skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "success." Being born into a rich family and going to an Ivy league school won't get you an instant $30m in the bank, but unless the apple really falls far from the tree, you won't have to try very hard to get into the top 5% in a country where even below-median people live pretty well. Not a bad ROI on simply choosing your parents well.
Wait, what...

1. massive water dependency in middle of the desert

2. dependency on pipeline through foreign territory

3. dependency on foreign border integrity

4. adjunct to military territory

...mmm, what could go wrong?
There's an underlying problem to that: RSS has no concept of a signal for "feed discontinued at this URL; use other located at <new URL>". At its simplest, this would just require RSS readers to understand 301 redirects and actually change their stored URL for the feed in response.

(Well, that, and to not use feed URLs as primary keys, which I know some RSS clients are guilty of. ;)
I like it, but I gotta say - a decent logo would take this a long way forward. Can I volunteer to make something for free that's at least better than what you have now?
Any time I get to pick someone's brain to see how they got where they are I do it. Most people like to share, and I find that once I get them talking we'll talk for a fairly significant time. Last month I met with another vendor for one of my large clients and we mostly talked about how he got from 2-3 people to the size he is now and how he finds good talent. While he hires for different skills than me (internal guys for RoR vs. customer facing .NET [him, me]), it was good to learn the how and why of his business.
AgencyTalk#10 – What is your unique lead generation advantage?
so that's just the same as this xkcd strip but with median income/ios/education levels/supporting gun control/access to birth control

http://xkcd.com/1138/
You will not in the western world find any country that are more expensive than the american system as far as I am aware.
When people complain about overpaid football players, or overpaid Wall Street executives, etc, is "envy" the first word that really comes to your mind?
Weird. I follow my friend's high school aged little brother on twitter and it seems there are a lot of high schoolers on twitter. In fact, this guy deactivated his Facebook and only uses his twitter and Instagram now. He lives in Texas though, maybe Texans are behind the curve.

From what I've noticed it seems that Facebook is definitely far less cool than twitter these days.
Why?

If you know his email, then the website's confirmation link will still go to his inbox.

If you know his email and password, then Persona wouldn't help anyway.
When they removed the ability to serve ads -- presumably the whole reason the service exists -- I knew its days were numbered. But honestly, I had assumed there would be tons (years) of notice before they unplugged anything. Now I'm not so sure about that.
Producer/audio engineer will get you no where. There are a million "producers" out there without work, and honestly focusing too much on the music industry was really what set me back on my career by about 5 years. Call it a hobby and move on.

"Programmer" however will solve all of your financial problems for the rest of your life. Invest as much effort as you can into building up your skills and tell everyone you can about them. Email every business in town with a list of your tech skills. Go on ODesk make a profile and list those skills. Respond to every gig posted on there. Check Craigslist, Elance, rentacoder whatever. Find a few gigs, build your skillset and once you are confident enough in what you do, work will just start to find you. As soon as you can afford it get the hell out of your small town and move to a larger market. Everything will change
"The U.S. health system is the most expensive in the world, but comparative analyses consistently show the United States underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance."

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/20...
Kickstarter has a new feature: press up and you can flip threw project videos
I'm not a feedburner user myself, but it looks like a lot of people use it just for stats - I wonder could google roll it into google analytics as an extra stream?
Nice work, I would suggest expanding the range of ccTLDs though - as there are so many, maybe put the available ones at the top of the ccTLD list to prevent too much scrolling. I like the quick links to registrars at the side, very handy.
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Here are some donation sites that let you set up donation pages for exactly this type of cause:

https://www.gofundme.com

https://www.fundly.com

https://www.everribbon.com <- Disclosure: I run this one

Good luck!
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I was interning in California (I'm a Canadian citizen) when I felt compelled to go see a doctor because I spent about a week coughing up various different colours of phlegm (was awoken pretty much nightly with really bad hacking cough). I visited the walk-in clinic at Palo Alto Medical Foundation (in Palo Alto). I had travel insurance offered through my (Canadian) university supplement insurance plan (which for some reason wasn't in their system), so I was asked (albeit very politely) whether I'd like to pay for the visit in cash or credit card ($300 up front).

The doctor listened to me cough and did a swab for a staph infection before diagnosing me with the common flu and advising me to come back if it didn't subside within another week.

I guess in hindsight the visit cost much more than average (since $176 apparently is the 95th percentile cost for a routine doctor's visit), but it just seemed strange that seeing a doctor (not even emergency room) cost roughly half as much as an iPad.
Mark Zuckerberg starts organizing tech-centric political lobbying organization
Go to a hostel in Bundaberg, look at the wall. Or call a hostel in Bundaberg and ask them now. I don't think anyone offering fruit picking jobs cares about 'a guy who's going to move to australia in three months' enough to ever reply to an email though. The only people who would reply to that are the ones who will charge you money for it, there are too many kids wandering in each day looking for work on the spot to talk to someone on the other side of the world who probably is just daydreaming and won't ever turn up anyway.
If you don't mind me asking, what did you do? It would be cheaper to fly back to Denmark and get the operation there wouldn't it?
Micromanagment is not always a bad thing, and Steve Jobs is one shining example of this. Of course not everyone is good at it, but time will tell how this ends up.

My guess is that current management have become stale, comfortable and somewhat corrupted. Recruiting favors those with connections within the company, not the ones with experience, knowledge or brilliance.
She could of course outright fire managers, but that could lead to worse consequences than micromanagment would.

Anyway, time will tell.
This is my personal project. I originally launched it a while back with coverage for Los Angeles cities but decided to just open it up to all states and a metro area in each state.

The basic idea is to combine local activism ("petitions") with charitable giving. I like to call it doing something "more than a petition."
I use StraightTalk, and I'm pretty sure they use both AT&T and T-Mobile. If you have coverage on either of those (at the very least, on AT&T), I should have coverage as well.
That's beside the point. The graphs are misleading. If the author simply let the data speak for itself, instead of biasing the visuals, it would be much more effective.
novasixx@outlook.com!!
Anyone has any rationale why some companies still prefer to remain in stealth mode on demo day? I'm confused by the "ideas are dime a dozen, execution is all that matters", "do not sign NDA" and the fact that in almost every batch of YCs, some companies still remain in stealth mode on demo day.
What's your skillset?
Ask HN: what's a good place to live when working in SoMa?
Hi HN.
I will be moving to SF for a summer internship in the SoMa area. Since I have never lived in SF before and know that a lot of HN-ers are from CA, can you recommend a good neighborhood that I should look for a room to rent in?
I am looking for something near to SoMa, low crime rates and affordable for a student.

Thanks!
If there isn't any other country that is more expensive how is that besides the point?

Another way to interpret the different numbers could also be simply a question of availability.
Why can't you move to Seattle?

I moved into one of those apodment places once I got here during the summer. It's a dorm style place that comes w/ furniture,internet,electricity,heat,and water for like $700.

I then emailed a bunch of companies in the area and landed a junior dev job. The pay is low but I am learning a lot.
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There are many things not factored into the graphs. Two that have been substantially quantified in healthcare economics literature:

- Average survival rates and outcomes for non-trivial procedures and illnesses are excellent in the US compared to the rest of the developed world. If I have cancer in the US, my average survival rate is 65-70%. In the UK NHS, to use that as an example, it is 45%. The better diagnostics, treatments, and options in the US are naturally going to cost more money and Americans have it to spend.

- The free-rider problem with pharmaceuticals. The vast majority of R&D cost is recovered in the US because it is one of the few markets in the developed world where drug companies can charge enough money to amortize their R&D costs. If Americans paid as much for drugs as the rest of the world, the pharmaceutical companies would go broke.

That said, there are an enormous number of aspects of healthcare in the US that are just grossly inefficient, wasteful, and expensive. Americans pay an inordinate amount of money for healthcare, and more than they need to, but they also receive some benefits in terms of medical outcomes as well.
I would love to know what position you are hiring for. Email me please @ novasixx@outlook.com! Thanks!!
I'd say cost of living in Argentina is 3-5x lower than the US. Even if you multiply all the AR values by 5x it's still ridiculous.
Why pay an extra $480 a year for emergency service, when you can get it for $30 a year?

$30 is what PagePlus will charge you in a year of prepaid service, using the per-minute pay-as-you-go plan. You get access to the entire Verizon network at 10 cents per minute, plus roaming access at 29 cents per minute.

In fact, this is even better for emergencies than postpaid service. Now you have access to both the GSM and CDMA 2G networks.
IANAL so have no idea but I would not be surprised if my comparison was apples to oranges.
301, you mean, but I'd be surprised if RSS readers don't honor 301s. The RSS feed is served over HTTP, so it's not the job of the feed to specify its location. That's what "Moved permanently" is for.
Parent probably had insurance.
NYU Sloan covered it, and 2nd time it was removed. I have more than a thousand moles so will have to get checked for the rest of my life every second month or until they find a cure.

Obviously hoping for the latter and are trying to research the state of treatment just in case it happens again.
Thanks for sharing your story. I have massive respect for people like you. Keep going brother.
It's probably fairly common that $high_entropy_password != $password_used_elsewhere.

In other words, if a user uses a high entropy password, there's a better chance that they're not reusing it elsewhere, thus improving security.
But if there's an interesting article on marco.org, someone who reads that will post it to /r/programming, and I'll get to read it without having to find and follow the author.
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Well I live in the US so I have US healthcare. The one I have now is much better than the one last year.
Just as crazy -- random network packet corruptions that get past the simple checksumming.
Thanks! I sent you an email as soon as I could.
Fair enough. I don't consider ML and prolog to be "mainstreamish", and I'm defining "strange" to mean "unusual".
Google Authenticator integration wasn't an option when they launched Alter Ego. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5446230
I know that the OP did take it off the table. I'm not doing so. It's important, and here's why.

I'm sure he's extremely talented. Most 17-year-olds aren't programming at all. However, this is an HR acquisition (they're shutting Summly down). What exactly does a 17-year-old have that merits a $30m hiring bonus?

I'm not ragging on him, at all. I think it's great for him. He had the opportunity and took it. That's awesome. But... what are Yahoo's executives thinking?

When DE Shaw hires Putnam Fellows, they start them at $150-200k. Not $30 million. They have to work their way up to that.

I'm not asking this out of resentment, because I don't care. Yahoo could have acquired him for $500m and I wouldn't care. I'm asking that out of honest curiosity. If you're that desperate for talent that you're hiring 17-year-olds (very good 17-year-olds, no doubt) with a $30m hiring bonus instead of a much more reasonable, I don't know, $500k, then what did you do so wrong as to get there?

See, I'm sure there are economic reasons for large companies to buy goofy startups for $7 million per engineer. But that's a sign that either (a) they're all seriously underpaying their people, and it's systemic across the Valley, or (b) their internal cultures are so stifling of creativity that they're desperate for innovation, and the only thing they can come up with is to massively overpay "credible" people from the outside instead of developing internal talent.

I suspect that it's both (a) and (b). In fact, I've been inside enough short-sighted, badly-run companies to know that it is.

It's of personal interest to me. Companies are literally in headline-making death throes because they can't get people like me, and when one of us shows up-- we aren't that rare, maybe 1 in ~100 software engineers-- they treat us like shit. It's bizarre.

Here's a proposal to all the large corporations out there. For a mere $2500 per hour I, Michael O. Church, will tell you how to unfuck your inefficient, talent-stifling culture. CEO of a megalith that can't hire good people without a 5-million-per-engineer acq-hire? (Actually, you probably have good people-- some much better than I am-- but the dopey middle managers keep you from seeing their talents. Fire them. That'll be $175.) I will help you change that. All you have to do is listen to me. After 200 hours (that's a mere $500k) you will no longer to acq-hire at $5-10m per engineer to get good teams. You'll be able to do it for $3m per engineer because people will actually want to work for you. Or, better yet, you'll be able to get good people the old-fashioned way.

Mark Zuckerberg is young and rich, but he actually built a free-standing company. So it's not as ridiculous that he's worth billions, given that the work (possibly not the code, but the ongoing business process) is still in use.
>Its like the mailman argument. If I don't get any mail today, my mailman can't magically teleport past my house.

No, but he can save a lot of time by not turning down your street at all.
smartos does seem to be missing an X server you can run in the global zone on the physical machine's physical video port(s), though, which makes it pretty useless for a home computer (which otherwise would be a great place to start playing with it before deploying it elsewhere).
Watching the watchmen: The astonishing speed of Chinese censorship
China is probably more expensive at the high-end when considering bribes. But it does nothing to invalidate this chart.
This is exactly what almost every reader on the planet does, thanks to discussion and evangelism 5+ years ago
The US ranks #38 in health care quality worldwide, while also being the most expensive, and is last among developed nations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranki...

http://images.medicalbillingandcoding.org.s3.amazonaws.com/M...
The MAV MOS is also valuable: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/forecast/graphics/MAV/
The American health-care system is ludicrous!

My girlfriend and I are from Europe and we have been in the US for a year now while she finishes her university degree. Half a year ago she (we?) got pregnant, and we are paying more than triple the money for doctor visits than it would be back home. Not only that - but the money we're paying is just 20% of the "real" cost, the insurance she paid $7000 per year for is paying the rest. So we're paying $180 per visit and the "real" cost of each half an hour long doctor visit is about $900!

Now you might argue it's better service, but in my very subjective view, I highly doubt it and it doesn't feel like it at all. To add insult to injury: We got a 3D sonogram and the amount we paid (mind you, 20% of the "real" cost) was twice the amount our friends at home have paid for 3D sonogram taken by a private company (and the government is not paying a cent).

IMO, America is one fantastic country if you're rich - but it seems much much harder to live here than in Europe on meager salaries.
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There's a bigger problem: FeedBurner wraps URLs in the google feedproxy redirector. If they shut that down, a ton of old shared links will break.
Huh.. thanks for this. Never heard of zing, looks worth a test drive.
One of the problems the poor have is shifting schedules that keep them from working multiple part-time jobs to get to 40 hours a week.

I've never heard of a food server job that hired fulltime workers or allowed those reaching 40 hours to go beyond that.
Or in the eastern.
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I'm not saying the numbers are reasonable. I guess I'm saying that the graphs would be more useful if they were somehow normalized for something like cost-of-living.
A few reviews of Summly, the app.

http://www.cultofmac.com/199513/summly-actually-quite-good-n...

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/11/05/summly-app-may-fail...

http://www.reviewsontherun.com/all/type-of/reviews/summly-io...

(Trimmit) http://www.fastcompany.com/1772823/15-year-old-creator-trimi...

(Trimmit) http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/07/quickadvice-trimit

And some pre-acquisition hype:

http://allthingsd.com/20121213/mobilemobilemobile-yahoo-eyes...
It seems you're just counting ocurrences? The Multiset actually stores them IIRC.

So to me it seems the Set type should be map[string][]type_of_elem, if that is possible.

[edit]

I'm confusing Multiset with Multimap... sorry.

[note]

Actually Multimap/Mutliset is not shipped with Java, but from Google... So it's not that "included".
I am wondering how they are already getting 500k uniques per month & 1000 contractors a week signing up:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/14/buildzoom-connects-homeowne...

I mean, how on earth do you that? Some kind of mystical SEO? Befuddles me...
You got lucky.

I was an international student. Had a terrible strep throat. Lived off campus. Called university, asked if going to a nearby emergency clinic would be covered. They said "yes". Did so. Got there, waited 1+ hours in the lobby. Then a young intern saw me for 5 minutes. Prescribed a codeine pill and sent me home.

It turns out outside of campus clinic visit was not covered. I did not record the phone conversation. Got a $400 bill (in 1999 money!).

Fuck you American medical system. Should have given them the wrong name or something. It seems they are out to rob people I wouldn't even feel back screwing them over. Charging a student who lives on rammen noodles $400 in 1999 could mean not being able to pay for housing or not being able to avoid food or books.

Now I just avoid doctors as much as possible. It is irrational but I just feel like both insurance and doctors are out to screw me and take all my money. Sad thing is, my rational part of the brain understand that the next time I will see doctors might be in the emergency being unconscious or really sick (maybe I should carry a wallet with a fake name with me ;-)
Thanks! We've got a lot of features still to build and things to optimize but we're really excited about what's coming up.
Using technology developed with US dollars.
Ask HN: why some YC companies remain in stealth on demo day?
Anyone has any rationale why some companies still prefer to remain in stealth mode on demo day? I'm confused by the "ideas are dime a dozen, execution is all that matters", "do not sign NDA" and the fact that in almost every batch of YCs, some companies still remain in stealth mode on demo day.
Can JavaScript look up a SRV record?
Service goes far beyond just the physician.
This snot-nosed brat is a mere 27 years old, and I would say that if you could have grabbed him for $30 million it would be worth it: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1630529_138070...
I was never really that into the Microsoft world but others have mentioned places to look for OpenSource projects for those platforms.

There is no reason you can't move platforms or languages though. If you know C# or Asp.Net you know enough to get started in ruby, python, perl, or any other language. You don't have to limit yourself in this industry.
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Yes, but pgpool isn't always an option. If you use Heroku's Postgres service, you do not have sufficient privileges to run the commands to attach to software like pgpool.

The only way we were able to get connection pooling working in django 1.3/1.4 was to use django-dbpool[0]. It works okay, but is still pretty sketchy compared to the connection pooling libraries available for the JVM like BoneCP or C3P0.

[0] https://github.com/gmcguire/django-db-pool
Something has to replace the pills, so why not exercise? Start running or powerlifting. Get active though. This is coming from a guy who has wicked-bad spells of depression that border on madness.
It's scary, but I feel better after identifying what my keystone habits are and then DOING IT: http://zerotosuperhero.com/mindhack/find-your-lifes-last-kno...

See, that's the thing. We live in a pill generation. An era of instant gratification and 3 minute microwave meals. The pill is symbolic of our mass illusion that nothing requires effort anymore. Don't succumb to the lie. Take the time and do the work to take care of yourself
Do you have any publications or links to back up your cancer survival claim?
Thanks

edit:
Found this:
Global Cancer Statistics, 2002 DOI 10.3322/canjclin.55.2.74

That shows essentially the same survival between the US and western Europe. (Link to table http://i.imgur.com/UWPxDEx.png )

This claim on survival just does not stand up to what I have seen as someone involved in the medical field.
It's too much and it is my understanding that american health outcomes are definately no better and in many cases a lot worse (for example childhood mortality)
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I never said she wasn't a victim. I said that she wasn't nearly the victim the media is making her out to be. Someone who wants to be in the public spotlight, doesn't get to sit high and mighty when the spotlight gets too hot.
Udacity is another great online learning tool for your list. It's extremely approachable and I really appreciate the structure of each course.

http://www.udacity.com