skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but your argument boils down to you not wanting to see the other side of the debate.

What you're saying doesn't change the fact that the resource is limited. The question is can the limited resource be stretched to accommodated everyone and if so can government create a more efficient distribution method to harness that resource. Because if either of those things aren't true than your "need-based" distribution is going to leave as many if not more people without treatment (it will just be richer people)

That's the debate: Is it possible to give high quality health care to everyone?

You stating that there are enough resources as a certainty is just arrogance on your part.
Do you need a website? If so, we have a trade. Contact me. I can use some new Glamour Shots immediately. Seriously.
Tell HN: Avoid double posting to HN by searching before posting
I sometimes make the mistake of double posting an article usually having similar content but from a different urls.

Now I use http://searchyc.com/ to search before I post and would recommend you too.

Thanks to chengmi and alaskamiller for creating this awesome tool.
By the way, here is the Wikipedia article for the man in jail for failure to pay taxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Anderson_%28tax_evader%2...

[Edited: had said "friend" which was incorrect]

tl;dr

He admitted to reporting only $67,939 in a year he made $126 million. He further admitted to hiding a total of $365 million.

[Edited: hadn't included the $126 million detail for the year he under-reported]
Hey, everyone, Jason Scott (the textfiles.com guy) here.

Just wanted to address that reocities.com has even more than I do, and more than what's in the torrent. If you want to browse geocities, like ye old days, go visit reocities. This data release is never meant to be "all of geocities" just "a lot of geocities" (and all I have).

I am ALL for a 2.0 from jacquesm. :)
I never understand this generality, when the US stands as the only 'developed' nation without universal health care?

In Canada we have universal health care, and it works reasonably well. Some would argue waiting lines and all that, I've never experienced them to be that bad, I live in a large urban center (Vancouver) and have found the services to be exemplary.
Did PJ write that? It's not attributed, but didn't quite seem to be her style.
Rebalancing, ala StarCraft 2?
There are substantially more women than men on eHarmony. The paywall really keeps out the riff-raff.
This isnt answering your question but i've got a quick suggestion for you dev wise.

Cache those images on your front page, then stitch them together into a big sprite and then use CSS to display the specific image from the sprite. It'll greatly decrease the load time on that page.

Ref: http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/
Seriously? Flagged because your machine can't handle silverlight?

Perhaps everyone should also comment that a link to youtube uses Flash and it may also slow down your system.
2k = 95% of what you'll ever need.

FWIW browser differences are always vastly overplayed by 'framework' developers.
MLS data has a lot of red tape attached to it that I learned the hard way. Send me an email and I may be able to catch you up on how that all works. It took me a while to figure out a legal way to get that data.
Women have to play a numbers game, too. If they go for the same guys the other girls go for, they won't get time with the guy, or they'll get time with a guy who is dating a bunch of other women. Women figure this out pretty quickly. Your model of how women behave would result in a lot of frustration for them unless they're happy being some generic stud's Tuesday night girl.

Hence, if you're looking for an intelligent woman who wants a monogamous relationship, she'll be looking for a good individual match with a guy who has time for her, and she'll be looking for ways around the numbers problem. That means playing up what makes you different, and being good at targeting yourself to the right women. I'm not a catch by any means, but I had a pretty good response rate on Match.com, to the point where I worried that I wasn't casting a wide enough net. I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I'm very honest and try to communicate as much of my personality as possible through my ad, even the aspects of my personality that aren't universally liked. That's how you hook into women's individual taste and how you help them solve the numbers problem. (That's not the same as putting your worst foot forward; I don't advertise things about myself that nobody would like.)
Calendar app support for meet-up schedules
Anybody know of a calendar app that supports repeating events on "the last Friday of the month"?
I can say from experience that it does. As long as you create a valuable, interesting (i.e. not boring) video, it will not only increase conversion but it will rank you higher on Google search results. Video headlines are also very important. Think about them as a free way to A/B test on YouTube without paying adsense money. Similar videos with different headlines lets you find out the right words to sell your product.

I don't have the exact numbers to share, but video converted at least 200 sales the past couple of months at Keynotopia.
It's a great summary of libertarian perspective on government.
I wish more people could understand it and made the government to cut spending.
I think if you're not embarrassed by the code you wrote ages ago then you're not improving.
I went macrobiotic 4 months ago, which is similar to paleo in some ways sans the meat part (not an expert in either so this generalization might be somewhat off?) and with no other changes to my life I went from 165-168 lbs to 148-152 lbs.

It was pretty amazing since my metabolism has definitely been less efficient than when I was younger. (I'm 36)

The key thing for me was probably not eating processed food, as I had trouble eating only few potato chips or crackers.

It took a couple months for the cravings to go away, but now the thought of eating that kind of food is kind of disgusting. Now 70% of my shopping is at my weekly farmers market.

Disclaimer: I'm 99% macrobiotic. Every couple months, when I happen to be around it, I'll have a piece of bacon and eat it really slowly, savoring every bite.
If your previous employer had to replace you then there was no saving, also there may have been recruitment fees to get a new employee
Re : costs almost always are greater than the benefits

Perhaps you can argue this on a case by case basis, but do you think this is still true if you have to take or leave all service at once?

As evidence that the costs are worth the benefits I submit the fact that you (perhaps not you in particular but any citizen of a country who makes this claim) haven't renounced your citizenship for that of another, better cost-benefit ratio, country.

Incidentally, I think that if many government functions were privatized you would be paying a (much) higher rate than you are now since you've already shown the willingness to pay the current rate. That combined with the fact that there rarely if ever is competition in large scale services like those the government provides. As evidence, take a look at any large scale private contractor industry like construction or defense/aerospace.
Having just dealt with the London Congestion Charge rapists^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsystem, I can definitely relate.

In terms of abject inefficiency combined with application of plain and simple force, consider the London Congestion Charge system. They built a system whereby you are charged a fixed fee (supposed to be £8) if you drive into the congestion charge zone at all during the hours of 7am and 6pm. It's £8 if you pay it on the same day. It's £10 if you pay it on the next day.

After that period, you are now officially a war criminal of the road, and penalised with a whopping £120 fine (reduce to £60 if you pay promptly). Later, it turns into £180, and then more...

No problem, you say, I'll just make sure I pay all my charges on the day. Ah, ok, but how do you know you've got to pay a congestion charge today? Turns out there's no way of checking. The Congestion Charge systems won't tell you whether you should pay or not. The only time when they'll tell you you need to pay is when they send you a penalty notice. I asked one of their agents about this, he suggested it was best to pay if you were in any doubt, "because the penalty is so much more expensive".

This is somewhat akin to going to the supermarket, filling up your trolley, going to the checkout, and being asked to guess how much you should pay. "If you guess too little, we'll penalise you by charging you 1200% of the price of what you bought, so make sure you don't guess too low."

I find such a system morally reprehensible. It is a vile abuse of power and the people who voted in, designed and built such a system are soulless scumbags. But because it is a government system, rather than a business, there is nothing I can do to take my business elsewhere (other than move to another country of course, but that will have its own sets of tradeoffs).

The greek have a saying that "if you're not stealing from the government, you're stealing from your family". Like John Carmack, I don't go that far. But I don't support any expansion of government powers or responsibilities whatsoever. The less the government does, the better (within reason of course).

Yet, despite this, I still think it's a good idea for the government to intervene when it comes to fundamental things like road maintenance, the fire service, healthcare, or a criminal justice system. The government should do no more than handle the fundamentals, but a government which fails to handle the fundamentals is even more of a disaster than one which handles too much.
If at all possible, use the resources at your local university for these kinds of reports. Pay the kid next door for access if you have to, the databases most universities have access to are pure gold. They're usually set up through the schools library so poke around on their site to see what kind of information they could provide you. Although there are certainly free ways to piece together your market research, the amount of detail in professional reports are well worth it.

In fact just send me an email and ill dig up what I can through my own school.
I am in favor of a huge cut in government spending. Unfortunately I know of no politician that thinks that way and has a chance in hell of getting elected.

Republicans like to talk about cutting government spending yet they never actually do so and in my lifetime they have dramatically expanded the federal government.

Democrats are more than willing to cut expensive programs but they want to replace them with other expensive programs.

Over the last few years both party's increased government spending on healthcare, yet somehow the Republican's approach (prescription drug plan) ended up costing more for a smaller benefit? Who exactly should I vote for again?
The Benefits of Thinking Small
And Moonlight can't play it.
From a gov services standpoint, the ROI in general has been low. Focusing just on the investments; defense, social security and medicare are the biggest resource hogs and hence where the spotlight should focus. Unfortunately, these three areas are political hot potatoes with massive entrenched interests. Republicans are always fighting defense cuts and dems are always fighting soc sec cuts.

So I dont buy into the "small gov" argument unless someone starts addressing the big resource hogs.
I was under the impression that there was a Silverlight client for Linux.
Thank you for the great feedback, I'm trying to improve the design and try to find a way to make the site advantages stand out. Thanks
30% to 70% CTR is nearly impossible. You can only get it in very specific cases.

1.5% CTR is pretty good for Adsense. If you can get it up to 5%, consider yourself lucky.
They probably realize that linux/osx devs will look at their stuff and laugh out loud at its lameness.
4 kids and 1 year into a startup here. It is not easy. If you don't have the support of your wife (and you want to stay married), don't even try. You have to prioritize very well, and force yourself to take breaks for your family. You don't want to be absent for a year or more of your kids life, you'll never get that time back. You'll also need a more income or savings to cover basic expenses. It is a very difficult balancing act.
Obligatory clickable:

http://fstr.net
sure just google 40% efficient solar, and then replace 40% with 50% 60% 70% 80% and then actually try to buy one.
The home screen is where I "do stuff," like make wall posts. It is not intuitive to go someplace else to upload photos into an album.
I really liked OKC when I was using it and think it's one of the best dating sites, but I have something of an anti-OKCupid story:

I met my current SO in person, at a party. It turns out that we have opposing political and religious views (we're both fairly moderate, so we're not polar opposites, but we do categorize ourselves as Dem/Rep, Atheist/Christian). Personally, I'm a little surprised that things have worked as well as they have, given that, but love is mysterious.

Surprisingly, we discovered that we were on OKC at exactly the same time, but due to the above discrepancies our match percentages were so low that we never saw each other. I'm not sure what moral one should take away from that, other than that your mental checklist of dating requirements may be less relevant than you imagined.
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
It works in OSX fine, though I get your point. Honestly though, I don't think Microsoft is too interested in attracting Linux devs.
http://budget-democracy.org/ Tax should be managed by those who vote.
javascript lacks a static type system which makes it fairly impractical for mission critical reliability you expect from your cell phone.
I've been on mine for almost 3 years, pulling in 40 hours a week on top of a full time job. I haven't launched (I will in a few months), but I've built up a base of 1000 users, all through sweat and blood. It's hard, it has it's up and downs, but it's a thrilling ride no matter how it plays out.
Hardware Will Cut You (a guide to producing hardware devices for hackers)
Yes, higher is better because it gives you a tighter bound when searching for Big-Theta: ie. if your algorithm is in O(2^n) and the previous lower bound was Omega(n^2), and someone proves a lower bound of Omega(2^n) then you know the problem is in Theta(2^n) and you can stop looking for a faster algorithm.

It's worse in the sense that the problem takes more time to solve than if someone had found an algorithm in O(n^2).

EDIT: spelling
HN: Please help me make this (or tell me if it exists)
A small device to plug a phone landline into that also runs Asterisk and accepts SIP/VoIP phone registrations over a WiFi. Couple this with an iPhone VoIP app and iPhone now replaces a home phone.

For an extra bonus allow the SIP app to connect to the home LAN over the Internet (and I am willing to jail break my phone for this).

PS. Don't want a service like MagicJack, but rather a standalone hardware device.
Actually, double posting isn't too bad. It may give articles another shot at making it to the front page.
Don't believe the notion that making 100 websites that earn $1 a day is easier than making 1 website that makes $100 a day. It's not.

Create value, make users want to stick around, iterate, grow.
Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures
I think the main driver in the recent massive expansion in the US government is that we've abandoned raising taxes and switched to just borrowing from a seemingly endless supply of money. Without that check in place there is no limit on the growth of the government, and as John says there is always _something_ that _someone_ truly believes needs more money (like space flight?).

I've always thought it would be interesting to put the following process in place: the congresspeople who vote for an appropriations bill need to meet and then physically count out money using $10,000 bills, one bill at a time. Then, maybe an extra 700 million dollars attached to a bill would have some real meaning.

(You couldn't use real money of course, you can't trust a politician with that many unmarked bills).
This is going to sound a little trite, but it's only a failure if you didn't learn from it.

Typically my list of failed projects informs my pitch about the next one. "My next project is more interesting from my past projects because in my past attempts I learned x"

People often understand taking knowledge from one experience and applying it to the next one. And I would argue that's what you should be doing if you want to better your chances of success.

Your path, your experiences, all tell a story and inform your future projects. It's up to you to make that a positive story.
Yeah, I think is there to catch F#, VB.net and asp.net. But then, there should be a JVM option, where clojure and scala fits better than in other.
Most of the income taxes in America are paid by a small minority. Most people probably wouldn't have a problem with a $500/year Antiterrorism bill, as long as someone else has to pay it.
There's no way to tell the difference between one person selecting three choices and three people selecting one each. A running tally of the number of users who have upvoted at least one answer would be helpful.
Congrats on the site and getting started on a project.

How are you driving visitors to the site currently?
Again this is getting into the actual debate which I think is more complicated than people make it out to be but I think it is possible to provide baseline care and I think the U.S. should do that. Where you see a constraint on resources is in specialty areas and you hear stories all the time of people with specialized ailments coming to the U.S. and spending money for treatment.
it's not asterisk, but here's an iphone app for magicjack SIP: http://blog.javachap.com/index.php/how-to-make-voip-calls-on...
It's pretty clear he has a few misconceptions about economics.

First of all, maximum efficiency happens when people are out of work. So, however inefficient a government job might be, so long as something gets accomplished, it's less inefficient than one alternative. In times of low unemployment, we might say that government inefficiency is the problem since it crowds out private investment, but currently there is a worse problem. Unless you're competing with the government to hire people (and how many companies do that?), you don't lose anything when the government puts people to work.

Yeah, but they're spending tax dollars, right? Well, the only reason the government has to collect taxes is to prevent inflation. It's not because they need the money (the Fed can always create more money). It's to offset the inflation caused by government spending. (This is quite similar to a MMORPG where you need to control the sources and sinks.) We can talk about better ways to drain the system that would provide for better incentives and more interesting economic activity, but there have to be sinks somewhere, or money loses its value.
The Minimum Viable Product Dissected
Honestly, PDC isn't a show to win over Linux devs. It's really geared to developers using MS tools today. For example, there's virtually no, ".NET from 0 to 60" or "An introduction to ASP.NET MVC".
, etc

I mean, I even explicitly mentioned Ettercap, which does ARP spoof. Is there a way I could have made that clearer?
I guess it comes down to what you mean by "quality", but Canada has pretty good health care provided by the government (we call it "universal" here, but I suppose we should precise our definitions).
Is that really how you read it?
As a Windows Azure customer who has been a bit frustrated lately, I am actually excited to see how much progress they have made.

It seems there are a huge number of features that are going to be released this year. Remote Desktop access is HUGE. Also the Role management system updates look great.

My faith in Azure has been renewed :)

Edit - Apparently I'm not allowed to be excited about a microsoft product?

Well let me just get this out there then. I love C#, ASP.Net MVC and Windows 7.
A long story about MLF, part 1: Introduction, ML
You mean like on Star Trek, where they abolished hunger, poverty, disease, and began exploring the galaxy?
why is it divided equally?
Product differentiation would be an obvious next step:

- Start growing a player community(which is how Kongregate works)

- Place more extreme filters on quality or genre(this is the basis of sites like physicsgames.net).

- Invest in some exclusive content. This is expensive and probably a bad idea at the early stage, but the fastest way to get started is to go onto FlashGameLicense and browse the stuff that's up for bid or auction.

I would suggest taking some time to figure out your focus before you go too deeply into the site optimization, else you'll build the wrong thing.
Hello,
I would probably make a very poor candidate, but I wanted to ask this - the question gives a 1TB hard drive, and fills it literally to the brim with 4 billion sets of 256 bytes. And then you say that 4 or 5 years ago this relied on some sort of distributed system, but now it can be done on one box. What changed? If the drive is one terabyte, and is used to store exactly one terabyte of data, aren't you going to need to put your database overhead somewhere? Am I completely misunderstanding the question? I find it interesting though. It's an easy problem without the storage space limitation. With it, it's fascinating. Are we thinking to compress the values and/or the keys? Or am I off the mark?
When did it suck?
Consider monetizing with game related affiliate programs. There are lots of toolbars, gaming sites that pay $1-$3 CPAs which will improve your eCPM.
Right, I just remembered about the MagicJack. From what I understand it seems to be a service, rather than a product, isn't it? And it also won't work without an Internet connection.

That's an interesting read by the way. Pretty damn good for a "weekend project" :)
Get to know Mac OS X's built-in security features
Not to people who read HN, certainly, but just judging from behavior, it's something that's totally lost on a lot of people (even people who ought to know better). There's a weird assumption of nonexistent privacy when people use their computers; a fair number of users seem not to grasp that using the Internet at Starbucks (or at a hotel, or in an airport) is very different and much less secure than using it at home.

Trespassing into an apartment building seemed a bit gratuitous and creepy, though, and might distract from the lesson (by making people think they can really improve their security by being on the lookout for nerds tailgating them in the door). I think the point could have been made just as well by sitting in a coffee shop, or checking into a hotel with free Internet access for an evening.
Another thing to add re: age is that the father's age generally tracks the mother's age, (plus a constant) and that is optimized downward. Even women who are 25 show a decrease in fertility and increase in birth defects over those who are 20.
I don't think Oracle particularly cares about the Java brand.

The Java brand was important to Sun because in recent years its value had eclipsed the value of the Sun brand, to the extent that they even renamed their stock ticker 'JAVA'. They poured resources into Java and Java-related projects because it was all that was keeping the ailing company relevant.

Oracle has no such problem with its brand. The company hasn't a great reputation as a philanthropist, and you have to look at what Oracle can get out of its ownership of Java. Those things are (a) exploiting the Intellectual Property, and (b) maintaining support for Oracle's own Java products.

Being a 'good steward of the language' is only important if it serves one of those two goals: i.e. if it improves Oracle's products, helps existing paying Java licensees, or creates opportunities for Oracle to license Java IP.

I'm not sure this is a healthy way for a programming language to be maintained.