skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is real. Take a look at the actual source (which I hope HN is able to link to): http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...

The video that's included with the full text explains the study in layman's terms and is very accessible to the general public. Lots of good info there.

Edit: Here's a link to the editorial article that goes along with the original paper and video: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...
> Investors and shareholders are not in favor of pouring billions of dollars a year into infrastructure either.

Comcast spent $5.4 billion on capital expenditures in 2013: http://www.cmcsa.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=821438. TWC spent $3.2 billion: http://ir.timewarnercable.com/investor-relations/investor-ne....

Verizon and AT&T regularly top the list of companies with the highest U.S. capital expenditures, and Comcast and TWC are usually in the top 25: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-25-companies-investing-mo....

> That's why we're seeing this rent seeking behavior, and one reason why we have slower speeds than other modern nations.

Like? We compare quite favorably to countries like Canada and Australia, which have similar problems as we do with lack of density. According to Akamai's testing, we're in the top 10 worldwide for measured average connection speeds: http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_i... (page 19, Figure 20). Ookla's NetIndex puts us ahead of Canada and Australia, and only slightly behind the UK and Germany: http://www.netindex.com. Our Northeastern states, like New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which have density comparable to continental Europe, have average connection speeds comparable to France, the EU standout.

> Yes, I am in favor of municipal fiber-to-the-home solutions paid for with public dollars given the critical importance of these "dumb pipes".

You don't, because when public dollars are involved, you get "lowest common denominator" levels of investment. Comcast's average user uses 2-5 GB/month. If telecom infrastructure was provisioned according to these people voting, do you think the resulting level of investment would be at a level that would make the folks on HN happy?
That’s why you must do at least a back of the envelope test to see if the results are significant. If you send two set of n mails, the expected variations is something like sqrt(n) (I don’t remember now, probably sqrt(n)/4 or sqrt(n)/2, or something like that.) Ask a statistician for the exact number.

One easy experiment is to do the null A/B test. Send two sets of identical mails and analyze the difference of the result of the two sets. Usually you will get more variation that most people naively expect.
I believe this Futurama quote about summarizes it:

"Hi! Today some bad things happened. One bad thing was a train got crashed in New Jersey. Wanna see? People won't be late for work though, because the governor lady said, "I'm sending in more trains!"
[Another train crashes into the wreckage causing a massive explosion]"
We've had terrible service with Homejoy. I gave it a few tries and I'm too nervous to try again. You can't see who will be cleaning your house until you're locked in. There's no quality control.

It seems it may be a problem that's better distributed (ex: word of mouth in your local area).
Running noscript here, I was not bothered by any pop-up modal box asking for an email address, and I read the whole article.
> And unlike him, I have a 30,000 line scala production project under my belt. Everything he says is true, and then some. Ever split up a file into chunks because intellij can't edit it effectively?

I have a 20k line Scala project in production and editing it has certainly never been an issue. Why does Intellij have problems with large files?
Homelessness as well. I wonder if much of the mental illness that characterizes chronic homelessness is as much an effect as a cause of it, creating a vicious cycle that's really hard to escape.
Found it, updated adblock rulesets.

The plugin is called OPTIN-MONSTER. http://optinmonster.com/
I've had it running a while with wc and pv, so far it's up to 130GB after half an hour. I'm REALLY impressed by it.

$ g++ -o jeh jeh.cpp 2>&1 | pv | wc
131GB 0:30:15 [71.7MB/s]
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Interesting. I was unaware of this.

But if this is the case, why is there such a push to put DRM in HTML? Browsers aren't DVD players. Users are free to use software like ABP to circumvent any features like "unskippable ads" mentioned in the post. Pressure on browser makers seems much less valuable than pressure on device makers.
I can't find the information to answer my question, so don't downvote me because it's a stupid question. I admit it is, I just want to know for curiosity.

I don't understand why Adobe has to be used here? Why didn't Mozilla partner with Apple, Google, and Opera on a standard implementation code for this? After that's done, then Mozilla can try to sneak in one last question for all partners, can we do it better than this?
IPhone 4s remains Apple's "little engine that could"
Could you explain how this is an example of the free market working well? Clearly this is leading edge medicine but the free market thing escapes me.
Urban Engines launches to use data to make city transportation better
How does Clojure handle piping state through a series of functions? Is there anything like monads in Haskell to abstract it away? Haskell makes immutable data a little bit more tenable because you don't need to explicitly thread your state. How does Clojure handle this? Does it provide escape hatches for mutable state, perhaps restricted to using Java libraries?
Do you mind explaining why?

I wanted to give people who don't have Bitcoin a way to get involved without having to register through an exchange or use localbitcoins, etc.
On a similar vein, you can use https://wakatime.com for detailed stats about your programming.
I think it comes down to how much refurbishment the rocket needs afterwards. The Shuttle reused a lot of expensive hardware, but needed so much work after each flight that it ended up not saving any money.

I'd say the odds are good for SpaceX, as it's a much easier problem (no thermal protection system, the engines are a lot less fragile, nothing is being dunked in salt water), but we'll have to see how it really works out.

As for why it hasn't been tried before, it seems like the space industry is afraid of doing anything that is somehow short of what's seen as optimal. Rockets are optimized for fuel use by pushing engines and weight to the limit, which is odd because the fuel isn't really expensive. If you're going to cut down on that in the service of another goal like reusability, it seems like they want some huge payoff in exchange. Thus the shuttle ended up as a fancy spaceplane that could bring entire satellites back from orbit, and Rotary Rocket, DC-X, and X-33 were all shooting for single-stage-to-orbit. I don't know how much technology SpaceX is bringing in versus just an attitude that it's OK to be suboptimal, that it's OK to lose payload to reusability, that it's OK to work incrementally and keep throwing away some of your hardware, etc.
I think that with the required $400k you can buy the whole country...
Sad anecdote from my experience: in my current company we have "core hours" from 10 to 5. Yep, that's right: you can come in early or stay longer in the evening - no one would object...
I understand the money-and-art-dont-mix vibe that I suspect you're coming from. But I don't think there is a conflict between "passion project" and "profit" at all. Keep in mind that profit---from the perspective of a sole proprietorship---means living wage.

Most people have to eat, feed their kids, pay a mortgage, support a spouse, etc. In an advanced society, we also have reasonable expectation of some social expenses as well.

While internet culture projects the identity of the passionate 20 year old eating ramen and sleeping on a friend's couch, that's actually the minority. Passion projects are great, and being scrappy is great, too. But we (the startup community) of all people should endorse the idea of making money off our labor.
http://s3.neyer.me/homeless.txt
There are some subtle differences.... but these would likely be exposed in almost any language with or without a VM. For example, when porting some of our Linux Go code to Windows, we realized we were renaming a file while we held the file handle open. That works fine on Linux, and blows up on Windows. That's not really something a VM can manage for you. Similar things like "what's the canonical directory for storing your ssh configuration" is different per OS, and again, is not likely to be something that the VM will sort out for you.

I'm in the middle of porting Juju, a pretty huge Go program, from linux to linux and windows, and almost all the changes necessary are not things that a VM can help with, like "cloud init doesn't exist on windows" and "unix pipes don't exist on windows" etc.

For everything else, the Go runtime really does a pretty good job of abstracting away the differences.
I agree. I see absolutely no benefit or reason for solitary confinement for anyone, except in extreme cases where someone is very violent or completely psychotic. And even then, facility staff or other (supervised) inmates can still communicate with them remotely via telephone or radio.
If anybody wants to see how this played out in 2010-2011, search for "Witcoin":

https://www.google.com/search?q=witcoin

At the peak it was a neat site, and some folks made a bit of money. If I recall correctly, there as a bit of a problem where NSFW posts were more profitable than most other kinds of posts. For some reason, the creator was unable to keep it running and didn't want to hand it off, so it was shut down.

It worked by depositing Bitcoins which got converted into "Witcoins", an off-chain micro-transaction credit system. You could convert back into Bitcoins at any time.

I suspect the micro-transaction aspect of it was not as harmful as one would expect. The model seemed to work at the modest scale it grew to.
They didn't even get the linkbait right; it's supposed to be "one weird trick".
Factually acurate. And what do Obama & Congressional and Senate Democrats have to say about it? at most feigning some concern, but ultimately doing nothing. They don't care net neutrality, having somewhat plausible deniable and making Comcast, at&t et al happy is a win win for them.

Do you really think the FCC chairman would do this or be able to do this against Obamas wishes?
As the inquisitorial system came out of the inquisition NO is the obvious answer.
That's rad, thanks for sharing this.
Salary does't always mean value provided.

Salary = Supply/Demand.
Yes this might be true right now, but take a look at a lot of the tech startups are cropping up - humor yourself and look up a list of the tech ipos the last two years. They are overwhelmingly based on open source technology and they are also displacing or disrupting your traditional 'enterprise' businesses.

Even though C# and .NET has a huge developer following, .NET is losing ground to OSS within the top traffic driving sites. 10 years ago, people would build their MVP in .NET because it was the best technology around, but nowadays I see more people building new businesses and placing their strategic technology bets elsewhere (Java/Python/Ruby or Node).

A lot of these developers don't want to be married to the Windows eco-system, for a variety of reasons. Microsoft cannot continue to thrive on the sole basis of it being the only game in town anymore. So all in all what I'm trying to say is I don't think the long-term prospect is looking great.
I wouldn't say it's hard to get an opportunity to work on it. The demand is high (which is why the fees are high).

Being good at it is hard, the certifications are sort of meaningless. You need to know a lot of different things, and it's very challenging to have the comprehensive toolset needed.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515995.
Solar-powered, Bluetooth enabled keyless entry Bike Lock
Had CDs been encrypted, iPods would not have been able to read their content, because the content providers would have been able to use their DRM contracts as leverage to prevent it.

Moreover, the iPod most likely would have never been invented. How about that for killing innovation?
On the other hand, once you have found somebody that you like there is very little incentive to stay in their system.
Previous discussion (421 days ago, 22 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406733
The Xbox was the future – now it's just a game console
No I'm not granting an app with no details on how it works from random strangers access to my FB

Also I think you misunderstand how some people use facebook. I use it as a long memory, address book, and passive way to keep in touch with a wide crowd. It's value is in that when I met people I can just add them and forget about it until even years down the road I might be like "oh I know a person" and then have easy access to get in touch with them (and even passively gotten to know a bit about them)
Michael Powell was himself the chairperson of the FCC not so long ago. I don't think there'd be much success waging a war against him.
I don't think ABP and other extensions will have access to the DRM player. Isn't the whole point for the browser to just blindly embed the code provided by the media bosses?
This is awesome. But that one extra click is killing me.

I'm sure there's a reason for it, but if clicking "dust" would actually remove them instead of bringing up the page where I could remove them, this app would be about 100x more valuable to me.
For a serious and meaningful article, your response is quite tasteless.
The KSplice Pointer Challenge (2011)
> The problem is that a network that can stream 20Mbit continuously to every customer would be absurdly expensive

Will it really? Because every time someone talks about ISP costs, they remark that what's expensive is the last mile. That's the entire reason ISPs claim to be so much more expensive than enterprize providers, so they need higher prices.

Now they claim that the backbone is the expensive part?
This may sound silly but seeing this makes me feel more empathetic and connected to people outside of my culture. These people are extremely separated from me by distance and language but seeing these simple little emotions play out across the world make them seem closer and more similar to me.
I should just stop making assumptions about python and assume that if there's anything you ever would like to do with python, that someone has already built it :)
Mozilla can. Mozilla decided not to. It is an important difference.
SAP certainly has pieces of a "beautiful ERP" with Fiori. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYbn9Q6P0cU
Using Zillabyte to Anticipate Changes in Precious Metals Prices
For that exact reason -- browsers are the one "device" still open. They already have basically every other mainstream entertainment channel, if they can lock down browsers they'll have it all.
How  To Speed Up Download Times For Your Web Pages
Betting the Farm on MongoDB (SQL Server to MongoDB in prod with zero downtime)
When we began hacking away on Hudl we chose SQL Server as our database. After a few years and solid company growth we realized SQL Server was quickly becoming a bottleneck. Because we run in EC2, vertically scaling our DB was not a great option. That’s when we began to look at NoSQL seriously and specifically MongoDB. We wanted something that was fast, flexible and developer-friendly. In this post we’ll take a look at our schema design choices, our migration plan and the performance we’ve seen with MongoDB.
Posts without URLs get penalized. You'll be better off posting a story with the url, then adding your text as a comment to the thread.
A historically percentage of recent buyers have been cash buyers who don't care about shifts in interest rates. A historically low proportion have been first-time buyers, who always need loans, and tend to lower down payments that trigger insurance requirements.

The market in middle-class single-family housing purchased through a mortgage has been pretty crap for a long time now.
Facebook has something approaching this, using sleazy DNS and routing tricks to approach optimal cache locality. AFAIK, they have not yet achieved master-master "write anywhere" replication: all writes phone home to the master cluster. In practice for their use-case this is less of a big deal than it may appear.
If DRM is implemented in HTML, then you WON'T be free to use software like ABP, since it will be a 'circumvention' method. Now, it will be harder to prevent software circumvention rather than hardware circumvention, but it will still be in the same legal situation.
OK so did...anyone else realize this was not a satire and go read the CN tower wiki to see when it fell down/caught on fire, only to become very confused?
Original Apple 1 setup – demo of a working piece of history (2012) [video]
I was going to say, the purpose of DRM is to get you to pay for multiple licenses. It's the same reason why a lot of paid download software is now on a SAAS model. If you can buy 1 copy of something for $20 and use it on whatever devices you want, then the company has made $20. If you DRM that to be for just one device, and you have 5 devices, they make $100. If you are a SAAS operator, you are effectively doing the same thing.

Somehow people are more okay with paying an ongoing fee for software or some perceived notion of services, but that same does't yet apply to content in a larger way. The closest equivalent is probably the cable companies and they are taking their huge sums of money and are buying the media companies, so maybe eventually there will be just a flat $100/month fee for experiencing a company's content on whatever device/experience it's available on. Maybe even movie theaters.
good stuff, thanks for the share.
very interesting indeed, thanks for the pointer
Seconding this comment. Tried a few times, had different cleaners every time (even when we requested a past cleaner that did a good job) and the overall quality was wildly variable, but always converging toward some degree of "poor experience".
google cache...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fOkco3V...
This is nonsense. An ERP has to run your business and operations. It has to be extremely reliable. Users couldn't care less about it's UX, in fact, the standard ERP solution, SAP, looks terrible, but it is also quite ok to use. In a big company an ERP error/fault can generate millions worth of damage, are you still thinking a prettier UI is a great start up idea for an ERP?

Finally, you forget that IT departments in big companies are just a tad above trained monkeys and your software solution has to take that into account, in fact, it's the first piece of your service: it has to be easy to maintain. It's probably here where you want to focus on to compete...
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I disagree with you 100%.

Some of these symptoms might appear in people who are isolated and working remotely or people who spend long stretches of time locked away and working on projects. In fact, I'll go so far as to say I am sure less severe version of these symptoms appear.

I'm surprised you don't see the connection and can only assume you have not been in one of these situations or are not a programmer.
I didn't say 100% accurate, but yes there is reason to believe that:

http://www.trulia.com/corp/files/2011/05/trulia_direct_refer...
http://info.trulia.com/file.php/5288/Trulia-Estimates-Region...
If AdBlock becomes a big enough problem, publishers will create "unskippable" ads with current technology. HTML doesn't really change that. It's always been a cat and mouse with ad blockers.
tl;dr: I asked homejoy to take my money and they couldn't.

I first learned about Homejoy in October of 2013 and immediately signed up for a recurring cleaning, automatic billing. Almost every time Homejoy called me to reschedule. I only had the same cleaner twice, even though I picked 3 different "preferred" cleaners. Finally, after about 12 cleanings, they didn't show for cleaning 13. Turns out that since October their recurring billing system wasn't actually billing me. So they cancelled my appointment without any notice. I was never told of an accruing balance, even though I spoke to them frequently because they called to reschedule so many times.
I've had similar experiences. HN mostly ignores my work and Reddit actively engages in berating and belittling.

Most of the stuff I've read points towards getting to know bloggers in the industry for which your software covers and submitting to them for review. Don't ask me how to avoid appearing spammy there, either. The articles I've read just say "do it" not "how".

You could also try paying for advertising. The bounce rate is much higher, but it's proven to be a much more reliable stream than social media for my project.
No, not yet I got sidetracked by other projects, but once I have a website, I'll post it on HN.
Having not heard of Oscar before, I was hoping this was related to the open source OSCAR EMR system.

Having said that, I'm happy to see any form of investment in health care startups.
The Pleasure of Designing your own Furniture
Because Facebook is the only way to communicate with your friends? If anything, I'm closer to people whom I don't interact with on Facebook, because I am more likely to interact with them in real life. FB is the last resort of interaction.

This reminds me of when Facebook used to put up notices like "You haven't talked to [wife] in awhile! Click here to post on her wall!"
Microsoft Access is built for this sort of work.

Or so I've been told. I don't use it. I usually start with a SQL database myself. But you said you wanted something visual.
As an artist who uses KS to fund printing collections of her comic, I've got to disagree. If you're going to be able come back to KS and do another project, you have to keep an eye on your expenses.

I mean, yes, it is wonderful that KS provides a way for people to come together and Make Art Happen. But art doesn't come out of nowhere; people have to pay their rent while making it, they like to eat too. In the long run Kickstarter can be an important component in transitioning from doing art part-time to doing it full-time. And that, my friend, is one hell of a passion project.
This is a very helpful post; makers should be very aware that there are a lot of costs to producing things, many of which you're unlikely to pencil out when dreaming something up (e.g. 1% of revenue going to storing shipping supplies). This is why so many companies appear to have high margins: money leaks out of businesses all over the place.

To the criticism that Kickstarter isn't about making money: part of enabling people to make things is compensating them enough that they can afford to put in the time.

Nitpick: I think your tax estimate is high, given that pretty much everything else is a business expense, and thus deductible, unless your income is high enough that you have to pay $3K in taxes on roughly $8K in net income (38%: 5% Utah + 33% Fed tax bracket).

Also, you're left with the asset of 800 posters which you're offering for $120/ea + shipping. Sure, you probably won't sell all of them at that price, at least not anytime soon, but you do have to attribute that revenue to the project, since you attributed the costs to produce them to the project, and selling just 10% of them will double your net revenue. (Assuming $130 in revenue each, $6 in transaction costs, $15 in shipping & packing costs, $4 in miscellaneous costs = $105 net per poster sold * 80 = $8400 net pre-tax.)
Why do Israel and Sweden do so badly?
> Somehow people are more okay with paying an ongoing fee for software or some perceived notion of services, but that same does't yet apply to content in a larger way.

I think it's pretty simple to see why this is: Once created (digital) content is inert and doesn't really require any ongoing maintenance as such. Software always requires some sort of ongoing maintenance.