skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's truly about doing those things that just _cannot_ fit on any sane balance sheet trading on Wall Street (or if they tried, investors would truly revolt).

This, to me, is the single most convincing reason for the government to be in charge of health-care, and not the markets. It's always been my assertion that the government needs to be responsible for investments that vest in an amount of time longer than the length of the average career; things like basic science research, retirement benefits, and health care.

I think the failure of the American automotive companies makes this point rather clearly. When automotive execs were faced with a decision in the 60s and 70s to either raise salaries or promise their workers plush retirement benefits, which did they go for? The retirement benefits, of course! Why? Because those execs would likely be long dead and gone before the proverbial shit hit the fan. Ah, but what about the investors? Shouldn't they have demanded long term fiscal responsibility from the executives? Um...why? If you were 20 in 1960 and invested $100 in GM, how many times over would your money have doubled before the trouble began? ...and you'd be 70 now! If you were a prudent investor, you would've moved that money out of stocks and into bonds sometime during the surpluses of the 90s.

In my opinion the government should exist to cover those things the market won't (or to sufficiently incentivize markets to act responsibly enough that they do cover extremely long term investments).
I don't think that would be a very good move.

If you have a serious health problem ( heart attack, stroke, accident ),
you will not have time to fill out all of the paperwork and buy insurance because you will need help immediately.

Also insurance companies will probably have processing times of weeks when onboarding new customers, so you won't be able to just get the flu and then decide to have insurance that month.
Well, ya gotta be able to kill people! That accounts for another 23%...
Actually, it's funny you should mention that. I wrote a little web server in PHP that's basically a port of Ruby's Rack:

http://github.com/dhotson/kelpie

It actually works pretty well, no apache required! It's pretty fast too.. all the init stuff you normally have to do every single request can be done once on server startup.

I also wrote a little sinatra style framework to go on top of it:
http://github.com/dhotson/kelpie/blob/master/demoapp.php

Anyway, it's turning out to be a pretty fun little project. :-)
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Doesn't that help it also rank for "Bingo " and "Bingo Card ", though? I'm very hazy on how Google uses anchor text, but this is how I assumed it works.

On a related note, I'd be very happy to pay you for an SEO consultation.
holy crap. that's pretty good, man! when i was trying to get this to work a couple of nights ago, i would have gladly given you a hundred bucks for that code snippet, just to make the pain go away.

i was afraid that your method would screw up <ul> lists the way most of my attempts did, where the bullets would wind up stuck to the left margin while the text strings are goofily centered in the middle, but no, your way presents lists properly as well.

your code snippet is going into production for my iphone card game, to replace this awful hacked-together menu i made:

http://www.platinumball.net/hearts/png/orig_help_large.png

thanks!
At the time, I was extremely ill and my brain chemistry was out of whack in a big way. It wasn't a placebo effect.
I always use 'folks'.
Unfortunately, no. A quick google isn't turning anything up for me either. I know this from talking to very knowledgeable people who did a lot of research for dealing with their own health problems. I have found such people to be the most reliable source for information on such things. I am quite surprised and rather chagrined that this information isn't readily available with a quick google. I will have to look into it some more some other time, when I have the time to do so. I try hard to find scientific stuff to back up what I understand to be true.
Ok, people really have to STOP entertaining these sorts of ideas. "Aging" is not going to be cured. PERIOD. FULL STOP!

The primary increases in longevity over the past century have come from increasing survival into adulthood. If, instead of considering longevity at birth, you look at longevity at 35 (that is, how long you can expect to live if you've already made it to 35), the increases are a lot less dramatic. Furthermore, if you look at the records for "oldest living person", that number effectively hasn't moved in the last 200 years, and is stuck somewhere between 110 and 120, which should give you a pretty good idea of where the upper limit is.

Sure, with improvements in medicine, we can keep people productive into their 70s and 80s when they used to spend their last decade or so as invalids. The future of medicine looks like this: you're healthy and active into old age, then you hit the floor. No long suffering, no being bed ridden...but you still hit the floor at some point.

Entertaining the notion that we could live forever if only we spent enough on medical technology is one of the main reasons that we're in the situation we're in. You are not immortal. You will die.
That's not the line taken by the core WP team, and the SFLC agrees with them.

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
Melatonin about 30 minutes before bedtime and co-q-10 in the morning worked well for me at one time, but only after I had already done some work on healing my body generally and brain chemistry along with it. I no longer routinely take either of them, which is a recent development. I still have co-q-10 in the house because until two or three weeks ago, I was still taking it about 5 mornings a week. I haven't had melatonin in the house recently.
Mostly I listen to a lot of reggae, ska, and punk .. Operation Ivy being a favorite that seems to help motivate me.

As easily distractible as I am, a great set of noise-canceling headphones is a must. They help me control my adhd and block external interference. I really recommend the Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7's. I pretty much already have them on when I code. http://bit.ly/9FCd5e talks about them a bit more.
Perhaps you could post the SVG, so we can edit it to make Monday the first day of the week like ISO 8601 intended it :)
Tacking a box onto a wall is a horrible solution. You'd need two or three long tacks, a light candle, and I'd probably put the tacks in at an angle, too. And then you'd need to solve the problem of the falling candle.

I'm not sure what would be a good solution, since the candle would need to be placed at least 5cm away from the wall, and there just aren't materials for that.
Yup! I'm a member of the state employees' credit union around here. Attending public university makes me eligible to join. They have four or five ATMs in the neighborhood around campus, and a branch that's right on my walk to and from school. Plus, I can use any credit union ATM in the country. It's pretty rad!
Humans can't disambiguate in the sea of words as effectively as machines do. There is just too much results you have to sift through, every time you want to look up some little detail.
I'd argue that there is a qualitative difference between adding a funny caption to a photograph of a feline and combining a new form of communication (video chat with random strangers) and an established genre (ode) and integrating it into a live performance (incl. audience interaction).
Stop being worried about having a "title" and do the job and you will pick up as much experience as you can. If other people want to call you a CTO, let them, but it's just a name.

Founders who give themselves the important buzz word titles is a false positive to productivity. Like joining a gym and not working out. You get instant gratification just from joining.
What an evil idea. Track Google searches from your corporate proxy and use some Google-trends-like analytics on these data. This would offer a glipse of your true corporate culture.
Don't take life too seriously--you're not going to make it out alive anyway.

Edit: or what Anonjon said
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There are factors that are equally or even more important, like taxes, availability of capital, bureaucratic hurdles etc. I once heard from a German restaurant owner that he fought 12 years to get a permission to put tables in the garden...
Another framework based on MVC.
But MVC is just not possible in PHP. Maybe with Ajax it is, but mostly it is a hype people don't understand.
Let Apache (or any webserver) be the controller and you have the most lightweight framework there is.
Here's another view of it: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3359446/Hulton-Archive

The Popular Mechanix article says the message will stay in view 'at least two hours', while the Getty Images caption says 'up to two hours'. By the looks of it the latter seems more likely - pump enough coins into the machine and you can make earlier messages roll out of view!
I wrote a github's gist clone in python. Live here:
http://pastgit.research-infrastructures.eu

fork it from here: http://github.com/mmikulicic/pastgit
I am wondering if you have a keen sense of smell. Since it is in person but not online, I would guess there is something physiological involved. Anecdotally, my son is very strongly impacted by the feelings and reactions of people around him. He also has a keen sense of smell. I suspect the two things are related since pheromones are also picked up by the nose (olfactory).

I was bedridden at one time and largely housebound for a long time. During that time, I spent a lot of time online. Getting out into the world again and around people was a headtrip. I have found that it is much easier to drop someone a polite note, send them an email, etc in order to talk about difficult subjects because it removes that physiological component. If they have a strong negative initial reaction, I am not exposed to it. They can take time to calm down and compose themselves before replying, etc. If handled properly, it can do a lot to defuse potentially highly charged situations.

Yes, start a blog again and do more stuff online. You might consider planning a web-based business or project.
it's a bad idea, but there isn't a culture to invest in startups around here so they probably didn't have an option.
Single page version:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21bellos.html?page...
Cool, I might write up a little library to provide the same interface to standard PHP CGI/Apache.
[This is really way off topic, I'll keep it short]

His writings have plenty of holes and inconsistencies, but "non-democrat = fascist" is not one. I'd suggest one writer he doesn't go back far enough to reach: Polybius, in book 6 of his Histories, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis .
There's a lot of space around the daily timelines. For appointments I'd suggest marking it in the timeline using a letter or perhaps initials then making a note in the TODO area with the details. If the timing of the appointment would make that difficult (e.g. a 15 minute appointment, or an appointment that starts and ends at :30, putting the line for the hour division in the middle) then simply mark the appointment time appropriately and adding a note above or below the time with the letter or initials which ties in to the appointment details.

If you happen to have more than half a dozen appointments per week and have routine issues like moved, cancelled, or overlapped appointments then a simple tool like this is unlikely to meet your needs, you'd be better off with an application for a smart phone or somesuch.
Everything becomes easier the more you do it. If you're shy, there is an easy way to get over it: break it into component parts (talking to people, going new places etc). The break each part into steps that you can take. For example, talking to people an easy way to start is to talk to fruit sellers about their fruit, then asking for advice on clothes and so on. Now, everyday make it a mission to go and conquer one level of it til you are comfortable with that. Then move to the next level.

The way I am advocating is slow working, but it's easy to do and it changes the very fundamentals of who you are.

Also travel to other cities alone and just walk around and discover the city. Being in a new environment will open you up to being more accepting of things you don't know or understand.
A Plea To New HN People
Hey there.

Firstly, thanks for joining our little corner of the web. It's great to have you here, and we look forward to getting to know you.

However, there's a culture here we'd like to keep, and some of you are unknowingly damaging it a little, and I'd like to point you in the right direction as it were.

I think you see HN as a mini version of reddit. Which in a way, it is. But it's a mini version of a tiny part of reddit. We don't really want stuff on politics or whatnot on here. We want things on code, on business and startups. Also, hacking things is good and post-worthy.

What isn't is...

"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

From patio11: "We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you're probably overestimating how witty you're being if you're thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR."

I know the guidelines are hidden at the bottom, and so you probably didn't read them, but I just thought I'd bring this to your attention.

Kthxbai

EDIT 1: To clarify, it's not that I think HN is turning into Reddit, it's that some people (mostly new) seem to think it should. I respectfully disagree, and think it's quite alright without being reddit.

EDIT 2: Yes, I've read the guidelines. I'm not complaining that it's becoming reddit, it's that some users seem to think it should. See EDIT 1.

EDIT 3: Added patio11's points.
that's true. i used to work at be, and a startling number of my former coworkers are now at google, working on android.
Medication worked wonders for me.

I had anxiety problems that were crippling my life. Two years ago I was prescribed Paroxetin. The changes it has done me for are great. I sleep much better. I'm not so irritable. I don't worry so much about failure and what other people think. I am far more open about my life, even with strangers, as readers of my blog know.

A pleasant side-effect is that I can coolly walk into a crowded room or bar. I used to be close to panic in this situation. Last Saturday night I started a random conversation with two girls in a local bar and talked to them for a couple of hours. And if they had dissed me - I wouldn't have cared.

The past was not like this for me.
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r.e. your first paragraph. I think that is partly Our Country bias - because people here (UK) will say the same about the UK.

We are generally small business friendly (I've had one, my parents have 2 going strong) but I don't expect we are particularly better, in reality, than anyone else :)
That is exactly what Google does: display too many results for a human to sort through effectively, and that is why ddg flattens google.

Wikipedia is humans disambiguating words; ddg is an abstraction of Wikipedia.

This ddg setup is the power of humans disambiguating words into a tree structure, and the power of machines indexing and querying this tree structure on behalf of humans.

I believe wikipedia would do well in copying ddg interface.

Generally, finding information in well structured trees is faster than one modge podge long list - hence the perceived better results.

tree power mate, tree power.
In what way is it not possible? You can send all requests through a single handler with .htaccess can't you?
Use "babes" if you're feeling fabulous.
> If universal health care were really that important to entrepreneurship, why isn't Silicon Valley in Europe?

Because what makes Silicon Valley is a whole mix of factors? After all, why can't other US states copy Silicon Valley, even though a number of them dearly want to?
"Everybody, ..." seems reasonable.

P.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFYMijdQ_sA
Comic Sans in an image.

Bold, I like it.
I used to be painfully shy too, but i started to get much better when i realised that were many other people who had the same problem.

Some things i have learned that sometimes it can come down to self-esteem, so if you solve that problem you've got most of it covered. I dont know if you are male or female, but there is video series on youtube by David DeAngelo (its a little crude) caled "On being a man", its worth watching. Just as a "gaining insight" exercise. I wouldnt take the whole thing literally, but it helps.

Other than that, i agree with the other commenter that the more you do something the better you get it. Start with the slightly easier things first and then start pushing yourself further.

Also, get a pen and paper and for each thing that painfully frightens you list down a few reasons as to why it frightens you, i.e. worst case scenario, and then list why the worst case scenario itself frightens you and keep extrapolating that back as much as you can. that REALLY helps (hope it makes sense, email or skype me if you want to know more). (khuram@xs-pro.co.uk) skype: krmmalik

and lastly there's a book called "Feel the fear and do it anyway" by Susan Jeffers. Its worth reading.

(sorry for the information overload, just take one thing at a time)
As a friend of mine put it: "OMG! Code completion!!!" =)
This is what I've got so far:
http://gist.github.com/339915

It basically sets all the usual superglobals like $_SERVER, $_GET etc. Doesn't handle sessions just yet; I'm still working on that..
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For an extended exploration of all the possible options, look at the first panels of around 80% of Dinosaur Comics comics.
Also a few links to be read by newer members:

1. Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

2. FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If it comes to a bidding war though, the patents are probably worth more to patent trolls, because they get to use them for big pay-offs not some anticlimactic cross-licensing deal.
the hacker news value is in the community, not the submissions.
I'm a poor self-promoter.
<snip>
But again, I'm not even a real programmer.

Modesty isn't very useful when promoting. Tell us why your framework is better!
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We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you're probably overestimating how witty you're being if you're thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR.
What do you mean 'we', white man?

user:	petewailes
created: 65 days ago
karma: 33
about: ""

Did you even read the guidelines you reference?: "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
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Another factor might be that it's possible to get accepted as an American in a few years. In Germany you may be a naturalized citizen on paper--but the real social acceptance of compatriots runs through bloodlines. (I.e. you have to look the part, too.)

Not that they won't be nice to you. But your children will stay, say, "Turks" in the third generation and onwards.
Yes, because the paperless office was referring to filing cabinets where every bit of company data was kept on sheets of paper, not transient copies of reading matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless_office

edit: now that I've actually read the article, I see they cover this in the first half but then wander onto transient paper documents later. But note that they're misleadingly talking about 'archives', not working documents containing data, though no doubt there are businesses where the master copy of all your details are on a bit of paper somewhere.
I don't agree with the post your responding to, but I don't understand yours either. Why is it shameful to be without health insurance?
Yes.

On the other hand readline has brought more than one program into the realm of the GPL, so they certainly achieved some of their political goals.
What I got from that link is that "small business percentage" is not a reliable indicator of entrepreneurial spirit.

One interpretation of the data presented here is that self-employment and small-business
employment may be a less important indicator of entrepreneurship than we have long thought.
Another reading of the data, however, is that the United States has something to learn from the
experience of other advanced economies, which appear to have had much better luck promoting
and sustaining small-business employment.

The self-employment rates in Figure 1 are particularly high in Greece (35.9 percent), Italy (26.4),
Portugal (24.2), and several other countries where agriculture is still an important part of national
employment.
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So you're the asshat treating HN as Reddit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209848
Petewailes, with the greatest respect in the world your account is 65 days old - I suspect most people here would consider that fairly new. I myself am certainly nowhere near part of the original crowd - but I did join in here before the recent influx of reddit-like people.

You are right; the quality of articles has generally declined slightly (or more specifically bunk articles are hitting the top of the main page). But the point I take issue with...

We don't really want stuff on politics or whatnot on here.

It's natural to want to comment on political stuff; and (I guess your likely discussing the healthcare posts here) most of the political stuff here either satisfies the intellectual curiosity barrier OR is relevant to startups/entrepreneurs.

Bear in mind here the commentary is generally more interesting and insightful than elsewhere.

The real problem that has cropped up the last few weeks is comment quality. I run with showdead on (no reason, I just forgot to turn it off ages ago) and there are a growing number of (dead) jerk-comments. There are a lot more combative "troll" comments and worse voting behavior. In general the commentary - one of the most important parts of HN for me - is becoming diluted.
When I notice a duplicate of an otherwise-reasonable comment, I almost always upvote one copy and downvote the other, not to express displeasure or provoke deletion but to help make there be one canonical one to reply to.
His post was quite constructive, so I guess we can be lax here.
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You can, but it will not update the view directly as MVC does. You always need to refresh the page for that.
In Java or Flex (or with Ajax) the view is updated by the model. That is MVC. In PHP this is just not possible. So imho it is a hype word people don't understand.
Most (PHP) frameworks that use 'MVC' are just more bloated than Apache + PHP (a single handler with .htaccess could be nice!).
Well for a start, it's brilliant PR/marketing.

People will see this, and think "Woah. If I play on chatroulette, I could be famous".

I can see ways you could integrate that sort of PR into other startups.
Hate to break it to you but most of the people posting on politics this weekend weren't new. The one posting that got me annoyed (now dead) was posted by someone with 11,000+ karma points.

So I believe the issue is more people getting overly emotional than it is newbies not knowing the guidelines