asking people to vote. Hmm....

I didn't tell anyone about today's post, although we did tweet about it. Maybe getting too many votes in a short period did it? Or is it the relationships of the voters to my account (e.g. some of the voters have voted for my posts in the past?).

Next post I'll try radio silence on all channels except HN.
Will creating a new account help?

Now in a weird position where I need to actively communicate to people not to vote for our pieces... hmm....
True enough, think its been a long day for me then. Sorry for the confusion on my end.

I do believe that means it is beer o clock time. Cheers and no worries mate.
Few centuries ago, it was widely known, that the Earth is flat. Just because something is widely believed, does not mean, that it is true. I would prefer to believe hard, cold numbers, or analysis like this: http://qz.com/131436/contrary-to-what-youve-heard-android-is...

That F-Secure report describes legitimate applications that could be potentialy used as a malware (e.g. just like Wireshark on desktops) or trojans. What happens with trojans is described in the link above.

Also note, that it is in F-Secure's interest to cause scare, it is good for their business. They are not interested in people rationaly thinking about presented issues.
This is not accurate. It's not how fair use works.

Facebook can't automatically stop me from using the term "Facebook" to criticize or ridicule them, even if I say it on the internet or use it in a domain name.

Naturally, it's complicated. If a site is easily confused for the real thing, or if it's commercial in nature, your fair-use claim gets much more difficult.

There's a lot more detail here: http://www.chillingeffects.org/protest/faq.cgi
Ask HN: What's your greatest non-tech hack?
Of course this is inspired by the question from the application for YC but I'm not applying this year and I'm genuinely interested in sharing and hearing some other great anecdotes.

For me, I think it was when I used social engineering to track down the programmers who designed a very expensive product for a vendor in my industry and then negotiated a price to build the same full featured product for 1/5th of what the vendor charges for a one-off job. They were freelancing on odesk/elance and I had used the demos that vendors offer of their products to categorize the features and estimate what technologies were involved. When I talked with the programmer he admitted about how much he was paid for work on their product.

The industry is e-discovery for law firms, btw.
When opening a new tab in Chrome, it used to be that the apps were displayed. However, the recent update of Chrome removed this feature in favour of their search engine page. Completely superfluous, because search can already be performed from the address bar, which Google called the omnibox because of this.
How to Give Constructive Design Feedback Over Email
Inside Windows' User/Kernel Exceptions Dispatcher
Prepare the ax, then. I've been tracking my day to day for several years now, and four hours of hands on the keyboard coding is a damn good day. Don't take my word for it--rescue time is free and very enlightening.
I knew a lot of people applied on the last day but I've always been curious about the shape of the curve, so I finally wrote something to track it.

The current rate is about 1.3 applications per minute. I'm guessing that will increase smoothly till the deadline, since the curve looks so smooth so far, but we'll see.
If you really love reddit you won't do this, because it eats into reddit's own tipping product which means taking away revenue from reddit.
I'm a big, broad man and was concerned whether my shoulders would even fit in the thing, and have very mild claustrophobia. I was tired... and had trouble staying still because I found it so funny - the noise made me think of bad scifi space battles: brrrrrr pewpewpew chchchchch
What good are any of our acts if they aren't recorded for others to see? /s
> Panorama isn’t a vastly complex piece of technology by design. Feuer has found that analog, paper-based systems still work best with students, parents, and teachers. The team will work with communities to host pizza parties and other gatherings, where the surveys are handed out.

Awesome that they're not trying to force technology down everyone's throats, which might keep real people at arm's length... and especially impressive that they can scale this approach to 4000+ schools. Best wishes going forward!
It was hugely expensive for the consumer: 3615 was a phone number, and it was surtaxed at 0,34€/min if I remember well, even as early as 1995. No wonder the market was a billion dollars, it was a rip off.

Internet killed the milking cow, and everyone wondered how Yellow Pages could survive when they couldn't charge per minute anymore...
Implementing the same service on Twitter and Facebook would have the most impact. Those should be the first priorities in my opinion. I really like this though, and the token API seems really useful.
Shadow, the App of Your Dreams
There is also prebuilt OSX binaries, http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/
As far as I can tell, only modern equivalent of the terminal (a generic input/output device/program that can be used as the standard front end to an endless array of applications) that has gained any appreciable traction is the web browser. Any "modern terminal, but not actually a terminal" experience, using current tech, is going to be built on top of a web browser.

The browser is just the terminal though (which to be fair is a large piece of the puzzle); we still don't have the shell analog. The inadequacy of ChromeOS does not make me hopeful. ChromeOS is to the browser what midnight commander is to the terminal.
If you can effortless get healthy, whole foods into your body whenever you want then you probably have cooking/shopping/organizing skills well outside the norm.

I love to cook, and am good at it. But I run out of food all the time, or have weird random stuff lying around that doesn't fit easily into a quick recipe. I wish I had your skills/organization.
Bart strike pits techies vs working people
Isn't this what the up-or-out policy at major consulting firms and investment banks is all about? I mean, it's not identical, but it's a similar idea. I assume that if sure that if firms like McKinsey are hiring/firing like this, it's not illegal.
Wi-fi networks aren't private, you can stop a "broadcast" of the SSID, otherwise you "broadcast" it (publicly).

It's the equivelant of the the Streetview car capturing 'public property', if you want 'privacy', put up a big fence and don't broadcast your SSID.

As for the NSA issue, I'm not going to defend google too much there, but you've seen what happens to providers who didn't comply... I would put that down to more a 'The US govt is pretty hostile to privacy' more than "Google is evil".

On the scale of 'evil shit' happening in the world. Google collecting my Wifi network name ranks about similarly to 'J-Walking'...
Precautionary methods of reasoning are absurd methods of reasoning. Got it.
Windows cannot delete/replace files, that are open. That's the cause of most reboots, it will replace them before services or apps that use them start again.

Not that I'm apologizing it's behavior - it was a design decision that Windows team made in the past, when it was deemed not important and worth reduction in complexity. Now just it comes and bites them back.
An SSN is quite a good ID in that it should uniquely identify WHO is being discussed but it is a lousy authenticator to prove you ARE the person being discussed. Unfortunately in the US it seems to be regarded as a shared secret (between you, every credit reference agency, significant portions of the government, every bank you use, every employer you have and significant numbers of people working for all those groups) that they then use as authentication. What is needed is a separate authentication process.
Minor nit-pick.

> So I'd easily fail the GitHub test.

The github test isn't about your what you have on github. It's about what code you can show, out in the public. Github just happens to be the common way to do that now.

If a company requires Github specifically, than it's just a stupid company you wouldn't want to work for anyways, so it saves you the trouble.
No, it's how you take food very seriously.

I'm fine with the idea of meal replacements, but:

1) I think they already exist. They just aren't marketed to trendy 20-somethings. (This is what Soylent does well and why, I assume, they're getting investment. The actual product can be completely reformulated until it comes reasonably close to being a good meal replacement: It's the brand that's become valuable.)

2) The Soylent team sounded like such snake-oil salesmen out of the gate that they simply don't have much credibility, as far as I'm concerned. With all of the made-up benefits they touted at the start, now they have to dig themselves out a deep pit of bullshit to actually demonstrate the value of their product.

It's important that we don't treat this kind of food product like a toy. Which is why it's important to be critical of unsupported claims. (And critical of supported claims, as well.) Especially those made by young people with no particular background in the field they're purporting to be experts in. Food is not a toy. It's not Tumblr. It's not Zynga. It's something we require to survive.
I typically use craigslist for that sort of thing. Compared to the cut eBay takes, I can get the same money while offering a smoking price, which motivates the buyer to do all the legwork. I get a phonecall Thursday afternoon, they show up at my door twenty minutes later, and they are gone in five minutes.

Only works for certain items though.
It would be really interesting to see a historical breakdown of acceptance rate by submission time until deadline.
Social Networks Proxy Experiment
Still, it's the same rationale as sticking your network adapters configuration under http server configuration. The httpd uses the network, right?

Still makes no sense.
In Australia we have strong job protection including unfair dismissal laws which would obviously cover this scenario.

It's part of the balance between keeping a good economy and recognising that jobs aren't just profit generation for employers, but also the means by which people support themselves and their families.
I can point you at a similar issue anywhere in a hospital. Hospitals are dangerous places when there's a misstep, which is why they spend so much time training on procedure.
Ugh, can we keep calling him Zuck, as if we're all a member or wanna be member of his social circle (though given the celebrity and class level of some HN members, that's probably true).
I'm a little curious why venturebeat has gone with the neutral 'teens' and 'kids' everywhere when UrbanTxt is explicitly a program for boys [http://www.urbantxt.com/about]. And of course I'm also curious why it is just for boys.
I'm curious to know how many employees you currently have.
So you're looking at ~2000 for the last day? Do you expect this rate to be constant or to accelerate the closer it gets to 8pm?
I would label it more sad than disgusting myself, but I think there's a lot of people out there (both men and women) who would find this as fairly interesting.

The dating market is kind of skewed. If you're a desirable woman and you go on most normal dating sites to meet men, you'll get deluged with more emails than you can realistically even respond to. If you're an everyday man who would like to meet new women, it's a bit harder to find somebody because every desirable woman on these sites gets a ton of messages. The short of it is that the experience for everybody could be improved.

I'm not saying that this specific idea is the ultimate answer but I think there should be more experimenting with different types of sites in the dating industry than the traditional "create a profile and send a messages site" to figure out better ways of connecting people. OKCupid for example is experimenting more and more with things like events and group "gatherings" to meet people. Maybe that's a better type of site. Hopefully people will continue to come up with and test new kinds of dating ideas.

PS: I think a lot of the outlandish statements by the founder are purely to generate faux media outrage and publicity. Right on cue, the media is obliging him
I also thought his explanation for why this stuff is unconstitutional, and more importantly, immoral, was one of the clearest I've read online. I hope he gets called to Congress hearings so they hear him say the same things there, too.
"We strip out referring URLs across domains to protect your privacy"

Which makes it even more interesting that they're using Google Analytics to track visitors and sources on their site.
>It seems to me that these kinds of discussions tend to conflate forced government surveillence with voluntarily giving your information to other people (such as Facebook).

They are inexorably linked together, but we must speak precisely.

If the gov't convinced Facebook to sell its archive of data to the NSA for $1, would it be okay? Because the law as it exists says, yes, FB is free to sell its corporate intellectual property to anyone including the NSA. Ditto Mastercard. Ditto AT&T. etc. etc.

We have no guarantee of privacy simply because nowhere is it written that we any legal right to privacy. Maybe the problem is not solvable. But trying to solve this as simply a gov't that needs a better kind of leash is surely a doomed effort.
Maybe I read the article wrong, but to me (and the author) coding isn't the only "work" you do.
Coding is dead.

When the top news on HN is how to make $5 selling used computer cables on Amazon, you know coding is dead.
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The number of folks I know that are poor and being raked over the coals by the IRS is far less than the number of white-collar folks

Ok, so that part is working like you hoped

the worst crooks (the ones responsible, for example, for the housing bubble) largely go unmolested

I'm curious, did these worst crooks break laws? Honest question. I want them prosecuted too, but I've never been clear whether the problem is apathy on the part of the enforcers or the absence of laws under which they can be pinned. (i.e., maybe there were critical loopholes)
I purchased heytip.me earlier this year to make something like this, needless to say I haven't had time to work on it.
I've always meant to check if that's a predictor, but anecdotal evidence suggests not. I.e. I know some of the most successful startups applied at the last minute, but not all did.
> My understanding is that (a)(4) would require Wikipedia's computers to be the ones engaging in interstate commerce or communications

Yes, Wikipedia's computers would need to be "used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication", 18 USC 1030(e)(2)(B). But I think they pretty clearly are, so I don't see that as problematic.
Why don't you guys start doing this on your own terms? People love using bitcoin in quirky ways -- let them, make it even easier than this current method.
Cupertino Web Toolkit
I realize this is a weird question, but I've never understood the point of having an applet show you the current weather. Does your home have no windows?
This really grinds my gears
> if there are gender disparities, it cannot possibly be because of gender differences.

That's not what I said at all. I said if there are gender disparities that's a red flag. Red flag, meaning we should go and check and see what's going on because something is fishy.
This brings up an interesting point.

When referring to "content," (TV, movies, music) it is common for people on HN and Reddit to refer to digital information as something that should be freely exchanged, that ownership is a meaningless concept in a world where creating a copy of something is essentially free. It is common for those who seek to lock down or restrict access to digital information in the form of entertainment media to be referred to as "dinosaurs" who are desperately clinging to an outdated business model and refusing to move into the modern age of free and ubiquitous data sharing.

Then, of course, there is the idea that online privacy is a fundamental right, and that guarding our personal information from both nation-states and corporate interests is of the utmost importance. In this context, those who seek free access to digital information are cast as villains and reviled for using modern technology in a way that doesn't fit with our classical understanding of privacy rights.

I understand that there are multiple people on HN and Reddit and they don't think as one, but I think it's fair to say that both of these opinions fall on the same side of the political spectrum.

I wonder if there's a contradiction here? There's clearly a difference between downloading Game of Thrones episodes and reading everyone's e-mail. But is it a qualitative difference or a quantitative one?
Probably because it reduces the attack surface, instead of having to worry about a 0-day in ssh or similar, you can just worry about your application. Also if someone else on the machine gets compromised, I assume you are isolated from that also since the attacker is still contained inside that container.
Those popped up in 2009 and then disappeared when nobody used them...
Just in case anyone else thinks the deadline is midnight, it's 8 pm Pacific Time.

And yes, I think the rate will probably continue to accelerate till the deadline.
Digital frog rots before your eyes
OK, so it is UEFI setting. That does not mean that the OS has to bug the user about this permanently. What about providing button "OK, got it, now get dismissed"?
"The country I live in now is the best country in the world for people like me; I would be terribly unhappy if I was exiled." If your mental reply goes something like, "Why, what’s so special about the USA?.."

Now this is one of the funniest things I've read for a while.
Of course you're never happy about your home country neither you think it's the best country in the world - unless you're monumentaly stupid and forgiving.

National feeling isn't about lying to oneself, rather it's about being ready to invest yourself in your country, spend efforts on fixing problems and feel bound to it. We'll call it "Daughter Homeland" because it actually behaves like a teenager, and not an easy kind.
Dick Cheney had the wireless disabled on his pacemaker because of terrorism
Is this a graph of the rate of change (acceleration) of applications, or a graph of the raw number of applications submitted? Some labels might be helpful.
Thats some serious willpower right there. I very much doubt I could apply 5 let alone 10 times afetr being rejected