skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Here's the relevant section:

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Then, in 1986 Congress passed a bill exempting GPOs from the anti-kickback provisions embedded in Medicare law. This meant that instead of collecting membership dues, GPOs could collect “fees”—in other industries they might be called kickbacks or bribes—from suppliers in the form of a share of sales revenue. (For example, in exchange for signing a contract with a given gauze maker, a GPO might get a percentage of whatever the company made selling gauze to members.) The idea was to help struggling hospitals by shifting the burden of funding GPOs’ operations to vendors. To prevent abuse, “fees” of more than 3 percent of sales were supposed to be reported to member hospitals and (upon request) the secretary of health and human services.

But, as with many well-intended laws, the shift had some ground-shaking unintended consequences. Most importantly, it turned the incentives for GPOs upside down. Instead of being tied to the dues paid by members, GPOs’ revenues were now tied to the profits of the suppliers they were supposed to be pressing for lower prices. This created an incentive to cater to the sellers rather than to the buyers—to big companies like Becton Dickinson rather than to member hospitals. Before long, large suppliers began using “fees”—sometimes very generous ones—along with tiered pricing to secure deals that locked GPO members into buying their products. In many cases, hospitals were obliged to buy virtually all of their bandages or scalpels or heart monitors from one company. GPOs also began offering package deals that bundled products together. To get the best price on stethoscopes, a hospital might have to agree to buy everything from pacemakers to cotton balls from the GPO’s preferred vendors. Hospitals went along because they got price breaks, usually in the form of rebates if they met buying quotas.

This situation only grew thornier in 1996, when the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission overhauled antitrust rules and granted the organizations protection from antitrust actions, except under “extraordinary circumstances.” Once again, the idea was to help struggling hospitals, this time by allowing the buying groups to grow big enough to negotiate the best deals for their members. But the decision led to a frenzy of consolidation. Within a few years, five GPOs controlled purchasing for 90 percent of the nation’s hospitals, which only amplified the clout of big suppliers.

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Government meddling triggered all kinds of mutations that led to the current situation in more ways than one.
I'd be curious to know whether Sheryl Sandberg's staff are also allowed to leave at 5:30. Or is this just a privilege available to a senior executive, which she might never even consider granting to her underlings? I'd be more impressed to hear that software developers at Facebook could work the same hours. Anyone at Facebook have any insights on this?
The first 2 are simply version issues, whilst the 3rd is nothing to do with the rendering engine. Chrome uses V8, Safari does not.
Which will be ignored by Feedfetcher :-)

Plus you cannot put a robots.txt at s3.amazonaws.com so if the url is accessed through the https://s3.amazonaws.com/.... url, the robots.txt will not work.
I'm an old gamer, run only Linux and I _will_ buy and pay for native Steam games.
whats the license?
Also pretty easy to recreate using qTip2 http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip2/.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Ooops, lens cap is on.
This really underscores Amazon's glaring omission of a billing cutoff on Amazon web services. How hard would it be for them to let me say, cut off my services at $100/month?

This is the main reason I'd never use AWS to host anything public.
What are your views on the bubble and crash that bitcoin went through a few months ago?

What about competing crypto-currencies?
While I agree with much of the substance of your post, the fact remains that psychology is a mess. A friend of mine once told me that doing a doctorate in a subject only really gave you the ability to see how your field is wrong and all the problems with it, and I would agree.

The problems with psychology, from someone who's been at it for a while:
1) lack of focus on replication
2) in survey studies, failure to correlate psychometric measures with behaviour or other kinds of measures (surveys versus reaction time measures versus physiological measures).
3) An unfortunate lack of understanding of the assumptions behind the statistical procedures used routinely within the field.
4) Misplaced emphasis on theory at the expense of prediction. A relatively well known psychologist, quite statistical aware, posted on stats.stackexchange.com that the goal of psychology was theoretical understanding, not prediction. For the life of me, I can't see how one can develop good theories without prediction, but it appears to be a dirty word within much of psychology.

That being said, people are hard. They change their behaviour based on what they think you are trying to do, they tell you what you want to hear, and even when they tell the truth as they see it, they may well be mistaken.

So while its not right to write off an entire field for some errors (in fact, my results are all perfect) its also useless to deny the problem and pull a Freud by saying that everyone who disagrees with your methods has some kind of psychological disorder.
No, you can't. It'd have to be at the root of http://s3.amazonaws.com/.

This is mentioned specifically in the article, in fact.
The article states that (1) you can't and (2) the bot ignores it.
Have the difficult conversation now before you have "kids".
You're assuming the others available to him are any better.
Are you sending it out to your friends and asking them to upvote it? I read a pg comment that mentioned there are mechanisms on HN to deal with "voting rings"... So if you submit something and ask a bunch of people to upvote it each time, I believe it does something. I could be wrong, but trying to offer some ideas.
Pushing Data, Not Pages is the New Model for Application Development
> Can you limit bandwidth with AWS?

Not on S3, no.
Interieur: zo kies je de geschikte gietvloer
5 years later: print CSS still sucks
Ark (YC W12) Raised $4.2 Million Seed Round to “Keep Complete Control”
Please save these types of comments for Reddit.
Tell HN: "Founders Anonymous" for startup folks
HNers,

Lot of us are running startups (at different stages of growth). We regularly go through the stress of running a startup. We are riding roller coaster ride of ups and downs everyday. And we all share similar problems. Be it....getting users/customers, monetization, growth, fundraising etc. I realized after talking to bunch founders at tech events. It would be awesome if we can have something similar to "alcoholics anonymous" i.e. "founders anonymous".

I'm based out Bay Area but I haven't found anything similar to this even though we have so many startups here. So why don't we work on something like "founders anonymous". May be we can start something online just to discuss our problems. It would be tremendously helpful to first time founders. Its better to let out your emotions rather than keeping them in your head.

What do HNers think?
Perhaps the server needs to know the image dimensions for page layout.
Only certain types of radiation can activate other materials, and I don't think the sort of radiation you find in space is that type.
As I understand it the whole point of their device is that it avoids interfering with existing devices, and in particular tv signals and wireless microphones. Perhaps I'll just send them an email for clarification.
+1 Except AFAIK Des only ever wrote 2 posts that were in any way "promotional". And even at that, they're pretty damn classy posts. E.g. this is the other one and it's been one of the most popular posts on the Intercom blog to-date: http://blog.intercom.io/automated-emails-customer-respect/ But isn't any post on a company blog a promotional post in some way? (Maybe not.) Disclaimer: I work at Intercom.
It's really awesome that Amazon was reasonable and refunded the charges because they were accidental. I mean, technically it was still your fault, so it would have been easy for them to be jerks about it.
As I said, I have an opinion/belief. If I had evidence, it would be more than an opinion. But it's not.

As for the certainty, no one so far has created a test, not even theoretically, to discern between a created and an uncreated thing. At least I'm not aware of any.

Still, epistemologically, beliefs can be shown to be true, although they are not justified. Sometimes it's pure luck, some other times it's insufficient justifications.

When I say it's improbable, it's a statement of belief. Not my intention to be persuasive.
Could this be a bug in pg's ranking algorithm? I know the internals are kept secret, and is usually in flux, so maybe a recent change caused this odd behavior?
In a place and time where the motor lobby had not been so successful, the law would probably recognize this reality by imposing strict limitations on the use of machinery which, as you describe it, is so intrinsically dangerous. Locomotive Acts, for example
Start-Up Chile, you guys are doing it wrong.
http://www.demodaychile.com/eng.html

This isn't what a demo day is. What the hell? Two hours of demos? This is a conference to pat yourselves on the back for raising your international profile. You make the handful of quality teams compete for two one-hour slots to demo. When we (the teams) organized the first demo day (because you didn't think it was important enough to help us do it even though we asked) with SUP it was way more than two hours and nobody had to fight for position. It's about the entrepreneurs, it's about the companies they're building and the opportunity you're giving them.

sigh

The way to make Chile a bigger success is to get these startups to succeed. Piddly competitions like this aren't helping.
I'm sick of good/interesting posts disappearing of the the frontpage. It's not just a case of them gradually falling, but more like going from the front page to 300+ in the space of minutes. It's a shame. I used to like the HN content.
There must me something else to it because if the spreadsheet is sitting passively open there would be no need for Google to go an pre-fetch again.
It's a great feature if you scan lots of documents and want to search them.

This way I have one place to store both typed and scanned stuff, and it gets me close to paperless at home.
I guess that would be a nice feature to offer as an option, but most people would not want their web service cut off if they get a spike in traffic.
If only Facebook allowed their employees to work only 40 hours a week instead of forcing them to work nights and weekends during lock down periods.

She seems extremely out of touch with the workload for Facebook engineers.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/06/facebook-lockdown-google-m...
Also car manufacturers can't sell directly to consumers.
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This happens to me every time I submit my own links as well, I have just stopped bothering
I think the issue is that these posts are interesting, do gather votes but are kicked off the front page anyway.
Hm... I don't see how drug screening would affect liability in your example.

Sure, if someone comes in to work too inebriated to do their job, and you let them carry on anyway, that'd be your fault. But if you can't tell they (say) had a joint last night, then what's the problem? For one thing, if you can't tell, it's unlikely to be materially affecting their work; but regardless of that, you surely can't be held liable for something you can't detect? (As you said yourself, periodic drug tests are not a reliable detection method.)

I don't get US liability law. I really don't.

... but don't worry, I'm not in that "they're getting us used to testing!" tinfoil-hat-brigade. It's just, if your private habits don't affect your work, then they're none of your employer's business; if they do affect your work, then your employer shouldn't need a drug test to notice. Trying to regulate your employees' behaviour when it doesn't affect your business is busy-bodied puritanism, nothing more. IMO.
its too bad tineye doesn't do a better job of matching similar, you could feed the picture in, find the closest match, and then scrape the description off the corresponding pages where it was found.
Press can get (or at least request) a press badge that is keynote only. For those who can't get one, is there really $1600 plus expenses worth of value in blogging the event? Especially when all the usual suspects are live-blogging, the news comes out instantly, and the video is posted within a day?
Since our SSDs hold a cache of what's on disk, it's most effective to have the SSDs and the disks are in the same server. It's hard to assemble separate pieces into a tightly-coupled system.
End of the article:
"PS: Amazon was nice enough to refund the bandwidth charges, as they considered this activity accidental and not intentional. Thanks TK!"
Riak Adoption - We Have Some Work To Do
MockCrunch: Dropbox Fires Back at Google
$1,599? Understandable that they need the ~$7m in ticket sales, given that they just posted ~$11bn quarterly profits. ;)
I _need_ to be making $100, so I'm _worth_ $1000. You know, because I'm very unlikely to succeed.

Something doesn't add up here.

That road trip to see your parents (or going out with friends, or stoping to take in the present) is valuable in itself. It gives you time to center and to regain your balance. Thinking that every hour that you take off is costing you a thousand dollars is a great way to burn out.

Saving that $30 on hosting though, that's probably not worth it.
Google Docs is in HTTPS so they need to proxy the assets like Github does :
https://github.com/blog/743-sidejack-prevention-phase-3-ssl-...
get rid of him asap
Hotels with Apple-negotiated room rates are available here: http://www.chmweb.com/HomeAttendee.aspx?ShowKey=35822617116
(via the WWDC FAQ: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/faq/)
Jaywalking is one of the few activities that will make Danes break character and actually recognise a stranger. As a Boston-native who moved to Copenhagen for three years, seeing people waiting at crosswalks for a signal was a shock, and in the first few months I was certainly scolded a few times for jaywalking. The book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) has a very interesting chapter on jaywalking statistics and a variety of other traffic phenomena, and I would certainly recommend it to anyone curious about how cultural norms regarding transit are informed by legislation and infrastructure.
What you generically call "government meddling", I call (more precisely, imho) "corporation-funded, lobbyist-enabled legislative corruption".
You are soooo right. One of the worst fields, in my opinion, is nutritional science. Gary Taubes has written two books, "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and "Why We Get Fat" which eviscerate the core studies that are foundational to modern nutritional science.
Well, as you indicated, this isn't a simple problem to solve. The "let them have real jobs" statement is more of a statement of frustration than a real solution.

Maybe there's an angle there. I'll use the example of an MBA degree to illustrate. A friend of mine complete an MBA at Pepperdine. Over dinner I asked him: "What's an MBA good for?". He said "Not a damn thing without context". He got the MBA after over a decade as an engineer. He knew what to do with it and how to apply it to something concrete.

Perhaps rules for government employ could change in that you would be required to have had a career in the private domain for, say, ten years, before even qualifying to apply. And I'm not talking about working at a fast-food joint. Different positions would have different requirements. There's a difference between someone working at the department of motor vehicles vs. the Mayor of a city. I would be OK with DMV workers having five years experience in a non-trivial job (no flipping burgers) but would want a Mayor with a solid twenty years in a position of responsibility in a private enterprise. I don't know if this even makes sense, but we need better people in government than what we are getting. That's probably a huge part of the problem.
Berlin’s Startup Innovators Create A Factory To Call Their Own
Building App's is ridiculously simpler than solving major problems like cancer. Consider the smartest person you ever met could spends their entire life working on a cancer cure with everything they had and chances are they would have saved more lives by donating 10% of their salary to a vaccination program.
That may be so but it only proves my point. I was not talking about costs to the university but about the fact that people don't mind paying 90M+ for football but they do mind paying 1.7M for computer science. Whatever the channels for the payments may be.
Why do stars seem to "know" what type of galaxy they will inhabit?
Onion Browser (iOS Tor web browser, open source) now available in the App Store
I have seen something similar and it didn't end well. Though the partners brought very different things to the table. People also invest energy in cycles so it could just be "founders doubt" or "burnout".

Make sure you are both still having fun...and use all of the lessons you can from dating and marriage. This could be like the business version of "seven year itch".
Obama Will Veto CISPA Unless Changes Are Made
It's a nit, but this demo is "true" color cycling only in the sense of "faked" color cycling. The original hack used a series of color cells in the pallet to represent the object that was "moving", then updated the pallet (and only the palette) per-frame to effect the animation.

An HTML canvas has no palette. And in fact, for didactic emphasis, I just tried this on my phone -- where it works -- that has no color palette hardware at all. This code can only do what it does by doing what the original did not: modifying all the changed pixels every frame. It's emulating the original hack, not duplicating it.
Thank you very much, I've been looking for this for so long!
According to the article, that would not have helped; feedfetcher is meant to be manually triggered and thus does not obey robots.txt
This post completely contradicts the incentives behind founding a company in the first place.

A founder should only get (truly) paid on a liquidation event, be it an IPO, acquisition, or a new round of funding (this last one being a very big no-no).

No founder should ever be paying themselves market rate. If you hire a CEO from the outside and you need them for your company to succeed, _that's_ an instance when pay market value. But, if it's just you running the company, you should be keeping cash in the company, deferring to when it really pays off.

Should you be eating ramen for 10 years until you sell a billion-dollar company? Of course not. You also shouldn't be squeezing every penny into your salary until you hit "market value."

I have a trick for how much you should pay yourself: figure out how much you need to make per month so your company focus isn't interrupted with "how am I going to pay rent this month?"
They use quite a bit of HTML 5 so they should be able to do this client-side I would imagine. But I dunno.
MIT (just added to README)
African men. Hollywood Stereotypes. Totally different type of charity video
Uh, regulation often prevents monopolies. See: anti-trust regulation.
Interesting. I never thought of that. It seems almost silly that you're bringing insecure content over a secure channel like that but then again it is only images.
Try to get in touch with http://chinesepod.com. They seem very friendly and understand the local culture. You could also target ex-pats.
Just bought it and it works very well. And it's open source, which is refreshing for an app store app.
Thanks for posting this man! This is a great resource for people using the new asset pipeline in rails.
Yes, it's quite nice. The idea came from here

http://jonrohan.me/guide/css/creating-triangles-in-css/
Radiation isn't as big a problem if all the mining operations are completely automated, which appears to be their plan.

Also, your assumption that the material of the asteroids themselves must be radioactive is erroneous, that is not the case.
Ask HN: Why is HN slow (and faulty) on Chrome?
HN, for whatever reason, loads very slowly on Chrome for me versus Firefox. Also, the 'More' link at the bottom frequently results in a 'Page not found' link for me. Finally, randomly I'll get a 'This page did not return any data' on Chrome as well. Running latest versions of both Chrome and Firefox, on the exact same computer. Any thoughts?
Wow. Hopefully some healthy competition will force them to reconsider their policy on shared folders.
Okay now I need to see if my Deluxe Paint II floppies still work
How Beginner's Luck Works and How You Can Reproduce It Anytime
Much as a game built on Unreal or Frostbite can trivially support Windows and a variety of consoles, a game built on a future version of Source could easily support OSX and Linux.

Platform-specific code tends to be in the guts of the engine, not the content and gameplay code that characterizes a particular game running on it.
Pick subdomain-safe bucket names and you have an alternative.

http://[bucket name].s3.amazonaws.com/robots.txt
But those machines wouldn't be Google's, and you would probably either be committing a crime (building an exploited botnet) or using someone's money (be it your employer, university, or yourself) to run them.

This is pretty clearly a different league of attack: rather than attacking systems or spending money, you'd be exploiting a Google feature to use Google's resource for free to incur a giant amount of data transfer.
They wouldn't be jerks if they asked for the charges; you still generated the traffic and they had to pay for it.
Basically this is one of those areas where we can expect positive change iff there's a lot of public outcry. Sometimes the political stars align and we get actual reforms, but its not anything that we should expect that politicians would ever get up to on their own.
You could put robots.txt in the bucket if you address it using the http://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/ alternative URL scheme - a robots.txt in the root of the bucket would then be available at http://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/robots.txt
I am talking about "Systemic Desensitization" as developed by Wolpe. That helped form CBT.

The evidence base for SD and for CBT is pretty good. (It's a good treatment for depression, if applied by a skilled practitioner.)

Here's one link to a BBC Radio 4 programme about treatment of phobia using SD. (Might not be available outside UK, but there's probably some way of getting it.)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g5yy1)
Yes, that was what I was talking about - If you make a choice and then depend on another person making a choice, your chances are precisely 50/50. That's the prerequisite of the game.

Of course, it gets a lot more complicated after that, particularly because you can talk to your partner. (That's kind of why I wrote "superficially", but it seems that word has triggered the downvote police.) Not sure whether it changes much of the math, though - after all, anything that you weigh in favor of something could always be a lie.

I was pointing out that of the basic choices that are offered to you, one is very disadvantageous, so it should be an advantage to prevent it from even possibly happening by choosing Split. You can literally prevent 1 in 4 outcomes with your decision. This realization, paired with some very social engineering in the example is what made this so impressive to me.
That thing on the page scares me. Is that what Missingno. would really look like?