skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered pursuing larger-scale government / corporate / academic contracts?

If you can stomach a bit of bureaucracy and long wait-times, competing for those kinds of contracts might be worth your time. Half the work is finding where the RFP's (requests for proposals) are being listed. Once you find some good sources, you might find that there is little domestic competition for many of the RFPs, and that you can get well-paying contracts that require relatively little work on your end.

Just a thought, hope it's helpful.
Cool, really good to hear from another perspective that is different from "I have a flush toilet in my bathroom, and every other toilet is else is exactly like it" :)

Yep, toilets like this in every house would probably work too. If the Government paid for them, or gave financial assistance and strongly encouraged households to build them. These probably would not work for a common toilet (which is the model discussed in the article), unless you had a really deep hole.

Also, the soil problems you mentioned come into play, because the monsoons bring down a huge amount of water. (That's the reason those things are usually built out of concrete.) I think the warm weather still might be factor, whereas it is probably not in Eastern Europe, where it is colder, and consequently slower decomposition and fewer flies.

It's a fairly hard design and engineering problem to solve if you look at these constraints. Unfortunately, these often take a back seat to rhetoric and quasi-shaming news headlines like this one. UNICEF (a UN agency) also does this, apparently without trying to understand these constraints, and throws money into ridiculous "education" campaigns to shame people into pooping in a smelly, constricted area with a ton of flies. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/20/world/asia/unicef-latest-anti-...)

As a result, the Government has tried to tackle it head-on without proper planning and design, and will end up constructing thousands of these toilets which no one will use.
So if these people have no money or insurance, how does this benefit them at all?
> Which, fine, more power to them.

Really? We as a society have the knowledge necessary to cure a person's illness and yet they go untreated.

In the absence of IP legal protection, this would be a non-issue.
My favourite example of digital archaeology from recent years is http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/04/source/ - saving the Prince of Persia floppies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8
I just tried this. Card: NAB Visa (payWave). Handset: Nexus 5. Merchant: 7-11.

The app read the card correctly and gave the card number and expiry. When I tried to use it in store the eftpos terminal returned roughly:
Err 226 contactless card not allowed. The terminal fell back to swipe/insert mode and the merchant told me 'contactless not allowed'. Inserted the (same) card and paid successfully.

I was disappointed because for me, being able to carry just mmy phone for day to day would be awesome, and NAB has no phone solution yet.
Solution: Move to a small city in Europe.

Back home[1] I live in downtown area so there's plenty of people at all times, but at the same time you can see the Alps from almost anywhere in the city on most days. And they're just an hour's drive away.

I imagine a lot of the smaller cities in Europe fulfill these criteria.

[1] Ljubljana - population about 300k, during workdays swells up to about 500k people. Small, but still lively.
XBMC is getting a new name: Introducing Kodi
Excellent post; this is a very astute point. It seems that so often some algorithm is optimized in a microcosm, but would just never hold up in practice. This sort of optimization would almost certainly have more overhead than it would be worth.

The real question is whether or not we can take these 150+ rules and distill from them some heuristics which perform better than our current protocols in practice. Perhaps these findings could inform future optimizations, but are not likely to be viable in and of themselves. Whether we'd need human eyes to look over these rules and distill them or if a machine could still generate them is a question for people much smarter than I.
I tried a Skully Helmets prototype a while back and they had an in-helmet display. Also the capability to show you a wide degree of vision squeezed together so you could monitor around you:
http://www.skullysystems.com/
I just do not understand EMACS users. Use a mail application for mail and an editor as an editor. Look I know you can edit videos in EMACS even, but why would you want to?
I love the idea behind Gather -- http://ychacks.challengepost.com/submissions/25793-gather

They could monetize by allowing certain restaurants and events to purchase priority.
What we end up doing is comparing the apples of present day hygiene etiquette to the oranges of what is remnant of a hygiene system that has worked quite well in its hey days.

What is this system is remnant of is;

A very sound personal hygiene system followed for centuries, bathing two times a day, washing ones feet before entering a house, not wearing footwear inside one's house, cremating the dead outside the boundaries of the village, designated community space outside the village for natures call, two separate ponds in every village one for bathing (with separate designated bathing steps for women and men) and the other for washing clothes and a special pond inside every village temple for ritual bathing. Population has made the existence of this system impractical but that does not mean people will just change overnight relatively speaking.

In fact, up till a few generations back, most Indians would be aghast at the unhygienic notion that one can have a toilet inside one's home!

For eg. a reverse bias is, even today a rustic villager in the remotest part of rural India would cringe when he/she hears that the people in the west just wipe but not wash after they do their job (most Indians, even the ones in the west now, secretly do cringe at this idea in fact).

Why this notional difference? It could be the relative availability of water, the extremes of weather (cannot wash in icy cold water can you?) and such differences that existed in one's past which moulds one's personal hygiene etiquette.
The more you turn medical research into a noble endeavor with no chance of making money, the more you're going to drive brilliant people to Wall Street and Silicon Valley companies instead.

The company that developed this sold to Gilead for $11 billion (less than a WhatsApp) after 13 years. Why would Gilead even buy the company if they could copy the drug for free? And why spend 13 years building this company with no hope for an exit? Especially when drug development is incredibly risky. For every success like this, there are many companies that fold with nothing to show after burning eight or nine figures of capital.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, one of the opportunities "Obamacare" missed out on was capping the level of discount insurance companies can get relative to the uninsured (both from hospitals but also from drug companies).

Right now the typical discount falls between 50% and 90% depending on the treatment and agreements made. If "Obamacare" had capped insurance discounting to something like 35-40% (which is still perfectly reasonable) we would have seen uninsured patient's costs drop between 10% and 60%.

As it stands Hospitals and drug companies know that insurance will negotiate a discount so they just increase the cost to compensate. Instead of something costing 3K with a 0% discount, it is 4.8K with a 60% "discount." If discounting were scrapped altogether it would be a huge "win" for almost everyone (e.g. reduced management overhead at hospitals, uninsured patients, et al).

The only party who wins by the current discounting culture is the insurance companies as it acts as a giant "lock in." Even if you're wealthy and can afford your own treatment insurance still makes sense as you'll get a huge discount not otherwise available.
Very optimistic. Got a picture of a Hyundai. Reckons it's a BMW or Audi.

http://www.airnorth.com.au/sites/default/files/Car%20hire%20...

["car", "bmw", "auto", "sport", "3d", "vector", "white", "blue", "front", "audi"]
In his second part of his article, he says...

> There’s a system for making people sound generally non-Japanese (using lots of katakana and dropping prepositions), but it’s tiring to read and has an air of childishness, since this is one of the first scripts kids learn to read/write in Japan

This is utterly wrong. Katakana usage in Japanese has nothing childish attached to it. If at all, Hiragana would be the one which is considered the more "childish" way of writing, but there are numerous imported words (and more and more, I'd say) using Katakana even in business context - and certainly taken very seriously.

If you don't know a language, don't make assumptions on it. By the way the french translation of "Your son is dead" as "Votre fils est mort" is very dry and tasteless, the proper way or saying it in french is "votre fils est decede". I hate it when people do a literate translation from English to French, many words are similar but they are not used at all in the same situations.
Oh, nice! I was thinking of something that would blend into the frame of the laptop, making itself unnoticable (unlike a post-it note - which would look rather ugly). But having that message would probably appeal even more because at that point it becomes a form of protest rather than just a quiet security measure.
Sad but true. No way around it, IP (intellectual property) claims are a very tricky pursuit. An attorney would at least be able to tell you if you have a case or not.
In the absence of IP legal protection, this would be a non-issue.

Because Pharmasset (who Gilead bought) would have invested all that money they did without IP legal protection anyway, right? That would be totally logical.

If there was no IP protection, everything would have to be publicly funded. Which I'm ok with, but you can't go halfway.
Ah well that certainly invalidates everything I mentioned above. Perhaps edX should offer a marketing and branding course.
Or you could just use a bump key and break into any house, picture or not. The whole key system we use is flawed.
This looks really useful! This isn't meant to be a criticism, but I was wondering how your website will overcome the issue of people not wanting to publicize their favorite work spot to prevent overcrowding? Also, from your experiences so far, are cafes happy to have people sit in their shop for extended periods? My impressions are that while some places (cough, nice people in Portland) encourage such behavior, others may not take to campers so nicely.
I do need a messaging service for my product! Can it be used in production currently? I'm also curious about whether you provide the video conference api in the future or not? That would be useful!
It's easier to get ahold of $1000 to cure your disease than get ahold of a permanent stream of income that will enable you to live.
I've noticed that Martin Fowler's '[bliki](http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/)' accomplishes this. He publishes a post in one or two paragraphs, and then updates them over the subsequent days. And in my RSS reader it shows up as a new post every time he makes an update, but points to the same page - albeit to a new section therein, so you can start reading from where you left off.
Ipso facto, public prosecution is a good career choice, since you can become President. headdesk
“They Have No Use for Someone Who Looks and Dresses Like Me”
Author of jfxr here -- wow, made it to the front page of Hacker News briefly, my 5 minutes of fame!

Were you looking for something like this?
http://jfxr.frozenfractal.com/#%7B%22_version%22%3A1%2C%22_n...

Starting from a default sine shape, I set some sustain + punch for the initial, loud part, then a long decay to make it fade out. Then added some harmonics (overtones) to get it to sound more natural. I fiddled with the flanger to add a metallic ringing effect, and finally, I set a low-pass filter to take some of the edge off.
Woops, I mean inputfont.com
You don't buy something like this only for functionality. There is more to the value of a bag than that.

What do you want to say to others with your attire, specifically your bag?

The bag in the original post is sending this message: "I'm competent, trustworthy, and I care about myself." Why? It's slim, made of good-quality materials, and has no more than it needs to have. It fits like a fitted pair of pants. When you look good, you are perceived as "good".

I looked at the Jansport Geminate bag, and it gave me this message: "I'm behind the times, and I don't really care that much about myself." Why? Those front pockets make it look like a baggy pair of pants two sizes too large. It looks fat and bulky, and if I wore it I would look like I just "threw something on" this morning.

How much change will you see in the opportunities you get just depending on the bag you wear? How much better will you feel with a good-looking bag? And is $219 worth those changes?
In Singapore Herman Cain would be a PAP MP :P

I did see (in the Straights Times) a PAP politician about 1.5 years ago go down for having accepted sexual favours from the sales staff of a corporation in exchange for granting that corporation government contracts (I can't remember any names with which to google the case). I loved the fact that in Singapore, this behaviour is punished and government members are held accountable. In many Western countries (not to mention guanxi), it's the accepted means of doing business. Let's not even get into what happened with US defense contracts in the last 10 years...

In my experience, all government officials I have known have been professional, rational people with great values, imbued by a sense of mission conspicuously absent from the civil servants I have known in other countries (who fit the "House of Cards"/"Yes Minister" profile more closely). I guess we'll know in 50 years when archives get declassified.

At the end of the day, we can't know what the opportunity cost of having all the talented politicians join PAP for career reasons is, simply because there is no equivalent anywhere in the world. Other small nations either do not have a strong Federal government (Switzerland), have a strong multi party system (Israel) or are controlled by outside interests (Hong Kong)...
I put in the link to my profile picture on twitter -> https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/488579015507050497/QvG1...

["black", "american", "woman", "man", "pitt", "brad", "senior", "worker", "group", "cuba"]

Brad Pitt! Great work guys!
Nice! Got some interesting results from a photos of iPhones and iPads.

Curious to know how this compares head-to-head with the CamFind API at https://www.mashape.com/imagesearcher/camfind which I've been thinking of using for a project.
People with no money in the US go on Medicaid, and Medicaid is legally obligated to pay for any medically necessarily FDA-approved drug.

Much of the article above is essentially about state Medicaid programs freaking out for exactly this reason.
The Arduino IDE puts all compile-time stuff in /tmp/, which gets erased on reboot.

And yeah, Teensy is great, but their USB code is a bit... out of spec sometimes. Also, the Teensy 3 in the Arduino IDE is (was?) kind of a nightmare. They have a gigantic C++ object that emulates all the registers on an AVR, and translates operations on those "registers" into operations on ARM MMIO.
GPLGPU now available
Looks like you gain access to firewall and other security tools if you upgrade the DSM to the latest version.
Yeah but we get the point - cholera was the appropriate disease to cite, many outbreaks caused when the sewage people dumped in the streets or rivers seeped into groundwater supplies and wells.
PlanitWide: A whole new approach to planning trips that's faster & easier (for everyone not just those that are savvy/in the know): http://www.planitwide.com

It's cool because it brings together:
a) a travel focused vertical search engine that's categorized 1000+ (sometimes interlinked) variables that can be found without typing a single word (just pick from easily labelled menu options) and presented as highly relevant result shortlists vs 100s of pages of results

and

b) an intelligent itinerary generator that helps you arrive at a realistic final itinerary faster by letting you shortlist content from these results and allowing you to iterate faster by presenting what-if scenarios based on how you construct your final itinerary.

Better Search + Intelligent Itinerary Creation = Faster And Easier Trip Plans
or a horse apparently. Did figure the jockey though...

http://plocp.com/user/Aram%20Comjean//The%20Belmont%202007/i...

["race", "beach", "camel", "rodeo", "jockey", "polo", "toreador", "torero", "donkey", "dog"]
Show HN: Cosmic 3D
FWIW: I used to use 3 screens (main one in the middle, and an extra desktop to the right and left)... and could have never envisioned going without at least one external monitor. Then I went fully remote for a few years, and switched entirely to to a Macbook (first the Air, then the Pro Retina).

I never looked back. Instead of many screens I just make generous use of OSX's multiple-desktops feature (which they call "spaces" http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14155). Instead of turning my head to look at the screen to my right, I 3-finger-swipe to the right. Instead of looking to my left, I 3-finger-swipe to the left. Etc. It's not exactly the same of course, but it works well. Surprisingly well actually.

I say that all to say, you might want to give minimal a try at first. You can always add on more gear later. But who knows, you might like it!

Oh, and I use a Tmobile hotspot, but they're all good.
Spot on. Your comment hits the other, psychological aspect of the this problem (look at mine for the practical aspect).

Correct your formatting a bit though, "What this system is remnant of" is cut off and confusing, "eg." should be "e.g." (for 'example gratia'), etc.
It's a cool project, but the threat model is almost completely irrelevant. Most mechanical locks are hopelessly easy to bypass and function only as a modest deterrent.

Standard pin-tumbler locks can be opened in a matter of seconds by bump-keying. A specially cut key is repeatedly tapped with a small hammer, causing the pins above the shear line to jump and allowing the lock to be opened. A bump-key can be made using any key or key blank and a hand file.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=131j0htYIoU

"High security" pin tumbler locks with sidebars and other extra features can be opened quickly and easily using modified versions of the bump-key technique.

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

Euro-profile locks can be snapped in half with a pair of pliers or a crude lever, allowing the latch mechanism to be operated with a screwdriver or metal hook.

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

Most lock barrels are made from soft metals that can be easily drilled out with an ordinary HSS or carbide bit. An inexpensive tool can cut through most barrels in seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEPe7aLfqrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i32QexNZmb8

If you want any real degree of security from your door locks, you need to opt for a specialist and expensive cylinder - something with a hardened steel face and a disc detainer mechanism, like the Abloy Protec series. Good disc detainer mechanisms are practically unpickable, even for expert locksmiths. Although it is possible to drill a lock with a hardened steel face, a specialised cutting tool is required and the process is very slow on most cylinder types.
Or, put another way, allow companies other than ISPs and massive content distributors to build scalable networks by negotiating bandwidth at a fair rate, instead of absurd prices like $0.10 per gigabyte transferred.
Combine this with a Markov Chain and you get a nice story teller.
I needed to fix my problem of moving mail from one server to another and found this nice small tool. Decided to share :) What else I can say?
Is this true even for school teachers?
Bingo! The real problem in these areas is the lack of running water. Without the water, you can't flush the stuff away into a sewer or septic system.
Thanks! We've found that people are very willing to share their favorite places in an effort to promote the business. Business owners have welcomed our showcase of their businesses. Most coffee shops and cafes have long periods of slow traffic. Having people come to stay for awhile helps to keep a place busy. We've been told over and over that a "busy shop" is a "good shop".
Note that Lovaza is a fish oil preparation that is FDA-approved for treatment of "very high" triglyceride levels. There's probably a patent issue preventing other similar agents getting approved for the same indication for a number of years.
Steven Spielberg’s Film ‘Jaws’ Condensed Into a 60 Second Animated Speedrun
This is probably one of the rules that makes it so easy for pharma companies to make medicine so expensive.

Most European welfare states refuse certain treatments based on costs. This can, obviously, really suck because there are (sometimes) no private options, or they're unrealistic. And of course, every few years an expensive option is made available for a year or so because some politician's daughter happens to have it.

This has been a criticism of Europe. Drugs get developed because Americans will pay for them, then when the cost is mostly recouped (ie. a decade later), it finally becomes available in Europe. This is freeloading, but you can't really blame them.
When's Chicago coming?
In chrome you can see the font used under the "computed style" tab on the right.

(This isn't meant to contradict your point—you were obviously using an arbitrary example—just thought you should know).

If anyone's aware of how, I'd like to know how to do this in Safari web inspector.
Please show me a windows laptop that is still worth even half it's value after 2 years.

About two months ago I was looking for a Thinkpad w700ds, and while admittedly an unusual laptop, I found two items on ebay going for more than they originally cost. As for a 5yo laptop costing $1500 after resale, the laptop I currently use is a Thinkpad x200, a 6yo laptop that I bought new for $1300 and I see now on ebay for an opening bid of $200. $1300/6 = $217/year (less if you count the $200 ebay sale), which is cheaper than any of the options you're proferring. Where is this magical Apple-only value you're talking about with laptops, then? I find that Apple fans are very skilled at convincing themselves that everything else sucks, which is fine (each to their own) until they start proselytising. Yes, Apple machines do hold their value well, but from your own numbers breakdown, my Thinkpad more than holds its own if you want to talk turkey.

In any case, the point I was making wasn't about the resale value itself, it was that most folks don't actually resell their computers. Most people run their computers into the ground, then buy another one.
> If there's a single federal buyer paying for 90+% of the market (look how much of the market for seniors Medicare covers), it's hard to see how the price signals continue to work the same way.

I'm not sure I follow. Price signals are based on demand. The same demand is still there in the sense that customers still interact with private health providers. The only thing that changes is payment is now handled by a single government system. Uncle Sam guarantees you access and his guys sort out the payment with the private provider, later.

> The (slow, error-prone) political process is engaged in every buying decision.

I'm not sure I agree with your premise for a start (i.e. publicly ran organisations are necessarily slow and error prone) but setting that aside, why is bulk billing between government financiers and the private health providers not an option? The government knows how much demand they have for XYZ product or service so they can negotiate based on volume. Have I missed something?