skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say you were impolite because you disputed the facts. But because you were giving very vague definitions of what you were exactly looking for, and instead just turned down people who offered numerical evidence. Had you been more clear what exactly you were after, I'd wouldn't have had a problem (disputing the relevance of facts I think it's alright).

I agree health care is a badly defined word. And if you want to restrict yourself to services offered by medical professionals then I am fine.

Then I can argue with you that yeah, the USA is not so bad on the actual services provided. Although given the quality of the service changes with how much you can pay, we should really look at the average health care offered (hence those who can't pay and are not insured would count as horrible service). Also having universal health care helps simply because people can take much more advantage without worrying if it's worth the money. For example screening for diseases or cancer. And where I live now (UK) doctors will also check your weight, discuss how you can improve your diet and so on. Not sure then if these would count in your definition or not.

I think anyway that the guy you replied to meant a broader concept of health care. When the government subsidises screening or healthy food at schools then I would have counted those under health care.

Incidentally I guess that's why the WHO used those other data that you disliked. Financial inequality matters because richer people can afford better health care.
> If you already use screen and are happy with it, it's probably not worth switching

I switched from screen a few months ago and have been much happier, but I literally spend 80% of my day on multiuser terminal sessions. tmux is much nicer than screen for sharing a session.
Yes, that makes sense.

I do have AdBlock on my FF install, and I've gotten so used to it, I never notice it in the background.
The story of round rectangles
I'm actually dividing the world between people who value good design in the things they use every day, and people who don't value good design. It's just a peculiarity of the market that Apple is the only computer company that is currently effectively targeting the former group. I realize that not all of the latter group actively criticize Apple and Apple users, but they are still likely to be surprised when they sit down and really use an Apple product.
Ok, but the real difference is in spending. People in the US live to 78, Canadians to 81, according to that site, which isn't a huge difference. The difference in spending, however, is, which is why the US is such an outlier on that chart.

... and around ...
Six things I wish Mom told me (about ssh)
Anything else?

PostgreSQL (with ADODB for PHP) would be my suggestion.
But failures don't always go for a 23-mile joy-ride into restricted airspace. That's kinda cool.

As to damage, given the size, probably not a whole lot if it just died and fell. Might kill someone who's incredibly unlucky. But consider if it flew around at a really low altitude: power lines, people, windows, all in range of the blades. Given that it went 23 miles on its own, having working ground-avoidance software isn't an unreasonable assumption.
How does it compare to the more mature Virtualenv for Python?
Going to the US is so bad an experience that I now choose not to. If I have to go to North America I arrange for it to be in Canada, and if I don't have to go then London does just fine. I personally feel that the experience is that bad, and that I have a choice.
I was hoping this was going to be a measure of how easy it was to obtain a work visa in these countries, in which case I would expect the US to rank near the bottom...
Use hand drawn elements to improve conversion + free libraries
I'm quite excited about AdGrok now. I'm so sick of the Adwords interface. Has anyone got accepted into the Beta yet?
Hilarious video...but it reminds me of the painful fact that I know very little about databases so choosing between SQL and noSQL for my web app just seems arbitrary for me. I wish there were some simpler explanations out there.
I guess that varies, as different carriers have made different updates available to different handsets, but a range would be handy. There's a link on the spreadsheet for suggestions
The first thing that I would check would be the cables. Do you always use the same cable when plugging the laptop into the cable modem? Because when you're adding the router in you're also adding a second cable.
ITunes may be more social starting next week
For me, the best part of a tiling window manager is immersion. It's no-nonsense. There's no eye candy to remind me of all the brain candy out there. When your whole screen is nothing but black-and-white text and ugly emacs-colorized source code, it's easy to forget that Facebook and Hacker News are just a few clicks away.
For a country that generally does a great job of customer service the experience you get as a foreigner entering the place is awful.
This can't be emphasized enough. Wayne's post about 1.0.0 reveals how close to burn out he was, but on the outside, he is seemingly tireless. He is on #rvm so many hours, quickly answering questions, over and above the work he does coding directly for rvm (not to mention his, you know, paying work and life). Sutto has also been in #rvm a lot over the summer I think.
Ubuntu 11.04 Developer Summit Announced
tl;dw: 99% of web applications will never need to be "web scale," so quit worrying and just use an RDBMS.
I hate the fact that I want to upmod this submission.

(I withstood the urge, you probably should too)
Thanks for the link.
I found it as a good way to learn, and to remember what you just learned. So I think it could be more like an app, instead of a game.
Elizabeth Kolbert expressed more than a little disdain for the Freakonomics guys last year in the New Yorker; she's pretty thoughtful about this issue I think.

newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/16/091116crbo_books_kolbert
How to choose between On premises or SaaS Software?
And so skynet begins.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
To the good folks at 10Gen, Antirez, the Cassandra project, LinkedIn, Google, Amazon, and everyone working to advance the state of datastores available for increasingly specific applications, your work is undeniably important. The team I work with has been evaluating a handful of emerging datastores for some applications and are making plans to migrate a few types of data in some of our systems from one to another. Thank God that we have choice beyond a standard RDBMS and BDB.

To the armies of bloggers parroting slogan after slogan, ricing benchmarks so far removed from real-world applications as to place themselves somewhere on the spectrum between meaningless and malicious in the name of pageviews, well, that's not helping anyone.

It's great to see people get excited about new technologies. But if tech/startup culture is one that embraces and celebrates the fail, then we damn well better also talk about the different areas where many different datastores are not appropriate choices, and where some of them downright break, risking extensive downtime or corruption, require unreasonable amounts memory for indexes, or multiple machines to provide for durability, or return inconsistent "postmodern" results, or what have you -- without it being understood as a personal attack on any one individual, company, or sector.

The productivity of this video is debatable, sure. But perhaps we can appreciate that it parodies the "magic scaling sauce" image that the "tech press" (face it, we're it) has given surprisingly young but maturing technologies. There's no magic sauce, no drop-in answer to "web scale," and certainly nothing fraught with difficulty. It's data. If you have a ton of it and it's valuable, it's worth mountains of expensive programmer time and effort to ensure its integrity, accessibility, and utility based on the storage and query requirements of an application.
VerizonWireless Launches Samsung Intensity II | Technorox
Austin-based startup Gowalla makes the 50 Best Websites 2010
I'd drop the real names - people do want anonymity (for example, posting about problems with their job or spouse) and the membership fee.

Instead why not have exclusivity ? People can create groups - like subreddits - but you can only post to a group if you are a member. Membership might be invite only, or you have to apply. That will keep out the spammers and trolls - bad behaviour gets your membership revoked. Let the people running the groups decide on their own membership (some might make it open to all, others might only allow friends etc).
Health Term Papers about Dengue Fever
Under the health term paper topics Dengue fever takes an important place, because it is a dreaded viral disease that has become a health threat in rural and metropolitan areas. Students must write about the disease, symptoms, prevention and cure in their term papers.
Thanking Americans for it is definitely on the list. My parents were both born during WWII - they are very greatful to the US.
What makes you think that I don't have freedom? Or that I am stuck in my current system?

In how many countries have you lived in?

Having some form of health care is not the same as having good health care, and most definitely not the same as having the best health care that the USA provides.In fact, I am puzzled how you can quote a statistics like that with a straight face: you are saying that less than 30% of the population doesn't have any form of health care! That's A LOT!!!

A quick check online (I don't have time to find better data) gave me this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninsured_in_the_United_States

which quotes around 15% of the population WITHOUT insurance. And to those you may need to add all those whose insurances don't cover everything you may have.
I was questioning the claim of "more luxury, more free time, and better health-care".

Much like free time, claims about costs are easily googleable.
Rakudo Star 2010.08 released (Perl 6)
Sounds like a beastly equivalent of Python's virtualenv?
Exactly. Its rock solid. Especially when coupled with the lovely IBM i operating system. I'm guessing few here have touched these systems, and the younger crowd might not have ever even heard of them.
Already, shopping for Android devices is starting to suck. I say this as a fan of Android, but non-reader of Engadget and the likes. With the latest devices, I was able to ask some friends who keep better tabs on new devices. But as a consumer without such friends, how are you going to choose?
A mouse is faster for unfamiliar tasks, but when an action is committed to muscle memory, keyboarding becomes fast.
Previous submissions/discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635837

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635489

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1633106
I agree that certain design elements draw the user's eye, but paying for someone's doodles seems like a bit much. If you're doing webdesign, can you -really- not find anyone with a Wacom and a steady hand? Heck, get a random girl to draw that squiggle.
I think the author needs to make a clearer distinction between business logic and view logic. I'm an advocate of creating a view model layer above the traditional model containing things like sorting and field suppression, etc.

The app stack might look like this: DB -> ORM -> BizLogic -> ViewLogic -> View

This has the effect of decoupling actual business logic (i.e. get me every british author) from view logic (i.e. sort them by name in my table) and allows the design to be more flexible in the future.
It's important to go fast, which is why you need clean code. To be fair, my startup code isn't the best code that I've ever worked in, but it is solid and tested.

By the way, comments are crap in any kind of software. They are out of date and useless like a minute after they are written. 9 times out of 10 when I come across one in other code I delete it.
99% of web applications will never need relations, so just go the easy route and don't worry about a relational schema for your data.
Pay TV subscriptions down during the 2nd quarter
Was that back in 39?
Just choose Oracle, the answers also match, especially if you use DB2 Enterprise.
Hrmm.. Under that scenario, I'd transition from a Reddit-like model, to more of a Meta-filter like model.

That could be interesting, but would probably fit a forum-like discussion site, better than a news-aggregation site, no?

I suppose I could redesign it to be forum-skinned, and drop the news importing, and the real names, but at that point, what's left?
Overpopulation was actually a major problem for Britain for most of its history, (hence the continent-sized penal colony in Australia.)

It was just that British immigrants had the nasty habit of overthrowing the government in their new homes.
Additional info on The Register: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635807
He does refer to other "research", but since it is a transcript of a talk they aren't really explicit citations.

That aside, I observed a ton of hand waving in this talk, and I'm willing to bet it isn't backed up by the appropraite amount of rigor in his "research". In particular, I am concerned about how hard he tried to poke holes in his own theory, given the risks that might pose to his forthcoming (at the time of the talk) book.

Since we just had Cargo Cult Science posted the other day, this is a great time to think about this. I sometimes think that we (hacker news readers) might actually be more suseptible to accepting theories that haven't rigorously examined because our need to understand things is unusally great. So when we come across a theory that is internally consistent, not obviously wrong, and just sort of seems to make sense, we tend to reject any attempts to discredit the theory, lest we risk going from understanding to not understanding.

In other words, I think we sometimes value the feeling of understanding something over any utility that would come from actually understanding it.
Analyzing the macro objectives of steady transforming entities like societies - you need to have substantial knwoledge about the underlying principles that form the core of the structure of such entities as well as the intensity and underlying principles of the magnitudial change these entities are being constantly encountering. Then the interdependence of action inducing substructures regarding the affinity or neglection of change.
In this circumstance the solely important principles to assess your findings are reality and humans.
streetview as i tried to explain entered a nexus in a society that struggles to define a core right -privacy- in a new surrounding -informational age-
streetviews core -photos- is colliding with the interpretation of a wide known -right on ones own photo-
these and other factors work as aplifiers.
swift was a very deep public and parliamentary debate and the conclusion was that from now on it will be send again from the eu to the u.s but a european agency will be established and will take over when they are ready -
i hope i could help a little
Also, if you use the modem with cable and the router wireless, it is effectively the same thing.
RVM (Ruby Version Manager): seriously?
I don't know if you noticed,most of the links given in the article were for free resources.
When is comes to trademarks, there's really no such thing as an intrinsically generic term. A term can only be generic as it relates to a good or service. So the term "facebook" is generic as it relates to "a reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals' photographs and names," but not necessarily as it relates to other things, like the modern social network. Under the framework we use in the U.S., "facebook" is probably a suggestive mark as it relates to social networks, which means that it deserves instant and relatively strong protection.

I've described the framework here: http://notmylawyer.com/post/248307917/choosing-a-valid-trade...
That is scoble's style. He is friendly, gregarious, abd excitable which makes him great and horrible for interviews. His eagerness is net positive though. Often it makes interviews with more boring people tolerable.
I don't know. I would think that moving from the US is not a problem.
I wasn’t too surprised when Garcia-Martinez confessed to me this week that he studied journalism in college—the posts wouldn’t be nearly as provocative if they weren’t so well written.

Ugh... is this ass-kissing some kind of journalistic professional courtesy?

And there’s actually more cunning to his blogging strategy than you might imagine. The posts have drawn thousands of visitors who never would have discovered AdGrok’s website otherwise, without costing AdGrok a dime. “We got a lot of free PR based on my blog post about New York City,” he says. “It was like, whoosh—tens of thousands of page views and lots of signups.”

Frickin genius. This troll is an inspiration to us all.
The source, since it didn't cite it: http://www.agmweb.ca/blog/andy/2254/
Grim numbers point to the end of the venture capital era
So You Want to Become Rich?
In my initial response I was actually going to write that judging by his written English he would have no problems getting a job in London. I've certainly interviewed and worked with loads of people with far worse English than he exhibits in his post.
We'll be opening up the beta to a wider audience post-KO.
Found it if anyone cares or is interested: http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202466627090
Why oh why does an organisation like NASA use something like EDT without qualification? I've had to go look it up on Google, then follow the link, and now I know that it's UTC-4, or Zulu-4.

Why couldn't they say that? It's almost as if they think everything happens in the USA, and surely NASA of all organisations should know better.
I understand Foucault observed that imperial countries tended to bring their methods of colonial control back to control their home populations, in a sense colonizing themselves. Similarly, it seems like it's only a matter of time before this ubiquitous surveillance and automated enforcement are used in developed, democratic countries.
Motorola Droid 2 not having much of an impact
Uhh, in the context of an RDBMS a "relation" doesn't mean a "relationship" in the sense of a foreign key, it means a relational algebra relation, saying most applications will never need relations is like saying most applications don't use data.
Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling
This may or may not have been submitted, but I found the article worthwhile and interesting and thought some other people might enjoy it.
Imagine something like Reddit, with groups(subreddits) for programming, US politics, Twilight, whatever.

Each group can do auto news aggregation - maybe by customizing what RSS feeds get fed into the group. Each group gets to set a theme. Most important though is that each group gets to set the rules.

For example:

- who can post to the group ?

- who can comment ?

- how do you get to join the group ?

So for a programming group I want it to be invite only (you apply for membership, the group owner gets an email, and clicks a link to let you in). I also want to allow only members to be able to post links and comments. As group moderator, I can also ban people who break the rules.

Another group might let any site member post, and so on. Another may or may not allow profanity, or NSFW posts.
If there is one thing on earth that I know I will never do with my time, it's to pay a school for the privilege of doing free work for somebody.
From the article: it "was flying at 2,000 feet".

I see no reason to assume it would have any ground-avoidance software besides flying higher if it detects it's near the ground.
I don't think there's anything easy about it. It's the first commercial deployment of LTE in the world (Oslo in Norway also has it, but that's also TeliaSonera). I'll grant you that it's cheaper with fewer cities, but not easier. Btw, the cost is 359:- SEK ($45 or so) per month. They include the modem and give you a laptop if you sign up now..
No kidding! The trackpad on mine is too close to the spacebar, anyway. I just have it turned off (Fn-F7) most of the time. dwm + dmenu + emacs has me pretty much covered for mouseless usage.

I was skeptical about netbooks, but saw a great deal on craigslist and decided to try one. With dwm, Emacs, and terminus, I have two 80x45 buffers, which is quite adequate. (I also bike nearly everywhere, and it weighs so little that I don't hesitate to carry it with me all the time.)
IBM’s million dollar CPU is the fastest in the world
Exposing Io's true colors
Maybe. You're doing the UK a bit of a disservice. You're right that there's lots of nice scenery and the place is littered with castles and ruins. I'm a Kiwi who moved to Edinburgh and even after 5 years here I still love catching site of the big you-can-fuck-right-off castle in the middle of town. I'm still discovering lots of cool things right on my doorstep too.

New Zealand has plenty of amazing scenery and it's all within a rather small country too which makes it pretty easy to get to and see. But that doesn't stop hordes of young Kiwis heading off on their Big O.E. every year. Actually it's bit sad to meet some of the young Kiwis and find they haven't seen much of their own country before they spread their wings and head overseas.
Yes, I’m sure your parents have great reasons to be grateful to the US, as do I, I’m just saying that German labour laws aren’t one of them.
Maybe I'm retarded or something, but I can't imagine having a development team that doesn't interact strongly with operations.

How do you know what software to build? Operations.

Who uses the software and reports bugs and makes suggestions? Operations.

Without Operations, I'd just be sitting here twiddling my thumbs.

Of course, if you are developing software for other companies, you need to work through the channels, and I could see them not allowing communications directly with their operations personnel. But if it's the same company and you can't communicate, shame on everyone.
... are you suggesting that Americans are inherently more stupid than Europeans?
The greatest thing about being self employed is that it gives you lots of freedom. That's also the worst thing about being self employed.

My personal enemy #1 is distractions. I used to be much better at that but the last half year has been pretty horrible.
Ah, thanks. I don't know him, and I didn't watch the entire interview, that part just looked too awkward to be serious...