skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for one of the top 10 hospitals in the United States. Our health insurance, ironically, isn't all that great. Co-pays are relatively high, certain things not covered, etc.
So it got me thinking about health insurance and how it affects us (US residents), in comparison to our European counterparts.

One may argue that Europe went too far with their "social" expenses (hence, the current financial meltdown). Possibly. However, their view of healthcare (education, and other items) as a BASIC human right is one I strongly believe in. Healthcare should NOT be a luxury item. Yet, it is treated as such in the US. Almost exactly a year ago, I had a bike accident right off the Golden Gate Bridge. For 10 minutes I was limping my way to Sausalito until I happened to run into a police officer who thought I should be picked up by an ambulance to taken to the hospital (although they suspected that I had a concussion, broke my arm and shoulder, I came out with just scratches). I HAVE insurance, but for weeks after this injury, I was opening my mailbox at home, expecting a $20K bill (just the 15 minute ambulance ride was $2000). I was absolutely terrified. Imagine... and I HAVE insurance. Luckily, I ended up paying just a few co-pays, and the issue was resolved.

One of the benefits of a great employer in the US (like you have -- Microsoft, for example) is "Health insurance, Dental covered" etc. That's how they post it in job boards. Shouldn't health insurance be a given??

To your argument that things are settled through loans, etc: I am utterly against it. Obviously, statistics show that these things don't work. The hospital I work for serves an under-served population. People suffering from chronic diseases and who should be seeing a doctor on a regular basis do not. Why? Cost. They end up showing up in the ER with a MAJOR issue months later. Their condition is much more complicated to treat, and significantly costlier. So, we "saved" on a silly, cheap follow-up, but ended up spending a huge amount later. And guess what? These patients can't pay their bill anyhow, so we have to write the expense off.

I am familiar with quite a few people who would have loved to change their jobs, or even start their own business, but are too worried about losing their health insurance benefits. Is that the right way to go for the US? Probably not.

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And credibility in the industry has declined proportionally...
> (portions omitted for brevity)

Definitely not very Ayn Rand.
Ditto. If the timeline for releases accelerates, I want to have early access to this awesome tool!
Long back; I was in the same boat, deciding between Rails and Django.

From my completely unscientific research on this topic - Its not the framework that matters, its the Language.

Its the age of tools - so keep trying newer things! Play around - node and web2py.
We fall in love when we try new things.

In my case, I loved python more. I took the Django route.
It does take some time to get acquainted with a framework and the community if you are new to web frameworks.
8 to 10 months of steep learning curve inside.

Here is a Quick checklist-

1. Do you like too much Magic? Rails is more magic than django.

2. Ask yourself - Do you love python or ruby as a language more?
Its a team decision and access to developers available near your region.

I believe that, once you get solid grip over the language you will roll out your own and can bring-in changes in the core-framework.

Initially stick with one framework and dig inside!

3. I personally like the Django-python community more than Rails.

Folks with hardcore CS background + Having Linux backgrounds take the python route. YMMV.

4. You love Javascript? or Have a team with more front-end developers?

Its a good idea to first try out JS frameworks - node.js for server-side, Backbone and coffee-script.
Check meteor.js. You may like it.

Finally I would love to hear - on what you're working on.
Your profile doesn't read your email/contact.
> It boils down to somebody else saying "are you fucking kidding me?" and you get to say: "no."

Yeah, the "are you fucking kidding me?" comes from the fact that you did something awesome, i.e. something can't be done trivially by some far simpler means. So I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me :)

The only "are you fucking kidding me?" that this hack evokes is "you spent all that time and talent to do /that/?".
Good Listening Skills Improve Intimacy
You must be talking about the alpha release that was released end of last year? My joke about TM's new release turned out to be not so good.
High-risk video game venture has Rhode Island, Curt Schilling reeling
I tried it. The rand() function keeps segfaulting.

(shrug)
My intelligence fails me whenever I try!
With an average rating of 1 1/2 stars. Ouch!

Bonus: one of their other apps ("Dot Lock Protection") has a one-star rating, probably because what it claims to do is impossible. :P
I've never seen a legit advertisement for a stock, so that should tell you something. If it's legal, there'd be so much disclosure required it would not look like an ad.
He was a billionaire already.
PC Help World: Facebook for sale
Finally, Mark Zuckerberg decided to open for sale 1/5 of Facebook. This auction started today and after so many fraud thoughts that the biggest social media website will be sold, it is finally officially on sale!!!
new shiny bubble stock to chase! dumping last bubble stock!
I fear the word "hacker" is also starting to be a little bit cliche :(
Quite true, but far out speculation about the future of computer architectures doesn't really seem germane to talking about a new form of fast non-volatile memory.
Do you know about any evidence that other professions with a larger female/male ratio e.g., lawyers, doctors treat women somehow better than IT?
Steve Yegge wrote a really interesting/entertaining piece about this. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... You might enjoy it.
Yes, one million would be perfect actually for us :)

Let's see how it goes.
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It's read off an array.

I can definitely add a refresh timer or button. The additional photos may be more difficult.

Thanks.
I am blessed with how much I learned, and am still learning from Jim Gray. I <3 storage because of him. RIP.
Yes, but in your example the system is still incomplete and the moment you would add an axiom that would make it complete, it would become inconsistent (so either you never finish your puzzles or you finish them and exactly the same moment they fall apart).

From Wikipedia again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...

Gödel's theorem shows that, in theories that include a small portion of number theory, a complete and consistent finite list of axioms can never be created, nor even an infinite list that can be enumerated by a computer program. Each time a new statement is added as an axiom, there are other true statements that still cannot be proved, even with the new axiom. If an axiom is ever added that makes the system complete, it does so at the cost of making the system inconsistent.
Those things are just PR stunts so that news directors have nice clips for the evening news -- they're gathered up, told to clap for a long time, and the cameras roll. In this case, it's particularly transparent because they're doing it in the park. The NYSE at least does this on that balcony overlooking the "trading floor", which gives it a look of legitimacy.
So many ninjas but no samurais in sight?

A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan who specialized in unorthodox warfare. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, and open combat in certain situations.[1] Their covert methods of waging war contrasted the ninja with the samurai, who observed strict rules about honor and combat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja
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Setting regulations you want your own community to abide by is fine and dandy. That sounds like what they are doing. The minute you try to expand those on everyone else is when you need to shut the fuck up. Just stay away from that line ultra-orthodox jews and you will be fine.
I wrote "Couldn't it just be that men are discouraged (!) from entering basically any field other than science/technology these days?", to which you tersely replied "No." Apparently, this was the end of the argument for you.
Some people are scared of information, scared of facts and ideas. While I think the internet is filled mostly with petty arguments and cat pictures, this lends to the evidence that the internet is a source of power.
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Not un-related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom#Simulation_hypothe...
Agreed. The growing levels of envy and cynicism on hn is unhealthy. Trashing other people's efforts doesn't make your own more successful.
I'm a firm believer that if you "dis Dre, you dis yourself."

but Facebook? not so much...
This is certainly an area where ninja > pirate as advertising for 'pirate programmers' probably would not give you the same results (although I acknowledge it might get you better programmers)
Interestingly, Google Finance also says: "Total Shares 2.74B".
lol jews did wtc
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I'm an iOS/Objective-c developer, and I'm completely missing the joke. Anyone care to explain it to me?
The rockstars are really hurting these days, but don't be jealous of the ninjas. The rocket scientists, mavens and even the experts have all been there and faded. Some day maybe even the the worker bees who can block and tackle will be back on top.
My point is that none of these are even $100k cars, and if you wanted one you could save for one. They're not Ferraris or otherwise requiring IPO money.

Exige is basically the same as an Elise. Sometimes they have superchargers.

An Evora is similarly priced to a decked-out Cayman. I mean, we're not talking Expensive for any of these.

(I've driven all of these, and much higher-end stuff, too.)
Question. Did this:

> I've been quiet over the past couple weeks as I've been putting together a demo to show the real power of what's to come and I can't wait to show it to you all. I'll give you a little hint: I've been making a lot of sssSSSSssssSSssss noises lately ;)

ever get released? Was the demo for the YC?
How many stocks have the potential to be the biggest company in the world? Fb is one of them.
That's kind of a distraction from the real problem, isn't it? We know we are doing this badly. It doesn't matter if other professions are worse; if they are, that just means they have their own problems to improve on.

To paraphrase the rifleman's creed, there are many industries with this problem, but this one is mine.
You can pretty much do that right now (and have been able to for years) with composed_of: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Aggregations... (search on that page for it)
Ahh, yes, hacker and as someone said above "pirate". I actually find all these terms a little insulting, making me feel like they're want to hire a twelve year old - or something.
Not a programmer, but doesn't Jason Calacanis refer to himself as a Samurai?
Huh? How does this relate to anything either you or I have written in this thread? Now all of a sudden we have to get more women into tech because there is a "shortage right now". Why not motivate more men who may be more interested in tech to begin with?

By the way, the alleged shortage is addressed by H1-B visas. They have the welcome side effect of driving down prices of domestic developers, and if this doesn't help, the corporations just collude a tiny little bit and make anti-poaching agreements.
I started getting into Objective-C while learning iOS app development... at first, I struggled a lot because of my approach to writing obj-c code like I write c# code... once I dropped that mentality, took a fresh retrospect... I have become its (obj-c) fan!
Oh definitely -- Legal, Medical, Real Estate, "Corporate Leadership" -- those guys are definitely out for the payday. They also usually are thrown by niche publication/magazine firms, so there's even more to be made.
It's fine that they want to figure out what the internet means for them, as long as they are not going to try to impose those positions unto others.

Given that they haven't even managed to will themselves into basic decency towards their own women I have my doubts here.
This is great to hear. It is pretty much the problem/solution that I've diagnosed and stated in another post:

I think the root issue is they need a developer who just does tech support for the other 10 non tech people. And then a developer who can actually build shit quietly.

I will push this stance more aggressively having read your post.
Facebook off to faltering public start
The Systemic Risk of Free APIs
So, "we" know that "we" are doing this badly. Well, all I know is that corporations are falling over themselves to hire any woman who applies as long as she doesn't add negative productivity to the team. Hiring standards for women are definitely far lower than for men.
I agree. I also think the internet is dangerous, if you haven't got good information hygiene and a proper information immune system going. I'm serious.
Show HN: My very first mobile webapp, made for the American Red Cross
Show HN:A tale of two landing pages
Last week I asked for feedback on my landing page.

OLD:
http://www.appynote.com/index-old.php

After seriously taking to heart the feedback from this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953543

Ladies & Gents [probably mostly Gents:)]

I present the NEW & IMPROVED:

http://www.appynote.com/

Verdict?
Not all valuable scrapeable data is copyrightable.

Sure, but a lot of it is, and even the bits that aren't may be protected by other laws such as database rights depending on your jurisdiction. I think anyone who maintains that you can't stop scrapers as a general principle is possibly a little unwise.
I would love to and actually was looking at pyTables and little bit at pandas. I am coming from RDBMS-based DWH world mostly, so it is a bit new area to me, howerver from what I've learned so far, there is huge potential. Unfortunately, currently I have no resources to do that, even I would like to see that more than RDBS backends (as there are already plenty of tools for that). Is there any way how this possibility can be supported? I would not mind working on a project for someone that would require OLAP layer on top of something "strange" and that there will be (open-source) by-product in form of a backend...

[edit] p.s.: I am the only developer so far, and I am open for collaboration.
Is a program not entitled to the sweat of its brow?

"No!" says the man in San Francisco, "it belongs to the community."

"No!" says the man in Hollywood, "it belongs to the Creator."

"No!" says the man in Sweden, "it belongs to everyone and no one."

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different...
Nasdaq Manages Facebook IPO Amid Trade Confirmation Delays
This is fake. Actual Objectivist C code doesn't support the import declaration.
What the Facebook IPO Really Says About America's Economy
Please consider a BSD-style license. There are lots of people that can't or won't use GPL-licensed projects.

Alternatively, will you be releasing under a commercial license?
Well, I'd argue that configuration is nicer with nginx than with apache if you're running something other than php.

But the trade off there is nginx only has centralized config whereas you can do .htaccess stuff with apache, so meh.
I've met them. Once went to a Ruby meeting, and the presentation's slides featured "My Little Brony". The guy's desktop background was of a manga girl with very exaggerated features, and some in the audience (they were all males) called out for him to keep the screen on her.

I left after the talk, and won't go again.
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You are absolutely right. Will add this to the Header
I'd love to work there. Just had a friend interview in fact (didn't quite make it but enjoyed the experience). The only concern is salary and working conditions. I mean I get the impact of the work and it is true that is by far the most important consideration for any engineer. But I have worked for smaller companies before where salary was well below average and there were 70-80-90 hour weeks. It was incredibly demoralizing. It would be nice to hear that isn't how SpaceX is.
didn't notice that. what a weird thing to hear form Calacanis :)
Half Maltese here too!
I agree that showing maturity as a field will drive fewer people away of both genders. But you've seen the recent scandals: sexism is obviously a problem in our field and that is a problem that should be solved along with the other.

Your second point is outrageous nonsense.
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This is a racist and vile comment that has no place in civil society or hackernews. Please leave.
This is exactly the kind of censorship we are talking about. Attack the comment, not the man
Very true. Thanks for pointing that out.

The idea of the contract was that I could stand being in my current position as long as the comp was better. But this course of events would just lead to a lot more downstream pain than expected.

Higher up in this chain there was the mention of asking for a severance package, which seems way more easier to mention off the cuff and not look like a premeditated f-you move.
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I haven't looked into Cloudflare a lot, but it looks like it would solve that as well.
The hidden CMO desk of the future
Wow. I spent most of my undergrad extracurricular effort working on my university's HPH team. Incredibly difficult challenges in aerodynamics and structures. The goal is to go for a whole minute and reach 3 m altitude. In the few decades the prize has been offered, the record has been seconds and centimeters high.
It's a good thing that with the Pirate parties growing across the world, people are going to be better informed about the importance of freedom in information exchange.
Yes in principle, however it doesn't give a group carte blanche to do what it wants within its own community. E.g we/society should disprove if they want to tell all their kids that they should not be gay (since some of their kids might be gay). Just because they aren't trying to get everyone else to say the same thing to their kids doesn't meab doing that is ok.

In short, "yes, but"
While I respect what it took to get Facebook to this point and realize it has helped millions of people. I still find the entire concept rather creepy, and much of there upper management sleazy. I also expect a lot of people to lose a 'lot' of money either directly or due to huge opportunity costs when buying Facebook stock.

PS: I have never signed up, and I know plenty of people that stopped using Facebook. I also see people spending hours a day while at work on Facebook so they could become a 500 billion dollar company, but it's got nothing to do with envoy that I have told many people to avoid the stock.
SmashingMag always comes up with some super useful stuff. Instant InstaPaper It.

I am guilty of having thought "I write based on how it sounds to me!".
Look for it at the beginning of next week :)
Tell us more. This is awesome.
New & Improved: http://www.appynote.com

Verdict?
Micron built DIMM modules with computation on them as an experiment in this. They of course simply put a CPU inside the DIMM controller (imagine each of your DIMMs was a GUMSTIX rather than a regular DIMM) but the concept they were shooting for was the same. I did some preliminary VHDL work on a 'memory' controller which was basically a DIMM/CPU bus for a psuedo cluster of these things.

The bottom line was that it was buildable but there were a lot of challenges with the way compilers and what not generated code (or not) for these sorts of systems. I think a couple of projects at Umich and UCB got funded but I don't know if they produced any results.
Eh, that's only two and a half swing states (Actually, NC is probably less than a half swing state). If he was trying to influence the election, it'd be more efficient to fund a super pac. Priorities USA would be the obvious choice.

Buffett is a hands off manager, and if he started tinkering with editorial policies, word would get around. He's no Murdoch.
Some great feedback, thanks everyone.

@koglerjs — I understand where you're coming from. The goal of Organized Wonder is to 1) share the videos that you find interesting and 2) Follow people who share similar interests as you so you can watch what they're watching. #2 is where some of the quality control is going to come in, although I realize this isn't as obvious yet since we just launched the beta 3 days ago, and so a lot of the functionality is still waiting to be implemented.

@wcarss — This definitely something we're working on adding.

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Sawyer, Founder of Organized wonder
It seems strange that a good data prediction company (Inkling) couldn't become a huge growth company with a $1 billion+ valuation. Obviously this is an arm chair opinion but it seems like the author would like to be in the position of these other companies, so presumably the reason for not is due to some combination of business, market, etc.. Which is the part I don't entirely agree on. Inkling seems like a great idea in a market that people and companies would pay big bucks for if you're good at it, am I wrong?
Google Objectivism and/or Ayn Rand
Well, at least he knows how to capture the Zeitgeist:

http://bostonglobe.com/business/2012/05/18/facebook-curt-sch...

>Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling used his Facebook page to make his first public comments since the news that his Providence video game company, 38 Studios, would be unable to make payroll this week.
Please elaborate on why my second point is "outrageous nonsense". You just aren't convincing me with shaming language.
I think it helps to remember that the most influential (or smartest, etc.) people in history didn't have a whole lot of resources. Compare Shakespeare and Nietzsche to Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. Will anyone care about the latter two in 100 years? If you're chasing fame or "impact", building Google might not be the answer.
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Are some of the boxes supposed to say "This box is using greyscale antialiasing"? They all say "subpixel" for me.
What? Who is we?

HN is not a "say what ever you want" zone. There are community guidelines. If you don't like it, this sit itsnt for you.
There is a fair bit of talk about what this will do for the angel community in SV -- Using Google as a bit of pre-history and what happened there.

Anybody got any insights into the different cohorts? Generalising like hell - But, I'm assuming Facebook angels will be quite different flavour to Google ones?
thanks for the links, I often try to use existing themes, unfortunately they never quite deliver exactly what I want and I find myself having to modify them...

New & Improved: http://www.appynote.com

Verdict?
'The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We're Dancing on its Grave'
This is Hacker News. Where hard working entrepreneurs look for advice, hope, reality checks, and support.

Yes, Facebook has wildly exceeded what most people expected. But to build a social honey pot isn't to inspire other hackers/entrepreneurs.

I don't wish them ill but I also don't take any inspiration from Zuckerberg/Facebook. In fact, I learnt many things not to do (i.e. screwing your founders, doing shady deals, making immature decisions, etc.). Interestingly, Facebook has succeeded so far in spite of doing those things. And I give more credit to Sheryl Sandberg than Zuckerberg.

So excuse me if I don't agree that the top-voted comment on this thread should be words of praise for Zuckerberg.