skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that statement is that established doctors make a lot of money. Interns and residents who are just starting out don't. Half a million in debt doesn't sound so bad if you can count on a $200,000 salary. Half a million in debt is terrifying when you only make ~$40,000 a year for the next four to eight years depending on your chosen specialty.
And then there's this old classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXFz7vqbk1o
Sorry, I thought I was pretty clear. There is nothing I would consider an assembly language there are Instruction sets X86, power, arm, mips, etc. Then there are (textual) instruction layouts GAS, Intel etc. Pretty much one per assembler. So when people mention something being written in assembly language they almost always mean the instruction set, but being able to compile and run almost always means a second round of guess that syntax that has nothing to do with which ISA it came from.

Calling it X86 assembly language is about like saying I wrote this in High Level Language and have that refer to pretty much any High level language in existence. It all runs on the same ISA so it must be the same language. Can't feed it all to the same compiler and have it work, so what that is just an implementation detail.
So how much longer before we can get a few of these hardwired into our brains? Carrying things around is sooo late 20th century.

Somewhere Ray Kurzweil is getting very excited.
makes sense when you use ruby the bulk of your day :)
Perhaps you could sample a large number of their statements and perform a statistical analysis to determine if they wrong with high probability? Oh, yes, that would be a lot of work and we have something called the "scientific process" for doing that anyway. It's much easier to form a snap judgement based on a single, self-selected piece of information.
This reply in itself is worthy of it's own Wikipedia article. Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen a response to what could have been a seriously trollish thread become so succinct in it's content and professionalism.

Nice work ewjordan.
I hate to write a political comment, but looks like a slow day on HN.

Palin is like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Pat Robertson. She is famous and popular among a measurable slice of voters, so she speaks to/for those voters.

I strongly doubt she has a future as a presidential candidate. But as a political figure and news magnet? She's probably just getting started.

One of the interesting things about Palin is that the more she is trashed, the more she is loved by her supporters. So there's a feedback loop going on there. If you really don't like her the best thing to do is simply to stop talking about her.
Right idea, but a better argument is "does an apartment half the size cost half as much?"
much more meat here than in the video.
4. Some way, some how, get rid of all the dicks. Or at least try to make it opt-in, or figure out a way to ban/segregate repeat offenders.

Seriously. Chatroulette may be a great idea, but when 20% of the users are trying to shock the rest of them (or are "legitimately" perving out on camera), it destroys the return visitor rate. I know plenty of people, including myself, that were initially interested in the site, but couldn't get past the gross factor.
Ask HN: iPhone App Developers?
Hey Everyone,

I'm UI designer/Beginner Rails guy, looking to build an iPhone app.

I have a pretty good idea for the app and I'm wondering if there are any developers out there looking to partner up 50/50.

Its a financial based app - and the domain name is going to be Costli.com

If you're interested shoot me an e-mail and I'll give you all the details (you can find my e-mail address in my profile).

Also, if anyone knows of any good iphone dev groups/firms, I'd love to know about em!

Thanks!
I wish I knew what exactly "information" is in this context.
I know a couple of definitions, but none seems to match.
how about we submit pdf's inside google's pdf viewer?

https://docs.google.com/viewer

just mention the real domain in the post title
Copy-paste in Snow Leopard: dis crim in a­tion (et al)

Maybe also provide a JS listener to remove the gaps before copy?
It is, at least in the state of Utah. I had to take a class called Financial Literacy.

It wasn't a bad class (and nicely enough my CS teacher happened to teach it, also), but unfortunately I think it's worse off than math classes as far as getting people to care and thus really remember it for later.
Intentional or not, all that matters is the public perception of what Google has done here. If they make me feel betrayed, then it's as good as betrayal.

That unpology that they posted certainly isn't helping, either.
>It pisses me off to no end that I can’t use that word out of fear for my own life

This is easily the most offensive sentence in the article. Black people are not mythical stabby monsters.
Ah, the existential accessor operator is lovely. It really warms the heart to see variations on the Maybe monad sneaking into other languages--if there's one thing from Haskell I miss elsewhere, it's that.
It doesn't have to be in bad taste to be thrown out, the criterium is that it is 'not hackernews', which is loosely defined as stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with hacking and so will not be of interest to the large majority of those visiting here.

Switch 'showdead' to on and browse the new page for a while, you'll get the idea of what makes the cut and what does not (aside from the outright spam).
twilio?
Thanks for the tip, I'm still a python novice.
Zenoss: We Can Ditch Nagios Now
Video: Let Google Alerts Inform You if your Site Gets Hacked
America's Cup race goes to American ingenuity
I've previously used Postgresql Autodoc (http://www.rbt.ca/autodoc/) to generate table / relation diagrams and render them using GraphViz.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of similar things that I've found for other databases.

SQuirreLSQL is a 'database explorer' that has the ability to generate diagrams for all sorts of dbms, but the export facility is pretty useless, and isn't easily scriptable to run headless, for example from a Makefile to keep docs & code in sync.

I'm interested in seeing where you go with this, and will keep an eye on the repo.
Ninja Tools For Conversion Optimization
Good point! I just wanted something inoffensive there to illustrate, and didn't think about the ads at all.
Scrapheap Transhumanism
Dividends are paid out of taxable earnings; salaries are paid out of pretax earnings
What a crappy sensationalist title.

The quote actually is: "He further admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, although he argued this was a blip rather than the long-term trend."

Also I wonder how many people will read it to the end instead of just the headlines.
How Hard would it before for them to come out with some sort of container that fits into a normal hard drive bay that these can be slotted into and sata would be plugged into a similar place to it is for a normal hard disk drive.
How did you find pligg as a platform? I'm not a programmer either, but am considering it for a 'beer money' idea I have.

(I will be leveraging the support of a friend with php / mysql experience. Would love to know more about your experience.)
The difference here is that it's the same kind of income. If Warren Buffett personally owned a soft-drink company earning $1 billion each year, he'd pay ~40% of that in income taxes. If Coca-Cola earns $1 billion, it pays 35%, and then he pays 15% to see any of it.

It's essentially a tax on liquidity. Another way to look at that is that it's a big subsidy for people with enough concentrated wealth to take something private.
Awesome track! Thanks! :)
Sounds to me like your just redefining what you think is hurtful as it applies to a particular context. If Silverman said something that we don't like, that's our problem, not hers, unless she depends on public appearance speaking fees.

I never like this kind of talk regarding what's acceptable and what's not, no matter what words you wrap it up in, because when it happens in the US it denies us the greatest freedom of all, not freedom of speech or expression, but freedom to be responsible for what you say and do. Silverman should be able to comment in her own words on anything she damn well pleases, and under any context. It's her responsibility to deal with the consequences of that action. More power to her, btw, even if her schtick is for just a bunch of shock value.
You don't need to go to university to study. In fact, if you're actually motivated to learn, it's almost as likely to get in the way. There are certainly some potentially good reasons for going to university, but if you don't have your goals firmly aligned with such reasons, you'll just waste your time and money.

So--what are your goals? And how do loans and a BS degree program get you to them?
Calm down. Deep breaths. Big companies sometimes make mistakes. No need for drama.
Mod_bsp - Brainfuck Server Pages
My grandfather lived through the great depression. When it came time for my grandparents to move to a smaller house that suited them better my Mum had to throw away so much stuff that he'd accumulated out of not wanting to waste anything.
How Failing at Exeter Made a Success of George Plimpton
No, it just means you're a pedant.
One issue here is though, if you really want to be a doctor, you need this education, you can't just start as an assistant/ secretary or hospital cleaner and work your way up.

Whereas say a career as a programmer, there are plenty of back doors and ways to learn and move up without having to get the formal education. There's still the reason to get that education but I can honestly say if I don't end up making back the difference on what I spent on it during my working lifetime it won't worry me at all.
HN is probably up for another upgrade.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468595
Background : I started a business and managed to build it out with no formal education at all.

I often wonder whether formal education in business would have helped me, or hindered me.

I'm certain the structured information contained in a structured business course would have been useful.

At the same time, when I was starting out, I did a lot of things that no reasonable educational institution would advocate just to get through the month and make payday. During all of this, I was reading and learning as fast as I could about all of the numerous knowledge gaps I began to realise I had, as I came up against various walls.

After years of experience in running a business, when I read books about business/sales/marketing/economics, it's far easier to process and understand the theory.

I think any kind of education about business is valuable, but I also think it's 10 times more valuable if you have some kind of real-life experience to which you can map the theory.
XSS attacks against what? Unless that data can be accessed by multiple people, there's no opportunity even if I can embed Javascript.
Ha! He makes some good points but he is way wrong about math and econ classes being better than business classes. It is the same bullshit. Professors are never right for the job they are doing especially in introductory courses designed to lay the foundation. We spend 50 minutes covering definitions and examples that can be covered in less than 20 and we spend 50 minutes because professors are lazy and the curriculum is divided into 50 minutes for no apparent reason whatsoever.
I watched the first bit to find out how Vernor pronounces his last name--turns out the 'e' isn't silent.
I have an issue with this kind of thing, the kind of elitism in some fields. Say someone getting education to become a doctor, after their years of study it seems that they come out on an initial low wage and an you should be glad were going you a chance kind of attitude.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's just the perception I have seemed to get about some fields from things I have read.
Cool, you may have just set the standard for this, I can see re-implementing HN on a number of platforms / languages as a nice little real-world benchmark.
Autofollow and User Privacy -- a Pawn in a Competitive Chess Games
Given a harmful, self-reinforcing cycle produced by multiple independent actors making (fairly predictable) decisions, I'm curious why you think it's correct to single out a particular part of the cycle as being the problem.

At any link in the chain, someone could have said "this is a bad idea" and stopped--but instead they do what's in their own (short-term) best interest, and everyone loses.
"When I started to notice myself getting mean online I thought, 'Something is missing here. Something has gone terribly wrong,"

I think the larger problem is that technology is not merely the addition of something new, but it's the addition of something new at the expense of something else, because technology abstracts. It's only a win if you don't care about the "something else" that you lose in the abstraction.

With the Internet, we can communicate with more people and more quickly than ever before. That's a gain. We lose the body language, human touch, voice intonations, etc. More than merely making the communication more difficult, experiences like seeing someone smile at what you just said (rather that merely getting an upvote) and getting actual physical contact like a handshake or a hug are part of our necessary social nutrition. The Internet is making us more productive but if we aren't careful we can become socially malnourished.
It's called "cloaking" and Google looks down heavily (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...) on it:

Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
Submitting the original pdf link is best for pointing to the real source and giving people the option of how to deal with it. Those that like Google viewer links can always fix that themselves. Details in this sub-thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1115897
>Heisenbugs do not exist

Perhaps in your universe.

In mine, I've seen video card temperature, random radio noise on an ungrounded component, and power line noise all totally screw with programs. Diagnosed to the point we could stimulate the errors through environmental changes. Dozens of more errors we think we have the solution to as being caused intermittent effects but can't repro reliably

Computers in theory are deterministic. In practice, they're machines in the world.
Open video letter to Michael Dell
"... In between are three sparse paragraphs. The first paragraph mentions Xanadu and the original iteration of the Mac OS as examples of systems that didn't use files. The second and third paragraphs complain that now every system uses files, that we're locked in to using filesystems, and we can't even conceive of systems without files. ..."

Try reading up on Andrew Pam. I met Andrew for lunch one day around '95 and remember him talking about Xanadu ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu running on a new fangled thing called a "Be Box" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox At one stage you could buy the software with a book in bookshops and I remember looking at it. WWW was more interesting.
Personally I find it amusing that after all these years, storage has surpassed CPUs in terms of the ratio of price / volume occupied. I wonder how this will trend in the future.
Yes I did. That's why I pointed out all that means is Yahoo is paying more than Google to be the search provider.
I believe the point was that Buffet was comparing two things as if they were equivalent, while in fact one has an additional level of taxation between when it provided value to a consumer and when it got into the hands of the person providing the value.

A corporation's income does not include money paid out in salaries (as it obviously shouldn't).
Consultant
Can he appeal, having pleaded guilty? Shouldn't the invalidity of the law have been raised At the trial he elected not to have?
The Video Boss
The Video BOSS is an 8-week hands-on coaching program that’s being taught by Andy Jenkins, co-founder of StomperNet.
It's significant because we've spent billions (and almost spent trillions) on a problem that doesn't exist - AGW. And this is from one of the leaders of the movement that created a false impression of that problem.
Do Startups Fare Better In Silicon Valley Than Anywhere Else?
...so, basically it gives the same ease of understanding program flow that lazy evaluation offers, but without the distracting complexity of referential transparency? Okay, then.
Flirting with ideas
nicely done (looks like nice code on github). there's another python implementation of frank liang's hyphenation here, fyi.

http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/hyphenate.html

cool way to see tries in action. (though arguably a language with duck typing makes tries pretty hard to read.)
That is a very, very dramatic claim, and one that requires extraordinary amount of evidence. In order to say that AGW does not exist, the burden of proof is very much on you-- the body of scientific evidence confirming AGW is extensive and well-confirmed. You cannot simply say that because fighting AGW is expensive, it can't exist, which is in essence what is being done.

By the way, citing the Daily Mail doesn't count as providing an extraordinary amount of evidence. The Daily Mail has made their position on this issue very clear, and has shown that they will lie and cheat to embarrass scientists at every turn. Since their reporting here does not cite original sources, the article simply cannot be taken at face value. Even if they were being completely honest here, one scientist saying something to a reporter does not contradict the massive body of peer-reviewed studies demonstrating AGW. What it would show at the absolute worst is that you have a scientist that is willing to say stupid shit in front of a microphone. In order to support your claim, you would need at the very least to show that long-term warming has not occurred, or that if it has, it is completely natural. Since both such claims run counter to all that we know about the climate, you would need a lot of data on temperature records, CO2 levels, etc. and to convince us as to why all collected data is invalid.
Not hard at all. Am guessing the comment was sarcasm directed at the articles author.
Currently a MBA student at Stanford Graduate School of Business, I'm also bootstrapping a startup with two CS graduate students and a seasoned designer. As an entrepreneur, I can definitely speak for the benefits that Stanford GSB provides:
(1) The Stanford and Stanford GSB networks are both phenomenal. Alumni are very accessible and connected with the school. Classmates are highly collaborative and bring contacts from almost every industry you can think of and want to learn about. To start a business, access to relevant networks is critical and GSB provides that.
(2) Entrepreneurship classes taught by experienced industry veterans. Some of my favorite classes are taught by serial entrepreneurs, famous venture capitalists, or legendary executives including Eric Schmidt, Andy Grove, Mark Leslie, Andy Rachleff, Audrey MacLean, Mike Lyons, Joe Peterson, and Harold Irving Grousbeck, among many others.
(3) The roster of speakers that come to speak both at GSB and other parts of Stanford is extremely useful for entrepreneurs. Classes and clubs invite speakers including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter), Shawn Fanning (founder of Napster), Chad Hurley (founder of Youtube), Aaron Patzer (founder of Mint.com), Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga), and many others. STVP (stvp.stanford.edu) and ETL (etl.stanford.edu) are two other great resources. As a student, you can even take the initiative as a club leader to approach some of the most successful people in the valley to come speak.
(4) Stanford GSB has a Center for Entrepreneurial Studies which organizes seasoned entrepreneurs, angels and venture investors to hold 1:1 free advisory sessions with entrepreneurial students to discuss their startup ideas and help students build the network. I've personally found them very valuable.
(5) Many successful alumni who are entrepreneurs, active angels, or venture investors often hold intimate networking events, such as as small group dinners, to meet with entrepreneurial students. It's another way to network and receive feedback on your startup idea!
(6) The school also offers classes in which students across business school, engineering school and other schools can work in a team on a startup idea together. Some of these class projects continued as startups after the class.

Overall, the best value is the access to investor, entrepreneur and industry networks, the ability to meet other entrepreneurial students, and to receive advice from some of the best entrepreneurs in the industry.
Firefox 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 7.10
Stuff not mentioned here, you'll see JRockit Virtual Edition that runs on OVM without a full OS underneath -- this will compete with the VMW/tC Server/no OS stack on ESX.

The OSS JVMs will have the drawback of having to carry a full OS underneath so even if they are as efficient as the closed JVMs you'll still gain advantage for going commercial. The OSS community needs to start looking at how to do the same on Xen. It doesn't make sense as much sense on KVM since you have a full OS there anyways.
That is sad, because you think a personal finance if taught right would be the most interesting class in school for students. I would think a teacher would only have tell a student, if you want to be rich this is the only class that matters.
Just a warning since it's not obvious at first glance: That link is over a decade old, and might no longer represent the views of the authors listed. Yudkowsky's contribution notes that it was specifically repudiated in 2001.
It's AGW that is the extraordinary claim that needs extraordinary proofs. Ridiculously bad computer models with 'adjusted' data from cherry picked stations are not proof of anything, so we have no idea what our net contribution is to the temperature. And (if we can ever prove it), whether it will continue and if it is harmful.
I tried to do the demo, but was asked for an email address. While I trust that you won't spam me, I don't understand why I have to provide an email address for demo purposes. If you are going to provide a demo, I would recommend either doing a video, some screenshots, or have a demo that doesn't require any interaction from the end user.

I think the problem with your homepage text that others have noted is not so much in stating the concept of the problem the app solves, but really in stating what the benefits are to both the buyer and seller. Most suppliers are going to understand economies of scale, but many buyers are concerned more with end price. You have to convey to the buyer WHY economies of scale is better for them. With that done, you also need to convince suppliers that your app will increase sales for them.
Wow, that's possibly the most arrogant, yet typically upper-middle class thing I've seen all week on HN.

Unfortunately, the "poor people are poor 'cos they're dumb!" sentiment is way too prevalent just about anywhere you go.

I had the (unexpected and unintended) opportunity to live on the wrong side of the tracks, in an incredibly poor industrial neighbourhood - the reality is far more complex than "poor people have poor impulse spending control". To reduce it to such is incredibly out of touch with reality.
Anyone else notice how the Hacker News domain extractor messed up on this post? It shows up as (syncfu.com#dosyncfu) on the front page and direct on the item.
I've thought about using student loans as a cheap business loan if the economy tanks bad enough that I lose my stable job. I sign up for a masters, get loans to live on (with few questions asked), and work 50/50 on school & business. Worst case is that I come out with a failed startup and a masters degree. And loans, but meh...