skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of care insurances provide benefits to people that deviate from the statistic minimum in a meaningful way - few miles per year, ... In all other ways, yes - you get to pay an price that's averaged over a reasonably large peer group that you just happen to fall into. That's how insurances work: They redistribute risk. They protect you from extreme outcomes by charging a low, steady price. All in all, you usually pay more than you get out and only a few actually benefit financially. Take a look at large car rental companies: They don't actually insure their cars against theft. They're large enough to do the risk arbitration themselves. So I guess you just need to find a large enough pool of people that agree with you and then form your own insurance - with lower fees.
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I like how Tumblr implements it with mobile first and then a click to view normal site.
All your criticisms can apply to events as well, except for the "model" comment.

On the model comment, modularity definitely makes writing code easier, but it reduces locality of code. It makes control flow harder to understand (and thus code harder to read). Promises 'solve' that by being explicit about the callflow schematic.
If there is one thing I have learned in my life it is this: you will be judged no matter what you do or not do. The key is to only care about the opinions of a few - and never give a shit about people who talk laud.
The unfunny thing about this is that North Korea is virtually declaring war, and South Korea and its allies have to ignore it because of very valid threats.

In any open conflict, thousands of South Koreans in Seoul would die within hours because of artillery on the border. Any war activity in North Korea, together with weaker border enforcement would send hundreds of thousands of Fugitives north and south.

In a lot of ways, Kim can afford the provocation more than every one else can afford to take the bluff.
Our team is actually working to solve this very problem. Our goal is to make it way easier to skim and find the best parts of videos (and possibly audio later on). It's not visible on our site yet, but we have a really cool 'highlights' feature in the works that lets you quickly watch the key parts of several videos to determine if they're worth your time.

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The fake achievement racket is reason enough for my future children to grow up in Europe.
You have no idea what you are saying and are under some kind of fantasy. I live the reality you are speculating about.

EMERGENCY CARE must be admitted, ie. loss of a finger - it most certainly is not free and that person will never be able to get credit for the rest of their life (unless they can somehow afford to repay it - but an ambulance flight in is at least $10k alone)

They are under no obligation to treat cancer. If you were bleeding out from the final stages, they might have to admit you. Otherwise it's not an emergency. You are free to die slowly.

If you don't catch the cancer early on and can get some federal assistance to get it treated, you are pretty much screwed. They pretty much know with cancer you aren't going to be paying them back for any services rendered, so none rendered.

If you are a step above federal poverty level yet still cannot afford to pay for medical or dental treatment in this country, you are screwed. Your entire income will be consumed as you get older by medical needs. If you get cancer, your best bet is to then make sure your income completely disappears and apply for all the assistance you can get, your job income then becomes a liability.
All the best for your hunt, but here are some bare facts you must consider:

1) A startup hiring a fresher from a foreign country to work on their multi-million dollar vision is going to be a rarity. Imagine, why would someone hire a fresh talent from foreign land while they can very well find one in their local area. What specialty do you have to offer in particular?

2) Instamovie, SSH hacking, Impressive github projects list isn't really going to be a criteria for any startup to hire you. For most companies these points in your portfolio only mean that you are worth a talk. Also early stage startups need talent to come in and start contributing from day 1. They really don't want to hire and invest in nurturing someone. Thus, until unless one of your projects have similarity with what startup is trying to do, they are just some points in your CV.

3) Over the years, I have seen a number of my colleagues who also wanted to work in the valley (for very same reasons as you stated) wasting their energies behind finding a gateway to the valley. It's totally not worth the (dedicated) effort because, even if a startup that is sponsoring Visa hires you, getting through the Visa process can take significant time. Process of H1B Visa starts in April and within 1 month all Visa slots get exhausted. If you are lucky to get your visa processed within this cycle, you will have to wait atleast until October for Visa process to complete. If you are unlucky and your Visa application is not entertained this April, all you can do is wait until next April. Till then you can only work for the company from India (or visit on a B1 visa). B1 visa and working remotely, both again seems like a rarity for a startup.

So until everything falls in place by itself, your best bet for a ticket to valley would be:

a) Go for MS/Phd and follow the path as someone explained

b) Join a company in India, gain significant experience for an year or so, then try your luck again. With real world corporate experience behind, you will stand a better chance of getting hired by a startup abroad.

Just my 2 cents. All the best again.
There's a site similar to this in the UK called My Single Friend which you might be interested in looking at: http://www.mysinglefriend.com/
More than just a game “Angry Birds Space Encounter – launched”
Kennedy Space Center got an Angry Birds Space Encounter which has six different Angry Birds experiences for visitors to choose from.
As others, currently 'above' this comment, point out: not necessarily. You may have valid arguments that explain why you can validly assert you differ from the average.

For instance, as RyanZAG points out, if you are well prepared for a test, while you know others are 'just chancing it', then your chances of succeeding are much higher than the statistics would have you believe.

To state it more generally: the reason a statistic often cannot be used for an individual expectation, is that the statistic is based on persons completely unlike yourself. A relevant statistic would only include people like yourself. In his example: those that show themselves more aware of the difficulties that will be encountered, better prepared than average, etc.

As an example: my life expectancy is vastly different from the commonly stated 'average' life expectancy of people in my country. Firstly that is 'from birth' and I have already survived quite a bit. Secondly it includes smokers and I don't smoke. Thirdly it includes people that engage in all kinds of other risky behavior that I avoid. The average life expectancy may be 72, while mine is 87.
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"Some of those reasons (speed, primarily) are beginning to be mitigated by new technologies"

Can you enlighten me about any of these? I feel ignorant.
A product from scratch
The vast majority of employees at Google work on stuff unrelated to AdWords and AdSense, they work on technology, and get paid to do it and are not told to come up with new ideas for showing more ads. A tiny minority of people rake in money on ads, which frees up the vast majority of engineers to work on other stuff. AdWords and AdSense scale, they simply don't need an army of employees to maintain them, Google doesn't need 15,000 employees all working on ad serving.

Like the vast vast vast majority of all consumer facing internet businesses ever created since the dawn of the Web, Google was created to do something: Search, without any clear business plan about how to make money. Most Web businesses do not charge end user fees, they are founded to get users, and either make money from ads, or get acquired by those that do.

Facebook: Ads. Twitter: Ads. Yahoo: Ads. New York Times? Ads. You really think the journalists at the New York Times view themselves as working at an advertising company because that's the only way they can get paid? You think it's accurate to describe the New York Times as an Ad Agency?

Much rarer do we see people saying "Facebook is just an ad company" in forums, this charge is always lobbed at Google, which says to me that there's some intellectual dishonesty going on, people with an axe to grind.

Google spent nearly $7 billion on R&D in 2013. Most of this spending is targeted not at ads, but in trying to develop other lines of business with diversified revenue sources. Larry Page is not an idiot, he sees that relying on ads for 97% of your revenue is a risky proposition. It just turns out to be a hard problem to get people to pay for content now, even on mobile you can see prices being driven down to free + freemium. Unless Google wants to be an Enterprise company like Oracle (a market where people have a proven track record of throwing money at stuff), it's at the mercy of what people are willing to do, and as shown over and over again, people like get stuff for free if paid for by others (ads).

Even for HBO and some other channels, the majority of media people consume, even that on "for pay" cable TV is still funded by commercial ads. You take a TV show which has a $2 million per episode budget, and you need a atleast 2 million people per week to pay $1. Now, how likely is that when many shows can't even command an audience of 1 million free viewers.
The word "nuclear" appears 9 times in the text. This is scary.
Right. This is one of the realities a lot of people unfamiliar with the geography of Korea fail to understand. The North has just a ton of rockets pointed at, and within range of, Seoul.

The North declares war and we are all forced to treat it as a joke because taking it seriously and actually letting the hot war start would be devastating.

This is China's mess. China really needs to step in here and do something. It's fence-sat with the North for too long. It has understandable concerns about North Korean refugees flooding across its borders, but its tolerance of bad behavior and resistance to taking stronger action to influence it's unruly charge is leading to it losing face at best, and at worse being seen as contributing to a needless conflict with great loss of life should it occur.
I would at least blame the security issues we have nowadays on UNIX by getting C widespread for systems programming, instead of more suitable languages.
An 8MB linux kernel is not really all that small. These instructions [0] look like they produce a kernel weighing in at about 800kb, without any significant hacking. A web server occupies another couple of MB. The TinyCore Linux distribution [1] will get you a GUI desktop for 12MB.

The c64web site runs on Contiki OS, which will actually work on less capable hardware. It's pretty impressive, really.[2] I would be tempted to say that it doesn't really compare to MinWin or Linux, but I'm still busy being amazed by it.

I really don't know what you mean by Windows having greater hardware support, I suppose for certain definitions of "windows" and "support" that could be true. Maybe if you count all versions of windows, and restrict your hardware to common CPU archs, and count drivers that aren't built into the kernel. Honestly I have no idea how you'd come up with numbers either way, but my impression was that Linux can be made to run on pretty much any general-purpose CPU. Perhaps you'll provide some data on the matter.

[0][pdf] http://www.ti.com/general/docs/lit/getliterature.tsp?literat...
[1] http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html
[2] http://www.contiki-os.org/
Right. Nuclear in the context of regime with a history of irrational behavior that's been insulated from the consequences of its actions for so long it may actually believe some of the nonsense its official communications machinery puts out.
Building CSSDB
My take was:

"I was a bro-grammer, I went in because, like, tech was cool man!

But I realised that, dude, just being an ass-hat doesn't get you shit. Actually enjoying your work is, like, a big deal! And start ups are cool! And my earlier self was right to want to work at a startup man!

Also, hater's gonna hate ;-)"

;-P OK... no where near that bad, but yes.

I think the number of people who do a CS degree because they want to get into "tech" is cyclical. I entered after the first dot-com crash. There was no longer talk of big money, but burn out and despair. There were very very few people on CS who were doing the course because they "liked tech". There were a few, but they are not in tech any more. I wonder if there is a cycle for how trendy start ups are. I expect it's in a similar cycle to dot-com boom/bust.
pracically - how is it different form screen ?
Really? In the Netherlands health-insurance is around a hundred euros per month (1250 Euros per year). The annual copay is 350 Euros (total). And if you make less than about 20k Euros a year, you get most of your insurance covered by the government. Looks like we've got things sorted over here.

(and in the UK, where I live now, things are even easier...)
I would respond to your comment on a point-by-point basis, but your comment pretty much consisted of one word: patriarchy. If you'd like to make a point, then make a point. Let's hear a solution to the problem. As it stands, you are simply throwing around politically loaded buzz words.
This is pure speculation, but I'd be very surprised if US and South Korea didn't have a secret joint plan of disabling all possible locations of N.K.'s nuclear weapons in a minimal time. This wouldn't help Seoul itself in any way of course. But there have to be some national and military plans prepared for such situation for years...
To my knowledge, links actually can be downvoted - but only after you yourself have >500 karma.
I grew up in rural New York and once, when camping, we stayed up very late with all the lights off. You would be amazed at how much your eyes eventually see after a couple hours in darkness. We could see Satellites, the Milky Way, and even the "Horse and Rider" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_and_Rider).

Nowadays, with phones and ipod, it's nearly impossible to let your eyes adjust that long without light. But it's worth it.
It's a taboo precisely because it benefits the rich and powerful. Here in socialist Europe it's recently become illegal to fire people for discussing salary, so we can hope people will start being more open, but there's a long way to go.
Wow, that's pretty awesome.
I'm also wondering about this. I've been using screen for almost 20 years, and wonder if there's a compelling reason to switch.
> our minds are focused on finding the future of dating in mobile, big data, leveraging social networks, and discovering how to create serendipitous connections through the above.

You should make a "Netflix challenge" for online dating.
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Thanks, just fixed this
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North Korea doesn't have a way to deliver the nuclear bomb beyond its borders. It's hardly even conceivable they could smuggle one abroad by more pedestrian means like cargo ships...
Oh well… Here is a simple bookmarklet that will append a slug to the url:

javascript:history.pushState({}, document.title, document.URL + "&title=" + document.querySelector('.title a').innerText.toLowerCase().replace(/[^\w ]+/g,'').replace(/ +/g,'-'))
No, links can't be downvoted. Only comments can be. At the least, I am around 700 Karma, and I can't.
Articles cannot be downvoted at 500, or perhaps not at all.

This article by a prominent community member may help the GP though: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ
I think what you say is right, but as you point out in your other comment, accurately, they can do a ton of damage with their insanely oversized conventional arsenal, and in a desperate moment who knows what an irrational actor might do with a nuclear device, even in their own country near the border with the South.
Good idea for a site but there is no way Im signing up on Facebook. :)
I'm in the UK, and the total cost of the NHS is around £130 billion. With a population of approx. 60 million, that means everyone pays on average £2200. Call it $3500.

Of course, that's an average covering every man, woman, child, pensioner etc. People in paid employment are paying at least double that (in tax). It's not far from your $10000 figure.

Of course, on the up side the NHS is hassle-free. I don't have to worry about co-pays, or money at all. I just go when I need it.

Source for budget: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service#Funding

Source for population: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
OKC is pretty predictive, due to quality questions such as:
"STALE is to STEAL as 89475 is to..."

The depressing thing is jt2005 got it wrong :( It's the single most predictive question I've found on OKC.
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Links definitely cannot be downvoted, which presents an interesting asymmetry that incentivizes spamming with links and stories

I wonder if the constant reposting of articles would be stymied if the links could be downvoted.
t also helps to give your eyes time to adjust to the darkness. I've spent a few nights in the Australian outback, about 100km+ from any population greater than half a dozen or so. Initially, the view seems ho-hum, but stay outside in the dark for half an hour or so and it becomes amazing.
No, after 500 karma, you can down-vote comments, but not submissions.

I fairly sure there is a second karma threshold (or other gating
mechanism) which gives you the ability to down-vote someone who you've
replied to, or is replying to you. --I'm not sure how it works, and
it's not public information, so asking for details is pointless.

In essence, the second level seems to mean you're trusted to use
down-votes wisely.

Personally, I often up-vote people who reply to me with disagreements
(even if they are too strongly worded). My reason is simple; I may
never agree with them, but I DO appreciate the time they took to
give me their point of view.
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You're partially right. For a beginner a classical guitar is definitely better (more space in the neck to put the fingers, the nylon strings in 1-3 are easier/less painful for untrained fingers, no need to plug it in an amp, etc), but the guitar type will limit you in certain styles (try playing a solo at some speed on a classic guitar getting to the 14th fret).

Sure, I learnt to play guitar with a classical guitar and I totally recommend it for a beginner, but there are obvious things like my Fendler Telecaster not having a tremolo bar: I can't use it :) Definitely you can play any style with it, but it really shines when jamming some blues with the neck pick.
Do you have >50 Facebook friends when you try to join?
On that note - mods and supers, can I please have my flagging privileges back?
Washing Machines did not save time!

This is because with the advent of these machines also our hygiene habits changed. We wash a lot more than before, and therefore there is no time saving but cleaner clothes.

The same is true for computers. They did not save time, they changed the way we treat information. We have a lot more than before to process.
North Korea enters 'state of war' with South
First of all I'm sure they could find an unused estate to convert into what they want. The dudes are used to playing in houses, I'm sure they wont mind if its not a perfect concert hall.

Also, taxes on tickets and stuff or other promotions or rent for the night could very much turn into a big profit.

About the law, I don't have anything against the law, just that I can't understand why would they be so obsessed with preemptive action instead of on-the-spot
As somebody else has mentioned - if the customer wants to modify the application later on after the initial contract has ended, and looks for somebody experienced in what they believe they had initially been sold, then that is a costly process, both in terms of time and money.

We don't work in a bubble - our decisions have impacts long after we've ended our own contract with clients. Clients should be given exactly what they're expecting. If you think the client should go a different route, then you should explain that to the client, and document exactly what the final product will be.

Even if the difference doesn't make you 'ill', it is simply unethical to sell somebody something they're not expecting - whether you believe it's better or not.
It's Not a Hermit Kingdom, and 4 Other Myths About North Korea
Now you've just added another requirement for any site that wants to advertise Bitcoin acceptance using a symbol. Add in a @font-face, and you're all good to go.

That's not going to fly.
Mother of all ...
I'm at 7274 karma and I can't downvote links either. So either the karma limit is very high or it doesn't exist.

In any case, I don't think article downvotes would serve much use, articles nobody is interested in will naturally fall off due to lack of upvotes.
That has any significance to my comment... how?

My comment was very specifically showing how using the dollar sign in a country where a local currency which is also a dollar (ie. Canada) but not USD is not confusing, because you have local context. You know you're not talking about the US Dollar, because the local currency takes precedence.

And, as winthrowe replied, what would happen is you add a currency denotation after the value, such as CAD, USD, AUD, etc. It's already done all over the world.
Catching and linkifying arbitrary URLs in user input
Lose Interest in ZFS when dev is pretty much stopped. I am looking forward to DragonFly HAMMER 2
Very useful and tested practices to web app usability
I don't know why they even think they'd get away with this. All strategic targets will be flattened in 30 minutes flat and the rest of the country will just starve to death or die from the fallout. I assume they know this will happen?

I genuinely feel sorry for the people on both sides Of this conflict as they're all going to suffer if it kicks off.

If the international community gets involved as well, its going to drag out even longer than Afghanistan or Iraq.

Its ugly whatever happens.
I think the problem is smaller than you think.

Some data points:

1. Many phone tablet games compromise the controls due to the lack of button or stick controllers. They would actually be improved by a gamepad.

2. If a market exists then people will adapt the games to that market. It's not hard to imagine how many touch-only games could be altered in fairly minor to be D-pad friendly.

3. Developers will innovate new approaches to game input if the hardware is out there.
Unfortunately, there is nothing further South Korea can do until North Korea actually launches a full attack. Seoul can't be moved. South Korea can't attack preemptively unless North appears to be preparing a nuclear launch. Death in tens of thousands within first three days of war is expected and accepted. Horrible, yes. But years of threats have tempered reactions and people must go on with their lives.

Chances are NK will launch a restrained attack on one of the islands near border, inviting a response which I'm told will be measured yet quite strong. What they want is a stage to put on a display of thuggery because all they're getting is a busy signal, ruining their Gangbook style.

Anyway, IMO and all that.
You confuse framewos, languages, and server technologies.
To be a Lisper is to know sorrow and pain.

Our best hope is a slave to an alien runtime.