skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can tie a definition of "heavy drinker" to "causative factor in 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults", I don't care whether it agrees with the common definition, it's still useful. If anything, it's the reverse - if some quantity is enough to cause that much loss of life, then it's probably "heavy".
I am working on http://weekplan.net helping people better manage their time.
Even if I don’t know much about the medical aspects of the problem, I could try to learn his methodology following his decision-making process, and then I could use this knowledge to come up with a set of rules.”

As the song says, "everything old is new again":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_based_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
Here's how Android could fix its permission system:

Take contact lists as an example.

Many programs request access to your contact list. Usually, this is so that they can display back to you a contact picker that lets you choose some set of contents which you want to share with, or otherwise invite to use the app. A few bad apps will just spam your contacts without your approval.

How could we make this more secure? Well, imagine that Android itself implemented a contact picker API. Instead of requesting access to contacts upfront, a program would call an API to say "Please ask the user to select some contacts for purpose X". The platform itself would then render a contact picker UI, and the user would pick some contacts. Only the chosen contacts would be returned to the app.

As far as the user is concerned, for legitimate apps, the UX I described is exactly the same as what they get now, except that the app doesn't have to request general access to the user's contact list upfront, and thus the whole thing is more secure. It's strictly superior! And this approach -- of inferring security from decisions the user is making anyway, by making those decisions happen in privileged UIs rendered by the platform -- turns out to extend to far more than just contacts.

This is the model I'm currently implementing in https://sandstorm.io (a platform that can be summarized as "Android for your personal server").
I believe and hope that this is not a description of the authors life but rather a stereotypical generalization of the common problems a lot of people face every day. However to a lot of people from 2nd and 3rd world countries just owning a house with some small amount of land is an American Dream came true.
OpenGL is such a terrible API I can't imagine using it in an environment where you don't even get the cheap benefit of putting up with it, i.e. hardware acceleration.
> What Amazon forked is not the Android the licencees like Samsung use.

Of course it is. It doesn't come with the Play suite of apps and services, but the code you see in the open source repository is exactly the same as what Samsung gets.
At UserDeck, we're building customer support software that works with existing websites.

The first product is an embedded knowledge base widget that displays inline into the page and inherits the styling and blends right into the design you already have rather than setting up another support site and spending the time to match the design. To build on that customizability we added layouts and components which are simply javascript settings changes that dynamically change the display of the widget.

You can learn more at http://userdeck.com/guides.

Send me a message if you are frustrated with existing solutions as we branch into other products down the road such as ticketing and live chat.
This is amazing! It's unfortunate that we can't have the dams constantly open or at least a few to keep some water flow. I would love to fund something that would allow us to do this yearly or even more frequently
If/when you are looking for testers I'd be interested in helping out (had something like this with dropbox integration on my to-do list forever).
The author's surprise at the size of the ARC code seems to have led him astray from the actual bug in his code. The unoptimized version performs refcount manipulation of 'id' and crashes. The optimized version avoids refcount mucking and does not crash. Seems to me this strongly implies that an invalid 'id' is being passed into the function!
Before and/or after the fact, research participants are made aware that they were part of a psychology experiment.

I wonder if Facebook plans on alerting subjects of this experiment to their participation?
Does Buffer support HN submissions?
Ability to search source code still not implemented in BitBucket after 3 years
That would be unethical, because of the breaking into the house part, not the mood-altering part.

Would it be unethical if I placed candy and money around my own house, invited you into my house, and told you to take anything you desire?
Interestingly, one study has found that the reasons for abstaining actually determine whether or not it results in slightly worse health outcomes than light drinking:

http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/pubs/pop/pop2012-0006.pdf

"Mortality risk is low for light drinkers and many individua
ls who abstain from drinking—including those who abstain for religious and moral reasons, have a responsibility to family, were brought up not to drink, and are not social; it is higher among former, infrequent, and moderate drinkers, and individuals who abstain because they do not like the taste of alcohol, are concerned that they will lose control, or are concerned about adverse consequences.
Unsurprisingly, mortality risk is by far the highest for heavy drinkers. We reveal that reasons for abstention capture heterogeneity in the risk of death among lifetime abstainers. "
Holy crap that was a long read. I was able to see the road just before it was bull dozed. I bought a door that was in the second house many years ago for a friend of mine.
I don't think you understand the type of investors that show up at demo day. Hint: they aren't writing the 8 and 9 figure checks you think Quora is hoping they'll write them.
It's 1337. Hahaha. Do they still have 2600 meetups anymore?
Ask HN: Plan to fail or fail to plan?
Failure is the most dominant outcome, but it seems like no one ever talks about planning for failure. How do you plan for failure, and how much does that factor into your overall planning?
Yup, he's pretty brilliant.
Is biometric ID the killer app for smart watches?
Not dead, check out llvmpipe in Mesa. Ubuntu's Unity desktop uses it by default in lieu of accelerated GL. Phoronix benchmarks it regularly, getting 20 fps in some games.

If you are running Mesa you can try it by setting LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1.
PhoneCard is entirely powered by Twilio.
Kinetics of the Boston Marathon
Building A Weather Station
Interesting.

I have already seen the approach "Lets design this in haskell and write production code in C" for http://cryptol.net/, but due to limited scope (mostly functions of several hundered bits input and output as customary in crypto-primitives), they were able to check that the implementation adheres to specification automatically. The aim was to allways know that the c code does what it is supposed to, so that programmer can focus on mitigating side-channel attacks :)

I wonder if something similar would be applicable to writing the micro-kernell.
I am using rss a lot, I've tried almost all of the popular solutions but I didn't find some specific features I need, Like knowing which rss feeds I usually skip, which I read the title and pass and which I actually click and read.

I created a fetcher/bookmarker for storing the information I am interested in https://github.com/johndel/freeze

Right now you can just connect rss but I'd like to add facebook, twitter, stackoverflow, github and youtube updates and of course a powerful search.
Agree! Quality advice can come from good mentors as well.
two projects:

1. Application Performance Monitoring: this shall help understand software's runtime behavior, alerts, etc.

2. Company Directory - A online software for Compnay HR: For now just a proposal, soon to start as I see some people follow it :P https://github.com/ankitjaininfo/Darpan
Just because your submission has zero votes and no comments doesn't mean you are doing it wrong, it just isn't as interesting as other stuff. I do browse your contributions but I don't have votes to give to new topics, I also try not to comment on anything because it is generally not appreciated when I do. Other people don't even have accounts.

Perhaps if submitting something would cost some karma you could submit as much as you want without feeling guilty. If additional submissions in the same hour/day would be more expensive you could chose to ignore that too.
Very few founders will talk so honestly about their fundraising, props to dmor.
Are Containers the Right Answer to the Wrong Question?
Quora is annoying as hell. You need to log in to see the answers or do anything. Talked to one of the dev why they do this and he sorta dodge the question, I got the hint so I left it as is. Quora is useless to me in general and Stackoverflow is much better.

Path, I've heard of path and I don't care for it. I've moved away from Facebook and hardly use it anymore. So yeah, the mass migration of Facebook and other social site is probably a trend.

Foursquare, I admire it a lot. I love the business model and the app is pretty decent, better than Yelp that's for sure.
No, that was Infiniminer. Minecraft was, from the start, "Infiniminer but with action-RPG elements."
Building a Zigbee weather station and digging a French drain around the house.
The amount of dilution here is worth noting:

YC: ~10% after conversion

500 Startups: ~10% after conversion

Version One, Felicis, etc (Q1 14): $1M+ investment at $5-$7M valuation at most? Another 20%

Flybridge, A16Z, Gramercy, etc (Q2 14): $1M investment at $6-$9M valuation at most? Another 20%

Between just these 4 groups, they own 60%+ of the company. I'm not accounting for angels. In addition to this, with an option pool, cofounder, COO, and a handful of employees, I wonder how much Danielle owns.

On a less pessimistic note, I wonder if there are acquisition routes. If so, who?
http://www.craftedbylove.com/#/ is my most recent project. it is a showcase of beautiful web design.
The phone state/identity permission is so moronic that it must be intentional on Google's part. There's no need for a permission to determine if the "phone" part is active. And certainly not to tie it into your phone ID and call info.

I usually hate assumptions of malice, but I can't see any engineering reason here. Yet training users to accept tracking is in Android's favor.
Bless Hacker News for having discovered souls like you. You really have no idea what Android is.
It's an illusion. I, too share this thinking through.

Beside doing things you regret when drunk - like making an ass out of yourself when talking to more sober people in bars or feeling shitty the next day... it does not make you experience yourself as a better person when sober. You have to be drunk to be that better person. So you drink. It does not help - at least that's my experience. Getting drunk can be fun but...where to stop?

Being outgoing for me is strongly connected to my self-esteem and feeling of self-worth. If it's down the drain I hardly leave the house and run away from social interactions without alcohol. If I accumulated some self-worth and feeling fine with myself I enjoy going out and being social in a sober state even more.

I doubt that you are more socially awkward for other people when sober but your anxiety makes you so uncomfortable that you have this urge to grab a drink and have a feeling of relaxation. After a few beers you feel better...

Be careful it's a vicious circle and it's worth to spend some energy into forcing yourself into social situation in a sober state. It can be fun to sit sober in a bar and watch all the people getting more and more drunk.
> They built single-thread, multi-process concurrency as the core of their concurrency model(share nothing). This means by default Erlang concurrency primitives work beyond a single node, Clojure's don't.

Well actually Erlang is not single-threaded it is multi-scheduler and multi-process. CPU or OS based threads are used for scheduler and processes (possibly hundreds of thousands of them) run on all of them.

Moreover processes are very small memory wise (only a few K) and _most importantly_ have isolated heaps (yes, all while running in the same OS-level process.

What you are mentioning there is called "distribution". This is what allows you to send a message to another Erlang process, running on a different machine, different continent and have it look like Pid ! Msg which is exactly how you'd send a message to a local Erlang process as well.
Check out bookshelf and knex
I am working on AlteredMe(http://brazil.altd.me)
altering the way we interact in major events, starting with sports.
via commentary/audio/emotes
highly contextual experience rather than just text
Thanks, looks interesting. And what's wrong with the people? "I can't use it, therefore it sucks"? Software rendering will always be an interesting problem domain because implementing it is a non-trivial problem.
Yes, but they're better at it than Facebook. They've got a bunch of gullible illogical peasants about to ban A/B testing... or at least drive it underground. For the children.
40 investors where "50% are in touch 1x per month, and 25% are in touch 1x per week." That's 60 emails a month (2 a day). Do you find this helpful? Can you keep them all so well-informed? Can you actionably react to all that communication and advice?
Yes, jedmeyers. Your reply reminded me of what I heard on Jian Ghomeshi's "The Q" radio program about the Chilean miners that their lives were destroyed by the broken promises, fame and greed of talk show's, movie deals after they were rescued to the surface, some of them expressed the desire to go back to the shafted mine when they were happier and a purpose.
Business: http://www.protoexchange.com - A freelance Hardware community. We match you to experts who can help solve your hardware headaches :D

Side-project: A/B Testing tool that compares metrics between two completely different websites!
You should try and get this on http://www.producthunt.com/
"Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own." - TimBL
The problem I have with this is that breaking down by category is not how I think about security. I break it down by severity. I don't think "can this app access my microphone?" I think, "Can it access my microphone while the app is not in the foreground? Can it do it while the screen is off? Can it run at startup and do this without me knowing? Same for location access, various other things. Google's change makes all those the same, because they come in the same "category". It might be a simple way to think about security, but it is not a secure way.

What I really want is a tier of permissions that I can totally trust. I want to be able to install any random app from any random developer and know it's not got ability to harm me. This change seems to ruin that. They can install it with lite permissions and then upgrade them later and I won't be notified. Most especially I want this for my wife, mother and children. They need simple instructions: only ever install apps with permissions like X. But again, this change ruins that. Permissions like X get escalated to permissions like Y without notification. I'm really not sure what you can tell anybody to keep them safe now other than "don't install apps. Which is probably what I will start doing.
Oh, that was 100 times, not 100%. My bad. :)

And it's "typical" not "maximum". If a typical capitalist is 100 times richer than the typical worker, and workers outnumber capitalists 1000:1, then 90% of the of all wealth (and thus economic power) is with the workers, yet capitalists still have their incentive to work their hardest - some of them will only be 10x, and some 200x of the baseline. The key is that in this scheme capitalists are all competing with each other for the same slice of the wealth pie, instead of competing against the workers, as they do today.
Thanks, you gave me some food for thought
Any font other than Terminus for Terminal
I've using terminus font for my CLI. I also used Courier Pitch & Ubuntu. Any other mono font well suited for the Terminal
>The dev who writes a native-code Markdown gem for Rails is going to be surprised at how different the experience of writing a SPI bus driver is.

Again, you're taking what I said and twisting the logic beyond recognition. No one uses Rails to do embedded programming. No one expects normal Rails and embedded Rails to be the same (because there is no embedded Rails).

Embedded C and "desktop" C are more or less exactly the same. They are the same language, in just about every way.

This is absolutely not true with standard Java and embedded Java subsets (like Java Card). There are huge differences in the language itself, like those I mentioned. Half the reason people use Java is the memory management features. Java minus these features is a fundamentally different language. Not to mention the lack of certain fundamental types (No floats, no multi-dimensional arrays, etc.) and other weird quirks of systems like Java Card.

> you were wrong to begin with when you scoffed at the idea of Java being used for remote controls, given that small consumer electronics were the original problem domain for the language that became Java,

Argumentum ad antiquitatem, or maybe argumentum ad auctoritatem (towards Sun). Just because Java was intended to be used for something does not mean it's any good at that thing.

>and you're wrong today, given that there are relatively popular and very successful small-form-factor embedded environments based on Java.

Argumentum ad populum. Just because a lot of people use some subset of Java for embedded programming doesn't mean it's a good idea. Lots of people use PHP too; it's not because it's a good thing to do; it's because PHP programmers are cheap. If I had to hazard a guess, that's the same reason people use Java in embedded environments.
I love it when insiders flail thinking they are rewriting the rules of business. I also love it when they completely misunderstand the term business-as-usual.

The opposite of business as usual is a project. A temporary , uncertain venture with a defined finish point.

By your statement Quora is simply a project, not a business.

Keep up the superior attitude; it's working well for you.
The only thing I don't like about HOPE is that the videos are so expensive to buy, but I understand HOPE is very expensive to run.
they have a few competitors (CB Insights, DataFox, Tracxn, Indicate.io), remains to be seen who wins out
How, exactly, would it be "more honest" to exclude a huge chunk of deaths?

There's a lot of denial going on in this discussion.
Ask HN: Idea Sunday
I wonder what happened to Idea Sunday, there were some really good discussions there:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616910
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582077
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601
Hopefully we can restart the tradition.
Yes, prohibition showed us that regulation is an effective way to prevent people from doing things
A common misconception is that hydroelectricity has the advantage over other renewables of requiring less land. This is not the case. The surface area of Lake Mead is 640 square kilometers -- this much ecologically viable land was destroyed to make way for hydroelectricity. The power generation capacity afforded by the Hoover Dam on this lake is roughly 2 GW.

A solar panel produces roughly (we're lowballing) 100 watts per square meter. Solar panels to produce 2 GW -- the power output of Lake Mead -- would cover about 20 million square meters, or 20 square kilometers. If we assume the solar panels only operate at capacity for a third of a day, that's 60 square kilometers. If we also assume that only half of the used land is actually light-capturing, that's 120 square kilometers.

Even under the most pessimistic of assumptions, solar still uses five times less land than hydro. Realistic solar installations would probably be significantly more efficient than I've assumed. Batteries are also significantly more space-efficient than hydroelectric storage.
Yeah reality is we only have enough dev resources to pick one. iOS is a good platform to start on because if things go well there then there's a chance it will do well elsewhere and on the flip side if doesn't go well then it's probably not worth investing in an android, windows mobile ver etc.

What platform would have been your pref ?
1. I consider companies to be achieving when they turn a profit. So do investors.

2. The companies here are not under-achievers; they are non- achievers.

3. It's a shame that FourSquare is still labelled as a gamified check in service. Especially contrasted with Yelp and their fake review scandals. 10 years later and Yelp are still in the red. Never turned a profit and no possibility of doing so.
A Haskell game engine. It's still in the early hacking phases, but I'm going to do a full writeup and code dump soon.
"better" is subjective term.

And, I'm not sure the very common line "market forces manage the economy better than planners" is actually universally true. I think without governmental controls and regulation we might have severe economic events starving a third of the world to death every 20 years or so. So, there is a balance, even for market economies.

In addition, lets look at your final statements... Technology replaces the need for human labor. What if technology did the planning? Some really good algorithms refined over time by really smart people. Do you still think simple human greed would produce better outcomes for humanity? I don't.

And one more point... a debt based economy where money is expanded might be the actual reason for the success of "capitalist" countries. Oh, and some conquest. And, the economic punishment of countries not falling in line with "market economy". Maybe "capitalism" itself has less to do with the actual outcome than is often claimed by capitalists.
^^

Quora is essentially a bunch of guys asked their rich mates for funding; they got it and produced some semblance of an interesting project. But it has zero business potential.

Most analysis has put the dedicated Quora community at around 700k with a further 1-2 million fleeting users of less than 1 log in a month.

It's a question that crops up on Quora constantly. Pick any popular question and you see 90% of the answer come
From the same <5% of the community.
Using markdown syntax in Javadoc comments
What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
What's an an idea that you have implemented successfully in your local area that I can bring to my local area?
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I graduated in 2002 and at the time people were really scared about outsourcing. I chose to go EE however. At the time what scared me was actually that my college education would be useless. I saw too many 13 year olds being invited to conferences, friends who never went to college becoming software engineers, etc. So I picked a field where I felt my college education would be an advantage.

In the end I got the CS masters anyway and now I realize that neither is really a threat and, despite what people say, the degree was very valuable. Depends what you do with it I guess.
I'm thinking things like pizza price comparison apps etc
You're dealing with the infinite, and returning with a high probability of the value 1.

If that turns out to be correct - I'll eat my own brain.
If you're a US citizen, you already do fund such an entity with your taxes.

If it's important to you, let your legislators know, and vote accordingly.
Damn, headline isn't NASA Tests LSD In Flying Saucer.

Maybe next time.
Yes. He's saying that their lack of transparency justifies their abuse. I'm trying to explain that I disagree.
I like hamsters too!