skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's not quite true. If interest rates change only rarely, then you can plan. "If I save I will get this much interest", "if I get a mortgage, it will cost this much" and so on. There's value in that predictability. Once you take that away you force people to hedge their bets against uncertaintly and that increases the cost of every transaction. This manifests itself as "economic slowdown", e.g. "I won't do this thing I planned, because I need to put some aside in case my costs go up".
Your numbers for finance, consulting and application programming are far too low (in London at least). With C++ and experience of derivatives you could clear 6 figures + bonus on top of that. As a consultant/contractor, you could certainly get close to 6 figures (tho' with no benefits/bonus).
Is that a public framework, or something that you guys wrote internally?
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Yeah, my dad, a family practice physician for 20 years, would confirm this. His monthly overhead costs (in a tightly run physicians' group) are mind blowing and he has working hours and a sleep schedule that would stupify this 25 year old. He could work a quarter of the hours and make more money just doing ER work, but feels an obligation to his patient base. But there are many other doctors making that choice or choosing lucrative niche specialties, and who can blame them? There's almost no economic and lifestyle incentive to become a general practitioner anymore.

Also, any time you have a complicated system that no one believes in, people are going to try to game it. So you have some doctors billing Medicare these huge sums for a patient coming in with a runny nose, and this further discourages the honest doctors.
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Their form validation is nice:

@validate(over18 = nop('over18'),
uh = nop('uh'),
dest = nop('dest'))
Online Lead Generation Gaining Importance 
"The vast majority of company respondents (82%) and agency respondents (85%) expect online lead generation to be more important to their own or their clients’ organizations over the next 12 months."
What's interesting is that he would face less time if he hit one of the witnesses with his car "accidentally" and killed them. Justice!
There's a clearer explanation of what he did here: http://www.algonet.se/~sirius/eaae/aol/market/collabor/erath... and this is a nice experiment to do yourself.
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(print "Hello world!")

Seems to me as simple as it can get...
So you're not part of Ars itself but a consultant to them?
If they register the domain from you and you operate the DNS server, then you have the information to make changes for the user. I think that is what google does.

If the users own their own domain via a third party, you can not modify their DNS record unless they gives you their account. Or user can transfer domain to you.
The Team, Part I: Who do you need, and when do you need them?
One of the ways to do that is asking the government to ease the inmigration policies for programmers.
If they want they can come and work in the British NHS. A good GP here can get £100,000 a year. Of course you'll have to put up with the MRI taking weeks unless it's an emergency but it seems better then what that doctor suffered.

I think the biggest difference here is that although people in the UK moan a lot about the National Health Service they do respect the doctors and staff and value their input to society. Who doesn't benefit from feeling respected and valued?
This article fails to mention what the increases were in a similar time period before the law. Also, wouldn't you expect the highest achievers not to increase much since they are already at the top?
Do you know any idea investors?
Does anyone else think that if you're going to put up a page like that (as the hosting provider), you don't want to brand it?

Like, it's one thing to put up such a page and piss off a current customer. It's another thing to proudly display your logo telling all visitors not to host with you.
I'm always left stunned when I read about the achievements of Eratosthenes. I've always wondered why he doesn't get the same recognition as Plato or Aristotle, or even Socrates.
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Error with processing of xml: java.lang.Exception: Failed to process [/ElectronicTelegraph/ETJhtml/ETXml/content/earth/2008/06/18/scicanc118.xml] with [/ElectronicTelegraph/ETJhtml/ETXsl/portal/earthbyline.xsl] - File "file:///ElectronicTelegraph/ETJhtml/ETXsl/portal/earthbyline.xsl" not found.
" I've always wondered why he doesn't get the same recognition as Plato or Aristotle, or even Socrates."

His name is hard to pronounce :-)
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No, you're not. Though I'm getting almost as sick of the "this belongs on reddit" comments as I am of the stories which belong on reddit, which I guess just means I'm getting sick of this site entirely.
I've always wondered why he doesn't get the same recognition as Plato or Aristotle, or even Socrates.

Very likely because most of his works were destroyed when the Library at Alexandria was razed, and because he wasn't considered the best at any single subject by his contemporaries.
Where did you get this info? Are they selling the small pieces that aren't open source?
'Techies high on snooping'
Not all stories with the word "police" in the title are reddit bait.
I'm not sure that will help at all, since the only mechanism the government has to evaluate a programmer is whether or not they already have a job with a local company, and if they do then the company will sort their visa anyway.

To be truly meritocratic, we'd need a means to not only allow but attract engineers (of all sorts) based on talent. At the moment a mediocre engineer from a country that has historical ties with us will find it easier to immigrate than an excellent engineer from a country that doesn't. Which seems a bit counterproductive to me.
Couldn't they find more than one guy to interview for this article? One guy who happens to be a friend of the writer?
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I love the "IBM USB Optical Scroll Travel Wheel Mouse" (search ebay with those terms to see what I mean). $1-2 each (I buy them by the dozen and spread them around liberally to friends and family; when they wear out (scroll wheel gets sticky or clunky) I just throw them out like a used-up pencil).

Wonderful, small, responsive mouse with smooth scrolling. Works on any machine. (I use them with Macs as I'm a fanboi.)
PriceGrabber: 54% of Online Consumers Don't Plan to Purchase an iPhone
If . . . Then Thinking [Productivity]
This article, while greatly interesting, isn't really hacker news. Unless we're talking about really, really sloppy doctors.

Perhaps this would fit better at reddit instead.
If you're in a competitive industry, I'm not sure how much effect this will have. The Quality Score only effects your minimum bid settings. For example, most of my minimum bids are $0.05 and I'm bidding $1.50 a click. Even if my load times are a bit slower than my competitors, I can't imagine they will send my minimum bids to $1.00. Even if they send them to $0.25, I don't think it will have much impact (hopefully).
Either he was not as prolific in the first place, or not as many of his writings have survived to this day. Sadly most of our views of ancient historical figures is plagued by the same myopia.

The ticket to lasting fame may not be just success, but may instead be a combination of success and luck in having your works preserved for generations.
I dunno, I heard about Eratosthenes long before I heard about any of them.

Then again, it is probably just the nature of their respective fields. Those three were philosophers, their ideas were applicable to politics and everyday life in their own time and every time since.

Physical science is a comparatively narrow field with regard to application. It was only recently that we realized how practical it really was.
Do you have a way I could pull some of that data? I have an idea I'm looking to build soon and this information would be invaluable. Would you mind chatting more via email? jdennis at gmail.
Probably not such a good idea. We can barely find enough positions for the doctors trained in this country.
And just when I thought I had read everything there was about cross browser compatibility.

This is definitely as saver. Thank you.
Rich, you're seriously some kind of linguistic superhero. Or maybe like the Monty Python version of the Spanish Inquisition. Either way, it's impressive.

This:

As far as numbers, recent enhancements allow Clojure to
produce primitive arithmetic with the same speed as Java,
but with a more-powerful, macro-amenable syntax."

Just blows me away.
There was plenty to steal, if you knew where to find it, and a dearth goods only increases the motivation.

In the former Soviet States, crime of all sorts was very low. You'd of had to have been really desperate to brave the Soviet police; and the secret police.
But this is hacker news. This is screaming business opportunity. If you can create a service to remove the hassle of running a practice, you're golden.
No they didn't, they ran on thyme.

Sheesh, some people. ;)
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Readers of this post might enjoy this: http://www.openeducation.net/2008/03/10/several-lessons-to-b...
text ads >> interstitials

(thank FSM for adblock and flashblock)
One reason is that Eratosthenes' very own library of Alexandria had been destroyed, and there was no complete backup of its data.

Imagine how much different the world would be today if the Egyptians had practiced disaster recovery.

(Also a good lesson for a few customers of mine.)
Conservatives might anticipate with pleasure a system where the policeman is also judge, jury, and executioner, but I would dredd it.
Found! An actual Amazon Kindle user
Yahoo Revives 'Rocketmail', Adds 'Ymail' To Expand E-Mail Pool
I find it remarkable that they somehow claim that it's doing a disservice to the high achievers that they didn't increase as much in their results. It's not as if they were disadvantaged, EVERYONE improved, so it's hard to see how this will spell doom for the competitiveness of the nation. This wouldn't be an example of the (white male) high achievers feeling threatened, would it?

That is, if you think that the NCLB indicators measure something tangible and important...
Yep, great content for sure and there's good remarks in the comments too. Most of the stuff I'd say I'm aware of but the Safari text opacity trick is new to me.

Side note: The site was down temporarily and redirected to the hosting provider who advertises "unmetered bandwidth" in their tag line, yet can't support a minor influx. :\
Something Is Rotten In Denmark: The A.P., NYTimes and MBA Love Triangle
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There's been lots of discussing on RSI, as you can imagine. Wrist curls, learn to mouse with both hands, ... Unfortunately, not an easy term to search in searchyc.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199493

oh, yeah, i use the new-shape wired optical logitech mouse. $19, fits both hands pretty well. The only thing is cursor accelerates/scrolls funny in OS X, so i use the mighty mouse, which i'm not too fond of.
Nice article. I liked this quote: While “the U.S. holds teachers accountable for teaching” in Finland “they hold the students accountable for learning.”

Just one of the many examples of how government policy goes in the opposite direction of science and empirical results.
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> I find it remarkable that they somehow claim that it's doing a disservice to the high achievers that they didn't increase as much in their results.

Yes, it is a disservice to high achievers and to society as a whole. Bringing the more intelligent ones down is fine, as long as you don't need anybody to cure cancer or invent the Internet.

> This wouldn't be an example of the (white male) high achievers feeling threatened, would it?

By attacking white males you're making HN a worse place for me, a white male. Stop with it.
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My boss has one. He loves it. He tells me it's a pleasure to wake-up and have the newspaper loaded onto it every morning. What I see here is not so much an easy way to carry lots of books around, it's a way to sync your reading life with your automated life.
Obligatory non-Scribd link:

http://www.zedshaw.com/repository/rubyenrails2008/build/ruby...
This is very rare - a title that has been way overused ("{x} mistakes {y} make") - but still very helpful and original. If you're hesitant that this is yet another worthless list of fluff, it isn't.
Has Google figured out how to make money from YouTube? Cit: $500M in 2009

Nothing fancy here: Just shoving lots of display ads on lots of pages.
I have one, and I love it as well. I have a hard time committing to read long things on my computer -- I now just put it on my kindle, and when I'm away from my computer, I can focus and really read the articles.
sorta but like I don't want to make it as complicated. Like check boxes for the folders they want to upload and then they can schedule when they want to upload it and then it goes, like one time or repeated.
I would hardly call Saul Hansell's NY Times commentary on the AP issue (see http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/the-ap-hot-news-and...) part of a "love triangle." It was an attempt to bring some balance and professionalism to the discussion. The NY Times writer actually brought up an interesting legal issue (the "Hot News" doctrine, which other observers subsequently dismantled in the AP/blog case) but what apparently angered Arrington was the NY Times mildly criticizing his anti-AP post, by suggesting it wasn't constructive.
Is their a link for their paper repository? I tried going one directory back and it gave me a 404
We have a table with custom domains in it, so when a request comes in, we check that table first, then the subdomains.

We're currently setting up DNS manually because we don't have that many people using their own domains, but we could easily automate it if it ever became burdensome. We give users the choice to let us host their DNS (and then help them update the nameservers on the domain) or just tell them what IP they need to point their domain to.
"For me it's an endless amount of work that I can never get through to do it properly".

Hands up anybody who's prepared to admit that this doesn't apply to their job, and they have plenty of time to do everything expected of them to their complete satisfaction.
go work for McKinsey or something.

Out of the frying pan, into... another frying pan.

I have friends who worked for McKinsey, BCG, etc. My observation: High pressure, long hours, continuous travel which eventually drives you crazy. (Travel sounds like fun, until you realize that business travel consists of the insides of hundreds of airports, limos, hotel rooms, and conference rooms and not much else. And it really is continuous -- four days out of every week, except for the lucky folks who make it into the coveted Wall Street office where the commute is only a few blocks. Ever wonder why every ad at every airport seems to be targeted at management consultants? Wonder no more...)

Lots and lots and lots of diplomacy and office politics (which is your primary task). You'll wear out a lot of ties.

Not to mention the first-order problem: There is a right time and a wrong time to get that job. The time right after you get your MBA is a good time. Thanks to a fad (which, I believe, began in the nineties) for hiring fresh new Ph.D.s, the time right after you get your Ph.D. is a good time. I'm not sure that there are many other good times. I'm guessing that "right after you burn out on medicine" is not a good time.
Over half of doctors are glorified con-artists. The MO of modern American medicine is to sucker in trusting patients and write prescriptions and perform procedures at great cost that empirically do not work. The doctors are feeling frustrated because the jig is up. There are too many of them and society can't afford the con game anymore.
Backstory on AP - Drudge Retort Issue
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Do you find that the screen makes a huge difference, or would an iPod touch-like device with a color display be just as good with the right software?
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Use Your Real Name When You Comment - the comments themselves make for interesting reading.
Spoken like a person who has never had to answer the question "why are you an engineer when the big money, the prestige, and the long-term career prospects are all in medicine or law"?

Sometimes it's useful to remember that other fields have Dilberts, too.
s/hacker news/Daily WTF
Great post! I laughed as I read each mistake, thinking of the times I had seen it myself. I could almost pin names of people I know to each mistake.

As I hacker, I love #11 the most: Accepting that it's "not possible" too easily rather than finding a way. Whenever I hear that, I become that much more determined. My mentor once taught me, "We can always find a way to do the right thing." The words "find a way" still get that Pavlovian response from me. </wipes slobber from keyboard>
"focused too much on sales volume and company size rather than profit"

In internet startup especially, I often think too many of us are too focused on growth and monetising "later" rather than slower growth which actually incorporates a revenue/profit model.
One of the best articles on this subject. Thoroughly prioritized and focused.

Something I will add is that the power of these observations are not obvious when you have never started your own business. But having been on this path I have to completely agree with what is being said.

Thanks for posting this great article.
I've worked as an ER nurse for 15 years. I make it a habit to ask MD's that I know whether they would become a doctor if they had to do it all over again, and the vast majority tell me, "No". Adjusted for inflation, MD's salaries haven't gone up for over 20 years, in fact, they've decreased over the past 10 years: http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrp...

And, if Bush's medicare cuts go through and aren't postponed, many of the good doctors are going to be leaving 12-15 years of schooling behind and looking for a different career.
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TechCrunch - Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned

I wonder if this still holds true being that this blog post is correct.
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This is all just market hype. Twitter is still as useful as it was yesterday, even though it may have its problems.
Mochi Media raises $10 million for Flash-based game ad and analytics platform
I actually just finished eating a big (for me) breakfast down the street, and while I was walking home I thought about how health science is full of contradictory claims. Wasn't there an article on the front page a couple weeks ago about how skipping your breakfast is the healthiest thing to do, or could be? With no two articles giving the same advice, it seems like there's no point in reading them.

During my walk I concluded that the only way to really figure out what works best is to just experiment. Come up with a list of metrics you care about (#1 on my list: alertness) and record them, along with what food you eat and other data that might impact your metrics (exercise, social time, whether what you've done that day is tedious or exciting). Considering that everyone's body and lifestyle is different, this approach makes the most sense to me.

I'm sure other folks have done something like this before. Does anyone know of a tool that will help? Have any of you tried something like this, and how'd it work out?
Congratulations to danifong and all the others from Mochi who are on HN.
* * face-palm * *

Do these people actually understand any maths at all?

In tests of fourth-grade reading from 2000 to 2007, for instance, the scores of the lowest-achieving students increased by 16 points on a 280-point scale, compared with a gain of three points for top-achieving students, according to the study

Riiight...and the point behind this policy is to get EXACTLY THIS RESULT. Assuming ideal tests (har, har), the goal is that top students should continue to move up, but the bottom end start to close the gap.

I mean, there may be other, objective reasons to suspect that the top achievers are being short-changed - and the American HS system is sufficiently screwed up that I'd readily believe it. But if you adopt a policy of narrowing the gap is adopted (but letting the top students continue to improve), and then you get figures showing that the gap is indeed narrowing (but the top students continue to improve)... what the hell are you doing pointing and yelling "failure"?

On the evidence they supply, they're talking bullshit. On a pogo stick.
Seems sort of strange to publish three articles about the AP after banning them entirely from your site.

"So here’s our new policy on A.P. stories: they don’t exist." But you know, if they did...this is what they would be up to.

(Source of quote: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on...)