skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is always controversy over exactly what services are available where, but at least everyone has access to it.

This is a pretty confusing statement. What does it mean for everyone to have access to a service that isn't available?
I did mention there were open-source implementations that could interface with it. I tested it against empathy (telepathy based) today and was pleasantly surprised with how well it worked. Previous attempts weren't as successful. I tried with both clients inside the same NAT though so I don't know if the firewall punching bits are as good.

Thanks for the clarification on the standards, it seems to have evolved since the early days.
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I'm moving there in about a week to work on a startup with a friend. I've been on the lookout for people to get to know in the area.
No, because it's not new, and therefore not very interesting either.
But why on earth do you persistently try to present German search results to an English speaker in Munich? This has been peeve #1 for years, across all Google services.
Try unfuddle, their hosting includes both svn and git ... doesn't have most of the thrills and spills of github but I find their pricing very reasonable.
The article defines "the tablet market" narrowly and ignores important competition for the iPad in terms of sales (if not mindshare). The iPad competes with devices such as the Kindle which have significant adoption and handle the killer slate app - reading very well at very competitive price points. This class of competitor also often provides better performance in important areas, e.g. battery life.

I also suspect that if people were asked their preference regarding wide screen format vs. 4:3 the iPad would not fare quite so well as it does in questions regarding screen size.
There's a great documentary about this phenomena in Montreal, in winter a bum pretty much can't get arrested, if you do you'll be released almost immediately, but in summer you'll get 3 months for holding a cup out for change.
It's spin either way. English effectively lacks a way to make a truly neutral statement on the topic. That graph is as close as you can get.
I have heard of that as well. Many have gotten "good" and they know based on their prior convictions, just the type of crime to commit to get into prison for a the winter then get released.
I agree, but we're printing money and borrowing from everyone willing to lend us money in order to pay for those expenses. I'm not saying they are necessary, but going 2x further into debt isn't a logical solution.
NICE!! Excited to meet you guys sometime!

If we get a bunch of folks here maybe we could put together a hangout!?
And the prison-industrial-complex smiles and takes our tax dollars while actively lobbying against health insurance reform and medicare expansion.

Felons get medical security while we get "austerity". This is a twisted world in which we live.
The application is that projects like this are fun to do. Great work on their part.
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With all due respect, that's akin to saying my car would be a plane if it could fly.

Tell me, how would you fix the incentives to loophole the hell out of the tax code?
You bet, send me a tweet (in my profile) ... also this is very relevant:

http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/
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It depends. It's often been with the case for me that since I'm an undergrad and a lot of my collaborators are not too experienced with Git that people don't have their global gitignores set properly. In this case, it's better to put the ignores along with the code that everyone's pulling from.
This incident has just shown that Bitcoin is a serious store of value, and hackers are targeting the exchanges because they are the weakest link in the chain.

Unfortunately, right now, it's still amateur hour with MtGox running an insecure site and generally lax security practices - vulnerable to XSRF, and apparently they let one of their developers download a full copy of the MySQL database to his home PC which was compromised.

Now that there is real money in Bitcoin, the free market should start to weed out the exchanges that have lax security. We already appear to have more professional exchanges like Tradehill opening that seem to take security more seriously.
That analogy doesn't hold up against the dominance of Windows vs Mac.
Read my last paragraph carefully; I'm just pointing out the name doesn't matter, it's a real phenomena that doesn't go away by changing the name.

My personal stance is actually a great deal more nuanced, which is that you can't not be in a bubble. It is mathematically impossible. Any way of slicing the torrent of information coming at you constitutes a bias. The entire idea of "piercing the bubble" is an instance of English misleading you, it's a concept without a referent. The question is not how to "escape" the bubble, the question is how do we choose our bubble?
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I resent the use of the word "baby" -- I have seen entire quantitative trading platforms built in awk
I'm not sure you're considering all sides to the universal healthcare issues. The United States contributes the most money of any country by far toward medical research (close to 10x of what the UK contributes). The benefit derived from that is that countries like the UK get all the benefits of that expenditure without having to make that expenditure. So what you get is a lopsided benefit in non-US countries. This creates free riding.

So what happens is that as other countries free ride the United State's research, the US would have to not only foot hte bill for research and development (of which it is the biggest contribute in the world), but they would also have the bill for the fruits of that research - ie: the actual healthcare services and machines require to deliver those services. The United States doesn't get to pay a single bill and get great universal health care, it effectively pays twice for care while other countries pay once.
Alas, market mechanisms aren't such great protectors here. They work best with large populations of similar events, where "average" behaviors can signal expectations and volatilities can be estimated on a fairly stable basis. Endgames offer the unethical opportunities to reap excess rewards without market penalties.

Hopefully, there will be enough information to know just how screwed these people are (or aren't, I've seen gossip that several were late-comers) and the VC / executive players involved. It's possible that these decisions make some sense, but it sure looks bad at first glance.
Sweet idea. You should try to make your usage documentation better (more concise and put it on the Github page) cos I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use it as well as the rationale behind each step.
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Exactly. If the iPad is cleaning up the 10" market and you know that even 15% strongly prefer 7", and there is no iPad in that market, it would make sense to do a 7" version and clean up the 7" market.
Huh? Bluetooth keyboards works with iPad and (I assume) with Androids.
Interesting how defensive people are getting in the comments. I think the headline says it all- tablets have been around for over a decade and never caught on. In fact they still haven't caught on, just the iPad has caught on.
Speaking of buzzwords, when did the MBA suits first begin trying to duck responsibility for endless mismanagement and moronic decisions by repeatedly using the word "pivot"?
Do you think they'll really drop IE8 once IE10 is released next year? Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued? Actually, it would be great if Google could nudge everyone to keep upgrading.
In the past 6 months, I have been issued 3 new credit cards due to security breaches. The stock market has crashed a couple times. Despite these breaches or crashes, I'm not going to cancel my cards and transfer everything to cash.

Markets are about risk, and higher risk equals higher return (or loss). Trading in a market like stocks, commodities, forex, bitcoin, etc. carries inherently high risks.
In fairness, the question mark was added on HN. The article title is "So, that's the end of Bitcoin then".
Are you talking about Medicare or Medicaid (ie, single-payer insurance) or Veteran's Administration (ie, government-run healthcare)?

Both are fiscally solid for decades, and yet are under attack by those who would profit from their demise.

Not only are we not getting closer to universal health care (or even insurance) but recent news indicates there is majority political support (note: not the majority of public) for some form of medicare/medicaid reduction.
It is also important to note that the library encompassing the AIR for iOS Runtime seems to be very large and cannot be shared across apps, making over the air downloads more painful (20mb cap typically applies for 3G OTA)

From Conqu (for example). A 25mb tasklist app?

Free
Category: Productivity
Released: Jun 02, 2011
Version: 1.0
1.0
Size: 25.0 MB

MuniTracker for iPhone

Category: Navigation
Updated: Jun 04, 2011
Current Version: 1.1.0
1.1.0
Size: 21.8 MB

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/munitracker/id436932756
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Every health care system must ration care. There are not enough doctors, nurses, drugs, equipment, money, etc. in order to provide everyone with the best possible care in every situation. The question becomes how to best ration care. What is the most equitable way of providing health care to the populace?

I submit that the U.S. has one of the worst methods of rationing health care. It is also the most expensive in terms of cost as a percent of GDP. What has been labeled "Obamacare" in the United States was, for the most part, insurance reform. It will turn a very bad system into a bad system.

Going to prison, despite popular belief, is not a way to get good health care. The idea that prisoners watch cable TV, have great health care, and are well fed in the U.S. is mostly myth. The strategy of robbing a bank to get health care is not a good one.
For information gathering I have a second facebook account.
Initially this account was created to gain access to apps - without giving up "my" data.
This totally invented persona, with name, gender and now even pictures (all in which a face can't be discerned) has somewhere around 350+ friends.
A lot more friends than my real account.

With this account I befriend people I want to know more about without them knowing of it.
People I've met in a bar, co-workers, gatherings and what not.
And by "befriend" I mean sending friend requests.

It is surprisingly easy to befriend people on facebook and more so to circumvent their set "privacy" settings.
In many cases all that's required for full access to someones profile/wall and data is simply to befriend a friend of them.
One way to do it is to try and befriend as many "friend of friends" as possible - that way when they receive a friend request they see "you have 12 friends in common" and in those scenarios most just simply accept.

What more is that I've created several "pages" with this account and some have well over 1,000 members.
As an experiment I created a couple of pages about non-causes. For instance "Do not change X" where X is something I just made up where there really is no concern for change anyways. For instance "Do not raise minimum purchase age of alcohol to 21!" (in this country that age is below 20 and there's nothing actually saying it's gonna change). Many likes.

This is scary.
What I have been able to do with facebook is scary.
That is also why I am extremely conservative with my own, real, account and usage.
I think the point is that everyone gets 85% of what they would hope for from a health service, as opposed to a system where only 85% of people have any health service at all.
Curious, what are the top 3 brands?

Apple, HP, and ? Amazon?
I didn't even know about this. Sounds excellent. I will try to make it on Thursday.

BTW by now I am somewhat of a LA native. Let me know if you need any help or have any questions.
If you read the article, he already has no intention of becoming a repeat offender, once he is treated.
You'd do better with "introverted" or "introversion" with some terms excluded to filter out some of the results.

Wordsworth, "The Excursion", 1814:

--Nor deem that his mild presence was a weight
That pressed upon his brother's house; for books
Were ready comrades whom he could not tire;
Of whose society the blameless Man
Was never satiate. Their familiar voice,
Even to old age, with unabated charm
Beguiled his leisure hours; refreshed his thoughts;
Beyond its natural elevation raised
His __introverted__ spirit; and bestowed
Upon his life an outward dignity
Which all acknowledged. The dark winter night,
The stormy day, each had its own resource;
Song of the muses, sage historic tale,
Science severe, or word of holy Writ
Announcing immortality and joy
To the assembled spirits of just men
Made perfect, and from injury secure.
--Thus soothed at home, thus busy in the field,
To no perverse suspicion he gave way,
No languor, peevishness, nor vain complaint:
And they, who were about him, did not fail
In reverence, or in courtesy; they prized
His gentle manners: and his peaceful smiles,
The gleams of his slow-varying countenance,
Were met with answering sympathy and love.

More with "introverted":

http://books.google.com/books?id=IFwCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA545&#...

Again here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=q1VIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181&#...

And here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=q1VIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181&#...

Similar usage here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=AnMPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217&#...

Check out the definition of introversion at the top of the page in this dictionary: "The set of introverting, or the state of being introverted; a turning or direction inward, physical or mental."

http://books.google.com/books?id=bLkCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3166&...

Another dictionary:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ovhOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2722&...

Not really relevant to your question since the usage is different, but interesting nonetheless, since it includes not only introversion but extroversion as well, predating Jung by a century and showing that people can be quite flexible about how they understand words like these:

http://books.google.com/books?id=OJEPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9&...
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In rich countries, for the most part, everyone has access to food. Most don't have the means to buy expensive caviar though. In countries with national health care systems everyone has access to basic care. Not all high tech services are available to everyone though.
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There really isn’t much of a “tablet” market
You're equating the value of a person with their ability to game our society's system of making money. By your logic, we should be rushing to ensure that lottery winners in trailer parks are provided the best medical care while starving PhD students are left to die.

Natural selection is has done great things for life on our planet but it doesn't apply here.
I spent a few hours using Duck Duck Go before commenting. It's been my Chrome default search for 4 hours.

• The results are less relevant. Bubble or no, it was harder to find things I look for all the time. For example I had to constantly add the word Seattle to my search terms.

• It felt like an old search engine. The results, the display, the choice of Mapquest maps all made me feel like I was using Yahoo or even early Google.

• At first the feeling of not being watched was liberating but I forgot about it very quickly.

I'm going to continue using it as my default search for the lack of tracking but Iv'e already had to go to Google a few times to find what I was looking for. Convenience over privacy right?
Hey, sydney -

Thanks for the advice. There's no way my wife is going to be able to demonstrate financial capacity to support a family on her own. She's a student and a homemaker, so unless they're literally just checking bank statements and I deposit my paycheck into an account with her name on it, this doesn't sound like it's going to work.

I'll pull the trigger on the skilled migration visa when things are more solid, but it's good to know that there is a big lead time for this process.

As for the Ph. D thing, someone else pointed out that masters degrees have the research/coursework distinction I was talking about. They were called postgraduate diplomas where I looked, and the departments I checked didn't offer Ph. D's, so I'm straight there.
I don't know what awesomeness could possibly be contained within parts 2, 3 or 4 to make this seem any better. Heroku is doing some incredible things.
"It's fascinating watching the ecosystem evolve. Kind of remends me of Star Trek III - The Search for Spock, where evolution is "sped up" on a planet originally devoid of life."

I feel like just about everything I've seen in the last five years is like this. We live in interesting times.
Thanks, guys. That's all in store, and I'm working on it. At the moment, I've only taken the first step in actually deciding to work on this full-time.
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More screenshots of the web interface (or a walkthrough video) would be nice.
You are making an assumption that an American national health care system necessarily means that the U.S. would spend more money on health care than it currently does. Do you have evidence for this?

The U.S. spends about 16% GDP on health care and this is, by a large margin, the most spent by any rich nation on health care. I think it is hard to argue that a national health care system for the U.S. must inevitably cost more than what is currently spent in the U.S. for health care when every national health care system in the world costs less than what we currently spend.
Here is how to get medical treatment in Canada, you move to a major city with a teaching hospital, for instance, Vancouver/UBC.

Look at the various medical boards and find out who is on those boards, when you get referred to a specialist insist on finding someone either on the board or connected to the board. Get those people to put you on the list, and constantly complain to them, they will get you moved up.

My personal experience is with my friend who wanted a nose job because his nose had been broken a few times, he happened to get a connected doctor and had a nose job within a week, his doctor relayed the aforementioned. My other experience is with heart surgery, my mother-in-law was having heart complications, in the suburbs they sent her home with nitro, and told her to come back in a week for some test. She lives in a retirement community so they have poor resources and lots of people needing those resources, especially for heart failure. She was still having pains so I insisted we take her to VGH, at VGH they took it very seriously, we got there about 11 PM and by 4 AM on a Saturday they had done a triple bypass with a surgeon who needed to be called in.

Morale of the story, in Canada you need to be near well funded hospitals with out a lot of old people around, or have connections. If you have a lot of people drawing on a limited resource you'll have to wait a long time in line.
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Or Firefox 4 when Firefox 6 is released in August? I'm curious about this too.

Of course, "not supported" isn't the same as "not working". For Firefox (just like Chrome), I doubt there will be changes breaking enough to cause a problem. The real question is if they'll start using features (e.g. canvas or newer selectors) not available in those earlier browsers for major functionality in their apps.
If you had asked me before I got an iPad, I would have been a bit agnostic on the 7"/10" question. After I got an iPad and read documents on it, I'll never get a 7" pad.

There are certainly use cases (and clothing styles!) that creates niches for 7", but I doubt they are anywhere close to 40% of users. IMHO, this is a case of inexperienced consumers.
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Except consumers aren't choosing between Apple and not-Apple. The second-strongest brand in the survey is Dell, preferred by 12% of respondents. You really think that focussing on Apple, with a brand 4x stronger than its nearest competitor, is just spin?

Here's another quote from the article: "Apple has more than double the brand appeal of BlackBerry, HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung combined." Care to spin that another way?
Now. You get to tablet land. Holy shit! Look at all this room.

So instead of hard, you're saying it's too easy for its own good.
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What I find almost more scary is that instead of anybody in the system using a little common sense and human decency when processing this guy, they right away threw him in jail. Couldn't the police have, when they found him in the bank, seen his situation and tried to resolve things on a human level instead immediately calling down the full force of the system and throwing him in jail and before a judge for what is clearly more of a desperate cry for help than a crime?

A crime is a crime, but we're all people too. Sometimes doing everything precisely by the book isn't what's appropriate, and a little common sense and understanding is called for instead.

I hate the criminalization of everything in America almost as much as I hate our backwards healthcare system.

Edit: unless even the police thought they were doing the humane and common-sense thing by putting him in jail to get health care--in which case I don't know what to do but hang my head.
I certainly meant it as constructive feedback. Congrats on quitting your job to work on it full time. That's pretty exciting.
SFBay average is about 76K:

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm

Equating 86K a year to penniless is a statement very very far removed from reality.
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I agree that the pricing of the Xoom was a huge mistake but I still wonder whether Android will enjoy as much success with tablets. Asus cut their shipment of tablets for the year by 60% even though it was cheaper than the iPad. Amazon at this point would be the most serious competitor to Apple.

If no OS has been able to make a serious dent in iPad market share by next year then the iPad will go the way of the iPod dominance. You can't give Apple three years with no competitve threat to the iPad.