skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a rare eye disease. I'd love to start my own business, but I didn't because I feared a lose of insurance with a pre existing condition. I completely disagree with your premise that wouldn't do well at it because my itch isn't so strong as to make me risk losing insurance.

Btw, what data are you using to draw your conclusion?
Could you elaborate? The 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913 and from what I can tell the top marginal rate was in the 90s until 1964...

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...
It seems to me that publishers attempt these fancy formats to appeal to tablet users. But I'm guessing this wasn't well tested on an iPad...
Which is why California is such a startup magnet...cause of those high state taxes in Nevada, Texas, Oregon!
Medical waste: http://iom.edu/Reports/2012/Best-Care-at-Lower-Cost-The-Path...

30 cents of every dollar spent on medical care is wasted. There were roughly $2.7 dollars of spending on medical care in 2011.

The cost of insuring 100% of Americans would be 34 - 69 billion: http://www.amsa.org/AMSA/Libraries/Committee_Docs/CaseForUHC...
People routinely download GB+ messages - neither of those options are practical for files of that size.
Not sure if you're our target market, however, if you want some technical merits, I posted some in the comments here: http://www.diggz.org/index.php/2012/10/16/twilio-is-like-the...
I remember when I was a little kid, getting one of those kid's "laptops" with a monochrome display and a bunch of educational games.

The higher end ones cost as much as the low end chromebooks.

It's the future. Glad to be living in it :)
You can via the Chrome/Chromium addons:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/evernote-web/lbfeh...

For whatever reason there's no counterpart for Firefox, just Evernote's Web Clipper addon and Readability.com clones.

There's also Springpad which has its note-taking addons for both browsers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/springpad/?sr...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/springpad/fkmopoam...
>These have no fans. No moving parts to worry about. That is one of their biggest advantages. I can use an ARM netbook while my SO is sleeping next to me. Not so for an actual laptop.

That is a ridiculous statement. My mac air is silent under normal use for everything but 3d gaming.
Thirded. I've been trying to read technical papers on my Kindle and wow is it uncomfortable. Reading a novel is an absolute delight, though.
Classic photography articles by Bob Atkins
Speaking of bankruptcy laws, I wonder how the ballooning student debt (which cannot be dismissed through bankruptcy) plays into that.

Anecdotal, but, did (m)any people here on HN graduate and then start a business while still in debt with student loans?
Great examples of technical writing for everyone.
If you look at the comments on the article, they are 4 out of 6 Korean propaganda. (at the time I wrote this comment)
Yeah, Ubuntu updates Firefox usually the same day it's released.
I'm totally with you about loving Jon Stewart and I'm all for removing barriers for those inclined towards entrepreneurship.

But the concept of creating safety nets to encourage more entrepreneurship strikes me as paradoxical. To an extent, the inherent risks that come with starting a new business is a good thing -- it forces would-be-entrepreneurs to assess critically what they would gain or lose before taking the plunge. The inextricable dependency on company health insurance, however, should not have to play a role in that risk assessment.

Maybe I'm just being picky over semantics, but instead of creating a "wide safety net for failure," which to me sounds like something that encourages poor business judgment, I would be in favor of reducing the extrinsic risks of starting a new business (e.g. insurance) so entrepreneurs could focus on the risks relevant to the business itself. But like I said, I might be nitpicking over choice of words, so forgive me.

Knowing there's a risk of failure isn't so bad -- it makes me try really hard at, well, not failing.
Tech Cash Pours Into Food Start-Ups
When deciding which platform to use for our cloud based product, we went with Tropo for 2 reasons.

1) better international support

2) SIP support

I like Twilio and their API. It's nice to see them closing the gap. Albeit slowly.
Agreed. I don't even remember the last time I bought an app in the iOS store. Who has time to wade through all that shit, trying to find the one in a thousand that's worth looking at?

Amazon stocks vastly greater numbers of products, yet I always seem to be _able_ to find something interesting to buy there.
I remember when laptops had handles. http://instagr.am/p/Q8sa57ovnv/
I still don't understand why they couldn't just introduce a new keyword that has the same meaning as a missing semicolon. Call it 'ret' or something as a 'lesser return'. Relying on ppl to be semicolon hunters is poor for readability.

It also means you can't put more expressions on the same line because doing so requires a semi-colon which then eliminates the special semicolon behavior. Having an explicit 'ret' keyword means you could accomplish that and have more expressions for a separate block on the same line if desired.
How the Power of Expectations Can Allow You to 'Bend Reality'
Is Cousera a "university", or claim to be anything like one? It doesn't have any admissions system or fees or grant any degrees.
Alternative To Disk Storage (10x speed, same price)
Somewhere in Microsoft's history there lives the bean counter that took down the company. He's the guy who insisted on protecting the tiny stream of income Microsoft earns from their development tools. He's the guy who turned off a generation of programmers, and pushed them to Java and open source.
The page you linked to says they are discontinuing support for IE7 not IE8.
Saudi Dairy Pushing Tech to the Limit
I believe reverse-engineering is still legal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Legality

http://www.chillingeffects.org/question.cgi?QuestionID=195
In most of the US your public school is fixed by your address, so people have to uproot and move to change schools.
First MySpace and now AOL. There's some great design where you least expect it. :)
I too noticed that his English is absolutely perfect. If I met him at a coffee shop here I'd assume he was born and raised in the US.

Its equally interesting that Elisabeth Rehn's English is so heavily accented, as I have a general perception that Europeans are generally excellent at English (I've met several Germans and Swedes that I couldn't hear any accent on at all), especially someone of her background.

Definitely off topic, but interesting to note. Just shows how my perceptions and assumptions can be very wrong. Great interview.
Not when doing DRM work. It is an anti-circumvention device under the DMCA and the "research exception" is very weak and almost worthless in practice.
I guess, but what about all the he entrepreneurs from the era before health insurance? I wasn't long ago.
Civil liability works that way because there is fixed pool of "damages" to apportion, so they're working out out how to split the payment. "Responsibility" in a moral sense is like criminal liability, there is no fixed pool to apportion.
Please robocall-kill "Ann from Account Services". I must get an average of 4 calls a week from that scratchy-voiced hag.
Their search engine makes money that way.

Their mail and calendaring apps sure don't, for example.

At this point Google is big enough that generalizing about how they make money is a bit pointless, because they have a bunch of different revenue streams. The only commonality is advertising.
He's 17 years old, studying in Bosnia and uses social media:

> In various posted messages on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, he expressed guilt for his family’s role in the suffering of the North Korean people.
Trying to use multiple monitors on an Nvidia card and nothing but pain. They work just fine under Windows.
Could be that countries that aren't America don't have audiences of 300million people with high per capita income and a common language.
can we please try not to become slashdot, with the "this doesn't belong here!!" comments on every post.
Also, every gun and tobacco manufacturer.
I don't know if I'm more surprised by his English fluency, earrings or open-mindedness. To be honest I'm kind of worried for his safety after giving an interview like this... given what he's saying and his general demeanor, something makes me doubt it was vetted through "official" North Korean sources.

And in response to "propaganda comments" on the article, as a Korean American I know that the strongest sentiment in Korea is still towards unification. I've never understood that (and still don't, to some degree) but watching this video gives me a glimpse of that. When I hear this kid speak, I see me. It leaves me unexpectedly hopeful for the future.
Worst reporting ever on the Google earnings leak
You may have noticed that entrepreneurs leave California before they cash those lottery tickets. See Arrington, Severin...
Correct. ObjC sits somewhere between C and Java in ease of decompilation. Logic and arithmetic code is compiled just like C but all of the object-oriented options are readily exposed. Message passing is used, letting you hook into every part of the program and find the original class, method, and field names and all operations on them. ObjC is very dynamic and introspective which makes reversing it much easier.
Again, I think in the scenario you describe, it's Sequoia that should bend over backwards. Apple has enough cash to buy any company in the world several times over, and most Sequoia companies would feel screwed if they can't accept an offer from Apple because of politics.

For Sequoia to get pissy and hold out for terms because somebody's feelings got hurt --- and for the news to get out -- would be grounds for a lawsuit from LPs.

And yes, I know the ins & outs of M&A and VCs.
Although there are some details about what kind of pushdown are supported by the FDWs (for example: to do a WHERE key=x, a non-toy Redis FDW should push the equality predicate to redis), it's no faster nor slower than calling a C function a bunch of times.

Because SQL execution in Postgres (and most other systems) has an advantage of being functional, most executors can save a lot of time avoiding garbage collection and reference management if one is to compare them to, say, Ruby. It's probably going to be faster than bouncing to redis in your application and then to Postgres, for reasons of network overhead.

So, all in all, "it depends", but it should not be slow for a good-quality FDW that pushes down operators well.
Children who attend "expensive" international schools abroad from an early age often end up with very American accents.
Shortwave radio to the rescue.
Was it worth the money?
Tell HN: LocBox is spamming HN users
I received this e-mail, seems companies/people think it is acceptable to SPAM fellow HN users and have us not care..

Hi there - my name is Saumil Mehta and I'm Founder at LocBox (http://www.getlocbox.com) and formerly a Software Engineer focused on web search (Kosmix) and public-key crypto (Voltage Security). I saw your submissions on Hacker News and decided to reach out; thank you in advance for reading my unsolicited note.

My company focuses on empowering local businesses to have the same Marketing tools as larger retailers - specifically, we help automate customer acquisition and retention (revenue + foot traffic) for these businesses. We work with hundreds of paying customers that love our approach and we just raised a large Series A funding round with Google Ventures and others.

Would you be interested in working with us or advising us (with your referrals)? We're doing meaningful work and want to work with other great people. I've worked with great engineers in the past but these days it's easier to run into Bigfoot :)

Would you be up for a quick phone or Skype chat to discuss?

Best,
Saumil
Finnish people often have a very heavy accent because they have a non germanic language.
I can't sign up as a sensei, Getting the very similar 500 POST error when trying to submit.

"Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) http://noobninja.com/invites
Site looks great, a favicon would be a nice final touch
Or the very poor or old who quality for Medicare/Medicaid.
Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from browsers on OS X 10.7 and up
My Microsoft internship university campus interview experince
> There's trons of things infinitely more interesting than being an entrepreneur - Family. Mathematics. Physics. CS.

Depends on your interests. My business is my family -- I started my company with my brother. I was a Physics major when I went to college and I find entrepreneurship much, much more fascinating.

Starting companies isn't for everyone, and it would be misleading to say it is. But I don't think anyone can category say that "X is the most interesting thing to pursue."
Wikipedia took over the world while nobody was noticing. Didn't you get the memo?

You are a bit confused here, but I don't blame you. Here is the legal situation as far as I understand it (IANAL, standard disclaimers apply).

The Wikimedia Foundation hosts content on its servers provided by the community. Usually, the individual contributors own the copyright to all the content. And when they submit content to a WMF site, like Wikipedia, they explicitly agree to license the work under terms such that others can use it. (I am ignoring the case of fair use for now).

Certain kinds of contributions, however, are not original to the contributor. This gets confusing because then you have to prove that it's okay to reuse.

Depictions of national flags are often ineligible for copyright, or are explicitly granted to the public domain, in their country of origin. However, "public domain" has no legal meaning internationally.

The CC0 license is really designed for creators who want to dedicate their work to be freely copied, like public domain, but want something that is legally meaningful.

But - there was a large collection of flags licensed CC0 which became the basis of the Wikimedia Commons collection. Other flags have specific justifications for why they are public domain, sometimes quoting laws from specific countries. This is the good thing about Wikimedia Commons, it doesn't force you into any straightjacket to explain how the license works. But that also means that everything's kind of a mess if you want to get a straight answer to a question like "under what license could I republish all the flags on Wikimedia Commons?"

And that's where it sits. If you squint, everything's not so bad. But maybe Wikimedia Commons should relicense all the flags as ineligible for copyright -- it would make things a lot simpler.

Of course, because copyright is taking over the world, I would not be surprised if there are some nations that would insist they do hold the copyright to their flags. For instance, the EC insists it holds the copyright to their flag and the Euro symbol. Maaaaadness.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Europe.svg#Li...

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/symbol/index_e...
This is pretty amazing. Im dealing with this very issue on my app with devise and omniauth.

One thingI havent seen asked and answered is what do you do if the OAUTH provider does not supply email(which you mentioned is used to determined if the user has already signed in via a different provider).

For example. A user signs in via Facebook and is authenticated(his email and provider uid is stored). He then goes to a different machine/browser and signs in via Twitter which does not provide an email address neccessary to associated with a previous Facebook sign in. What then?
I'm still getting the 500 error as of now
Sure, I was speaking more generally than just to the people the parent knows in MA. If that becomes nationwide under Obamacare then good. By your phrasing ("force..other people who purchase insurance..to subsidize their care with or without an employer") it seems you are opposed to that idea (sorry if I presume incorrectly). If so is the idea seriously that if you get diagnosed with a serious medical condition then no one should subsidize care and you should basically be driven into bankruptcy or death due to lack of medical treatment? Perhaps this is an issue I am too close to since I am currently seeing an endocrinologist and just had a brain MRI, but prior to that (and likely still) I would say the insurance companies cleaned up on me / I subsidized a lot of other people since I have rarely had any medical conditions / costs for the entire time I have had medical insurance. But that doesn't bother me, so I guess the idea that insurance being a pool to subsidize / provide a safety net in an organized society regardless of employment somehow being portrayed as a bad thing is something I am having trouble wrapping my mind around.
Flash forward a few years...

With the amount of cash GOOG has, and the droppping costs of hardware, they can take an AOL approach if they so choose. Instead of free CD's, they could distribute free computers.
Load them up with Goog default search and all sorts of reconnaisance functionality to enable them to deliver more enticement to advetisers.

It's like signing up for AOL. It's hard for people to drop it after they've gotten used to it. Could people get used to free computers? I think so.
I got that same message too, except that he made specific reference to how my JavaScript related posts caught his eye. Since most of my JS posts are along the lines of "can someone design some sort of training wheels framework for Backbone?" I figured he was casting a wide net.
He explicitly stated that his Grandfather was a dictator which is blasphemous in N. Korean society...I would definitely be worried for his safety...
Elisabeth Rehn is a Swedish-speaking Finn (just like everyone's favorite kernel and DVCS creator). One person in the YouTube comments stated that her Finnish is not much better than her English.
It doesn't matter how they are designed. They are eventually changed to suit the various lobbies.

Things are seldom re-evaluated logically. These programs go on for decades without obvious problems being fixed.

If you have a business and you figure out that something that was supposed to make you money was NOT actually making you money, you change it ASAP.

With government, change only happens when something becomes a political issue. Nobody even knows the true cost of things so nothing can actually be weighed without great effort. People are incented to do things that validate the program, that give a politician a big number he can point to.

The housing bubble is the worst example of this. There's no way people would spend so much to buy so big a house without all of the subsidies and tax breaks and assistance.

Notice how things devolve over time. Assistance for first time buyers, for example. Now they've changed the definition of what a first time buyer to include people who've owned homes before. But they won't every change the name of the program, as they still want to misrepresent as something it no longer is.
That was a big drop though, it was almost as high as the whole image!
FYI your site is returning 500 "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
for the Canucks:

http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?videoPacka...
>90%+ are favorable to green energy, solar energy, wind energy - and Anti-Coal/Carbon products.

I wasn't aware that renewable energy was a partisan issue.
Does it support subdomains?

aaa.staging1.example.com
api.staging2.example.com
DOS hackers take HSBC websites down
He sounds like he's from southern california.
Ah thanks, just fixed! Looks like something weird got pushed live.
I think this is a perfectly reasonable question especially when it is so easy to slap some code in a table. It can seem like a lot of bloat just to get two columns center-aligned on the page when you're used to using tables.

But, I think tables are best for tabular data. CSS is best for layouts. With CSS you can have your layout more easily adjust for different browsers, mobile, etc. with tables you're locking yourself into one layout.

Also though using styles - the CSS can tend to be a bit more code, but the HTML can wind up looking very clean.
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For what's new, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new
The parent implied that Nixon cheated to get his landslide victory. I guess I left off the /sarcasm tag :-)
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His safety is not at risk.

Kim Jong-nam is the father of Kim Han Sol and he's long been a critic of North Korean regime. He still lives with massive state handout safe and sound.
1. It's not theoretical that people get bullied and harassed for photos of them found online.

2. Violentacrez is being harassed for unnecessary acts he CHOOSE to do (violating people's privacy). His victims did NOT choose to be violeted by him. He forced himself upon him. You are right that it is not comparable.

3. Violentacrez is an adult. He can change his name and move away for a fresh start, or obtain a firearm for protection. His young victims often will not have neither of those options.
It can be nice for quick and dirty things like this:

function sum(numericArray){return eval(numericArray.join('+'))}

Of course, that assumes you're smart enough not to use it on arrays that might contain user input, or you'll end up being susceptible to things like sum(['alert("pwned")']).
USPTO Contest: Patents for Humanity
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Well, I'm curious who wins. And why they had to extend the submission deadline by several months.

for the record, the patent system is broken and i doubt humanity benefits as much as in a system with more cooperation.
But more than that, there are laws, that were written perhaps in part due to pressures from these groups, but in part from all kinds of other pressures, which provide a lot of inertia for the way things are done.

Whenever there's some kind of education reform, it's usually to add stricter standards, because we're always falling behind in education and feel that stricter standards will help make sure that we don't. This means that textbooks need to meet stricter standards. Which mean that there needs to be some kind of review. Which means that someone needs to pay for that review. Which generally falls on the textbook publishers, or some overworked underpaid government committee. Which means that only a limited number of textbooks go through that review, locking out anything else which might be suitable but hasn't been reviewed to determine if it meets that standard.

The standards wind up changing every few years, so the textbooks need to be updated to match.
> Following a much-publicized botched attempt to secretly enter Japan using a fake passport and visit Disneyland in May 2001, he was thought to have fallen out of favor with his father.[0]

I'm surprised Kim Jong-nam's been left alone.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-nam
The readme refers to the administration panel of a magento instance and not the magento website. May be I should remove the link to the website to avoid any confusion. Any way, will try to set up github project page this weekend.
PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup
I'm afraid not. Kim Hansol (or Hansol Kim) is a common Korean name.
It can certainly do that, though for most cases we have found that network throughput and disk I/O will get in the way first (for other FDWs.. we have never used the Redis one).
Yelp's strategy could backfire. Now all a competitor has to do is put ads on Craigslist or Mturk begging for reviews for all of its competitors, knowing Yelp will see them and penalize them.

Yelp is going to find themselves boxed in on this. Google has already been down this road with links, and they've taken the stand that "no link can hurt you" because it's too easy for competitors to manipulate that.