skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly an interesting link. I knew that over 99% of US businesses are considered "small" employing half the population, but I didn't know that Europe had such a vibrant entrepreneurial society. I'll admit, I'm in middle of a Programming Languages final so I didn't do a lot of statistical digging and relied on anecdote instead.

Still the authors of that study do appear to have an ideological axe to grind. I would be interested in researching the matter further from a less ideological source. I'm curious why we think of the United States having such a large share of the world's startups and invention if it isn't true.
Fill a bathtub up with Axe body spray, anabolic steroids, and Old Crow whiskey and soak in it for a couple of hours. Problem solved.
Yeah, that's how I originally found out about it, and would have linked to that talk. Except, TED talks often don't seem to get many points here, which seems strange to me given the community.
What I don't understand is why would it be the internet's fault people are buying and selling illegal stuff. It is just an instrument for people who used other ways before the internet existed.

And besides that how is the internet making poaching easier? You need somebody to physically and illegally hunt the creature (internet doesn't help here) and somebody to receive the creature through customs and some means of transportation (again the internet doesn't help here). So the only thing internet helps is faster searching and maybe paying for said creature. I doubt this was the most difficult thing before the internet came around.
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pg thinks it's cool because he paid them a bunch of money
Fear of rejection is definitely a component here. Fear of failure is another one.
Learn about prototypical inheritance and Javascript's lack of types.

Everything in Javascript is an object. By object I mean a hash table (or dictionary, if you are coming from Python). Even functions and arrays are objects! Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Have a look at this code:

function FancyArray() {} // In this setting a function is just a fancy name for an object.
FancyArray.prototype = Array.prototype;
var my_new_fancy_array = new FancyArray();

my_new_fancy_array[0] = 'foo';
my_new_fancy_array.length = 1;

Remember that the square brackets and the dot notation are equivalent. This is very important. The last lines could be written like:

my_new_fancy_array['0'] = 'foo';
my_new_fancy_array['length'] = 1;

Anyway, this will return you a psuedo Array => ['foo'] (This is the basis of how jQuery works). Going back to the first couple of lines, we made a new object, FancyArray, then set its prototype to the prototype of Array (so we get all the nice methods like toString and push etc.). We then created a new FancyArray.

I'm going to cut this tutorial short because I have somewhere to be, but a good source of good Javascript is Douglas Crockford and his bite-sized book "Javascript the Good Parts" (and a good post of prototypical inheritance here http://javascript.crockford.com/prototypal.html). If you are willing to take a certain level of Russian crazy have a read of Dmitry's blog http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/ (he wrote Raphaël). He gets it.

Back to Impel, the heavily OO code and the way things are named are a bit of a tell tale sign.
The author is probably a Java or PHP programmer who has spent the night getting tipsy in this weird and wonderful gay bar and, hitting on the only chick around, hasn't checked the goods before he moved in for a kiss. Javascript is a beautiful language when you get to know it and accept that it's different from anything you've experienced before.
USAA also returns profits to insurance policy holders. I think I got about $70 back last year (not much, but it help offset BofA gouging me on overdraft fees...)
Here is a really great blog by someone who made it into a game, with challenges for himself and simple stages. Maybe you can find some inspiration through his posts:

http://socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com/

Also, a trick that I use to practice new ideas is to go into places where I don't know a single person. Then, I can try all kinds of crazy things, knowing that I'll never see any of the people again :)
Nate Silver already did it for a slightly older version of the bill but I don't think anything of much substance has changed. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/why-progressives-are-...
I think you nailed it with the volunteering work. That sure sounds like it would help, it would really get my out of my comfort zone.
Silence. mostly it is easier to grasp new ideas and form new designs this way.

And then, Iron Man Soundtrack or Matrix soundtrack, or Linkin Park. This is for when I know what I am doing, and it just needs to be coded.
Like, doing tests, fixing bugs, testing new features, pretty much all coding which doesn't require any help.
The word "asterisk" does indeed have different meanings that is why ddg uses this particular technique to disambiguate the query. Narrowing down the meaning is performed by the user's intelligence not machine intelligence.
There on the first page one can see high level "asterisk" meanings including Asterisk PBX, one click away. Please note too that Asterisk the PBX is indeed top of the weblinks section.

Compare the usability to google search. Notice that a person searching for the song "Asterisk" by M83 can find it immediately on ddg. A google user would have to try different keyword combinations to eventually get the topic in question - say "what was the band's name again?" and you are off on a wild goose chase. In all honesty I would rather click that disambiguate menu than have to retype a whole bunch of search terms.

Secondly your "yate" query is in fact the first weblink result of ddg (http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki/), the other top bits help the user disambiguate the search as there are other meanings to the name Yate. A possible reason Yate the softswitch does not show up on the disambiguate menu, could be the same reason why Yate softswitch does not show up on a disambiguate menu in Wikipedia. If you create a well written wikipedia entry, I believe your softswitch would appear shortly in ddg disambiguate menu. It seems the only like to the Yate softswitch from wikipedia is this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol)

As an experiment, try find those little Yate towns with the keyword "Yate" and the song Asterisk by the band M83 with the keyword "asterisk" in google.

How about one more thing: search for Asterisk in ddg, click on the disambiguate link for asterisk and notice that the results filter out non Asterisk PBX results. Quite handy if you are an Asterisk PBX professional.
That's quite interesting. Thank you for the link.

I wonder why does the US have such a high reputation in entrepreneurship. Is it because we have a higher concentration of high tech start-ups (unverified), which generate more buzz in the media?
I would argue that government involvement in the private sector is why our system is broken. I don't mean for this to sound snarky, but what nation runs a better health care system than the US? The quality (for the cost) of medical care in the US is far better than any other nation.

Both Canada and Britain have gov't health programs. 25% of the people in Canada wait 6 months or more for surgery, in Britain that number is higher. In the US, only 5% wait that long. The waiting time for an MRI in Canada is 10 weeks.
Wow...that's exactly the case. I have felt for a long time that I am two very different guys, one when I'm alone, my true self, and the one that meets people and doesn't tell anything about the other one, actively hiding him. I now see that the reason is that I don't want to give others a chance to criticize me.
This is really awesome! Glad to see productivity hacks that are not web apps for a change ;) There's something about actually writing stuff down physically instead of tapping them on to your phone... hard to describe.

I'll be giving this a go this week (after offsetting the times +6hrs)
> Also, a trick that I use to practice new ideas is to go into places where I don't know a single person. Then, I can try all kinds of crazy things, knowing that I'll never see any of the people again :)

That's why I want to move to the valley to do my startup. I couldn't do it here.
I think the idea that government naturally has to overspend is wrong. It is a meme that people tend to trot out whenever there is a political discussion (along with the other side is bums and politicians are unethical crooks).

In this particular case, the idea is that we pay $100 billion a year of tax payer money. (For comparison sake, the F-22 program alone cost 65 billion including development. You could only buy 500 F-22s for $100 billion)

With that 100 billion dollars, we attempt to bring into line the 2.3 trillion dollars that we spend a year on healthcare. (16% of GDP).

16% of GDP is way more than other western countries spend on healthcare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_compared#Cross-coun...

Other western countries spend about 8-10% GDP on healthcare.

So lets do the math. Lets say we spend tax money on healthcare and we only manage to get it down 1% from 16% to 15%. That would be a 1/16th reduction on 2.3 trillion dollars... approximately 140 billion dollars. So if we even manage to knock 1% off of the amount spent on healthcare by doing this, we've sent 40 billion dollars back to the taxpayers.

If we get more than 1% off of our %GDP towards healthcare, we start making some serious bucks for Americans. If we got our % spent on HC down to even 10% we would have made a 540 billion dollar win on this issue.

(Yes, it comes in the form of taxes, but it also means that in the long run you aren't paying as much for insurance premiums... health insurance premiums might as well be a tax that doesn't go to the government, as having healthcare isn't optional if you plan on living for a significant amount of time...)
for one they block a lot of useless spam sites that show up in certain querys and i personally really like the zero click info!
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Oh, come on, that's just confirmation bias. Our government solves lots of problems. A few counter-examples:

People love Medicare. It helps keep old sick people from financial ruin. That's a good thing.

Lots of banks have failed in the last few years, but government-run programs (FDIC, mostly) keep the fallout from damaging citizens.

The United States is home to many world-class research institutions, many of which receive government grants.

Bernie Madoff was running a huge ponzi scheme to defraud investors, but was eventually caught, by the government, and sent to prison.

The military and US AID have helped save lives and assist in reconstruction of post-earthquake Haiti.

FAA regulators have made air travel extremely safe.

NHTSA and other regulators have improved the safety of cars and saved countless lives.

The Parks department has conserved millions of acres of winderness for people to enjoy for generations.

The Endangered Species Act has literally saved species from disappearing from the planet.

The National Science Foundation helps fund RadioLab, the best thing on the radio.
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No.

The best most cost effective solution to health care is single payer government operation of the health care system. It's a tried and proven over decades to cut the cost of health care all over the rest of the industrialized world.

For some ludicrous reason, the beloved-by the British UK model of health care is called "communism" if it's even mentioned here

When did Great Britain turn communist? I completely missed that event.
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FYI, your "action shot"s are not actually action shots, as they don't show your invention in use, just folded up. I highly suggest actually showing a real world example in your action shots. This would give people a better idea about how to use them while simultaneously showing their value.
well, they say the best way to conquer your fears is to face them. my suggestion: get embarrassed. fail.

it's a funny thing, fear. fears always make things seem worse than they are. i think you should do something that would normally embarrass you, and when you are done review what happened as a result. then do it again. each time you get in that situation you come to grips with the totality of your fear, and each time you walk away from it you become that much better at dealing with it.

i think the thing to keep in mind is that yes, you will fail. yes you will get embarrassed. but after going through it you will learn how to deal with it. i'll bet you after the 50th time playing guitar in public or singing all your fears would be gone. maybe you can extend that to other parts of your life too?

i also agree with looking at people in the eyes, smiling and saying hello whenever you pass. it shows confidence and it trains you to cope with people's rejection should they not smile back.
I thought you sounded a bit like me in the OP. :).

From the vague amount of pop psychology that I know, the "two different guys" is the hallmark of an introverted personality, and totally common. Although I think the amount of difference varies between people.

It also reveals the distinction between "introverted" and "shy". We introverted people aren't necessarily shy. It's possible to have a very open, outgoing, public persona. It's just not the same persona that you have when you're by yourself, or perhaps with closest friends.

(Take with large grains of salt, as I'm not any kind of psychologist.)
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Healthy young people get in horrible car accidents all the time.
You are assuming that we would get the same value for the new amount spent.
Dub Step from http://soundcloud.com/. I can't imagine it might work for many people but that's what really gets me moving.
Untrue. There's decades of research on better wellness policy in the rest of the world. We're the only ones this is going to be new for.
The dreaded "application configuration is incorrect" error
So how will the government lower costs without sacrificing quality of care?
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I don't know, my local bank is pretty awesome. 2 branches, 4 ATMs, friendly service, functional online banking, financially solvent w/ little if any exposure to the sub-prime mess.

There's probably an awesome little local bank near you too.
Right, they are not the same thing: they do share similarities, however. I must not have made my point clearly. My own experience has to do with starting a group that has a non-trivial operating budget (O(10k), decent for a student org), customers, technology that we developed for our projects, and funded by grants for which we are required to show demonstrable progress. There are a few groups like this at my university, so I figure it is a relatively common setup. We actually considered launching it as a for-profit business, but realized none of us had the time to get fully behind that. When I say cost of failure is 0, I mean to say you're not going to be out a substantial amount of your own investment if things go bad. And you are still working towards something you consider valuable (a degree) during the whole process, so it's not a total waste of time. But there are certainly social costs for just walking away from something you start, especially if you make a big deal out it to begin with.

I understand what you're getting at -- they are not the same thing. But I do think that some of the leadership aspects are similar, insofar as starting any organization (student, startup, community, or otherwise) requires certain common skills. If you can't/don't want to drop your studies to go do your Startup, then this might be a means to exercise a similar skill (sub)set in the meantime.
It's not just the high tech industry. It's in pretty much everywhere (e.g. construction contractors, engineering consultants, etc).
Flagged you.
You are assuming that we are getting anywhere near optimal value from the 2.3 trillion that we already spend.
Clearly we do not. Compared to other countries there has got to be absolutely TONS of wastage.

We die sooner, we spend more of our own money and we spend more government money.

lose/lose.
zoom in. problem solved.
Why wouldn't Google buy Palm for the patent war chest that it can use to defend itself against Apple? I am assuming of course that Palm have such a thing, but since they were in that market a decade before other smart phones they must have a lot that is useful.

HTC might also find it immediately useful.
According to the CBS summary of the bill as passed by the House (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000846-503544.html), the ability to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions will be phased out, and such denials will be banned starting in 2014.
Clever, considering that their WebOS is as if Android had been built by iPhone-influenced ChromeOS developers, instead of Newton-influenced Sidekick developers.
It is nice to have that safety net just in case. I overdrafted when it took a little longer for money to transfer from my BoA account to my ING Direct and the next day when the transfer did come in I paid less than a cent on interest.

Fantastic.
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Privacy is one matter some people are deeply concerned about, especially when search terms can get you locked in prisons by governments - decent search results is another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209482
I personally carry a notebook around with me to write down ideas and stuff, but this has potential from the planning perspective.

Is there anything keeping you from printing these out double sided to save on paper?
This used to bite me all the time before I switched to using Python when distributing Windows builds of stuff. I figured it out in an ad-hoc way, but with this article I actually understand it.
Reading through the 'Getting started', it's quite an interesting approach actually. I might give it a go some time.
So, what makes that array so fancy? I mean, it's name is fancy, but that is about it. Is that really enough for it to deserve that name?
Indeed. One of the smartest things in the bill -- and yet one which has received little to no fanfare -- is the mandate for insurance exchanges.

In case you haven't followed that, the idea is basically to match up people who are looking for private insurance with companies offering policies, but to build in the ability to lump the customers together into ad-hoc risk pools. For the insurer this is the same as taking on, say, a medium-sized company with X employees, which means the terms offered can be far better than traditional individual policies.
When you have enough karma there is a setting to change it.

Thus: "Whatever I want it to be"
I think you see things very clearly. Such is the quagmire of a declining democracy where most people are intent on shifting the costs of their decisions to everybody else.
What's interesting to me is that the thing passed with absolutely no Republican support whatsoever.

This insane partisanship cannot last.
I'll tell you a little about myself, hopefully my history regarding shyness can help you.

I used to be shy, at school, around friends, even at home (outside of my parents and siblings). Until I was chosen to be one of the lead characters at a school play, which I was pretty much forced to be a part of. I had a stomach ache to the point that I couldn't stand up straight, I was so scared. Somehow though, I was able to recite the lines properly. Thereafter I was complimented so much by so many different people, even people I didn't know (such as other actor's parents), that I was able to gain self confidence and thought that I was truly a great actor who can maybe become one in the future. This play was a turning point in my life, because to this day, I'm not shy, and I know I'm not a very good actor. The worst that could have happened at this play was that I wouldn't be complimented (no way anyone would insult my skills, as it's not expected of a student to be good, let alone amazing). In hindsight, it was worth the shot for a possible less shy future.

As a teenager I had quite a bit of acne, and that caused low self-confidence in me for a while. How I got over it was simple, yet accidental (or subconscious, as there is no way I would have thought of doing this on purpose at that time): overt confidence display. Basically, act extremely self confident, and do things that even the bullies in class wouldn't dare to do. This causes people to look at you in a more respectful way (at least in school, but with some modifications can be applied elsewhere), one in which they stop seeing your face, but what you've done, your history, your "self-confidence", etc. It's kind of like being a fat ugly rock star or famous actor/celebrity/CEO. Overt self-confidence display can lead to really bad behavior though, which I was able to control, but try to keep that in mind.

Currently, I've removed the "overt" part from "overt confidence display." However, it was necessary at first, to make as strong of a first impression as possible.

In theater, they teach actors to consider the audience members as donkeys or some other animal sitting down and watching them, to create a less traumatizing experience. Try to do something similar when you play the guitar, or talk to someone. Who are they to cause you to fumble or stutter or cause anxiety? No matter who they really are, they're no one to cause any of those symptoms.

Sorry about the long essay.
(Still a college student, but what I've been told...)

-Use the resources available to you as a result of your undergrad status. Free multi-thousand dollar industry reports, free legal advice from law experts/professors, free tech advice from tech departments, etc
-On-campus tech transfer offices offer further advantages
Somehow I find it very disturbing that these bloggers put a photo of themselves on their blog. I've seen this a few times recently. Every time it happens I just have to close the tab immediately. Therefore, sorry I have nothing meaningful to say about the article. I didn't (couldn't) read it.
As an outsider (Irish) I find it interesting that this occurred. Usually at least one backbencher in Ireland would support the opposing view based on their own such morales. Was this down to pressure from their own party, their constituency or just pure spite to derail something that was not their own idea in the first place?

I'm not pro/against the issue; I have no stake in US healthcare.
I didn't make that assumption at all. I assumed that we will get less value for our money the less competition and more regulation that there is. Current regulation already keeps us far from receiving optimal value for our money.
What are you afraid of [..]

This is the question that you need to keep asking yourself. What are you affraid of? Once you've described it: is that fear reasonable? If it isn't, where does it come from? When you feel the fear, go through this process and explain to yourself that it doesn't make sense and that it has roots in irrational expectations. Be very specific, describe distinct things you are affraid of and the ways in which you fear they could hurt you. I do this every time I find myself being reluctant to do something. Basically every time I feel I have to pick up the phone to get something done. Along the way, you discover interesting things about yourself and about others.
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Whoa thanks. Just adblocked the sucker.
Thanks Alejandro, we built it over the span of 54 hours
When asked what their greatest fear is more people will say public speaking than death.