skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether the US is subsidizing healthcare for other countries is not a function of the amount of research US companies or the government produces. Instead, it depends on the amount of revenue that those companies derive from the US health consumers. I don't have any numbers in front of me but if it turns out that the vast majority of profits for these companies comes from the US, due to our clusterfuck of a healthcare system, and if those extra profits offset the lower revenue from charging other countries less, then that looks like an indirect US subsidy to me (sorry for the unwieldy sentence).

If you're not American, I don't see what there is to take offense at. That's just the shitty (for us) way that it is. Due to structural problems, greed, boondoggles, lack of political will, lobbying/corruption, the US simply can't have low drug prices compared to other rich and poor countries. On the other hand, the US enjoys relatively low prices for electronics and other consumer goods (as our Australian friends can attest to). You win some and you lose some.
Oooh, I really love that cardboard box idea, not only as a shrine, but as a weekend project for my own Intercats. It may in fact be impossible but I think with the Intercat as my spiritual guide, I've got a good chance.
We built our startup out of hatred. Pure fury-fuelled hatred.
You would pick an arbitrary base and do everything relative to that. This is pretty easy compared to the shoehorning already required to notate such music in existing notation schemes :-).
People love to blame actions like this on lobbyists but Monsanto is a popular company in some areas.

They employ a lot of scientists and the maintenance of their extensive labs, certifying HVAC and safety equipment, etc creates a lot of work for people in the St Louis area.

He was probably working closely with Monsanto on this rider but it's probably popular with many of the citizens he represents.
AMQ is sensitive to proper memory configuration. Typically what will happen is the memory configuration in the activemq.xml doesn't line up with the JVM heap and this causes garbage collection thrashing. It reaches a point where the CPU spikes and the monitor process zaps the JVM process, which causes a restart.

If everything is tuned and lined up properly this won't happen. I've used AMQ in high-volume production systems for years without this problem.
I doubt we get to the point where we start taking too much light for plants to survive any time soon, and the heat will end up here anyway.
Great attitude, great accomplishment. I liked the part about mental vs. physical readiness.
I'm somewhat confused by the observation that the first choice for CS majors is to be an entrepreneur. Shouldn't the motivation for CS be either theory (academics) or practice (build stuff), but not "starting a business"?

Being an entrepreneur is something that is either your primary ambition, in which case you don't start studying CS, or something that grows out of the ambition to use your skills and knowledge to make something happen.

Studying CS with the ambition to become an entrepreneur seems like it's based on the notion that "that's were the easy money is". In my experience, those kind of people aren't good at either being a maker or an entrepreneur.
Winnti: 30+ Gaming Companies Hacked
Even if an electric car has zero reduction in carbon emissions, a switch to electric cars would still result in major improvements in air quality in densely populated cities. The health impacts of local air quality are often very significant in dollar terms relative to climate change.
Pingdom upgrades all plans – adds Real User Monitoring and more
Judge Allows Prosecution To Call Bin Laden Team Member In WikiLeaks Case
Amazingly cool, what a great "hack" usage of Google Street View. Incredibly creative!

It occurs to me... I would love to be able to watch cross-country trips like this. Take me from New York to San Fran in 10 minutes, maybe skipping over over the really boring monotonous parts? Take me an a tour through Europe! Could be an amazing tool to give people a real physical sense of distance between places.
This is what happens when you rely on link shorteners. You risk breaking the internet.
Venture debt can also be really bad too. It's not always cheaper equity-wise if there's a heavy warrant issue attached.
Fixed... the issue seemed to last < 10 minutes
Bad advice. Keep tasks in issue tracker.
Well abovethread it turns out he must have clicked through all sorts of Java certificate warning boxes, or run an old vulnerable Java version -- now I feel about as sorry for him as someone whose laptop got stolen as they left it unattended on the table in a coffeeshop for a toilet break. You can wait for something to happen like that.
And that is relevant how?
At Blossom.io our KPI dashboard is powered by KISSmetrics, Google Analytics and billing information from Saasy (FastSpring).
As another comment already stated they have become a "boring yelp competitor" I think it is exactly this geographical information that they have in this database that is the main value the company has. If anybody wants to compete with Google on maps they will need this info. I think the investors are looking for an acquisition Yahoo/Facebook/Ms.
Haven't seen Goldacre's stuff, but I had heard (can't find a source right now) that it's actually closer to 80-85% of pharma companies costs are advertising and marketing. Can't think of a better place to cut costs, really.
+1 for the carrot muncher here is well
This was a common practice back in the days of easily-copyable ROM firmware and boards that were mostly off-the-shelf TTL chips. Companies could copyright the firmware, but not the board design (which is how companies like Franklin and Compaq got to survive).

A lot of arcade videogames have similar things, like the ones that were in Robotron:2084 and Sinistar. Popular arcade titles were counterfeited all the time, this was done as a safety measure if it ever came down to a courtroom verification of the code.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=87198&h...
This is pretty shiesty. I wonder if there is anything we (the american people) can do to change this type of behavior?

I honestly dont know what someone like myself can do to take action and have my voice heard.
> The people who control the means of production (in a university, that's the administrators who control resources and staffing) are more important than everyone else and will eat as large a portion of the pie as they can grab.

This reminds me of my current place of employment. A minor perk at many offices is a reserved parking space. Before my time (90s, early 00s) the head of the organization had a reserved spot, the rest were for the top engineers with some spots rotating out based on quarterly or annual awards. In the early 00s the other managers began whining and eventually got their own reserved spots. With 100+ reserved spaces at the front of the lot someone realized they'd gone overboard. So they removed the engineers' reserved spots.
At this point are they profitable? It seems less and less people are using it, but so many want it to be something awesome.
Smartphones right now are like the SUV industry in the 90s. The bigger, the "better". What a goliath of a phone...
I agree MtGox is subpar, but this isn't their fault. MtGox has two-factor auth, which the victim willfully didn't enable, and was infected with malware. There's not much else MtGox can do to protect against this sort of thing.
Can anyone point to knowledgable commentary from a pilot with current experience with these systems?

I'm rather doubtful that the actions presented in this article can be done in that manner.
Oh of course. But the majority of virus' I've seen target windows specifically. So it is a bit lower when you're using something like Linux. But I just don't enable it :-)
I've seen this suggestion pop up many times in all sorts of discussions on bitcointalk.org forums. There's a bunch of pretty good reasons not to do it, I encourage you to look up those old discussions yourself.
Taming The Unicorn: Easing JavaScript Memory Profiling In DevTools
Not sure what they stole as the site won't load, but maybe they should steal some bandwidth or hosting services...
Well yes I agree on that actually. Probably should've thought that through.
"Double-spending bitcoins is hard"

1. That is not well-defined. What does double-spending even mean for Bitcoin? Previous security definitions for digital cash define double spending in terms of a central bank that issues the money.

2. Even with the vague idea of what double-spending means for Bitcoin, your statement is false under the definition of "hard" that cryptographers typically use. There is a known polynomial-time algorithm for double spending Bitcoin that was described in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. That attack is practical and there are already concerns about one "mining pool" that has almost enough computational power to pull it off (and if they are willing to accept a small probability of failure, they already have that much power).
They also support TOTP (Google Authenticator, etc)
No reason for the issue to be either/or. Fine, a new graduate needs real-world organized domain-exposure experience, and a paycheck. Day job.

I'd bet nearly all of the young'uns in question are NOT spending much of their remaining waking hours building something of their own on their own. Yes, the world doesn't need another to-do list, but there's a zillion other small projects anyone can do with overhead expenses approaching $0. Even if they're doing just a to-do list, then they're doing SOMETHING on their own, learning about building & polishing & documenting & packaging & distributing & advertising & selling & etc., creating a portfolio of personal experiences. So what if it's unoriginal? follow the unoriginal path until it ends, then be somewhere the path is heading and be the first one there with something original.

Programming and entrepreneurship are like being a musician: if you don't do it at every opportunity, if it's not your preferred time-filling activity, if it's not darn near oozing out your pores, you're not one. I'm realizing people don't understand "I want": it's not a vapid expression of desire when pressed for an answer to "what do you want?", it's something you crave & pursue without prompting by others. The author noted that 75% of those saying "I want to be an entrepreneur" were doing absolutely nothing to make it happen, ergo they don't want it.
Foursquare Raises $41M
I have a wife now, but without one I would probably use this service.
The key number to look at in these "well to wheel" type holistic studies in the assumed lifetime of the car. In this study they used 150,000km, which is about 94,000 miles. That seems low to me. Most cars manufactured in the 1990s could last a lot longer than that, and cars are made even more reliably now.

This matters because the payoff for an EV improves with every mile driven. They are very energy-intensive to manufacture, but more efficient to operate. In addition, the EV's efficiency can be "upgraded" over time as the mix of electricity sources improves.
Hmm yes I guess. Although saying that, I've never used any of those tools (Well Eclipse and Netbeans but not for anymore than a few days.)
Link shorteners have the potential to dramatically reduce the robustness of the internet. A single failure point can break a lot of stuff. To my knowledge Twitter justifies their link shorteners with a security argument: they can easily prevent outbound clicks to suspicious sites. Although there is certainly value there, I'm skeptical. I bet it's more a matter of getting data on the kind of outbound traffic they're driving.
What, no ZeroMQ? (Page won't load)
Mail Pilot launches in the AppStore℠
I just go with "some things are easy to do but hard to undo - like breaking a glass of water. Easy to do, hard to undo." At least as a first explanation of what we're trying to achieve in the first place.

Also, I love the "Waldo" example of zero-knowledge proofs: I want to prove to someone that I found Waldo in a "Where's Waldo" puzzle. How do I do this without showing them where Waldo is?

.

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I can simply cut a "Waldo-sized" hole in a big blanket, then position the "Where's Waldo" puzzle under the blanket with Waldo showing through the cut. Easy to do since I know where Waldo is, but impossible to get information from. (At least, theoretically).
I can't remember exactly now (it was some months ago), but there was a support link on the apps control panel, some kind of funky procedure with providing a number that justified that we were a google apps paying customer, and then it took them about a day to respond, but once they were on the case, they were good and very responsive. It took a few days to hunt down the issue.
I strongly disagree, and honestly, I hate the trend of "blog comments are evil!" that networks like Svbtle and Medium are perpetuating.

Yes, the comment systems of major blogs such as Engadget and TechCrunch are filled with filth. (disclosure: I gained my fame/infamy through the TechCrunch comments section). That's when the GIFT and Law of Large Numbers meet, and it isn't pretty.

But high quality content yields high quality content. Articles that are insightful, like analyses that hit the top of HN, don't attract stupidity. Playing curation games with your comments (such as Gawker's "we hide all your comments unless we like you.") alienate your users, and it is somewhat selfish from the author's perspective.

A good compromise is Facebook Comments, which discourages trolls who aren't willing to be anonymous. It doesn't eliminate them, but it's a very strong start, and easy to implement.
If you're confident in what the money can allow you to do, then it's the best way to go about it - to match expectations and risk level of investors, and then benefit more if you know your product, market, etc..
Have you considered working short term full-time freelance gigs? You can work a few weeks/months for a client, and then stretch that money out working full-time on your own projects before you pick up the next contract. Repeat as needed. Its not part-time but its not full-time either. HTH and good luck.
Really, that's surprising, I thought once it made it once it would be bookmarked by every HN cat owner out there. Must have missed it the last few times!
That's a complete non-answer, which is usually done by a person with the same issue you're accusing the parent of.

Trident is a sore point for the UK for several reasons:-

> It's not an independent nuclear deterrent, we're on a US leash even if we try to sell it otherwise.

> They're based in Scotland, a country within the UK which has fairly low support for nuclear weapons, which the primary elected party are dead against having them, going as far to make it a platform for the independence vote in 2014.

> We need to buy them and pay for upkeep. Theres talk of £100bn costs to renew the things, and I believe the lions share of that goes right back to the US.

I can't tell you whether or not it was subsidised, but I doubt it was when you get down to it and the comparison you are making isn't completely apt.
OK thank you. So is the wallet.dat related to MtGox at all or is it just a standard bitcoin wallet file used by the standard clients?
Always collect emails of customers and invite visitors to opt-in to your mailing list.
This way if Google will change it's mind the 1,000,001-st time about ranking you - you will still have direct communications channel opened with your prospects and customers without Google blessing.
I'm sorry for being off topic, but that blog navigation really annoys me.

I hate it when you click 'Home' on a blog and it doesn't take you to the main product page. But I thought this was different. I thought the 'getbrandid.com' would take me to getbrandid.com. Instead it took me to a page that pretty much just served as a link to 'getbrandid.com'
I think that is a marketing failure - my (as yet mostly untested) belief is that you have to reach customers through channels other than the App Store, which would be just a delivery method and deliver some incidental traffic.

I know of a local company that basically sells an iOS app through enterprise channels, though they did get a lucky break being featured by Apple once.

I don't know about games, but I'd definitely try that.
Slides are here http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013ams/materials/D1T1...
I work with interns at big company x and feel its a worthwhile gig. The interns definitely get more out of the project than I do by working with them. It's still learning in a number of respects. For the most part, id have to say the code quality is really poor. I'm not sure what that is, but the cs majors I work with have a tendency to solve problems is a very generic way and lack the nuanced solutions. I think interning is basically OJT and you should pursue it. Also go build something (or a dozen something's) its not an either/or situation obviously.
Well, I might try it but ten of my hard-earned shiny British pounds for something that might turn out as disappointing as Mailbox?

No thank you.
I really dislike graphs that leave labels off. When presenting results its nice to have a clear understanding of whats being displayed, the missing Y axis on these graphs is not helping.
Come Cambiare l'Indirizzo IP dell'iPhone
"Startups are not about the data. A dozen companies did what Dropbox did, but there was only one Dropbox. Everybody did search, but there is only one Google, and so forth."

Maybe I'm missing something, but DropBox was just a very well-implemented GUI for backing up files - there was no "special sauce data".

As for Google, one could argue that their data (or their index) was one of their competitive advantages. They started crawling pages back in 1998. They basically have a 15 year head start over any new competitors that want to enter the field today. And their index is vastly superior to Bing's/Yahoo's.

So I would disagree that startups are not about the data. For a lot of them, without the data, they'd just be a fancy, useless CRUD GUI.
I just recently rebuilt our KPI dashboard for Blossom.io and read through the following spreadsheets/posts/pdfs …

* Christoph Janz – http://christophjanz.blogspot.de/search/label/financial%20pl...

* David Skok – as mentioned in the article (http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/)

* Ryan Carson – http://bit.ly/9w8eJ5 (talk: http://video.seedcamp.com/video/867124/seedcamp-week-2010-me...)

* Bessemer Venture Partners – http://www.bvp.com/cloud

Had a ton of a-ha moments and learned a lot. Highly recommended.
>The post I replied to was, in part, a (poorly worded) justification of the need for "men's rights advocates

No, it was not. I said nothing about men's rights, you simply assume that I must be an MRA because I disagreed with something you perceive as feminist. Just like MRAs assume I am a feminist when I disagree with something they say.

>If you're angered by my disagreement

Why do you think I am angered? And you have not expressed disagreement, your post literally had nothing to do with anything I said. You posted a complete non-sequitur, which you know is deliberately inflammatory, under the assumption that I am someone who will be offended by it. That is the very definition of trolling, even if your assumption is incorrect.
Great theme.

I wish we could get sets of theme instead of a single one - one theme for Firefox, chrome, oh-my-zsh and Sublime Text. Can anyone list the complete set. I have been using Soda in sublime btw.
I'd be really interested to know how difficult it was to get the rights to use all of the celebrity images on the site.

Or ... did you just gank them?
Especially if you are so large that you sell shares in company, then you have a LEGAL obligation to the shareholders to always take decisions that maximise profit over everything else

I wish people would quit saying that. IANAL, but I never have found anything that definitively says that. It would seem that in the case of company sale or takeover, yes, the board has to "maximize shareholder value". But in day-to-day operations there is nothing stopping a company from saying, "we're not going to be assholes" at the expense of maximizing shareholder value. Shareholders don't like it? Sell your shares.

As one example, I refer you to Costco, with profits capped at 15%, to the chagrin of some on Wall Street.

As for the Jobs/Apple example, I sure hate to play the [citation needed] card, but I don't think he exactly said that Apple legally had its hands tied.

EDIT: found my own citation. Jobs said nothing of the sort. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

The article even quotes someone from the Labor Department as saying that companies used to use US workers at the expense of "maximizing shareholder value", without anyone going to jail, but they don't now.
Mtgox stops trading for 12 hours
We can arrange a divorce if you so wish.
this is somehow easier than some CAPCHAs I've seen...
There are imho unnecessary padding and huge font sizes. For example: http://imgur.com/Cvzky1K.png

1. Nice contrast, good padding
2. Why not the same padding as 1.?
3. To much vertical padding. Contrast: are those deactivated?
4. To much vertical padding.
5. Why is this font so huge?

Or why is this sidebar font so huge: http://imgur.com/DZO4l4D.png

But I have to admit, the situation got better not worse in the last versions.

But Chrome imho also has the smarter solution in the network panel: workflow over more panes. You click a request and you see the details in the main area replacing the waterfall, not adding another pane fighting for space.

[edit] All a little bit smaller on the left: http://imgur.com/DooYnFY.png
Parsing for indentation-sensitive languages
The most pleasant job interview I have ever had
>"Feminist" found count - 41. "Feminism" found count - 13. "WHERE ARE THE FEMINISTS NOW?!" was one of the top comments

I'm not sure how you could misunderstand my post as it was quite clear. I know people mentioned feminists. Yes, they say things like "WHERE ARE THE FEMINISTS NOW?!" just like I said. That is not blaming feminists for the creation of the app, which is what you claimed, and what I very clearly and explicitly responded to.

>The uproar in this thread is over placing inappropriate blame on people that neither asked for nor made this app

No it is not. Asking why feminists aren't speaking out against something is not blaming them for the creation of that thing.
Antitrust complaint against Android is an attack on open source
Someone's about to be put on the no fly list.
I'm doubtful. I believe you could easily spoof ADS-B and ACARS messages, but I'm not sure how that gives you control. The best I can think of is that you could spoof other airplanes nearby, and trigger TCAS (collision avoidance) to automatically move in the opposite direction. There is no way the pilot's would notice this, though.

The only other option is, as another commenter mentioned, a buffer overflow, or similar, that would allow the ACARS receiver to load a program in the FMS. In normal operation, FMS programs are not controllable remotely.
Ask HN: What's the name of this new kind of university?
Not long ago on HN, I saw a website of an organization building a new kind of university, where students would take lectures online and live in groups at dorms spread across the world.
I can't remember the name of it. Does anyone know?
Thanks.
I haven't tried it, but what was disappointing about Mailbox? The Dropbox acquisition?
> it's a developers resume

I keep hearing this on places like HN, yet when I've been applying to software jobs in the real world lately, there's been barely a mention of it.
Is Medium doing that? I think quite the opposite, their new comment system seems rather encouraging for good quality comments.
People talking about usage being down are missing the bigger opportunity. Pretty much every app that needs location data uses FourSquare these days. I think that's the bigger vision here. Not exactly sure how it's monetized, but I see the opportunity.
What is Aereo and why does it have the TV networks in an uproar?
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