skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is one answer to that question. Over the years I've suggested people follow their passions because my observation was that people working on something they were passionate about, were good at it. While I stand by that advice, I've also observed times where people were passionately working at something, poorly. Which is to say they had the energy but not the mental discipline associated with growth in skill and expertise.

As the author explained in his post, being a B player can have roots deep inside your head, in Daniel's case, "It turns out that I don’t operate at my full potential when I believe someone else will find and fix my mistakes. I play better without a safety net. I also have a burning need to work on stuff that I feel I own completely."

I'm not sure how to trigger self reflection in others, I grew up doing it and thought it was something everyone did until I met lots and lots of people who never asked themselves "Why did I respond that way?" or "Where did that come from?".

In Daniel's quote, and in my own makeup, ownership is a big deal. Even something as simple as loading the dishwasher is demotivating to me if my wife insists I load it "like she would." So for me if I'm not doing well I ask "Am I not taking ownership here of this outcome?" And if the answer is yes I need to figure out if its because I've tried and been rebuffed (suggests changing jobs) or I've not really tried (suggests changing my own behavior). I recognize though that what works for me is probably useless for others.
Or you could text them directly. This scenario is only useful in the case where you have SMS but no internet, and your intended recipient has internet but no SMS.

EDIT: Also, as someone pointed out above, Twitter already has an SMS interface.
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Base64 adds +30% but I guess you can’t send binary data in an SMS, you must encode it in some way.
In what countries do carriers charge for receiving messages? I know there are a few in Canada, but what else is there?
Thank you for sharing. Not only cost is important but people seem to forget about waiting times, the silent killer.
The brain doesn't seem to be like a single CPU - more like a cluster of millions of CPU. It wouldn't be surprising that the system could work very well even if you disconnected a few thousand of those CPUs here and there.

(NOTE: disconnected, not destroyed; the woman's cerebellum didn't develop; things would be much different if you tried to surgically remove it)
The question is whether screen reader software deals well with the unicode emoji characters. I would lean towards the conservative assumption that it doesn't. Even Chrome/Mac still shows a missing character box rather the emoji.

(Also that sentence needs a comma. "What's not to heart_eyes, right?")
I agree that media trading is quite hand-wavy - similar to trading stocks.

That said, it's quite possible that the article mistook 'hit rate' for 'conversion rate'. That would explain why snooping for imps "near bank branches" would make sense. Those customers may be primed for the ad/can convert sooner.
Swizec's answer is good, you technically need a visa. If you can afford to be kicked out of the country and not be allowed back in for a long time (10 years in the US), then it might be worth the risk of not getting the visa. But, if you can't risk being banned, or even if you just like to obey the law, you should get the visa, especially if it's easy... which it is for a lot of countries.
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But Wikipedia has a really strict set of possible layouts, so actually, a WYSIWYG editor would make tons of sense, would probably be easy to create, and would generate really clean HTML.
Yeah that's a bad example, but then there's facebook, email, wikipedia, news etc that can all alleviate emergencies.
This post reminded me how much I miss Turntable.fm :(
Some quick questions:

1) How frequently would you crawl?

2) What are you defining as a 'massive scale'? It'll probably grow i'm sure but what is a reasonable range you're working with?

3) Which languages will you be supporting?
Please don't make posts like this on HN. Your sarcasm made the post overwhelmingly negative, and contributed nothing to the conversation. This would have been a much better post had you removed the first sentence and the last two.
We're definitely on the way to practical implementations of RFC 1149.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
Some of it probably boils down to people still not trusting machines. I guess this will change within a generation or two, as the kids growing up in increasingly automated world mature.
It's standard practice in the US if you don't have a texting plan, or if you exceed your limit. Sending and receiving both count equally.
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Glad the archive I did yesterday was useful! :)
ASK HN: Code review service with source navigation and intellisense?
Thinking about starting a service for doing code reviews navigation (like in eclipse and visual studio)which supports integration with github. If so would you use it, let me know.

It will work for Java, C# and Javascript. You can click on function and variable references to navigate to their definitions. This make it super easy to do code reviews on github
It's really clear for readers of fiction.

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/woman-read-more-fict...

As for writing: I got the quote from "Open Book", a BBC Radio Four programme.

Here's a similar quote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9778413/Costa-Prize...

> Women write and buy vastly more books, and more fiction, than men, yet you wouldn’t guess it to see how literary prizes are discussed in newspapers.

Here's an article that mentions the Open Book programme http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/feb/25/londo...
Just a heads up. I went to https://manage.churnbuster.io/pricing to check out pricing. I hacked the URL to hit https://churnbuster.io/ to go to the homepage, and I get an SSL error: http://i.imgur.com/Dwoa2Hn.png
Still not interested in signing a 2 year contract with AT&T or owning an Android phone that doesn't include all of the reasons I still own an Android phone (Maps, Now, etc) instead of some other Linux variant phone or a Windows Phone.
-- "Android, with its 1 billion user base and still rapidly growing is also by far a bigger threat to Windows on the desktop than ChromeOS. People in many countries, especially emerging ones, are already familiar with Android, and have been using it as their "first OS"."

Interesting point... I recently helped an elderly man (who has very poor reading skills and has never used a computer without help) - buy, set-up, and use his first computer. What did I choose for him?

A cheap Android tablet with a keyboard case. The idea behind this decision was that most people (in a low-income area) that he'd ask for help would already know how to work an Android tablet because they probably have a phone or tablet already. If not, he knows the basics, and it's much more simple than a PC but almost fully-capable with his needs (Facebook, PayPal, YouTube). I also locked it down so that he could get help with his financial data without giving anybody the actual password to his bank accounts (as he was doing before).
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Two of the applications mentioned in the announcement (Vine and Sight Words) use NDK.
The most important investment is in our kids
I've created the script below a while (year) ago. It (deb)bootstrap a working Debian Wheezy with ZFS on root (rpool) using only 3 partitions: /boot(128M) swap(calculated automatically) rpool(according to # of your disks, mirrored or raidz'ed).

All commentaries are in Brazilian Portuguese. I didn't have time to translate it to English. Someone could do it and fill a push request.

https://github.com/turrini/scripts/blob/master/debian-zol.sh

Hope you like it.
this tool makes it easier to do this analysis, because we dont have to choose the interval to compare and it is more obvious.
It would be interesting to know if inventing an internet is a natural outcome of evolving life on a somewhat-stable planet. Regardless of the aesthetic differences among life forms developing from different initial conditions, will a planetary ecosystem arrive at similar milestones along the way? Mobility, eyesight, language, society, etc.

I think this research is very exciting because it actually is narrowing in on the limitations of evolution, or the "search-space" of possible life forms. This points to the idea that life on other planets may be similar to us, if not only in milestones, but possibly aesthetics as well. Maybe we can even get to the point where if we know the current and past environmental conditions of a planet, we can make educated guesses as to what life would look like on its surface.
I think you can found a company humbly. If you're trying to enter an already-crowded space, sure, you have to believe that you're better than the competition. But if you're the first to enter a space, it pays to be humble, because you don't even know what people want yet.

Lack of humility is what keeps businesses on paths that don't attract users, or even actively repel users. You have to be able to dump your hypotheses once they've been shown to be incorrect.
We choose GNU Octave, since it supports single precision which the GK104 we’ll be running performs best on.

Is single-precision computations useful in the context where GNU Octave is generally used?
5M Gmail Usernames and Associated Passwords Leaked
Any fact that depends on observation is uncertain, no matter how small or trivial it may seem. This whole physical world could be an incredibly elaborate computer simulation. We can never know the true nature of our observations, so nothing we observe can ever prove anything.
"[For the wearers,] it's a mechanism to reclaim dignity that's been taken away from them," he said.

Uh, you're doing it wrong!
I'm pretty sure adulthood has always just been a bunch of people pretending that they know what they're doing, and being able to convince everyone else (peers, children) of it as well.
Interesting approach. I wonder if this HTTP-specific approach is better or worse than coming up with some form of generalized TCP-over-SMS stack (with accompanying server-side router software, of course).

Reminds me, though, of Georgia Weidman's Smartphone Pentest Framework[1] which provides tools to hack a target smartphone and from there create a data connection via SMS via which you can then access a firewalled corporate network using SMS over the cell network as your tunnel in. I've seen it demoed, and it's frankly incredible.

[1] https://github.com/georgiaw/Smartphone-Pentest-Framework
I've had the following US visas: E, J, L. I worked for a foreign company on E and L visas. You can work on an J visa, but there are very strict requirements -- you can't work for most local companies let along a foreign company.

The type of visa you'll need really depends on your situation. This site will give you a brief overview of the types of visas available.

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/general/all-vi...
You're only using a certain percent at a time, but all the different sections of your brain do different things. And they are lazy when they can get away with it, read Thinking, Fast and Slow for some more details but even when you're thinking hard you're not using your whole brain. It's not at all obvious to me that the glucose supply, oxygen supply, or cooling of the brain are sufficient for you to run it at 100% without dying.
I'm sure I'll write about this more later, but the earliest customers were friends and consulting clients who ran subscription services. They were onboard before it was even built.
Does this have any impact on Oracle's DeWitt clause[1]? I haven't seen it mentioned yet in the discussions on technical fora.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt
HP buys Eucalyptus as cloud consolidation commences for real
Agreed. But the reform proposed in the article stated unconditional "abolishment" as the goal. That is crazy.
High end brands could release limited edition colors of their products at a higher price with the additional money going to some efficient charitable organization. Who wouldn't want to have an EFF themed Tesla to show off?
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But sometimes x=n. And sometimes x is pretty close to n and you should listen to the doctor unless that alternative is truly unacceptable to you.
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dang has commented on this recently and suggested there are new algorithms to boost "repeat" articles that didn't get traction the first time. the intent is to make sure quality articles get to the front page, even if they're ignored the first time. or something like that.
? The top image is most definitely from a CAT scan. If it was MR, there would be way more artifact around the eye/nose/throat.
It has always seemed to me that a main payoff of many open source/ Wikipedia editors is intellectual authority. Other commentators have mentioned the hostile atmosphere on Wikipedia- I'd argue that that's a symptom of contributors having their intellectual authority threatened.

Women are granted significantly less intellectual authority in their IRL lives, so it makes sense they aren't so concerned about establishing it online.
This is pretty much the longest ongoing trolling effort in existence.
You forgot to mention that that story is a fiction, albeit a popular one.
> “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein

I'm pretty sure Einstein never said this.

It's important to correct these misattributions, because they spread quite virulently and paint a saccharine picture of Einstein. He was a great scientist, let's understand him from his real work instead of from made-up poster quotes.

Here's the top Google result for this quote, which quite extensively examines it and concludes there is no connection to Einstein: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/

P.S. There's an easy heuristic to apply to Einstein quotes with a life lesson in them: he didn't say it. You'll be correct 95% of the time.
I have always found it fascinating that the cerebellum has more neurons than the rest of the brain. What the heck is going on in there.
I think he's wrong about one thing. A good BMS not only monitors cell voltages, it has the ability to bypass some charging current around individual cells. Not a lot, but enough to balance the charge of all cells over a cycle. That capability can do wonders for the reliability and life of a pack.

While I worked in EVs for 6 years, I have no knowledge of the Tesla BMS - they were not our customer and I worked mostly in motor control anyway.
Are you saying our brains follow the Law of Demeter?
This is a great extension! Very useful.
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>Instead of lamenting the reading habits of people that work hard and take care of their families maybe we should try to get everyone with children to be responsible parents.

I didn't know we had to make a choice.
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They could offer the phone for free, plus two years of free Amazon Prime, plus free $100 gift card to Amazon, and I still wouldn't get it.

Getting locked up with AT&T is not worth it.
Well luckily most people don't have to pay for receiving sms messages.
They're just a terrible example cause they're the one service you might already have access to that way. Twitter's only got 232 million users so anything that hinges on them is immediately not as useful as something that makes more of the internet - fb, email etc - available to more people, especially from someone else's device.
I moved to US last year, and figured the healthcare system in US is the biggest train wreck. It is not only super expensive, but also super complicated. You have to jump through many hoops likes insurance, appointment waiting list, mail order pharmacies (who always mess up your order), pre-existing conditions etc.

We were denied treatment by our insurance because of pre-existing conditions. Thankfully, Obamacare fixed it and we began to receive healthcare in 2014.

The prices of healthcare are artificially inflated so high so that it is not affordable for most Americans, so they can be forced into the bizarre health insurance system. This system only makes healthcare even more expensive due to administrative costs and make it complicated for everyone. There should be no place for a middleman in healthcare.

I recently went to see a doctor for a non-serious problem, and here is how it worked out.

Steps to get medical care in US:

1) Call a specialist's office for appointment, and you will usually get a wait list of 3 to 6 months.

2) After months of wait, you get to see the doctor who will diagnose you.

3) Doctor sends in your prescription to your mail order pharmacy.

4) Pharmacy messes up your order; it could be incorrect dosage, pre-authorization, incorrect billing etc.

5) Your medication is delivered to you after few days, sometimes it can even take weeks.

6) You get bills, which could be 10x higher than what you were expecting. Your insurance company provides no explanation of the mysterious charges.

Costs: $50 co-pay, $450 for prescription.

Insurance claims: $700 specialist, $2750 prescription.

Here's how it works in India:

1) Call into doctor's office, you will usually get appointment for same day or next day. You can even walk in without appointment.

2) The doctor diagnoses you, and write a prescription.

3) You take that prescription to any pharmacy, and buy the medications.

Costs: $10 to $20 fee for specialist, and $20 for prescription.

No Insurance required

Edit: I've compared prices of various medications in US and India. Most of the medications in US cost 10x to 20x more than India.
Modal Dev Tools, that's actually really a good idea on phones (screen size isn't a problem on tablets and STBs).

I believe a horizontal swipe could show or close the tools. That way you can still select the element in the content window and look back at the source. Since non-developers might get bogged down with it I'd suggest it be option you tick on in settings.
It's worth suggesting that this is both cause and consequence of a lot of the other apparently weird Wikipedian demographics
(according to the survey: less than a quarter of Wikipedians are over 30, less than a third in full time employment... and they're more likely to be children than have children. All in all, probably not the people you'd naturally put in charge of creating a latter-day Library of Alexandria)

Then again, I also strongly suspect that the survey data is somewhat skewed by male students who apparently have 6.4 hours a week on average to contribute to dash debates being also disproportionately likely to reply to surveys compared to the working mothers who like to make occasional edits to things they find important.
I come from a different generation where people aren't all assumed to be equally smart and equally talented. So I very much subscribe to the idea that some people are clearly smarter and more talented than others.

There are definitely A players who are demotivated and become B players. But the point of "Only hire A players! Fire B players!" is simply due to the fact that most startups can't afford to sit around and move demotivated employees around until they find a good fit. It's also the same reason why many startups don't train people for jobs and instead expect them to be already experienced. The number 1 currency for startups is time, and if they don't get traction quickly, the entire company will falter. Wasting time and money on an employee that isn't a good fit, regardless of how intrinsically talented they are doesn't make sense, because the entire survival of the company demands that everyone is performing at top levels for a relatively short period of time.

As the company grows and turns a profit, and if it can afford to invest in employees, it might make more sense to try to elevate the performance of their B players by moving them around, etc. But that requires a more mature company.
You're right, I misunderstood him. To answer that point then; I don't think people will be prohibited from owning a self-driving car, not initially; I believe they'll relinquish this privilege because of practical reasons - not having to store, maintain and protect a car is better than having to do it. You can see this happening in big cities - people decide not to own a car because it's too big of a mess without real benefits to them; it's more economical to hop into a bus or even get a cab. With fully networking self-driving cars we should expect to see many improvements in efficiency of shared transportation, further reducing the need for individuals to own a car.
is this a joke? if it is, then i think i might've got it.
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>There's a link being passed around called IsLeaked.com, where you can allegedly check to see if your Gmail was hacked. DO NOT DO THAT!

Why present a hyperlink and then tell people not to use it. Wouldnt it be better to not give it at all?
I had a similar appreciation reading this that I felt for the original iPhone tear-aparts by ifixit and their brethren.

EG - looking at a truly innovative use of existing technologies pushed to their limit and engineered to a sum greater than their individual parts.

Makes me want a Tesla even more.
Well, I guess I don't trust greying-out that much or am just curious, but I tend to skim the heavily down-voted comments anyway. Every now and then, one can find a pearl of wisdom in them.
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You make the mistake of thinking that I am attempting to defend psychology. I'm not. I agree with you that there is plenty of worthless research.

You mentioned cancer. Is cancer real, or "virtual"? How about the pain that a cancer patient feels? Is that real or "virtual"?
That'd be a great balance, and something we're going to look into. It does however, complicate the conversion script so as to not accidentally replace Unicode characters contained within the <img> tags, so it'd require a fair amount of testing.
> "you can make your own map"

or use the one in the original post. I'm just clarifying why I prefer that map over the one you linked to.
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I'm aware that most people in India can't afford even a small portion of the things Americans take for granted. Forget medicine - what about a flush toilet or clean drinking water (let alone expensive things like cars or even two wheelers).

Poverty is an orthogonal problem.
> As far as I can tell, the inflated prices (that almost no one pays) are mostly just so the hospital can report how much they're "losing" treating uninsured patients who can't pay.

Actually, it's because they lose money (on average) on patients on public insurance (Medicare[0] and Medicaid patients), so they need to charge private insurers more to cover the gap[1].

Insurers negotiate "discounted" rates with certain "preferred" hospitals in exchange for sending them more volume, but in this case "discounted" means "still overpriced, but closer to the actual marginal cost". The other private insurers still pay the exorbitant rates.

This is why hospitals are completely willing to lower your bill if you are uninsured and paying cash if you ask - they don't care about the money they're getting from you; they care about the money they're getting from the private insurers. The amount of money they make off of patients who are uninsured and paying out of pocket is negligible in this calculus.

Many hospitals are not at all secretive about this; executives talk about this pricing model fairly openly.

[0] For simplicity, I'm ignoring Medicare Advantage plans here.

[1] The ratio of this is HIGHLY dependent on the patient demographics of the particular hospital, but the general trend holds throughout.