skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When alone in a sea of strangers, no such frameworks exist, so change is easier — we can experiment with who we are and how we act. We can construct a new identity framework for every new conversation we have. We can try being someone else.

This is very true, and why I find myself most comfortable around people I don't know, especially if there is no expectation that I'm going to ever talk to them again. It's very freeing to be able to be your absolute self with no baggage or expectations.

Whenever I'm around friends I've had since high school I find myself acting very different than I normally do, in order to maintain that identity framework I've built for them. It takes a little while to slide into that identity but once I do I'm fairly comfortable.

I really struggle around casual acquaintances. I just don't know what to say to these people. We already know each other well enough, but without a desire to become close friends with them you're stuck simply refreshing each other on what you've been up to.
only in software engineering tools and runtimes are choosen based on what is best for the project/customer.
Metrics and Hiring
This makes no sense. Market failure is masked by survivorship bias. Failed markets are invisible. Healthcare is both blatantly obvious (as a "market") and as a rigged regulatory "game".
That data dump is a mess! I used it for my soundtrack project: http://thesoundtrackdb.com
Looks like it is going to be a great release. The first thing I wonder about with search is facets, especially when Solr is involved. I assume that being compatible with Solr clients means supporting faceted search, but has there been any public discussion of memory management with large, distributed indexes?

Edit: Discussion of facets starts around 25 minutes into the Yokozuna talk at RICON East 2013
Doing your accounts and collecting together records at a single sitting is more efficient than remembering which provider restricts access to your records at what times and having to collate documents at different times in the year to compensate, IMHO.

Even better though is to just use revert to paper billing to avoid all this BS which I consider even more efficient (for me) than having to log on to services to print out receipts.. or the technique blibble mentions below to request the provider sends you every piece of personal data they have for a single fee ;-)
Great book. There's also a good BBC interview with Warren Buffett talking about the original Dale Carnegie courses.
Since I just moved to the Bay and spend a lot of time alone, the article really resonated with me.

I'm all of these things except heterosexual. As as adult, I'm also not readily identifiable as homosexual. But as a kid my perceived lack of masculinity (among many other things) definitely made me a target.

I can confirm that being alone now, by my choice, is much more pleasant and gratifying than being alone, by the choice of others.

He's on to something.
too slow for me (though I am on chrome so that's probably why)
Using Python To Build A Social Network On Top Of The Janrain Platform (Part 2)
Thank you so much - super useful information. It matches a lot of what we've discovered over the past several years looking into the market. If you don't mind my asking, what are the most effective ways of communicating "how to pay" to consumers in Uruguay? Any sites that you've seen that do a particularly good job?
How many projects shipped backer rewards within the their estimated window?
I'm afraid that this is how the $1 million Salesforce hackathon will end up going to be. Given how 25% of the judging criteria is the "Use of Salesforce Platform".
Stopped reading your post after "Stopped reading".
It was soon after that Google invested $200M+.

I believe that Google's driverless cars have a bigger financial gain by delivering goods rather than people. We all think they're doing the automated taxi thing, but I think that's just to make the general public comfortable with driverless cars being on the roads.
He also fails to mention that the last 3 TC Disrupt winners in SF have been Crunchfund companies...

Layer - http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc...
YourMechanic - http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2012-...
Shaker [edit, they may only be in the runner-up, Prism Skylabs] - http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc...
U.K. Hacker steals personal data from the U.S.
Yeah, the stub installer only applies to Windows. Mac and Linux users are always given a full binary.
You are joking but it's not a stretch for YC to in some way compensate high karma users who post on a continual basis.

I don't know what that compensation should be and I know it goes against the grain of the way things work everywhere and that people participate voluntarily (and derive their own benefit from it) but a token of thanks (of the monetary form) would be a good idea.

(And I'm not suggesting that someone with my karma level qualifies.)
You know that there is a point to it, right? Now there are always 4 versions: fresh nightly builds, dev, beta, and stable. Every ~6 weeks dev becomes beta and beta becomes the new stable version. This way you get a higher degree of parallelization. There is no global feature or whatever freeze. New stuff is added all the time.

The version number is now basically just a step counter.
>We don't know a priori which year is going to be your last!

For those times that incur large costs, I would bet that you could make a better-than-chance guess. What are the success rates of "extraordinary measures" ?
“[In 2003] hosting PHP was not as trivial as it is today.”

Really? I think it was. I setup a PHP hosting company in 2002.

"Ghost is a Tesla."

Aw man...
Dell Officially Goes Private: Inside The Largest Tech Buyout Ever
Heh, I didn't consider that, but it doesn't hurt my suggestion at all since the baby will be the same ethnicity as its parents.
I once read that traditional Chinese medicine practitioners work on a sort of subscription basis, where patients only pay when they are healthy, thereby creating a strong incentive for the doctor to get a sick patient back to health in a cost-effective manner.

I have no idea as to the veracity of the story or the effectiveness of such a model (and hold no truck with the pseudoscientific methods used by such practitioners), but it raises an interesting thought - would healthcare be more effectively funded through some mechanism other than private insurance or state funding? Might the debate over healthcare have been narrowed into a false dichotomy, when there may be a far better option lying unnoticed on the third hand?
Because the timescale of the universe is much longer than the timescale of human civilization or intelligence. The odds of any aliens we meet being at the exact same level of development as humans (to within ten thousand years or so) despite having evolved independently on a planet billions of years old, are extremely small. In the vast majority of cases they will be millions of years more advanced or millions of years less. As chimps don't build starships, it follows that almost every interstellar civilization we find will be godlike compared to us.

In other words, we are a newborn intelligent species, and newborns generally find that everyone around them is older.
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I've heard that doctors get a bonus per baby they deliver, so some will recommend C-sections when it looks like the baby won't be born before the end of their shift.

Maybe the doctor slammed the door because she was really looking forward to going shopping with her bonus (like an angry retail customer that once told me I was "taking money out of his pocket" because I wouldn't give him an expired sale price on a stack of blank CD-Rs).
Gnews - An app I built for myself
I'm one of the heavy readers of Google news on web. I like the way it leverages news from different sources. But as I looked for a decent Android app for Google news, while there were some apps, none of them matched my expectations.

All I wanted was a simple NATIVE clean user interface that lays-out news. Some apps are 'OK', but most free apps had annoying advertisements that I always hated. So I decided to create an app purely for myself. And I thought there might be at-least a few of you (Android phone owners) who'd have same annoyances with cluttery apps for Google news. If so, here it is:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innovative.gnews
> I might stand in a corner by myself staring awkwardly at my phone

Word of advice to anyone who might be anxious going out alone: don't bring your phone. If you're just going to distract yourself with it because you feel less awkward, you might as well stay home, because you're depriving yourself of the opportunity to notice what's going on. If you just go and actually pay attention, there will be opportunities to participate.

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I want to amend this because I feel like it might come across as a little hostile, but that's not the intention. A few points on the reasoning:

* A party will have a host, and it's his job to integrate you. You shouldn't really have to work that hard. Find the host and he'll try to get you involved.

* There are guests that will do the same. If I'm out with a group, I'll happily involve a newcomer.

* Both of these fall apart if you walk in and immediately look disinterested. I'm not going to approach a person on his phone. In my head, he's either temporarily busy or doesn't want to be there, and I'm not going to risk being an ass and interrupting on the off chance that you're just shy. (I've got better ways of looking like an ass.)

If you can't resist the temptation to delve into your phone, you're not genuinely putting yourself out there.
Seven-Planet System Detected
Because it doesn't imply that the treatment is successful. If I have a condition or disease it could be misdiagnosed as something much simpler and go unnoticed by me for years. Maybe it's not debilitating but that doesn't mean it can't be cured or managed better.

When/how do these errors get caught? I'm sure many never are.
I haven't played with using different languages alongside handwriting recognition on a Tablet before, sorry. :(

In regards to just note taking though, I can tell you that OneNote doesn't have to auto convert your handwriting into text, rather it allows you to keep everything as Ink. OneNote then allows you to search your ink as if it was text, and that is the amazing part! Diagrams, sketches, math equations, etc, can all be searched as if they are a document. Really cool stuff. Again though, I am not sure how well it works across multiple languages. (Now I wish I had a proper Wacom enabled tablet so I could try it and find out!)

(You can of course choose to have everything auto converted into text, but for pure note taking I find leaving things as ink to be far more useful!)
> I couldn't imagine doing the same in the far out suburbs.

Well, I don't know the US suburbs, but as a rule, the smaller the place, the easier it is to know people.
I guarantee you it gets a bunch of shelter cats adopted. Anything that raises awareness of shelter animals gets an A+ in my book.
Snaptastic: Mount & backup EBS volumes automatically
Is it about who you are or who you want to be?
SourceTree For Windows 1.3 Released
4 upcoming technologies to disrupt the next decade
Umm... Hm. I'm seeing just one ad on that page (a very conservatively placed Google AdSense ad): http://puu.sh/530fg.png

Also, I see the hash right there on the page: http://puu.sh/530kX.png
We actually shopped around until we found a hospital in our area with low c-section rates. On a related note, the anesthesiologist was paid close to $10k for administering the epidural.
Will the spec be finalized before IE11 ships? Seems unlikely.
You might say this is frivolous lawsuit, and I'd agree. The plaintiffs have zero chance of winning, there is no coercion, there is no semblance of employment.

But.

Take a moment to think. What is the value of a website like this, without the user-generated content? A Yelp with no reviews, no photos, etc. is just a phonebook. Alternatively, a restaurant review with no platform, no audience is just a journal entry. It's symbiotic.

Maybe that's obvious. Ok, so. Yelp gets paid. Why don't the reviewers get paid? Too easy to game? Too impractical? Because people will do it for free anyway?

Musicians and exhibitionists will do it for free, too. That doesn't mean they are creating no value. It would be good if Yelp reviewers could be paid. It would be good if it were possible to pay people for the value they create voluntarily.
The internet loves cats. That covers all bases.
Why We Think GoLang Is Ready For Early Stage Startups
No, I don't really see that. When I hear Kindle, I think more of nurturing, or beginning a fire. A fire needs to begin somewhere, just as an idea must. And must also be nurtured, and built upon, something that books do. That's what I see when I see "Kindle". Matchbook just goes along with the fire theme of Kindle, as publicfig said.
G+ event numbers: 540m active users, 300m active in stream, 1.5b photos per week
IIRC, the bill for one of my kids was $18K, but it was a natural birth. My insurance was crap, and I still had to pay $3K ~ $4K of that (by comparison my parents paid ~$60 out of pocket for me).
I think offering code as open source and then charging for support is very typical. E.g. MySQL, Red Hat, etc. But that is probably only profitable after a ton of people are using the software in question.

If you are releasing a new thing, you won't have an existing install base, so probably better to charge for licenses. After you get a fanbase, you can crowdfund your version 2.0 or related material.
The welfare of animals isn't really a minute problem. It's ok to want more info on how the cats are selected and treated for what is ultimately a publicity stunt.
This absolutely mirrors my own experience.
It's not just the encyclopedia entry on the US. In "The Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith himself argues that the market isn't suited to some economic sectors. I believe his examples were infrastructure, police, fire, and military, but education and health care wouldn't exactly be outliers and I'm sure if he were alive today he'd give the arguments for a single-payer system due consideration.
Thanks for the offer! http://i.imgur.com/UnOIGpT.png

I hope Google doesn't kill Calendar before 2018.
> You can have a polygamous marriage all you want

>No, you can't. It's illegal in most states (see how the "Big Love" family had to move due to pending prosecution in Utah).

Yes you can, you can not however have more than one legal wife. You can marry wife #1 (marriage certificate) and this person will be the only wife the law cares about. You can then have any religious or whatever ceremony to marry any number of other women and you can all live together any way you wish. You can do this because the state doesn't care about the religious ceremony. You can not legally marry more than one woman, the women must know they are taking part in a polyamorous relationship and they can not be coerced into it. Again, the legal definition of marriage and what you call being married do not have to match.

As a side not, it is basically impossible to find what you are referring to with 'the "Big Love" family' since it appears to be a TV show as well. So I can't say anything about it.

> Not if you're male - sodomy is illegal in many states (despite a Supreme Court ruling that pretty much shuts them down) in the US, and many other countries entirely.

This is the best example of how the law and individuals differ. Legally (in the US), sodomy is defined as any sexual contact other than vaginal intercourse. Ever had a blow job? Congratulations, you could be charged. It has noting to do with being male, lesbianism would be charged with sodomy as well.

In the US, you can be as gay as you want.
Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users
It took me a few tries to quit Kid Pix because of this. But now that I think about it when the change was introduced to not require click and hold (7.6? 8.0?) I hated it.
When you learn new things you stop reading?
Apparently they can't fix the lock button. First time round they just gave me a brand new device. It seems like the lady on the phone now is going to help me out (although she's probably pulling a few strings). The moral of the story is that carriers suck and even out of warranty Apple is at least trying to help.
Replicating a BSc in Computer Science through MOOCs
5 Things I Learned My First Rails Project
This is kinda a non-negotiable for them, isn't it? It's not like they suddenly decided to enforce the USG policy and make a big deal about it.

IANAL, but it seems prudent to acknowledge that the crypto work was done in the USA and therefore falls under the export policy that ALL exportable software falls under. My company has to include this warning on its software and we even have two different versions (domestic and export) to deal with this issue.

I know it's unpopular, but why make Docker answer for it? Take it up with the USG if it makes you that unhappy.

Better yet, strip out all the non-exportable code, replace it with code written from outside the USA and presto-changes, you've solved a problem for the whole world.
Lewandowsky Invariance
> "The image of the physician as somebody who is there to help relieve suffering is cemented as a meme, but the way the system seems to have evolved in the past few decades is towards help as a secondary duty if any."

To be fair, with spinal fusions in particular, when a review panel says surgery is "not medically necessary" they're recommending daily pain/numbness/loss of range of motion is better treated with narcotics/steroids/etc.

So it's hardly as simple as "doctors ignoring pain for profit". It can quite easily be "insurance company ignoring pain for profit".

You simply can't ignore the role of insurance companies. Their disincentivize to approve any treatment, necessary or not, to mitigate their own costs is also a well-studied problem.
Using Students at Carnegie Mellon for Ethical Hacking
That would be the Coupon collector's problem [1]. Roughly, you should expect to go through O(n log n) quotes before you have seen them all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector's_problem
meetup.com has been my best bet, just looking at groups that people are members of has led me to lots of good stuff.
If you're going to play the "nice guy" card, don't offer the "scholarship" plan only to cheaters, while trying to guilt trip them along the way.

Letting people use your product for free if they can't afford it is certainly a nice thought, but then you should give that opportunity to everybody.
Not worth worrying about. Bluetooth is decently secure (uses public key crypto for initial key exchange, entering the PIN at setup prevents against MITM attacks, and the range is short enough anyway you don't actually have that many possible attackers).

If someone in your office cared about what you're typing, they'd simply spy on you visually, with either their eyes or a camera. Or install a keylogger, if it's their device.
Great post. Would also be interested in seeing a breakdown of school strength across the referrals. And did you count Stanford as Ivy League? :)
I'd originally thought so to, but you can get the Unix source, so it is open source for some definition of the term.
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Look at it this way; I love a good debate. Even where more extreme measures are proposed. In fact, when starting a discussion about a problem, not having proposals (i.e. solutions) of your own, tends to leave your debate dead in the water.

Merely stating that Java is a security problem hasn't really sped up a solution to the problem. It's like the talk about how terrible PHP and JavaScript are, but it isn't really helping, is it?

So while my personal experience would not have been ruined by the initial proposal from Mozilla (as I do not use any plugins in my Firefox, I leave that for my Chromium browser), I do agree that they made the right call in the end. But it did at least spark a debate on the matter, and an interesting one at that. And it'll probably come up again, when another Java security issue appears.
There are always information asymmetries. Walmart knows a lot about it's suppliers, but the suppliers still know more about what there selling and how much it costs them to make it.

A better breakdown might be insurance as it completely destroys the concept of a market though a dramatic subsidization of coverage. It would be like your company buying your car for you sight unseen. Sure, you want a nice car(heath outcome) but you have a lot less incentive to research BMW vs Acura resale value as your not paying full price for it. So after minimal research your far more willing to go along with what the sales guy(doctor) says.
There's a big difference in perspective between saying "the majority is privileged" and saying "the minority is disadvantaged". When the majority is heterosexual, white, and "cis-gendered", isn't that the baseline instead of privileged?
Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers are Vanity Metrics
" The suit has no chance, none, zilch, zero"

Agree that (from what I read) the "suit" has no chance.

But the job of a good attorney is to find a leg to stand on.

An attorney has taken the case.

A leg to stand on has been presented. From a quick (I mean literally quick) scan it appears that Yelp pulled one of the parties "Elite" status as an example.

The action here appears to present a case to get benefit out of Yelp for their arbitrary actions against the complainant. A case does not have to be winnable in order to derive benefit (note what patent trolls do that has everyone up in arms).

While the people here are not employees there is something wrong going on in a community (HN falls into this category) where people put in time and effort and then "privileges" are pulled without recourse, appeal or clear lines drawn.
I wouldn't call a 2009 patent filing "solid evidence". It's just one thing that suggests it might be the case.
You know, I kind of doubt some of the claims (most people are wrong most of the time), but then again I am probably wrong. Here is community that actually tries to address all kinds of biases: http://lesswrong.com/
Also works in middleman if you don't need a blog baked in: http://middlemanapp.com/advanced/local-data/
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You're right, user B could make incorrect (to me) ratings about other users.

Similar to what you say about derived and produced information, I would have "personal" and "external" ratings. My personal rating for user C (that I make after reading some of their posts) would override all my other external contacts ratings of user C.

Over time, if I have a high percentage of different personal ratings from user B's ratings, then the system would apply less weight to his ratings for other users.
In the SF financial district; I could not get a kitten.
From my listening to talk radio and reading conservative American news articles I have come to a different conclusion than you. As a matter of policy many people spout out and believe such things as the "magic of free markets" and support policies which ultimately boil down to every man for himself in the pursuit of profit. However, I do believe if you talked to such individuals and probed what why really want it's more inline with what you wrote.

Unfortunately there is a disconnect in the U.S. between what people really believe to be just, moral, and good governance and what they vote for.
Most malware goes after exploits, not social engineering. You see more social engineering and less exploitation on OSX because there is far less to exploit on OSX.