skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are under 60, chances are you are paying disproportionately more in healthcare than you are getting. But this is how it goes. A large percentage of your lifetime's healthcare spending occurs in the last 6-12 months of your life.

Given the choice, I would much rather pay more for healthcare than I am using. It means I am healthy. My health is more valuable than money.
What I see you saying is "yeah, well, that's not going to be a problem because very few people are going to bother to ask for portable addresses". But clearly more people are going to ask in a world where it's numerically possible for them to have one than in a world where it isn't.
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Or perhaps they rarely quote right-wing think tanks?

Still, a bit more googling:

7 hits for "right-wing think tank" vs 4 hits for "left-wing think tank", so apparently they don't use either term very often.

1200 hits for "liberal think tank" vs 285 for "conservative think tank" vs 447 for "libertarian think tank" (all of which seem to be Cato) vs 6 for "moderate think tank".

3 for "Republican think tank", 345 for "Democratic think tank" and 57 for "non-partisan think tank"

I take your point, though. What you'd really need to do in order to analyze bias would be to check out "think tank" is used without an adjective and figure out what kind of think tanks those are.
I would agree, that the people who set up the system should have atleast reviewed the work of the newbie, if they don't have a proper process documentation for managing it. (I often found, that excel based worksheets, though used extensively and sometimes for some really big stuff, are not accompanied by decent documentation)

I like to think, that when an employee doesn't perform well, there are three major sources of factors contributing towards that bad performance:
1) the employee
2) the management immediately above him/her
3) The top management which consiously or otherwise sets up the prevalent culture, which often can be an enabler or a disabler of performances.

In reality though, it could be a mix of factors from any one or more sources, in varying proportion.
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There were search engines before Google, and social networks before Facebook- Google had better algorithms, Facebook had a better UX.
There is an eminently sane reason, at least from the perspective of Apple's wanting to keep the switching costs of it's customers high. It may also be an aesthetic and design choice, but the primary function of the specialised dock connector is to prevent competitors from producing drop-in replacements for Apple devices and to raise the switching costs for committed apple customers. If you already have a dock connector in your clock/radio and in the dashboard of your car, you aren't going to switch to a usb based device for music or phone or casual browsing.
He's not even right- he's basically just made a Yahoo clone.
TechCrunch is neither a traditional news organization nor a tabloid. It really is a blog and practices what I heard Jeff Jarvis call "process journalism":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-jarvis/product-v-process-...

Basically he sometimes just throws something out there (eg angelgate) and sees what sticks.

Sometimes he gets stuff right and sometimes he gets stuff wrong.

Like it or not, TechCrunch is important in the startup world. Integrity is important in both the startup world and as a blogger/journalist.
What's the value proposition of an IPv6 address to any of (a) my mom, (b) a YC web app founder, or (c) a Fortune 500 company in the industry standard best-practices configuration of private non-routable addresses for internal hosts sitting behind a series of firewalls and proxies set up for policy reasons?

A customer use case for any one of these scenarios would be enlightening.
A radio transmitter for iDevices will use the audio out lines on the dock connector, whereas the USB cable purely breaks out data, as far as I'm aware, so they must be doing something different.
For what it's worth, I've had numerous Thinkpads (T23, T42, currently typing this on a T61) and suspend/resume always worked for me.

Not always right out of the box -- I had to research workarounds for video-related problems a few years ago.

Not always without problems -- on two occasions a wifi driver bug prevented the suspend from going through and my laptop spent a few hot hours in the backpack. (The Thinkpad survived that splendidly with no problems.)

Things are getting better all the time. Not monotonically -- there are regressions every now and then -- but in general more and more things work for more and more people.
There shouldn't be any reason for 4 different micro-USB standards when we already had usb-C!
Which begs the question, why are we forced to pay for something we would just return anyways?
No absolutely do not leave your six figure(!) job to do a startup. Your startup might fail and where will that leave you? Don't do it. Hang on to that job, get promoted, and increase your salary. Save your money very carefully and retire happy and well off in 30-40 years.

You can always work on your startup in your off hours. That way you can still keep the dream alive, yet safely in the realm of a hobby. Just make sure you never risk a lot on it, because you'll probably fail.
My opinion: White text on a dark background is really jarring and hard on the eyes.
Obviously there are at least four people smarter than me here, because I can't for the life of me figure out what in the world you're trying to say.
Can we have a bookmarklet or a sidebar, like bit.ly?
.... exhaustive communication, especially about details ..... and ....communicating. Not micromanaging, not ...

I agree with some of your points, but aren't the 'details" and 'not micromanaging' statments conflicting in what you say?
Looks good, Sam :)
The break-down is certainly important. They could choose to lump all military expenses together, or to break down social security into tiny bits. The results would look very different.
I think an LTS version of Ubuntu would be better than Debian, if you want longer upgrade cycles.

ZaReason and System76 are two vendors that sell laptops with Ubuntu. I don't know if they actively support Ubuntu upgrades for their hardware (in the sense of testing/fixing bugs).
Things should be grouped e.g. all military stuff with a subtotal in there.
I didn't say Facebook was going away, or that it wasn't big business, nor did I say Facebook is a fad. I said he rode a fad to fame, that means it was a fad and then it became something tons of people use as it fleshed itself out over the years. If you don't agree, then don't, I don't care; don't get all bent out of shape about it like I insulted your mother or something. I don't need to quote sources to state my opinion.
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They need to be grouped and have subtotals.
(The items on the left, the subtotals on the right).
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Oh yeah, I'd totally forgotten about the CAVE! I got to go in there once to play around. You forgot to mention another important part, which was that one of the "wands" was actually a headset that would track the user and change the perspective based on their head movements.

At least some applications worked that way. I'm not sure why, but the one I tried had a teapot rendered over my head and I could see the snout sticking out in front of my face wherever I went.
I built one too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745574
It reminds me of Living Social referral program:

After you buy the deal, you'll get a unique link to share. If three people buy the deal using your link, then your deal is free.
Well, leaf blowers are sold in South America too, but we have supermarket baggers like in the U.S.

Something odd is that gas stations over here are called "service stations", and we get our cars filled (no filling it yourself), oil checked and other niceties - it's so disconcerting for me going to an European gas station (went to one in Vienna).

Wikipedia once again surprised me with the depth of the article on Filling Stations:

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

I guess I'd only experienced full service stations before going to Europe.
It has the cost of being highly configurable. I could make the same font (Verdana) look much better on Linux than on Windows, by fiddling with dpi/hinting/subpixel rendering settings. And I could make it look worse. It was much easier to make it look worse. I had to spend a lot of time fiddling with the settings until I hit the jackpot.
Stack Overflow is at least obviously programming-related.
So only progressives want to know how much we spend in Iraq and Afghanistan? Depressing, if true.
I'm not sure how they got started (they've been going for years and years). I don't have an easy way to reach them right now to ask, but a quick Google came up with these which may serve as starting points:
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/find_a_job_in_antarc...
http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/jobsAndOpportunities/index.cfm?m...
They are in future dollars, so $1000 shown on your statement is $400 in 30 years from now, assuming inflation stays around 3%.
Two things after a quick scan of the page:

1) "Again, at every JPEG meeting the following resolution is also passed unanimously" appears to be saying each year they vote whether to continue or wether to reel in the bait. Tasty free morsels given by fisherman often turn out to have hooks attached.

2) It appears that one has to give up any patents that read on to a baseline spec for JPEG. This sounds like it could be bad for large multimedia companies who want to retain rights to an image format - what's the baseline. If the baseline is something like "uses huffman codes to compress image data" then this is going to be a potential huge cost in IPR given up.

These are possibly unfounded, just first thoughts at 2am.
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Yes I would, I have, and I will.

I always think back to Jeff Bezos's philosophy, which he calls the "Regret Minimization Framework" (see http://bijansabet.com/post/147533511/jeff-bezos-regret-minim...). He basically advises projecting forward to when you're 80 years old. Ask yourself if at that time, would you regret X? This helps you frame your decisions with more of a long term view of your world. Helps you forget about some of the smaller stuff (like financial security).

Also in most cases, you can always go back to your cushy job if needed.
Everyone should be critical of wars. I think there's a knee jerk reaction to label war critics as partisan, but questioning war really should be apolitical. I'm a veteran (go 10th Mountain!) and a Republican, and I'm critical of wars. I don't feel that we have a clear, achievable goal in Afghanistan, and I'm appalled at the complete apathy by the media and America public to the fact that we are at war, both taking and losing lives.
According to http://www.justice.gov/dea/agency/staffing.htm, we spent $2.602 billion on the DEA in 2009. That would make the naive figure $6.69. However the USA ran a $1.4 trillion dollar deficit. That means that fully 40% of federal spending was paid for by future debt, not taxpayer revenue. That reduces the figure spent on the DEA down to $4.015. As for the remaining difference, I suspect that the numbers don't count social security as a tax (officially it is not a tax, and officially money transferred from social security to the general revenue via purchases of treasury bonds is debt owed back to social security at some future point) which reduces the amount that comes out of your actual federal income taxes.

Furthermore the USA has some other forms of revenue. Such as tarriffs and fines. Put that together and I can believe that the figure given is reasonable.
Didn't NoSQL start in enterprise? Facebook used Cassandra, Google used BigTable, Amazon had Dynamo, etc?
I'm happy because my apps are about to get an insane amount of exposure.

I am rooting for you, but I hope your understand that if there are pages upon pages of similar apps in the app store, your effort has already been marginalized. Good exposure it good, but it must hit a home run, or you are going to be called out.
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> (Also, how to deal with children is not a good framework for how to deal with adults).

Also, how do deal with children is not a good framework for how to deal with slightly older children.

These people who treat high-school children (ie, teenagers) like elementary school children are just insane. They’re not, and it hurts everyone.
Why is a separate port a big deal? You could easily put a micro-USB port right next to an HDMI port, take up roughly the same amount of space, and still have a quasi-proprietary but just as easy to use cable that is just an HDMI cable and a micro-USB cable in the same sleeve.
To begin, I've never had a 6 figure job.

That being said: everything valuable in life comes at a great cost. Absolutely everything costs something. 6 figures should about cover that "great" cost.

Ask: what are you living for? To sustain or to see a world you've never seen before? If the latter is the case, start your company and never look back
Just as a note, HTC uses something called "ExtUSB" which lets them get extra pins (and therefore features) out of something that can still do normal USB functions (like charging, syncing, etc).

http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=ExtUSB
I agree completely with everything that you say.

Yet the problem now is if you spend all that time communicating, you still can't know for sure if everyone was listening or tuning you out half the time. More so if other people around you undercommunicate instead of overcommunicate.

Perhaps it is not the norm but I've seen this response to a few leaders who spend a lot of time communicating. Wonder if it is worth it, always
I always wondered why I had to pee afterwards.
"sudo do-release-upgrade" is the supported command-line upgrade method.
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Define: humanity?
I'm pretty risk averse and I would find it hard to leave a big salary like that to do something real risky. Fortunately for me, I don't make anywhere near that much and probably never will...unless I make it as an entrepreneur.

Some things to think about:
1) Are you really sure your job is secure and recession-proof?
2) Are you really sure your company is secure and recession-proof?
3) Starting your own company is one of the surest ways to get rich.

If I were in your shoes and asking myself such a question, I would take a good hard look at the company I was working for and the current economy and all that and wonder if maybe my urge to chuck it all and do something "riskier" was really a reaction to a subconscious feeling that maybe my position isn't anywhere near as secure as I superficially believe it to be.

I'm risk-averse/security-seeking but I hope to make it as an entrepreneur because I basically agree with sentiments (mis)attributed to Benjamin Franklin to the effect that the only real security is rooted in freedom.

HTH and good luck with your decision.
0. Because mediocre enterprise programmers can't manage complexity.

0.5. Because you can point fingers to Oracle when it crashes.

0.9. Because "No one was fired for choosing IBM".
You shouldn't get any kind of percentage differences in the color channels, at any size above 8x8 blocks in the image. If the entire image is offset that most likely shows a bug in your conversion process.
You've got a misplaced decimal in your calculations somewhere, as your numbers add up to less than 10% of what I put in.
I am just at the beginning of a bootstrapped company, and I just graduated too.

First: Get ready to eat a lot of ramen noodles, unless you have rich parents or something.

Second: Try to start making cash as quickly as possible. You'll need it!

Third: Praying. Lots and lots of praying...
And another one: you can upgrade 6.06 (a Long Term Support release) directly to 8.04 (the next Long Term Support release), but to get to 7.04 you had to do incremental upgrades to every intermediate release (6.06 -> 6.10 -> 7.04).
What hashing function they use?
This chart shows that the military, entitlements and interest on the debt account for over 80% of the budget. In other words, the things that are pretty much off limits when politicians discuss the budget.
Nice work Sam Odio and Paul Carduner (my former YC batch friends at Divvyshot).
It is http://www.yourtaxreceipt.org
The problem is, with every iteration of API changes that FB makes, existing entries in such a forum would go obsolete. This could just increase confusion.
hmm...so its like the opposite of the concept of a mall - where some people sell and others hang out.

this would be = where some people hang out and others sell

I wonder, which of the retailers won't adapt fast enough to this, lose out, wither and die because of this?

It does look like it can be a retail/sales game changer.
Being a multi-thread newbie (my wife says I have a one track mind), I actually enjoyed the article. However, it's pretty clear that there this is only one member of a larger class of algorithms related to multi-processing.

Is anyone aware of a good primer on the subject?

Generally speaking, it sounds like a lot of the divide and conquer CS algorithms could potentially use this approach, assuming other constraints (IO and network volume) aren't an issue...
It seems like a bad idea to differentiate between upper and lowercase case to me. I imagine most people reading a URL aloud would not specify the case.

Perhaps they have done some testing.
Maybe some colour categorisation + colour coding so it's easy to see how much different bits cost.
http://imgur.com/gxSxk

As you get more data you could maybe make it possible to drill down to get more detail too.
No, the song is not ironic. Alanis didn't know what the word ironic actually meant, and thought she did. That's just idiocy or ignorance, not irony.
I tend to disagree with what you said. If you have a lot to risk, want to risk a lot, and CAN handle risking a lot - do it.

It's all about the person in my eyes. I like the movie Rounders, so why not a little quote for everyone: "...if you're too careful, you're whole life can become a fucking grind..."
DEA's budget is much smaller than total spending on the "War On Drugs" (not sure how that number is calculated; spending against illegal drug manufacturing, distribution and consumption happens at many levels of law enforcement).

Their 2009 appropriations were $2.6bn.

http://www.justice.gov/dea/agency/staffing.htm
This particular truth hurts, so don't expect upmods.
Social security and medicare are "welfare" by any reasonable definition. So the welfare state is a big issue.
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StackExchange did something similar with their private beta where they asked you to embed an image and link to their site somewhere on the web. Clever SEO hack...
An important point. Also important: "critical" is not a synonym for "anti-".
Maintaining compatibility with iPod integrated cars has been one of the big reasons to stick with the dock connector. It's very expensive to upgrade cars with fancy new head units especially if you want things like steering wheel controls to continue working. Conservatively I'd say anywhere between $1-2k with a professional installation. Plus what's the alternative? I don't know of any standardized control system for micro-USB based players. I think Bluetooth will ultimately solve the integration problem.

The funny thing is over the same time period that the iPod has used one connector devices like cell phones have gone from proprietary connectors, to mini-USB, now to micro-USB. It hasn't exactly been a smooth ride. micro-USB was only announced in 2007 and wasn't widely deployed until 2009. Are we going to have nano-USB in 2 years and repeat the whole process yet again? I'm not arguing against standardized connectors but the mini/micro debacle certainly didn't help consumers much did it?
And, much like in the startup world: the protagonist goes through hell, nearly loses everything, and then pulls off an amazing feat of skill and luck, only to wind up essentially where he was at the beginning of the story.
I had no problem creating links about five layers deep:

http://goo.gl/87bM --> http://goo.gl/4P9R

http://goo.gl/4P9R --> http://goo.gl/7W5A

http://goo.gl/7W5A --> http://goo.gl/Wcsa

http://goo.gl/Wcsa --> http://goo.gl/qzcb

http://goo.gl/qzcb --> http://goo.gl/
I'm playing around with scraping, and one of the first things to do is parse the html.

I was just wondering if there was a standard way to parse it. Right now I'm using HtmlAgilityPack, but I'm not adverse to hooking into a third-party dll (or writing my own parser) if necessary. Just wondering what was out there.

As an example, today I ran into a website with opening <p> tags but no closing </p> tags

Wreaks havoc with the DOM on the parser I'm using. Before I start hosing around with that I was just trying to make sure I wasn't re-inventing the wheel.
They would just vote for transferring money from people making more than themselves into their own pockets.
I think for the "viral" launch page, there should be some vague information about what the site/product is about.

This was covered on HN previously, although misleading title.
"Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1697302
Why do exercises if we can't stay in shape?
The denominator should be tax receipts, not federal spending. Foreign countries and our Federal Reserve actually made large contributions this past year (both do every year we have a budget deficit and every year the money supply increases- this is most every year for the past few decades). This is not to suggest that Americans won't eventually pay for all of this year's expenditures, we eventually will. In the case of the Fed, consider the new money printing and subsequent spending by the Fed to be a tax on everyone that holds dollars at the time of the printing/spending.
or "do-release-upgrade -d" on a server or other command line environment. (emphasis mine)
I saw this comment yesterday and didn't take the bait, because I figured, hey, this HN, it'll find the faint grey bottom of the thread soon enough. I'm embarrased by what happened instead.
NoSQL has technical merits, but it seems to me like a good chunk of the interest in it is driven by distaste for SQL and the complexity of RDB systems in general. There are a lot of programmers out there who shudder at the thought of delving below the ORM, much less writing a stored procedure.

Big companies may be many things, but one thing they are not is afraid of RDBMs. Enterprises are filled with the kind of people who dedicate their lives to learning every in and out of Oracle or DB2. Not to mention that these are the people traditional RDBMs products are designed for. They just don't have the same pain points as startups.
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but at least he's not bored out of his fucking skull the entire time
Yes - I already did once (do not regret it one bit) and would probably do it again! I would like to know when I am old that I did at least try to create something of my own!:)
heh, I fixed it.
Any thoughts on this / ideas for expansion would be awesome
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Makes sense, but assuming that the $44bn figure in the Wikipedia article is correct I'm still wondering where the remaining ~$97 dollars are hidden. In "Military Personnel" and "Health Care Research"? I guess it goes to show that even with a fairly detailed list of expense positions, you still don't really know where your tax dollars go.
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I don't have a citation handy, but there's actually a lot of spending that isn't explicitly in the budget.