skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the other thing to keep in mind is that most of our costs have just grown over time since solutions become that much harder with legacy systems. It's much tougher to go and change a hospital's processes when they just bought a $60 million platform that will most likely continue the status quo. Legacy systems on top of legacy systems.
Yes, because OpenBSD has SO much hardware support.
Posted 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7926087
Aha! Good to be proven wrong there.
Yo Hackathon: 2 letters, 2 hours, ready set Yo
You don't need a passport to get on a domestic flight, though - so there's a blind spot for existing law.
Wait you mean the party who had the worlds biggest luddite as the IT minister (and is now the president of the party) isn't afraid of tech

Might need to wipe that chin a bit.
One aspect of strategy, crucially important, is actively, and continually deciding what not to do.

It is necessary to not do great projects and not pursue great ideas, because of scarcity of resources: the organization cannot undertake all of the good and great ideas it encounters.

There is nearly no organization that is not over-committed in its operations. This is constant, challenging, and avoidable problem.

Actively deciding not to do a project, or not follow a particular line of effort...instead of failing, by default to give enough resources or effort to an idea or project aids the organization to focus and excel in particular well-chosen areas. And avoid being mediocre in multiple areas and spread thin as an organization, by actively choosing to do less. What great project will you abandon, to focus on the other great projects you're already doing?

Mission statements fail to inform about what the organization will NOT do. A strategy does.

* Stuck: Why It’s So Hard to Do New Things in Old Organizations (recorded lecture, December 6, 2007)

By Rebecca M. Henderson, (now at Harvard Business School) formerly Eastman Kodak LFM Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Video lecture (skip the first 15 minutes) (total time one hour)
http://video.mit.edu/watch/stuck-why-its-so-hard-to-do-new-t...
I wonder what does RainLoop use as ‘backend’ for communication with mail servers. Are there standalone libraries that fully support, say, Gmail IMAP features? Libraries one can build a mail management GUI on top of.

Last time I updated Apple Mail it included yet a few more fixes specifically for Gmail IMAP support. This makes me think that a compatible enough decent solution requires knocking together something custom at this point.
Javascript the Good Parts is for folks who already know Javascript. The concepts are more advanced than most beginners would encounter (currying, memoization etc).
I thought it was fairly clear that this was not a DMCA takedown but part of an automated process by Soundcloud, similar to YouTube's Content ID [1], that attempts to identify copyrighted content and preemptively block it rather than wait for DMCA takedown notices from copyright holders.

So I was disheartened when I got the takedown, and even more so when I looked through the guidelines for disputing an automatic match and found that I faced a presumption of guilt.

The scary part of this system, which you touch on, is that there is no clear procedure for contesting public domain audio and recourse for ensuring that mistakes get corrected. It circumvents the DMCA entirely by choice of Soundcloud, presumably to build a monetization model that generates revenue for copyright holders that opt into their system, similar to YouTube.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en
I think that what people are trying to say is that if you do something for free, you don't really think about the time going into the answer or what kind of "service" you're providing the original commenter.

But once you incentivize it with money, you start thinking:

1. Hmm, how much am I making per hour here? How does that compare to my normal job?

2. Man, X dollars is kind of low. Do I really want to go find links and write a lot of stuff for just X?

3. I wrote a lot for Y dollars before, but this guy has a more difficult question for only X... guess I'll skip it.

4. This guy's question is something I can answer as a person who does Job Y, but if I'm doing Job Y for him, I want way more than X dollars!
It may simply be because Krebs has a history of unveiling important members of the cyber crime business.
The classical "broken pipe" typically occurs when a process is writing to a closed pipe, not reading (which usually gets a vanilla EOF)

See my longer reply to tenken for some other scenarios I could think off.
I'm in health-tech myself and have a bit of background with the terminology process. Is this using CPT codes for the search? If so, you might want to look at improving some of the functionality, since a lot of these are abbreviated, and unless you are a complete wonk like I am, patients may or may not fully understand the abbreviations. Nice job though with the layout.
if you want to reduce SSD wear, just don't have a swap partition on SSD (or by not having a swap partition at all if you only have SSD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus

relatively speaking, does it matter if we run out in 100 years or 300 years? the point is... we are on an unsustainable path in food production.
Very worthwhile anecdote starts at 48:20ish
Ugh. Rainloop has been on my "to-port" list for sandstorm.io but I hadn't noticed the license. If I want to make this available as a "free" package that can be installed on an open source platform, but I also want to sell hosting for that platform, am I using it for my own commercial advantage and thus violating the license? Who knows?

Guess I'll stick to mailpile and roundcube.
google answers hey?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
It really doesn't. Especially when you see people pulling out the double claw hammers at your company.

Features that have limited real benefits with lots of risk get abused all the time. They are the retarded tools of the world creating technical debt for everybody else and they should be retired.

Extract is one of the stupidist language feature conceived precisely because it puts something so ripe for abuse into the hands of idiots. It even has a simple name that practically encourages its abuse.
Dr. Keith Smith is way cool.

Health Care is Actually Really Cheap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zdqp22G_K4

http://www.surgerycenterok.com

http://marketmedicine.org
>[...] for those using non-WebKit browsers, here's a slightly modified version that will do the trick for you [...]

All four are grey in Firefox for Android.
Another Australian currently in North America here (though I still do business in Australia). Low-to-midrange talent is more expensive (developers start with a higher salary in Aus); though there's likely more "top end" stuff in the US/Canada (What's the average SF developer salary these days?)

Median salaries are higher, but the standard deviation is lower. Part of this is because the effective minimum wage in Australia is $17/hr. (Benefits are likely more expensive in Aus than the US/Canada as well, particularly if you want to differentiate on giving above average holiday leave etc).

I believe that the article misrepresents facts to make a point that may or may not be there - the type of talent that you'd ideally want to attract (especially as an early-mid stage startup) is likely pretty close in cost to the same talent outside Australia. I'd think that there are more pressing issues (such as the tolerance/approach to failure, or differences in interest rates, which lead incubators to asking for much more equity for less money)...
This is not exactly true, most of the ones I know are running straight up Linux. Titan, for example, runs basically SLES on the login nodes and Compute Node Linux on the compute nodes. CNL is a pared down version of Linux, but it definitely is the "real" Linux kernel with the functionality you'd expect to be there.

Most are just slightly spruced up commodity server hardware running Linux. I'm not sure if this is what you're suggesting, but they don't run C/Fortran/whatever on bare metal. They're run by the OS on the compute node just like a normal OS process, except that tasks are dispatched to compute nodes by a central cluster manager. Processes running in a gang communicate via MPI to share data, though coprocessors are also pretty popular as well so you see a lot of communication between the host processor and a coprocessor too. Titan and Tianhe both actually have most of their compute power in the coprocessors (Xeon Phi and Nvidia Tesla, respectively), but they're still arranged in a master-slave arrangement just like if you bought a Phi or Tesla and stuck it in a spare PCI-E slot. They use plain old PCI-E, too. The Cray XT/XE series (a popular model of which Titan is an example) is basically just really nice blades with integrated cooling and a network backbone in a custom cabinet and possibly coprocessors attached to each blade. You could just as easily run Windows XP and play Minesweeper on each blade if you really wanted to, except maybe for some driver issues. The most foreign thing is probably the network backbones, where fabric architectures like Infiniband are popular.

They're also not limited to specific programming languages. In truth, you can run whatever you want if someone has paid the bill for your resource allocation. I watch people run MATLAB on large clusters all the time, which hurts me because it's so damned inefficient. That said, Fortran and C++ comprise the overwhelming majority of large and computationally taxing codes. Just because all that power is there doesn't mean that all of the users take proper advantage of it. One of the larger calculations run on Titan that I know of (Denovo, a nuclear reactor simulation code) didn't even use the GPUs, only the CPUs. Making codes that can take advantage of GPU processing ergo Titan and its predecessor Jaguar has been a major project at the DOE, with libraries like Trilinos being developed to make it easier on scientists, many of whom are only computer programmers as a secondary concern.

The setup you're describing used to be how it was until up to maybe 10 years ago and there are still systems in the top 500 that work like that. Probably some new ones being built, too. But what I've described is what seems to be in fashion these days mostly and the machines I use are all like that. I've heard mumblings about FPGA coprocessors being the Next Big Thing, but we will see.
You could use median instead of filtering out outliers explicitly so your averages don't get skewed.
Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034
> curl wont send anything onto the next process until it's done receiving (all) the data.

Huh? How do you explain I curl | tar -zxvf gigabytes of file without consuming all of my RAM and swap?
Reid Hoffman: You can't keep your best people forever
I filed a report earlier this morning on myself with an incorrect SSN (off by one digit). It came through with a 'clear' on SSN verification and background check, but reported incorrect addresses. I think you guys should look into this.
The timezone issue is significant if you need to offer realtime support as part of your product, and the majority of your clients aren't near where you are.
Discussing things is still a good way to gain understanding. But your unwillingness to acquaint yourself with actual research done on the topic tells me you aren't really interested in gaining understanding, just yelling your opinion louder than everyone else.
Couldn't such a system be built voluntarily? Why should a startup founder be able to bet on someone else's money?

If there is a group of people who need those benefits they can pool money by themselves and provide a safety net for members of that group.
Unsurprising to see a link to Michael Kaplan in there. His blog was taken down due to what sounds like a dispute over patents with his boss. See this twitter conversation between Spolsky and him: https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/447024470256283648.

--

"It has been made officially clear to me that [my] Blog ... is for all intents and purposes dead."

Well, I blogged about a patent and included art, so my former manager took the Blog down with extreme prejudice.

--

Blog is now archived at http://www.siao2.com/ and has much more information on localisation.
If you can fix that problem in the general case then you are about to be a very, very rich person.
Tech moguls raise cash to fight Washington's 'big money problem'
Often money is not the best motivator. Dan Ariely's research shows people who were asked to volunteer consistently put in more effort than those who were compensated with money or gifts. There's a whole chapter about social norms vs. market norms in his book: Predictably Irrational. There's a decent summary of the chapter here: [1].

[1] http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/predictably-...
Logins are not processing. Accepts login but does not change page or permissions level. Recieve "Nonce error: It looks like you don't have permission to do that." on login interactions.

Edit: Refresh x3 negated above.
It depends what league you are in. The top end of salaries in Australia is about $120-$140k no matter how great you are. My impression is that in the right market and with the right skills you can go way higher than that in the US. At lower levels of specialty / skill I think they are comparable. But the work in Australia is mostly incredibly tedious - back end systems for banks, insurance companies, etc. etc.
Falcon launch delayed by one storm, as SpaceX gets caught up in another
Thanks; I appreciate you taking the time.
As someone in this age group it doesn't surprise me in the slightest. The poor people I know can't afford a down payment of any sort/aren't in stable enough jobs to take on a mortgage.

On the flip side the well off individuals I know can't really afford to tie themselves to one location especially in their 20's when they're likely to change jobs several times and potentially be moving all over the country. Sure you can sell the house but you take a financial hit on closing costs unless you luck out and the house substantially appreciates in those few years you own it.
> Also, even if it's [on] TLS/SSL, you're putting a lot of trust in Rainloop not being hacked or malicious.

It seems like no matter how you install the software, you likely have to put at least that level of trust in them. Unless you run it in its own VM or other sandbox, of course.

The TLS point is totally valid, though.
I just tested this with zimwiki, works perfectly, as it's all plain text files.
http://zim-wiki.org/
I didn't try it with encryption as zim wouldn't understand it.
The thing here that what was being exploited is irrationality of the system that uses these made up "Wars On <X>". Whatever this <X> is, it will always be boon for psychopaths and will be a exploited.

War on Terrorism -- send tips about so and so is building bombs or talking about jihad.

War on Drugs -- plant or send someone a drug package and notify police. One worse, SWAT them. With good luck they will be shot by the cops.

War on Kids via Zero Tolerance -- plant a piece of toast looking like a gun in someone's bag and tell a teacher.

War on Electronic Crime (Hacking) -- plant a DoS tool pointed to a .mil website on enemy's machine or network.

The list goes on. Of course in this case we have a good ending so that is encouraging. But the scary part is not that someone would wish all this harm to another person and come up with scheme like this, but that knowing how prosecution works, how Wars On <X> work, this seems like a very close call. It is the lack of faith in justice and the system to act rationally that is scary. Maybe the neighbor who is building bombs got a visit from FBI and they couldn't charge him. But they visited his work. Scared his kids. And ultimately put him on a watch list so from then on they get harassed every time they travel.
bemmu

Hopefully you see this, unfortunately your comment is dead.

Because I think your comment has value I will quote it here, please let me know if you'd like it removed.

"You can also have procedural music.

Viznut (a legendary Finnish democoder) did some experiments to see how short you could code something that still sounds at least interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg

I also wrote piece of JavaScript that can play these programs in case you want to try create your own: http://www.bemmu.com/music/index.html "
Caching issue.. Just disabled caching.. Site might get overloaded again now due to HN traffic but im bringing up another large instance as I type this.. (facepalm) should have prepared..
You'd have to be crazy to give away stock as part of a kickstarter campaign. Even it were possible I can't imagine many project creators making that choice. The numbers just don't make sense. Especially given how successful kickstarter has been without it.
Apparently former Google Answers Researchers started http://uclue.com/ after Google shuttered Answers.
Having a single example of a good short player doesn't mean size doesn't matter. There may be a positive correlation between size and "skill", and Messi is one of the best despite his size disadvantage.
Except nobody wants a PHP webmail application.
This whole "controversy" over companies who do Kickstarters and later raise money (or sell their company) seems overblown. When you're backing a Kickstarter for these types of companies you're often trying to get the product as a pre-order. So in addition to a potentially low margin business, these companies are now supposed to feel inclined to give you -- the customer -- equity in their company? As a backer, do you want the product or do you want the equity? They are two completely different ideas that seem to be conflated in the press. Perhaps all this controversy is fabricated by the press and not an actual problem.

Kickstarter in particular is about rewards and/or patronage. There is an avenue for equity based crowdfunding elsewhere, the question is whether there is a big enough demand on the consumer side (with people who have little information about the company) and the business side (with founders who don't want to share equity). I'm not referencing AngelList, but rather companies who would run Kickstarter-like projects.
Oh, on that I agree, but it's hard to fight with an ingrained culture of ownership ("rent is dead money!") and cheap credit, and the income/price ratios have been consistent at least since the 80s according to people who bought back then (just like house prices in the US kept going up from WWII to 2007). Australian real estate, unlike much of the US, is also very desirable to a lot of foreigners, and all the government needs to do is lift restrictions on foreign ownership to keep the market afloat a few more years. Look at how central London prices have shot up with the influx of money from as far as Moscow or Qatar...
I am hearing some very interesting points about how money could be a poor motivator or even a deterrent (it sounds like some people are saying, because it makes them evaluate the time they are spending on the question and therefore how much their time is worth)?

However in creating this I imagined a poor college kid that was stoked to get a few dollars helping another kid solve his homework.. We will see if that actually happens though..
A huge benefit in Australia (at least, for now), is the healthcare and education system. You can come out of university with no overheads and free healthcare. All you need is rent, pizza and hosting costs and you can build a startup. I honestly think a lot of the barriers in the article are overstated. The biggest problem is the lack of economy of scale here, there is just not much of a market to test your ideas in locally and a lot of regulation and legal barriers (eg: asinine copyright laws, no fair use, etc.) that make it much harder.
Honestly, I don't think it's going to work because a small number of people are always going to try to cheat the system and end up ruining the whole thing.
Indeed, Sherlock, Jay-Z, and Harry Potter are diluted brands.
Novi Security Launches Kickstarter. No Contract/No False Alarm Security System
I guess it's clear, and he never mentions DMCA by name. I'm just confused why the author isn't more pointedly calling out Soundcloud for circumventing DMCA on behalf of (alleged) copyright holders. The DMCA, for all its faults, at least has some token protection for end-users. For someone whose job is primary copyright activist for the EFF, this guy is cutting Soundcloud an awful lot of slack for what are anti-creative, anti-cultural, and anti-social policies.

I mean look at this:

>I’m sure my particular uploading situation will work out fine. SoundCloud is full of smart people, and this automated match will get cleared up in days, if not hours.

So, what... nothing to see here, then? Is he trying to get his job at Soundcloud back? What bootlicking horseshit is this? It is not copyright activism.
Yes, but that's like complaining you have to spend time brushing your teeth in the morning, or take time out to feed yourself the calories you need to live.

There is nothing you can do to change it, so if you really, really don't like it, move someplace it's not an issue.

It's part of life, stop complaining about it, and get on with it.
Not sure why someone voted you down, that quite believably would play into it and certainly doesn't seem to contradict the numbers in the paper in any obvious way.

(The wealthiest folks did see an increase in wealth over the 10-year time considered by the paper while everyone else saw a loss, but that's possibly because the wealthiest 10% also had a comparatively smaller amount of their assets tied up in their homes to begin with.)
>Had the backers received company stock instead of company T-shirts, they would have seen close to a 1,000 percent ROI.

This assumes Oculus would have sold 100% of its shares at a $2 million valuation, and then still sold again for $2B after the developers had cashed out.

It's a nonsense comparison.
I saw that, based upon Steve's linked issue elsewhere in this thread. I think that's great and would go a long way in addressing some concerns here. Moving it to an organization is reassuring as well. Thanks for the update!
Hello! I'm the creator of Egison.
Would you tell me what your project like?

I got an idea of Egison when I was working with logic expressions. Pattern-matching of the existing languages are not strong enough to do what I'd like to do. They can't express pattern-matching against set intuitively. Therefore, I've created Egison.
> According to a trusted source in the security community, that email account [belonging to 'Fly'] was somehow compromised last year.

Right... I'm sure it was just a source who themselves got the information legally secondhand, and that Krebs had nothing to do with it. ;)
Germany: Philipp Lahm 5'7" and Mario Gotze 5'9" Belgium: Eden Hazard 5'8" Italy: Andrea Pirlo 5'9.5" Netherlands: Wesley Sneijder 5'7" Spain: Xavi and Iniesta 5'7"
I get the feeling you just like having a rant about unions. As the parent said, unions aren't relevant for software startups.

BTW, I personally don't like unions. I think they were needed in the past, but now they are just trying to find a reason to exist.
>Now suppose that due to its popularity, other artists jump on the bandwagon left and right.

At some point, though, that's supposed to happen. That's how culture works. Of course most of the stuff so created is going to be crap - most art created is crap, after all. Think what we'd have though, if the Star Wars copyright were over and done with by now, or if the LotR copyright had already expired. Mostly, we'd have a bunch of rubbish barely rising above the level of second-rate fan-fic, but we'd also have some real gems.

20 years is plenty of time.