skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for patiently answering the questions, as I believe that this app can be valuable for many of us, as soon as details get clearer.

I would request that you build a roadmap on your webpage, stating the various plans you have and appropriate current prioritization. If possible, allow registered users to add comments/votes.

My comments on your answers above:

1) Am I correct in assuming that this data as such is not valuable without voice identification? Are there ways to anonymize this - just asking.

The website talks vaguely about turning over to authorities, but more details in the privacy policy would assuage some of our fears.

2) You might want the user to download that data, and then get it off your system. Saves your space, liability etc without possibly impacting the app.

If the user wants highly accurate data, he leaves it there. Otherwise he deletes it. The onus should be on the user.

3) I don't think this is mentioned on your site?

4) Awesome!
Well our customers might be but I'm definitely not. Even a sniff of a security issue would be enough for us to drop everything and work to get it investigated. A loss in customer faith for a brand or product is a tough thing to restore.
Are you looking for this: http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....? Not exactly what you are looking for, but a starting point, maybe.
The truth is that it still seems like a grey area. That same article mentions that we should not claim that we treat anxiety if we want to stay unregulated. I think that we're on the fence here. In the future, we will go after FDA clearance in any case. We just need the means to do so.

This sounds perfectly honest, and I appreciate you acknowledging that.

I wonder if some of the information shared through the app would start to become "medical history". If you're being careful about your language to avoid clinical terms, but the substance of what your users are sharing is mental health related, I wonder if someone could make a case that you are actually collecting a medical history. But IANAL, so I don't know how that would play out.
Thanks! I can google a few, are there any programs that you would recommend?
Technology does not really matter if you are not a technology company. Most so called tech startups are not really technology companies. A technology company is a company in which the most important added value is the solution to nontrivial technical problems. You are a technology company if you create video cards, VR headsets, rendering engines, game engines, machine translation or speech recognition engines, etc... (These are difficult markets, as the bar is usually very high.) You are not really a tech company if you create a web app that serves web pages from a database however important user need you serve or however successful you are. The problem comes when people want to be technically creative at solving problems which need other kind of creativity (usually business creativity).
We had a very similar experience with FeatureMap. Started off with RavenDB, got tired of all sorts of technical problems (migrations, map/reduce, transactions, deadlocks, ...), quickly rewrote the data layer to use good ol' Entity Framework + SQL Server, and voilà, all better now.

Looking back at this it seems clear now that the way we used RavenDB (it could have been any NoSQL database) was not optimal and that most of the problems we faced were a direct consequence of our naive/simplistic approach. From a personal/technical point of view I don't regret the experience and I now have plenty of ideas about how to better leverage NoSQL databases, but from the business/customer point of view it certainly costed us.
What about working with Goldman Sachs to hide the true level of debt that Greece had from Eurostat?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greek-debt-crisis...
His blog: CONFESSIONS OF AN ERRATIC MARXIST IN THE MIDST OF A REPUGNANT EUROPEAN CRISIS

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/12/10/confessions-of-an-errat...
From this talk he gave, entitled "Confessions of an Erratic Marxist":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uNIgDmqwI
haha, well I do see ads as a necessary evil, although some companies do a better job with non-intrusive ads.
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If you're just testing the waters, an inventory marketplace like BuySellAds.com might be worth checking out.

You can browse through the inventory of similar sites to get a gauge of what you can expect, CPM wise: https://buysellads.com/buy/allsites/

Later on, you might just want to strike one-off deals with interested advertisers, or build in a more "native" ad solution into your platform, etc.
The trick, it seems, is to be able to convince the guy wielding the rubber hose that you don't have the information he wants.

"Give me the password!" "Password to what?" {whack}
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Red meat is linked to a heart disease and some cancers. Comparing that to "each vegetable has a weird side effect" (what?) is intellectually dishonest. Vegetarianism has been given a bad name by "alt medicine" quacks, but reducing red meat consumption is a no brainer.
NSQ is a full-featured messaging platform out-of-the-box, whereas zeromq and nanomsq are lower level libraries that you could use to build (the same) functionality.
Yes. That's why they took more investment this year: http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2015/01/20.html
Ten years of cats on YouTube
Hopefully I've explained enough about my approach to technical debt in my response above. I think the problem of not being able to pay the bills due to a lack of customers is much more difficult to overcome than any issues caused by technical debt. More customers usually means more money which buys you time.
What I'm getting from everything you're saying, is this...

"We're carefully avoiding anything that might make us comply with regulations that could potentially get in the way of our harvesting of your thoughts and mental health status"
Again, details such as these ( precautions taken ) would be valuable on your site.

To repeat : the privacy policy and "about" sections need a lot of work considering the nature of this app.
If you consider the concept of abstraction, it seems inevitable that people eventually stop caring much about how or why the black box works. Then consider how many layers of abstraction have been agglutinated over the years.

It makes sense that it's confusing now.
Ignore initial downvotes.

People usually supply corrective upvotes if the downvote is unfair.
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Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn on what he thinks of communication apps now
Not to justify the practice, but pretty much every periphery country fudged the numbers in order to be admitted to the Eurozone because none of them had a strong enough economy then to be let in. One did it, then the next looked at the last one and said "If them, why not us?"

Greece is pretty corrupt though.
I'm curious about the validity of a mouse model for this subject. I remember early reports that rapeseed oil causes cancer in rats, followed by the discovery that feeding rats large amounts of any oil gives them cancer, because it's a bad model.

I don't think of small rodents as being particularly carnivorous, and as eating bugs and small bites of rotten meat when they do eat animals. Could this be affecting the results of this study?
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Not sure why you got downvoted - here, have +1.

I agree that they probably don't comply to the license by not linking to the license itself, however, I doubt anyone will take them to court for this.

Also, this could be seen as quoting and is in some jurisdictions allowed (with due restrictions). So maybe they don't care about license... Aren't they doing the same for ages, when they show relevant portion of the page with the keywords?
Please use the page/article title, not your personal opinion as title. I see in three submissions you've altered the title three times. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know what your problem is...
It seems like any differences must be algorithmic - encoding, error correction, etc. Which could be fixed.
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I found this book to be the most elucidating book on the 2008 financial crisis. Unlike other books that focus solely on the American economy, Varoufakis spins a narrative which places the American economy at the center of an increasingly complex and flawed global economy. The book makes it clear why the American economy's failing had such a dire effect on the rest of the world's economies. Moreover, it describes how the world economy developed in this way, starting all the way back to just after the second World War.
sure thing, this is an overview of the product http://us.veeseo.com and here is a sample link for it out in the wild: http://mmajunkie.com/2015/01/diego-brandaos-ufc-183-challeng...
Published it where? The only link I can find is http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35668.pdf, and calling that source code is a bit generous to say the least.
That'll teach you to not rely on FB to sign in to Spotify.
So I can clearly not choose the drink that is in front of you!
Now let's consider the culture involved in writing software for the respective systems. Do you want the typical point n click weenie writing the software to control your military hardware?
> So worry about it when you get to scale, not before.

You are advocating people to spend man years of work just as their company start to get sucessfull porting their codebase, instead of stopping a couple of minutes earlier on to correctly decide what tools they'll need.
I'd argue that it's source code at the lowest possible level...
jsfiddle is the new chatroulette!
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If you have your goals and you're still productive doing whatever you do best I don't see why anyone would get no satisfaction from it.
w3m is my favourite alternative, since it's nicely integrated into Emacs. Dillo is good for a throw-away browser window, eg. to check something quickly on Wikipedia. Netsurf is useful as a prettier Dillo (eg. for sites which are confusing without some CSS).

For ad blocking, etc. I use http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

In FF I use AdBlock and NoScript. I don't have Flash installed.
Politicians from parties who now get 3-4% of the vote lied years ago (to the Greek public as well as EU bankers), so let's take Greek workers' pensions, crush their unions, slash their social services, and offer no jobs or future to 60% of Greek young people. The bankers may not get their money anyway, since the debt is still increasing, but at least the Greeks* will get what they deserve!

*may not apply to the elites who actually bankrupted the country, who don't rely on government services and can keep their money in Swiss accounts
Sometimes that latest trendy framework actually is a much better approach. Wanna know how you can tell the difference? Experience.

I used React for the first time when I started building the first version of our MVP because I was familiar with and frustrated with every other front-end approach in Javascript. Angular and Ember were bulky and slow. jQuery and vanilla JS are god damned nightmares for complex interactive applications. Because I have been writing rich client applications in Javascript for the better part of a decade I could very easily assess the pros and cons of React and realize just how great of a tool it was. The same goes for why I use Browserify and why I still use Make (and not grunt or gulp, yuk) for my builds.

The database I went with? Postgres. Redis is the only NoSQL tool in my belt and I use it as basically a sophisticated caching layer, although now that Postgres has such great support for JSON documents I might be fine without it.

I know for sure that there will be new tools in the future. Most will be new versions of an old approach but implemented poorly. A few will be much better and will have a major increase in productivity.
If the OS is compromised, then you can't work around that to secure a program inside the OS. You can run the program somewhere else, like on the keyboard itself. Some secure crypto devices have displays, so you can see what you're signing.

The only similar thing I've heard of is the "Secure Attention Sequence" in Windows. That is, pressing CtrlAltDel before entering credentials lets you be sure an application is not mimicking the logon prompt. But of course if the OS is compromised (like by loading a driver that intercepts such keystrokes, like VMware Enhanced Keyboard) all bets are off.

Think about it, the OS is executing all the code for the app, and storing all the memory.

This is also why there is a push for trusted computing. Being able to have your processor, OS, etc be able to verify they are running a trusted configuration is a powerful thing. It makes the owner of the computer in control. (The downside is when the user is not the owner, but would like to be, then they get upset at restrictions.)
You can say the same thing in any language.

"it's not 8 lines.. you need to manually add 8 lines but you also import java.util.ArrayList that is pretty large"

or to stick with dynamic flavors..

"it's not 8 lines.. you need to manually add 8 lines but you also include this module: <link to large module>"
My take on it is HIPAA is meant to protect your privacy which is great BUT we have to make sure it doesn't impede progress in mental health. I am no expert but there has to be incredible amount of information based on studying the data. This is especially true in mental health.

Personally, I am not a fan of a general statement like "don't collect any data". As a patient, I am totally ok if a system collects data ON me BUT never ABOUT me. In another words, the data should in no way be identifiable. That way, we continue to make progress while maintaining privacy.
Forget that, lets do paleo right and go back to eating bugs! The whole "biotruth" "evolution-as-intelligent-design" argument isn't very interesting. Who cares how ancient humans ate? Their lifestyle was completely different. They didn't have access to the resources (both in terms of food and education) we do now, why would their diet necessarily be the best?
There's Windows parental controls, OpenDNS, Chrome and Firefox extensions, and programs that can do all of that. You don't have to have a government mandated filter to protect your children.
Same for me. Getting 500 errors everywhere. I'll just check back at a later date when the resource is back up!
To bad the Greek government doesn't own Steam, then they would have more to export than just Ouzou.
sure thing, this is an overview of the product http://us.veeseo.com we are bothered by the stupid recommendation engines (outbrain/taboola) that insults our intelligence at the bottom of ... pretty much every website. veeseo is a tool for editors that shows relevant content that their own publisher produced. no click-baits! :)
This is a cool idea, though it doesn't really work for me. I've only heard of a couple of the artists it suggested, and that is because I know that I dislike them. Perhaps if you could select a genre other than pop?
No, that wasn't his logic. NoSQL data bases aren't the only tech that is worth experimenting with.
Technology can matter, if you know how to use it. From your story it seems you guys went in blindfolded and just decided upon the technology on a hunch. That is your fault, not the technology.
Except that the article cites tool selection as a major botleneck in "can we finish this":

"Instead of focussing on your user’s needs and building a product that everybody wants, you’re wasting your time and burn money by exploring and introducing new technologies."
For some malwares that may be true, but I doubt Regin was that sloppy.
I'm guessing because most people still think they can make the state work.... through better organized meetings, education, communication, etc.

You sound anti-statist. Maybe you want stuff like this: http://mises.org/library/myth-national-defense-essays-theory...
These things are not solely responsible for the ruinous state of the Greek economy, which can be proven very easily:

Every periphery economy suffered from the same economic malaise caused by a housing boom, a crash, a bailout of their banking sectors and austerity imposed from above (all actions ordered by Brussels).

Yet Greece was the only one that played silly games with Goldman Sachs to get accepted (for which nobody has been punished except the Greek people).
Switching costs: friend or foe?
CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow
Introducing Discover
so there is one line NoSQL server? `git clone git@github.com:mongodb/mongo.git`
the point is that you have to choose your wording and make sure you say that it's not "only" 8 lines of code, it's only 8 lines of settings...
The jsfiddle demo doesn't seem to be working (OS X / Safari)
Interestingly, in practice lo-dash actually doesn't proxy through to the native implementation for things like map and forEach. Just using loops ends up being more performant because of some edge cases in the ES5 spec for those methods that lo-dash and underscore don't follow.

http://benmccormick.org/2014/11/12/underscore-vs-lodash/
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It isn't the same thing. But that's just argument.

Let's go with the new subject of how creativity fits in. Creativity allows the expansion of a system of axioms through perceiving possibilities not permitted within the system. This allows escape from "incompleteness" [1].

Of course that is not all creativity does, but it is fairly big deal as it leads to what we tend to call "understanding" or "comprehension". Knowing how to calculate the next number in a sequence, and comprehending that the next number will always be the same as the previous (divide 1 by 3 and express as a decimal number) requires multiple levels of observation.

We've been able "teach" machines discoveries of that nature that we've already made, but we haven't really been able to generate the capability. Take the case of those evolved neural net solutions that took advantage of the physical nature of the hardware to optimize a detection circuit. The optimization could only occur because there was a suitable system-external test to drive optimization. While it is feasible to allow the combination of the physical world and a definition of "survival" to serve as a suitable test for machines, the result would merely be machines that "survive". This would not be "The Singularity" of machines that out-think us, this would be the "gray goo" scenario of machines that devastate our civilization and merely replace us on the top of the food chain.

My point is that there needs to be a way for the machine to generate its own tests. This, in large part, is comprehension, driven by creativity. Granted, I say all of this firmly embedded among the laity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-0235

"A heap-based buffer overflow was found in __nss_hostname_digits_dots(), which is used by the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() glibc function call. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitary code with the permissions of the user running the application."
>Not to justify the practice, but pretty much every periphery country fudged the numbers in order to be admitted to the Eurozone because none of them had a strong enough economy then to be let in. One did it, then the next looked at the last one and said "If them, why not us?"

The real fun starts when Greece defaults and Italy/France/Spain/Ireland/etc. go...

If them, why not us?
Really? Apart from France, do most countries prosecute the author of computer/hacking tools? I was under the impression that the use of the tools is what mattered. Just like BitTorrent itself has been fine, but any hints of using it for copyright infringement get fire.

After all, you could use this malware to spy on your child's use of your PC, which is legal, right?
The way I interpreted the author is not so much a juxtaposition between the stereotypical codes-18-hours-a-day-ninja-rockstar-programmer (who I think is a person in serious need of some slowing down, self-reflecting and trying some things outside their trendy comfort zone of constantly reinventing the same concepts) and the dry business owner who overworks his minions for financial gain.

Rather, it's the juxtaposition between the person who actually sees beyond the computing mainstream and tries to incorporate ideas from the underground research and development that never caught on, and the drone who can't see beyond their bubble, doomed into a samsara of rehashing under the mistaken belief that they're making progress.

The latter group is more often than not precisely the 18-hours-a-day-rockstar that you interpret as the "tech visionary" the author brings up.

EDIT: Well, fuck. Deleted as soon as I posted.
No they didn't; they bought when it was under $10. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/09...
You are correct, and thank you for the support of the comment above. WRT Twitter=RSS, I cannot lament enough the fact that RSS has been treated like an abandoned child, only because there is Twitter. WRT AOL, well, there's also Facebook, which is a de facto Internet today (rightly or wrongly, that's a sad debate).
There's no reason to believe the US government has to make any real effort to make sure voters are misinformed. They seem to manage it just fine on their own.
Actually we like to switch providers a lot to snag the best deals.
Depending on which funds you are referring to, this may or may not be accurate. If you're talking about investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB), then yes, those funds were meant to bolster the economies of all European countries. However, in order to receive funds for a project, the country sponsoring the project has to put up some percentage of the budget. Last I heard it was 50%. That's not really feasible for insolvent countries to do.

If you're talking about the bailout, then no, it was never meant to be a Marshall Plan sort of deal. More or less, it was meant to give money to an insolvent country so it could save its insolvent banks and pay off their creditors. The vast majority of the bailout money did not stay in the country and put to productive use, but instead left the country to pay off its debt.
> Why would Turkey has any benefit from a bunch of murderers?

Because they keep splitting Kurdish territory, weakening Kurdish positions that are instrumental if Kurds are ever to get full statehood -- which would would immediately result in claims over currently-Turkish territory as part of independent Kurdistan. Enemy of my enemy...

> BTW SA is not a Nato member

Not strictly-speaking, but in practice it's one of the staunchest US allies in the region, on par with Israel. The US built a lot of installations there in the last 20 years, then relinquished them to SA and proceeded to sell them Nato-grade weaponry. If shit started to fly with Putin tomorrow, Saudi Arabia would be on NATO's side, no question.
If this was a concern than Search Engines would be worthless!

They couldn't embed any snippets from any webpage ever, as all materials are by default copyright their author with no license for reproduction.

I'm very sure there have been several legal cases involving search engines extracting information from the website. Spain's news organizations come to mind - the end result being that not licensing Google was bad for business.
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