skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Irony: it has been horribly dry this year. However, it just started raining (with a huge side of lightening) a few minutes ago in western El Dorado county, a few miles from Folsom reservoir, where I live. Normally we don't get rain until October or later. Remains to be seen if it does more than slicken the sidewalk, though.
It's more appropriate to say free markets work great when they are allowed to work. Health care isn't allowed to function in a free market due to the moral implications of doing so given our prevailing morality.
Dropbox just upped the "Pro" account from 100GB to 1000GB. That's more than enough to store all the pictures you'll take in the next few decades. The benefit of something like Dropbox or its various copycats is that the file is stored on each of your computers as well as being stored in the cloud. So you really aren't putting all your eggs in one basket either locally or remotely.

But you should also curate and print out some of your photos. This was discussed on HN just a couple of weeks ago: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8129457). The linked article (http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/08/prints.html) reminds us that we're living in a "digital dark age" that's likely to leave few traces in history. Furthermore, even if your great-grandchildren could read the photo files you store today, do you really expect them to look at all of them?
There's an excellent book called Rational Ritual[1][2][3] which develops this idea much more fully. The thesis is that common knowledge (I know something, and I know everyone else knows it too) is very powerful and rationally drives people's behavior.

One of the arguments in the book revolves around the absurd pricing of advertising during big public events like the Super Bowl. If advertisers weren't concerned about the common knowledge aspect of their messages, they would air their ads when the cost per viewer is lowest. And you do see this with non-social goods, which tend to be advertised during off hours. But companies producing social goods like beer pay much more per viewer for prime-time and Super Bowl slots in order to get their product into the cultural zeitgeist. If you see something in a Super Bowl ad, you know most other people have seen it too.

[1] http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9998.html

[2] PDF of the original 2001 manuscript: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/cpworkshop/papers/Chwe1.p...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Rational-Ritual-Culture-Coordination-K...
The article itself sort of suggests a way. Gather data on how much advertisers are spending on television ads. See if there's a super-linear correlation between non-fragmented audience size and ad dollars spent.
Is there a good form of envy?
"You could swap in a Budweiser or Heineken and no information would be lost."

Corona is a lighter beer, which is what you want on a hot beach where you're sweating and thirsty.

Yahoo Answers:
Corona - 4.6%
Heineken - 5.4%
Budweiser - 5.0%
Lighter, higher resolution, higher frame rate, better lenses, larger tracking volume, 360 degree tracking, and built-in headphones. The resolution and frame rate are likely close if not identical to what the first consumer Oculus headset will have next year.
GitSub: Sell Access to Private GitHub Repositories
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345282

To this, I can only add that there are a lot of bad laws and even more, much more, bad prosecutions, so sounding like every prosecution is right and if you don't like it, just don't break the law, is not only sounding mean and morally obtuse, but also very uninformed.
Just signed up, looks good. I'd definitely be interested in an import for Ohlife
Thanks for the link. I'll probably end up watching this. I watched the Carmack talk as well.

Small note, but some things that kind of annoy me:

1. Audio sync issues -- the mouths and the words don't line up. I may just download the video and use the Audio Delay tool in VLC to watch it.

2. Start time of the talk: in this video you've just linked, the presentation doesn't even begin till like 6 mins in. Somewhat similar issue on the original video...

EDIT: Download link for the Abrash video: http://www.clipconverter.cc/download/pwvblTMb/123146223/

Download link for the Carmack video: http://www.clipconverter.cc/download/ecJvSoeC/123169959/

EDIT: Here's the "Bar/Far" video clip that Abrash showed, it was badly out of sync for me when I watched the presentation, but you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FefFfvriAwQ#t=64

And here's the side-by-side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FefFfvriAwQ#t=149

Pretty amazing.
I want to comment on this. While many people do envy Elon Musk, you're talking about the ones who admire him, and there is a big difference as you mention before that.

I don't know why I'm wired the way I am, but I'm just not susceptible to envy--at all. However, I hardly think that most people successful or otherwise are like me. In fact, I'd say a good bit of successful people are so because of their envy.

Envy is the worst of the 7 deadly sins. It's like Charlie Munger says, "It's the only deadly sin you're not going to have any fun with."
Tangential but hopefully interesting: how much an extra year of life is worth to the NHS: http://m.bbc.com/news/health-28983924
You need to subscribe to read the full article from the source, but there are plenty of articles that cites the article.
Still 33,699 too many
The Ship.DIRECTION_VERTICAL and Ship.DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL are correct. :) It just seems backward because by a quirk of how the the grid cells are generated in JS, the x-direction is actually visually up/down and the y-direction is visually left/right.
That we can't fix all bugs doesn't mean we shouldn't take steps to fix as many as we reasonably can.

Your argument applies equally well to sandboxing, for example--why go to all the trouble to lock down a complicated Windows sandbox if installing malicious software is only one kind of security vulnerability? The amount of subtlety in a Windows sandbox is incredible (all it takes is one leaked privileged file handle), and there are plenty of ways that security vulnerabilities can happen that aren't thwarted by a sandbox. But nobody is arguing that sandboxing is pointless, because it massively improves security.
For a landing page, it's a bad thing.

For a content page, you should absolutely not split content, except on major logical boundaries (e.g., chapters or larger sections within a book).

A site I refer to with great frequency is the Project Gutenberg copy of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. This packs over 1,000 pages of printed text on a single web page.

It's actually pretty usable, and it makes searching for text a lot easier than separate pages.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
I increasingly 1) back out of such sites and 2) add them as a 0.0.0.0 routed entry in /etc/hosts.
How do you intent to monetize? In other words, why should I believe this website will not shutdown till the money/motivation runs out?
You website broke the back button.
Absolutely a HUGE gripe of mine.

I spun out a quick rant on HN some time back which became among my most popular comments of all time. Eventually posted it as an article on its on, "Please Forward to Marketing":

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_f...

Tell me what the fuck it is EVERY GODDAMNED TIME YOU COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE PRODUCT. It doesn't have to be long or detailed, you can link to your detailed description in the communication. But your press releases, emails, Tweets, blog posts, marketing collateral, etc., are going to get passed around, word-of-mouthed, and/or pulled out of drawers (or browser history / searches) for weeks, months, and years to come. Make them work for you. A link back to your primary site should be present where at all possible -- in your Twitter profile if not the Tweet itself. Absolutely include links to your primary site from blog posts.

.... and more.
Find each vowel in a string for beginners
I'd get excited about image search technology if it could identify components of pictures (e.g. a red house, an angry cat, etc). This means that when I search for "happy family at beach" the search would actually look at the db of pics to find a) a family b) a beach and c) indications of happiness. That'd drastically cut my image search time down.

Text tags on images have a limit to the accuracy of the results.
Your theory is that we will be seen as more competitive if we give government bureaucrats more power to regulate and arbitrarily rule over the free market?
Not to mention that the majority of articles written on subjects like these are pushed to the top of the reading charts because they differ with the authoritative narrative you might learn in a textbook.

I feel it is important to realize that this person is posting an article on this subject (and you are reading it) because it strays from the commonly known, not because it is ubiquitous.

Filling your knowledge base with the exceptions is a good way to make yourself knowledgeable on a lot of incorrect or unsupported theories.
You're not reading the piece well in this case.

First point: "These women are laughing at you. Why? You designed your website for your needs, not theirs."

Write these two sentences where you can see them as you're working:

1. The only reason my website exists is to solve my customers' problems.

2. What problems does the page I'm looking at solve?

If your interest is in providing an informational site (as mine typically is), then the problem you're addressing is "what information is my reader looking for, how can I convince them that I'm satisfying it, and then satisfy it?".
Web designers haven't advanced in intelligence in the past four years.
Precisely - advertising, especially for larger brands, is just as much about getting you to buy stuff as it is about awareness.

For example, next time you're on a road trip and you have a choice between mcdonalds and a lesser known chain and you are hungry, you'll be more likely to go to the familiar McDonald's.

Or you might even tell your friends about how much you don't like McDonald's ads, but in the process you just told your friends about McDonald's, thus perpuating the chain.
Stylebot and element inspector. I've got ~2000 site-specific stylesheets to address annoyances such as this.

I find visiting websites without my set of CSS mods extremely painful.

Readability (or similar services) aren't a bad substitute.

Web design isn't the solution, web design is the problem.
Sadly, sizing fonts such that they're universally appropriate is difficult. Building a site which defaults to the user's preferred font size (though this often isn't set), and otherwise scales up and down in size, helps.

I find setting the main body to a 45em width, with 4em padding, and auto margins, is pretty close to perfect (desktop/laptop).
I think you might be mistaking HN for reddit. Have a look at the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Being a son of a physician from former USSR country I can say with the certain degree of certainty that this is not true in our times: you are lucky not to die in a line of 67 patients before you see a doctor in a state clinic. Not mentioning the MRI or X-Rays where patients wait up to 3-4 months in lines in order to get simple diagnosis. Money gives you the ability to go to private clinics and have these things done faster, often by more professional specialists. Doctors in state clinics are underpaid, often unprofessional and with lack of experience (graduated students).
Sorry but serving six months jail time (and most likely less) for repeatedly breaking and entering is perfectly reasonable to me and not obtuse whatsoever.

Most on HN are outraged with this type of sentencing because it's someone they liked, but if it was anyone else it would be perfectly acceptable.
Yeah, that back button bullshit gave me a big NOPE
Just finished watching, I am impressed at how low-level/technical he can get without boring or confusing the audience.

I have some experience with technical speaking and its very hard to make a technical point without dumbing it down for the audience.
We worked with the ARC team at Vine as a launch partner, there were 0 modifications that we had to do to get it working on ARC. The only difference was that the "bugs" we had to fix were all reproducible on Nexus devices as well BUT the threading model had to be more strict on ARC in terms accessing system resources.
This seems pretty similar to http://app.net when they started out. I don't think the "no ads social network" really panned out for them -- they tried charging users monthly for the site and have since pivoted so many times they're probably dizzy. Best of luck to ello.co, maybe the NSA revelations will make everyone a little more careful about who gets access to what they share!
Seems like hell living in a city where every building, every public transportation and every other infrastructure is owned by google. On the other hand living in a big city with good public transportation, where it's safe to commute by bicycle and the cars doesn't occupy much of the space on the ground, sounds like heaven. The closest you get is Copenhagen, where 36% of all citizens commute by bike every day, and the rest seems to take the s-train. Urban sprawl is a huge source of waste, but it takes more than money to solve the problem.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_in_Copenhagen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-train
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/09/03/wowza-scale-maps-of-ba...
Alright, fair enough. I don't consider myself a libertarian but most others consider me one (which I guess is all that matters). We are in total agreement. It couldn't be more clear that a "free market" solution isn't workable.
This is also one of the weird things about 'getting rich' (or a rapid change in net worth to the positive). A friend of mine who actually made it out of the dot com era with lots of residual wealth, was retelling a situation where a co-worker asked what he had done over the long weekend; What he had actually done was fly down to the Carribean with his girlfriend and spent the weekend on a sailboat (he lived in Boston). He related that he could say what he had done, but then his co-worker is pissed off because he thinks he his bragging, he can not say anything and get them pissed off about being anti-social, or he can lie about what he did, which when it gets out that it was a lie he gets in trouble too.

His take on it was he wasn't going to not do these things because it caused problems, he just wouldn't socialize. When you have kids and your friends don't, they don't want to hear about your kids and yet they are consuming your life. When your an entrepreneur and your friends aren't they don't want to hear about your business and yet your business is all you spend your time on.
Right. Not only is it not allowed to function. it simply would devolve into a non-free market anyway. Some markets reach their equilibrium point and do not respect "rationality." Behavioral economics is an entire branch of study that is dedicated to analyzing the discrepancies, and one that libertarians should do well to pay attention to rather than quote maxims.
>Libertarians ... Koch brothers

Yeah... not so much. I appreciate their donations to the Cato Institute and other liberty-facing organizations, but they fund crony capitalism and modern conservatism, which is to say they love to privatize gains and socialize costs. That's hardly libertarian. That's, well... American.
Anyone else coming from NYC? Kinda sucks going solo.
I would imagine the cost per viewer for a Super Bowl commercial isn't that high. Super Bowl commercials are expensive because there are so many viewers. In addition to the extra press surrounding them.
some of us just like chewing glass.
It is uncharitable and I generally find your 'I flagged this' comments useful, despite being at odds with the holy guidelines.

But ignore the meaniepants bit - the commenter has a point - "I flagged, then I unflagged it [etc]" is unintentional drama-generating fluff. You could have just said "The title makes it sound like a purely political story but it's really a Mike Bostock thing and worth a read"
That's effectively what Canada et al have done. Yes, I understand the government "negotiates great rates" for the citizens, but it's effectively the same thing as a blank check. It just takes a bit of shenanigans behind the scenes to sell the bureaucrats on your latest rate hikes. If you think pricing is bad now that the big insurance companies have to "negotiate great rates" for their clients, think how it'll be when there's only one party there.

Government-negotiated rates places the pricing totally outside the realm of necessity or reality and makes it a purely political matter, and politics is a messy, fickle thing built on personal favors and tit-for-tat. Not having your political activity interpreted as corruption or bribery mostly depends on not pissing off someone with more power than you.

Health care costs so much because of the insurance leech. The only way to restore sanity is to restore real competition and make the consumer pay directly. Doctors will have to charge reasonable fees to the patients, suppliers and vendors will have to charge reasonable fees to the doctors, etc. It will break the cycle of exorbitant cost in health care. That may be, in some senses, a painful transition, but it's the only sustainable thing in the long term. The cycle will not be broken by saying "Wow, health care sure costs a lot of money. Let's just get the government to print some extra cash and take care of that for us."

Insurance is typically a highly regulated industry because when insurance is involved, people get screwed. The incentives are misaligned; the insurance company only makes money when they don't give you what you're paying for. Insurance only works in events that are very unlikely. It's extremely likely that everyone will go to the doctor or need medical assistance. Insurance is a very, very bad model for this service.
After migrating an app from old OpenID to this, I think I'm done with integrating Google services for a while.
You're misinformed if you think all the witchcraft trials had anything to do with "consorting with the devil".

A lot of women in the records appeared to have been healers and midwives. Many of the records contain evidence of the practice of folk medicine/magic. It not only brings in the issue of unhappy customers. They also take place when the apothecary system was beginning to form in Europe, who were skilled practitioners of herbal medicine. It's not hard to presume these early healers had the knowledge to produce poisons, much like their successors the apothecarist.

The majority of witchcraft trials were performed by the Catholics and most were done so for heresy. Predominantly for pagan practices. It was the English witchcraft trials, and those that occurred later in the Americas that focused on the aspect of Satan/Devil. However, some of these get confusing when according to the records the accused admit to murder and poisoning/killing livestock before they're tortured, and we could well be seeing violent schizophrenics who could well have believed they're possessed.

I'm not saying that any of these would pass modern due process, but assuming away all credibility to all the claims is equally naive. There was high levels of scepticism present right from the beginning with records of trials being dismissed due to mental illness and 'unbalanced humours'.

Assuming they're 100% fraudulent would be extremely naive. You're no more intelligent than they were, we've just been gifted with easier access to more information than they ever were.
May I ask which Dijkstra's book you are referring to?
How an Offbeat Side Job Can Supercharge Your Creative Process
I was in the room - he is a truly dynamic speaker and obviously a super-intelligent guy. I think he went off the rails a bit with the suggestion of interlacing as a potential solution. That makes little sense to me. It's, at best, a short-term solution once you get fast enough displays and rendering. (And as an old-time video guy... just... god, please... no...)
I daresay most people have all their messages saved in their Sent folder.
So basically you can't be successful as an entrepreneur unless you're a sociopath? That's a disappointingly cynical view.

Some advice from someone who has also been in the trenches:

First, you don't need to waste time thinking or complaining about angels and VCs when you start a business you can fund yourself.

Second, if you're expecting growth to come easily and quickly, and you don't have the capital necessary to execute a realistic plan in a realistic amount of time, you're setting yourself up for unnecessary disappointment before you even begin.

Third, if you can't identify the primary drivers of your success and truly believe that you have 100 things to do, you don't have a good understanding of your business.

Fourth, fundraising won't impact your team when you don't need to raise capital.

Fifth, rejection, while hard, is a part of life. Even the most successful salespeople hear "no" far more often than they hear "yes." If you have unrealistic expectations about this and can't maintain a positive attitude unless you close the majority of the people you sell to, you might want to reconsider entrepreneurship.
Did you spend time in federal prison? Are you dealing with convicted felon status? You seem to be awfully quick recommending people to sit in jail and accept the life of a convicted felon. It's either you recommend it from experience of it not being a big deal, or it is the obtuseness.
Full disclosure: I built GitSub.

I had the idea about a year ago, tabled it lacking any examples of it in the wild. Hard to tell if it was a chicken or the egg problem.

Fast forward a few months, and Epic Games releases the source code to UE4 on GitHub -- available instantly as in a private GH repo.

I like to think the approach of selling access to source control could be used for a lot of software, but dealing with subscription billing and having the backend set up to integrate it with GitHub is probably enough to stop most small software companies from trying it.
Thats what a lot of people think. "decoded" a great book about it. http://www.amazon.com/Decoded-The-Science-Behind-Why/dp/1118...
"Paul Budnitz conceives and creates beautiful products that change the world."

Yeah. Ok. Great, thanks for changing the world.
The article cites Aaron Levie as an example.

Someone in his 20s who has already raised hundreds of millions of dollars and is already a millionaire.

Hardly the example of the struggling entrepreneur the article is warning us about.
What does this mean for users like me who use Google’s OpenID as the backend for OpenID delegation? Will I still be able to log in with “http://roryokane.com/” as my OpenID if I keep the delegation tags at that address pointed to Google’s servers, or will I have to switch to a different OpenID provider? This Google+ integration won’t work for me, since none of the OpenID sites I am signed into even know that I have a Google account; they just know my pre-delegation OpenID.
Headphones/earphones for work
What headphones/earphones do you use when working?
All oversimplified models are naive nonsense, especially those which were developed to contradict another oversimplified models.

It is the same flaw as to say 'clouds cannot be of this or that particular shape, they are always of this or that'.

There are too many 'variables' in what we could call the [naive] psychology of a mind or so called Froidian psychology. Any undergraduate cognitivist would tell.

It is not the naive this-OR-that 'logic' according which mental processes work. It is this-AND-that logic.

BTW the author probably should study Wikipedia article about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which is, of course, yet another oversimplified model.)
As the founder is an author, maybe he should write a book about the experience and give a free copy to the backers. They may be interested in the story (if it is half interesting).