skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to debate this very much, but I felt I should share my opinion/experience:

I'm in Canada. My dad waited 4 months to be contacted, in order to book an appointment for a knee surgery that he drastically needs. After those four months, I flipped and asked a friend for a favor.

I also thought I had an ear problem. I waited 6 months before someone called me to book an appointment to get it checked out.

When I went to the emergency room with a 41 degree (C) fever, I waited 4 hours before someone gave me acetaminophen and told me to wait longer.

Yes, with universal health care, I'm able to gain access to all of this. Yet, how effective is it? I'm sure everyone has a different experience, but there are many people who have had similar experiences to me.
Actually, both matter. These charts almost always show 1 side or the other, but it does matter both ways.

On the Apple side, there's no decisions to make, and upgrade paths are very clear.

On the Android side, there's plenty of options and it's a very competitive market. If you don't like the current offerings, 3 months will see a bunch of new devices.
I don't believe universal health care is a viable long term solution. However, this is a man who put 20 years of work and taxes into the system and never got to use what he put in.

Alternatively, someone who has never had a job in his life and who doesn't mind living off the system enjoys the full benefits that this man paid for. Health care, food, and housing.

That is also not viable.
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No, the whole point of going to a business school is to manage a medium/big business or grow a medium business into a big business. We have not yet figured out what exactly makes a new business venture succeed (apart from having heuristics in the most general terms). We have had better luck with the question of "How do I manage an existing business?" or "How do I grow the volume of business?" which is what the business schools teach (apart from a couple of entrepreneurship courses).
Essential Habits of Highly Passionate People
Safer asynchronous workflows for GUI programming
Bangalore cops tell Google to pullout Street View cars
Global Shift in Renewable Energy Production
I'm not really inclined to figure out what the appropriate compensation for ICANN's CEO is. My comment was not about ICANN in particular.
And following this, remember what we read about here in Michigan about a school superintendent asking our governor to turn the city's schools into penitentiaries.

http://holykaw.alltop.com/school-superintendent-requests-sch...

If we spent half as much on our children or on public health care than we do on the massive prison population we have in this country, I bet we would still be #1 in the world in nigh everything. The American mindset of "here and now, what's the 'future'?" is going to destroy us.
So, That’s the End of Bitcoin Then?
Same feature set as http://repositoryhosting.com with a higher price point (they're at $6/month now for 2GB). They don't have a CLI or anything as far as I know but they do offer more storage space at $1/GB/month which is pretty nice if you just need a little extra.
I'm not convinced. The show is pretty good, the books less so, for reasons I wrote about in detail here: http://jseliger.com/2011/04/17/people-like-a-game-of-thrones... .

I suspect this is a case of The Godfather and other book-to-movie adaptations I can't recall off the top of my head: the adaptation transcends its source material.
Exclusive Interview with Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup, Creator of C++
Flag and move on. I stopped replying to articles that I thought we bogus and just flagged them. It's lead to the satisfaction of seeing several of them dead with my flag. HN has a way to deal with this, people should be encouraged to use it.
Earbits, Payola 2.0, and the Future of Music Marketing
Projections for the Blackberry play
I love the first book and like the HBO show, but I'm curious what people who haven't read the books think about the plot. Does it make sense? Is it just a jumble of characters that don't seem to have any depth?
The river traders of Brazil
Unity?

http://unity3d.com/
The conventional wisdom was exactly the same 2 years ago concerning android phones vrs the iPhone. Android has since moved to match the iPhone for market share. The same will probably happen for tablets. It'll just take a few years. I think the android tablets aren't very good right now, but I felt the same way about the android phones when they first came out.
I don't think they would install a service to start the helper program. Service and desktop interaction has been changed since Vista. IIRC this was to prevent the shatter attack that allowed Window messages to be passed between services and applications. I haven't looked but I think it could add the helper to the startup items for a user, or create a scheduled task.

You don't have to use regsvr32. Registration-free COM (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973913.aspx) has been around for a while. I wonder why this was not used, or if there is a limitation with certain types of COM objects.
Am I wrong, or did you just repeat the OP's point? He already knows that these apps are sloppy. He said exactly that:

>I've yet to see a third-party platform that offers 'support for building iOS apps' result in good user experiences and positive reviews.

Can you provide any apps that result in good user experiences as counterexamples? Or were you not disagreeing with him and I'm just reading you wrong?
Jasber - I'm doing pretty much everything you describe (random base password plus "salt" algorithmically derived from the URL, resulting in unique password per site, plus extra salt for email and banking, paypal etc.

However, where we differ is I then have those stored in LastPass, so I have log-in convenience, plus the ability to log in even without the password manager.
Rocketmelt - the social browser available for public.
I'm too lazy to look up the ref, but someone told me that the preference for average faces was actually an artifact of the averaging process. It turns out that averaging images of faces also makes the skin look a lot younger and smoother, and therefore more attractive.
Using XCode Configurations as Environments for iOS Apps
Great to hear, hoodoof! :)
> I like the idea of password managers, but in practice they were too much hassle for me.

Too much hassle in putting data in, getting it out, or both?

I used to feel that way, but I just ended up getting lazy too often and repeating passwords, so I started seriously using a simple one on iOS (that I helped make, so I had some encouragement). I never use autofill (it annoys the ever long crap out of me) and browser integration features and don't really want to, as I don't mind having to sign in occasionally (I prefer it).

I force myself to take the time to turn it on and create a new entry when i am creating a new web login (e.g. online bill pay for some utility) and I'm tempted to use a throw-away password. Or, when i realize i've got a throw-away password i've been using on multiple sites and it's time to set a new one. This makes data entry easy, it's kind of like lazy loading IRL ;-) People make a big fuss about having lots of add-on features for such apps, but in the end I think all one really needs is a good habit and a strong data store.

Our app uses an open source encryption engine we developed called SQLCipher, it's page-level encryption for SQLite plus some key hardening and hmac protection on the pages. You can check it out here (and maybe use it to build your own?) http://sqlcipher.net
It's quite viable in my country, The Netherlands. Sure we pay high taxes, but we aren't left on the street like dogs when life fucks us over. There are other disadvantages to our system of course, like the parasitic behavior you described.
Because we don't have these magical powers you imply. There is a strategic agreement regarding the nature, structure, and form of the planetary wide governance by vested interests. The actions of captive governments such as USA's affirm this adherence to an undeviating strategic goal regardless of who or what group has been "elected".

We live in a country where the legislative branch under threat of social chaos by financial interest voted with extreme haste to further enable a manifestly and massivelly corrupt financial system. Meanwhile back at the executive branch, there is a merry go round between GoldmanSachs, The Fed, and "US" Treasury.

You are implying that if the American people used their voting rights to install a new regime in the executive and legislative things would change. "Change we can believe in." The depth of cynicism manifested by the elite is "very very wrong" and really really needs to be 'corrected' by the people.

(dear PG: real hackers are not censors)
I think that it's more important to look friendly, or approachable, to be attractive to someone. In my experience I've found that a smile is better than a scowl, and definitely better than a neutral expression.

True beauty comes from inside. My grandparents weren't terribly attractive... but I'll never forget my grandfather's smile. When he smiled it lit his face in such a powerful way I can see him even now (he's been dead almost 9 years!).

And I don't think that women looking "flirty" is attractive. Looks more predatory to me.
Another interpretation: Prison inmates have an easier life than the poor and free.

Of course, the potential for violence from other inmates is always there, but I suspect that is not a serious problem in most prisons. And the potential for violence from a random citizen in the street is relatively high in poorer areas.

Overall, prison may be a better alternative to severe urban poverty. This may be another reason why the poor are much more likely to face incarceration. Not only does their plight cause them to suffer a lack of alternatives, but the punishment for crime doesn't look so bad to them.
To answer #1, I offer you the biographical sketch of Jens Skou, who decided to take up programming in 1988...at the age of 70: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1997/...
Oh, it depends where you're brought up. What you really find attractive is a mix of all the races in the community where you were brought up. If everyone you meet in childhood is of the same race then you'll probably find that race attractive, but if you (say) spend half your time hanging out with whites and half your time hanging out with Asians...
So you're really looking for a netbook and you decided (wisely) not to choose the iPad?

The real slam here is that there is any such thing as the "tablet" market. There's an iPad market, the netbook market, smartphone market, and PC market. Trying to make something that addresses all of these poorly is a bad idea.

Windows TabletPCs never really caught on, and as you mention, an ARM-based android "netbook" kills it for the target market.

Android tablets suffer from an app deficiency and still-maturing OS, not to mention, they are addressing the iPad's native market (if they switched gears, took netbooks head-on like the Asus Transformer they would probably have better results).
A Delhi-based start-up company at the forefront of a printing revolution
this is an active project, and can the team really not afford to pay Github something like $5 per month per repo?

This is the OP's complaint: once you're over 20 private repositories, you're paying $100/month. He wants stupid-simple, hosted, private git repositories, and lots of them. He probably ran a bunch of numbers on servers, storage, and bandwidth, and found that he run a simple, low-cost hosted git solution (without all the fancy web features) at a fraction the cost.

There was an opportunity in the market to make a simple, low-cost competitor to github, and he built it. Kudos.
Absolutely agree with you. G0T's theme song is unusually long. Yet, I haven't forwarded past it even once.Same with Fringe (I love the little changes they make based on the episode's universe or timeframe). The retro theme song was absolutely nerdgasmic. I also used to be quite fond of Rome and Prison Break's (chiefly because of the music, which is also composed by the music director of GoT) opening sequences.
I would think the opposite, as the 'familiar face' idea would lead to more inbreeding in groups, thus less healthy offspring. Plus, one should keep in mind that for millions of years, beauty was not as important a constraint as proximity and availability.
For the male example at the top, the shape of the face is so changed it doesn't look like the same person.
Here's a page where you can compare various algorithms, including this new one, over many classic pieces of pixel art:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/...
Do you see search result #1,000,000 on your first page? Congratulation, your internet is censored.
Save your money or donate it to the FSF

http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/

https://my.fsf.org/donate/
Technically, yes.. waving your command line wand IS a solution. But also, technically, there isn't any reason why you shouldn't be able to keep 100+ small remote git repositories active for less than $100/month.

Also, Github doesn't require you to know how to use tar, S3, or have any other Linux experience. So why should this particular use case? Why wouldn't a business be able to cater to that market?

This is a business, and as such, should be measured as one. Why are we criticizing the "technical necessity" of the product? Are we under the impression that HN is the target audience?
I consciously over-reacted, Matt. By its nature, I expect HN to be a predominately coastal audience. I came away from your blog post with a bad impression of Indiana, and I wanted to get in front of that problem in the HN thread. If it had been inside baseball, a piece written for an audience of midwesterners, I would not have needed a proactive defense.

I agree with your impression of Indy as "overwhelmingly .NET-oriented." Microsoft has a huge market presence at every level. Nevertheless, in my experience, python is at least as common as any other non-Microsoft stack.
Is it hard to build, market and maintain a web app that makes $1000 a month?
The Commodity Bubble?
_Because I pay for a secure service_. Sure, I'm not stupid and I realize that it conceivably could be hacked, but I expect the company to respond appropriately and deal with security proactively. I ask this of all aspects of my computer (including PGP, etc.)
And it is, if you somehow have less than 10 private repos. I personally have over 25, and our group has over 50...putting us in the $100/month range
You know what i think, the filters put a smile on these photos rather than anything else.
I would argue that the headline isn't necessarily true. The Asus Transformer just came out, and they can't get them to store shelves fast enough. It took me a month to get one, and I almost missed my chance(again). The Transformer is really the first non-iPad tablet to get it right, IMO. It's fast, stable, the screen is beautiful, and everything works.
The Xoom had a shot, but too many features were not working when the tablet was shipped. Now that they are working, it's kind of too late, since Motorola has already put a bad taste in consumers' mouths.
The other side is effective marketing. Apple is the first tech company to put together appealing commercials that make people(non-geek) want their products, without really knowing why they want them. The iPad is decent (I own one of those as well), but it doesn't really offer much more than a well-made Android tablet. Apple has done well in making their product look cool.
To me, this sounds very close to the Idea vs Execution we are all so familiar with here at HN. People who know can't really claim that it's because Apple came first - Windows had tablet devices before. People also can't claim it'd because Apple learned from earlier tablets, because others have come after that aren't as good. It's a result of Apple producing a good tablet.

I have a PlayBook I use for day-to-day in my day job, and it sometimes feels as if some design decisions were made to deliberately be different from Apple. However, it leads to an overall inferior experience for me, that I'm close to giving up on the device. I can't see myself recommending it to anyone, except for the fact that it plays Flash. However, even that issue isn't as big as it was before.

I'm still hoping someone else produces a compelling product to challenge Apple, whether it be Google, Amazon, or Microsoft. It would not be good for all inovations in this product category to only come from one company.
Still. MY god this is worrisome.
Nice - this is something thefunded is lacking.
merits/demerits of universal health care aside, this is a very sad article. something needs to be done to fix healthcare in this country.
I don't believe that this is necessarily true. Personally, I grew up in a >98% white town, and yet I find myself attracted to attracted to Asians. Relevant: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-...
fyi - it's already been done few years ago, http://repositoryhosting.com/
The Filter Bubble Is Overblown
How to do Site Speed Optimisation
Ultimately there's no substitute for human judgement to filter things. It's just a question of who makes the call, and how "democratic" the process is.

"Interestingly, about 95% of companies that apply to be featured on AngelLiist do not get intros. Only the top 5% are emailed out to angels for review. Ravikant and his team select companies only if they can show some growth, an angel or founder who is a known entity, or a known advisor or colleague who endorses the company."
I agree, I don't believe that over-personalization is an issue. (As I already said in another comment.)

But here's why some people probably don't like personalization: It's invisible. There is nothing on the results page that tells you whether your results are personalized or not. Sure, you can look at whether the browser is in incognito mode or you can look for some parameter in the URL, but these things require that you already know about personalization.

In contrast to personalization there are various indicators that a page is localized. The most prominent is obviously the language of the text. As soon as all the search results are in my local language it is very obvious to me that I got localized search results. I can also detect localization by looking at the Google logo on the homepage (localized versions have the country name in grey text below the Google logo), by looking at the language of the Google interface, by remembering the domain name I used to access Google and by looking at the sidebar on the left that even displays a guess of my location on the city-level.

There are no such indicators at all for filtered/personalized results. Every user around me starts with the same version of Google results. That's how everyone got acquainted with Google in the beginning. Same results for everyone. There is no reason for a user to question that until you see the differences by comparing search results, which most users won't. Someone who doesn't happen to work at Google or didn't hear about the "filter bubble" can't know that search results will start to diverge from vanilla results over time.

So personalized Google results violate the principle of least astonishment.

While I can't speak for other people, I think that the concerns that some people have about this are rooted in the fact that you can get trapped in some sort of feedback loop without ever knowing. If you could see that your results are personalized you could compare them to unpersonalized results and decide for yourself which you like better.
How large is the gig? Is it really worth your time to put together these agreements?

Is the client demanding it? If you're doing it as a side project, I wouldn't put in any more effort on overhead than you are being asked for. I recommend agreeing to do the work in exchange for a cheque. There are default common law/statutory rules in the US (I assume you're American based on the question, apologies if that's not true) that are probably fine.
I have a relatively good PPO plan through my US employer. I pay out $300 a month in insurance fees, and in addition I presume my employer pays out a couple times that. But, it still takes me a couple of months to get in for a doctor's visit and $30 for a 7 minute visit. You're not alone. Sure, I always have the $75 hospital option, but the hospitals largely are specialized for ER trauma.

The economics of health care is all backwards. It's an economics problem.
Not the point.

The point is that if they allow "God squad" to pass without comment, then they'll have to allow "Hot Dog Squad" as well. And then "Pho Squad" and "Grog Squad" will show up, followed by "Mop Squad" and "Pizza Squad" and "Gutter Cleaning Guy Squad". Pretty soon someone opens up a "Dork Squad" which is actually a Geek Squad competitor, but with the roads clogged with black and white and orange Beetles providing squad-themed services, there'll be enough precedent that it'll be impossible to defend.

That's a somewhat exaggerated scenario, but it's essentially the logic behind these apparently overly sensitive trademark defense cases.
The problem is that the parasitic behaviour the grandparent post described, occurs even without universal health care.

By the way, I guess for ethical reasons basic universal health care is inevitable. (Even the US has rules that require giving emergency care.)
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I think you missed the message.
"Your recommendation is hilarious because it still does not give the user any privacy."

I'm a big believer in prioritizing actual issues over perceived issues. Using SSL search prevents bosses, ISPs, and governments from sniffing your queries, and I consider those to be the largest threats to your privacy. Some ISPs sell their customers' query data and surfing patterns, for example. In contrast, when the Department of Justice tried to subpoena two months worth of user queries, Google resisted that challenge and won in court. Having worked at Google for 11+ years, I know that my colleagues care a great deal about our users' trust and privacy and work to protect it with features like SSL search, two-factor authentication, warnings when sites might be hacked or hosting malware, etc.

If you're that worried about Google, don't use it, but if you still want Google results but with as much anonymization as possible, I would choose Tor+incognito-Chromium instead of Scroogle for your searches.