skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't give up! There will always be hope until you yourself abandon it. Don't ever be ashamed about not having a degree; I'm ashamed that I've learned more about programming from a few good books than my overpriced education! You may not think that you have much, but you've already been given everything you need to succeed in life. Don't be ashamed of what you don't know, be eager to learn it. Don't expect anyone but you to change your situation. The first job in a desired field is always the hardest to get because of little to no experience. Don't be afraid to try something in a similar field than the one you intended; you may find you like it better, or it may give you the experience to get your foot in the door in the intended field. Thank you for posting this, and I'll pray that you find a way out of this. You can do it!
You didn't really answer his question. What exactly is the government doing?

I haven't really studied the issue deeply myself, but the usual complaint I hear is about things like selling insurance across state lines. But I'm not clear on how 15 or 25 or 40 (IL, TX, CA, respectively) isn't a big enough population to capture most of the efficiencies of scale that are there to be captured.
Nowadays whenever I see a callback waterfall forming, my first thought is https://npmjs.org/package/node-async.
!!!NORTH DAKOTA or the military... It be BOOM times in the oil patch. Housing is tough, but find a job that will put you up at the man camps. Search google for north dakota oil jobs and whatnot...

Summer is rolling around so make sure to be there before all the southern guys come back up after leaving for the winter. I plan on looking for a oil field job soon. After years in college, grad school, working at a corp job doing ASICs/FPGAs paying less than 70k, I hear its pretty easy to make +100k in the oil fields. Just make sure you are "mobile". I won't be slack work but you will be able to bank enough money to go to school. I hear of plenty of college age kids working the summer in the fields and end up staying in the fields( not going back to college). If I where you, plan on working a year or two, saving up a "pile of money", and then working on some degree. Remember, you will be a old man in tech by the time you get your degree and what will reduce your chances for employment. Tech is a wicked mistress!

.... If not, look at Udacity and the other MOOCs.
Just to clarify, in 2006 she was a 22 year old dropout, and it was last year that her company sold $100M.
When I was 22, I was homeless, too. I didn't really snap to this fact until many years later: I had no home, therefore I was homeless. Everything I would want to say to you, someone else has already said in one of the other comments (eg, rejected by the Air Force, turned out that the best place for me was in college). So I'm just posting to tell you to keep your pecker up (hey, it's Scottish and it means keep your spirits up, it just sounds funnier). I'd hug you, too, if I could. Keep working to outrun your fear.
Ah, I guess I hadn't considered that her plan covered him too. Still, pretty expensive for a plan that only covers 80%, especially if the $7,000 is before the kid.
Only with the help of a server.
> Doctors over-test and over-treat because it makes them money

I believe at least part of the reason is also that it reduces their chances of getting sued.
I have a degree from a state college and do quite well for myself. I don't work at Google or Yahoo, but since I graduated in 2006 I've never been without a well paying job, or offers for one.

If you're studying computer science or a related field, your ROI is going to be just fine at a state university.
I have a hard time believing that they'd pay $30M to gain five programmers.

That's a fairly standard acq-hire, actually. It's not just Yahoo that's paying over $5 million per head. It's ridiculous, when you consider that the value of an employment relationship (which can be ended by either party at any time) is set at 30-60 times the annual salary. (Just think about it: how is a relationship that lasts 4.5 years on average worth 50x salary?) As I said, either engineers are getting screwed, or acq-hires are signs of severe desperation and devastating information poverty. It seems to be both.

I've also read a few posts on this thread saying as much as "there are no smart people at Yahoo" or "everyone at Yahoo is an idiot" (paraphrasing). Coming from folks at HN I think these kinds of statements are really unbecoming. Of course there are a lot of amazing people at Yahoo. Tons of them.

I am dead sure that there are a lot of amazing engineers at Yahoo. It's just sad that the company is so calamitously bad at recognizing talent at the bottom that it has to hire external 17-year-olds. I'm sure they have plenty of great people who'd be thrilled to do an NLP/R&D project for just their regular salary.

If I were at Yahoo right now, after this acq-hire I'd write Marissa Mayer an email:

Dear Marissa,

Hi, I'm Michael O. Church. My salary is now $500,000 and I have full autonomy to
work on whatever project I want. Based on the rate you are paying for external
talent, this salary is justified. I am dead sure I will deliver more
economic value to Yahoo than I take from it, but I will choose my projects
from here on out. If that is not acceptable to you, Friday is my last day.

If you're writing $30-million acq-hire checks for 17-year-olds, you should fire every goddamn middle manager, because your ability to recognize talent at the bottom is for shit.
> Didn't they get a phone in return ?

They got a $400 Android phone. They could've gotten a $600 iPhone without paying any more money.

But T-Mobile is not subsidizing the iPhone. If you want an iPhone, then you have to pay more than people who buy Androids phones.

If T-Mobile succeeds, this will be a serious setback for Apple. The other carriers will have to respond if they start seeing defections. I'm surprised that Apple is even allowing this. T-Mobile is the smallest of the four national US carriers. The additional customers from T-Mobile can't be worth the risk of losing an advantageous market structure ...
Great to hear you're a fan of our service! Yes, you come to our location ~5min away from the terminal, and we'll have a black car drop you off right at the curb. We're working on a valet option; it's a bit more complicated as it requires infrastructure at the airport itself, but we're working on it.
Well, hey, it's exactly what the title advertises: "21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous". Objective? Unbiased? No guarantees are made :)
I love that the author was persistent enough to actually get to a solution -- any solution, no matter how ridiculous -- using nothing more than Google. I can't count how many times I've tried to help someone get started on the basics of the web programming stack only to realize that the inferential distance for this person is so high that I would have to spend hours explaining things in order to help them solve the problem.

Sorry world. It's getting better. But slowly.
What you describe is not capitalism. It's cronyism. The US healthcare market is far from a free market; hasen't been for 50 years.
Because that value is directly correlated with the price that insurance companies can charge consumers.
Seems like it's cheaper to fly to Argentina for health care. My wife goes back to Russia for dental care - 1/5 the price.
I love this. The code may not have been beautiful, but it worked, and the author figured it out themselves!

I'm simultaneously reminded of two different quotes:

Let's argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape.
--@agentdero [0]

And the other:

<dm> I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.

-- Bash.org [1]

You should always try to do SOMETHING over being frozen in indecision. Additionally, we really should do a better job of explaining things to people, so they don't have to stoop to trolling for answers :)

[0] https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352

[1] http://bash.org/?152037
I usually just put a Michael Nyman playlist on and turn my headphones up to a level where I can't hear anything over than an explosion.

Personally works for me.

But, ideally anything I can listen to for a couple of hours without feeling the urge to skip songs or sing along to. Instrumentals only.
Yep there's plenty of solutions to callback hell.

My particular favourite is the Lamina library in clojure which takes the event-driven approach https://github.com/ztellman/lamina/wiki/Introduction
The US doesn't have a monopoly on medical innovation; Many of the big pharma companies are European:
Of the top 12 Pharma companies 6 are from the US, but fully 50% are from European countries
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_companie...)

Many medical innovations have come from countries other than the US, and they continue to.
On iOS, at least the iphone version I just installed on an ipad to test, accounts can be rearranged in GA.

On Android, there is no rearrangement possible. There's no "edit" button like there is on the ios version, that enables dragging accounts around.

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/issues/detail...
They key take away here is there is a HUGE opportunity for a medical tourism startup that helps people find quality healthcare overseas (from US perspective).
They are heavily regulating it.

If you ask some people they would say "everything is screwed up because govt is regulating it" others say "everything is screwed up because they are not involved enough with it". I lean towards the latter, but I can buy the argument from the other side as well perhaps.
We like to embrace different technologies and use each for its strength. MongoDB is excellent for a whole class of use cases and we like it a lot, but we also use other persistence solutions as well. Check out Polyglot persistence post by Martin Fowler, it's an awesome read. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html
Lucky Dogs Get Shot at Diabetes Cure – WebMD
WE ARE THE EXPLORERS: A movie trailer for our space program
I remember a guy sitting at the next desk to me spending a whole week trying to figure out why his Direct3D code crashes. He was blaming buggy ATI drivers.
He figured it out when eventually a bit flip ended up in his _source code_.
The cost of living in France, the UK and Australia are comparable to the US. San Francisco and New York are very expensive to live in, but so are Sydney, Paris and London.
Maybe I'm reading the graphs wrong, but they seem somewhat misleading to me: shouldn't the average (top of the blue bar, bottom of slightly greener blue bar) be what you're comparing to the others? The other columns are all strictly averages too, even though the prices are centrally set for many of the other countries.

The US does come out more expensive, but not as much as the graphs might lead you to believe. It's like saying: In Australia the average student scored 43 points on a standardized test, but in the US, students in the 95th percentile got 150 points! Yeah, not so convincing.

n.b. I say this all as a Canadian.
But facebook at least has standards (or is believed to, i have no knowledge).

Why should, for example, google, ever trust, say, fred's discount web hosting, enough to let them login to gmail?

Not in the sense of "these guys could compromise gmail" (which is a worry in certain elevated privileges contexts), but more in the sense that "people are still going to say 'my gmail got hacked'" if their gmail gets hacked because they made bad choices. They do now!

Google will still get blamed, and their only real option is to decide not to accept certain identity providers (IE blacklist or whitelist).
Long term, how are we not going to end up with just a mishmash of who accepts what?

I've read a bunch of docs on persona, and it doesn't seem to address this past stating how wonderful user choice is, and how making this more distributed will make the web more secure (which seems, well, wrong)
something is not quite right here, does this make sense at all to anybody? even if for some reason air on the top is hotter than the air next to the hot ground, after a short while the draft itself, makes a local equilibrium, and it is hard to believe you can over come this by spraying water and cooling the bottom of the tower, and all of this just by testing on a 4 feet tall model in Maryland?!
I think it's spending more money on X, and less on Y. One of the huge savings available for single payer systems is you can use random audits vs debating every single bill. Cover everyone and suddenly you don't need to fill out reams of insurance forms every time you see a new doctor etc.
Reminds me of http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html
Most of the older people I know that are "working hard" are running businesses, no 40 hour weeks there. Also Me and my friends are not wealthy but we work and study constantly. Also lots in my family work in the mines which are long 12 hours days many in a row (my Dad has it easier, only 10 days in a row of 12 hour days). I know very few people working 40 hour weeks.
People's attitudes to Web privacy
1.3 billion people n yet no free mourners in China !!
Show HN: Create TED like presentations right from your iPad
Textastic: A $3 TextMate replacement for OS X (also on iOS)
That's a hell lot of things to change, break, go down, lose your data, start charging ridiculous prices, be discontinued, etc... I'm all for SaaS and not re-inventing wheels, but I'd be nervous if I had to rely on so many external dependencies.
The Keynes quote reminds me of LTCM (just finished reading When Genius Failed).
Blog post writer here. I was going to mention this in the post, but I ended up deciding against it:

I'm from Middle America. In Middle America, when you ask a farmer what he feeds his pigs, he tells you what he feeds his pigs, what he doesn't feed his pigs, why he feeds his pigs what he feeds his pigs, how he feeds his pigs, and what sunscreen he applies to their skin.

So it was very weird to me that a lot of programmers didn't like to share their knowledge of programming (except, it seems, when they are trying to impress other programmers).
One of the main reasons PHP is still kicking is because it's still easier to get things done with PHP.
Clojure buster? Great!
It would definitely incentivize the impersonal, "get done as fast as possible, don't spend a microsecond more," style of visit to the doctor.

This never happens now, of course.
Yes, you're right. Fixed this. I prefer the compound growth rate to the rolling average.
One way it'll be different is (presumably) users won't be confronted with a wall of possible OpenID providers.

You asked a good question. HN's not very good at self-regulating. Negativity is regarded negatively in some bizarre self-perpetuation cycle.
Actually, I don't think downloading files is illegal, just morally wrong. The distribution of them is a different matter.
You read the part where they explained this decision, yes?
Some recruiters will tell you flat-out lies. I had three (two from one branch, one from another) try to convince me that breaking my arm twice as a youth wasn't worth telling the processors. The pair that tag-teamed me were conveniently ignoring the framed statement in their very office that said that lying about anything during your recruitment process was a violation of the UCMJ.

I really hope those three guys were in the minority, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.
One of the arguments for shopping across state lines is changing the risk profile. There are certain conditions that are more prevalent in certain states or regions (e.g. obesity in the "deep south").

Another argument is that states individually mandate what should be covered under insurance. If you can buy from another state, then you can get (cheaper?) insurance such that you're not paying for things that aren't relevant to you.
I know Michelle, and it's impressive that she started coding just two summers ago. Testament to the fact that it doesn't take long to become a good programmer
An alternative.. http://uri.lv/

w/ migration from feedburner.. http://uri.lv/feeds/migrate
We're building a reader to fill the void left by Google Reader.

...wait, this is /r/circlejerk right?
> If you don't want dry turkey, stop overcooking it. It's as simple as that.

It is not that simple. The flavor certainly changes as more of the proteins get denatured. 180 is where you get ideal tenderness and the best meat flavor, but it is damn hard to keep it moist at that temperature. I don't think it is possible in an oven.

The best way to cook a turkey is to fry it under pressure. I like the pot, lid, and cinderblock method, but it is quite dangerous and the temperature is hard to control.
Great article.

For a while, I was even hesitant to simply show some of my projects to other developers I looked up to..I figured the code was so bad, and the project so trivial, that why bother?

Reading sites like HN, you read about these tremendously talented people.... doing exits, building absurdly cool projects that you think you'll never be able to build... and it's easy to benchmark yourself against that sort of ideal and think that your stuff isn't cool enough. When I finally was confident enough to share some projects with a few people I respected, I was blown away by how much I learned just listening to their feedback.

Even if you think you're code sucks, you'll improve rapidly by learning WHY it sucks, and using that in new projects.
Foilhat – A semi-paranoid bash cronjob wrapper that watches its back
Honestly, I'm not sure if your counter argument is intended to be ironic.

I'm used to an Internet where you're not required to be so goddamned polite. Seems to me it becomes the spidery veneer of Silicon Valley networking; insincere, self-interested, and a corruption of what it means to be 'nice.'
Same. I just started working with them a few weeks ago and they're awesome.

I would speculate that a Techcrunch writer has probably not felt the pain of administering payroll and benefits for a small and medium sized company. Nothing is worse than logging into ADP of Paychex, and that's one of many functions that Zenfits makes suck less.
Yes, what he described is not True Capitalism™.
> The American health-care system is ludicrous!

No, because there is nothing that can properly be called "the American health-care system".

America has a large number of different public and private health care financing systems (e.g., insurance and insurance-like programs), a large number of different and uncoordinated public and private health care delivery systems, and extremely inefficient, costly, and poorly standardized interfaces between all those different health care financing and delivery systems.

> 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.

These are both by design.
You should open source a browser extension that allows your subscribers who are browsing http://news.ycombinator.com to vote on which stories should make the next edition of the newsletter. This way, you will ensure that your content stays appealing to your readership over the course of time.
Change the way you see the problem
Yes! Exactly. Thank you for understanding what I meant.

I want to hear about the decision process behind how or why Zaphar chose the open source project he did, and how others here choose their open source projects?

Just a little advice, so that I too (and others reading), can (wisely) choose our first open source project to contribute to.
Google was still an excellent search engine when it had 1/100 of its current codebase. Fifty programmers could deliver something of nearly comparable quality (excluding in-house knowledge that gives it that extra 0.01%). Google's obviously doing a lot more than Web Search, now.

Web Search is a Big Problem and, as you said, it's a winner-take-all, red-ocean business. Google managed to come in when the state of the art was horrendous (few considered search to be an interesting problem; it was "solved" but shitty). Now Bing is almost as good as Google, and certainly far better than Google was when it established dominance of Search.

You say: I really do not see how you can break a Microsoft or Apple, much less a Google or Facebook, into 50,000 smaller businesses.

You don't. Big companies are not going to die out overnight. They'll still be there, they'll still be strong and important, they'll still provide utility and commodity services, but the Big Companies of the mid-21st century might have 3000 employees instead of 25,000. So where will those other 22,000 go? Smaller companies. They'll be more independent.

There are a lot of problems that can be solved by technology but require some "niche" competence. Take the emerging field of data science. Machine learning is very powerful, but domain knowledge is still key. There are thousands of domains that are going to be needing what's currently a very high level of data competence (not big data, but smart data for sure) in people who also understand their problems. That makes room for thousands of lifestyle businesses.
"Portable roaster ovens" can fit an OK sized bird and are just a bit more expensive than a good crock pot. Completely worth it to have your oven available on a busy holiday. That way you can set the turkey for any temp you want and vary your actual oven with the sets of things that cook quicker.

The only thing: they are pretty hot and could be a safety concern if not at counter height.

example: http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-4818-14-18-Quart-Porcelain-Cookw...
Another thing I don't really remember is that BadRAM thing. When I fiddled with it [1], memmap [2] was already there, but for some reason I wanted to use BadRAM or maybe I was unaware of it. BadRAM wasn't present for the kernel I was using, so I attempted porting it to my 2.6.32 one. In the end I haven't really tested it, I guess, had to move on with other things.

Now I remembered something! Some time later I tried contacting Rick van Rein, thinking that maybe he would be interested in a new version of the patch, or rather he could review it and I would learn something, but I never got the reply from him.

I hope my attempt isn't too embarassing, yet can be interesting for someone, so I just published my mail to Rick with the attached patch [3]. Feel free to show me how wrong I was in my poor "refinements" of the original patch! I would be more than happy (even though I'm not into kernel now at all) to get constructively bashed about it.

[1] http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/bad_memory.txt
[3] https://gist.github.com/przemoc/5251104
If they pay 20% of price A and the insurance theorethically covers 80% of A, but in actuality pays only B << 0.8 A, then that sounds like fraud.
Agreed. I was pretty resistent to the new pricing when the rep was explaining it to me because i just knew there had to be some fine print. Needless to say i'm very happy with the plan change and i'm paying much less than i was. I did have to pay a little more up front for the phone but it was worth it.
Wow. I didn't know about the stuff before your numbered list (except that you had a family), but I remember finding your blog when you were at #1 and still doing Perl. I was motivated to get involved with FOSS because of it. Really inspiring. I don't know if I've ever said that to you but it's true.