skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its entirely possible. My first company did not offer health insurance. The president just made sure to pay himself enough so that he could secure health insurance for the rest of his family.

He advised us to take our (start up wages) and buy catastrophic disaster insurance. Or relax, because our car insurance also covers medical bills, so if we're in a car accident (most likely scenario) we're covered.

[He then also told us (off the clock, and again this was 2004) that if we voted for John Kerry, the health care reform would put our company out of business. ]

But yes, in the past 5 years they could've gone away.
I agree. The variables involved with computing how much attention something receives is more than simply %space, %words, and other measurable things like that.

It's like saying that letters are mostly whitespace.
I like to think of it as a conflict between different sets of individual rights, such as your right to swing your fists about and my right to an uninjured nose. But there are some tragedy-of-the-commons cases where this model doesn't work out.
"Sometimes that's a sign that your point of view is out of whack."

Same goes for you, of course ; )

Unfortunately, regardless of who is ethically right or wrong, my view will retain the upper hand, for the simple fact that the network is global, and whatever laws you pass in any country will not, nor ever, apply to all. For this simple reason you must continue to consider security the sole responsible of the proprietor, and assume the complete legal immunity of the customer/attacker (same thing).

"If someone concocted a scheme to walk out the front door with all of the free samples"

I do not particularly care for the idea of the judiciary being involved in rationing out Whole Foods' free samples. I do see your point - theft is theft, after all - but do you really want to make an obvious prank illegal? Outright shoplifting is one thing. Pranks are another, and they were free samples. You're so enthusiastic to consider intent in your other examples, why forget all about it in this one?
"You rarely ever hear of a defense company going under." -- 1. There is no real competition. The taxpayers have been footing the bill all along. 2. The DoD just canceled a bunch of projects and one of the reasons are "Project have been systematically late and the budget has spiraled out of control".
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/04/gates_budget....

Think about it, ALL startups in the silicon valley, COMBINED (even with Facebook's 15 billion evaluation), are not worth not even 10% of the 530 billion dollars a year that is the defense budget.
Marx's important error
I use it daily, and have for quite a while (26). As a publisher, I've received more traffic from SU than any other source.

Still, I've never felt compelled to run a paid campaign, and perhaps that's the problem.
We've been finding it a pretty interesting way to do advertising actually, and we've seen very few people over 40 coming through. Hard to tell if it's just the demographics/interests we chose, though.
Can you explain your logic? 50 sounds crazy high, but 5-10k seems like a wild extrapolation.
I'm somewhat offended that "tween girls" have iphones. I wish my job was slapping their parents.
Yeah, that was exactly my reaction as well. Surely, there must be something more to it than that ... right?
No, you've missed the point of the book. It's not that you can scale recipes. It's that behind almost every recipe there's a very simple ratio; when you know the ratio and the technique to apply it, you can generate many other recipes yourself. Think of it as a compression scheme.
Amazon is losing a lot of business in the GLBT community, historically a reliable demographic group in both online spending and books. (This actually wouldn't be so bad if they had been more forthcoming, and quickly made a statement apologizing profusely. However, just saying that there's a "glitch" after customer support had suggested that much of the material was indeed adult in various posts hovering around, this has resulted in a significant loss of goodwill.)

As for me, I'm considering looking for a new default myself. Powells, here I come?
The point is that recipes obscure the fundamental relationships of ingredients. I thought his explanation was clear that the essence of bread is 5:3 flour to water, and that with this simple ratio you can walk into a kitchen and make bread -- and improvise from there -- all without the need for a recipe.

He described in another post noticing new relationships between foods after reducing them to their essentials, that for instance "an angel food cake was simply meringue with flour folded in."

I hope I don't sound like I'm shilling for Ruhlman. I'm an enthusiastic follower of his blog but I have not bought, much less read this book.
I can't think of a good way to describe this, but this is semi-related and humorous:
http://jacobian.org/writing/nobody-expects-python-packaging/
I think you're missing the point of the exercise. It's like you're assigned a physics problem about point masses on frictionless surfaces and you answer the question by saying it's irrelevant in the real world because masses are distributed over volumes and surfaces are never frictionless.

Yes, of course you have to factor in taxes and time and so on and so forth. But that's not what the question was about in the first place. You never see idealized physics problems in the real world either but what you learn from naive, simplified applications of classical physics still gets you somewhere in real world problems. Same with EV calculations.

The point is that EV is an incomplete measure of value when it comes to evaluating gambles, not that you have to pay taxes. EV doesn't work on one-off situations, like if you're on a game show with Howie Mandel.
For all the good ideas, I still haven't heard of a car producer planning to sell a car with replaceable batteries.

Also what I don't think is said enough: electric cars should be better then conventional. Much better acceleration, better reliability, less noise... the list goes on.

edit: clarity. better then conventional.
Clive Thompson on the Taming of Comment Trolls (Disqus props)
Unpopular solution, but obvious: nuclear energy.
I think you're simultaneously missing and proving Ruhlman's point. Take anything you know how to make; say, bread. Start subtracting out ingredients: the carmelized medium onion, the herbs, the olive oil. Get to salt, water, flour, and a little yeast; take any of these out, and it's not bread anymore.

Now take your bread "kernel" and look at the ratio between the ingredients. Go read a bunch of (reputable) bread recipes. You'll find that most reputable bread recipes will be some variation on that core ratio, just like both Linux and FreeBSD have a VFS layer and a system call table.

I'm halfway through the book (I'm a fan of Ruhlman's; "Charcuterie" sort of changed my life) and while the ability to generate recipes on the fly is a win, I agree with you that it's not revolutionary. But being able to eyeball any other recipe and see what kernel it's built on (or, if it's a crap recipe, if it's built on any sane ratio at all) is a huge win.
Is there a non silverlight version of this?
> transport of electricity to the charging station
> storage of electricity
> conversion of that storage back to kinetic energy

I'd love to see actual numbers to back up your statement--I imagine you are right about efficiency, but I'd like to see how bad the numbers are.

We have to drill, transport, and store oil, also. Efficient and dirty doesn't help us much if the dirtiness overshadows the efficiency. Lossy and clean seems preferable, because then you don't have to shed tears over losing energy bought at a steep price in terms emissions.
1:1 ratios are easy like that.
Don't Mix Ubuntu Repositories.
Dude, I hear you. But you need to recognize how much abuse and fraud there was and continues to be in these programs. I agree that there are some idiodic trolls out there, and they're easy enough to refute. But you should not equate all criticism (even very intense and angry criticism) of this program with this kind of "idiotic xenophobia".

First, a recent repot on the H1B visa showed that 6 of the top 10 users of this visa were Indian outsourcing companies - using the visa to cycle a worker through the US and then back to India. Of the remaining four in the top 10, two were US based outsourcing companies. According to Ron Hira, some of these companies were paying their "critical workers that couldn't be filled with Americans at any price" a $12/hr wage! I don't think it's fair to lump talented engineers with this sort of program, but this is the sort of thing that sounds almost designed to rouse populist anger. Here you have Microsoft and Google claiming that the cap is too low - but then you see that most of these visas are snapped up by non-US companies that are mainly interested in moving jobs offshore as quickly as possible. That screams for reform, but instead, the response was always to just lift the cap even higher.

People often point out that a high percentage of tech companies have one or more foreign born founder. Andy Grove and Sergey Brin are often mentioned. However, these folks didn't come to the United States on a work-related visa. The US takes over 1.2 million immigrants a year - and many of these folks become founders of tech companies. To me, this would imply that we don't need an H1B visa to keep the pipeline open - our existing immigration system is already bringing plenty of talented folks here.

We need reform, badly. I think it's very important that the US be open and welcoming to top talent from around the world. But I think we instituted a program that pretty much enabled employers in the US to fire ordinary US citizens and replace them with ordinary foreign nationals under the guise of bringing in "Best and brightest."

We need intelligent reform (which should not, in my opinion, amount to unlimited visas for anyone who wants one). But instead, we may throw the baby out with the bath water. This is what happens when the powers that be fail to reform an obviously broken system to the point where populist anger takes over.
Mikeyy Twitter Worm explained in plain English
Facebook, Twitter at work 'makes you more productive'
Heroin comes bundled with lots of pain and expense and dysfunction too, though. It goes against pleasure as soon as you're without it for long enough, and it also goes against other top-level goals many people have.

I don't know many heroin addicts but I know smokers, and in my experience, smokers always advise me not to start smoking because it's not worth it. I'd take that as a sign that smoking does not satisfy the top-level goals of the smokers whom I have spoken with on this topic.

In any case, addictive drugs are only an analogy. Yet even in this analogy we can see where top-level goals are often incompatible with the means people use to achieve them.

I'd also advise you that if your argument rests upon the lemma that heroin use is a rational means to achieve pleasure, you may have a mistake in reasoning somewhere :)
Advice for Y Combinator Interviewees (from Sumon, Snaptalent, YC W08)
Which electric car did you try that was noisy?

Edit after parent's edit: Which electric car did you try that was noisier than a conventional car?
You're mistaken, people of faith care just as much about evidence as secularists. Any respectable belief system, and Christianity is one of them, encourages you to look at the facts and decide for yourself. Asking hard questions and being skeptical is a healthy thing. Because of their implications for how one lives one's life, truth claims about religion especially should be examined.
Cool name! : )

"but if someone signed up for an account at Amazon using 500 different names, and one of them was "TJIC", and the intent was to inject bad data ... yes, that person would be a criminal."

No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state. Guaranteeing the legitimacy of the name(s) used to sign up for accounts is not the job of the state. Assessing the state of mind of someone filling in Amazon's complaints form is not the job of the state.

I am kind of amazed you think the government or the law should be even tangentially involved in any of this.
Isn't that what compatibility mode is all about?
This is a specific example of a vast industry: "compliance". Any corporation of a certain size has people on the payroll whose sole job is to make sure the company breaks the law as little as possible.

I would be interested in knowing how big this industry is.
As one of the (soon to graduate) 20-something Ph.D.'s referenced in the article, I feel no sympathy for any whining. The only problem people like me face is false expectations. We were all promised professorships, but it was mostly a lie.

My attitude: No tenure track positions available? Crappy pay for indefinite post-doc appointments? Screw it! I'm going into the software industry...

No, I don't worry about the advanced degree holders. What I worry about is the kid graduating high school and being fed false expectations. Too many people don't understand how correlation works. i.e. "Hey! People with college degrees make more money, so if we get every American high school student to go to college and get a degree, they'll all make more money!!!"

...uh, no.
Yeah, that's basically what I want to do - save the view as well as the filters that have been applied.
Suppose UAW workers fail to show up to work, and the CEO fires them and hires replacements. In that case, men with guns show up and shut down GM (it's illegal to fire striking workers and hire replacements).

This is simply not true, at least in the USA. See for example:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/APPEALS+PANEL+VOIDS+PENALTY+FO...

and

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/16/us/caterpillar-s-trump-car...
One speck of blood or tissue may be enough to diagnose cancer
I never knew ACM, IEEE and others offer insurance. Here are the direct links to their benefits page:

ACM:
http://www.acm.org/membership/insurance

IEEE:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/financial-advantage/insur...
IMVU Making At Least $1.7M Monthly With User-Made Virtual Goods
How Do You Choose the Right Coffee Roast For You?
I bow to your judgement since you have actually read the book. I was more reacting to the "Eureka!" tone of the OP (you know, ten long years I have been toiling on this insight etc).

I am certainly intrigued to know how a book about smoking meat changed your life though!
Speaking of Greeks and Homer, let's not forget the Spartans and their custom of killing disabled children.
Valid analogy - but flimsy security is still not justification for breaking and entering, nor defamation.
Guh. Here we are, about 3 steps into an argument, and already it's a quagmire of complexity, grey areas and sliding scales. I could now posit the example that it's actually more like Mrs Smith leaving the money in a bag on the floor of her store (or house) but seriously we could go on like this forever. My Infinite Biased Analogy Generator is in good working order and I can tell yours is in full effect also.

The fact is, nothing was stolen and no-one died. You're all about "intent" so intend this: this whole story is one guy exploiting Amazon's flawed security to annoy gay people.

I do not even like Weev. This is nothing but principle, namely - should the government be papering, with the full force of the law, over the cracks in Amazon's security?

I say, "no". You say "yes". We are each convinced of our righteousness. Let's leave it there.
What about batteries that are recyclable? BYD has created a plug-in hybrid with batteries that use nontoxic electrolytes. This should cut out many of the recycling problems we have with current batteries:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/13/technology/gunther_electric....

The car goes 60+ mi before needing to use the gas engine. I haven't done much research on performance/reliability/safety though the article does say the BYD cars lack the polish of Toyota's.
You could also go out in the street with a sign that says "Amazon sucks" and it would probably deter as many people as this did.
if true, that is pretty bad ... Amazon should have "signed" the cookies with the originating IP and then forced a refresh or a login if it was different.
:) Maybe my mastery of English isn't what I thought it is.

I mean people should expect electric cars as an improvement, not as a compromise. So when they come, they should (as in they most likely will) be better then what we're used to.
What an excellent presentation. Stanford has some amazing classes.
Smoking isn't the half of it. Where before I ate duck, I now eat duck cured for 2 days with cloves, cooked sous-vide in its own rendered fat for 7 hours at 73C, and then stored for 3 weeks. Learning how sausage works, how curing works, and how preserving works is every bit as big of a deal as learning how to make a pan sauce from a fond. Can't recommend that book enough. I'm trying to source a half pig from a local farm; when I do, I'm going to work my way through the book start to finish, blogging it like the Alinea Cookbook blogger did.

Sous-vide, something else you don't want to get me started on; amazed that nobody here has picked that topic up. It's fucking amazing. I can't see how there isn't 11 billion dollars to be made with it somehow.
The printout on Ms. Doyle’s desk includes names of five people who applied for the job. Ms. Doyle has determined none of them qualifies. (The desired candidate must have a Ph.D. in computer science, and specific technical skills in geo-location programming).

Appears then that another potential solution would be to create more American born PhD students in the relevant fields.

How can we do that? How long will it take? How much will it cost? What position has the power to put something like that together?
... if you are not in Australia.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520894
Bad advice deserves to get downvoted.

If people think something is bad advice, that doesn't mean they don't understand it --- it can mean they understand it all too well.
Replaceable as in "gas-station replaceable". With a top that's easy to remove and a mechanism to take them out and put another set in in less then 5 minutes. Without this, most of the ideas in the video don't really work.
Someone could write a greasemonkey script...
A few more details: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/13/schooner_memcached_m...

"There's nothing too special about this hardware or using Linux ... Where Schooner has done its R&D is in creating a clone of Memcached that has been reworked to take advantage of the multiple cores and instruction threads in modern processors like the Xeon 5500s and it is also keenly away of memory, both flash and main, inside the box."
I remember back in pre-teen days (just when I was starting to get curious), the internet was without Google, dial-up was fast, internet porn was innocent, and our home network consisted of one PC running Windows 3.1 in our living room. I relished those times when my parents would leave me (or me and my friends) at home to go out to eat, leaving nothing but these 10 lines between me and my hungry eyes.

I think my first hack was figuring out how to cover my tracks by making a backup of Netscapes's cache and cookies before going on my adventure then restoring the browser's history back to it's original state as soon as I saw those headlights pour through our dining room windows.

Ah those were the days. . .this was even back before E/N hit the scene.
I'm not suggesting that heroin use is something I'd support, just that I don't think we can say for someone else what their own best interest is, and the fact that people go back to heroin after being clean suggests that it is worth all the downsides, in their value system, if not mine and yours.
It's impressive to see them hit this mark because they've emphasized quality over quantity. (To a point. Of course, their filter criteria are pretty arbitrary, and they've let questionable apps through anyway.)

If they'd simply wanted high volume, and let a bunch of garbage into the app store, they might have hit a billion downloads quite awhile ago.
Building A Better Brain (2001)
Deploying modularised Python packages
Anybody who's watched a number of children grow up knows this is true.
I agree with you, it's all about intent. If you give false feedback to avoid having your family killed, that should be legal. If you do it to troll Amazon, that's malicious, and should be a crime.

This guy is a jerk, and he's making society slightly less good. As a society, we should try and avoid the tragedy of the commons, or else we won't have a society for much longer. Someone needs to remind this guy, in an official capacity, that his actions are not appreciated or tolerated.
There's nothing "clean" about using a link. @import is an actually useful feature: the ability to define dependencies. "This file depends on another, which I've imported." Instead, using link tags forced you to push dependencies all the way to the top of every project (just like script tags). This is a huge failure of web technologies, and its one reason why all the good frameworks have to include build tools to flatten dependencies.
The desired candidate must have a Ph.D. in computer science, and specific technical skills in geo-location programming

Sounds like an additional solution would be to make more American born PhD's in the technical fields.
This has already been here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=556625
thanks Obie

news/tech/gossip are based off wefollow.com rankings for various tags

why use them instead of my twitter account
- most people on the internet dont have twitter accounts - thus don't have a way to follow this tweets
-- 200M facebnook users V 1M~ twitter users
- twittergrep.com aims to present the best of twitter to the rest of the net population

re audience moving up
- agreed could be an issue - but i think there will always be more people who dont use twitter and are after upto the second news than people with twitter accounts

thanks again for you comments - much appreciated

Cheers

Justin
Maybe their plan wasn't so much integration as it was diversification.
"512 GB Schooner-optimized Intel® X25-E enterprise-class flash memory"

Memory? They're SSDs. Why the misleading language?

I'm sure they're great devices but SSDs are not memory and referring to them as such just sounds sleazy.
agreed

thats a work-in-progress at the moment - should be out in a few days

just wanted to launch asap

cheers

justin
thanks adityakothadiya

cheers

justin
My name card.
hospitals mark up their costs for insurance. If you are paying cash they will always lower their bills big time to accomodate you.
Let's be clear here. Weev didn't censor Amazon listings. If what Weev claims is true, the most you can say is that he helped trick Amazon into choosing, via automated means, to censor those titles.

But ultimately, it was Amazon who took the action to remove the listings.

(Unnecessary disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of Amazon, and hardly a week goes by that I don't buy something or other from them.)
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You can just download the .mp4 at the bottom of the post. I don't know if you noticed it or not but just making sure shrug :)
hospitals mark up their costs for insurance

No they don't. Hospitals mark up for people paying cash. This is because they know most of the people paying cash won't pay at all. The markup for people paying cash is about 3 times that what they bill the insurance company.

If you are paying cash they will always lower their bills big time to accomodate you.

This can happen but it's arbitrary. I needed to be hospitalized without insurance and the hospital wouldn't budge on the bill. Likewise I had a roommate who had a $40,000 concussion once and the hospital wouldn't negotiate that bill, either.
It's called Eb5 http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f...