skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats to Chas and the Aptible bunch. Really smart guys. Also saw they joined RockHealth. Tackling a ton of hard problems in healthcare to make it easy for people to build apps. Learned quite a bit about HIPAA compliance from their blog, but it seems like they've taken that stuff down, unfortunately.
> Regardless of where you drive, if there are people behind you in the left lane, you should move over to let them pass.

This is different than "the left lane...is for passing. Unless you are passing you should NOT be in this lane". Under this rule, it would be perfectly acceptable to be in the left lane if you aren't passing and also aren't obstructing faster traffic. However, this rule has traffic management problems similar to those with the left-is-reserved-for-passing-rule (which is probably why its even rarer in law than the left-is-reserved-for-passing-rule, though a couple states do have something like it).

The more common legal rule -- and there are good reasons for this rule to be preferred -- is that you have to use the rightmost lane if you are moving slower than the normal speed on the road (independent of the legal limit); this is different than a reserved for passing rule and also different than a move-right-for-faster traffic rule, and is superior to either for traffic management, since with a simple move-right-for-faster-traffic rule, a very small number of drivers wishing to drive at excessive speed could oblige significantly greater congestion in the other lanes with drivers forced to yield to them (and, of course, a strict reserved-for-passing rule has a similar effect). The move-right-if-slower-than-normal rule is pretty much the best rule for traffic management.
Highlight a PDF to copy to inkscape and convert to elements would be pretty damn bad ass.
It seems to me a sum should be at least as large as each of its summands (or rather, it once did). The world paid no heed, and life trudged on. I don't see a need to pick one particular archetypal trait or another and say the word "derivative" (or any other bit of mathematical jargon) mustn't ever be extended by analogy to a situation no longer directly manifesting that trait. A web of family resemblances doesn't depend on any one fiber running through all of it.

It's not as though the similarity of terminology is chosen with intent to confuse; the intent is to illuminate. The name for the generalization is chosen to match its more familiar relative because it is often _useful_ to think in terms of the analogy, imperfect though it be. [It seems humans are such that we would never find our way to powerful abstractions without such overloading; the combinatorial explosion of names would be too great to comprehend.]
This depends on the country. It is only for passing in many countries, but not so in others. In the US, it varies by state.
A little bit unrelated to the topic, but the writer comes across really cheerful and to me it feels disingenuous. Is that just me? I don't think there's anything in the world I could be that cheerful about, maybe a cure for cancer or eradication of malaria, but I'm not sure I'd even smile, I would just feel huge relief. Not that there's anything wrong with smiling, I wish I'd smile more.

> It is hard to imagine another place to work that would be more fun, more rewarding, or that would allow me to have a greater impact on the world.

I could see working at Amazon being fun, and you could have a big impact for better or for worse. I think maybe this a problem I have, but I get really suspicious when it feels like someone has drunk the Kool-aid, when someone comes across as an uncritical cheerleader for some large corporation, product or organization. There always has to be a touch of cynicism or self-reflection, but this guy is like it's best day ever every day at Amazon. One does have to reach much to come up with reasonable criticisms of Amazon.
A recent FT AlphaVille article described research which showed that Hedge Funds aren't even uncorrelated from the market, only levered or delevered.
I think dogpiling Intellectual Ventures is striking at the branches, and not at the root. The problem isn’t “patent trolls.” The problem is patents:

> Even if patents actually accomplished their advertised purpose — “securing for limited Times to … Inventors the exclusive Right to their … Discoveries,” as the US Constitution puts it — they’d be a very bad idea. The claim that one can own an idea is silly on its face, and not a claim that anyone would pay the slightest mind to were it not enforced at gunpoint by the state.

> But the advertised purpose of patents is not their actual purpose.

> Their actual purpose is to restrain competition and limit innovation so as to provide economic advantage — monopoly pricing power, in fact — to established firms who, by virtue of their ability to pay off (pardon my indelicate language; I believe the word I’m looking for is “lobby”) politicians, bureaucrats and judges, can thereby indulge their desire avoid market competition on price or quality. [1]

[1] http://c4ss.org/content/24371
Well. Making me rich as my intention is probably a little bit too much. At least I think I am trying to help them. The idea is from neighbors helping neighbors. I am from China. Nowadays almost 99% grocery shopping is done in farmer's markets in China, India and almost most developing countries. There are countless news about farmers couldn't find buyers. This is the problem I am solving. If you think my solution is bad. There are a few startups I found out, funded, and charged vendors up to $100/month for providing their product info.
I understand you are trying to help. But not happy with my intention is challenged.
Rumour: “Virtually every key Apple used for anything was stolen.”
Sql Injection
Data breach at Santa Rosa Medical Center – up to 4.5M exposed
Basically, she identified which gene was likely responsible for two separate but potentially related conditions:

As Kim read about these conditions and their symptoms, she saw her entire medical history reflected back at her—the contracted muscles in her neck and back, her slightly misaligned hips and the abnormal curve in her spine. She saw her Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease.

She also saw a heart disorder linked to the LMNA gene that wasn’t ARVC but which doctors sometimes mistake for it. “Everything was encapsulated,” she says. “It was like an umbrella over all of my phenotypes. I thought: this has to be the unifying principle.”

She also had been essentially self-treating for many years without a diagnosis.
Not an ignorant question at all!

All were from trolls/non-practicing entities except for one (which we settled). As soon as we went public, we became a target.

It would come in the form of:

"Hello, we are XYZ company are you are infringing on 1,324 of our patents related to computing and to communicating over USB - we would be happy to not move forward with our lawsuit for the sum of $500,000"

We called it the reverse nigerian prince.

It protected us from the vast majority of trolls - and it really came down to the "thump" test. The thump test is when company A asserts patents against company B. Company A comes storming in the court room (or via plain ole email) and drops it's stack of patents on top of the table. We now have to invalidate each and every claim which puts the vast majority of the burden on us. We would then turn around and drop our borrowed patent portfolio on the desk and it would thump pretty loud as well. That stopped 95% of the major patent lawsuits from moving forward, as stupid as it was. We took an aggressive stance to counter-sue for patent infringement and ALSO to invalidate via prior-art. Instead of sharks smelling blood in the water, we stopped getting the lawsuits because we aggressive sought to not only stop a lawsuit, but to invalidate the patent from ever being asserted again due to prior art which could be applied in any future patent lawsuit case (and in some instances, would invalidate the patent or have it "re-examined")

Unfortunately, I feel there is still a very vulnerable phase of small business between profitable and not profitable enough to employ these strategies. As the MJs of the world (~$200M market cap) start to adapt - the trolls simply get change their nigerian email to $100,000 instead of $500,000 and start working their way down to smaller companies.
Besides us and the individual developers out there like unconed (Steven Wittens)[0] that truly understand the problem here, I honestly don't know.

I know that the Safari devs are unencumbered and disagree with the Google approach, but I don't know what position they do support as an alternative. I just know that their position does not coincide with Google's position.

TBH, there isn't a whole lot of diversity among those working in this space. There are a lot of developers working on graphics, rendering and layout. There are a lot of developers working on web standards. The intersection of those two groups if plotted as a Venn diagram, is pretty small. After all we really only have a few user agents out there: webkit (safari), blink (chrome), gecko (firefox), servo (?) and trident (internet explorer).

The web would benefit immensely from having many more of the devs in the former group involved. I personally would love to hear ideas and get contributions from developers that work on projects/technologies like qt and wpf.

[0] http://acko.net/blog/shadow-dom/
What's even better is @Value with @Builder :) Immutability is the best.

http://projectlombok.org/features/Value.html
http://projectlombok.org/features/experimental/Builder.html
Here's the link: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/08/01/1914342/the-hare-gets-...

And here's the best part: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2014/08/Screen-shot-2014-08...
Check out some books on NLP.

Fun. Systematic. And others can be better just by being around you.

I recommend Sleight of Mouth to start. You can skip Mindlines, I can't tell if sections in that book are bad writing or not.
The equipment is distributed in response to requests from police departments. (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-polic...) I'm afraid you'll have to blame the locals, not the feds, for being soft on those sinister Mexicans.
I didn't say hedge funds shouldn't be benchmarked to their appropriate index, I said that hedge funds as a whole shouldn't be benchmarked to the S&P500 because they're not all equity funds. In fact, the majority of hedge fund allocated dollars are NOT invested in directional equity (not including strategies like merger arb that technically invest in equities but have totally different risk/reward from the market). It's not "the other side of the coin", it's my point exactly.
Meergoose dark chat alpha OSS
Meergoose has released an open source project of its privacy platform - dark chat. It allows uses to auto-generate keys and securely chat with each other without any of the complexities of understand crypto, loading modules, etc. It's also the first release of a greater privacy agenda which will include dark mail, sending encrypted files to 3rd parties, etc. http://www.meergoose.com
We are among the audience (technologists, some investors, some mindshare influencers). And we're responding.
Here's the breakdown for the US states:
http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
Okay, so are you actually doing this in China then? Because I am American and I imagine most folks here are answering from an American or European or other more developed country perspective. So if you will clarify where your market is, that might help you get better feedback from the people here.

I am sorry you are offended. I was not challenging your intention. I was telling you what the product looks like to an outsider who has no idea what your intention is. It is your job to make it clear what the intent is by how you frame it. Bill Gates said "Your unhappiest customers are your greatest source of learning" (or something close to that). You have to learn to take constructive feedback for what it is: Useful information. If you get upset with people for trying to give you feedback, it gets less likely you will continue getting it and that is a much, much bigger problem than being told something you aren't happy hearing.

Again: Best of luck.
I don't, but you can try emailing founders@weebly.com -- it is an email address that is supposed to go directly to the founders.
wow, great post thanks for sharing
Even if the participants had "equivalent reading habits and experience with tablets", just imagine if you were presented with a device as unusual as a Kindle DX. I would be distracted for many minutes. "Ooh, shiny! What does this button do?"
You know, I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd actually get a lot out of a blog post on 'how to open a foam recycling plant in China.'
Nice trick. One thing bothers me, couldn't the compiler use operator float and the construct from float for non-matching units?
Those examples have nothing to do with my argument. Both of your examples neglect the crux of my statement. Paying for patents is not the same as funding innovation. Funding innovation may involve paying for patents.

What I stated is that if your company makes its only revenue by the litigation involved with the patents it purchases, it is a parasite. Why? Because it does not produce any goods or services to keep the economy moving.

Edit:typo and grammar
This link got thumped way down really quickly. And it's an interesting one.
4 ways to track changes in the Google algorithm
Steve Keen on sincerity (a close proxy for passion):

Class was largely open discussion, the instructor rarely engaged. Except for one session, where students were discussing a politician, and said, "Well, at least he's sincere." And the class sort of murmurs, "Oh, yeah, nobody can deny the guy's sincere." The teacher, who normally kept quiet, piped up from the back of the room, "Don't overrate sincerity. The most sincere person you'll meet in your life is the maniac chasing you down the road with an ax trying to chop your head off."

Renegade Economist interview
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=7F2FKxxN_IE
I've always thought of windpower as a weird kind of battery. You put all sorts of energy in upfront (manufacturing, installing, repairing) and get a trickle our for a long time.
I don't think you're quite addressing the point raised. Free software in government is not important because of cost savings or efficiency. It is important because of transparency. For example, a proprietary voting machine might have a lower total cost of ownership than a free software machine, however it raises questions about the validity of the voting process when the public isn't allowed to know how it works.

The fundamental problem here is that people expect the rules of their government to be transparent, not secret. When parts of the government run on proprietary software, the public is forbidden from knowing important parts about how their government works.

Cell phones are a great example. We now know that, in part because of the use of proprietary, non-audited software, government leaders around the world have had private phone calls recorded by the NSA. If they had been using properly analyzed free software, this would not have been possible. So proprietary software not only makes formerly public processes secret but also leaks secrets. If no non-proprietary solution exists, the government needs to invest in creating it.

It is impossible to analyze the cost of a government run by proprietary software. Without knowing what secrets are being stolen, what processes are being obfuscated from public view, what documents are made inaccessible to people because of proprietary software requirements, there is no way to know how much is lost by its use.

If a government claims to represent its public, it needs to control its processes in a way that is verifiably transparent to the public. This simply isn't possible with proprietary software.
I'm not sure if it's worth bringing this up anymore, but the California state legislature is not Congress.
Hmm .. Fair enough ! I do recollect paying more for being able to print at home (or) to get it on the mobile app. But what's evil on the side of the musicians . Do they get swindled like this too ?
Well, he does have "Evangelist" in his title.
If anyone's interested in seeing a simple implementation of something like this, but without the payment protocol implemented, I made a toy implementation earlier this year[1].

It encrypts files client-side, uses a "wallet" file to store your encryption keys, and performs challenges at regular intervals to ensure files are being held appropriately and automatically restoring redundancy if not.

Code rot aside, it should still be working, at least if there were any servers/nodes set up.

[1] https://github.com/ConceptPending/fincrypt
As the developer of a REST centric ecommerce platform[1], I agree. The price of an order item is specific to that order and does not necessarily match the product's base price. It may be calculated using special account pricing rules, tiered by quantity, or discounted by a coupon. In such a system I have found many occurrences where data has to be de-normalized for this reason. Although the the new state is derived, it may otherwise differ from the source. Not just a function of value and time.

1) http://getfwd.com
Here it is per capita: https://gist.github.com/BJTerry/d9392dc1d494cad052ef
The Greek-speakers of the East kept on speaking Greek after they were folded into the Roman political model, and kept many of their other cultural and economic institutions, rather than being dragged off as slaves. Perhaps it's more accurate to say that Greek civilization lasted from 776 BC to 1453 AD, under various political models. A co-operative system born from the hilly Greek peninsular and jagged Aegean coastlines meeting the hierarchical system of the Romans co-existing.
I didn't see any compelling evidence that "A leading hypothesis is that yawning plays an important role in keeping the brain at its cool, optimal working temperature."

The pedestrian belief that yawning is for oxygenation makes more sense than for cooling and would have been noticed 100s of years ago. Oh, people in arctic climates don't yawn as much. But they do.
hey there, can you please email me at david@weebly.com? i will make sure we get this sorted ASAP. really sorry about this.
Having lived in an MIT dorm with a mailing list, this does not surprise me.
Use Facebook and Messenger in the same app with You Twit Face
Parent said "they were", not "they are".
Poisoning the fruit of those branches (those who've worked there) is absolutely fine by me.
Strangely, policing roads is a major factor in civilization. If you can't get your goods to market in the next town because of road bandits, then the towns are effectively cut off from one another.

There's even an argument (somebody's thesis) that patrolling roads was the single greatest event (invention?) that led to the end of the so-called dark ages and the beginning of the Renaissance.

Let me see if I can remember the chain:
Safe roads led to trade, the return of currency as a valuable resource, the need of Lords for gold instead of cattle, oxen and straw which led to the rewriting of traditional peon contracts. Following that, inflation drove the Lords out of the counties to the cities, lifting the yoke of the local despots and freeing the country.
> Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds.

To be clear, Sliced is open only to accredited investors and has a minimum investment of $20,000.
For all I know, in the twenty plus years they worked together, they both related lots of interesting and personal stories. Obviously Microsoft's PR department decided the official announcement of change in leadership wasn't the place for those, though. Remember the thing actually being communicated here is "yes, this is all part of the plan - so there is no need to panic sell Microsoft shares".
The game Rejection Therapy[1] has lots of challenges for interacting with strangers, like ask a stranger to have your photo taken with them and sit beside a stranger, strike up a conversation and so on.

They sound easy to do, but I found out they are anything but.

[1] http://rejectiontherapy.com
If the OP is successful. If not, then the job-seeker just wasted effort. Which is fine if 1 OP does it, but if many people copycat...
My interview with Jeff was my very first professional interview (not Amazon). I'm glad it went well (that was a fun place to work) and that he's doing well.

I can only assume that the poster who felt that Jeff's post was disingenuous hasn't met him.
The smallest surfer you've ever seen
Judging by the current patent system, patents and innovation aren't equal in many cases. On the contrary, patents are often equal to the stifling of innovation. So giving money for patents is not equal to giving money for innovation in general case.
#infinitegiraffe
How to get an interview at YC
Need Feedback for “Growth Hacking for Android” Tutorial
Hi there!

I have written the first part of an Android tutorial. It is about letting the user invite her friends to use an App by accessing the contact list on the phone.

You can see the first part of the tutorial here:

http://blog.fabgate.co/growth-hacking-for-android-let-the-user-invite-her-friends-part-1/

The second part will follow shortly. It would be great to know if everything is understandable and the reader can follow it through.

If there is anything I can optimize, please let me know.

Thanks a lot!
Saied
> I think that rest encourages thinking about the nouns rather than the verbs

Sure -- but actions and events that need to be represented are nouns, even if they are instance of behavior that can be described with verbs.

In fact, they are usually the most important nouns. There's nothing about REST that encourages missing this point, although there may be something about the common tutorial-type material which tends to focus on simple examples where, unlike most non-toy applications, this is not the case and the important entities are not actions.

But that's because they are examples of implementing REST, not examples of domain modelling for complex application domains.

> But REST has only a few verbs which kind of hobbles your ability for expression.

HTTP (if not extending it, which without very good cause you shouldn't in REST if HTTP is used as the communication channel) has only a few methods. But the methods of the communications channel are not the verbs of the domain, nor ought they map to the kinds of actions in the domain.

There's a particularly common, but flawed, naive approach to domain modelling which maps the obvious nouns of the domain to entities/resource in the model and tries to map actions in the domain to methods in the medium in which the model is instantiated [1]. But this almost always ends up biting you -- instance of actions are nouns and need to be entities/resources too. If you do this, the more-obvious nouns of the domain tend to end up being read-only or read-mostly entities over the exposed interface, with most or all of the mutations happening through the entities/resources representing actions.

[1] While this happens with REST, it happens with other architectural patterns as well, and with different levels of application implementation -- not just web interfaces.
Install free SSL certificate on LAMP server
If they're successful they should probably include a line-item in their budgets for Nobel prize money.
I always upvote people who reply to me. Even if they disagree with something I wrote.

For me, the upvote work as "I have read your reply and thanks for taking the time to write it."

Then I'll continue the conversation if there is any more to be said.
Lessons learned working with microservices
OSX 10.9.5 and 10.10 will require all app developers to re-codesign their apps, which makes this rumour even more interesting:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/technotes...
Get your own classified website with Osclass
I created a new terminal.com snapshot for evaluation and usage. Feel free to try it at: https://terminal.com/tiny/JFr4kJ0HZp