skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Despite consistent and repeated evidence that electronic patient record systems can be expensive, resource-hungry, failure-prone and unfit for purpose, we need more studies to ‘prove’ what we know to be the case: that replacing paper with technology will inevitably save money, improve health outcomes, assure safety and empower staff and patients.

Paper-based systems are also failure-prone and unfit for purpose. They just fail in familiar ways that the old guard have accepted as just part of the business.
You might want to check out a site that'll integrate with the internet connected scales that are out there. http://www.weightgrapher.com/ It'll keep track and give you an exponetially decaying average so that small blips don't impact the actual trend of your weight.
> When I was young there was a local convenience store just down every street (and not just crappy junk filled 7-11s).

Do you think zoning laws prevent 7-11 from selling milk, or do you think 7-11 sells what the market buys?
This should be all you need: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/BitHub

I haven't tried it and have no affiliation with it, just saw that the repo is there.
2 Chainz, 2 Pac, 2 Girls 1 Cup?
I follow this workflow:

1. Never do work on a branch that is being tracked on the origin. Always segregate your work on a local-only branch by doing a 'git checkout -b my-work'

2. Since I prefer not to have merge commits that don't add value to the history, I always get the latest changes, and rebase my-work off the latest. i.e.,

git checkout develop (being tracked on the origin)
git pull (get latest changes)
git co my-work
git rebase develop
git co develop
git merge my-work (no merge commit as it's fast forwarded)
git push
git branch -d my-work
I feel that, in the long run, apps are meant to be user interface to something bigger than being an all-encompassing entity for use cases outside of music, gaming and a few other categories. In other words, the service being accessed through an app will be equally if not more important compared to the app itself. And I just don't see indie devs being able to manage and scale on both fronts equally, yet. Maybe the more infrastructure as a code and web app development get commoditized, the better will be the chances for indies to shine/profit again? Until then, app is just gonna be a fancy (and in many cases the only) endpoint for most sustainable business models.
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"The Regents" was likely an artifact of advertising clause, not of people being lazy filling in placeholders in the license.

(I believe quite a few bits of Windows will still, thanks to advertising clause, remind you about the Regents of the University of California)
I thought it was a pun on the Saudi Arabia Empty Quarter which had the richest oil fields in the world. For example Ghawar field used to pump quite a bit of oil, although mostly water now. May have heard of Sheyba field, another important field.

I like Thesiger's travelogues about the empty quarter.
I do hope everyone realizes this is silly.

Everything in this comparison relies on the quality of data. The "number of innovations" data comes exclusively from a book by Isaac Asimov with under 1500 entries. To make some sort of grand pronouncement about a date range for the end of humanity based on Asimov's very subjective and unscientific qualification of what makes an innovation is absurd.

It's interesting that we think incremental improvement matters less than a brand new idea. Even steel tools built upon prior knowledge, and took decades to get right. Machines were incremental improvements from manually powered systems, which gradually evolved into the complex machiens we have now.

Some of these changed may feel like evolutionary innovations rather than revolutionary ideas, but that's how technology develops. It's easy to look at past innovations from the Greeks, because we see how the technology went from 0 to amazing. But we do it in retrospect, and speaking in terms of centuries, which makes innovations appear to spring out of nowhere more than they actually did.
Lots of info here thanks!

I currently use the list provided here [0] which is pretty comprehensive, and just append it to my /etc/hosts file manually; updating it evry now and then is good enough.
My question is, why do you need dnsmasq (other than for speeding up dns queries), and why do yo need to serve a blank page instead of simply redirecting network requests to /dev/null?

And I use uzbl [1] for browsing, which is a neat little webkit based browser, with Vim like controls, and stripped to the bare minimum, thus the need for an alternative to adBlock.

[0]: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

[1]: http://www.uzbl.org/
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> central "town center/shopping mall" surrounded by condos and apartments, surrounded by townhouses,

That's not the kind of suburb at issue. That's a small town.
It is for Wikipedia. Otherwise no open source project has a "business model".
We did calculations on that about 2 years ago, then it was about 700K pear year.

But that left out some cost like Shared network folders that our users use, so we would have needed to get some kind of replacement for our netapp(a form as NAS).
Heh, if you look into my comment history you'll see the community much prefers I not participate in these long and drawn-out conversations.

I actually agree with the downvotes, as my comment was mostly off-topic, but I felt it needed to be said.

It's also preferable, in a moment of egotism, to get 3 downvotes on that comment, rather than the torrent of dozens of downvotes on the ensuing potential conversation. I've recently lost all faith in this community to respect an attempt at an honest debate.
Please authenticate with something that's not a phone number! I guess that's the simplest for most people (look at WhatsApp), but the reason why I use things like Signal is because I despise cell carriers. I'd like to use this on a (cheaper) non-cellular device (for myself and family members).

The Holy Grail of Secure Communications: Group Encrypted Text, Voice, and Video. Right now, Skype gives you the unholy grail, but you get all three (+group). I wish Open Whisper Systems luck.
Which is, of course, pointless. This is after all one of the most critical points of FOIA: you can not know what you can't know.

So there is no way for someone to refute the assertion that "nothing is here". The fact that there were indeed responsive documents at SJPD was only uncovered through third-party sources.

The assumption has to be that whoever responded to the (repeated) FOIA requests has concealed this information intentionally. Anything else would reduce the FOIA process to a laughing stock.
Nice work, and great write up.

Mobile website security issues are often overlooked, but are a great place to look when pentesting.
It would seem to me rather shocking that they wouldn't be ordering more drones given that they can be tactically more useful in situations that require being able monitor a large area or crowd. For example, a drone in the air would be able to monitor a parade crowd more effectively than an officer on the ground and save the city money by not needing as many police patrolling.
This is mostly the feeling I get from reading those articles about lousy sale on iOS.
It has become too easy to write those types of simple games, what are those guys expecting?
It's a known fact that if you write such a game in a few weeks, it will most likely not generate any money.
Excellent analysis. Great follow up to the http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hi...
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No, the messages are encrypted device-to-device with Apple providing a key directory service. Apple must be complicit to read messages without physical or backdoor access to the device.

http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html
> The taxpayer foots the bill to have the grid and city services extended for these suburbs.

The taxpayer is who gets the services.
Google fixes Android's Fake ID security hole
"MapGraph is up to two orders of magnitude faster than parallel CPU implementations on up 24 CPU cores and has performance comparable to a state-of-the-art manually optimized GPU implementation."

That doesn't bode well for my $1000 GPU Speed Parity Bounty
at
https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
based on my belief that the Cuckoo Cycle graph-theoretic proof-of-work algorithm is more suited to CPUs.
That's how pentesters think - nice one
“Probably in the last few months I’ve had quite a few principals and superintendents call and say, ‘I bought these 500 iPads or 1,000 laptops because the district next to us just bought them,’ and they’re like, now what do we do?” Powell said.

Argh. This reminds me of the many problems that stem from schools buying books and lending them to the students, which I think is madness. Have students buy their own books, and subsidize the students directly if they're poor, using vouchers or something. Kids are much more likely to look after books/laptops/whatever if they're answerable to their parents for the cost.
There are a lot of one-time expenses involved with going public, so you'd have to strip those out of any extrapolation. But I'm not going anywhere near TWTR.
This is what is used in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_%28alternating_...
> if you want to succeed, you must-must-must differentiate yourself. if you can't, yes -- it's a hobby. and, unfortunately no, you're not a professional.

This, in a nutshell, is the biggest problem with the solo game/app developer. Any concept simple enough for one person to implement has been done to death by hundreds of other people already. So how do you differentiate?

Marketing.

>> 2) marketing is everything.

> no. no it's not.

Unfortunately, it is. See, it doesn't matter how novel and awesome (aka differentiated) your product is, you still have to sell it. In order to sell the product, you have to have the right product. This is why traditional marketing includes product development (look up the 5 Ps of marketing). Marketing as a function can tell you where your users are and what they're looking for. Then you design your product based on that, and find the optimal way to sell that product to your target users. The pricing/promotion piece (or what people usually think of as "marketing") comes at the end.

Promotion in and of itself is not a differentiation strategy unless you have deep pockets. But promotion is absolutely required to launch a successful product: I don't care how differentiated your product is, if your users don't know about it, it might as well not exist at all.

> 3) it's a lottery.

It pretty much is a lottery at this point. Any game with a unique concept that is doable by a single person is pretty much immediately copied 10 times over by a Chinese/Indian sweatshop. Why develop your own new game when you can copy someone else's? Throw 10 copies of the app up with slightly different graphics in the hopes that one of them catches fire. Good luck trying to sue a foreign company as an independent developer; even if you win they'll never pay up.

App development has become a portfolio game specifically to deal with the randomness. If you view the costs for developing a product as encompassing both SW development costs AND marketing costs, the marketing costs would easily outstrip the development costs. Underperforming apps are unceremoniously killed, and more marketing dollars pumped into the ones that start succeeding.

It's hard to play that game as an indie developer, which is why we've seen so many of these posts pop up recently. People were sold on this vision of an egalitarian, meritocratic app economy and it's just not true. In a maturing market like mobile gaming, the one who shouts the loudest commands the most attention. For an indie dev with no capital, that can be really hard to do.
The effect is spanning too. As Alberta has sucked up the trades for the associated housing booms, pay has jumped in Saskatchewan, and now is jumping in Manitoba.

Ontario hasn't really seen it yet, but they've started advertising for skilled and unskilled trades here too.

As someone trying to start a business it's actually a great time. 5 years ago work was getting poached by fly-by-nighters who did shoddy work for cheap prices, but now it seems they've cleared out and headed west.
A fair bounty considering the found bugs (20k). Have you considered donating part of it to charities or similar, e.g. the EFF?
I am actually testing the 1 day fasting diet, exercising every day (either speed walking 5K, jogging for 5K or tennis) and limiting liquid calories.

The things people forget:
-your body is unable to calculate liquid calories (pop, juices etc) - so even after drinking 2K calories in Cola you can be still hungry

-fasting for 1 day a week (200-300 intake in sugars calories like sugar tea) or 2 days a week (500 calories in fruit sugars a day) is extremely healthy as for first 24 hours since eating your body will use gathered sugars in your body to maintain itself burning all the nasty stuff logging your veins and stomach. This also helps you to say no to food - next day after fasting you wont feel like extremaly hungry and even very small meals through the day will be enough to you

-track calories - but be honest, always round it up DOWN to full 50s and 100s.

-calculate calories weekly, not daily. Make sure on the end of the week you are good. Start Monday with fasting - you will have 1,500-2,000 calories deficit already so basically you can eat most of stuff through the week.

I have lost already 10 pounds in 4 weeks, I can run easily and I feel much better. 2 more months and I am done!
I'm not a whiskey drinker, but they make a damn good gin. Maybe that in addition to the whiskey would make it worthwhile?
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The first startup I joined, in 1995, was GolfWeb[1] which was an online magazine about Golf. It was a bit early :-). Although earlier that year I had shown my inlaws the "Internet" using HotJava and they were amazed that I could get data from Brazil in real time like that. Like others here though the "internet" for me was largely email, ftp, and netnews (aka usenet). That net still exists, sort of like cosmic background radiation, but its there.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/19961105120854/http://www.golfweb...
Only if it's aged in rusty oil barrels covered in graffiti.
We are currently working on a pose-estimation algorithm (EPnP) that will use the results we get from feature detection to find a camera pose, so we can make 3D augmentation. It will be very helpful to create augmented reality applications.
There's a good argument that we shouldn't attempt to work on our weaknesses but that we should work on our strengths instead. I don't have a link but I've seen reference to this in research about performance reviews.
The post I responded to wasn't addressing sustainability. But to run with yours...

The article covers sweeping statements & accusations, ignoring local realities. If a particular town made a bad deal with a developer, that's not the same category as those that made a good deal; a big screwup can skew the average when lumped in among several successes. Ranting about sewer maintenance doesn't apply to a neighborhood that doesn't have sewers (mine has backyard septic systems/fields; your offal is your problem), and likewise for public water vs private wells. It's a solvable problem: should taxes be higher? if so, raise them accordingly and look for alternate solutions like encouraging domestic self-sufficiency.

It's a paperwork problem. Much of what the article describes involves carefully negotiated & balanced deals, followed later with absurd & overbearing demands for "improvements" - no surprise the latter are "unsustainable". Build a community with suitable roads and lawns designed to balance them ... then demand a >50% increase in road width, destroying lawns and vastly altering traffic dynamics? Build a suitable sewer system, then vastly raise & over-engineer requirements, then have to accommodate normal repairs to the absurd new requirements? Yeah, that's not going to work. The problem isn't suburbs, it's overbearing overpowered know-it-alls who don't have to deal with consequences of their unilateral declarations.
Building Node.js Together
Test the project.
Did they ever do anything about the audio jack? I always thought it was wack how they not only forced you to buy a dongle, but also a 3.55m to rca cable.
Why do startups in general apply to YC? For expert mentorin from people who have done it 700 times before, for a fantastic Rolodex and a badge that will at least get you a coffee from most VCs and CTOs.

If you were just copying YC, I doubt they would add much value. If you were doing YC-for-a-niche then maybe. I suspect YC for Africa would get some interest, YC-for-biotech maybe less.
A lot of companies tried to hire Aline. She prefers to run her own one. See also http://blog.alinelerner.com/
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I'm fine with the async part, if there was a proper support for stuff like joins and sorts. Without this, you have to individually gather the single rows and do it in userspace code.

This is crazy enough, add async-ness to the whole mess and even with promises you end up with a shitload of spaghetti code.

Right now IndexedDB is a kids playground and nothing usable at all for any serious application.
AFAIK, it's using a Deep Neural Network; which means, the inputs are, basically, pixel values (possibly normalized), and all feature detection, etc. is done in the layers of the network.
Right, the point is more to make sure your definition of "making it" is not essentially "win the lottery."
Both are non-cash expenses, so makes sense to consider financials without them when looking at GAAP vs. Non-GAAP. They're certainly operational charges, but somewhat distort P&L.
From an investor standpoint I don't get why the stock is up 30%. I could understand if the stock was going to up 1-8%, but 30+%? Is it all the shorts covering? Is it the fact they brought in a wall street insider as CFO (Anthony Noto).

Wall Street was expecting a loss of 1 cent per share, but they surprised on earnings of 2 cents a share. Not a huge surprise.

Other things that irk me about the stock.

Management, I don't feel a warm and fuzzy having a non founder has a CEO. Nothing that Dick Costello has done to show me he has any long term vision.
They fired almost everyone is senior management. Which shows signs of instability.
*I haven't seen any product innovations come out of twitter from a end user standpoint organically.
Investors can afford to be "patient" because they don't have to wait for that money to come back as profit. They make money if they sell FK for more than the price they paid. This is not always a good thing, but it does allow investors to take into account long term value when investing.
Yup. That's the conclusion we reached and also why I suggested approaching Linode with caution. They're attempting to compete with the "cloud" providers but running their business the same as they did a decade ago.
Twitter is an example of a business that has not, at least not as of yet, even come close to showing a justification for their valuation...or really, even being a publicly traded company.

I'm not saying it won't be, but there are companies that have gone public in the past two years with Billions (with a 'B') in revenue and solid profit margins where the stock is half of Twitter's share price, and those are much larger companies, similar share dilution, etc.

I know it's play money on a digital board, but some fundamentals cannot be ignored.
Coming from someone who had no formal "schooling" in CS and really not a clue where to start, my biggest piece of advice is:

Literally read everything you can get your hands on. When you come across something you don't understand, look it up, because 9/10 times it leads you to something better than where you started.

I would now consider myself a fairly experienced amateur, although it took me much longer than expected to get up to speed. It took me a long time to get on the right track, if you will, and by that I mean getting a base understanding of programming in general and then on top of that, figuring out what exactly I should be learning and in what order to eventually pursue a career in Web-based Development/Engineering.

I had no one close to me in the space that I could get advice from either. So I really am a raw use case.

That being said, I think what would have helped me the most is finding a resource that addressed all of my short comings:

- If I want a job, what is hot in the industry, where is it trending? (Answer: JS and Mobile)

- If I am interested in pursuing X, what is the first language I should take a look at, or at least some framework buzzwords (i.e. Web: Rails is/was hot, APIs are driving the future, JS is very hot. So, Ruby, JS, maybe Python).

- Where should I look for go to resources / where can I ask questions (SO, HN, etc.)

The biggest problem I ran into is that even after I slowing found the answers to these questions, I still didn't know how to get started other than buying a book. However, I found that the majority of books don't "tell a story" and the majority of online resources (blogs, etc.) are not geared towards absolute beginners.

I not only needed to understand the basic such as syntax, but I needed to understand how things fit together at a high level and the best way I found of doing so, was having a resource walk me through the baby steps of building a real-world application, from start to finish, tying in the larger picture as the end of each chapter.

I mean, you have to understand that someone who is brand new doesn't even know how the backend and frontend relate to each other.

Basically, for beginners, even those resources that are "targeted" at beginners, assume too much.

I guess that is something to chew on, but what it comes down to is that I wish I had a resource that told the high level picture better and guided me in the right direction from day 1, as far as "Where do I start if I want to learn web development, and why I am starting there?" And give me a few good resources to get me going.
I've never been particularly bullish on Twitter's ability to make money, mostly because their business model isn't obvious to me. That being said, the fact that they are going to exceed $1 billion in revenue is really impressive to me. I've heard various bearish news over the years: Rails doesn't scale, they will never make money, user growth is slowing, etc. For a company with so many people betting against them, they seem to be pretty good at overcoming challenge's! It won't surprise me to see them making the big bucks in a year or two. Good luck Twitter!
Movie marketers agree:

(Not satire)

http://elipunto.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/her-poster.jpg
OpenFit:open source bluetooth enabled smart digital scale
I think the canned varieties of both taste pretty metallic, but especially Pepsi.

I've taken to opting for the glass-bottle varieties of both; whether it's the lack of aluminium traces in the soda, the use of sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, or me having opportunities to collect bottle caps as if I'm trying to make a living in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland, I've found that to be much more enjoyable for whatever reason.

That all said, RC Cola is the superior beverage. ;)
It is a bit silly, but if you use a variety of encyclopedias and source texts with various temporal cutoffs (not just this one, but Simonton's work or Murray's _Human Accomplishment_ where he ignores any item after 1950 while drawing on published books), you do pretty consistently get the late 1800s as the apex for per capita.