skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you say the article is missing is the whole point of the post. This is not a programmer way of looking at it on the whole. In fact, I think the goal of this post is to change programmers "way of looking at it'". 'this is only three lines of code' is a programmer's viewpoint. But it is only a hook into the post to grab programmers and then the post goes on to shift to a practical, business viewpoint. (this post changes the programmer's view point who reads the post)

In terms of

'People don't pay for highlighting, they are paying for more traffic from an ad Ultimately, they are paying for all the other stuff on the website that gets people to show up, view ads and click on them.'

Uhhh dur. And the post even addresses this:

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There are a lot of lessons one can learn from this anecdote: the art of the graceful upsell, the underlying value of 37Signal's brand/traffic that lets them charge $200/month for a glorified <li> element.
'

Note, "the underlying value of 37Signal's brand/traffic".
snaphealth tries to do just that. hopefully they get more traction in 2014. Concierge doctors are all over the US as well, but its still hard to compare them or find a place that does that
Yeah, it's roughly equivalent to a printer discussing in amazement how much people are willing to pay to have just a few mL of ink inserted into a magazine.
Ask HN: how did you get started in programming?
Age? Language? Catalyst? + Story
I would say that a very large number of people in poverty have problems that money alone can't help. But the kicker is that a very large number of those problems can be attributed to consistent poverty. So a basic income would not make our sociological problems disappear immediately. But it would contribute greatly to ending the cycle of poverty-inflicted trauma that makes poverty strongly heritable.
Step 1: Be as well known as 37signals

Step 2: 3 lines of code

Step 3: Profit
Filtering out "bitcoin" should do the job.
Developers vs. Engineers
The information density on the homepage is way too high for me. Its almost overwhelming. It might be fine for service providers, but service consumers are likely not going to look for what they seek. They probably just want a "Yes/No" answer to the question whether the service is up or down.
This thing makes me so nostalgic. There was a "magic" which we kids used to play with others in primary.

We created a list of 15 random items, and asked one to pick anyone of it. After which we asked the volunteer to tell which of the four sublists has the item. When this was done, we proudly told him / her what was it and it literally left them clueless how we did it, until of course, the trick went viral and everyone was doing it with others.
Thanks! She worked the code.org lessons and has been working through codeacademy lessons recently. She wants to build a game with me; so, it is way to have productive quality time together.
If it were decimal you'd be able to show us 6552920451 using your ||||||||||
Agree with your point.

"but frankly this article is an example of"

Articles like this just end up being a forum for discussion on a particular topic that is of interest [1].

A story or blog post is put on HN and people feast on it giving their own personal experience or taking issue with the title's claim and how it might be to broad, downright wrong or otherwise screwed up.

The same themes come up over and over again. I wonder why there just isn't a weekly feature giving people the opportunity to post their own latest, um, "research" into what they do to stay productive. Like a "Tell HN".

[1] Popularity determined by time of day posted, who is writing, where it was written, the topic and how polarizing their thoughts are. More absolute tends to mean more activity everything else being equal. (Have I missed anything?)
Ho-Ho-Hum cartoon
Bit sensational though, it's not just those 3 lines. You'll also have to add the option to the sign up form, bit more overhead in testing, etc.

It's not just 3 lines is what I'm trying to say.
Your own immune system already kills cancer, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_immunology

Your body is constantly surveilling for cancer cells and eliminating them; in doing so, it selects for cells that can evade the immune system. By the time you have large tumors, the cells are already quite good and evading the immune system, at which point your adaptive immunity system can't help you. These scientists are trying to do first-order engineering on the immune cells to make them more effective.

We've seen this before in science, with antibiotics. A few major, early wins followed by the long silence of failure, due to second-order adaptation by cells.
Sentry+ACRA is my recipe :)
The Myth of the Sole Inventor.

The paper describes how commonly cited "genius" inventions didn't come out of nowhere and are instead based on research and build-up of knowledge by multiple independent groups of inventors. Yet patents are often granted to one party as if they came up with something truly remarkable and original all on their own. This kills innovation and further research because the other parties cannot continue to improve on the work after a vital patent has been granted to someone.

This paper doesn't really advocate for total abolition, but that seems to me like an attempt at not coming across as too radical.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1856610
Clearly. And to mix fun with learning.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I had a similar story as the OP and after complaining and looking into the price I never heard back from the hospital. In hindsight their actions reminded of highway robbery. This year with the Surgical Center of Oklahoma and the time magazine article on medical billing though a lot of information has come out. Price comparision websites like pricepain.com, clearhealthcost, bluebook of healthcosts etc, are just the beginning. It's almost like a race against the clock where either ACA's price inflation will create so much political upheaval that the single payer system hands this inefficent (non existant!) market place over to the tax-payer (which will mean ever inflating prices) or a solution like this, with dramatically visible pricing information, direct doctor pay, low cost catastrophic insurance will emerge as the saner, cheaper and higher quality solution.
Here's a similar 3 year old HN submission - "Greasemoney script to exclude all bitcoin articles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551753
The point of the article is that small technology changes can provide disporportionate value to the customer and your company (The best types of changes to make) and most commentors still feel it necessary to mention that its not really 3 lines of code.
Say no to late-night venues using biometric surveillance
I meant to say, this project is probably excellent idea struggling to get across... now I see it is open source.

It could use site that would explain faster what it does and to whom it is targeted for. There is definitely need for this, this just needs to be presented better.
Thanks for letting me know Bryan. How have you been? Still hatin' on me after all these years? :) I always found you fascinating.

So is the mailing list p2presearch@listcultures.org?
UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA
I taught myself to do serious programming writing a drum sequencer for windows, back in 1994'ish. I was living and consorting with a bunch of techno producers, as well as being pretty deep in the underground rave scene. I'd spend hours in their studios and wanted to make my own music but couldn't afford the much coveted 808/909, so I spent countless nights replicating it.

I put out a couple of records using it. It also, inadvertently, lead to me getting a call from Richie Hawtin asking me to write audio DJ software for him. I told him it couldn't be done with current hardware, and I think I was probably right (this was 286/386 era). You couldn't put two sound cards in a system, so the output would have been mono. Maybe I was wrong. I'm not so sure.

http://www.sonicspot.com/tekknobox/tekknobox.html

Yes, the UI is hideous, but Windows 3.11 baby!

Edit: The follow up was called Alien Disko Systems 3000.

http://www.sonicspot.com/aliendiskosystems/aliendiskosystems...
You can pay $1M for just two lines of delta:

House address: 123 Main Street
- Owner: Joe Previous
+ Owner: You
Memcache as queue
Brings new meaning to the word "digital". I'll be here all night.
that's exactly what we did. 12k the hospital, 6k the birthing home and the midwife charged 3k. When we asked her about the price, she "admitted" feeling "guilty". She said "it's still way too high, but I get in trouble from the birthing homes, if I charge less". Talking about "market prices". There are none (yet).
Kosovo's Digital Diplomats
I annoyed my teachers in elementary school demonstrating binary finger counting to 1024 when they were insisting that students stop finger counting because "you could only count to 10"

I was a precocious little shit.
The Sad Story Behind Yahoo's Latest Startup Acquisition: Ptch
Thanks, was trying that in Chrome but it didn't seem to work. Did it in safari there and it did the job.
All My Exes Live in Texts: Why This Generation Never Really Breaks Up
When browsing the ads on http://weworkremotely.com, I have to force myself to read the highlighted listings, otherwise my brain just ignores them.

I guess it's the product of years of ignoring the ads on Google.
The darknet is a tiny subset of the "deep web," which includes anything that isn't publicly accessible. Examples would include bank accounts, settings pages on Facebook, etc. I'm fully ready to believe that the latter is much, much larger than everything else, but the author clearly has the two conflated.

I guess the way it's written it's technically true - if you count the darknet as part of the deepweb, then it is indeed in the deepweb that you find the nasty bits. But that's extremely disingenuous, and it seems more likely that the author doesn't understand it.
Ok I see, so it's more like 8% at $10m.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/bitcoin.htm/print...
In primary school my mom told me she learned different bases of numbers in math. She said her dad kept saying "who would ever need this!"
According to the white paper, "all users receive all messages." How, then is the system scalable to a large network?
Well aware of midi gear. My point was that implicitly comparing those or drum machines to a "real kit" is apples and oranges, because of the interface.
Groovy seems like such a... Forgotten language, sometimes. For what it's worth, I've always really liked it. And I hate Java with the fire of one thousand suns.
My answer to that would be that a busy person tends to work quicker (always on the move because of the pressure of so many things going on) and ends up being more efficient and driven by deadlines.

So they can squeeze in an additional amount of work. The person with very little to do should in theory be able to get the work done. But they have no deadline since they have so much time to complete. I guess this thought ties in somewhat with the saying "work expands to fill the time available for completion".

This is one reason why deadlines are important. Deadlines force people to take action in order to not miss a deadline. And become very motivating. At least that is what I find from personal experience.

When negotiating or making a deal I always use deadlines in order to get people to act on something right away. Otherwise (as once again the saying goes) "time kills all deals".
totally agree! my friend an me started in August on a similar mission http://www.pricepain.com - even tried YCombinator this winter but did not make it. If you checkout our /why section we collected a lot of recent articles and links on the subject
Considering the amount you talk about it, you really don't seem to understand this business. Do you think a VC is going to refuse to fund a YC company that they otherwise think is promising enough to fund, in order to teach me a lesson? They'd just be handing the deal to another firm. Unless you believe the coalition of VCs who want to suppress whatever crackpot "truth" you're talking about = the entire VC business, which would be an amazing organizational feat considering how many there are and how much some of them dislike others.
I'm comparing the value derived over the interface.
A top-level policy with Bupa/Pru will get you easy access to top hospitals in the UK (including London), for diagnostics at least. I just got a quote for £70/mo (it will almost double if you claim, however).

EDIT: hm, not sure about 'experimental', but top quality/teaching hospitals anyway.
Nice. One feedback for the maintainer of the OS X instructions: in the compile from source section, instead of giving the command line for installing homebrew (which by the way renders incorrectly with an emoticon on that wiki page) the best practice is to provide a link to the homebrew project page, because the command line may change, and because they don't want things like typos or emoticons getting in the way of people getting brew installed.
May I paraphrase patio11 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4477088 ) ...

If everyone want’s to highlight their add, then double your price. If everyone still want’s to highlight their add, then double your price again.
Right, I'm not saying that is good either. I'm just calling into question the entire system. How can we go even further?
Oh right! You are so right! Unfortunately, I can't correct the comment anymore.
There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections
So basically it would be awesome if it wasn't powershell?

On that basis I agree, because the encounters I've had with PS have been nothing but horrid.

It's slow, obtuse, complicated and unpredictable. cmd+rundll32 was far nicer and that's saying something
Just completed a 4.5 day fast..and I feel fine
http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=Filter%20HN
12 - AMSTRAD BASIC - I wanted to create my own games. So I started to copy some games from books I had. But quickly I was bored because I found it was too slow to get things done. So basicly after the presentation screen I stopped there. Later when I got a PC, I did a calculator with BASIC again. But got bored again. I didn't knew about C language or others. I did some software cracking (reading ASM and patching) but got bored again. Now I do mostly Python, I'm proficient in several language, I'm happy :-)

tldr: I learned programming slowly at my rhythm but that's Python that triggered my “hacker” fiber and some reading like ESR books and books about how internet and firefox were created...
Ha! I find that I can tap my fingers on a surface easier than pulling fingers down in many of those combinations.
Perhaps it would be less distracting if they saw you just lowering the middle finger onto a table?
This is pretty amazing. I'm working on a game that's going to use level generation techniques pretty similar to Spelunky, and while the other explanations on that guy's blog were pretty good, this adds another level of understanding.

The surprising thing about Spelunky and its generation is that you would expect that manually designed templates, even if put together in a sort of random way, would get repetitive or old pretty fast. And this would be the case if Spelunky didn't have what the author called probabilistic tiles and obstacle blocks (see Rogue Legacy for an example where it does get repetitive pretty fast). But even after >100 hours playing it it's still not easy to recognize all templates and to know what to expect next, which keeps the game fresh and new every time you play it.
Someone should generalize this to a filter which removes articles discussing any of the n most important technological advances of our time. Why just make it for n=1?
C# vNext syntax changes - Adam Ralph
Please please do not stop writing about this. I really want to know more. thanks.
I don't get the appeal of an IDE in Haskell development. You can download the Haskell platform on haskell.org. In the case of Windows or OS X, it takes a few mouse clicks, and on Linux you launch a package manager to install it.

There may be some benefits of using whatever FP Complete offers, but if anyone is struggling with getting Haskell set up on his computer with the official releases, then that person might need to acquire some other skills first before delving into the world of pure functional programming.
Then let me say it's very far from any desirable state.. there's always something worse, but that doesn't really help, does it. If all countries in the world were in equally deep shit, the fact that they'd be equal would hardly be sufficient consolation for them being in deep shit.
Google makes billions with highlighting text on a yellow background. Not sure how many lines of css it took them, however.
ViHart did a video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYZTg3jahU
> Microsoft ought to be doing something similar to a Chromebook that more tightly integrates with Office 365.

Isn't that pretty much the concept of Windows 8.1 and the devices that include it -- integrates with Microsoft online accounts (like Chrome with Google accounts), defaults to storing documents in SkyDrive unless you override a default installation option, has an online app store which supports apps that are essentially web apps with some proprietary platform-specific APIs (HTML+JS Windows apps, like HTML+JS Chrome apps) and also those using other, less standard (for web client) technologies (C#/C++ Windows apps, like PNaCl Chrome apps), and main end-user and developer apps -- e.g., not just Office, but also, e.g., VS 2013, including the Express Editions, are bundled with online subscription services tied back to Microsoft Accounts.

With Win 8, they even tried, on the low-end, to offer lower-end, more Chromebook-priced machines that would cut the Windows desktop legacy that is outside of this strategy with WinRT, but so far that's been a failure -- but not because they didn't try.

> All that might be at odds with their current Surface Pro strategy though.

Doesn't seem to; the Surface Pro subsumes the strategy and extends it by moving offering a premium form factor (tablet convertible), but they've got plenty of hardware partners offering more basic, lower-priced options. They're still mostly priced more than the lowest-end Chromebooks.
The whitepaper proposes to handle this by having nodes join separate clusters once their databases reach a certain size.
Stealing other peoples ideas, that it what today's patent industry is all about.

Today's capitalism itself is about stealing: (Globalization is about) stealing the work power of other people to make as much money as possible with it.
PostUP-A Photo Booth app, will revamp the photo frenzied social arena
Then you're abandoning the argument that "everything is math" and just claiming that software isn't math either. That's a whole different claim.

It's also a lot harder (perhaps provably impossible) to defend. There is provably nothing you can do in software that you can't do, much more slowly, with pencil and paper. The only way software can be anything other than math and calculation is to define it as something other than software, and what does that actually buy you? If we make that which you define as software patentable, but make what is commonly known to everyone else as software unpatentable, is that a satisfactory outcome to you?
You should check out the Coursera ML class videos.
No. A historical figure in mathematical logic and complexity theory recently suggested that I earn a second Ph.D. in economics. It probably should have been the first, instead of mathematics. I work on agent-based simulations as a hobby. (No jobs in that area.) I make an effort to read whatever I can, but it isn't nearly enough.
See: http://startupweekend.org/
Installation hardly counts as a success when you're playing with a new language. An IDE that can make intelligent suggestions would make Haskell much, much more approachable.
Until he started talking about the history of the Yeardye family. One long digression about some specific people I have no previous reason to care about is tolerable. When he went back to them I decided to drop the article and just read comments, because the gossip/substance ratio was clearly too high.
Hundreds of Start-Ups Hope to Be a Copycat Start-Up
Pitches for new start-ups are often copycats with a slight twist of already successful companies.
I think it's safe to wash <= 10.3 at this point, it has less than 0.01% market share. Most stat gatherers have actually stopped tracking anything below 10.4 or 10.5.

Also, I didn't know that zsh was ever the default? I thought it switched from tcsh to bash around 10.3 or 10.4.
"Would like to point out that back in the day this was known as "keeping up with the Jones"...And had nothing to do with changing the world."

To me "Keeping up with the Joneses" always had a clear material connotation eg: more money, bigger house, better car etc... I drew the distinction about changing the world because I think that is the difference between generations.

I completely agree that this generation does the same peer comparisons, it's just that our metric is influence and "disrupting" the status quo rather than accumulation of wealth (though its often tough to divorce those things).
Your post implies that the main reason people would use an IDE is because they are having trouble getting non-IDE tools for the language setup.

Of all the benefits I've heard ever used to sell IDEs, that's got to be the least common. Usually, things like syntax highlighting and error detection as you type, project management tools, version control integration, autocomplete, documentation/API tooltips, debugger integration, etc. are the advantages.

Some of those might be less relevant to Haskell than to, say, Java/C# style languages, but some of them would still be useful.
It's like wondering how much would it take to replace the three letters: "TIM" with letters "ROL" on a device?

$5,000-10,000+

Do the exercise and share the results.

The keyword is: "TIMEX"
> Pushing Keynesians economics to the max

Because clearly austerity worked for them during the "lost decade". If anything, Japan is a case study against austerity.

Their economy is showing big signs of improvement with the introduction of Abe's new economic directives. If anything, he should be praised for it, not chided. Especially considering how stubborn the Japanese Deit can be. They've gone through 11 different PMs since 2000.
I feel your pain, Paul. It's true that there are some contractors willing to sell themselves for some bucks, while there are other real professionals that know what are they limit rates and what is the threshold of rates they can play with. imho, first group won't never last a large period in workforce-on-demand platforms cause of: 1.not making enough money to survive 2. getting pissed of junk jobs
Ha, totally. Especially coming across a "clue" like that on 4chan, I would expect the end result to be goatse or something similar.
As a counterpoint anecdote, I really like how this looks. It looks dense, but not pointlessly so. (At least, for needs that I have had in the recent past, it would have been useful or at least interesting.)
Why the hell would a PDF for public use be more than a hundred megabytes? You'd think the solution to people being too retarded to properly use a PDF conversion tool is teaching them how to use it, not building a website that thrashes PDFs and hogs your computer to make sure they don't annoy anyone.
And note that among the major reasons that Haskell didn't get widely popular is that it is full of publishable novelty and lacked a useful suite of libraries* and vibrant community.

Until the past few years when Galois folks and bos did a lot of library work.
btw 'Hire meat $4/h' is a killer add https://twitter.com/malditojavi/status/399545792114851842