skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A well designed Google Doc is a legit contender for low volume (say couple hundred records)CRM requirement. Its on the cloud, can support multiple users, you can track history (use columns are stages in the funnel) and you don't have to learn it.

Perhaps most importantly, you can import / export your data at any time - making it easy to migrate to a better system later on as your project grows, or put it into mail merge software like Mailchimp (can also do this with Yet Another Mail Merge Google Docs Add-on)

Failing all that, try one of these.
http://list.ly/list/9qA-hungs-tools-for-biz-dev-crm?feature=...

I've tried most of them, and have settled on Insightly - a google app that has a stripped down interface, but can support tens of thousands of records and can support multiple tags. Also has a (poor) social aggregator, which is a nice-to-have-soon-to-be-standard feature on modern CRM's.

Its not perfect, but I like it because it doesn't do much. Most CRM's suffer from feature creep and end up producing an ugly, confused UX which intimidates anyone but a masochist.

Ping me if you have any questions.

PS: I'm a CRM masochist
I can see something like this making a little sense in a country with 100% free health cared paid by taxes. If you have a disease you've caused yourself (by smoking, taking drugs, eating badly) why should everyone else have to help you through their taxes? That's not my opinion though, I don't think that's how it should work but I guess that's how he's looking at it.
Not that I agree with the quote but, can you explain the irony?
A very well reasoned theory. I am always highly skeptical about basic income schemes, however you definitely began to persuade me, however I'm not am there yet. My concern would be inflationary pressures. If everyone makes $x per year, then everyone would want a minimum of a studio apartment instead of the residence hotel. Yet there isn't an increased supply of apartments. So prices rise, negating the benefit. So now these residence hotels can charge a higher price because the people can now afford it. However, to pay for basic income, now you must increase taxes, which results in a lower marginal profit for property owners, which creates a disincentive to keep building, which further constricts supply and raises costs. Even discounting tax revenue increases that would be necessary to fund a basic income, supply and demand still apply. In you lower the cost of something (either by lowering the price or increasing the ability of people to pay the current price,) you reduce supply. So we're back were we started, except those people who have saved money over the course of their life now find it less valuable, thus reducing their purchasing power and thus resulting in decreased demand, thus lowering prices. However in that scenario, it simply redistributes the wealth from the savers to the group you are trying to help. Great for the special interest (the poor) but at the expense of the whole. Because, a basic income isn't creating new wealth, it's rearranging existing wealth while also reducing the incentive to create new wealth through higher taxes. One could say "reduce the defense budget," which is a valid idea, however the defense budget is also responsible for a huge amount of economic activity (see the US economic recovery during WWII as an example.) Sonwith reduced defense spending, you also reduce the jobs from that industry, which puts additional stress on a basic income system. Of course, I reject the Keynesian premise that defense spending boosts the economy, but what does boost the economy is lower taxes; it incentivizes production which then provides more jobs and increases the amount of capital available for real wealth creation, which helps everyone -- even the profoundly poor. After all, compared to countries like India, Mexico, etc, the American poor are far better than the poor of those counties-- because there is far greater wealth and thus a more powerful economic engine and thus increased opportunity. Poverty rates in the U.S. have remained unchanged since the War in Poverty. Why? Redistribution doesn't solve anything.
Spaniard here. While I've never started a company, this resonates pretty strongly with my experience as a freelancer. In order to be an autonomous worker, you must pay 250€ a month. On top of the 21% VAT and the 16% IRPF taxes, of course, and without even having any income. According to the law, you only need to register as an autonomous worker and pay the tax if you expect to do this "regularly and as a way of living", but how this actually translates to your income was never written into law, which means you have to fight the state for it in court.

Luckily for me, I was under 30 when I did this, which means I got an 80% discount on the 250€ tax for six months. After that, the discount got reduced to 50%. Similarly, the 16% tax was on "super-reduced mode", which meant it was only a 7% tax.

Relating to the state in Spain in a non-trivial way seems to always be about navigating this ridiculous, expensive legalese maze. Don't ask me how was I supposed to fill my taxes with the autonomous community I lived on, because I still don't have a clue. Crossing my fingers and hoping they never ask for their money.
> Isn't that what KickStarter does?

And a whole bunch of other crowdfunding sites in the UK - Crowdcube, Seedrs, etc. I don't know what the equivalents are in the US, but I'm sure they exist...
I think it's a legitimate choice. Personally I'm not worried my work is being used that way, as long as the original project is available and works.
Much of this list is things you can do with a little ingenuity.

ER problem is US specific. Scandinavian countries don't have that problem (to name 1st world countries that have "solved" HC).

What does he want to test via blood? There are a lot of specific solutions available.

Some would argue he should buy a Tesla and that's that on the car front.

And then there's just the stupid stuff like "call FD with an app"..... cuz 911 is soo hard to remember. And the gross misunderstanding of Bitcoin. The value fluctuates. That's any currency, not just Bitcoin. Even the value of the dollar is volatile (inflation).

He couldn't find a physicist to teach him GR? That's so amusing it brought me to tears. Did he try .... a local university?

The invasion of privacy he calls for is .... disturbing.

If he can get MRI's done @ 100$ per pop, he's got a business to run and money to make. Go do it!

I could go on tearing that list to shreds.
I thought of this decades ago, and I am sure many others have too. And no the math does not come out favorably. While technically feasible, the cost is prohibitive. The reason is simple, you need LOTS OF WEIGHT to get any appreciable storage capacity.

Try it yourself: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/gpot.html

Note that 1 joule = 2.77777778 × 10-7 kilowatt hours
Wall Street's irresponsible behavior -- several orders of magnitude more irresponsible than making the wrong dietary choices -- cost the American public quite dearly around 2008, remember?
>> Isn't that what KickStarter does?

No you can't offer a % of your company as a reward on Kickstarter. I think AngelList is probably closest with syndicated deals.
There's a lot of good science on this exact issue, dating back to the 50s/60s (good entry point: the Nobel Prize-awarded work of Hubel & Wiesel). The brain does indeed perform many, many passes of feature extraction and reduction. Essentially, this process starts at synapse one -- retinal inputs, for instance, are immediately split into multiple channels coding different features of the incredibly rich feature space impinging on your photoreceptors. The higher up you go, the more diverse the features and the higher their level of complexity.

There's no need for guesswork! Just dive into the literature.
Apart from the reasons usually given (fraud protection etc.) the main reason quite simply is that those systems are arcane and Byzantine.

We're talking about AS/400 mainframes here with software written in COBOL and RPG (which actually was created for use with punch cards but still is actively used today). The preferred mode of inter-systems communication on these platforms is exchanging fixed-width files via FTP or socket services.

Not only are these systems difficult to maintain or update, connecting modern systems isn't exactly easy either.

That said, there's a whole lot of money to be made in this area in the next 10 years or so because everyone who still knows COBOL, RPG and AS/400 stuff in general is likely 50 years or older, which means there won't hardly be anyone to maintain those monstrosities any more 15 years from now.

Many banks are currently migrating these systems to modern languages and frameworks, which for banks and finance in general mostly means Java. Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily mean things will get better. There are many stakeholders in this game and their interests don't always align with the customers'.
18. Invest $10,000 in Uber in the secondary market by buying some shares from an existing shareholder -- with just a few clicks.

If this one gets solved, it would be weirdly ironic. That's supposedly what public markets are for. This BTW, is one an entrepreneurial government could tackle.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/salt-what-is-it-good-for/

According to this (there's a study linked within) salt's effect on blood pressure and other indicators of heart disease seem to follow a j-curve - too little or too much and you're at increased risk.
I think `ls` is list as in unix and `lc` is list columns, just like `ls|mc` `list` | `multicolumn`.

There is no manual page for `cl`, so thats probably a typo.
It appears to me that, in the examples shown, the advantage of Go in terms of clarity is only in the existence of the "func" keyword.
Schlieren Optics – See small changes in the index of refraction in air
Digital art festival for vvvv addicted
> 22. have all my accounting being done as a SASS.

In UK that's done by Crunch (http://www.crunch.co.uk/)
Very consistent jittering/jankiness (about every 5 seconds) on FF 33.1 - is it worth a bug report?

Edit: much better in 35.0a2. I wonder what they did?
On 9. - you can't just send or withdraw $10,000 - you need to go to the bank, declare the purpose of this transfer, sign some papers and then wait a few days for it to be cleared. The limit varies between countries. Money laundering laws and all that.

Some banks actually decline large withdrawals (but not transfers) if you have a weak/suspicious reason ("I want to buy five 3D LED TVs today" :-)).
Sorry, I'm not reading a webpage with a busted layout like this: http://imgur.com/TsN7sUg

The top non-scrolling region is quite large, and then they add on a facebook and twitter curved thing as well? Infuriating! Am I the only one seeing this?
Most of these seem possible and some of them are really creepy take this for example [1], first off that would be unmanagable list, allready exists (dating services, tinder, etc) and is presented in a very dodgy way.

[1] "27. Be able to see a list of all single people in LA right now and efficiently sort through this data, with two way opt-in, to find an ideal match"
Yikes - this took me right back to writing M68000 bootsector demo/loaders on my AtariST in the 80's. Happy times. I sometimes wish there was still more of that creative free-for-all spirit in todays UI's. To think of the computing power we have now compared to then - it's slightly saddening to see how conservative and often ugly the interfaces we use are.
Ah, no, you're right.

I was thinking that mapping can be f(T1)->T2 and how reducing can change types too, but I guess I wasn't paying enough attention because of course the reduce signature is f(accumulator, input) and the output is accumulator, so yea, you're absolutely right: f(T1,T2)->T1
It's an unfair comparison in any case: DNS is "trivial" to keep up compared to even small fractions of Facebook and Google's infrastructure.

As long as a sufficient fraction of servers at a sufficient fraction of Verisigns clusters has an uncorrupted set of data and is able to serve responses, Verisigns TLD zones remain up.

Pretty much the only thing that can go wrong in that case, assuming you have safeguarded the integrity of the zone is bugs in components outside their direct control.

It makes 100% sense for them to focus their efforts on ensuring diversity, because the class of problems that can solve for them makes up an unusually high percentage of the possible failure classes, and the nature of the service also means that most of the potential problems that this can cause is only likely to take out some proportion of their capacity that still leaves them with a functional system, so the potential benefit is higher for them than for most with a heterogeneous, and the potential risks are lower for them than for most.

For Google and Facebook, the systems are so much more complex that the tradeoffs are vastly different.
I don't think the license would change anything, even if they chose something like AGPL. The sites would either ignore it (hard to prove infringement) or put a small link with their source. They don't rely on being proprietary anyway.
Articles like this are truly surreal.

It almost feels as if the debate about whether this data collection should be introduced is purely for the purpose of distracting from the fact that GCHQ has already been doing this for years.
I'm just using https://github.com/np1/mps-youtube
> 11. Get a quick, binding divorce online.

Umm... really???
I once (while in university) had the awesome idea to write some fantastic code after a night out.

Sadly I had to scrap the project the next day since it did'nt compile anymore :)
The effect of parenting on my side project income: It's not good
Sadly, the promise of low-cost seems hard to fulfill using traditional distribution circuits (one single distributor and one single reseller by country), at least for the team's previous robot, the kilobot:
http://www.generationrobots.com/fr/201-kilobot
That's more than $150 per single kilobot.
The kilobot is supposedly costlier, but we can still infer that this cheaper model will not reach $10 in stores if the distribution model is the same.
An Arduino-like ecosystem with many clones might be better suited to very low cost robots.
> As a Firefox-user (on Linux!) who don't feel like installing Google's closed-source spyware-browser

Chrome is open-source Chromium plus an auto-updater and Flash.
Saudi Arabia has solved this problem - at least one Saudi Arabian man divorced his wife via text message: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/04/09/70302.html
Apparently that port is used for the "plan 9 file service", so it's probably some kind of ftp-like client for 9p.
How to Analyse IIS Log Files
Think of this like a stress-test for the JS engine though. It's probably still useful to work out edge cases and odd performance issues. It's much better in 35.0a2 and that's good for everyone.
That's hysterical! I like how the transhuman stuff starts at (6), the potential existential risks at (7), and by the time you get to (10) you're literally more ambitious than God.

Of course, there needs to be an analogous scale for controlling the outcomes of developing anything that ambitious.

And a choir that you can hire to follow you around singing the necessary Ominous Latin Chanting while you announce your ambition levels.
Part of it is to retrospectively legalize actions that were (probably) illegal or in a grey area. I say "probably" because RIPA gives wide scope for "national security" actions.
Regarding 30. wasn't it recently concluded here on HN that obese people actually end up costing less to society since they tend not to survive into their 80s/90s? Not that his thought is good even if this was not true.
To be fair, the only reason to run Pulseaudio is "everyone else is" - i.e. its fully glommed into the distro. ALSA and Jack have been stable for a lot of people, even before Lennart decided to tackle 'all the problems'.

But, also to be fair - like you, I maintain my own systems and do not overly depend on the teeming-mass-reality as a derivation of stability. My personal Linux DAW systems, running now for decades, have attained a level of productivity that I would at least hope is represented in the current niveau, vis a vis Popular Linux Distro designed for audio (e.g. pure:dyne, Arch Pro Audio, 64 Studio, UbuntuStudio, et al.) .. for the newcomer, it should of course 'all just work' from boot-up, which I hope is the case. It is for me, anyway: I've expunged pulseaudio from all of my machines, and make do with Jack. My studio uses 48-channels of digital audio, everything-is-a-file .. a working and functional DAW, thousands of plugins, about 12 MIDI devices (synthesizers/effects rack) and so on, and the best thing of all: all source code included. So, yeah .. ;)

EDIT: apropos qjackctl, yeah, apmd:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/apmd.htm

.. or some such similar thing.
ZFS would need block pointer rewrites to implement those features, right? I don't think ZFS developers are opposed to that, but progress is just stalled. So I think "will never have" is a bit strongly worded.
Freactive: A high-performance declarative DOM library in ClojureScript
Show HN: Girih pattern editor
Personally, I love FreeBSD's beastie.
Don't care much if it is "satanical" or whatnot.
Plus DRM and possibly other things Google is not telling us. It is a propriety browser distributed as a binary, effectively closed-source, so there is no way for us to know.

Chromium! = Chrome and more people who realize that (and vocalize it) the better.
I'm glad some people care about browser performance, care about creating art and apps that push performance, because without them we won't get to that future where there's a viable, open, free, standards based platform that people can use to challenge the dominance of truly closed source native app platforms.

So yes I am shocked to hear that you don't care. And I'm a bit shocked to see you rant at a person that simply suggested Firefox's JS engine may not be as performant as Chrome's.
On OS X, you can use afplay(/usr/bin/afplay) to play those downloaded videos' music(in a headless player). This is pretty useful if you listen to youtube music at work.
There is a very large difference between building complex tunnels and a simple hole in the ground. The cost for drilling a straight exploratory/mining hole was 10 Million/km in the 70's and 80's[0]. I can easily imagine this being cheaper by a factor of 2-5 with current advances. Not to mention this concept has a lot of synergy with mining companies.

[0] http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/geo101/interior.htm
Why not just break them?
So what, anyone who wants to use Chrome-targeted websites/demos/games can just install Chromium and experience the same as a Chrome user. No problem at all.
UK government reviving plans for a “snoopers' charter”
13-YR-OLD GIRL’S HORROR: ‘My stepfather serially raped, impregnated me’
WtfBeacon (how shortwave works)
I always thought the obvious reason for this is that it allows the banks to hang on to your money a little bit longer. At least that's how it works where I live. The money disappears from your account immediately, so essentially you give them a ~24 hour free loan. The banks win, so they have no incentive the change it.
dont forget about ease of implementation as well...
The classic example is travel. Some people wait until their retirement before they travel the world, which means they can no longer do the physically demanding adventures and they have only a few years to enjoy the memories. Others travel before they start a career and family, allowing them to appreciate the memories for their whole life. Others still just find ways to travel their whole lives, and make it a part of who they are and what brings them fulfillment. It doesn't have to be travel, but I believe most people can find ways to be fulfilled their whole life instead of postponing it until retirement. I see plenty of examples in my surroundings of people who have psychologically locked themselves up in a non-fulfilling life. I can see the ways they could break out of it, but somehow they can't.
Thanks. Quite a surprising finding. That article links to another one from the NY times [1], with this interesting line:
The researchers found that from age 20 to 56, obese people racked up the most expensive health costs. But because both the smokers and the obese people died sooner than the healthy group, it cost less to treat them in the long run.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.97488...
> Google's closed-source spyware-browser

This is serious FUD with no evidence.
An obese person costs more per year but less per lifetime since he dies sooner. Correspondingly, an obese person should pay more each year but they will pay less over their lifetime.
Additionally, if you upgrade your shell, or something gets borked, then... you now don't have a shell.
Isn't it amazing how well Emacs development scaled without basic features like namespaces and lexical scope?

These days I find myself more inclined to try and borrow ideas from Emacs Lisp than to retrofit modern ideas back onto it.

How important can those features really be if their absence has only been a nuisance during decades of development?
The morals of the 50's seem to be a bit different than those of the 2000's...
Well that is a lossy compression, can work nicely to some data (e.g. images), but totally irrelevant in the context of source code compression.
This is fine for some uses however if you have a major amount of content then it is just easier to configure the web server to compress the images with Google Pagespeed. This you can turn off with a switch added to the URL. This means you don't have to care about the images you upload as that content will be served optimised. You can then focus on your content rather than be forever compressing images manually.

Importantly Pagespeed can use 4:2:2 colourspace which can work very well for reducing the file sizes. You can also set it to serve even smaller .webp images where browsers can render them.
Bailouts and ZIRP facilitating and propping up the great American casino which he was a part of cost trillions of dollars. That isn't even counting the many Americans who have been scammed via their mortgages or 401Ks.

I'm not sure what fat people cost the taxpayer. Given that they typically pay their own medical expenses, I would guess not a lot.

Also, clearly their sad state of affairs is due to the quirky American agricultural and food processing industries. France doesn't have this problem with obesity and neither did the US in 1970.

I don't see him crying out for a special tax on Monsanto. Maybe because his portfolio would take a hit.

Either way, this facebook post is pretty representative of the inhuman views that American neo-royalty holds.
MVC is really easy to test. This example just completely ignores concepts as programming to interfaces, composition and single responsibility.
"32. Be able to get into an ER for under $100. It's ridicoulous that a mere 15 min consultation can cost somebody (the system) $1000+."

You can. It's called 'living in Europe.'