skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? I'm pretty sure that the British corporations work the same way as US, since personhood is pretty much the defining aspect of a corporation. If I want a licence to make ARM processors I would go to some person who "ARM Holdings plc" has authorized to act on said corporation's behalf. Then I would sign a contract with "ARM Holdings plc". And even if the person I signed the contract with left the company, or the president of ARM went to work somewhere else, or even all the employees and all the shareholders were replaced my contract with "ARM Holdings plc" would still be valid. Likewise there's no one person who can just sell off all of ARM's assets if they feel like it.

This is how most of the world does it, as far as I can tell, though in traditional Islamic law you only had business partnerships that dissolved if any of the members left.

There are various arguments against having authority reside in abstract entities rather than real people, but I hope you can see how it can be good in the case of democratic governments at least, like the City of London Corportation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation

EDIT: To be more clear, pretty much all businesses are some sort of corporation, even though most people use "Corporation" to refer to publicly traded joint stock corporations. All non-profit organizations are also corporations. Some (but by no means all) municipalities are also legally corporations, but I'm not sure exactly what the distinction between that and other forms is.

EDIT2: Reading some more in Wikipedia, I might be using the word "corporation" too loosely in the above, and there are also plane companies and partnerships that are incorporated entities but not corporations, and have the same sort of legal person hood that corporations do.
The one item missing here is a hot-topic of mine: emergency care. Not only are emergency services as expensive as the rest of medicine, but worse than that is the providers have a legal responsibility to care for the individual, who in turn has zero responsibility to actually pay the bill.

The other missing factor is that in a lot of cases, medicare/medicaid don't actually cover the actual cost of the procedure/service being provided; this leads providers and practitioners to charge more for those with better insurance in order to keep their businesses afloat.
To be fair, 37 Signals doesn't quite have the kind of product where I go "Wow what a great blog post, hey i've been needing such and such". When i'm choosing software to manage my project I evaluate all choices. Only after i've made an informed decision do I choose to sign up.

However, I can confirm with at least myself that the blog posts have given me confidence about their product that competitors don't have. In effect their posts have pushed me closer to using their product.

What i'm trying to get at, is that their posts are probably more effective at sales than they're giving themselves credit for. However it's hard to measure.
You've never had lightning take out equipment? I envy you. Few things are worse than hearing a crack, having the lights go out, and then smelling burning circuit boards.
can you "steal" that which is open?
Then you wouldn't consider the development and modification of life over time evolution either.
FWIW, I tell most developers I know to not stress out about their personal blog design and just focus on the value of content. The vast majority of default/built-in blog layouts are just fine. You're not a designer, you're not seeking to show off your design chops with a custom layout – just write good articles.

That said, this particular sort of design where it's not a standard blog theme and not a custom design, but is just tweaked Bootstrap just seems neither here nor there.
whatever stack you're using, it probably doesn't have very stable support yet. afaik there is no SPDY for nginx, the apache module seems quite experimental, etc..

So, unless you have the chops to fix issues when they come up, you may want to wait a bit until things mature.
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I am a marketer who can code in a rudimentary manner. I've done projects on a shoestring budget that have netted companies thousands of new customers and hundreds of millions of dollars.

What helps is that even if I can't code the entire project, I do know how to properly source and manage people who do. I have enough of an understanding to respectfully manage all the business and technical partners in a marketing project -- and help them work together in a way that produced a better sum of the parts.
You're missing a big point though. Does Pintrest need to internalize and take ownership over all of the content on the site in order to protect themselves legally? It seems that would open them up to far greater liability. And then in the same breath they foist that liability onto their users simply for doing what they are 'supposed' to do (pin things they are interested in).

As others have said, Flickr does not have the same "we own it now" stipulation so don't suggest that this is simply the way it has to be. If Pintrest were so inclined, they could keep the indemnity boilerplate but stop taking ownership of posted content. This would move their site much closer to Fair Use territory, which would in turn help minimize the legal risk taken on by users who pin and comment on content that isn't their own. Instead, Pintrest want to make sure they don't close a potentially lucrative door and don't mind if they abuse everyone involved in making and sharing content while they explore their options.
If you can execute it well, you may have a chance.
How do they guarantee at least two offsite copies? That would require that they give everyone 1TB out of 3TB. Unless they're also storing on their own servers, in which case the consumer-housed device seems pointless.

And two copies is still pretty low for flaky infrastructure. They're basically setting up your data as a torrent cloud, except there are no seeds if you lose your equipment, so you're trying to download fragments from a bunch of other machines, and each fragment is only on a couple of machines.
Could someone clarify using a service like OSM or Google Maps vs. using their data for map tiles?

After the announcement I read tweets that basically said Apple was still using the Google Maps service, but the tiles were rendered by Apple?

Based on what I'm reading it sounds like I misunderstood or am misremembering what I read.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Euphemisms.topicArtic...

http://clear-writing-with-mr-clarity.blogspot.com/2011/05/ge...
There are sometimes proposals to introduce a small fee to see a GP (General Practitioner - the first line family doctor that you'd go to see for anything not an emergency who'd refer you to other doctors for serious stuff that needs hospital treatment or prescribe meds otherwise).

GPs do get a lot of people who don't really need to be there, and it'd be nice if those people would use telephone triage systems like NHS Direct, or go and see a pharmacist. Having said that, an alarming number of people die from preventable illnesses because they "don't want to bother a doctor", so it does work both ways.

While England does have prescription charges only about 80% of people on prescription meds pay that charge, because there's a wide range of exemptions.

There has been research showing that a lot of people don't comply with medication. Interestingly the severity of the illness doesn't make much difference, and neither does having to pay or not pay for the meds. A surprising number of organ transplants fail because people don't comply with the regime of medication. This occurs in the UK (free meds and free surgery) and in the US (expensive meds, expensive surgery). It's made clear to the patients what the result of not taking the meds will be, and the patients know they're lucky to get an organ, and etc etc.

tl;dr I agree that most people don't abuse the UK health system. And the cost isn't something that enables people to abuse it or not.
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I know what you mean about bootstrap. On the other hand, nobody I know would have any idea what it is. One of my friends the other day who wants to do a startup had no idea what Wordpress is. I had to pretend not to be completely floored, lest I insult him.

If the blog will be targeted towards more savvy tech folk like yourself, then I kinda see your point. If it's not going to speak to that niche then I say go forth with bootstrap!

edit: and I'm sure he'll customize as he goes.
Thanks for sharing. This is a bit off-topic, but if you are interested in Scraping Web Pages, you might find that http://cQuery.com is an interesting solution which uses CSS Selectors (much like jQuery) as its mechanism to extract content from live web pages.
I think the accusations that they are trying to game HN is what they care about, and that doesn't fit within those 3 options.
> an aversion to using job titles

I just never understood the purpose. Humans are not inelastic beings who are a fixed cog in the wheel. I guess my official title is developer, but I spend just as much time in UX/design and IT roles, not to mention managing people doing the same.

And that is just at the place of my primary source of income. I work in other fields, completely unrelated to software, on the side. Out of context of my entire employment picture, developer really makes no sense as a title.
It does not appear as if they've submitted any of their own posts in the last couple months.
Wikipedia is correct, but that doesn't contradict my point. The actions of a company are the actions of its employees. If I say "Apple is stealing", then I mean that there are some people inside Apple who have decided to steal, so it's equally correct to say "Apple are stealing". The plural form emphasises the responsibility of the individuals, but that's not incorrect, as people don't (well, shouldn't) get a free pass just because they're acting on behalf of a corporation.
But will the pages scripts respond to events? For example on Twitter after the page loads it looks for a tweet in the hash bang and if there is one, does an XMLHttpRequest, then updates the DOM. Will Jsdom be able to scrape sites like that?
"IAmA Congressman Darrell Issa, Internet defender and techie. Ask away"
Am I the only one who thinks "Wise Guys" is a poor choice of name? I can't help but think they're somehow connected to organized crime.
Actually I believe what he is saying is that he doesn't necessarily care that opinions are varied, but rather that the essence of the community and HN's meritocracy is preserved. SvN/37signals shouldn't ever ask anyone to up/downvote anything, that's for you decide.

ps- you can't downvote articles anyway
Some researchers are interested in open source, collaborative tools. A great example is the Polymath Project or Polymath1, which resulted in two interesting papers. This project allowed anyone to join the conversation, and de-emphasized the need for personal credit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project

This approach is great in that it solves hard problems, which is the real purpose. Unfortunately, it is not much of a career boost, which is a key practical purpose.

Anyone can already publish open source papers on github. I tried this out a while ago, and realized the experiment -- to see what contributions were suggested -- wouldn't be useful without any readers (the topic is a bit esoteric):

https://github.com/tylerneylon/math
It almost makes me think that people get pissed thinking, "How can someone reach front page of HN? With every single post they make?"
Here's a mirror: http://i.imgur.com/gZ4xB.jpg

(well, it's more a simple screenshot of the page rather than a mirror, but you get the idea)
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you ensure that nefarious clients don't screw up your state?
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They've still had medium instances - I just spun up a few the other day. When did they retire them?
Here in the Netherlands every medical procedure has a standardized declaration code. On the site of the NZa (Netherlands Healthcare Authority) you can check the current and historical cost of a procedure for each hospital.

For example go to http://dbc-tarieven.nza.nl/Nzatarieven/zoekSnel.do and fill in declaration code 085090, the code for a MRI. The NZa determines a maximum tariff for many procedures. For other procedures the cost is negotiable between healthcare insurers and providers.
> Stop using the same password anywhere.

You might as well say, "Stop being human." That's never the right solution to network problems that require high reliability.
Did it, launched product that crashed and burned. Crawled back to corporate job. Doing startup part-time now... another 3 years before I can launch full-time again. Lessons learned: more $ for more runway. test product viability before dropping job. It will always take longer than you think: have a plan B. Do it part-time if you can, to test viability.
(iMac 2011)
I had to return an Intel 510 120Gb after about 2 months due to it constantly failing verify disk in Disk Utility and corrupting various files.

I replaced it with an OWC Mercury Electra 120GB; had to return that one off-the-bat, as it was DOA!
Not having much luck, but I'm hoping my OWC replacement will be OK. . .
You don't hate git, you hate that you have to use it. And that in order to use it you have to get smarter. Smarter about computers, and smarter about managing your code.

But don't be discouraged, git really is simple. It's dead simple. The command line syntax is super annoying, i'll give you that, but the underlying tech is a collection of simple concepts that meld into a complex powerful tool.

The first thing you need to do, is to stop thinking of git in terms of github. Git is designed to be a decentralized vcs, and you really need to think/learn about what that means. It's crucial. The prevalence of github means that most people will never even use it in a non centralized way, and while incredibly convenient, it undermines the learning process just a little.

The next thing you need to do, is just read progit -> http://progit.org/book/ . In fact that's really the first thing you should do. Stop thinking you can pick up git through osmosis and just read the damn book. At least by then if you still hate it you'll have more poignant issues to touch on.
EDIT: Moved the entire body of this post to the grandparent comment for more visibility. Sorry if that's a problem!
Link is down. I'd ask for a google cache link, but the irony would make me implode.
I'm famous.

No. Just Kidding.

Noah, take me off from the "some people aren't happy about this" list please. I think you're smart enough to read my post and understand what I pointed out back then.

It wasn't about whether I dislike the post or not. I was merely pointing out the marketing aspect 37signals did via the blog post (i.e.: the message for the audience), not the whole 37signals posts are everywhere.
Do they work on all platforms (Linux, Windows, Android, MacOX and IOS)? Do they automatically sync (so I don't end up being locked out of one account)? Can I be sure they won't be shut down and thereby leave me cut of from all my online services?

And what do I do when the password manager is, inevitably, broken into?

It seems to me that a password manager is a great theoretical idea, but they don't really work in practice.
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That won't help Apple users though -- OP points out that the map data is stale (possibly two years old). It suggests there was a one-off dump at some point which was then used to build the service.
These are welcome changes, but I really, really wish that new medium instance had 2 or 4 cores. I would pay a bit more for that, and having a single core is where many of our workloads really start to feel the pain, but we don't need all of the power (or cost) or a large instance.

I understand the economics though - cores definitely cost a lot more than memory, so perhaps its just wishful thinking.

EDIT: I should clarify - I know they already have the "High CPU Medium", but it would be nice to have a step between that and the Large instance type that had two cores, but slightly more memory.
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In addition to the attribution, I'd like to know how they are going to comply with the "share-alike" part of the license. Where can I download "Apple maps"? According to the OSM FAQ, it should contain not only the OSM data but all other data they have merged in.

It also seems like they should be required to release all the styling parameters and/or code needed to render the maps exactly as they appear in iPhoto - does anyone know how far CC-BY-SA reaches in a case like this?

EDIT: for that last part, I guess they probably would be fine just releasing the whole thing pre-rendered.
I wish Microsoft did the same with IE. One can wish...
Actually, you know who could probably sell this? Comcast. Make a single device that serves as a cable modem and also has this storage angle built in as either a "free" service with the bundle or as a small upsell.
How did you arrive at $125/user? A link for the unaware?
$200 = ($50 space per night to put self + 20 cleaning + 0.2 mint + 1.80 water + 3 air conditioning + other low-tech things)(1+percentage profit)

$20,000 = ($2,000 for 50 years of training for 5 docs + $3,000(1 + percentage unnecessary to prevent lawsuit) state of art chemicals & tests + 2,000 admin + whatev other stuff)(1+ percentage profit)

if the hotel industry was run like the hospital industry it would still cost $200-400 or so for an ok room. The price size is the big attention grabber in the video. preventing potentially imminent death, and legal responsibility for it, is EXPENSIVE.

also, in a hotel you decide whether to eat chocolate. in a hospital, you might be unconscious or have no clue wtf 'vancomycin' is. so doctors decide. video misses this consumption-decision aspect.

wishing for a free, transparent market in medicine is naive, at least now. healthcare can't be 'disrupted' as easily as javascript library trends. but we might at least wish for a standardized 'economy' emergency set of options that uses off-patent stuff and restricts procedures. ER docs would hate binding rules but it does make a difference in unexpected ER cost, even choosing cheap vs expensive antibiotics.

if you plan 3 months ahead to pay 10k for plastics penis enlargement, that's a somewhat different issue.
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The initial bill is written KNOWING that it will be discounted. Prices are obviously jacked up so they get negotiated down to something reasonable, just like any scenario where haggling is normal.

I was just in the ER and got the claim forms. Price paid was about 1/10th the initial bill.

If hotels billed like hospitals, they'd offer rooms for $1000/night and settle for $100 when you flashed a Hotels Club card, which everyone would have, pay a flat rate for + deductible, and would use to the max to squeeze every penny of value out of that flat rate.
Good looking json formatter
I wouldn't worry about it since you have so much time. Seems like you're in a pretty good spot. I'd consider getting into internships while you're in University(If you go to Waterloo, I think that they pretty much force you to do these in order to graduate) -- you can try working at some startups or bigger companies and see where you'll fit there. I wouldn't plan it out too much. You have to see what you'll enjoy through your experiences.
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Awesome idea, I'll be watching it for interesting projects.
worse than that

Are you saying poor people should just die when they are injured?

The emergency situation is the only time it should be reasonable for Dr.s to not have to provide webbased standard billing.
OK, one thing I'm confused about...what's the advantage scraping with node/jquery over a traditional scripting language like Ruby + Nokogiri or Mechanize?

It's true that this process won't render the page-w-ajax as your browser will, but I've found that if you do some web inspection of the page to determine the address and parameters for the backend scripts, then you don't even have to pull HTML at all. You just hit up the scripts and feed them parameters (or use Mechanize, if cookie/state-tracking is involved).
You should read http://progit.org/book/ if you really want to get better at git. Git is a hard tool to learn passively.
As you suspect, raw volume is a poor signal. We take a lot of other things into account: repeat visits, proportion of visitors that left a tip, the "sentiment" of the tips, etc.
What blue ocean would you suggest a baseball player enter, pray tell?
You've been viciously downvoted here, but you should have expected it. Hacker News has a pretty libertarian contingent that thinks that the acknowledgment that people have different experiences is equivalent to asserting that people have different capacities, because of an underlying assumption that the baseline experience is equal for everyone. The kind of thought process that sees it as obvious that a claim that Affirmative Action is needed is equivalent to a claim that minorities are naturally inferior.

Contrary to what some people say, these situations are very often a gender thing.

They tend to happen in places where girls are most limited in expression, at times when they are most limited in expression. The range of behavior considered normal for teenage girls in the US is severely limited compared to what is considered acceptable for teenage boys.

When I was in high school, I could wear the same dirty jeans every day, I could start a band that wore mouse ears and played top 40 pop songs backwards, I could spend 12 hours straight programming my computer at home, I could go to school without shoes on and completely ignore my hair unto entropy.

If I were a girl, not plucking my eyebrows would drop me to low social status at school, and depending on the school maybe even just not wearing makeup would do it. Combine that with letting your hair go to pot and locking yourself away in your room for 12 hours to program your computer, and you might be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder like aversion or oppositional defiant at best, thrown out of the house at worst. In certain communities around the world, the triggers for deviance might start if you wore pants, or just asked to wear pants, or refused to go to the dance. I swear I've read nationally distributed news articles that start with girls choosing to wear a suit to prom, and end in death threats.

Being sick, or possessed by demons, isn't punished in society like the very real female transgressions of sloppy dressing, or being obsessed with math. Sickness and possession are signs of physical or spiritual attack that make you a victim, rather than signs of deviance that make you a threat to the social order.

Expression that relieves stress has a lot wider acceptable range in certain groups than in others. The groups with the narrowest options for expression tend to find more bizarre loopholes (sickness and religious mania), resulting in behaviors that seem odd.

As a boy, the only thing I was expected to avoid was "acting like a girl." Girls are actually expected to act like girls - whatever strange set of largely male-dictated behavior that entails.

edit: Fainting fits were once an expected behavior for women, and special furniture was required. Hysteria was thought of as a disease of female reproductive organs, and was cured through orgasm.

special furniture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_couch

the expert's opinion:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ilXAFoFg1-8C