skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coal miners could probably "learn to dent" too, but dentists have set it up so dental school is expensive, exclusive, and requires a four-year degree to gain admission. That's why the cost of dental care is soaring and the median salary for dentists in the US is now $140-150k[1] a year. By contrast, the wages of software engineers (sorry, coders) have been flat for decades, despite a supposedly dire "skills gap" that tech companies cite as justification for expanding the H-1B visa program and making "coding" part of public school curricula.

[1] http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/dentist/salary
Education is experiencing deflation? Not in my world, it's not.

(If by "education" you mean "learning something", then yes, I agree with you. If you mean "college degree", though, not so much.)
Or they would, you know, work together for exactly this reason, like how dairy farmers supported Got Milk? together
That's doublespeak. "In order to be free, you must not be free". And very few people are even remotely rational in the first place. And there's little irrational in choosing opiates (long term effects are not nearly as bad as many other things deemed acceptable).
And FCC approves it?
As someone who also has mental health issues, I want to say I agree. However, I don't think ads are the optimal way for a populace to stay educated. Personally, every medication I've been prescribed has been followed by my own research as to how the medication is designed to work.

I will agree though that the relationship between me and my doctor should be a two-way one. I am completely open with my doctor and make it known what i expect out of them, and they are the same with me.
I'm yet to see strong objective reasoning either for or against JSX, it seems to really polarise people. From an Elm perspective, I feel that the HTML API is well designed and doesn't get in the way, so I'm not entirely fussed.
This seems more relevant than ever today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

This isn't:

>Local housing boards have made it damn-near impossible to build new condos. After much infighting, San Francisco plans on building up to 50,000 more units. But, San Francisco’s chief economist, Ted Egan, estimates that that the city would need at least 100,000 new units to stem increasing costs, let alone bring prices down to something more affordable.

>If Rognlie is correct and we really care about inequality, it might be wiser to redirect anger towards those who get in the way of new housing, rather than rely on taxes to solve our problems.

Millionaire NIMBY homeowners in San Francisco fighting with luxury condo developers has nothing to do with the rest of us.

There's something particularly distasteful about luxury condo developers trying to position themselves as champions of equality while trying to gouge huge profits from this state of affairs.
One thing you gotta remember is, PubSub charges per volume, regardless of speed (in other words, scaling is free). AWS will charge you varying orders of magnitudes for varying scales, in addition to volume.
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If it's not practical to redistribute free software, it's not free in practice
We're 'MURICANS! We don't need no stinking gubmint telling us what doctor we can see! Now let me get down to Walmart on my Medicare provided scooter because I'm too obese to walk... https://www.medicare.gov/Pubs/pdf/11046.pdf
Chinese Customs has started banning a lot of these commodities because of the pollution that recycling them creates. Used tires for example. But apparently it is still somehow profitable to ship them to Vietnam and smuggle them across the border into China for recycling.
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I don’t think you are! :) I’ve seen these too, and I think they are a little funny, and fairly true. A dev will know Twilio is just how you do phone and SMS, and non-devs generally don’t!
You could easily argue that "Most healthcare consumers don't shop around by cost for their healthcare because they don't pay the bills" is a good argument against single payer.

Honestly, I think if we treated medical insurance more like we treated car insurance, home insurance, et al, then the cost of medical goods would go down.
You're one of the lucky ones. Almost all my flights have power outlets, which means that some stranger is going to be rooting around my ankles trying to find the damn outlet for the first 20 minutes of the voyage.
Something I like to point out when discussing wealth distribution in the US: http://i.imgur.com/NRAhNYU.png

data source: https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/house...
Business idea -

Free WiFi on all flights as part of your ticket price!

Mains power supply provided for $30/hour ;)

New TSA policy: Li-ion/Li-poly/etc batteries cannot be more than 20% charged for safety.
Several of the the thinner drugs cost $10-20 a pill or in the range of $5000 a year. Assume anything you see on TV is a mi imum of $300 a month, perhaps more. The roll-on testonerone is $500 a month. Bushes generous medicare drug bebefit maxes out at 90%. It can still break you with a couple big ones.
My only critique of your script is that the ordering between the side effects and the product name would seem to imply that other medications cause more side effects than Prozac
A lot of modern liberalism is about hiding the brute calculus that underlies relations of property ownership. I'd love it if Marx became mainstream again without all the MLs and Stalinists ruining his ideas for everyone.
$1/600MB is a better deal that a lot of home-based internet access in Australia!
I think this is a top priority customer ask; I'm running it up to our new brass.
> I don't need 'fancy' food, but a stable home is pretty important to me.

Health and dental care probably rank up there too...dentistry can be quite expensive when you finally need it, and is definitely not "fluff"
GCE > EC2, GCS > S3, Big query > Red Shift.
Compute engine costs less and gives you more flops per buck compared to EC2. GCS has unified storage interface to all the storage classes. This makes developer life easy. Amazon has two different services (S3 and Glacier). With Redshift, you create a cluster of fixed size and pay for it whether you use it or not. With Big Query, you just pay for what you use.
Good to have another data point. I have not had issues in a year. I routinely download at 10 megabytes per second reading ct scans. If I wasnt getting what I was paying for, I would cancel the service and drive into work to read my cases. I am in a residential non techy area, I don't know if that helps.
Homomorphic Encryption Breakthrough (2009)
I look to graduate students for all my personal advice. The have such deep experience of the real world.
But "pick randomly" just devolves into pro-rata, which already exists in many products and has its own problems (namely that participants show more than they want). The more volume you show in this scheme, the more volume you get filled in - aka pro-rata.

I'm not sure what fractional allocation is, perhaps that's what I'm calling pro-rata? At any rate, the allocation method that is chosen is hugely important. It will have a large impact on market microstructure.

I find that the discrete mini-auctions are strictly inferior to already existing matching algorithms, as they are really just more complex (read: more gameable by HFT) , yet have the same characteristics of other, more widespread systems.
While its been a long time since I've been on an airplane _without_ Wi-Fi, I don't often see power outlets. And as you alluded to, most of the time its $10 for the duration of that flight, whether its 5 hours or 30 minutes.
Damn you make me feel old saying "meh" to ~1MB/s internet access while flying at 500+mph at 30,500+ feet over the earth.

Something about my lawn...
The Evolution of Ctrip Technology
Yea the overall economy makes decisions on what to manufacture. Do you make a bunch of entertaining fluff or focus on essentials? Wal-mart merely optimizes the supply chain of fluff.

As far as markets vs centralization, it was always this way. There was never a purely capitalist or communist society that lasted long and supported a large population. The argument was always the implementation and balance of centralization and privatization.

Starting from scratch in a radically different system is too disruptive, even if the final result would have been better. A lot has to do with culture, as people say you can write Java in any language. You have to change an existing system very slowly.
Zendesk adds an Evernote integration
Thanks for posting this.

Is it possible to change the link to the non-mobile version?

On mobile it will redirect automatically, but the mobile version is a bit janky to read on desktop. It's a pretty minor thing, and it's not that important, but here it is!
> But people on the traditional treatment programs never truly get better, they're just on the treatment merry-go-round for decades.

You could say the same thing about a lot of neurological disorders. Or things like Type 1 Diabetes, come to that.
He's right about housing being the #1 issue, but it's hardly the only problem created by America's ruling class.

I bet he's entirely blind to the fact that the only reason his paper is getting so much attention is that he's an "MIT graduate".

Attending an elite school like MIT is not even a 1%'er thing, it's a 0.1% thing.

There's probably some poor person, who went to a shitty college, that's even smarter and has a better theory but we'll never hear about it. Think about their career trajectories and the inequality of their outcomes.

Of course the 99.9% contains almost all of the smartest people, but they get almost none of the opportunity. This elitism is absolutely pervasive in American society.

Microsoft: "Harvard dropout inks deal with IBM"

Google: "A new search engine from Stanford."

Facebook: "The exclusive Harvard social network"

Dropbox: "Google Drive killer coming from MIT Startup".

This paper: "MIT graduate student says income inequality is actually about housing"

Something like 95%+ of people that get into elite schools graduate. It's not hard to graduate, it's just hard to get in, and the test for getting in is so gameable and rigged that almost no one pretends it isn't anymore.

As long as the rich can spend fortunes buying elite credentials for their children, we're going to have a ruling class and a worker class.
I've always spent a lot of money, floor space, and electricity for high-wattage lamps and never regretted it. My living room has 4 IKEA lamps and a halogen torchiere.
From the paper: "For instance at a distance of 2 feet the battery charging system has 100 µW available compared to 10 µW at 10 feet." The Popular Science and UW Today articles both completely avoid numbers. But the numbers are vital, and if you do a little fermi math, you'll discover that's not enough to compete with watch batteries.

(The first watch battery I found with numbers on it had 240mAh*3V=720mWh, so one such battery could in theory provide 10 µW for 7.2e4 hours or 8 years.)
Moving to GCE would be great, if they offered to eat the cost of moving all my data off S3 ;)
Yeah I went to a Javascript meetup and it was amazing. Unlike the ruby meetups that were mostly just bootcamp people, it was all industry professionals and people there because they love JS, and it worked out great. Also you're right I went to a open university Hackathon and just spent hours trying to get my team to build anything. I was building out a Node/socket.io api to work with both a rails Web app and an Android and these students didn't even know how to parse a json string in Java, and I kept on telling them that there is just a simple function for that. Anyways long story short after 12 hours they had noting working, and I was unable to finish the Android app in time.

the weird thing is, they are all getting offers for entry level positions and these companies wont even consider me as a possibility.
Advertisements are very different than public service announcements.
Please don't do this!

EGCG can cause hepatatoxicity and liver failure:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/lt.21021/asset/...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2905152/
> If your immigration system is so malfunctioning that someone could spend pretty much their whole formative period - and not through any fault of their own - in your country then yes, you have just effectively gained another citizen.

Are you saying the US should have been better about enforcing immigration law when his parents illegally overstayed their visa? In other words, they should have been caught and deported well before their child spent his entire formative period in the US? Don't you think at least some of your ire should be reserved for his parents, for putting him in this position?
Google Container Engine is far ahead of AWS ECS. Google does not have a counterpart to Lambda and IAM. Block storage is far better with Google Cloud (Things like the ability to mount a drive read-only on multiple instances simultaneously make sharing data breeze. We ran into some weird race conditions related to inode pointers being modified with AWS EBS sometimes). And yes, it supports snapshots.
Alaska Airlines has more often than not convinced me to upgrade to first class. The one way ticket will be ~$100-150 steerage and ~$200 for first class, which gets me that human sized seat and personal space, usb and standard power. That upgrade is worth it to me. $50-100 to reduce my anxiety for a few hours? sold.
Have you ever lived in a country with single-payer healthcare? Let me tell you it's not all roses.

- Months long waits for anything requiring a specialist unless you're literally about to die.

- Arbitrary exclusions like dental and optical.

- Doctors taking in ~50% of the entire provincial budget and whining that it's not enough.

And at a typical tech worker salary this all this ends up being more expensive in additional taxes than just buying the insurance outright would be in the US.

If you're not poor, there's really no reason to prefer single payer.
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This is true - I guess that is why we refer to VCs as partners :)
I'm not so sure about that. Assuming that the pollution due to shipping is mostly by burning fuels, "low cost of shipping" actually puts an upper bound on the amount of pollution, because shipping companies can burn only so much fuel while staying profitable.

Once there was a popular meme saying shipping CFLs from China generates more pollution than the amount reduced by changing incandescent bulbs to CFLs. Of course, when you consider how much coal you can burn for the shipping cost, the argument falls down quickly.
checkout BeaconOutlet:https://www.beacongrid.com/index.html#technology I think you'll be happy. (disclaimer: i've been working on this for about 2 years.)
Robot-shaped traffic lights with cameras. Okay. But how are these supposed to be different from ordinary traffic lights? The article does not say.
It was probably the same graph. This article was published Mar 25 - it says there's a followup coming, but I don't see any sign it's arrived.
"Got Milk?" was originally commissioned by the California Milk Processor Board, which is administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (i.e. the government) [1]. Also note that milk lacks much in the way of strong brand identity or distinguishing features, unlike Viagra and Cialis which are very different medications.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_Milk%3F
The classic Linus tirades I've read are the result of the person he's addressing, who knows less about the project at hand, not accepting his reason for a particular decision he's made and continuing to press the issue.

If you poke the bear, expect to get mauled.
> Don't you think at least some of your ire should be reserved for his parents, for putting him in this position?

Absolutely. But we're not talking about his parents here we're talking about him. And as far as I can see (I did actually read the article) he went over and beyond the call of duty to normalize the situation once he became conscious of it.
I haven't used GCE but I've had one of the worst support experiences ever with Google Cloud Billing Support while using Google App Engine.

I had a very simple question about billing (why was my bill higher than it seemed like it should be). Each reply would take a week and they'd often consist of copy and paste messages asking me to enter information I had already supplied or requests that I take screenshots of my console (all information they should readily have available). Then right at the end they swapped out who I was talking to for someone else and asked me to look up more information they already had and just ignored my question in the last email which would mean another week before I got an answer.

I had, luckily, experimented with the configuration and figured out what was wrong. The default instance class in reality is one higher (F2) than the documentation says it is ("If you do not specify a class, F1 is assigned by default."). Nowhere on the Console does it list what instance class is being used (which would have made the problem obvious) so there was really no way of knowing this without just guessing what the problem was. They never did answer my question "What is the default instance class?" (instead just abruptly ended the support ticket after proposed my theory about what was wrong).

Then I started getting emails about a billing account being past due. It was an old billing account from before I moved to High Replication (I have no idea how I ended up with two billing accounts...it was during the dark time when the console was even worse than it is now). That billing account was assigned to no projects and had no oustanding balance. I jumped in and just deleted the unused billing account. Then a few days later they sent a scary email saying that the billing account had been terminated (even though I had deleted it) which made my scramble to make sure they didn't close my in-use billing account out of nowhere (they hadn't thankfully).

None of this has left me with any confidence in Google's Cloud offerings.

I plan to migrate off GAE as soon as I can rewrite the app (luckily it's not very big).
If the depression is seasonal, as is usually the case when SAD lamps are used, then it is very likely due to low vitamin D levels. Also, L-Tryptophan -> 5-HTP -> (crossed blood brain barrier) -> serotonin.
I was recently on an Alaskan Air flight which did just that. It had no TV's on the plane, but power outlets right on the back of the seat. For all of their in flight entertainment, they directed you to their app or site once you connected to the in flight Wi-Fi (for free). I ended up not using it and reading instead (the free content wasn't great) but I really liked the idea and it seemed to work great just poking around, as I did.
Premise is wrong. The Hobbit movies were far from awful.
No, although I wouldn't care if a potential employer found it.
Sanford officer relieved of duty after singing at death metal show in uniform
Most cops see no consequences for killing citizens and he gets fired for singing a song in uniform.
The amphetamine fuelling the Syrian war turning fighters into supersoldiers
People are less creative when they feel disrespected? Wow, okay. I beg to differ, I have seem people get more creative when disrespected because they feel they have something to prove and are competitive.

There is no right or wrong way. We live in a very sensitive society. It is very easy to offend people by asking them to do their work these days.
Well, drug companies also market directly to doctors. Only about 12% of pharmaceutical marketing money is "direct to consumer."
A 10-12 hour flight (or two) is a great chance to do something that wouldn't fit easily into a normal day. You could read Moby-Dick while listening to the Messiah, or something. Bach Cantantas are good, if you like that sort of thing, because there's a couple of hundred of them.

I tend to pack a readable novel (Gaiman, Stephenson, Pratchett or whatever), and it's amazing how fast the time goes. Start reading when you leave for the airport, read it while in queues etc. I read the Harry Potter series that way.

Those of us who still have laptops with proper email clients can also use long flights to dispose of not-so-urgent emails, the only problem being that a lot of people will reply ;-)
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Amazing news... if it holds up.

125 Hz? As in, they orbit each other 125 times per second? That means that they can't be more than 1/125th of a light-second apart, doesn't it? And that means that they are going to crash into each other very soon, doesn't it? (Sorry, I don't know enough General Relativity to put numbers on "how soon".)
Very interesting (glad my wife and I are in Australia). This seems to be more aimed at the selling side rather than the dress rental side. A model more focused on just renting and not keeping each dress might appeal to a different market.
Why root for Groupon?
Argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy.

Only Uruguay has legal marijuana, doesn't make illegal marijuana a fantastic public policy.
Here's an idea: you can designate "emergency contacts", other keypairs that can be used to recover your identity, perhaps those of your family members. They could declare the intention to recover your credentials, and then you would have 2 weeks to publish a signal that you still possess your keypair, to block the recovery. You could also revoke their designation at that point, if they are abusing it.

If two weeks pass without incident, then they can publish a new public key half which is considered yours, and presumably give the private half to you.
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I got 10-15 second round trip time to the ground using DNS tunneling on Southwest's inflight WiFi
The only mental framework where that argument makes sense is some kind of rampaging free-market-worship.
Part of the reason a lot of D-pads sucked is because Nintendo had a patent on it, it expired in 2005.

https://www.google.com/patents/US4687200
My thoughts on this based on experiences using Elm at scale at NoRedInk: https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/667419654370033664
The people getting priced out of a housing market are not choosing to live somewhere/somehow else. They're being forced out by the wealthier people who are bidding prices up.

For these same people, moving to less populated areas is probably not an option because they can't afford to commute long distance to their job(s), and don't have the kind of job mobility enjoyed by wealthier people.

They probably can't choose a smaller home, because the small home prices get bid up along with the other homes. (I speak from experience; I recently moved out of a 'starter' size home in the 'bad' end of town, where the houses cost $300K - $500K even over the past few years.)

Renting instead of buying might be an option, but even there prices get bid up in desirable locations.

Where do these people actually wind up? In undesirable locations: places with higher crime rates, more obvious poverty, worse public services, etc. And for most of them, and their children who have to be raised in that environment, it becomes a trap that's very difficult to escape.
I don't imagine that anyone thinks that surveillance is per se bad, but I'd bet there are lots of people who just see it as a possible option without necessarily assigning a negative reaction to it.
The number one differentiator is the small size of the source code. If all you need is a key value server that does GET and PUT, then 1k lines would be easier to understand than +10k. The focus is on doing one thing and doing it well.

Compared to Redis, PearlDB has durability for each PUT on by default. Redis doesn't support an HTTP REST interface out of the box. PearlDB's aim is to be a thin layer between the REST interface and the disk. I think this approach should be faster than Redis for durable PUTs, but that still needs to be confirmed through benchmarking.

Can't compare to local databases because PearlDB is for setups where distributed nodes need access to a single database.