skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We obviously don't accept it, people have been trying to change it and it's been a major election issue for several years now. There's just a lot wrong about health care, so there are lots of facets for people to latch onto and say, "We have to fix this part!", and then the people who want to fix another part spend a few years bickering about which part is the key to fixing the whole thing (no part individually, but don't tell people that).

Also, people do not evaluate things independently and rely on pundits like Glenn Beck or Rachel Maddow to evaluate the situation and give them an opinion. Glenn Beck and the rest of the Fox News/right-side cadre tell everyone that health care reform is socialism, our system is the greatest in the world already, the government can't do anything right, and we'll all be turned into savages because socialism will steal our morals and make our children sniveling, awful thieves and layabouts. This is Glenn Beck's position mainly because the President is currently a Democrat. Maddow says the opposite of course.

Media in the US works by validating the opinion of your target audience, and doing this in an emotionally gratifying way that sounds like you are being logical and reasonable, and gives people little soundbites they can use to justify their position. People listen to Beck, Hannity, et al because they enjoy the emotional experience that it induces -- they like the righteous anger and validation of their beliefs, they are gratified by blaming all of the problems on the people that have an opposing viewpoint. They enjoy hearing little snippets that can be used to justify their (adopted) political positions in a sentence to a friend or colleague. It's just easier this way, and doesn't require any intellectual effort.

In short, it's all about flattery. People give you money, influence, and power when you spend all day flattering them, irrespective of its basis in reality.

There's a lot of misinformation out there.

The majority of Americans also have passable health coverage, so since it doesn't affect them, the people that are not politically inclined are not particularly interested in the debate and they don't understand the difficulty for people that aren't happy to be bound to BigCo forever.
Did you miss the Montreal open-source thread here yesterday? =)

Canada is great for tech people looking for work. We need people up here. Sure, it gets cold in the winter, but it's really not that bad.
No mention of bcrypt. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
David Karp's Founder Story
Another difference is that Southwest won't try to compete with a non-stop that they don't have. NYC to LAX round-trip is $500+ on SWA, with a stop. Other airlines it is $300, non-stop.
"Legend of the Galactic Heroes" was produced in a similar fashion as a sprawling 110 episode animated series adapted from a series of novels. People in Japan paid money as a subscription, then got a videocassette in the mail. For a sufficiently rabid fanbase, it is indeed possible.
>"You only pay 30% on subscriptions purchased through the IAP."

Because the developer must offer IAP, Apple - with their 30% cut - gets first crack at the developer's customers and furthermore gets to put the best available pricing in front of the developer's customers as well.

To put it simply, Apple now requires the developer to deliver convenience for their customers and not only to forgo charging a premium for convenience but to actually withstand a revenue reduction because they are providing the convenience.
I have some experience with optimizing, scaling, and administering less-than-web-scale systems. Much of the knowledge comes from reading posts like this or presentations (thank God for Slideshare), or attending conferences where they give talks with titles like How We Scaled Linkedin (that was JavaOne if I remember correctly, and that talk was single-handedly worth the price of sending me to America for my company).

You can also learn from observation when working with people who are better than you. This is one of the best reasons to have some industry experience prior to raring off into startup land. I am a much, much, much better engineer in 2011 than I was in 2007 partly because I am older and wiser but mostly because I sat next to the second best engineer I've ever met and took notes when he told me that everything I knew was wrong.

Then there is the last option: your lack of expertise with X bites you in the keister, you fix X, you now have expertise with X and hopefully write up your experience somewhere to decrease the net amount of keister-biting in the world.
The speed limit in the area was a mere 25 miles per hour
...
I found that my phone only recorded a top speed of just 26 miles per hour

It seems that he probably was speeding, albeit only slightly. That makes it more impressive that he ended up not guilty!
If making cash via an affiliate link is the goal, it would make sense to have the link to the user's localised Amazon site. I much prefer to buy from Amazon.co.uk as I'm UK-based so right now I'll just highlight-> right-click-> google the title and end up bypassing the affiliate link.
Tolkien Estate In Legal Spat With Author Of Historical Fiction
Anyone got a openssl commandline version?
This is one of those books that the market is basically incapable of publishing, because its like "Hey why don't you do 6 months of hard work and then we'll pay you a $10,000 ~ $20,000 advance which you will never earn out" when Plan B looks like "Save some large company whose system being down is costing $X00,000 a day, make client look like hero, get compensated accordingly."
So ... any actual measurements of how much energy was actually saved? Neat hacking for sure, but it seems somewhere along the line thinking clearly about the goal of "saving energy" got lost in the details.

Although I'm not exactly experienced in the field, I'm going to guess it's quite unlikely the water heater's energy consumption was reduced by anything close to 2/3, or even by a significant amount.

Most obviously, the author completely overlooked that there are two types of energy use by a tank-style water heater:

1) Heating incoming water to the desired temperature.

2) Holding the tank at the desired temperature.

This setup does nothing to address the first energy need, which is the larger of the two.

And, unless the timing is spot-on, it will heat a tank which is not immediately used -- which then cools off, and finally needs reheating later.

If you make the (incorrect) simplifying assumptions that (a) a tank loses energy at the same rate regardless of its current temperature, and (b) the burner is instant-on/off to full efficiency, then my pre-coffee mind arrives at the conclusion that reheating a stale tank to a target temperature would use exactly the same energy input as holding it at the target temperature the whole time anyway.

Without those simplifications, it still seems likely that the 'stale tank re-heat' will use a decently large fraction of (2)'s energy.

tldr; To take large chunks out of your consumption of heating energy, insulate your home better instead. Bonus: It saves you cooling energy during the summer, too!
From Wikipedia the total annual cost of medicare (the australian national insurer) is about $18.3b, $900 - $1000 per person living in Australia.

The graphs comparing total healthcare spending of various countries put Australia's at close to $3500 per capita, so medicare must only be part of the total.

There are some funds going into health in one off ways like states funding hospitals, donations, people paying above medicare rebate amounts (usually about 30% more for GPs in my experience). There's drugs, some of which are subsidized. Then of course there's private insurance which a substantial portion of people have.

I had private insurance for foreign students for a few years. From what I understood it's basically a tax administered by an insurance agency.

Basically it's complicated and subsidized in all sorts of ways. It's like that in The States too. You can't just look at a doctor's bill or insurance premium in one place and assume that it's representing cost in some meaningful way.
It is interesting that they say there are 5000 titles but the "Prime Eligible" search only returns 1,669 Results. Hopefully the selection will grow.
This is great. I visited for the first time this past summer and spent most of the day on CalTrain with no clue where to go other than Stanford.
That's not true. This particular project is specifically aimed at purchasing the rights to the brand and producing new content.
It can, but many prefer to be be to charge a price for an app and give a great user experience rather than making it free and stuffing it with ads. iOS allows you to do this far easier that Android does currently.
Well it's only a secondary goal, as I don't expect to make loads of money with it, but it would certainly be nice.

Being able to select your amazon store is planned as well (I'm in France so I totally understand your point :-)).

I choosed to ship without that though, to see if people like the site first or not. It will require a bit of work underneath to do well, things such as verify in the background if a book is actually available on amazon.co.uk, .fr etc to avoid sending the person to the wrong place.
I've read that turning down the temperature in the tank can increase the risk of Legionnaires disease. I don't know how much of a risk that actually is, though: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/turning-down-water-h...
Really cool idea. I'm having some trouble with basic things, though, like getting back to Normal mode from Insert mode -- escape doesn't seem to do it?
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2180623
In his example, the company is profitable from day one. The question is deciding how much those profits are worth -- ie, valuing the company. PE ratios and comparable company valuations are two standard ways to assess the long-term value of a stream of profits.

Adding up the profits until it equals the sum of your investment is an extremely crude measure, because it leaves out what you most care about -- how much the company is worth at the end of the initial time period.
Same difference really...

mov edi, blah
mov byte [edi+1], 17 // Modify the instruction to mov al, 17

// Later...
blah: mov al, 7

There's pretty much a 1->1 mapping between assembly language and machine code, so making a distinction doesn't make too much sense IMHO
It's a nude female torso, if anyone was curious.
Link to Amazon site:
http://www.amazon.com/Video-On-Demand/b?ie=UTF8&node=162...
My search returned 2,153 results. They must be working on it.
Chrome Only: http://peri.me/slidio/slideshow.html
I disagree - I think that Apple's %30 cut will make a lot paid web services unattractive business propositions. Too costly for consumers, too uncertain for developers.

Deep, sophisticated web services do not pop up overnight. I think that Apple will feel pressure when their web store is completely overrun with $.99 games and low value apps... and Android users enjoy a comparatively deep pool of high quality services and publications.
Disclaimer: This comment, and my other one, are the first time I've actually thought about this.

The amount of tank heat loss would depend on the temperature difference between the water & the environment; a tank that's kept hot will lose more heat than one that's warm.

So I think it's a marginal gain to let it cool, but only marginal. And: the better-insulated your tank & plumbing are, the less you gain.
In Boston (all of MA?), as I understand it, it's only a crime to go 5 mph or more over the speed limit. 4mph or less and you don't get a ticket.
Is it cheaper to hire a good lawyer or just to pay the bill? Unless it's catastrophic it's probably cheaper to just pay the bill than to fight it.
As an exploit demonstration, this is at least noteworthy, maybe even interesting. Actually using it is a bit rude though; people set themselves invisible because they want privacy.
Corporations originally were a form of monopoly granted by the state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#History
Great article. This is why I use and love C++. It will be used for the next 50 years or longer. Learning it (or any other foundational, open source programming language) is a must.
Again, health insurance does this because insurance is all about paying for something and not using it. Since everyone uses health insurance, insurers resort to schemes like this to keep their profits where they like them. Insurance is a completely horrible paradigm for medical billing.
Do you take your cynicism for a walk every morning before or after coffee?
As a college student using a free prime subscription, it's kind of lame that it's paid only (I understand their reasoning though).

My only other concern is how they're delivering the videos. Is it just flash? Or is it some crazy Silverlight+DRM thing like netflix? If it's the former they could attract some Linux users who can't use netflix.
Curious as to how others deploy .Net software?

We use a combination of a custom-built tool for deployment of GAC assemblies, and MSDeploy for the site configuration and code. MSDeploy really works well for that stuff, but (at least in the version we've been working with for 2 years) is rather broken for GAC stuff, which forced us to build our own tool for that part of the process.

The only difficult part, I find, is coordinating all of that with changes to the database. It demands discipline in the way we make enhancements, so that DB changes can be deployed first, and thus must be backward compatible allowing the previous version of code to still function properly.
Agreed. I'm canceling my Netflix subscription the second Amazon increases their selection.

EDIT: And holy shit. A video player that works beautifully and I don't have to install anything. I get a nice big message about installing Silverlight when I browse Netflix with Chrome. Although after further experimentation there are a bunch of things that annoy me off the bat. First, pressing escape while in full screen stops the movie, instead of just exiting fullscreen. Also, exiting fullscreen appears to close GChat windows that I have popped out of my browser. Obviously still some kinks to work out :P
Rent-seeking
I explain modernism and post-modernism through ventriloquism and mad-libs
This is only for paid prime accounts. With my free Amazon Mom prime account I just get a button to upgrade to the paid account. I have about a years worth of free prime built up from buying diapers.
Mirroring this: I have visited friends twice in Palo Alto. Aside from the great little restaurants and visiting a couple companies where we had "ins", I had no idea where to go or what to see. We decided that to really do the silicon valley right, it takes more than a few days of visit, because all of the cool stuff is about knowing people doing things.
can someone please write a little app that compares which movies are available on netflix, amazon prime or both?
But that would only profit the consumers!
I run at least one logging GPS in my car at all times for OpenStreetMap mapping. As a result, I've asked several lawyer friends about this situation should I ever be cited for speeding. Just about everyone has said that the GPS data would most likely be overlooked because it can easily be faked (or at least the decision makers have that perception) and/or judges don't know about it (so they default to ignoring it).
And as I was trying to emphasise in my post, there's not a "right way" to do things, some problems just make some approaches more right than others in those instances.

Just with Bentley's Programming Pearls book, he underlines again and again that knowing your problem is more important than knowing the best algorithms, the one that will work for you depends on your problem and only you know that.

Highscalability.com and shared slidedecks act as a community generated set of architectural patterns, but no-one should implement them without knowing what their problems will be.
WTH?

You upload video to a user account. I'm presuming most of those user accounts have an email account attached - probably often a yahoo.com email. Did they not email everyone who's uploaded video and give them instructions about how to download it?
It's great how you do these articles, provides some general A/B testing info while also promoting your product. Only negative would be the ones I've seen voted up on hacker news all contain many variations per test, would be good to also see those where you can see the direct results of a single change, although you may have done these to.

Is it hard to get users to open up and talk about their product use in this detail?
So is Amazon hoping to topple Netflix with this? I'm curious to find out if devices that support Amazon Instant Video will also have this service automatically. That would be a game changer for sure.

Amazon clearly has the user and advertising base for this sort of option. However, would I really put customers that want quick shipping and want streaming video in the same bucket? I guess the only similarity is wanting a premium service at a subscription.
Seems to be just flash.
Just wanted to add a note and say that my local rock radio station (in Phoenix) mentioned breakupnotifier.com today on the morning show. =)
Totally agree. I'm a single developer/designer who makes a lot of money from the App Store. A lot of my friends have six figure incomes because of the App Store. When a platform puts money in your account and food on the table, it's a little difficult to rage against it.
The Amazon home page says Prime is $79/yr.
Cherokee HTTP Server adds Web App Market
Heh, I paid almost $1000/mo for COBRA coverage for six months last year. I think that the only plausible thing to do in that situation is to flee to Canada, or figure out how to consistently receive medical care without paying for it.

Unless you're bringing in the cash hand over fist, it's just not a feasible proposition for an entrepreneurially-minded patriarch with multiple uninsurable family members to stay in the US. Your options are basically to totally ruin your credit constantly and eventually be banned from all nearby medical facilities or pay $15k+ each year for medicine. It's plausible (though not very likely with four kids) that there may be a couple of relatively quiet years medically, and then you can only hope that you don't end up paying more than $10k in bills that year. With every X-ray, mammogram, MRI, or other routine imaging procedure costing $500+, and a fifteen minute appointment costing $100-$200, it really adds up.

For a multi-millionaire it's doable, but pretty difficult for anyone else.
I'm gonna get downvoted for this, but I really don't find Hipmunk any easier to use than the traditional flight booking service.

In fact, quite the opposite--I find the splash of colors and symbols across my screen confusing. Attempting to match the rows and columns with each other just makes my head hurt.

Compare the same search on Travelocity ( http://i.imgur.com/PlX0d.png ) and Hipmunk ( http://i.imgur.com/1eh47.png )

It may be just me, but the Travelocity results are much clearer. I don't have to click on each flight to view basic details about it. Additionally, Hipmunk charges a higher fee for their bookings than bigger name travel sites.
Visualizing Denial vs Progress
I'm glad the judge & author pointed out that it wasn't necessarily the GPS that got him off: the chain of custody could probably have been successfully challenged. But it's darn good circumstantial evidence.

Warning: probable abuse of lawyerly language in above post.
A quick-and-dirty way to check if any given person is invisible is to just click on their name and send a message.

If they appear offline, but you don't see a response message that says "<username> is offline and can't receive messages right now.", then they're invisible.

(Only checked this in the desktop Google Talk client and the Gmail chat version)
I wonder if Amazon Prime instant videos will also work for shared accounts. Prime allows for sharing the account with 4 family members. Will instant videos work for family members too?

Netflix allows 7(?) devices that can be linked to an account. Some people also share accounts and it seems to work for them.
American Held in Pakistan Worked With C.I.A.
It's just Flash, like their existing purchase/rental videos.
It would be nice if you could test CoffeeScript examples as well.
You don’t need any HTML to add a favicon to your site
This looks promising.

Some suggestions:

1. I think you should provide a means for people to be able to login to the site using other login methods (Google accounts, twitter) instead of only Facebook.

2. Take into consideration that people from other countries who have only visited a place, may have encountered the same problem you have in finding a good place to eat and was able to discover something good which they may likely suggest. Provide the means for people to be able to promote products or services from other places which they have been to.

3. Your contact us goes into a forum site. Is there a way to be able to contact you directly?

4. There's a 'Suggest It' link on the left hand side of the app. I wonder if it does work (like the suggestions I posted were received..).

Got a lot more ideas here. Contact me if interested.
I'm not sure I consider the addition of Facebook chat to hotmail to be "one upping" gmail.
Using Google Web Toolkit: A Year in the Trenches
Acceptance testing using Capybara's new RSpec DSL
on that note,
hackertext, hackermenu, hackerledger, hackerconventions, hackerelite, hackerplans, hackermanifest, hackerstatement, hackerplay, hackersection, hackervolumes, etc... all seem to be free. (shameless plug for nametoolkit.com - downvote me if you wish ;))
It will be a while before I visit, so much of this content isn't immediately exciting or relevant - but just providing so much context enhances my understanding of Valley relationships and geography.

Before, I didn't really know how to connect Palo Alto, Mountain View, and San Francisco (obviously, because I'd never really tried). Now I know the way to San Jose!
And I would agree with you. I like not worrying that the guy in the apartment next to me is going to rape me to death just because he can.