skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that regulation is a big barrier of entry, and building something that can save (but also risk) patients lives is not something to take lightly. Some times expert knowledge is another big obstacle.

That being said, I totally think this area is missing some clever ideas and shaking some of the old-fashioned thinking and tradition.

At kenhub (www.kenhub.com) we're trying to shake things up for anatomy training for students in the health sector. It might not be as sexy, entertaining and trendy as the next social-app, but we believe it does help in a very modest way to train the next generation of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and paramedics. At least that's what we hope to achieve, and we're proud to be working on something like this. Even if it's not trendy, and even though we won't get bought by facebook or google.

Another nice initiative we (personally) know in this area is washabich (washabich.de), who is helping patients to better-understand their doctor's diagnosis, and at the same time train students at analyzing those... We would love to hear and collaborate with more startups in this area, and to also see them more on HN.
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Source: Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff To Build Out iOS Maps
One anecdotal data point here. I really, really enjoy not typing whenever possible. Sometimes when I'm driving I have my headphones in so I can treat Siri exactly like a personal assistant. It's useful and only a button-hold away.
I'm not familiar with the OS X world but a while ago while checking out Jekyll's codebase I saw they used "directory_watcher" to do this. So that's an option as well.
This patent war is ridiculous, and even more ridiculous that so many people are now convinced that apple is merited with their claims. Patent laws have turned into a scary world for creative design, no one is safe. Here's a great article giving some insight into why maybe apple isn't so innocent after all;

http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Apples+iPhone+Started+as+So...
One of the coolest aspects of this machine is that everything is fully pipelined. This machine was designed to be fast, so if you’re careful, you can actually get one (or more) instruction every cycle. This has some interesting implications – there’s no ‘divide’ instruction

That's actually a common optimization, e.g, Itanium doesn't have divide; just reciprocal.

I haven't spent time doing assembly optimization for a very long time, but it used to be the case that, even in x86, you were often better off using various tricks to avoid having to divide. I'd be interested in hearing if that's still the case, from someone who does that sort of thing today.

The actual design was implemented in a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board.

I love that hardware has gotten so cheap. When I was a teenager, I implemented a Sega on an FPGA, and it took Virtex II board (very high end, at the time) to handle everything. Now, an entire supercomputer fits on one of Xilinx's Spartan (i.e., budget) boards.
"Golddiggers" go work as quants on Wall St. People that want to work on startups generally dream of the big hit, but also want to be fully engaged with their job and create vital code. At least that was my motivation.
This is why I criticize using the term "wage slave". People actually think the lives of people who literally didn't have any human rights and were bought and sold as property are comparable to people who work under poor conditions.

The author mentions that she earned $60 a day after taxes.
Why not host it on a mini-vps with the wordpress install but use supercache and force it to always use the "logged out" copy (and don't allow registered users).

Then it bypasses wordpress and php entirely via htaccess and becomes entirely static.
Plenty of people outside of the Valley are doing stuff in healthcare, especially in SoCal, Ohio/Pittsburg, DC/Baltimore, and Miami. However, most of what they do is not tech-related, so it is not covered on a tech-focuses site like HN.

Technology is not the magical solution to all of the world's problems. In many cases, and especially in healthcare, simple solutions (such as washing hands, using checklists prior to surgeries, or improving fitness levels among the general population by even a fraction of a percent) can have outsized impacts on the quality of medical care and associated costs.

>Preventive healthcare aided by the use of mobile health monitors that automatically track and log personal health metrics is another big opportunity and will likely be the biggest revolution in healthcare in over a century if it takes hold.

Not likely; we're about as close to developing automatic mobile health monitors as we are to developing Cylons. The problem seems easy in the abstract, but the specifics of something as simple as food monitoring or exercise monitoring is something that we haven't even gotten close to figuring out yet, despite hundreds of millions spent by many, many very motivated market participants.
That is a pretty neat video, the story tells about how the expressions on the train were added in a post processing step, but the story and the inspiration seem pretty genuine.
While I don't actually use Ubuntu on a day to day basis, it was my go-to live disc (for when I inevitably break a Gentoo install). I find advertising extremely distasteful, and will no longer use or recommend Ubuntu. Anyone have suggestions for a distro equally usable as a rescue live disc?
I think this mostly relies on the assumption that all of Tina's posts are public. What of by 2018 people will learn to make all of their facebook posts friends-only?
All products will in the future have underlying and derivative components. The market for derivatives will soon explode (just like finance). The optimsing business will sell a portfolio of products f(U,D). And price each accordingly. digital technology allows for radically cheaper (and thus more experimentally plentiful) derivative productization. Thus, we will see an explosion of more profitable derivative products. Having zero-charge product or zero-charge derivative variants, will be the edge case.

Advertising is just a more trivial case derivative. But information gathering (pretexted: customer servive) can easily be repacked (consumer intelligence) and set to the highest bidder. Because there is de-minimus incremental complexity to the U product business, entry into the D derivative business makes sense both from a profit and a strategy perspective as costs of digital platform tools decreases (and/or skills, toold, expertise becomes more widespread.)
The new operating system
Another proposal I have heard is to somehow (there could be various methods of accomplishing this I think) put the the responsibility for paying off all or part of the loan on the institution if the student was unable to pay.

There are a few rough points that would need to be worked out with this sort of system, but the overall intended affect would be to make institutions care about the employability of their graduates. If only half their graduates in a particular major were finding paying work in their field, then the university would be financially pressured to accept fewer students into that major in the future.

Universities with deep enough pockets to pay off the inevitable debt would be free to offer what they please, the idea being that a university is in a better position to make a rational and responsible financial decision in that matter than someone fresh out of highschool. However universities strapped for cash would be discouraged from taking advantage of students by selling them unobtainable dreams. (This I think would be particularly effective at putting a damper on the predatory nature of for-profit 'schools')
This might not, intellectually, be the kind of article that belongs on the front page of HN, but it was nice to read and brought a smile to my face. I upvoted it.
Sigh, it would be neat if Nvidia was doing this rather than a reverse engineering team.
Even I breathe in the world of information management & data science, I never thought about this possibility!

I for one hope this should never happen. Mining your data to do pattern matching whether your are healthy or not? Are you kidding me? We tend to forget there is something "socio technical gap" (as demonstrated by Mark Ackerman - bit.ly/UqlNLI), meaning our social world cannot to be mapped into virtual world using technology since tech is not mature. We will never be able to close the socio-technical as our brains are too complicated.

I fear for our kids if this is future.
The problem is that there are a lot of jobs, like lawyer, where people think they will be able to pay it back and only discover years later that they cannot.

Heck, my wife has an MD (from a top medical school, earned with honors) and a wrist injury from residency that limited her ability to make money for years, and will greatly lessen how much money she'll be able to make in the long run. She'd be in a very tough spot if I wasn't paying her loans off for her.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a job that the public thinks is safer financially than "doctor". Yet even that is not safe enough for the risk structure that student loans impose.

Sure, I agree that there are lots of victims who deserve more than their fair share of the blame. But don't make the leap from that to blaming the victim. The risk structure that financial loans impose is guaranteed to result in many victims who don't deserve particular blame. Bankruptcy exists for a reason, and it is a travesty that corrupt politicians have been bribed into carving out a targeted exemption for a powerful industry.
and one more note. You're right nobody owns the concept of mobile mapping, but the scary thing is that some day I'm sure some one probably will.
Someday I want to see the Hacker Dojo buy an old Cray or IBM mainframe and set it up for people to run random jobs on. Not for any practical purpose, just so people can get a feel for what the old systems were like.
We Are Legion - The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)
So you are saying they use the word "slave", but it has nothing to do with the literal meaning? If not, why not use another word?
I don't have facebook...
Who cares?

(A site that has been badly unreliable for me in past searches says that Quora is down at the moment.)

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quora.com
Though that offers no protection from your .com being seized by the US (Verisign's still here, no matter what registrar you choose) -- except now you're bound by both US law and Gandi's freakish "ethical codes".

http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.2-EN.pd...
Note that we don't have a 75% unemployment rate following the industrial revolution. You are hardly the first person to make this argument--it's been made for centuries. The market mechanism is an amazingly effective thing at providing jobs to those who demand jobs, both in economic theory and in observed reality over the last two hundred years.
There's a few things you can do:

* Drop the move to London requirement and allow him to telecommute. This could especially be appealing as he's working below rate.
* Hire him on at a full salary with the understanding that he will defer a significant portion of his salary. He can defer it towards equity (maybe with a multiplier and definitely with a cliff) or defer until you close another round of funding (at which point he is paid a bonus equal to his deferred salary).
* Depending on how well you know and trust this person: give him a small equity stake up front with a regular vesting schedule every 6 months.
When is code data, and when is it code?
from what i read the difference is that the UX32A has hybrid storage against the SSD only UX31A so it should be alright.
> This is why I criticize using the term "wage slave".

But "slave" != "wage slave", as explained in the Wikipedia article linked above.
There is illegal and un-ethical. Sometimes there is a fine line but often most people involved realize what that line is and they hang out just outside of it without stepping over.

Imagine a meeting with HR. Company is racist. They never really made it into an official police of course but just by joking or sort of non verbal communication they figure out that other higher ups hate certain races. They will talk about so and so's personality "not matching".

It is fairly easy for them to figure out an euphemism used to signal this or that other person needs to be let go because their race isn't "right". Let's call it "personality reasons" or say "restructuring reason". It doesn't matter as long as it never officially put into writing.

It would be an uphill battle to successfully sue for discrimination. One would need to compile historical data and show that people of a particular race have been consistently not hired or laid off once hired.
>>However, I am the sole supporter of my family

>do you ... live at home with your parents who feed you

Not the GP, but no.
On the other hand, 18 year old wannabe sculptors are probably poor judges of value. And why should they be? It's no crime for your talents and experience to be outside business accounting.

The judge of value should be the underwriter. If Bank of America wants to buy some goofy kid a $100,000 sculpting business, let them bear the risk if that plan tanks. They can repo the chisels.

Edited for grammar.
This is pretty rad. It reminds me of our designer (Joe Golike)'s master's project, visualizing the economy of WoW, also built in d3:

http://golike.com/2.0/mmox.htm
http://mmox.org/demo
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Even if he would ask for a decent chunk of equity upfront, that wouldn't change much. It would be no-cap equity from common stock. Would you put your money into this?
It kind of sounds like copyrights for people.
Downloading XKCD #1110 using python and shell scripting
Similar kinds of data are in my GitHub repo, in case it helps people here.

https://github.com/sixarm/sixarm_data_geolocation

Suggestions welcome.
The rituals you mentioned is information I feel is too-frequently overlooked by hackers trying to don their businessperson hat, and the wisdom of how to respond is diffusely spread out on the Net. What most need to hear from someone who has been-there-done-that is after saying "sorry, I cannot offer you a discount", they are going to hear lots of scary talk from procurement. Most hackers have no idea how this dance is done, and have never learned before starting in business.

Procurement will shoot back with all sorts of lines, but basically they will try to intimidate you by saying something along the gist of "we're going to have to reconsider this/shop this around since you can't offer us a discount", or "we're disappointed in you/to hear that". The trick here is to have a good enough pipeline that you feel comfortable to stand your ground and not take it personally when procurement finds someone else; learning how to shrug off losses as long as we were pulling in on target was one of the harder skills for me to pick up when I started.

Most hackers trying to freelance need to hear the kind of talk they will run into out there, and not just what to respond, but how to respond. When hackers hear about "don't sell on price, sell on value and positioning", many don't know how to translate that into the nuts and bolts of what happens in the trenches and thus even if they themselves do not sell, a key toolkit for evaluating non-technical co-founders is underutilized.

There is lots of talk here on HN about how rare great non-technical co-founders are, but there is precious little on actual pragmatic ways to detect them or adopt their principles and methods.
Show HN: This weekend I wrote an app for improvising slideshows as you present.
The key is to find root cause wile and not turn off the thinking process. It is easy to overrely on standardized tools. It is also easy to game oversimplified evaluations. Too many central infections can make a Physician avoid placement even when it is medically nessary.

When PPI and the new recommended antibiotic treatment protocol compliance went up C-diff when through the roof. There was an enormous amount of effort placed on hand washing compliance which was already high instead of fixing evaluating the problem and fixing it. Larger than needed PPI and certan antibiotics can each separately massively increases risk. You can't make compliance over 100% at some point you have to attack the rook cause not the low lying fruit.
Apple uses dupes to help determine priority, so filing dupes is usually a good thing to do.
The word "koan" became familiar in English through discussion of Zen koans, and that's how it's read by default unless context suggests a different reading.
For last point, there is a startup that specializes in your online reputation management.

EDIT: There are lot of companies in online reputation management. Even today.
When it comes to large-scale employment shifts, I'm not sure we can be particularly confident in predicting the future based on extremely limited past data. Large-scale shifts just haven't happened often in history, so it's hard to generalize from the data points we do have.

For most of human history, most human labor was engaged in agriculture. During the industrial revolution, there was a mass shift from agriculture to factory work. This produced considerable social disruption, but did result in a new semi-stable employment system: over a period of some decades, the countrysides were largely depopulated, people congregated in the cities, and the factories were an employment sink for the newly arrived urbanites. Took until probably the mid 20th century to sort out in any kind of reasonable way (the tenement slums of Manhattan were probably initially a net decrease in quality of life for many former farmers, but they were eventually cleaned up).

I'd say that's actually the only real example of a completed shift in mass employment at that scale. The key thing that made it work particularly well was that assembly lines needed a large amount of labor, with a nicely arrayed gradation of skill: they could absorb a large amount of essentially undifferentiated unskilled labor fresh from the countryside, which could then "work its way up" by gaining more skills to serve in increasingly more skilled roles.

The other example of a shift we have is the currently in-progress one, of moving from industrial employment to service-sector and/or information-sector employment. It's less clear where that's going, what the new mass employment sinks will be (if any), and what the skill ladder will be.
I would never want to work with someone who felt like lying about the year they got their college degree was "ethical". In fact, I'd really rather not have to think too much about where the ethical line is on "lying" with anyone.

Does that mean I never lie? Of course it doesn't. We've all done unethical things. Ethical people call those "mistakes" and don't paper over them.
For an even faster algorithm, http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.1416v3.pdf and its prequel http://www.cse.psu.edu/~furer/Papers/mult.pdf both beat strassen.
There's nothing low class in my post, I resent the implication.

The phenomenon of oppressive student debt in the US is well documented. Articles about the problems with this situation often have posters claiming that the problem does not exist, but with few particulars. I would like to know more about the specifics of both your situations. Sharing such information could help other students. Posting claims with no details helps no one.

Being able to afford college on $2250 per six months is a remarkable achievement and he should be proud of it, and willing to share exactly how he did it with others so they can benefit as well.
Heroku provides single-click provisioning for Java applications in the cloud
This I think is a key insight. Young people tend to be idealistic, that isn't going to change, and it shouldn't even be changed. We need that idealism in the world.

A viable and palatable solution should therefore address the people enabling (or even encouraging) these idealistic young people to make poor decisions.

There is a lot of money in convincing people that getting degrees that they won't be able to use is a good idea. A lot of money for everyone but the student.
The part about not hiring a young woman because there's a high chance that she is or will be pregnant is already illegal in the U.S.
Response to the NYT article on data center efficiency
Is access to facebook harder to get in Iran than China? In China you can see ads everywhere selling VPNs that enable access to facebook. You can even get permission from the government for business to gain access to unfiltered internet. Some up scale hotels have done this.
I don't understand this, the line in the RFC is clear:

> Responses to this method are not cacheable, unless the response includes appropriate Cache-Control or Expires header fields.

That is, if you don't include a Cache-Control header, the response is not cacheable. Why is this even controversial? It's a bug.
Last time there was a major protest the republican guard suppressed it with rape and sniper fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932010_Iranian_elect...
"the cacheability of HTTP is the majority of its value as a network protocol"

...until everything goes SPDY or equivalent.
What is fascinating is just how much of the US economy is debt financed. Some of the biggest industries - education, real estate, banking, construction, retail (via credit cards) etc. are all basically financed by huge amounts of debt taken on by either the government or individual citizens. So in effect, the current economy is built on the future economy's ability to pay for itself.

It seems to me if this trend isn't reversed, the "Great Recession" is bound to keep happening simply because people can only borrow so much.
Getting an SSL error guys: http://i.imgur.com/jw5Tk.png

Using the most recent Chrome on Mac OS 10.7.4.
It is normal if you are out-of-state (that is, you are not going to University in the state of your primary residence, or for most high school students, the state in which your parents reside). I've provided two state schools for reference at different ranking levels: Georgia Tech [1], and North Carolina State University [2]. Private schools, on the other hand, can have some very high tuition rates (see Emory University [3], for example -- $169,000 just for tuition over four years).

Some students are able to get grants or other scholarships to help alleviate some of the costs.

If you happen to be in-state with good schools, then the rates are far more reasonable (though still expensive), as other posters have mentioned.

[1] http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/Fall_2012/Fall1...

[2] http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/cashier/tuition/ugtuition.asp

[3] http://www.emory.edu/admission/financial_aid/tuition_fees/in...
If you'd been an international student in the UK, it might seem less ridiculous. Three years' tuition in a sciency subject at Imperial College costs just about $100,000.[1] (That was 09/10, I guess it's a little higher now.) Granted that's the most expensive on the list, but factoring in living costs, I'd say $75,000 for three years is common.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2009/oct/08/underg...
Judging the potential worth of degrees is indeed quite the challenge. Most individuals cannot be expected to accurately do it.

The people with the knowledge to actually make an informed decision in the matter are the schools (who track employment of their alumni.. and currently only mention it if it looks good) and the financial institutions who know which people are paying back their loans quickly and which people are paying them off slower than interest is accumulating.

I think any solution needs to at least involve one or both of those two parties.