skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you got me curious. Can you share?
For example, http://www.apple.com/iphone-5c/
Don't companies have a confidentiality agreement in place when they are having discussions of this nature? Such speculative articles can be used as a basis for cancelling the acquisition. I don't understand the intention of business-standard in reporting something that is unconfirmed.
I really agree on this..
First Ever 12 Hours Google+ Hangout-a-thon Tomorrow • vlogg.com
Good idea! I'll pass it onto him.
Hacking reality is the toughest type of hacking I think. Kudos to your roommate and I hope he achieves his dream.
Samsung should really take a page from HTC's book and put more focus into low-light performance (both with and without flash), rather than worrying about cramming in even more pixels. The camera in the vanilla GS4 is already more than sufficient for any recreational user in daylight. (And non-recreational users won't be using their smartphone camera anyway.)
Their Doucheglasses for example.
Well that and whether you are making millions from software sales.
Really beautiful piece on the mind of a maker.
It sounds, to me, like they should have created a centralised spec for talking to these external system. Then created teams to build the interfaces between that spec, and the external systems.

So for healthcare.gov to talk to Hospital Insurance Inc. it would actually talk to the Health Insurance Inc shim and THAT would talk to the third party.

Now you have a small(er) definable project that a team can deliver and that can be tested. 100 shims later and healthcare.gov can talk to anything because they all (appear to) use the same interface.
That's because if the hospital submits that $2K bill to an insurance company, they get paid somewhere around $300 - $500 for it.

The sucker without health insurance goes bankrupt trying to pay the full price.
Transcription: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036...
Holy shit, it's happening...
This EWD is mind blowing in its beauty. It's 30 pages, but 30 pages that you won't regret reading.

I love computer science and teaching it is some of the most fun I've ever had. With a lot of practice, you can get across concepts such as computability and turing machines to the non-mathematically initiated within the duration of a party, and it's greatly satisfying. (yes I am a lot of fun to be around)

The rest of the EWD notes are highly recommended. (also it's weird to see an academic write in script). Side question: do any other HNers keep notes in written form? I still do it, using a fountain pen, and am often poked fun at by colleagues :(
Sure, we do get billed. But as a patient, I never see it. The only bill I've ever seen is for ambulance rides, if I ever need to take one. That's ~$35-45. I've never received charges for anything else.

When I used to volunteer at the ER, I saw patients come in to pay some bills related to wheelchair rentals or crutches. Sometimes they had their prescriptions filled at the pharmacy, and they had to pay for that. But again, that's the extent of the bills that patients would see.

I once saw a guy come in via ambulance, screaming in pain. The paramedics rushed him in, and yelled to the staff that they needed a Resusc room immediately, since the guy had no detectable pulse or pressure, and she suspected he had a triple-A (I found out later that this was an abdominal aortic aneurysm.). The nurses fumbled to clear a room for them, but they eventually did. A quick ultrasound by the ER Dr. to confirm, and he was wheeled off to surgery.

That "bill" likely cost the taxpayers of Ontario upwards of $50k by my uninformed guess. Not sure if he survived or not, AAAs typically have extremely high mortality rates and have to be addressed within 30 minutes. In any case, I do appreciate the fact that him and his family don't have to worry about a thing, except getting better and appreciating life. However, I'm not sure what value it would provide for them to know the financial cost. shrug Something worth thinking about.

(Recounting this story makes me somewhat regret not continuing along the path to medical school. shrug Guess I have to contribute in a different way.)
A few years back I bought a Carcano, the rifle used in the JFK assassination. I had always remembered every year some "firearms expert" being trotted out and claiming that there was no way that shot could have been made.

I don't think I could reliably make that shot, but a really good shooter could. It is actually a pretty accurate rifle. It is really unreliable though (although that might be just because it is from WW2). So whenever the TV tries to tell you something about firearms, just remember that most news reporters haven't been near anything more powerful than a NERF gun in their entire lives.

An interesting little bit of trivia. Mussolini was a really hard-core atheist, to the point where he even tried to get rid of the Christian year system. And I don't mean just trying to replace BC/AD with BCE/CE, he restarted the calendar at the date in which he took power in Italy. Mine was stamped "1941 XIX", 19 years by Mussolini's count.
You can now buy guns with Bitcoins
The effusive Thom Holwerda of OSNews wrote up a quite long telling (55 pg in the PDF version) of the Palm story not too long ago.

http://www.osnews.com/story/26838/Palm_I_m_ready_to_wallow_n...

Note that you can read the whole thing on the website. The TOC is after his plug for purchasing the PDF.

And someone in the know commented that some of the Android developers are people from the Palm world.

http://www.osnews.com/story/26861/Additional_insights_into_P...
it's the usual flu season people, no need to fear this thing
"literally millions of open positions in the US economy": And almost four times as many unemployed people seeking work. Those open positions numbers are based on self-reporting, too, and they don't account for whether companies are actively seeking candidates, are offering a competitive salary, or are expecting reasonable qualifications. Lots of companies would love to hire busloads of experts at a bargain rate if they were available, but in the absence of a bumper crop of cheap geniuses they're happy to stand pat.

Surveys have shown that companies are having more trouble hiring people who have enough relevant experience than people with sufficient educational qualifications or technical skills [1]. To the extent there's a structural unemployment problem in the US, it's a bootstrapping problem -- too few entry-level positions in professional fields to supply the long-term need for experienced workers in those fields. This fits with my anecdotal observations of my 20-something friends -- their BAs won't even get them on the bottom of the ladder.

"who can't be bothered to master these STEM fields": Try: can't afford training in those fields. Try: can't get a job in those fields without years of experience.

[1]: http://business.time.com/2012/06/04/the-skills-gap-myth-why-...
Give the files to the Internet Archive (www.archive.org), definitely! They'll host it all for free, and make a collection out of it. E-mail them directly or contact Jason Scott (@textfiles on Twitter) who manages a preservation group for them called Archive Team.
Hyperloop & ET3 Transport raising funds to compete with CA High Speed Rail Proj.
I always respect someone who can look at a block of marble, and see Venus underneath it all.
Great article!
Seed it on the Pirate Bay?
New algorithm finds you, even in untagged photos
A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. This month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue a patent on this technology
> If it works in Africa, then, objectively, it works in sparsely populated and sparsely connected areas.

If it works in a really nice hotel in Johannesburg, it's working in Africa.

Your point is invalid.
The left says big business is the problem and the right says big government is the problem. And around and around we go.

I was watching a show about venomous snake bites they charged this poor woman $80,000 for 100 bucks worth of anti-venom.
Wow, that's awesome. I only wish I had anywhere near that capacity.

Unfortunately, I think my developer mindset actually makes physical hacking a lot harder due to 2 phenomena:

1. Code is cheap. Materials are not. I'm used to being able to churn out additional code with basically no cost to get things done, not to repurposing existing code (this is different from refactoring to abstractions).

2. Laziness is a quality in software development, but a major obstacle in physical development. I'll quickly abandon physical projects because I can't find an optimally efficient hack to finish things in minimal time.
sensationalist headline with little content to back it up
Find your favorite DJ and send it to them. DJs are always looking for exotic sounds to add to their mixes.
This is pretty great, thanks! I would love to see the top row with the language names move down with the page. I really think that would make this easier to read.
You either don't know what "Social Security" means or you don't know what "ponzi scheme" means.
I think it could provide an interesting way for producers to discover unique and interesting samples to use in their tracks.
A Crash Course in the Mathematics Of Infinite Sets
A very dense and readable summary of some of the key concepts in set theory. Warning!! -- May cause mind-blowing
I have a friend who worked down the hall from Bezos for five years after Amazon was founded. If there is anything in that book that states or implies that Bezos in an insane power hungry tyrant, then it's spot-on accurate. That creepy forced laugh of his you can experience in the 60 minutes interview should give it away.

He told me: Your reaction to the laugh is healthy. You should be scared of this guy. He can't get enough power. When I answered an online quiz "11 reasons your boss may be a psychopath" (or something like that) i gave him 10 1/2 out of 11.
Specifically, Brewster Kahle! He's awesome.

You can find his email address here: http://brewster.kahle.org/about/
If you want to learn languages which are broadly different from those in popular use, learn Forth (or Postscript or Factor), APL (or J or K) and Prolog (or try writing something nontrivial in SQL).

You might also peruse the esoteric programming language wiki[1]. Some contain interesting and original ideas, and many are surface-level gimmicks. I'm a fan of HOtMEfSPRIbNG: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Homespring

[1]http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page
oh so ToffeeScript is the latest fashion now ? See, thats why i dont get into any of those alternative JS syntaxes.
A very dense and readable summary of some of the key concepts in set theory. Warning!! May cause mind-blowing.
In third world countries I am always so amazed at what people come up with when building things. When I set out to start a project it usually involves making a list, and then going to Lowes or Home Depot (hardware stores). People who don't have that luxury just repurpose other things, and usually always does the job for them. My friends in another country actually seem to enjoy their hack-together process very much.
Definitely do this. They will host it so that others can access it freely and forever and they'll also make a torrent for it. Just get in touch with somebody who works with the collections or feel free to PM me.
Unrelated but since you're into rare/old/obscure recordings, you might appreciate the Cylinder Recording collection at UCSB.

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
Same service? Remember, your kid. And it's not just the service; you could go to the urgent care clinic instead of the hospital[1] and pay less; you could go to your regular doctor and pay even less; heck, I know people who just keep sutures & glue on hand and just patch the kid up themselves. There's also the matter of demand & supply: are you confident you'll get immediate treatment if needed? that an ER staff is on hand if that small cut suddenly proves itself a skull fracture and whatever unseen complications ensue?

I'm not going to argue that the pricing is perfect; I am going to argue that there's a whole lot more behind that price than just overcharging. I've looked both my kids in the eyes while holding them still while being stitched up for one injury or another, thought thru a range of what-ifs, and had no problem paying the bill knowing there was more to it than just a little sewing. When both the doctor and urgent care clinic take one look at the injury and say "not here, she needs a hospital for this" and pass on billable treatment, there's a reason.

[1] - seems different cultures have different notions of what the term "hospital" entails. Methinks this confuses the discussion a great deal.
Ask HN: I have 10,259 Fortune 500 job listings. What should I do?
Hi all --

As part of a study I'm working on, I've built a multitude of web scrapers to download job listings from a group of Fortune 500 companies. The listings are saved in plaintext, separated by industry, company, and job, are generally clean, and contain job titles, descriptions, qualifications, responsibilities, and locations.

I figure these files could be used for machine learning, further studies on the language used in job listings, or by people looking to build intelligent job search bots. The cache is large -- >20mb I believe. Where would be the best place to offer the files (in terms of visibility and usefulness)? Is this something that is commercially valuable? If so, where are collections like these usually sold?

Thanks!
He's doesn't like the shape of the phone for playing games for an extended period of time, so he's hacking up a pretty sweet setup. I'll post up when it's finished...
City Maps That Orient You Better Than Google Can
You do realize how big a square mile is, right? 250 people still leaves a lot of empty space.
Seems to me it's easier than ever before to build a "smartphone": Android has everything you need and is open to everyone. What's hard is to build a smart phone operating system. And in some ways (not all!) that's a good thing - you need a pretty big justification to reinvent a giant wheel. If you have one, great. If not, do your innovation on top of Android.
Cool, thanks for the info! Amazon S3 costs are getting high so it would be nice to get some relief
I think millennials are simply on the verge of realizing that the American dream they've been sold is a lie, and they don't know what to do.

Meanwhile the older generations are screaming at them "Pay for my medicare and medicaid that won't be there for you! Pay taxes to pay my state funded pension! I don't care that you cant afford a home, or medical care, or college! I don't care that we outsourced your jobs and that you can't make enough money to be poor!"
Considering the order of magnitude the lead article is generating consternation with, fact is I do buy $10 and $20 hamburgers at times ... and yes, it is worth the difference.
Looks like the rest of the screed is just copypasta, since in that part Walmart is spelled right. (Pardon my weasely use of the passive voice to avoid specifying the subject to the verb "to spell").
Starving from crop collapses, but I guess that's no biggie.
In fact the economic incentive is often to never really be done. I saw this first hand at a couple of government agencies.
Hah. That would last for days on end.
The people doing the laughing shouldn't be allowed near government. I was one of thousands whose personal information was "lost" by the Canadian government this year, and I wasn't laughing. http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/hrsdc-apologizes-for-losing-per...

There ought to be a version of the precautionary principle for private information: if a contractor can't prove they have made efforts to secure personal information, they shouldn't be working for government.
Anecdotal, but I've had great experience with Google Apps paid support as well as support for our Adwords campaigns (we spend about $40k a year with them on Adwords).
Pretty glad I held out for Intel's back when my boss was pushing these in the early days of enterprise SSD.
This is about bird flu, which is a virus, not bacteria, and has nothing to do with antibiotics.
I think this can be a good idea, just to get data points on salary ranges in your field. It's good to know the market value for what you do, to have an understanding of what you're worth. And if a recruiter tells you they are trying to fill a job with salary X, that's a pretty relevant data point.
support is fantastic, we have a large cluster on GCE. I don't know how support will scale with general availability though.
I dont really understand why you guys dont get mad at your taxes beung thrown like that. Last time something like this was to happen in mexico this happened: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/14/bringing-down-the-mexican-m...
I lived abroad for 365 days. Each day I wrote a "recap", and posted it to Facebook. Many recaps were over 1,000 words long. I received tons of feedback, often in real life. It was a brilliant experience. I agree with many of the points in the OP. I would like to add that there was no such thing as oversharing. Honest, gut-wrenchingly intimate details (with some anonymizing and filtering), framed in a well-composed piece of writing, somehow stand on their own. They become more personal to the reader than to me, the writer. They contrast to the whitewashed self-portraits of most people on social networks. One point I disagree on is the importance of editing. I think the key to good writing is a solid first draft. If you are editing content, rather than grammar, ordering, syntax or structure... then throw it out and start over. Before writing, give your thoughts some time to bake. Then write them down, and edit minimally. If you want to edit more, put it away and edit the next day. I never did that, starting and finishing most pieces on the same day. But, I have had regrets on every piece of writing I have ever produced. Lastly, I explored every last idea that I had. You should have an idea queue. Get to all of them.
Google Flu trends (near real time updates):
http://www.google.org/flutrends/

How they do it:
http://www.google.org/flutrends/about/how.html
Not on a spend as small as that (0.04% of market cap).
Startup Internet cafe using diskless gentoo
My son is this way (I wouldn't call him genius, but his aptitude to seeing potential solutions is astounding.) It's being able to see a solution from existing pieces, requiring visualization and great spatial reasoning. I'm not sure it can be learned; there is something about it that's quite innate to a person.
We don't care about world domination, but definitely want to create an impact on this world.
Dropbox? I don't know if it would be commercially valuable unless you gave analytics with it. I know I would be interested in it, but I'm not sure I would pay for it.
Google wants to make your passwords obsolete
How can a human write that much good prose without scribbling things out?
For an chillingly realistic depiction of how a worldwide pandemic could unfold, I'd highly recommend watching the film Contagion (2011)[1]. For all those who complain governments and scientists overreacting to new flu strains, I would prefer that than the alternative - doing too little and being swamped by an uncontrollable virus.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
I think the problem is that it is unlearned too easily. Being forced to modify your thinking to succeed in school or the workforce is what stifles this kind of creativity. I feel like I used to have gifts like that, but somehow lost it along the way
Google's predictions of flu trends haven't been accurate recently: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/01/google-flu-trends-cdc
As a software dev remodeling my house, I agree. It's been very hard to accept that all these learning projects are going to be redone three times, just like how I treat software.

I'm wasting wood! OMG! But I've made progress. Watching contractors has helped. I was astonished how much they waste, treat things as disposable. My father (a hardware guy) certainly would not have approved.

I'm framing a new closet with bypass sliding doors. I really have no idea what I'm doing. I knocked apart the first two attempts and hope the third works better. And I'm now okay with it. It's been kinda fun.
I'd rather have an replacement faceplate that has a micro-USB connector that you can swing out to charge things. (They already have ones with a USB socket, which is great too.)

http://www.lowes.com/pd_369050-63374-WP2UWR_4294689722__?pro...
The car mechanic who uncorked a childbirth revolution
Respect.

You see some of this sort of thing from the blue collar part of society in the US - "yankee ingenuity" is what it sometimes gets called here.

This is an essay by Tom Wolfe about Noyce and Intel that has similar overtones:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html
I want to hire this guy
You've called them on the phone? What were the incident(s) / support needs like on your part?
Iridium, neat. What was integrating it like?
Service Centres India
App contains all service centers
If you refrain from any area where one thing might be more popular than another, you're going to have a very hard time getting anything done.
Lord knows there's no use for an automobile, when you consider the danger it poses compared to the reliable horse.
Advierten del peligro wifi en escuelas suizas
It totally would! Licensing is pretty tricky with this sort of thing though. Oftentimes there's some mogul who owns the rights but they won't budge on a price. Then if you use the sample anyway and they'll sue you.
Dammit. After posting, I caught up with the feed of clips and just bought six records :( It turns up records like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCC0wgVXNpc Wat??
I see the point of the article, but it is dated January 13, 2013...which isn't recent.
In general devices that actually produce pictures can get away with showing pretty pictures foremost and convey a "it's so fun" overall athmosphere before focusing on the device itself. For a rugged router, this approach is less forgiving IMO.
Programming languages are a form of insanity.
This may seem obvious, but since this site spills a lot of ink arguing about tools, has anyone besides myself ever though that building systems with these languages is actually insane?

How can it be that after 40 years of progress there are no standard domain models, and we as a community rewrite code like shakespearean monkeys not because its more fun but because even after all this time, there are no standard components?

This is why when I hear someone use the LEGO metaphor, I want to tear their head off. It seems the most we can hope for as engineers is to either enjoy this naively and pretend we are contributing good to the world by digging code holes all day, or be promoted into higher level roles into design.

Design, another software field that has no standard domains, and no standard componentry to speak of.

Given the hordes of people in "software engineering", the state of the overall effort is a sum total failure. I hope this changes some day.
Bung them up online so DJs can have em
what's even more exciting to me is that they could develop their own complete distribution system by pushing cheap drones out to the edge of their network.

Warehouses->Jets->Drones

with barely any people in the entire process to slow things down and make it expensive.
How the hell does this Nick Starr loser keep getting media coverage. It's too bad he didn't go through with one of his threatened suicide attempts several years back. This little fag just screams for attention all the time and it's unclear why he gets ANY media coverage ever. Didn't realize he ever left SF. Anyone who's ever had the change to cross paths with this loser knows exactly what I'm talking about. And yes, Google glass is a DOA product for replacing cellphones because of the social awkwardness that arises. Leave it for the doctors, drivers, etc. But I refuse to talk to anyone at a party that's wearing that fucking thing.