skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have an incurable sinus infection that plagued me every winter. Antibiotics were worthless. Then, after X-rays confirmed my maxillary sinuses were filled to the brim with crud and doctors wanted to cut out large swaths of my sinuses, I decided to hang upside down on my personal quack theory that it might let them drain.

To my somewhat surprise, every day I did this an unholy brew of dark brown mucus and blood would drain out of my nose after a few minutes. A couple weeks later the crud dissipated and so did the sinus infection. I haven't had a serious infection of more than a few days since 2011.

What's my point? Keep an open mind here. Traditional medicine wasn't the answer here. Homeopathy is nonsense, but there are occasional bits of truth to mine from alternative approaches.
This might sound stupid (and it might be), but wouldn't space exploration go a long way in helping advanced economies having something to do and growth to?

If advanced economies were to increase science and space tech research, they would practically have a limitless "market" from where to obtain wealth and productivity, no?

It's a serious question. Wouldn't this help stagnated economies start the engines again? I mean, if nowadays a lot of people are trying to catch the next startup lottery, betting on things that would seem a bit superficial compared to, say, building a moon base or even a mars one, why wouldn't these same people that control vast amounts of wealth, put it to work on something that will most likely return something of value, and probably something more than just a startup lottery winner would (in the long term)?.

What am I not seeing/considering here? is human greed that badly focused/directed that they won't see this opportunity? I know rocket science is literally... rocket science, so very very hard. But it seems like companies in this area are moving forward by leaps and bounds with comparatively little money (vs say the amount of money being traded in forex every day, or similar).

What is the nature of this blind spot?
And IMAP! I'm actually really impressed with Outlook. I signed up the other day.
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I feel the opposite, or that your optimism about exploiting the GHOST vulnerability is silly. PR firms aren't paid for good judgement. Lets see your cellphone and router exploits for GHOST, and then worry. Since you bring up cellphones how about these vulnerabilities http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170874-the-secret-secon... These sound much worse. You can brick a phone etc.
The problem is that if you make your stuff easy to fix, it's also easy to reverse engineer. What can I do against the Chinese guy who sells 1000 of my designs a month against my 20, because his labor costs are one tenth? Blow up his factory? I certainly can't sue and expect it to go anywhere...
No worries, I'm sure everyone contributes more to their respective governments to break encryption than they'll every send to anyone seeking to protect it. Send more money to this guy if you want to feel better about your shitty (respective) country or self. Better yet, just donate to the EFF like a uselessly trendy dweeb. Being a decent citizen isn't about standing up for what's right or wrong (that makes you a terrorist), instead it's about sending money to your respective, government-approved cause.
My wife and her friends are into essential oils. I have mixed feelings. Some of the oils do seem to be effective, but there are definite red flags as far as the business behind the oils.

On the shady side, they have the ZYTO hand scanner, a device you place your hand on for a few minutes, and then it tells you all of your deficiencies, and all of the oils you need to buy to fix those deficiencies. My wife and all of her friends swear by this scan, amazed at its accuracy. My scan was not accurate at all. Before the scan, you have to enter your info (name, address, email, etc), so I have always suspected they are using some online marketing database to profile you. If you read about the scanner online, they claim that the reason the scanner doesn't give reproducible results is because it "uses quantum physics", which just screams scam to me.

As far as the oils product itself, I have used several on various skin ailments such as skin tags and warts, and I have been quite impressed at how effective they have been in consistently getting rid of them.
Their marketing material mentions lactase enzyme:

http://fairlife.com/our-products/fat-free/

So apparently they don't add HFCS. I guess they don't try to remove more because the sugar makes it taste better.
When Dropbox did the space race, did they say the space was only for two years? I see the message:

>> Your Dropbox Space Race promotion expires on March 4. Here's a limited time offer!

When I tried to look at your screenshot.
This is tremendously funny, and the revenge is delightful. I applaud the courage of these women!
The important thing is that it doesn't grow proportionally.

Adding a second line to your "Hello World" doesn't give you 7000LOC, just like using jQuery in two places instead of one doesn't automatically double jQuery's library size.
Well if 100% of the content of the tweet is listed as a search result, are you losing anything without having a twitter account?
Windows on ARM lives on, even as it dies
>it's a brand new team, which should tell you something

What does that tell you? I'm not sure if it's good or bad.

Having seen a few attempts at crowdsourced newsrooms (infobitt, Inside.com, the earlier version of Grasswire) I don't see how they compete with Twitter. At best they filter Twitter and are in competition with Google News. That said, I'm also in that space with Newslines a crowdsourced news archive (http://newslines.org) so the idea of a hot news acquisition market is all to the good.
Xiaomi is fast emerging as the Apple rival to watch
In ExifRenamer, you have this option.

When files names will be identical, you can use following option:

>> Increment counter field until file name is unique.

You can also use 'A Better Finder Rename' for renaming photos.
They have to pay the engineer $200k, or he walks. They didn't have to pay the $50k.
Ugh. I avoid twitter like the plague already. Luckily it'll be easy to ignore in the results.
It tells you he space is heating up, and companies are finding breaking news data valuable.

And to be clear: We don't compete with Twitter - we're a layer of data on top of the raw twitter/youtube/etc data that makes them more valuable. Infobitt and Inside.com are vaguely in the breaking news space, but that's about as far as the similarities go.
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Could the future of Visa and other card schemes involve the blockchain?
Unfortunately no. But I don't shoot raw so not a problem for me.
While the behavior of the men involved in this story is inappropriate, the responding behavior–"the 'wins' in this bit of a gender clash"—are just as detrimental to building a unified community. Having more women in the software industry would be great for everyone, however I don't know if this kind of response is the best way to do it.

It's a difficult problem, and one that exists in plenty of communities outside of technology. While it's unreasonable to expect completely equal representations of each gender, more can be done to make women feel welcome. Most of which is just men acting professional.

That said, sexualization of either gender will never disappear until we start producing children as the World State does.
Email is the most difficult protocol to manage that is still alive these days on the internet, so no one can implement it besides three or two companies. It is difficult to understand why people like having these @gmail or @outlook names.
Pretty unfunny and juvenile, it seems that there was one person "Ryan" being sexist - and instead of calling him up on it, the author continued under the assumption that all the other guys were sexist.
didn't you just end up searching "blue and orange yankees cap" ? It would have been more useful if it detected blue and orange on its own.
I'm curious as to how much Pushpin is part of the Fanout.io stack?

Is Fanout.io just a (admittedly very affordable) hosted version of Pushpin?
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They provide great deals to startups
What does doing well in school have to do with intelligence?
Visibility, those who scream loudest win, people were screaming about NTP (long before heartbleed as it happens).
I notice that you can have Pushpin talk directly via ZMQ.

I would love to see an example ZeroMQ-based Ruby "web server" that can be used a backend for Pushpin to avoid the HTTP stack on the application layer.
Yes, I agree. Good on them. Revenge is often petty, but when it's used for the purpose of promoting a social justice and is more or less physically and mentally harmless it can be a powerful tool.

Sometimes the best solution to a problem is to go on an offensive.
It could be adjusted pretty easily. For example, do it every five years, and multiply by 100 each time, or whatever seems to make sense. Heck, if you're worried about people who aren't aware of the requirements getting screwed, have automagic and free copyright for the first five or ten years, then start requiring filing.
It also supports iCloud
Would There Be an Internet Without the State?
FYI, your landing page still references January as when something new is coming.
I think they're using "idempotent" to mean "If you do it again, you'll get the exact same result as the first time".

(The usage isn't quite the same as in the jargon sense of "f is idempotent in case f(f(x)) = f(x)", and I thus found it jarring as well, but it's possible to see the connection in that above gloss.)
That's some pretty terrible behavior on the side of the participants mentioned, but I'm not sure it's productive to encourage the rhetoric of a "gender war". It certainly makes it psychologically more difficult for me to side with women in tech.

I would think negatively about males making sexist remarks, and I would think negatively about colleagues making a dick rating app about their peers. Who's winning?
I don't follow your logic. I didn't see anything in the story that indicated that the deal was exclusive.

Twitter certainly wouldn't want it to be - they're trying to increase reach. In theory, I can see how Google might want the advantage of an exclusive data source. However, in practice I suspect Google thinks they can get enough of an advantage from using Twitter's firehose better than their competitors do, especially since paying extra to get Twitter to lock out competitors would invite even more antitrust scrutiny.

With the Google/Twitter firehose deal, Google's competitors have lost a potential advantage, but that doesn't mean they've picked up a corresponding disadvantage.
Yeah, somewhere they had a disclaimer. I explicitly remember thinking about whether I would still be using the space in 2 years.
I think the thing to do might be to detect if the page was loaded with the annotation open, then fuzz background. Otherwise, you know what you're looking at and explicitly clicked the open annotation button.

It's great that the site supports such deep linking.
Ya, I'm actually updating that as we speak. We let in the first groups of users in January, and I've been so focused on the product I almost forgot about the landing page. Thanks!
But, the author observed this discussion occurring within a group of men, and Ryan was obviously comfortable enough in his views to make the comments. These guys obviously weren't calling out his behavior.
My exact gripe with nearly all of the new wave in email clients. I'm aware most people are OK with Gmail, but I'm not--surely IMAP is worth supporting too!
Though I can appreciate making jabs and having fun like this, if their goal was to, quoting:

We should be calling people out, setting good examples, proving people they’re wrong.

They haven't really achieved any of these things. It probably gave them satisfaction, but let's not overinflate the significance of a tiny culture jam like this.
Words in the mouth: device lets you hear with your tongue
But this wasn't revenge. It wasn't at all targeted at the instigator, it was a sex-based outlash using the same behavior being condemnded.

I don't see any social justice being promoted, and I don't see any solution to the problem being promoted.

I also don't think this kind of retribution is either physically or mentally harmless (on either end), and if there's a "gender war", it's these kinds of behaviors that perpetuate it.
I just picked up my changa, smoked a little in a spliff but didn't do much (very, very wrong setting, wasn't expecting much - am away from home and was outside). Thinking of getting a bong in the morning, though as I've quit weed and soon will be living somewhere I can't smoke indoors feels like a slightly annoying cost.. Either way, shall be trying to break through when I get home tomorrow night or Saturday - have got equivalent to 1g of pure dmt (2g changa) ready to play with :)
I am not a goldbug but I do feel like some people are breaking their backs bending over backwards coming up with reasons to preclude any sort of audit for any reason. I read the article and yeah it sounds like there are a bunch of things that a forensic auditor would wonder about. Gold has been sitting around for half a century, and when the depositor wants it, the bank delays for years and then coughs up a tenth of the gold it promised, with all the serial numbers melted off. they say it took so long because of all the paperwork but apparently can't or won't cough up paperwork about the actual reason the bars were melted down. Isn't this what serial numbers are for? Isn't this what paperwork is for? Isn't this what auditors are for?
Then why should the initial slope be lower? If the total sum is trivial it seems it shouldn't matter
It might not work the same. Disney's lobbying in this scenario would probably have to take the form of "We, a gigantic and highly profitable corporation, want to unfairly pay less money." I'd say this is less likely to work than the current "Protect the artists!" approach. Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough at how it could be spun.
A lot of people use Gmail. A lot of people use iOS. The Gmail iOS client is pile of shit. That's an opportunity if I ever saw one.

Mobile email is hard. Those old standard email protocols don't cut it. Now, if you're willing to hand over your IMAP or POP3 username and password to Microsoft or RIM, they'll be happy to run your private email through their servers to your phone.

Edit: What's with the down votes?

Is it because I said the Gmail iOS client is a piece of shit? Well, it really is unreliable and unusable garbage. If it wasn't then that's what we all would be using.

Is it because I said mobile email is hard? Well, it is. That's why everyone here is looking for a better mobile email client.

Is it because I said IMAP and POP3 don't cut it? There's never been a remotely decent mobile IMAP or POP3 client. If there was, that's what we'd all be using.

It's 2015. Email has been around for 30+ years and everyone uses it, yet it remains an unsolved problem for many people.
The text-to-speech is surprisingly good, but I'm amazed at one thing, and not in a good way: the Spanish voice can't pronounce the word "Español". It pronounces it as "Espanol" with a hard "n" sound. In fact, it seems to pronounce all "ñ"s as "n"s. How that kind of an oversight got into the system, I'll never know. Did no one think to check?

Edit: And to add insult to injury, the English voices do pronounce "Español" correctly!
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I don't get it. Why don't you just have your app ask permission to look at the phone GPS and have it anonymously phone home whenever they go to a Caltrain station and start moving (or fail to move) at a train-like speed along the Caltrain route?
Indeed it doesn't seem like anyone was called out; they just made a sexist app. They didn't set a good example, unless the example is to be sexist. And I'm sure the guy who called her a "bitch" in the first place doesn't feel like he's been proven wrong. He probably thinks he was right after all.
I've added social buttons on a separate page for those that like the project but don't want to make a purchase: https://www.creditbitcoins.co/share
But we aren't lacking land to grow food. We have so much of it actually that we use a third of the arable land world wide to grow feed for livestock, (which accounts for 40% all grains grown)[1]. If we just ate this grain instead we could feed 3.5 billions people extra[2].

Cattle (and sheep) are extremely inefficient. We use 60% of all farmland to produce beef, but it only provides us with 2% of all calories (5% of protein)[1]. So, the majority of all pastureland plus a big chunk of the arable land is used to produce 2% of all calories. That's not really much of a resource.

So yes, if we raised cattle purely on pasture (which we don't overall) we could actually get some net production of food. But it would still be an insignificant part of our diet.

[1] Grade A Choice? Solutions for Deforestation-free Meat. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2012: http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Soluti...

[2] Meat and Animal Feed: http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/meat-and-anim...
I don't use gmail, so mbsync + mu4e for me.
I think i'd be waiting a while for that one. I think Google Glass will be scraped as its form factor is just creepy but I believe it will be miniaturised, perhaps into contact lenses.
Assign each copyrighted work a unique identifier and require that unique identifier to be included along with the copyright notice on the work. Now all you have to do is punch that unique identifier into the copyright database and see what its current status is.
You need a certain measure of intelligence to be able to pass the tests, or to game the system so as to appear to pass the tests.
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It tells you he space is heating up, and companies are finding breaking news data valuable.

I don't understand how that conclusion follows. There were many teams created to deliver pet food at one point, along with many other types of activities that are no longer relevant. Popularity doesn't seem to be a good proxy for long-term relevance. If it were, an investor's job would be easy.

The reason I'm skeptical breaking news is valuable is because the value of information itself is declining over time. The more accessible information becomes, the less one can charge for it.

Newspapers were valuable because they controlled a channel, not (only) because they delivered information. The current models will have to follow suit, otherwise they won't be profitable. And an information channel controlled by one or two entities is a pretty grim prospect.
Unacceptable. Should be mandatory for all healthcare companies with steep fines for non-compliance.
Ayn Rand?
We've experimented with all manner of MEMS sensors, but at its core its (currently) an accelerometer and a gyro + an MCU.

Not sure on IG vs KS, not my department :D
My wife is big into essential oils. She initially bought into the hype. Interestingly the company she started to buy from, has soured her due to their business practices. Among other things selling "pure" oils, that really are not as pure as the claim.

I will say this when she first started with them, I thought it was all voodoo and witchcraft, but after using various oils, I find that certain ones do give relief of certain symptoms. Like we have a blend that "aides" digestion. And when I have heartburn, I rub it on my stomach and within 15 minutes feel better. Is it magic, I have no idea, but it seems to work.

But I also still believe in traditional medicine. If I have an ear infection I'm not going to pour oil in my ear, I'm going to go see a Dr and get a prescription to fix it. I think that there is a group of people out there who are so turned off by the western medical system, that they are looking for anything that they can hook on too, to hopefully provide them with a means to not have to participate in the system.
During the Gaza war last summer Israel propaganda figured out how to get their inflamatory Google+ content below every Gaza news story. I wonder how Twitter will be different. Who picks the highlighted tweets?
It's an amusing anecdote, but I can't really identify with anyone in the story. I've never heard nor said anything resembling what Kiki described. I don't recall even thinking anything in ballpark of such blatant, hostile sexism. It saddens me that people such as "Ryan" exist.

Kiki's reaction is understandable, but I don't think it's productive. Most people don't realize when they're being jerks. If you respond in-kind or demonize them, they often react by escalating. If you let the person know how they came across to you, and avoid clashing egos, it can be a beneficial experience for both parties. This advice isn't just theoretical. I've had good results with the similar problem of racism.

Lastly, I feel compelled to comment on a bit of the post that is unrelated to the main topic: I'm constantly astonished that smoking is still a thing. Cigarettes are harmful, repulsive, and (most importantly) expensive. A nicotine vaporizer can give the same effects with almost no downside. Whenever I make the acquaintance of a smoker, I mention this as nicely as I can. So far, I've gotten about a 50% conversion rate. If you know anyone who smokes, I urge you to discuss vaporizers with them.
Google+ content in news has not worked out very well[1], I wonder how Twitter will be different.

[1] During the Gaza war last summer Israel propaganda figured out how to get their Plus content below every Gaza news story.
Thanks for the feedback.

One thing I've observed over time (the website is new, but the project is not) is that Pushpin's value isn't immediately obvious from a one-sentence description. So instead of starting out by saying what it does, I often like to start out by discussing the problems that it is trying to solve.

But yeah, you're right. I, too, prefer when projects plainly say what they do. I'll see about reworking the text.
If you receive a service in exchange for payment , then no it's not free.
Actually, if you think of Uber cars as "mobile showrooms", there's a million opportunities to push real or digital products to the passengers in the back. Like Skymall for cars.

Wait, maybe Skymall isn't the best example...
I am not convinced that sexism in tech is much more amongst men than women. As a technical guy, I've had my share of meetings with female founders often looking for devs or a technical founder. It is extremely common for the woman I am meeting to make a sexist joke about nerds/men/women. I am personally not impacted by it except for being super cautious in my response out of fear that it may be misconstrued as anything but humor by someone(the direct contact I am meeting who may made the original sexist remarks or by someone overhearing us).

To give you an idea, I recently had coffee with a female founder via an intro from a friend. A good percentage of her conversation was about how she will lose weight and make herself look much prettier if I joined as CTO. This stuff doesn't really offend me until I begin thinking that "oh I am supposed to be offended by this since I bet if similar things were said to a woman, there'd be a riot."

Every single thing I read about supposedly atrocious male behavior in a group of males is replicated amongst certain groups of women. Just saying.
Eh, get the customer pregnant, then jack the costs prior to tape out.