skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The preventitive care thing, sounds a little soundbite-ish to me. Most people have health insurance that covers preventitive care. There may be some people that just prefer not to go to the doctor, but that's more of a cultural thing than a purely rational economic decision. People do preventitive maintenance on their cars, even though insurance doesn't cover it.

Bottom line, if we provided preventative care only up to a certain low ceiling. You'd call it good? Everyone else can die? Or does everyone need all encompassing care?
I was in grad school at Virginia Tech when the shootings happened almost four years (in fact, almost to the day). There was an outpouring of emotional support. Some of it bothered me, some of it was touching. Days after the shootings, I wandered through the student center on campus and it was filled with posters people at elementary, middle, high schools and colleges from around the world had sent to us. And by "filled" I mean nearly every wall and surface on the student center had these posters. The number and diversity was overwhelming.

So, yes, do whatever practical thing you can. But it's a false dichotomy to see it as one-or-the-other. A few years prior, I probably would have felt equally as cynical about sending a poster. I do not know if this webpage makes anyone in Japan feel better, you'd have to ask them. But I know that I was personally touched by similar gestures.
Ah: You need { } around the entire document after the @moz-document line
Well, let's see: If you lived in, say, Chapel Hill, NC, you'd find:

1. There are free citywide buses

2. There are lots of engineering related jobs in the RTP area, and a growing startup scene.

3. Nobody would give a shit that you're an atheist. In fact, there's a rather large and active atheist meetup here, if you're interested specifically in hanging out with other atheists.

4. You would hear that phrase once every 2-3 years, unless you intentionally go around provoking people over the issue. And even then you'd have to look to find somebody who's A. a native Southerner, AND, B. gives a shit about that topic. People like that are actually pretty rare here in my experience. I, for example, fit criteria (A) but not (B).

5. The public schools in Orange and Wake counties in particular are pretty good. And the colleges & universities here are excellent. UNC-CH, Duke, and NCSU are all pretty highly regarded.

6. Ok, you got me... to snowboard from here you'd have to drive a few hours, most likely to the NC mountains, or to West Virginia. But it's not so far that you can't make a weekend snowboarding trip from here with ease. A day trip might be stretching it though.
Wow. That's nasty on the auto makers' part.
I have five free student tickets sponsored by Cloudspace if anyone here is interested. First come first serve, you can tweet me @trikro for the code and I'll DM you.
I think more to the point the amount awarded the Winklevoss twins is sufficient to cover their damages. Also, IIRC Facebook didn't withhold information from the court, they withheld information during a settlement negotiation.

When purchasing private securities via any mechanism the purchasing party should to due diligence to ensure they are receiving fair value for it. I think they have a latin phrase for this something like 'caveat emptor'.

That the Winklevosses have this much money, that many connections, and manage to get themselves duped by the same guy is impressive.
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And not to mention the annoying way the updater tries to sneak in Safari and other Apple software. http://i.imgur.com/oq0i2.png

It was far worse earlier http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1289538~04d191d10d05df...

Just as a thought exercise: Can't Apple be sued for monopoly abuse? They have a monopoly on portable music players, for which you need iTunes to load music on, and then they default to installing Safari trying to leverage their monopoly in music players to win over the browser market.
A better UI...highlight the poster's comment...categorize posts for quick focused reading...simple search...read/unread indicator...and a few more....
Ah, I read that as him saying that "the south" as a whole, was "not particularly well known for having a strong tech culture."
Sure. "The South" covers an awfully huge amount of land. Gotta be something in there I'd like :-)

Seriously, tho, as a dev. in (rural) MN, we have a similar problem. Minnesota has an honestly earned reputation for having brutal winters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota#Climate and it scares a lot of people away. OTOH, the Minneapolis/St Paul is a culturally diverse, politically progressive region and most people not from around here have no idea what it's really like and what a fantastic place it is to live.
AKA: Investors giving them money for worthless pieces of paper.
AT&T does not lock anyone into 2 year contracts any more that T-Mobile does. Both of them offer month to month (on any phone) and both of them offer discounts on new phones if you get a 2 year agreement.
A ransom trojan showed a number to dial to regain PC access. So we dialed it.
> Though I see that HN is once again a bastion of pro-Apple delusion as the more enlightened fled.

It's good to know you can just fall back on calling people fanboys if you don't agree with their opinions.
It seems there's Facebook analyticsporn on Hacker News almost every other day (I'm looking at demographics vs advertising prices [1]). You came to the right place (if Ruby was one of my top 3 languages, I'd apply).

[1] http://euri.ca/2011/04/11/facebook-advertising-prices-part-1...
Preventative care also consumes resources. A doctor can only perform 8-10 hours worked / (duration of preventative procedure) preventative procedures per day. The number of doctors is limited. Thus, the number of preventative procedures is limited.

Maybe doctors shouldn't be doing preventative care. Surely you don't need a Ph.D in medicine to perform and interpret blood tests, monitor blood pressure, take some measurements, and conduct an interview. If there are serious symptoms or something that doesn't respond properly to changes in diet, exercise, or simple medication, escalate to a doctor.

Specially trained nurses could be filling these roles much more cheaply, freeing up doctors' time for activities that require their training and experience.
The first thing I think of is using this to prank friends... it's like a gag gift at spencer's gifts.
Texas Agency Leaves Unencrypted Data of 3.5 Million on Public Server
Digital Certificates Only Provide the Illusion of Security
I really wish we'd reframe this perennial question as "how do I detect crap startups?" That seems the biggest question for my friends in Bigco: they're afraid of finding out in a year that an enterprise was never going anywhere.
Why Apple investors shouldn't sweat Android
A lot of people come to HN for the commentary, not so much for the post. What I've noticed is that I will usually read only the comments and only click through to the page if it seems exceptionally interesting.

That is to say, the opinion of the HN crowd on a topic, matters more (and/or is more useful) than the topic itself.
It really isn't that much work to jailbreak your iPhone. Mine has been running on T-mobile very happily (but sans 3G) for over a year.
This fallacy (what I sometimes call the "non-profit fallacy") is certainly being exploited by the people looking to harm for-profits.

In another part of this thread, you essentially admit the point that for-profits are engaging in a massively fraud against the Federal government as selling garbage degrees.

So the problem with "harming" these shysters is what? That you don't want this to be specific to for-profit education institutions. Fair enough but any effort to "harm" this group would essentially involve reigning any college's ability to print federal government dollars. Is there a problem that rather pressing concern?
Right now, doctor's have to charge twice what they expect to be reimbursed by insurance companies. So, an individual who chooses to buy health care without a health insurance provider has to pay twice what doctor's even expect to get.

The second does not follow from the first. What usually happens is doctors try to rip off the insurance companies as best they can (and the insurance company does the same to them), but prices magically become reasonable when you mention you don't have insurance.

Doctor bill: $100 splint (her finger taped to a piece of wood), total bill $350.

My uninsured mom: "This is ridiculous. You can keep it, I'll just have my son duct tape me to a dowel."

Billing girl: "Oh, you don't have insurance? I'm so sorry, my mistake. It'll be $75, let me print you a correct bill."

(I don't recall exact numbers, but that was the rough flavor of the interaction.)
Good write-up.

The unaccounted percentage can be chalked up to simply “other.”

What does minus 8.54% other web browsers mean?
Whats the best advice you've ever got? Win $50 each day this week.
Works great! Many thanks for the port.
NC is North to me

Hey, hey... careful, them's fightin' words! Oh, wait, there I go fulfilling a stereotype about people from here... dangit. :-)

Seriously though, when people talk about "The South" I assume they mean something roughly like "South of the Mason/Dixon line" or "State that fought as part of the Confederacy during the Civil War." When people say "Deep South" I take that to mean something a little more restrictive.. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc.

The last guy that I worked with from Charlotte was an awesome developer so "howdy" from Austin.

Gnarly! "Howdy" back, from RTP!
Scandinavian and European countries provide unlimited medicine to whoever wants it? That's news to me. Do you have evidence for this?

This is a straw man. Nobody is claiming that Scandinavian (or any countries) provide "unlimited" heathcare. Only that they distribute it more effectively to a larger proportion of the population.
Nothing in life is easy...
Unless the list elements can be thunks that can be evaluated when necessary or appropriate. See for instance Control.Parallel.Strategies in Haskell, which provides amongst others 'parMap' (parallel mapping over lists).
Show HN: "LawyerClock" - watch your cash burn during meetings
Hey everyone. I'm a founder of a Boston based, venture backed startup, unrelated this this link. One of my business partners and I coded this website DURING long and painful meetings with our attorneys as a way to pass the time. We racked up over $100k in legal bills through a couple fundraising and legal hurdles. This is the website that resulted from that time.<p>We'd love your feedback for version 2.0. Thanks!
If this was their main business model, maybe Adobe would focus on quality vs quantity? this urgency to add new features and force users to purchase more sluggish versions after each OS upgrade is not doing it for me. Fireworks used to be an amazing piece of software. Now it's ridiculously sluggish, with no visible benefits. I would gladly pay adobe to own a fast version of Fireworks on my current OS, I don't care if the feature set is from 2005.
I think you're too facile in comparing health care with economic goods such as crude oil, for which the laws of scarcity ordinarily apply. Compare this statement:

"Chemotherapy is expensive, limited, and must be rationed. Not everyone can have as much as they want. There simply is not enough to go around." Certainly this sounds silly to your ears?

If you were to say that some treatments are very expensive, and must be rationed, then I'd agree with you. But I believe that there are many treatments that our society can afford to offer to anyone who needs them, without rationing.
I donated because I've been in those shoes. I donated so he wouldn't get a million dollar settlement. Trust me, when you're in the position settling for something that doesn't involve millions of dollars that you don't have sounds like a good idea. As they say on Wall St. Stay alive to trade another day.
Faults in Linux: Ten Years Later (ASPLOS'11 PDF)
The fact that there is no engineering position on that list says enough.
Microsoft accuses Google of lying about Apps for Gov't
Your edit is basically correct, but note that moving the salt doesn't help all that much (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2432014).

It's not hard to imagine some practical difficulties for an attacker. But if you're writing this kind of software, you should get it right.
Good luck competing with a company that controls the underlying frameworks you're building your development environment for. There will never be a truly viable alternative to Flash Builder from Adobe as long as they control the runtime. Depending on third party IDEs for a proprietary API is shaky ground to build a business on.
Faults in Linux: Ten Years Later
Is the decline in rape due to the accessibility of porn on the internet?
Wait. Why is the user losing the most in such political desicisons?
I can't believe that. I love the Chrome browser but that's to much. I mean come on QuickTime (on the Mac) is the least painful player.

In addition I have to say that I'm a MacBook Air user that means when I play flash content in the chrome browser my fan is freaking out. With QuickTime this doesnt happen and guess what I like more? Yes, playing videos without freaking out fans.
Just wait until Apple sues someone and lets see for which side HN roots in that case :o
We are putting together a mix of local compaies with foreign companies from Mexicoand Latam companies to build global companies to zell all around the world
I'd imagine that you could get yourself to the bay area if you went back to school for an advanced degree. I don't know if that's your path, but you could use that as a foot in the door.
In terms of facebook's most recent valuation, you could argue that the idea was "0.1%", and execution the 99.9%, in line with the general HN agreement that "ideas are nothing, execution is everything".

(That is, of course, assuming that MZ owes them anything for the idea.)
The data that goes with the research can be found at: http://faultlinux.lip6.fr/
I have no love for the twins, however I also cant agree with your statement.

There is a difference between posting on CL with an idea. and having an idea/site and plan laid out - recruiting a developer who decides to work with you who obviously would add value to the design/plan - and then him turning around after agreeing to work with you and implementing his own version of it.

If, for example, he had read an ad on CL - which the ad alone ignited something inside him and he went and implemented it on his own - then I could agree. He was recruited and agreed to work on the project for/with them.

Then, he fucked them over in the negotiations as well.

Anyway this is looked at, Zuckerberg is a complete douchebag.

Successful? Yes. Within legal rights? Sure - but an amoral untrustworthy douchebag none-the-less.

I am not saying the twins should receive [whatever it was they were seeking] - but I am tired of people defending mark zuckerberg.
Here's the original Nature paper:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Feels like there's no hook. One time use, and that's it.
Are you in the NYC area? If so, email me using the contact info in my profile. We may be able to work together on something.
That would imply self-awareness, which does not seem to be their strength.
Trials are never a sure thing, especially when the other side has deeper pockets, and especially when the laws at issue are so messed up.

Hotz gets out of this with his fame and bank account intact, his hack is already out there, and Sony's still defending against a class-action lawsuit that has the potential to restore OtherOS functionality for everybody else and force Sony to pay damages. The only limitation on Hotz is that he can't do it again to the same company, but he probably won't need to since he's already got root for his PS3.

This settlement is a cease-fire that neither side will want to violate, and Sony didn't get any of what they wanted. (They didn't even make an example of Hotz to scare off other hackers!) It's definitely a win for Hotz, and it's not a loss for the rest of us.
Regarding #1: I lived in Dallas for six years, and while it does have a "public transportation system", if you spend a week in New York you realize that it's basically useless unless you have hours a day that you'd like to waste - per trip - simply waiting.

Will those citywide buses get you out to the suburbs, where you might live? How often do they run? What are the odds of sitting in a bag of someone's excrement?
Totally agreed. A failed startup is definitely worth the time spent. You get to learn about the industry you're attacking, you get to learn about making hard decisions with the a team (and how to pick future partners, which is highly underrated), and you get to learn about all the extra things that it takes to launch a company beyond "come up with idea for thing; make thing". Plus, it's surprising how often things created during the first version of a startup can be reused in a next version.
Sounds reasonable :-)
Do you have the link of the AT&T month to month? I found the pre-paid one (which is not the same)
> Alan Kay didn't invent oop in Smalltalk

Yes, he most certainly did. Simula had objects, but it was not object oriented, objects were not the core abstraction everything was built upon. That didn't come until Smalltalk which is why Smalltalk is the defining language for the term object oriented.
they should probably charge more... every pawn shop I've been to is subject to different laws based on every level of government. any software would have to be highly specialized.
very funny ahha. Cool project.
Try learning at least a bit of coding so that you can communicate clearly when you find a technical co-founder. Also preparing a document or something similar to introduce domain specific terms to the potential technical co-founders should be useful.
really dislike the sample call..sorry
the caller wasnt completely sure what to talk about..and was stumbling..have a nice call that the caller has prepared for properly..and one that reflect all aspects of your company..from professionalism to using the right flattery technique..not using the same words again and again...make the sample call bulletproof
It will buy you your customers, invest in it more
Regarding marketing, youll have to be creative in targeting specific areas such as surprise a friend, surprise your wife/husband, team building etc, researching similar areas and looking at all the data to see which kind of people are interested should help you a lot. Your collected data is your best friend
Unfortunately, for serious professional work, there really aren't any serious competitors to Creative Suite today. That is how Adobe can charge sky-high prices and yet still ship products with crash bugs and silly inconsistencies between different applications' UIs.

I'm always a bit surprised that none of the major software vendors with the muscle to put a few hundred developers on a new project for a couple of years have tried to break into the graphics/DTP market that Adobe dominates today. Given their reputation for poor quality and usability, it's not the most defensible position for Adobe to hold against a competitor with good developers and talented project management/vision people.
I think more to the point the amount awarded the Winklevoss twins is sufficient to cover their damages.

If so, then justice has been served. Again, I don't know the details, so if that's the case, I'd hope the judge would actually state that even in the light of any new evidence their damages have already been covered in full. Exclaiming that there's simply an end to litigation seems to imply that justice hasn't been served, but we don't want to bother with it anymore.

Also, IIRC Facebook didn't withhold information from the court, they withheld information during a settlement negotiation. When purchasing private securities via any mechanism the purchasing party should to due diligence to ensure they are receiving fair value for it. I think they have a latin phrase for this something like 'caveat emptor'.

There are laws around disclosure of information for private securities. Maybe none of those laws were broken or didn't apply. But that seems like a reasonable question for the courts. I hope the judge actually weighed this and didn't simply toss it because he thought he had more pressing matters.
Siobhan Quinn, Foursquare's first product manager, on NYC vs Silicon Valley
I think its also the stigma attached to the word hacker.
geohot may have had more support from the owners if he had called himself a freedom fighter..
Thanks! Let's get some ideas for V2. I'm considering showing things you could have bought with the money you spent. I.E., once the bill hits $1,500 it shows a Macbook burning up.
"Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers."

Yeah, right. I just hope that any manufacturers of the stuff I own will refrain from "protecting" me in a similar way.
I realize in my previous reply, I had a typo: "making hard decisions with the a team".

I meant to type "making hard decisions with the A-Team", because Startup Weekend is so awesome, even Bosco is going to want to invest.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
Does anyone know of gems like this that will work on standard VPS servers? I'm launching something that completely depends on Delayed Job for processing data and would love an interface to manage queues and number of workers spun up at a given time. Also, visually watching the queue (a la resque) would be amazing.

The best I've found so far is: http://trevorturk.com/2011/01/21/delayed_job_admin-a-simple-...
Very nice.

It could use a button to keep track of the "percentage of time spent on topic."

Click the button when you go off topic, click it again when you get back on topic and the site calculates the exact percentage, instead of leaving me to guess.
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Hi,

Former physician (nephrologist) here. I quit medicine in 2008. I find your question a little confusing. Like others I question why you want to learn how to code. I mean, I guess it comes down to what your plan is. I realize we are on hacker news but startup doesn't always equate software company.

Uptodate was started by a Burton Rose, a nephrologist. I don't know the history of that business, but I doubt he sat down and coded the website himself.

Presumably, the value of you working on a startup is related to your medical background, and the expertise that entails. Not spending long hours of not-much-free-time trying to learn how to become a mediocre programmer. I don't see how your changing the world is going to be based on your programming skills.

The converse situation would also make little sense. "I'm a skilled programmer of age 35 who wants to create a medical record start up. I'd like to learn how to diagnose patients in my free time..."
You need to be more specific. There's a big difference between Austin, TX and Mobile, AL.

If you want to isolate 'southerness' as a variable, pick a series of pairs of otherwise comparable (size/economy) cities, and see if there's still a bias from people who are otherwise near neither. For example, roughly by population of metro area:

• Dallas vs. Philadelphia

• Charlotte vs. Indianapolis

• San Antonia vs. Cleveland

• Atlanta vs. Detroit

• Memphis vs. Milwaukee