skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or does the court also force them to change their policy?

They already changed it as of the iPhone 4, which is why only previous devices are covered.

> Fining them is only of use as warning for future cases, it's not like citizens ever see any money from fines.

The article says "provides cash payouts to potentially hundreds of thousands of iPhone and iPod Touch consumers".
Maybe it's different in Canada but in the UK being that drunk would be very strong evidence that you were in no state to give consent. If you have sex with someone who's so drunk they don't know what they're doing that's rape.
> who is going to pay for the spinning capacity (likely natural gas generators) that isn't used

That doesn't sound like a bad problem to have.

Fukushima showed us how hard it is to turn a nuke on and off
quickly, but I would think most hydrocarbon burning and other generation systems could be throttled according to demand.

If you really have a problem with too much energy, well, smelt some aluminum or electrolyze water or something.
or the young man has connections to Criminals / Politicians
Yes, it's more of a meta-search engine that fuses results from Bing, Yandex, etc.
There are plenty of places with dirt roads that are a 1-2 hour drive from Toronto, so I wouldn't exactly say that "living on a dirt road" provides enough information.
That's being a little disingenuous. From the article, the expected costs of private schools was ~ $278K, but still $207K for public schools.

I accrued nearly $40K from one year of medical school before I switched to a straight PhD (I was in an MD/PhD program that didn't cover tuition). And that was over 10 years ago. Oh, and I was at Indiana University, a public school (and the only MD school in the state).

My wife, however, did finish her MD (and PhD). She decided to go into a specialty, partially because the salary for general practice physicians (she's a pediatrician) is just too low.

So, yes, medical school costs - public and private - are ridiculously high. Because of this, the number of doctors is just going to decrease. The only ones who are left will be a) those who can afford it, b) those who really want to be doctors - costs be damned. And all of them are going to be overworked. Now, couple that to the fact that GP's don't get paid very much in comparison to specialists, and you have a worse problem.

Summary: the article is right - it doesn't pay to be a doctor.

(Then again, I'm an academic, so I still made a bad choice!)
Tell that to the author maybe? The author implemented the Flesch-Kincaid grade level algorithm in his plugin.

In other words, I'm not suggesting that he use Flesch-Kincaid; he already made that choice. I'm suggesting a way for him to not re-implement an algorithm that's already implemented in his language of choice.
Bernanke is a career academic. What would make you think he's particularly wealthy?
What an upstanding member of society you must be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5544007
And that's not even considering the interest that accues while you are in residency.

Also, I'm fairly certain that the military (Army?) will pay for your medical school costs, but you still have to go (and be admitted) to a normal medical school.
Agreed, it'd be cool to develop some kind of verbal querying for the semantic web rather than relying on a proprietary knowledge base - but that's a whole other project for another day.
Moving from Heroku to your own server
The dig on military doctors was unwarranted.
Trello is not and will never be designed for software developers. Can software developers use it? Sure. You could track your bugs in Excel if you wanted to. That's not Trello's audience.

Regarding Kiln for self hosted: At Fog Creek, we've always said we don't want your money if you're not amazingly happy. We're not taking your money right now because we're not certain we can make you amazingly happy... yet.

We found that the installed Kiln customer experience was not up to our standards as a company, so we've deferred taking on new installed customers until we're satisfied that they'll be amazingly happy with our product.

We prioritized on our On Demand environment because that's where the bulk of our customers and revenue are. We still want to find a solution for our self hosted customers as well, but it wasn't our immediate priority and we weren't going to hold up shipping Kiln Harmony until we figured out what we were doing with self hosted installs.
Agreed. I sometimes wish slightly drunk people at cocktail parties would skip to the next paragraph. Or skip to the last paragraph before I decide whether I want to hear the ones in between.
If it's a beginners book, one way is always the best.
Shoot - that wasn't my goal at all. I just know many people who want to work at a tech company, yet the biggest complain I hear is that they don't live in one of the "hubs." The reason I told stories about my experiences was to try to relate, not be arrogant.
You'd be surprised how many doctors struggle to get by while paying their debts off. Starting doctors don't get paid very much (considering their debt load).

It's even worse when you factor in their opportunity losses by spending 4 years more in school and 3-5 years more in residency (where you don't get paid much). And if you add in a specialized fellowship? That's 3-4 more years. It's 7-13 years before you actually get to start making real money. And if you're a GP, you're still only making a fraction of what you could be making elsewhere.
Firebase engineer here. For things like chron jobs / emails / any logging you want to do, you can run a node server that uses the javascript SDK. That lets you do things like, "any time a user writes to this location, send an email with the contents of the data".

You can also observe arbitrary data changes and log any info that is relevant to you.

As for passwords, we have a few details here at the bottom of the page here: https://www.firebase.com/docs/security-quickstart.html

The short answer is that we use bcrypt for password storage.

Hope that helps!
They do a bit of their own crawling. They take other people's crawls; Google and Bing spend a lot of money on crawling and it's odd to try to compete against those.

DDG also take a lot of other people's crawls.

DDG then add a layer on top. For example, 'official sites' are identified.

(I was reading about this just this morning, and frustratingly I cannot find the post again.)
True - I lived here for 13 years of my life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange,_Maine), and was on dial up internet until my freshman year of college.
> This does not necessarily mean that they do not provide charity donations. They may just do it in a smarter way, for example attending charity dinners/events where they get to rub shoulders with other affluent people.

Smarter = self-serving?
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Well, my ability to differentiate the two is admittedly rather limited (though I hope more accurate than a coin flip), so you might be right. On the other hand, it could've been a different movie by the time you saw it.
>> what happened is your own fault entirely
>Which isn't just a slip of the tongue. It's an explicit declaration that the blame is 100% on the victim.

Not my quote, and not even implicit in anything I've said here.
Here's a PV power estimator: http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/calculators/pvwatts/version1/
CoinMap - Map showing places where Bitcoin is accepted.
Makes me wonder whether HN could use a function to auto hell ban certain usernames (could be tough to find out which, but 'throwaway*' seems like a good start - I have yet to see one contribute value to a discussion).
That is an interesting point. I suppose if you were using it that way, you could simply just log in only via Private Browsing or via a dedicated web browser.
At our firm, Testie McTesterson (test@example.com) is almost a real person.
If all software patents are bunk, so are many electrical engineering patents.

And yet few people realize that. The USPTO continues to issue software-equivalent patents as well as software patents, and the courts uphold their validity, all while claiming that "real" math is not patentable, but offering no clear theoretical framework for distinguishing the two.

ASICs could be argued to be physical implementations and therefore patentable. On the other hand, when converting a software algorithm to an ASIC design involves no additional creative effort, how can the ASIC be patented?
Just one of the many side effects of private property.
It's an interesting question - is this in fact a good thing, because we are left with only those who really want to be doctors regardless of how much money they make (and some people from really rich families)? Medicine seems like a field where you wouldn't want people that are motivated by money.
I had never really thought about that, but most countries have some form of federal VAT, so you pay your first taxes when you buy your first ice cream, but American kids don't pay federal taxes until they have a job, which is way less fun than eating an ice cream. Maybe that's why Americans hate federal taxes so much.
I'm caught in an interesting trap where a third of my friends are set to become doctors, a third investment bankers/consultants, and another third will be going into tech. I'm also in Canada.

When our medical school friends explain their debt, my IB friends get really excited and start cursing them for their luck. Here, apparently, in addition to student loans that don't accrue interest until 6 months after graduation, all medical students are apparently eligible for a $250,000 line of credit at PRIME. Yes, you heard me--PRIME. At this point, my tech friends start to ask why anyone would take debt.

Here in Canada, an emergency doctor would make about $250,000/year in Ontario for working what works out (in shifts) to be about 25 hours per week, after he has finished his residency. Assuming this is a similar situation in the states, I don't see why this is so outrageous at all.

Oh, and Doctor shortage? Really? It's medical schools that cap entrants, not the price. Take a look at all the qualified students who are rejected each year. I know a bunch.
I'm sure you've already received similar feedback; but still: pressing the home button for me is something that should never result in a spinner showing up for a few seconds. The first time I saw this I had to restrain myself from immediately deinstalling Facebook home (and that's coming from someone who decided to try out the app for at least a few days).

Furthermore I'm missing a way to show the currently showing post in the Facebook app (I want that because home is missing some features).

Finally: I was somewhat frustrated to learn upon release of Facebook home that you guys decided to start out us-only. Understandable of course, but please don't make the rest of the world wait in vain for the arrival of a date (the 12th) that doesn't actually allow you to try out the app (I sideloaded an apk instead).

On a more positive note: ballsy move, and nice execution!
This feels like history repeating. We tried the same thing 10 years ago (remember Clusty?). We got a lot of press with the same kind of silly titles - "Dump Google use Clusty", "Should you ditch Google? Clusty", "Will Clusty be the next Google". We played the privacy card. We had big fans and some significant traffic. But we never managed to make a significant dent in the market. And we grew convinced that nobody could take on Google head on.

At the end we sold it for little money, focused entirely on the enterprise (which had always been our main focus) and sold to IBM for real money.
MVC is not a good architecture choice for reference material like a book or a blog. So it wouldn't be that useful, IMO.
The End of Stanford (part 2)
>the ambition to obtain wealth in the middle class breeds character traits that impose a barrier for entering the upper class.

Care to elaborate on said traits?
One thing it could look like is Backus's FP. I made a concatenative variant of it back in the 80s, and just rewrote the essentials this afternoon: https://github.com/darius/peglet/blob/master/examples/fp.py

In my earlier dialect I added a form of local variables, just enough for better readability without really changing the semantics.
A node server that I run on my server accesses Firebase through the SDK, right?
My thought too. Even Ben Bernanke. His salary is 180k. Good but not enough to spend 50k a year on med school most likely.
Well it was over the max allowed for providing service - normally they hit the government up for subsidy to provide service to the highlands and islands.
But to the point, OP's book on single page apps should not be a single page app itself.
It wouldn't need to be better, it would just need to be different.

Google is no longer about search.
Panopticon now in open beta.
ECloudGuard - cloud based email filtering and bidding service
eCloudGuard is a cloud based email filtering and bidding service. When new email comes, eCloudGuard will send an verification email to the sender and ask sender to verify their email by enter CAPTCHA and/or place bid. Once the sender verifies their email, it will be delivered to your inbox. The bid will be used to help you identify important emails and part of the bid will be paid to your account, an instant SMS will also be send if the bid is higher than your setting.
The URL is: http://ecloudguard.com or if you just want to try how this works, you can send an email to ecloudguard@gmail.com with any subject/content, you should receive an verification email soon
Please give me some feedback or suggest about this product, thanks.
There are two military options - you can have the military pay your medical costs at a non-military (public/private) school, after which you owe the military x years of service as a doctor in the military. The other option is to go to the military medical school - you're paid standard officer salary to go to school for the y years it takes, and then owe the military x more years service as a doctor.

If you look at it as "getting paid to go to medical school" + "guaranteed employment for x years following medical school" it looks like a pretty sweet gig.
In the same way it is my gut feeling the EU is more free than China.
$45k/year and working 80 hours per week works out to $10.82/hour. This may be where the 'minimum wage' figure comes from. I feel like talking about them working for "minimum wage" implies that their yearly salary is much lower than $45k+ per year, which is a bit disingenuous.
Correct. There's a quickstart guide for using the Node SDK here: https://www.firebase.com/docs/nodejs-quickstart.html

You can also use the REST API (https://www.firebase.com/docs/rest-api-quickstart.html) to interact with Firebase from any platform.
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Just was digging through API v1.1 seems that there is a way to get a JSON (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/user.json) but that needs authentication apparently.
This is how the lawyers at my large company described it as well, mutually ensured destruction. If you're a big company, you're essentially forced to play the patent game.
Agreed with this sentiment. Something that could ease its way into the home improvement segment is an embedded linux device with microphone input, speaker output, powered off 120VAC, fits in a wall box, and input for more microphones to form an array for better listening.
Thanks for the links! Very sad to see the ongoing destruction of the openness and usefulness of Twitter.
The DSM isn't armchair psychology, it surveys accepted professional practice. The rest is just my personal opinion: terrible personality isn't commonly considered a medical diagnosis, so I don't think I need a license.
Mixu, I have recently read your book front to back. I am new to javascript development and javascript MVC frameworks. I found your book to be both informative and concise. It shed a lot of light on the major aspects of single page JS and what the frameworks are trying to address. Thank you for your time
Yes it does SAPI[1]. There's a few for linux but nothing that's become any kind of standard unfortunately, festival tends to have the best voices but is a bit of a pain to use inside another program in my experience.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee125663%28v=vs.85%2...
Surprising Patterns in the Square Numbers
At the time it was hard. There wasn't Google Patent search which is really useful for checking these things.

Basically I would look at what patents the fledgling startup had filed. Make sure they didn't suck, and that there wasn't lots of prior art.

You can be a start up and get bought for nothing more than a single patent that someone wants, so making sure the patents you have are not going to fall down when a bigger company wants them was important.

Often I would also be checking who beat the company to what ever they were doing, and then check those people's patent portfolio.

We didn't worry much about things like the Fat32 patent, we worried about things like hey, this isn't a real innovation these guys just read this other guys thesis paper and knocked it off. (Like Nick at Summly did)

From there a VC could decide if they were going to double down or cut their losses.
I'd say given the salary data, the fact that medicine is a stable and growing field, and the amount of high level training required , these numbers are not really crazy or out of line.

http://www.profilesdatabase.com/resources/2011-2012-physicia...

After six years of practicing, even a non specialized doctor will be at 200K with the lowest starting salaries around 140K. That is a fantastic amount of money when you consider that it is the lower end of the pay scale for doctors and that it will be a completely secure position in which you can work until death or retirement.

250K is a small price to entry into 8Million+ lifetime earnings.

Being highly successful in most fields is equated with 150K and beyond salary point, which comes with increased competition and no job security as you move up the ladder...I don't see this as being a bad deal at all, even for those totally self/debt funding.
The meaning behind the LOLcat phenomenon
There is a fundamental moral conflict in desiring to own more than the next person. That requires less guilt or empathy, no doubt about that.

You can find elsewhere an study about how psycopaths are usually found in leading positions, like politicians (specially in 3rd world, where salaries are high) and CEOs, amongst others.
Capture by parts of the company whose goals can be negative for the long term good of all the stakeholders and as a way to manage the pay levels down using the cloak of performance reviews.
Since 1995: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Speech_API
The Collected Messages of David Karp
I don't know how much value that "guarateed employment for x years following medical school" is. From what I can tell there aren't a lot of doctors out there hustling for a position.
1) I think better could be "more vertical".

2) SEO has made search for some items really lousy. Some way of filtering those results out might be handy.

3) Sometimes people just need a quick answer to a question. "What's the population density of Manhattan?" is reasonably easy to get an answer to, but "What's the name of that TV programme I used to watch in the 80s with a character called something like flimby or flombu and it was a steel egg thing" is much harder to search. (It's a demonstration of just how good search is that I can bash in a few keywords for such vague queries and get useful answers.) Uh, so some sites try to solve this by letting you ask a question and have humans answer it (Yahoo Answers; Stack Exchange), but still a best search engine would be better at finding these kinds of answers.

4) I make a post to Facebook. Or I see a post on FB. A few weeks, months, later I want to find that post again. But I have no hope.

5) I have about 3 million bookmarks. They are untagged and poorly named. I want something to crawl those and build an index, so that I can then find the URLs I want.
Very interesting. I've built two sizable Akka projects for a client in the past month and I look forward to seeing what I could've done better. I think there's some refactoring in my future.

As for Akka itself, I'm very pleased with both its performance and the ease with which scalable, complex applications can be developed.

Coupled with the Play Framework the two open up some very interesting possibilities. For instance, one of the Akka systems I built recently handles caching for large datasets—a given cache can take 20-30 seconds to compute. Akka handles the computation while Play sits in front as a REST API. Requests come in for a dataset and the data is either returned from the cache or generated.

But if a request for a dataset comes in while the same dataset is already being computed, Play will return a Promise for the dataset already being cached. This didn't require any sort of lock system, I just put the AsyncResult[1] which will be fulfilled by an Akka future into Play's internal cache and return that. The future of a cached dataset will fulfill whatever incoming HTTP request is mapped to that AsyncResult.

[1] http://www.playframework.com/documentation/api/2.1.1/scala/i...
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Many graduating doctors get into big debt because they choose to attend private undergraduate and private medical school. Instead of getting into such huge debt, a fiscally responsible medical student should attend a lower cost, quality public undergraduate school and a public medical school.

Would it be because the public med schools are incredibly impacted and the private ones are slightly easier, albeit more expensive, to get into?
It originally used festival but it was a pain to install on the Pi (which I want this to run on) and the voices I tried weren't as easy to understand. I'd love for it to be an option, though.
The median public med school of $207K might be including out of state residents. For in New York State:
Public SUNY Downstate tuition: $30K x 4 = $120K
Dorm room $5500/yr
Other living expenses $12K per year
Total $188K
http://sls.downstate.edu/financial_aid/costs/CollegeofMedici...

SUNY Undergrad (in-state)
About $22K x 4 = $88K
http://sls.downstate.edu/financial_aid/costs/CollegeofMedici...

Total (without any financial aid)
$188K (medical) + 88K (undergrad)
= $276K

This is approximately the same cost as a private undergraduate education including on-campus living expenses (about $250K).
Example: Columbia College at Columbia University is approx $62K per year + travel or $248K total + travel.
http://www.college.columbia.edu/bulletin/feesandexpenses.php

Instead of attending pricey private undergrad and then medical school attend public undergrad and public medical school for about the same price.

There should be a study of median debt for those who attend both in-state public undergrad and public medical school vs. those who did not make that choice.
The issue is not that you shared your experience but it is that you provided no real insight or value into how to get a job at a start up. This article is just platitudes referencing your anecdotal experience.

If you're going to post your personal blog, here are some examples of decent posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5544010
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5539231

What do they have that your post doesn't? Depth. They bring a topic up and have insightful perspectives on that topic. If your goal is to write compelling or informative articles about getting a job at a start up then you could speak with founders/engineers about what they're looking for in a new hire, etc.

I'm sorry if you take it personally, I'm just giving you honest feedback.
I'm not high-maintenance!
It wasn't a dig. He was simply stating a fact.
In the states, federal graduate student loans are 8%.
That's the idea behind getting it to run on the Raspberry Pi. Having it choose the mic closest to the person that says 'computer' would be cool.