skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much for posting all this awesome info...very inspiring.

we would have been 10x bigger if I hadn't gone to college, so that is my opportunity cost.

Can you elaborate on this a bit? Are you saying that your growth curve was shifted back by n years (and you'll be 10x in n years), or that it was fundamentally changed as a result of going to college?
I think it's a brilliant idea.

The technology is definitely there using flash it self to stream the video down, and flash does support capturing video well so pushing it upstream is also there, but the technical challenge that's making it hard is the latency issue and the bandwidth requirement server side (you need to stream live video down AND up in real time).

Justin.TV solve this to a certain extent, so your idea is extending this allowing every participant to upstream as well as downstream.

As much as Skype/Oovoo tries to make it easy, they still require registration and the need for a native client (which try to make direct connections between users as much as possible for said technical issue).

Make it happen!
Hi Zaid. I'd really love to, but I doubt anyone except my friend and I would use it...I mean I don't want to pour my time into something that'll be worthless(as in no one will use it).
I must say, I'm really impressed. My first search, a curveball, was "gong bao ji ding". Found, and a good recipe, too! A follow-up search for "kung pao chicken" gave a longer list, but all on topic. A search for "chocolate tart" yielded three good candidates among a number of irrelevant (little/no chocolate; not actually a tart) recipes. Notably, all three came from Epicurious. Neither "trotters" nor "pig's feet" are recognized as ingredients. So, a good start: I will actually use this tool, since it is definitely better than googling.

From a cook's perspective, it would be nice to have a way to search and refine by cuisine (Chinese, Italian, etc.) and by dish (appetizer, dessert).
the game is declining, but it made boatloads of money in the process. I think it will just make those branded games like rockband metallica or rockband aerosmith, but for a smaller audience and still make money.
Facebook Wants To Own Idea Of Crowdsourced Translations
GNU wget is in C; and there wont be any C++ code running in that shell interaction of yours unless it was on Be or Atheos ;-)
Well, this is a good idea... but not a great idea, so I'm not going to adopt it.
You'd be amazed at what you'll learn in the processes of creating it. That is where the value will come in. Maybe it will be a big success exactly as you envision it. Maybe it won't. But clearly it isn't an easy challenge, so you'll likely create value (at least for yourself) in the process of trying.
The Curious Cook: Prolonging the Life of Berries
I have several disk-less clusters. They work very well for multiple test environments. I have a bunch of older boxen with only 100Mbit eNet and the file servers use gigE. My configuration uses bootp & PxE. For even better performance you may want to look at iSCSI, FCoE or ATA over Ethernet (AoE) I prefer the later two as they run at Layer 2 not 3 and thus are better for data center deployment.

It's not just the cost saving on disks. You get reduced power consumption and less noise. You could also look at using CompactFlash cards with a CF-to-IDE adaptor, it's excellent for read-mostly system disk.
I'm not Indian myself. I work a lot with Indian suppliers though. Lately there seem to be more returnees in that pool running little outsourcing companies.

My own experience is often frustration. The best jobs (quality & time sensitive with higher pay) tend to go to more expensive American suppliers. We end up paying 2-3 as much when we need (what I guess is about) 20% more time spent on QA. I tell them so.

The difference with these returnees seems to be that they share some of my frustrations. I'm not sure that will go anywhere, but this is very early days.
Are you a C coder? I can't imagine any experienced C coder would say that of SQLite. It's a beautiful codebase. Among the best I've ever seen, if not the best.
I've always believed this and had the most success when having done it, but I've also worked on a lot of projects where -- when I said I wanted at least three weeks to meet with people, do interviews, observe the task to be automated and perform it myself -- I was told the project was too important to waste time on such things. As you can predict, those projects were so important, they ended up being killed because they were taking so long and didn't sufficiently automate the task they were meant to (even if they followed the requirements--to the letter).
Ditto. I bet data collection is really hard for that, though - compared to these public companies.
Something like Lehigh, George Washington, or Kenyon.
Very organic ... 5 after first year, 100 by 4th, 350 by 7th, 1000 by 13. Steady stream of recruiting over time, no huge bump, except in year 2000, when our revenue tripled, thanks to that bubble. But even in that year our headcount did not keep up with revenue - we simply weren't set up to recruit like that. So that was a very stressful year. Then we had many years of stagnation, as the bubble burst and we had to find new things to do. Zoho eventually came out of that period of stagnation and misery.
Like I said, I don't disagree that such behavior is consumer-hostile. I don't know that they're guilty or innocent of it, just that it's not particularly relevant to the topic of anti-competition.

However, I'm quite confident the market will take care of that sort of misbehavior quite naturally.
1Password not quite ready for Snow Leopard
Ask HN: How to get diagnosed for rare medical conditions
I have a couple of ongoing health problems that I haven't been able to get diagnosed by my regular doctor or by the specialists I've seen. In both cases the initial bloodwork confirms the symptoms I'm feeling, but then all of the (many) followup tests for the things most likely causing the problems come back normal.

In both cases I've been tested for everything that could be life threatening and all the tests are negative. So I've got that going for me. And 95% of the time I'm completely asymptomatic so it's not a big deal. But at the same time there are certain things I can't do that trigger these problems, such as exercising, and I feel like being mostly sedentary isn't a good long term thing for my health.

It seems pretty clear that even if I do have something that is well understood, albeit somewhat rare, my doctors probably won't catch it because the medical system isn't designed to encourage them to spend 20 hours reading esoteric journal articles to learn about what could be causing the problems.

And while I could do the research myself, I don't really have a good idea of which journals are reputable and which aren't, I'm not a domain expert, and I'm not that great at statistics. (So I'd be mostly going on the introduction, conclusion, and discussion.)

I could just ignore the problems and wait for them to possibly get worse so they are easier to diagnose, which is basically what one of the specialists I saw told me to do.

I'm wondering though, are there good ways to hire people who solve medical mysteries who I can pay to do the proper research and make recommendations. Or else, is there some website where I can post my symptoms anonymously and then people can recommend the tests I should ask my doctor about getting, with citations so I can learn more about whether that advice makes sense before showing up?

I'm trying to be more proactive about my health, but I can't really figure out where to start.
Any HN readers in Calgary, Alberta?
Just wondering....I always see meetings in other cities, but we seem to be too small that it never gets mentioned.

Maybe there should be a facility on HN to register by city and check whether you are interested in participating in meetups?
I hate to be a cynic, but your first assignment will be to make whatever it is work. As this is your first real programming gig you will probably be given a hopeless assignment with really bad or zero infrastructure to build upon. Lacking development infrastructure or even fellow developers to work with, you will become a pawn in company politics you are totally unaware of.

My advice is : bite that bullet. Work like a demon and spend your evenings building the infrastructure needed to produce a working piece of code. Spend your day time hours building code that is just good enough to demo. Talk to people and get feedback, but avoid giving your immediate superior the idea that you're going behind his/her back.

Working like this blows, but do it for half a year to a year and suddenly you're an experienced developer.

Now move to a different location.

(If you're lucky enough to land your first real-world assignment in an environment where there are experienced seniors to consult and you have an existing build and test procedure, I would give different advice.)
That's a pretty tall order. After all, we often don't know what's desirable in a much narrower context in the present.
What you're describing is a pull, so yes, a push would be that in reverse. Polling is inconvenient. Web hooks aren't "revolutionary", but they're still cool.
Why Market Your Online Business With Audio
Puts an interesting spin on antidepressants.
Re: lack of quality, it is a classic "early days" problem. 1950s Japan had a reputation much like made-in-China has today. It is amazing Japan is synonymous with quality today.

It is easy to explain: in a mature economy, any new company would have a mix of experience and new talent. In an emerging economy, practically everyone is a rookie, regardless of age. There are entire million-plus population cities in India where no one, literally not one person, would have any experience in how to manage a 10 person technology project.

The only way to figure stuff out is to make mistakes. Quality is an emergent property coming out of experience. And that is the reason societies don't go from $300 GDP to $30K GDP in 1 year, though it would be possible to carefully mix an immigrant group coming out of a $300 GDP area into a $30K GDP area, and as long as the mixing is at a controlled rate, it is possible to boost the per-capita GDP of the immigrant group very high in a very short time (Indians in the US offer a good example). That is the extra value added by experience of having done stuff.
Institute for Human Continuity - Is The Ihc Real?
I think it's a great product idea, and I think it would actually be a good candidate for a Facebook app or FB Connect.

I have a lot of trouble imagining a viable business around a bookmarklet. The only way you are going to get enough users to make it profitable is if you have 1% of your users who invite all their friends, and the kind of people who will do this probably don't know what bookmarklets are.
Apple's sleek upgrade
I think it's a typo and should read:
"It will have 16 processing cores that can do _four_ tasks, or threads, at a time" - so, 64 thread parallelism.
Science does not exist to satisfy tabloid curiosity.
A pretty minimal introduction to the language; it doesn't much discuss why one would prefer programming in Prolog to writing the same things in Erlang or Scheme. But within its scope it's pretty fair.
I've read about snow leopard but this is a fairly clear representation of just how much faster and smaller OS X should be with snow leopard
This article seems more compelling in its criticism of academia than in its defense of industry as a setting for pure research.
This brings me back to the returnees/emigrant issues.

The catch 22 seems to be that individuals, once they have that experience, had a high likelihood of leaving. The potential resource is that due to returning the pool of people which such experience is getting an boost above the organic trend.

Obviously it's not all managers coming back but at least there are people that have seen it done. In the case that I mentioned, these are people that previously (I assume) worked on the type of projects that they now miss out on. They saw their previous employers not bothering to target the type of work they are getting. They know that the gap between these two is relatively small and that crossing it is both worthwhile and possible.
Mix of both. Growth curve shifted back n years (in my case 8 years - I did a PhD too, whose main utility was in coming to the US and then realize that PhD was a waste of time - all I can say is that I am a bit slow!). And those were some of the best years, so there is a fundamental change in the growth curve also.

The thing I most admire about America is the can-do spirit. I am sad that the education system in America is "Asianizing" rapidly, in the spirit of "We have to compete with the Chinese/Koreans/Indians ..." That's not what got America to where it got - it was the can-do "hacker" ethic, and the climate of freedom where that ethic flourished.
Or L/100km if you want to use a better format. (see http://nudges.wordpress.com/why-we-misunderstand-what-miles-... )

Agreed about the stuck-in-the-mud --- I think we all do it to some extent - but it can get very frustrating.
Reddit is an obnoxious site full of hateful people thus I don't care whether it goes down the drain or not. Also they've been censoring all kinds of content for a while so this case is no surprise whatsoever.
My findings would be a bit esoteric for this arena, arcane stuff about when Italian music scholars started using counterpoint, previously unknown ancient Irish nature poems by bored medieval monks etc.
And I'm only just evolving my methodology to the google books stuff - it's actually formatted quite badly if you want to read the pages (scans are bigger than my screen) but is still a lot quicker than travelling to a university library & trawling through parchments (when you're allowed).
It could also fail miserably if not executed properly, which is the more likely result.

If your idea really is as good as you say it is, then revealing it won't ruin your launch. In the end, it will get copied if and only if it's worth it. And that will be determined by your site's execution and relative success (or failure).
> The employer/employee relationship is a special case of the producer/consumer relationship. It's not different at all.

I disagree, but whatever.

> Mackey agrees that reform is necessary, he's just engaging in the debate on how such reform should happen.

I really don't care at all what Mackey actually said, that's not the point. I'd be defending peoples right to boycott even if I agreed with every single word he said; I'm not boycotting anything. Other people have a right to spend their money however they want, it is not uncivil for them to do so. Clearly you think it is, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
You sound like an obnoxious hateful person yourself there. ;-)

I like Reddit quite a lot. Some of the subreddits are great. This is actually the first censorship case I've heard outside the Sears one, which was minor. They block spammers. That's about it.
well noted by David Berry in the comments:
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>It is interesting to note that regardless of your claims to be in a 'better' or 'similar' position to an academic you continue to use academia as the anchor point of a frame of reference. I don't see any need to make that claim - the work in a corporate R & D environment is just different - it is based largely around performativity (here I am thinking of Lyotard).

A conceptual framework that I think you might find helpful..<elided for brevity>...

I personally think that there are important differences between universities and corporations linked to their respective knowledge domain and notion of contribution (e.g. to the public good vs private gain). To miss this is to collapse all of social life into the market.
"""
Banality is the root of all art. I think the idea of a poem written by the entire planet* is rather romantic myself.

*kind of
Google Voice isn't VOIP, and other things you learn from readers
* My own form of time boxing (e.g, the Pomodoro Technique; the Autofocus System). (I'm also evolving an app to manage this in a way that works for me.)

* Some general routine, mostly aiming to get certain things done during the late morning/early afternoon

* Various reminder tools. Big help when something occurs to me but I do not want to stop what I'm currently doing; I have fast ways of leaving reminder notes for myself

* An improving ability to put things in perspective and be more selective with my time
Wow, what a great tool. Are there any security concerns?
Yale University Netcasts
And the best free Anti-Virus program is...
One of my dreams is to write an article worthy of being published in Scientific American, and getting it published there. SciAm consistently impresses me - they'll break new and groundbreaking things, but what's more impressive to me is how they avoid not giving into fluff the way many other publications do. And they make science pretty accessible and interesting. I've never written as more than a semi-professional hobby, but I'd love to put some of my research together well enough to get into the magazine at some point.
Andrew:

You're fighting a losing battle with the "spontaneously generate beats based on a user-selected tune" thing. A part of what makes rhythm games fun are how cleverly each song is programmed. I've tried Dance Factory and AudioSurf, and they are simply no fun without a guiding creative hand.
Last time I checked, curiosity was exactly what science existed to satisfy.
An even better term for us is "and Indian company with an American HQ" - in early days due to foreign exchange restrictions in India, it was painful to have the HQ in India. Increasingly that has faded as India has liberalized. We just imported a ton of Macs for our development team in Chennai; 10 years ago that would have sucked, now it is easy.
Subreddits are moderated randomly by single users so anything not fitting gets deleted. Some users get invisible there which means that their submissions don't get shown to others while they receive no message that they have been blocked.

Some posts of mine have been submitted or popular on Reddit and each and every time they have been downvoted like crazy (for the topic I write about) and I have been flamed both in my comments as well as in the Reddit comments. I have never asked to be submitted nor di it myself there so the people made it on their own accord.

Also the bounce rates from there are awful, along 96 - 98% which actually mean that they just look at your page and downvote/flame without even reading.
Missing from the title is that this is restricted for social networks only (or at least that's my read of it).

If it were for general cases, passing this patent would be highly disturbing.
I'd use it, hell I'd help make it!
I keep a list - two lists actually, one for features and one for bugs. That makes it easy to look at the list, pick something small, and get to work.

If you're not in the zone you can still make a little progress, and if you slip into the zone you can grab something bigger from the list and keep going.
I think he meant funding from already profitable products. If that is what he meant, that is true. Zoho quietly got funding from our own earlier products, which got funding from our even earlier products, and so on, until we reach http://www.webnms.com/snmp/ which was bootstrapped ... :-)
"Last time I checked, curiosity was exactly what science existed to satisfy."

The same curiosity as in watching crime scenes when it comes to "science" like this.
Ask HN: Your ideas about creating an alternative to PowerPoint
So we all know that there are flaws with both PowerPoint, and presentation aids in general. If you imagine the next generation of presentation aids, what are some problems that we can solve?
I'm in yyc :). Maybe we should organize a meetup?
Yes, Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament,

http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Fire-Manic-Depressive-Artistic...

and co-author of the definitive text on manic-depressive illness

http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec...

has thought out loud in her writings over the years about whether treatments for depression that help suffering people may also deprive society of creative output. Her current thinking on the issue--and she takes lithium herself every day--is that the best-evidenced mood-stabilizing treatments for mood disorders are helpful to patients and increase rather than decrease their ability to contribute useful work product to society. Her co-author, Frederick K. Goodwin, M.D., is still deeply skeptical of some antidepressant medications (e.g., the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) because of their capacity for inducing mania in many bipolar patients.
Karate attempted murder video goes viral on YouTube
Ditz does this:

http://ditz.rubyforge.org/
I use php everyday, and as the guy who built digg (in php) I'd say - I agree with everything you say, but 99% of business has nothing at all to do with what programming language you use. But, _intellectualism_ does have plenty to do with building a successful business, and for most developers, that manifests itself as language wars. So I liked the article from that perspective.
awesome :D :D what's your email? i'd like to have you on the team :D
If you imagine the next generation of presentation aids, what are some problems that we can solve?

Persuade users to use them less. See Edward Tufte for more on this.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

Peter Norvig has a funny take on this too.

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Ask HN: How do technologies like Farecast (now bing) and Flightcaster work?
They take historical data and predict future trends. Does anyone know of a basic introduction to the mathematical models involved? Something simple enough to grasp easily, but with enough depth that the information can be used for small naive experiments?
The laws I'm talking about don't go into effect until 10-15 years from now. And they've been watered down. And I expect they will be watered down more by the time the due dates arrive. But the original purpose was to force better fuel efficiency, not to tax inefficiency.
Understanding Freemium
Chicago's top crime blogger is a 16-year-old with autism living with his mom
How do we do that? How do you transform Houston or a Atlanta into Portland?