skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Michelle's website last year when I was looking for examples of how to write good CSS and HTML - I definitely couldn't have told you then that she had started web programming less than a year ago!

It just goes to show that if you really have a passion for something and you really work hard at it, you can become awesome at it (or at least good enough to know you can be awesome without that much work) in no time. I find that this usually holds for most things in life, but it lends itself to web design especially.
> 1. You as a human have the ability to control your reaction to anything.

Do you actually have any support for that statement, other than as an article of faith? I am honestly not aware of any scientific evidence for it.
Interesting. I would have figured easy bugs were squashed in seconds by expert developers. Shows how new I am to this eh? Thanks for all the advice.
Thanks David! It has been three very intense months :)
Dunster, any clue if Quantopian supports option trading?
3. You don't need electricity to read them
The statistics actually come from the esteemed British medical journal Lancet. Google it; the over-performance of the US across a broad swath of cancers in that study attracted a lot of attention.

As for why the US has better treatments, depending on how you measure it, 70-80% of all new biomedical R&D globally is done in the US. Consequently, if there is a new biomedical technology, it shows up in the US system first where they can capture the R&D investment. Most of the rest of the R&D is done in Asia.

You are correct about one thing: the US has extremely high levels of diagnostic testing compared to the rest of the developed world. It is both part of the cost and also why survival rates are higher for many diseases. The survival rates are not just better treatments, it is also earlier diagnosis by virtue of heavy use of (expensive) diagnostic tests.
Mozilla

building stuff you don't need today
What's the difference between wefunder and Funders Club?
Thanks! I ran into one other issue (PR: https://github.com/mozilla/eyedee.me/pull/27) but was otherwise able to get it booted in our Heroku-esque environment: http://eyedee-me.a.pogoapp.com/
It's not because YC companies are in stealth, but announcing you're a part of YC is a newsworthy event, and that can be used tactically in coordination with something else. For example, launching a new product or campaign.
How does random bit flipping and check-summing to fix it work with encryption.

This is actually pretty interesting! How well does encryption handle bit corruption in encrypted data? I would guess it would depend if signature is used and the chaining mode used.
The phrase “These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,” left me shaking my head....
The identity indeed doesn't have to be an email address; I'm currently using a random thing I set up on AppEngine's free tier (serving a static file for the public side; the auth side is client-local). There's no way I'll be receiving @*.appspot.com mail. Of course, this also means my identity is tied to a domain I don't control and might go away at any point with no warning...

I do think that the Persona developers are conflating identity with e-mail too much; I can't use it for Mozilla's bug tracker, for example, because I actually value receiving mail and they have no plans to have split identity/e-mail information.
As a person who bought into every last mobile service that Apple has put out since iDisk. I have never failed to be disappointed.

I moved from NetBSD to Mac in the early 2000s because things at the workstation layer worked roughly as well, with less ceremony. Now, I find that Google is slowly eroding my ties to the Mac platform, and have several family members using chromebooks primarily on the strength of their services.

I sometimes wonder about the tradeoffs I've made in moving to a life on Google. I basically have no expectation of privacy anymore. But then I think of what a pain it was to manage my own mutt mail client, and think that maybe I'm still better off today.

I just can't see myself going back to Apple's fat-client view of the world, and I can't see Apple catching up to Google on service quality.
It was meant in good humor, but if you think it's off,
then I'll ask to have it deleted.
One word: corrosion.

I honestly don't think this idea is too far fetched, though it's going to need subsidies to get going. If it all works out, then it would be pretty revolutionary.
What it Really Takes to Succeed
Google: interaction design is like a happy marriage
Judging by the success of a select few firms, like Renaissance Technologies (known for snatching up Putnam Fellows and top university faculty with outrageous compensation packages), it seems possible that this has already happened.

(I highly doubt they have a "fool proof" method, but clearly their method is better than others, or at least has been so far.)
Thank you for pointing me to Kiva. Checking it out and its definitely something i could work on. Thanks again.
Any attempt to innovate in corporation is potential career killer. That is how companies work. So many smart engineers are just quiet and they just do what they are told (make they boss happy).
I heard a different version:

Young farmer: I got some pigs, but I don't know what to feed them. What do you feed your pigs?

Old farmer: I had some pigs once, I fed them one of my cows that had died of consumption.

Young farmer: Really?

Old farmer: Yup.

<2 weeks later>

Young farmer: One of my cows died, so I fed it to my pigs. They all died. Your pigs really thrived on meat of a diseased cow?

Old farmer: Nope, my pigs died.
Flickr/Yahoo Using Redis to speed up homepage
That's something that I think laypeople never realize about computer science - it's all really simple things, but combined together at such a scale and pace that in a few decades we've done the equivalent of building a cat from scratch out of DNA. Big complex things really can be built out of extremely simple parts, and we're doing it all the time, but for a lot of people our technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I have the same question...
Epic product video from Zendesk
Wow. How big does your botnet have to be to provide 300 Gbps?

Would be interesting to see an update from CloudFlare - AFAIK, the largest DDoS they've dealt with before has been a tad over 100 Gbps.
You also have to realize that nothing can be committed forever. I don't really subscribe to doomsday warnings. Open Standards is an idea and not Google's corporate policy. It will prevail as long as 'the people' care for open standards.
Li Ka-Shing's right-hand man is Canning Fok, who is often referred to as, yes, you guessed it, Cunning Fox.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-sons-rise-in-the-states-2...
Looking for a real Gmail alternative
Confession: I'm on the Google tit. Completely.

ALL of my personal email and domains are either native Gmail, or Google Apps domains.

I have everything set up to come to my primary Gmail account, and all my personal domains send mail as those accounts, so no one is any the wiser.

I want to get off of all the Google stuff, but I can't find another email provider that has all (or even mostly all) the features that I can get with Gmail.

Do you guys know of a provider that will let you have one domain manage email for all your others? and send email from those domains? (through your main account?)

One of the other things I have with the Google Hosted email is when an email is addressed to someone other than myname@mydomain.com, it still sends it to me.

Call me paranoid... but with Google shutting down all these services... I'm starting to wonder when Gmail won't be the next one that gets discontinued.

It's not that I'm unwilling to pay. If I found something that could do everything I get from Gmail, I'd be happy to pay for it.
I'm listening to The Last Train from Hiroshima[1] right now. These things are nothing like nuclear bombs. I hope we never experience anything remotely like nuclear bombs on this planet again.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Last-Train-Hiroshima-Survivors-Look/dp...
Latency to another server in the same AWS availability zone is 1ms.
It's off topic, and it's only as real time as the network allows, but this project is pretty cool and has a good community around it: http://www.ohmstudio.com

If you think about a recording studio experience, you usually lay down a rough basic track and overdub on top of it. In that case, latency doesn't really matter as much as good tools for collaboration and iteration.
That's an important point to raise. There's another post (came across it reading the lesswrong.com comments to the submitted article) on how teaching about biases in the wrong order can lead to negative effects. http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_peo....
Having DNS reflection assist with a 100x increase in data certainly helps.
Problem with e-books is DRM. I have to put up with Amazon or Google Play books app which might not suit my needs. I can't export it. I can't share it with friends like a physical book.
This isn't complicated. If someone or some group or some company vandalizes property (a 300gbps denial of service attack), you arrest and prosecute them for the crime.
It's all about data
Agreed. I feel like Firefox has become the old Chrome (fast, reliable) and Chrome has become the old Firefox (slow, unreliable, ugly[1]) lately.

[1] Chrome still looks quite decent as of right now but the new UI changes on its beta build makes no sense at all and looks flat out ugly (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/chromes-integration...).
Dependent Javascript (DJS): Statically typed JS from Mozilla and UCSD
Stripe uses mongodb, if its good enough for them, its probably fine for financial info. As I recall, there is some aspect of mongodb that lets it scale up without maintainance, making it good for a service that just can't go down.
300 Google Fiber users
Yes! We're open 24/7!
> If someone blows up over one thing, odds are they'll blow up over other things too.

Not necessarily true. There is one -- and only one -- "hot button" issue that absolutely makes me fume. And my position on it comes after a lot of careful, introspective thought.

For all other issues, nothing would really upset me.
Reminds me of the first pseudo-3D thing I wrote back in high school. I'd borrowed one of my brother's 3D graphics books and came across the simple algorithm for depth drawing (x = x0/z, y = y0/z), and immediately set to work writing a wireframe space shooter in Pascal.

I was so eager to get the graphical part out there that I didn't think about the problems of modeling, or having multiple objects on the screen at once. The whole thing was a single-file, thousand-line, hard-coded mess. And I still think it was awesome.
LastPass for iOS will do autofill if you browse through their app. It's not the best UX, but it's nice for when you just need to check something and aren't doing a lot of heavy browsing.
Free ebook: AI Algorithms, Data Structures, and Idioms in Prolog, Lisp, and Java
Some stuff here:

http://brooksreview.net/2013/03/quit-i-dare-you/
The same criticism applies: attempts to solve the problems (e.g., medical) of poverty in non-scalable ways are futile at best.
Presumably when any of those things happen, that's when you bring it in-house.
Physical books are much easier to quickly skim through, to jump to a random page (based on position rather than page number), I also find the search of most ebook readers (looking at the Kindle) to be rather bad.

However these are more due to the current tech around ebooks more than a fundamental property of them.
For me it was http://hackershelf.com/book/350/ai-algorithms-data-structure...
Update: I also forgot mentioning looking at getting a two year degree from a technical school in electronics/medical electronics. There is a massive shortage of two year degrees level skill workers. That's what the real crying of "shortage of skill labor" is all about. I have two cousins making "serious bank" by servicing medical imaging equipment. They make my high tech engineering degree salary look like peanuts. Both of their employers (siemens and ge) treat them like kings (training, benefits, continuing education, job security, bonuses, promotions). Their education was cheap and they made "real" money right out of school. Do the coding on the side as a hobby or slowly have someone else like the company you work for pay for your education.

Too many people what to live the Silicon Valley lifestyle. If you can get into a top 50 school and are backed with some family wealth, you to could do it. But if you think you are going to be the next 'zuck'... you are going to be in for a rude awaking. Remember that zuck was from a well to do family, super smart, and went to an ivy league school. Most Silicon Valley companies only want people like him. The rest of us do not get to play in the big game... Life is tough. Get use to it. You will be happier.
We did try (and are trying) to make it a true valet service.
The barrier here is not the logistical difficulty but rather getting the appropriate permission from the airport to do what we want - which is difficult and possibly cost-prohibitive.
After some reading, it seems animate attaches a deferred on the element, so this works:

$('[id^=row]').toArray().reduce(function(l,r){
return l.pipe(function(){
return $(r).animate({opacity:opacity}, 100);
});
}, $.Deferred().resolve());

Obviously, you can put any selector in there and you'll get them animate in order. Hence, allowing you to play with many combinations, once you spend the time to write this once. I agree with the OP about getting something done is always better than nothing. Yet, the responses that s/he got from programmer friends is not an issue of technical pragmatism, but one of collaboration culture. Unfortunately colleges are like that. Things are different in more professional settings.
You should accept Bitcoins, this could solve the issue of Paypal and foreign countries.
Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night
It's embarrassing the way the media tries to play up things like this. Like you suddenly might starve to death because of a DDoS and your car won't start, and wars will break out! Oh my the sensationalism!

Arrest the criminals doing the vandalizing. It's very simple. Someone or some group causes millions in property damages or service disruptions, it's a serious crime and should be treated as such. They should be hunted down and arrested, whatever the rock they're hiding under.
Try http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/programming-is-hard...

The OP doesn't really talk about "solved problems", it talks about the companies core competencies.
Every single interview I've had has had about 10-20% of the time for questions baked into the schedule. I've known people who didn't get a job because they didn't ask any questions in the interview.
I have a great mentor who will often lead me up the garden path and get me nodding with him, then scuttle his own argument and let me know why it's bad. It's part entertainment for him (and me), part making me think before blindly agreeing, and partly history lesson/why they went this way.

Done properly, it's fun, though you do need some form of ongoing trust - it's not something you should do to someone piping up for the first time on IRC.
Fair enough if you want to quit Gmail on principle, but in case you genuinely are concerned about Gmail shutting down, don't be. It's one of Google's most valuable assets. They use it internally, thousands of businesses using Google Apps use it, and the adoption rate is so high that the FTC would probably investigate them if they tried to shut it down.
Because I'm her friend IRL?
UI Faces: Lorem Ipsum for Avatars
> Most law degrees in Australia are double degrees, aren't they?

You can take a straight LLB, which is a 4-year course. But most students figure "I'll take the double degree, it only takes an extra year and it covers my bases".

If you are absolutely certain that law is your destiny, then the straight LLB is the right move because you'll be able to do more electives.

If you're just getting a law degree because you got a high entrance score, then the double degree spreads the risk a bit. And some of them are great career-starters. Law/Commerce is a classic power combo for people looking to enter corporate Australia. Law/Arts is popular with activists and future politicians. Law/Science is around but it's a bit of a stepchild.

I studied the LLB part-time for 4 years, so I wound up with a half-degree worth of debt. If I'd gotten my shit together I'd have been able to grab a graduate-entry LLB in about a year by carrying credit, but it was long enough ago now that those credits have largely expired. Plus I just don't see the point in loading up on more debt for something I feel I've already gotten the maximum value out of.

I took an Honours year instead.

If I did something else next, I'd be probably considering getting a bachelor in maths and stats. That's my real weakness.

> And if so, how it's different from doing a single Bachelor's degree and a JD after that.

Doing a B(whatever) and then a JD takes a little longer and because of our funding rules costs more. That's why some more prestigious universities are trying to push that model: it makes them more money because they get your so-so undergraduate fees and then they get juicier postgraduate rates on top. And for longer.
I wonder if there's a market for a dry-erase iPad case.
Could try Zeromail, they just came out of beta.
Who is going to big up the tab?
If I can ask, what's the general monthly run rate of those services you use combined?
So we can expect deep packet inspection very soon then.
Thanks!

According to a recent McKinsey report says that workers spent 28% of their time on reading and responding to email. Radicati reports that corporate email workers send/receive 105 emails/day.

ZeroMail doesn't only save time, but also reduces decision fatigue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue http://lifehacker.com/5944198/president-obamas-productivity-...).

Sorting out your own inbox seems like a quick task, but if you respond as the emails come in (which 70% of people do) and 30 emails are just notifications, newsletters or spam, you actually waste over 30 minutes of time in context switching per day. (http://www.drthomasjackson.com/email_comm.html)

That equals 10 hours per month. How much is your time worth? :)
I can't control having my feelings hurt when people go out of their way to do so. I can't rationalize my way out of it. Sometimes I just have to feel emotions I don't want to feel.
That seems so valuable that $12,000/year seems much too little to charge for it.
Google is an advertising business - just because they use Email internally doesn't mean offering it to third parties is a core part of their business.

Also - I doubt the FTC has any power to force a company to provide email services - it's not like they're a phone company providing the only service available to a specific area.

Besides - they don't have to "shut down" Gmail for it to become undesirable to use it. They've announced heavy restrictions on access to calendars - how long until IMAP access is discontinued and they force people to use webmail or one of their apps?
Nice blog! Thank you for your reply. I have a similar background to yours and a little familiarity with functional languages.

Erlang has been so mature for such a long time and has had so many professional followers, it's curious why it's not ubiquitous. We often hear of high scale projects like a Facebook or a Riak using it as a component. But outside of Ericsson, almost never do we hear about Erlang/OTP being used as the whole platform it was designed to be.

Instead we hear about server admins who actually prefer to maintain JVM-based systems. I'd like to know if there's a real reason behind that, other than popularity momentum.
Thank you for your kind advice. I think that you are utterly mistaken, as you will note (if you actually go through my comment history and read the comments I am replying to) that I respond to comments (or comment threads) where people show that they are sloppy thinkers, subliterate morons, shitheads or trolls (and thus already not engaging or being incapable of engaging) by insulting them, but I do not respond to reasonable comments or comment threads this way. The reason for the preponderance of insulting prose in my comments is the fact that most of the people I respond to on HN very quickly show that they are sloppy thinkers, subliterate morons, shitheads or trolls, as you have done in this thread.

However, I could be the one who is mistaken, so I will see if being more civil in future actually works, and somehow magically cures people of being sloppy thinkers, subliterate morons, shitheads or trolls.
Another choice is the Perry Technical Institute is in Yakima, talk to them about their 12 month program on Welding. Its not as "tech" as web site design but if you get through the program you can hitch hike over to North Dakota and the Gas fields there and find lots of work. Looking at their course catalog it looks like its about $16,000 total (four quarters at about $4,000 each), You can do that in four years with no loans if you can scrape together enough for one quarter every 9 months.

Alternatively they have a machine shop program which could exploit your programming skills.

I only mention it because young people often forget that there is a lot of need for people in these jobs which currently are dominated by older men preparing to retire.
Just as one factor in healthcare costs in the US - I wonder if people talking about the expenses understand how much doctors and nurses make in most other countries compared to the US?

Slash the costs, and one of the prime cuts is going to be that doctors and nurses will make 1/3 as much instantly.

Nurses for example make 50% more in the US than in Germany, Norway, South Korea, France, and Canada to name a few.
I believe this to be a fallacy: see my post further down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447890

Too much effort: didn't read?

The summly version:

Most of the excess expenditure in the US is not going to pharma and other device companies for research; it is instead being divided up by billing companies working for hospitals, doctors and other businesses in the supply chain.

This should be obvious to anyone who looks at the charts and sees the mean cost vs the high and low end: companies are charging what they can when they can to the end user because there is no good advocate for the end user and they are up against a wall.

I also expand on who does in effect pay for medics research and the answer is not the American consumer but mostly the taxpayers (and philanthropists to university endowments etc) of the world given that most of the research that advances medical knowledge, that is innovative rather than iterative research, is performed in universities.
I can tell you as a founder of a startup with about a million users, the rule of thumb right now is 10 million is the new 1 million. No VC cares.
Top 5 Best FlashLight Apps for Android Smartphones
So I went down through the list, curious about what this batch looked like, figuring most of it would be social networking junk or suchlike but hopefully there should be a few gems in the list.

... and as far as I can see, it's actually pretty much all gems! Most of these are solving real problems, and even the print on demand T-shirts is something for which there seems to be an actual market.

So, congratulations to everyone involved and hopefully in a few years we'll be going "oh yeah, it was back in 2013 I first heard about..."
How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead (Jeff Atwood's New Book)
I think this is a good strategy. Balpreet Kaur's response to such an incident could be an example to us all: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/oct/02/s... http://jezebel.com/5946643/reddit-users-attempt-to-shame-sik...