skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A racist who's too cowardly to own it. Why is racism and cowardice such a common combination?
Your objectivity is very, very clear.

>>/dev/null
From the submitted article:

"Nothing makes hospitals shape up more quickly than this kind of public reporting. In 1989, the first year that New York's hospitals were required to report heart-surgery death rates, the death rate by hospital ranged from 1% to 18%—a huge gap. Consumers were finally armed with useful data. They could ask: "Why have a coronary artery bypass graft operation at a place where you have a 1-in-6 chance of dying compared with a hospital with a 1-in-100 chance of dying?"

"Instantly, New York heart hospitals with high mortality rates scrambled to improve; death rates declined by 83% in six years. Management at these hospitals finally asked staff what they had to do to make care safer. At some hospitals, the surgeons said they needed anesthesiologists who specialized in heart surgery; at others, nurse practitioners were brought in. At one hospital, the staff reported that a particular surgeon simply wasn't fit to be operating. His mortality rate was so high that it was skewing the hospital's average. Administrators ordered him to stop doing heart surgery. Goodbye, Dr. Hodad."

So we have a known model that improves results. Let the patients who decide which hospitals to visit know beforehand how hospitals compare in getting good results for patients. Give patients power to shop. That provides incentives for hospitals to do better, and nudges hospital managers to do what is necessary to win the trust of informed patients.

This kind of reform would be very good to apply to schools as well. Already, one state in the United States that is conspicuous among all fifty states in educational achievement (the state I live in) allows all residents of the state to enroll in the public schools of ANY school district anywhere in the state. (The school district I live in has inbound open-enrollment students from the geographical territories of forty-one other school districts.) In general, the power to shop is the incentive factor to bolster by government regulation, letting each consumer decide what trade-offs are important. That works considerably better in driving improvement than regulating outcome goals, and better still than regulating inputs into the provision of the important service being regulated.
Sounds like he had a bad day.

Did you read the whole thing?

It took weeks to get everything working again properly.

Because I could prove that I had paid for the software, Apple agreed to send me fresh installation disks for everything of theirs but Aperture, but that would take time. In fact, it took almost a month for the iWork DVD to arrive, which is unacceptably long. I even needed to call twice to remind them before the disks were shipped.
Well a lot of people call me by my playa name so I guess I can use that on Facebook.
The technical situation has NOTHING to do with this problem. It is a social problem, an image problem, a branding problem.

Ubuntu is now low-class software, and high-class people use high-class software.
I did this for a year during high school and loved it. That mellow feeling is a very particular state of mind that I really cherish. I've yet to encounter it in any other circumstance. I recall reading on Wikipedia that a number of historic writers are reported to have induced this state of mind for the purpose of writing.

Unfortunately I had to stop because I was keeping my parents awake at night – and now I live in New York and my evenings are always occupied – but I hope that one day when my life calms down I'll be able to return to that schedule.
If PHP is English I am cutting out my tongue.
This is really bad.

A lot of educators aren't allowed using their real names on social networks.
NFC & Android: Things to Know
Your last paragraph is just totally wrong. Ever since MS has been selling Windows online, they've also been providing a tool which will put the ISO onto bootable DVD or USB (your choice).

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help...

They point to this tool pretty clearly as part of the purchase process.

So with MS you can do it anyway you like: Installation as an app, or an ISO which you may trivially burn to a DVD or flash to a USB drive using a tool that they also provide.
> Also, while the 3GS (June 09) is getting ios6, the original ipad (April 2010) is not. Apple will abandon their equipment just as fast if it suits them.

Indeed. I am quite frustrated that my first-gen iPad is, for whatever reason(s), not deemed worthy enough of iOS 6.
"SF is a vibrant, innovative, creative population subsisting on the surface of a government that is firmly hanging onto antiquated notions of the 19th century, not even the 20th, and this conflict has reached epic proportions of ridiculousness."

Extremely unfortunate but true. SF is one of the few cities that has the unique opportunity of creating a super-city, the technological world capital. How do they respond? By doing nothing. They could expand the reach of public transportation and develop on the outter rims of the city. They could AT LEAST make it easier to go downtown from less-expensive SF districts like the sunset and richmond.

They would rather basque in their position as a second-rate metropolitan area, one step below the likes of NY and Boston.
The example you give was a harsh yet necessary action due to the fact that low-IQ humans require brutality to understand when they've done wrong, because nice words and the rule of law just don't cut it with them. Also, you fail to mention the many millions of blacks who were not hung from helicopters. It's not like the hangings were part of a systemic plan of eradication, whereas what the current government is doing to the remaining Whites certainly is. You imply that the current government is somehow enlightened. Have you seen photos of Whites brutally tortured and killed by said government?

The former Rhodesia was a veritable paradise in comparison to most of sub-Saharan Africa. Now it has (according to the following video) the lowest life expectancy of any country in the world. That change is a direct result of the combination of switching from White rule to black rule, and the killing of remaining Whites who continued to want to play a useful role in what they believed was a country in which they still belonged.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MPKGZreusoQ (Inside a Failed State - Zimbabwe)(Journeyman Pictures)
To get rid of this rationale read any of the many Nietzsche biographies.
One of the ways we gauge an applicant’s ability to handle unknown situations is with a Lego test. ... Top-tier applicants will stand out during surprising interview situations, like the Lego test, based on their ability to handle adversity, the method they use to create the solution and the amount of time it takes to complete the task. Particularly outstanding candidates will also ask questions and genuinely have fun with the challenge.

Umm, yeah. I'd like to see some evidence that performance on such gamed-up "tests" have any more hard correlation with actual, real, in-the-trenches job performance... than with, say, a candidate's sun sign, or the palm readings from a psychic down at the mall...

Developers must be able to work in collaborative, team-based environments. To test this skill, team up applicants with current employees. For example, we have applicants join Lextech developers in an Xbox game. This part of the interview isn’t about the candidate’s gaming chops –- it’s about measuring the candidates’ ability to work with others in a pressure-filled environment.

Unless of course the candidate is over the age of 25 or so, or similarly possessed with enough sense of self yo recognize that they have no time for such childishness... and correspondingly, find an appropriate, tactful excuse to cut the interview short, and ask for directions to the next elevator.
Airbnb Reconsidered
It doesn’t ship with one, but you can download it here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433 (That link is placed on this page about OS X recovery, so it’s not hard to find: http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/ – though it’s important to note that this wouldn’t have solved his particular problem. You can only use this app on a system that already has Mountain Lion installed, so you have to think of this before you encounter the problem – or have a second Mac at hand with the right OS.)

Current Macs also come with Internet Recovery, meaning it’s always possible to boot into the Recovery Manager, even with an empty HDD.
Ansolutely! I used to carry a Thomas Brothers guide to San Diego in my car. When I got lost it would take me 5 minutes just to figure out where the hell I was. The first time I drove to LA for my college orientation I had a map of California but not one of LA, and I got lost driving back from Westwood to UCLA and ended up in the middle of bel air. Today, it's hard to even remember that frustration.

The other day I was stumbling my way through configuring a server and thinking to myself: "how the hell did anyone ever accomplish anything before Google?".
Well, at least you believe in hope to some degree.
slightly off topic, but it's always seemed weird to me that there is no english word for "don't care", it's a really awkward phrasing. - In boolean logic, we have true, false, and then no word for when it can be either.
I don't point it out as a technical problem, but as a privacy one.
This year I have done my Google summer of code project for OpenMRS.org implementing their Feedback Mechanism using this Open source solution of html2canvas. you can have a look at more about the project from here.

[0] https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Submit+a+Feedback+...

And I have done lot research about how Google Feedback mechanism happens and I have documented them in here

[1] https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Resources+-+Better...

-Harsha
Oh, I see what Wu Wei is now.

I use tint2 as a "panel" of sorts in Openbox, and modify menu.xml for anything else I need. I like it well enough. Also, modifying rc.xml allows one to set hotkeys.
TechCrunch: CaterCow Takes The Trouble Out Of Ordering Food For Groups In NYC
Almost all the fish I buy is farm-raised. I trust it more than wild-caught for some reason; I don't want to be eating anything caught off the coast of Fukushima for example.
And you would do this how?

You can't eliminate corporations altogether. Corporations don't magically come into existence as a result of evil forces. People create them in order to get something done. Sometimes the something is good, sometimes it's not. Y Combinator is a corporation.

You also can't eliminate the human desire to rent-seek. You can constrain it, but you can't eliminate it. And it's there just as much in a government as it is in a corporation.
I'm not a coward. If I was, I would have resisted making my original post, because a coward would care about losing HN points. I make the distinction between "racism" and "racial realism" merely because I care about using terms properly. The latter is more precise, whereas the former is tainted with negativity. Also: Why should I refer to myself using a term which I know others see as negative? I would gladly call myself a "racist" if its meaning were taken to be "someone who sees the differences between races and acts appropriately on that knowledge", or something to that effect.
Go start a non-trivial business and then tell me what you think about government.

The only people who think that government interference is not part of the problem are those who either work for the government, depend on it for a living, benefit from their rulings, actions and handouts or have never started a business and came face-to-face with the beast.

Why isn't your all-knowing government moving swiftly to fix the software patent problem? What are they waiting for?

I'll tell you why: It keeps thousands upon thousands of government employees (voters) employed and it brings-in money, lots of money. In the meantime they, through inaction, cause untold carnage and damage our ability to innovate at full speed.

Also, in the accounting politicians engage in patent issues don't offer them any advantage because they are not going to gain significant votes by doing anything in that segment.

I mean, Google had to put what, twelve billion dollars into patents just so they could continue to exist in the smart phone market? Do you know what a company can do with twelve billion dollars? Talk about jobs and innovation.

As a software entrepreneur you have to live in fear of some asshole ruining your life because our brain-dead government granted them a patent on the pink sliding button you happen to be using.

Stability? Tell that to the Ambassador who got killed Libya. Why are we even there? Why are we at war with half the fucking world? Why are we buying friends through foreign aid? Friends that turn on us and, like a drug, we think we can keep buying their loyalty with more money?

That's really brilliant stuff partner. And government owns all of it. Not private enterprise. Not capitalism. Not entrepreneurs. Government. Your all-providing, all-knowing, infallible government.

I am fairly well travelled and speak several languages. When I am abroad sometimes I feel ashamed to be an American. Do you know why? Not because of our people. Just like folks all over the world we Americans are kind, loving, hard-working people who love our families and just want to have a nice life.

No, when I feel ashamed to be an American it is because of the way our government defecates not only all over us but all over other parts of the world. This isn't about Democrats or Republicans. Our government has become a beast that behaves badly regardless of who is at the helm. It is a shame. And it is probably time for people who believe blindly in the supernatural powers of government to wake up and see reality for what it is.

I go back to the same thing. If you love government you have to love the good and the bad. You can't pick. Your government (and other governments) started wars that have killed tens of millions of people. Maybe even pushing over a hundred million. Start at World War 1 and do the math. A hundred million people dead. People didn't start those wars. Businesses didn't. Fucking governments did. And tens of millions of people are dead for it. I suppose you are proud and support that too?
Throw some facts my way and we'll see how objective I can be.
Yes, the robots should drive to your driveway in a bubble of sterility.

I'm not suggesting this happen by tommorrow, just that it is technically possible with the enough investment.

I'm just suggesting that when it comes to medical matters innovation is happening at a snails pace.

The aerospace industry manages to lose almost no lives, while the medical industry loses people left and right. There's something deeply wrong there.

Recently, Vinod Khosla suggested 80 percent of doctors are superfluous and medicine still operates in a voodoo magic kind of way for the most part.
Regulation is to protect access to the market, not quality of offerings... Usually it does exactly the opposite.
Uh, okay. My dad has been delighted with his VHA healthcare, if you demand anecdotal evidence. Statistically speaking, the Veterans' Health Administration routinely outscores private hospitals for satisfaction and is more cost-effective as well.

http://www.biomoda.com/presidents-column/june-presidents-col...

Certainly, the Department of Veterans Affairs itself is poor, and the facilities are dealing with a massive influx of new veterans, but the quality of healthcare in the VHA remains quite good.
Netflix Sucks-Loses ENTIRE queue--one of the 15%
People who work for the big tech companies are spoiled. I've worked for a bunch of companies around the world and none come even close to what Bay Area companies provide.

I'd bet that a large percentage of working Americans would love to mix the great job with atmosphere of city living. Unfortunately most workers have to accept the trade offs and settle for the dull suburban life.
Those are some really cool maps. I still prefer the Soma tech scene, which is easily Caltrainable from points south, to the congested slogfest that is rush-hour 101.
The author makes a grandious claim that art is the differentiator in technology with little to no evidence. What advantage does art in technology bring to the user? What is an example of this? Isn't technology simply the means to an end? If so, why would adding art to the mix improve it? Art would bring more ambiguity and confusion to many while possibly sparking an emotional response to some. I don't understand this article at all. Art has its place. Technology does too and sometimes it helps facilitate the creation of art.
Only using 10 percent of your Wii? Try these tips and tricks
A hovercraft could probably come ashore at Crittenden, it's practically in the marsh anyway.
A very salient point.
Yeah, that sucks. Good thing that doesn't usually happen to Apple products, right?
If ARM's business model is around licensing their IP, wouldn't getting distribution (via Apple, etc.) be considered growth? They hit profitability in a year.

"EDIT: Same goes for id, Valve and other game studios - you see sometimes it's better to have the best engineers and researchers take their time, let them develop and mature the technology they're working on and build something long-lasting that affects millions of people."

Game studios take time because game releases used to be all or nothing. There were no second chances.

I can't comment on id, but the entire reason Valve built Steam was to speed up distribution and release updates incrementally (the previous patching system sucked). It went from idea to inception in about a year. It was also buggy as hell when it was first released. Now developers can easily release additional content and make game play changes after a game is initially launched.
Very interesting - haven't compared it to Ruby, but the 75ms was interesting on its own. I knew dynamically Groovy would generally be faster than Ruby, but not by that much, given the runtime dynamism.

Thanks! (and thanks for the pull request fix)
Flight Hacking: 5 Music Festivals, 6 Weeks, 3 Continents
Is the secret international BBC fish news. Headed covertly by Michael Fish from his secret space-plaice.
How embedded architectures accelerate mobile application development
Well, it's common to have db but not file system or codebase access. And it's easy to make a directory readable by only the app.
In NYC the taxi commission is in the pocket of the medaillion holders. That's why the recent law to issue more mediallions (2,000 at ~800k each = $1.6b for the city) had to go through the state instead (Albany being less corrupt than anything is mind-boggling), until of course a judge knocked down the law and said only the city could do so.
This might not work as well as they'd think.

We did an experiment in my primary school physics class: hook a fluid pressure sensor up to the class faucet and start graphing the water pressure. We then sent a team to the restroom to flush a toilet. Then two at the same time. Then four. Around eight, the combined flush lowered the water pressure so much that many of them simply refused to work.
I have a "non current" macbook air that I've been wanting to do a security clean install on forever but it doesn't qualify for internet recovery for some reason. Its a 2010 Macbook Air. How do I do a secure wipe of the drive and reinstall ML on this thing?
No, I'd say PG's definition is simply more narrow. Blank is covering the "grow fast" part of PG's definition by "repeatable and scalable".

Though I highly doubt PG would in fact define "startup" as "a company designed to grow fast". Pretty sure he would agree there's also a "search for a business model" aspect to it.
HTML5 Canvas : Animating Gradients For Cheap Retro FX
Effort - This Changes Everything
Did you give him the $20? He certainly tried to defraud you.
I was curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca

> In zoological anatomy, a cloaca ( /kloʊˈeɪkə/) is the posterior opening that serves as the only such opening for the intestinal, reproductive, and urinary tracts of certain animal species.
W3C’s Robin Berjon on modifying a HTML5 spec
How to make the best of iOS 6's Do Not Disturb feature
First sentence from parent's response: "As a liberal I find libertarians downright revolting.".
This post is riveting. No really. Bewildering to say the least. As the post drags on and on the reoccurring "Thank you Apple" takes on an increasingly sarcastic tone.

Regardless of the author's fluency with computers (who really cares?) one can only marvel at the sheer absurdity in squandering the better part of a day (or was that several days?) mucking around with OS updates. Really? What a colossal waste of time.
5 reasons why Microsoft Surface will struggle
Great thinking.

Let's use the following ticket for tags / communities:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/94#issuecom...

I posted your edit to the projects / corporations ticket:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27#issuecom...
The father of India’s “white revolution” has died, aged 90
I love how people talk about stagnation and then check the stock prices on their phones.

Nobody cares at all about mobile phones today; we take for granted that the smart phones are simply the yuppie upgrade for the RAZR or whatever.

But they are still causing the most dramatic and unprecedented shift society has ever seen, no questions about it.

Watch an old Star Trek episode. The main piece of technology isn't the ship, it's the transponders.

tl;dr: look in your pocket before you spray the internet with small minded thinking.
How about corrosion? It implies the society is being more or less eaten away by a corrupting influence.
You took my attention away to read your pathetic comment, I pronounce you a criminal.
(P.S. It's hosted on Heroku.)
Test to See If You Might Be Considered a “Potential Terrorist” By US Government
3 Cool Hidden Chrome Features
Is he too technically unfamiliar? Or is he trying to leverage assumed domain knowledge in an incorrect way? I mean, I'm not a programming languages expert. I couldn't work on Go. But I do know that the bootable OS X installer is within the app package upon which he was casting aspersions; I've used it myself to reinstall OS X and to install it on different machines.

Some friends of mine who are professionals in other fields have noted (not about me, I hope, but I know that I'm guilty of this at times as well) that "computer people" have no end of cases where they think their preexisting knowledge is enough to solve a problem when it has little or no bearing on the topic at hand (politics, biology, whatever). I see no reason that can't also be true within the computer field as well. Because a pretty cursory Google would have explained all the things people elsewhere in this thread have explained about how to actually do this--but he didn't do it, relied on his own previous knowledge, and it didn't really apply.
I know. Most of it is just a matter of aptitude not being around 12 years ago. I really like the search and install related packages functionality of aptitude.
Since sleep cycles last about 90 minutes, I felt better waking up between cycles (4.5 hours is about 3 complete cycles) than waking up in the middle of a sleep cycle (8 hours is 5.3 cycles). It turned out that this phenomenon was called "sleep inertia."

I read this too and while I've not been so good these past three weeks, prior to that I've been sleeping as close to exactly 7.5 hours as possible and for the first time ever, I was able to consistently get up at 6:30 each morning without tiredness or finding it hard to get up. I picked 7.5 hours so that I'd have a good long sleep to take me through busy & stressful days, but on nights when I wasn't able to get to bed by 11pm, I picked a shorter multiple of 90 minutes and it works just as well except that if its too short over all, I start feeling drowsly earlier in the day.

I really need to do this again.