skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also vote for a plant, as the second mentioned name is Guava and there is

"The Chilean Guava (Ugni molinae, also called Myrtus ugni or Eugenia ugni)"

see: http://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/206.htm
While Javascript is better than nothing, I'm one of the few proponents left of a strong, lightweight, maybe standardized, plugin model. I'd rather write with an appropriate language for the task at hand.

If my site would best be served by Lisp, or Haskell, or Java, or Javascript, or C#, or Python... let me decide. It just feels like we've entered this world that everything has to be Javascript, if its appropriate or not.
Marc, I suspect writing an article like that might be kind of hard. Thanks for sharing your inside view.
Related: http://xkcd.com/327/
Going to chime in here. JavaScript: The Good Parts isn't just one of those crazy-useful technical books. It's also just good reading, if that makes sense.

It's also very short. A total breath of fresh air in an industry where so many publishers have a "bigger is better" mentality.
Sterile, pretentious, cold. As expected :/
Ask HN: Best place to start in San Francisco?
My partner and I are going to be leaving our current job and moving from NYC to San Francisco to join the startup community in December. We're looking to find a studio that we can share for around $1000 a month.

Does this sound reasonable? What areas do you guys recommend we check out? We're planning on staying with a friend when we get there while we check out places in person. How long does it take to find an apartment in december?

Also, any other advice about living in SF would be great. We're planning on using bicycles and public transportation to get around. Do you think we'll need a car?

A little more about us- we're two guys in our mid 20s working for a software company in NYC area. We like our jobs, but have concluded there's not much room for growth, and we'd like the freedom of working for ourselves. Any stories of other people doing the same kind of thing would be great!

Last thing- this is a throw away account, since we haven't yet told our employer that we're leaving.
Great to see some of the results of the divvyshot acquisition finally coming to fruition.
The essential point seems to be that Mint was easier for users. This is something we constantly emphasize at YC. You care a lot about your startup. You have no idea how little a potential user cares. So you can't let the activation energy be high.

Plus users are mostly not programmers. They're terrified by software. Most software they've tried in their lives has caused them pain, either by not working right or by being incomprehensible (which are indistinguishable to the victim).

So imagine you're designing your app for someone who's both apathetic and cringing with fear at the same time. You cannot make it too easy. If there's something you can do that will take a week and make your app 1% easier to start using, it's worth doing.
For some reason Yahoo has incredibly talented engineers, all working on things that don't make Yahoo any money

My observation was that that was because the divisions that did make money were a cesspool of internal politics, back-stabbing, and constant re-orgs and re-writes as different managers gained power. For a while Yahoo held onto some good engineers in those divisions by throwing lots of money at them, but in the long run I think that just enabled those engineers to negotiate fat compensation packages at other companies.
I know there are counter examples like Yahoo and Google that don't impact their name but I also have to mention

flickr
Dropbox (good name) didn't even own their own domain name for a long time.

The name has a valid impact, but it's not make it or break it. The people who saying "oh man if you switched names you would be ahead" are putting way too much into a name and not enough into a product.
If you are really interested, I highly recommend listening to this podcast episode:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/391/m...

They explain in detail how our system works, explain the origins/history of it, and also explain WHY it is so expensive. It's not a mystery, really, especially for anyone who is involved.

TL;TR: it's expensive because "medical professionals" are greedy: they do unnecessary procedures, hire and keep unnecessary bloated staff and, of course, they overcharge for everything. The probability of you being diagnosed with X goes up as the number of doctors specializing in X in your area increases (listen the podcast for source), that's because the assholes just can't stomach saying "there is nothing wrong with you" and letting profits fall. Besides, you can simply look around: there is no reason for doctors to be millionaires and drug sales reps to own aircraft. The system is expensive because capitalism in healthcare is nonsense: you get greedy assholes milking "customers" who are unconscious, scared or in pain.

What's annoying is that doctors enjoy the unexplained immunity from public anger. It's always the "evil" insurance companies and "big pharma", or government regulators, who are to blame, while its not uncommon for American doctors to make million+ dollars a year delivering results that are no better of their French counterparts. I invite you to a typical cancer clinic in the US, you'll face devastated people who are dying, and who are getting ass-raped by handreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills on top of having an insurance. Those poor folks are sitting in lavish doctor's offices furnished with the most expensive hardwood flooring money can buy, surrounded by mind blowing numbers of "support staff" who have nothing to do with medicine, yet they too need to get paid. For anyone who's ever been to one, question of "why our heathcare so expensive" has an obvious, straight, screaming in your face answer.

My personal solution is radical, simple and effective: ban drug commercials, introduce fixed salaries for doctors, and if someone's unhappy - GTFO, plus open visas for Indian/French/Canadian doctors who'll be more than happy to take their place. Yes, government is grossly inefficient, I know, but NOTHING can be worse that this mess we're in. The amount of money extorted from the public by "medical professionals" is just insane. I've worked for a semi-military contractor that was selling to the government, wasn't rosy, but not nearly as outrageous that this quasi-market monster of a healthcare we have.
They will actually send you a letter telling you "that maybe you shouldn't file in the future if you have no income". The problem is that in some states, you need to file anyway because of some state paperwork the requires a 1040.
> I think if the names are flipped - if your company was named mint.com, theirs wesabe.com, then quite possibly you win.

Whoa there, you're jumping to extreme, unsupported conclusions. No one disagrees that Mint's branding is great. But to count that as the main reason why they won? Even top 3-5 reasons? That flies in the face of the wisdom given by every successful startup veteran: it's all about execution. If Mint.com hadn't provided the instant gratification that got people talking, if they hadn't won TC50, if they hadn't spent heaps of money on marketing, they would have been dead in the water.

Don't get me wrong: branding is important. But if your product+marketing is inferior, you'll probably lose, and if it's superior, you'll overcome all but the most disastrous names. (Nobody knew what a googol was, most people still don't, and look who's running the show.) You're focusing on the name to such an extent that you're ignoring most of the factors that lead a business to success or death... it's like MBA guys who've never built a product in their lives, yet say things like, "Oh I'll just outsource it, it's not important." Yeah right.
Good to see even big businesses can act like humans sometimes :)
I agree, there will always be barriers in the way to diving in at the deep end with your own startup. The quicker you tear down the artificial barriers the better.
Back in summer, many of the Facebook photos face tagging features came from Divvyshot if I remember correctly.
Thought I might leave this feedback even if I am an odd one out in the case you might be interested. But the first way I read that was Less 'O N(a)uts.
A very nice of example of what you can do with social marketing, the companies that think having a Twitter account counts as a social media strategy should take note.
I like "bunse" from "bunsen burner" from "nice little earner", i.e. money.

But from googling just now, it seems it might not be a proper one.
There's at least one sample on OffensiveComputing.
Yeah, notice that the blog post was written by Sam Odio!
Also, anyone looking for boot/driver floppy images, they can be found here:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Flo...
and
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/OPENSTEP/Flo...
Yodlee MoneyCenter was a surprising discovery for me. Sure, I had head of them because of Mint, but I didn't know that they supported most Indian banks. I've been using them for some time and quite satisfied with it.
So the price is based on the value more than the cost. As the patent expires or competitors develop their HPV vaccines the price will fall.
I think capital expenditures is the start of why costs are so high. It is difficult to find a hospital these days that isn't currently renovating or expanding. Hospitals can spend however much they want because they have no pressure on their prices. The insurers don't care how much they are paying so long as it's comparable to other insurers. They can just pass along the increases to employers/individuals who are required to buy. The only pressure healthcare providers have comes from Medicare and Medicaid and whatever they lose there they can just shift to the private insurers.
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Not sure why the downvote, this is an honest question. What is the purpose of writing things off when you have no income, or so little income that you have no tax liability or the alternative minimum tax is enough to give you no liability?
It's different because you can alternatively decide to patronize Beta Insurance.

Don't take that as an argument that insurance is perfect, just as a response to your question about how it's different -- the reason people are more concerned when it's the government making decisions is that there's no recourse.
I don't feel the list of links are sabotaging the work at all, the author has stated that all the articles are still available in their original locations. The value in this has always been unique presentation and a print version, not in the article content.

That said their is some small value in content selection, which the links to some extent undermine.
This is well worth the money. A good CPA will sit down with you at tax time and walk you through everything they're doing. Even if you don't go back next year it does a lot to demystify the process, allowing you to procede more confidently with your own filings in the future.
My personal values match those of Bezos. I have also also lived by the regret minimization framework (although I never called it that).

I believe the only way to live is to live in the long term. Short term problems that trouble you at the present are exactly that, short term.

Could anybody recommend a good biography of his life?
lmgtfy should be used exclusively for bringing about a point for people who regularly annoy you with questions that turn up easily in first page of results for a simple single search query. Any other use is pretty dickish.
I love chalkboards. It's a tactile thing. They're more work to keep clean and slower to clean, but I keep a blackboard at home instead of a whiteboard.
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He thinks 35% of Mint's success was based on their name. That is exactly what he said and it seems like you're trying really hard to lay out some flame bait.
You mean $1000 total or each? If total it's probably on the low end and expect to pay more. Check craigslist to have an idea of price. You can get around by bike, public transportation or walking, but it's not a bad idea to either have a car or rent one from time to time to travel around the bay area. (highly recommended!)

As for recommendations of places, my advice is to stay with friends in the first days like you said, look around and see the places you like. You probably can rent a place in 1-3 weeks.
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2. There's a shortage of doctors in America, and qualified doctors from other countries are not allowed to practice medicine in the United States.

Are you sure about this? What do international comparisons say about physicians per capita in countries around the world?

It's conventional supply-and-demand economics to suppose that if there were more doctors, each doctor would make less money overall, and thus the services of each doctor would be cheaper for patients. But actually the economist Martin Feldstein, who conducted a study of the issue in the 1960s based on data from Britain and the United States (with two rather different systems of providing medical care to citizens), found out that generally doctors refer business to other doctors. So that as the number of doctors goes up in a society, the use of doctors' services per patient goes up, and thus overall societal spending on medical care goes up, as does spending per patient. What figures do you have about what is actually happening in different countries, and which countries currently have the best supply of comparable medical personnel?
Yes, the Alexander Technique is by far best known among musicians and actors, so much so that for many years it was thought of as an acting practice. (Of course Alexander himself was an actor and developed his technique while figuring out why he had lost his voice.) I think this is because these professions have a lot to do with how body and consciousness work together, and this is the area in which AT is very practical. To some people that might sound like gobbledygook, but when your profession depends on it you quickly go with what's practical.

The teacher I like best (who's in the San Diego area) told me that her dream was to get more athletes to realize how much they could get out of it.
We (i.e. society) have a history of overemphasizing purely genetic characteristics (beauty, birthing of male heirs, etc) when considering the "value" of women. The ugly girl at the dance metaphor seems designed to tap into that strain for some of its resonance.

Ironically, isn't this something MA is implicitly arguing _against_ in the substantive part of the post? That the single quality of price shouldn't be the only thing we consider in acquisition offers? His title metaphor seems at cross-purpose to his content.
Good point. It could well be that the files are named after plants the same way some people name their servers after colors or smurfs or whatever.
Making your logo clickable would help. Otherwise, looking forward to checking it out.
It worked for me, I think he fixed it.
At least the home page and login look really impressive, that's promising :) I'm eagerly reading your presentation now....
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Thanks. I'm naive - I thought it would mostly be of interest to friends and family. I was wrong, but I'm glad if it's helpful.
"There's plenty of people and organizations that will test proven safe drugs for efficacy for free or nominal cost once drugs hit market, and efficacy will get understood with time."

So if testing the efficacy of new drugs costs only a nominal amount of money, how would eliminating this requirement save us enough money to make it worthwhile? Also, if anything the market shows us that no one is willing to test the efficacy of drugs except for the drug companies. How many non-profit pharmaceutical companies are there, other than MAPS?
Yea, we were hoping for $1000 total, for a small studio. What price range should we expect to find?

Please keep in mind we have no idea what the neighborhoods are in SF, so please include that as well.
I can understand not liking that attitude, but that's as much Jersey Shore as it is anything else. It's not particular to the tech industry, it's not even predominantly in the tech industry. Take that comment I made, shop it around to 10 random techies, and then 10 random stock brokers on wall street. Which of the two groups do you expect it to resonate more strongly with?

Reiterated and refined: that comment is neither in poor taste, nor indicative of an attitude particular to the tech industry. It is not in poor taste because (I take this a priori) TechCrunch does not target an audience offended by remarks like that. And it is not indicative of an attitude particular to the tech industry because there are many other industries where that attitude will, on average, resonate more strongly (again, a priori).
You addressing the wrong side of the problem. The issue isn't WHO's paying, the issue is why so much? Have you seen some of the bills that folks without insurance are getting? Nearly every sort of surgery, no matter how trivial, wipes out most people's savings plus some.
Start right now.

That's what I tell everyone that says he wants to do something after they graduate. This goes for anything, not just startups/programming. The best time is now.
I've seen it suggested that you file taxes anyway:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_to_file_taxes_every_ye...
but at that point who cares if it's compiled or not?
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On the end of the video, the guy is using an iMac right beside a huge window. No way this would work.
Ask HN: Microformats - Still useful?
What happened to microformats? I was looking for a standard set of database models to use for contact info, addresses, etc… and I ran across them again.

http://microformats.org/

Their website is still there but it looks pretty quiet: Maybe a news blurb every few months or so. A few of the OSS projects I see implementing them are quiet since right around 2008-2009 as well.

I used to hear about them from time to time. I think there was some chatter that Google Chrome would be detecting them and parsing them out of web pages. It always seemed like a decent idea that maybe missed its chance. Has anyone here put them into their site lately? Anyone have any insight into what happened?
Summary:

People who wrote broken proxies and the administrators who deploy them have poisoned the use of pipelining for everyone and the internet cries a salty tear on every page load as a result. There appears to be no way to hold these entities accountable, so the best we can do is work around them from the end points…

1) Browsers should come with pipelining functional tests built in and run these at any network change to try to determine if they have faulty proxies in their path to the internet.

2) Servers should add an Assoc-Req: header to responses that identifies the request, e.g. "Assoc-Req: GET http://www.example.com/somereq?bar so clients can detect when the proxies or servers have misordered the responses coming back up the pipeline.

3) Servers should use the Content-MD5: header to detect corruption from defective proxies and network admins. (There is a trailer version for large dynamic content.)

4) There should be some HTML META and REL additions to suggest to the user agents which resources are low latency and are good candidates for pipelining. (You don't want to get your big dynamic query stuck in front of your flurry of IMG and SCRIPT loads.) Edit: This one would be nice even in the absence of broken proxies.
But then your site will only work with people who have installed the plugin that you depend on! That model doesn't seem like it would work very well to me, since there's no way every single browser will have support for 30 different scripting languages. There'd be a plugin-hell; it's much better if we all standardize on a language like we have.
Please help me understand what those appealing features are. I am not being snarky. My wife is currently trying to get me to consider moving back there because everything is cheaper. Sure, it's cheaper: it is, as far as I am currently concerned, a less desirable place to live. Being from California, I'm clearly snobbish. So seriously, what am I missing about the Chicagoland area? Keep in mind: I'm used to nice weather, beautiful and varied natural environment, and a distinctive culture. And thin people.
'Wesabe' sounds like a foodie's blog... if you know what 'wasabi' is, in which case you might think the spelling should be 'wesabi'. If the 'wasabi' connotation isn't triggered, you might think the 'a' is long and 'e' silent, 'we-sayb'.

'Wesabe' is a passable name for something mostly discovered by reading or direct links, but a big drop from 'Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, Google' (for syllables/familiarity/multiple ways to pronounce&spell), and each of those is one notch below 'Mint'.
From the article:
When we talked to Yodlee in 2006, the company was crumbling, having failed to get acquired and losing executives. They were also very aggressive in negotiation, telling us they would give us six months' service nearly free and then tell us the final price we'd be charged going forward.
--

This is pretty disturbing to me. It seems what Marc and Wesabe did was the right thing to do to not trust Yodlee HOWEVER, it also appears that the user doesn't care a damn.

How do you handle such situations?
Yes, it's a great (re-)introduction, that doesn't try to cover every unusable corner of the specification and isn't apologetic about the bad parts.

This might sound weird or blasphemous, but programming in Javascript – whether it's in the browser or with node.js – feels a lot like C programming. Not in a way that it's close to the metal, but that you can do a lot with the whole system and there's not a lot of environment that you're dragging along with you (cf. Java/Python/Ruby). It's definitely not a polished marble statue, but it's a pretty handy chisel.
If you are trying to save money, you should consider living in Mountain View, San Jose, or the east bay. Living in the city is fun and will be the most like NY (you won't need a car), but it will also be more expensive. I know people who live in Mountain View and Palo Alto who get by without a car, but it is harder. There is also not nearly as much fun stuff to do outside of the city, but that also means less distractions from your start-up.

Good luck with your start-up!
While I agree execution is important, it actually doesn't matter if no one can remember your products name or website. I could see how a name could break a company regardless of how good the product is. Why did I choose mint? Because it was the site that I actually remembered months after discovering it.
But it's a lot better than "Wesabe". "Wesabe" looks like "wasabi", which is completely irrelevant. (You can pull off irrelevance if you spell the name right--"Apple"? But misspelling plus irrelevance is pretty bad.) And I don't know how to pronounce it. How do I tell my friends about it? Google doesn't sound like anything (except "googol", which trivia buffs and nerds know is a large number but is otherwise unknown) and you know how to pronounce it, even before it got popular.
This is saying why they are changing the Privacy Policies (they are deleting product-specific Privacy Policies and using the Main Privacy Policy), the actual policy is here:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy_2010.html
I'm going to use this opportunity to plug Google Apps Script, an awesome server-side JavaScript platform.

http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/
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I emailed Jacob @ NPR (article writer) as well as the paper authors, share stats if you would as they come in -