skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the Wikipedia link - never knew a list that detailed of the public predictors existed. Will send it as a reference instead of trying to remember names that the person I'm arguing with doesn't even recognize. Love that Dean Baker ( http://www.cepr.net/index.php/beat-the-press/ )is in the power position.
The video was very good here is what I wrote down from it:

- Pricing page with 4 plans. Try to price each plan to a different customer in your targeted market what it is worth to them, not what it costs you.

- Annual billing: Ask via a 1 time special email after the person has started using it and likes it

- Have live chat to make more sales

- Email more during the trial period at least 6-8 times in the first month

- Offer a free month "course" via email, on the 4th email or so start working in how your product solves the pain/problem.

- Send a "rescue" email if the person seems like they have become busy and might fall away

- Some bigger organizations will want a sla & support agreement even if it is just you already working on the system fixing things anyway.

- Offer a Service Level Agreement if someone asks for it, charge more ask for a 1 yr commitment

- Offer a support / maintenance contract, ask for a 1yr commitment on the regular fee to lock customer in.

- Offer industry options, HIPPA, etc charge more

- Practice saying "I can do that with a 1yr commitment" when customer ask for something special

- Highly consider getting errors and omissions insurance

- Don't negotiate sales based upon your cost. Don't even mention your cost it is not relevant. What matters is how much the customer will 'save' or 'make' with your product.
One of the most effective things you can do is become a virtual smoker. Smokers get an urge and step out for a cigarette every hour - or every time they get stuck.

I don't smoke (never have) but I am trying to emulate that; the most effective way to solve a problem is to step out and do nothing for about 5 minutes. Take a walk. Look at the trees. Anything. Then when I come back I have either solved the problem or decided to leave it with a hacked together patch and work on something else; Ill probably still resolve the hack sometime later.

The opposite is to seek out some distraction, click around on facebook or HN or something - you solve nothing but spend lots of time....
From my discussions with other people working remotely and my own personal experience (not quite a decade), it is the eating-exercise-social parts that are extremely difficult.

If you already are strong in these areas and continue your current behavioral patterns you should be fine.

If you live somewhere outside a densely populated area, or if your eating-exercise-social patterns revolve around work you can be in for a very difficult time. The first weeks, months, may be fun, years in you can end up with real medical problems.

Figure those three things out, and then wrap your work patterns around that. It is much more sustainable.
Its been done in several states using small plots including here in Michigan. We're eventually going to get there in whole fields, primarily through rapid improvements in seed genetics and a focus on yield zones as opposed to grid soil sampling.

FYI I had breakfast years ago with the late Herman Warsaw and he was one of the most inspiring people I've ever known.

http://www.slideshare.net/jbgruver/farm-journal-dec85-herman...
I disagree. While you may feel that the points you made were valid, they are in fact not valid for a variety of reasons.
I think we're tired, the future is here and it's exhausting. Doing the work of the present future is challenging and interesting but it wears us out. 130 years ago there were no airplanes, no telephones, almost no electricity, no production computers, no cell phones, no MP3 players, no CD/DVD players, no phonographs, no movies, no production cars. 130 years is just barely beyond the life span of the longest living human beings.
You are assuming too much: my ambulance ride isn't expensive. I live in a municipality which provides its own ambulances. In a geographically dense suburb it's efficient, logical and cheap (relatively) for EMS services to piggyback off of fire services. There aren't enough free riders around for the system to fall over from the "uninsured." If you're around here, you've probably helped pay for it.

> Hospitals therefore have to bill YOUR insurance to recover these costs

You know who takes an even bigger hit? Uninsured but solvent patients. Insurance companies have greater bargaining power.

None of that has anything to do with the ambulance business.
The display side of traditional frameworks might not be needed but there is a lot functionality they still supply in the (backend) Model and Controller side of things.

Just finished building a personal angular web app (http://pokerstoker.com). Generally a pleasant experience! I found the incompatibilities with other libraries (e.g. jQuery) a bit frustrating though.
If it's simply that, then why restrict it to students, instead of by age? Most people under the age of 21 are broke, young, and impressionable.

I feel very good about the fact that I don't have to pay back debts for the rest of my life. I feel bad that a company that I look up to doesn't think the self-taught crowd are as worthy students as those who have it spoon fed to them.
It's an excellent service but sadly just like Gmail is nestled snug in Patriot Act-landia.
In SF it seems to be a small population of seriously mentally ill, drug addicts (both OD and drug-seeking), those with ongoing conditions which they fail to manage properly, etc.

There probably should be a cheaper way to treat them than sending SF Fire over and over to the same addresses. And that way would probably be both more comfortable for the patients and lead to better long-term outcomes. Maybe more extended inpatient care for them (in a low-cost-per-day facility)?
Learning to Fail or Failing to Learn?
Well...I mean....can you blame him?

In an economy where perception is reality - if the central bankers and main regulators start screaming that the house is going to burn down...guess what happens....exactly.

So if they think the house may burn down....they have no choice but to lie to stave it off as long as possible.
Utility is King
Writing code when you know you dont have a solution is a complete waste of time. You end up with bad code you have to throw away. Or worse, you dont throw it away and end up with huge tail end costs of user errors, QA time, futile attempts to fix the rotten, and eventually rewriting the whole thing anyway.

Writing is apparently different in this regard.
How would drug dogs sniff out an Airsoft gun?
I can't see any basis on which to assign the probabilities you ask for. A better question might be: on what basis do you believe that the universe should be intuitive? Why should it be so?
It's very easy to say these people were right, in hindsight. There's many from the austrian school who had been calling for the 2008 recession for 10 years. So, they were right, but it's pretty hard to listen to them when things keep chugging along for so many years.

Likewise, there were many people who saw the 2008 pop coming and bet on it, but just mistimed it by a few months. The handful of Wall Street guys who timed it just right made their careers and look like geniuses, but there were numerous times that many people who took massive hits because they were just a few months too early.

The point is, the doomsday message is never going to appeal to incumbents, because it's pretty hard to know where you are in the bubble. If you're only in the middle and you start jacking interest rates up (prolonging the bubble but not popping it), its very likely that it will look like you made the wrong move (after all, prices kept going up the whole time, regardless of the rate increases, so maybe it wasn't a bubble?) Greenspan was a genius ... until 2.5 years after he stepped down. Now he gets a large part of the blame for causing the bubble.

We're in another real estate bubble right now. Guaranteed. My so-cal house is up over 20% just in the last year (after only falling about 20% from its 2008 peak), and things are only accelerating in my area. But real estate is basically the only thing driving the economy, so there's no way they're lowering rates in the next two years, so there's no way prices are falling. Asset prices overall are going to skyrocket over the next few years, and then will crash again, probably close to as hard as in 2008. But whether that crash is 3 years out, 5 years out, or 10 years out, I have no idea. Nobody does. So if you're a politician, the safest bet is to ride the wave and just hope you don't get smashed into the rocks.
A closer look at zoom. - Making FiftyThree
The SFW issue has been a problem for me too. I've actually gone through and removed some family and friends as contacts because I don't want to have to worry about a half-screen NSFW photo pop up whenever I visit the site. Unfortunately this means that some of my family members can no longer see photos of my kids because they are marked as "family only."
Entropy, my friend. Nothing lasts forever. The question is, is there a suitable replacement?
Wow...how prescient.

>Calculations by The Economist show that house prices have hit record levels in relation to rents in America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium. This suggests that homes are even more over-valued than at previous peaks, from which prices typically fell in real terms. House prices are also at record levels in relation to incomes in these nine countries.

The only economy that never suffered as badly as everybody else in that list is Australia - and MAYBE New Zealand - largely because of the ridiculous demand of commodities from China, et. al.

But these guys were spot on.

No wonder I can't stop reading them every week.
Just out of curiosity, what happened to SourceForge? They were essentially the GitHub of the dotcom boom, and pretty awesome at the time, but really seem to have fallen off.
If I can be totally honest, our group had a pretty bad enterprise sales experience recently. We had trouble getting answers to our questions (we are a bit of a non-standard .edu account). We thought we had negotiated a good deal until the PO was about to be cut and then we came to find out there were conditions on the original deal nobody told us about. Our team was just crushed by the end because we love github and it left such a bad impression. I hope we are outliers, but I worry that we aren't.
This will help in the Scala driver I've been developing
I missed this comment a few days ago, but I feel like it's worth replying to anyways:

It's not about hacking, per se. It's about not using computing devices, and it's about convenience for the legal system. If they allow a graphing calculator, should they allow a PDP? Is internet access the limiting factor? Can he send code on a USB key to his teacher?

For a non-technical person to decide where that line is would be very difficult (as a technical person, I couldn't tell you offhand where it stops). 'No computing devices' is easy, and not unreasonable.

Of course, anyone on HN will complain that the legal system needs to be aware of technology. If we get into that argument, every public representative will need to be a painter, race car driver, astronaut and programmer. Because they don't really understand <x> well enough to legislate about it.
I agree with the premise of the startup that dealing with photos on the iPhone is broken and an issue. Having used a Windows Phone for the past 6 months, I can say that I while I hate lots of things about the OS and phones, the syncing to Skydrive is truly awesome and has taken me out of the world that is described in the Loom positioning. My understanding that the Android space already has this figured out as well. I love not having to worry about syncing/downloading/etc - it has felt very freeing.

Which is to say, I think this is an interesting company, but very likely to face a serious challenge if/when Apple comes out with an update to iCloud that does the same things. Competing against stuff built into an OS is very, very hard - not impossible (see: Chrome, Firefox), but definitely hard.
Exactly. Maybe Bernanke never got the memo - with their recent concerns about the current tools they use to read inflation, the major concern that it is even lower than is being reported - I would say that this call has been wrong.
If anyone read the Fountainhead you can call those groups Keating's and Toohey's
You are correct on some points. 32 bit was broken, realtime is a non-feature. It does (by design) lack generics and meta programming (Pike talked about these at length at one point).

I have to disagree on the concurrency model, I think message passing channels are a much more natural primitive to model concurrency in, and goroutines are exceptionally light.

EDIT: When you talk about nimrod, you might go ahead and mention you are the designer of nimrod... it might color your judgement.
Even Attorney General Eric Holder Supports ECPA Reform
It supports concurrent reads/single writer.
THANK YOU

A netiquette for coffee shops, I wholeheartedly agree.

I work at coffee shops a lot; I keep sitting there when I can see there are plenty of empty tables - that means my sitting there is a net positive for the Cafe: I might consume more, and often do. And having customers is better than having none, it attracts other people.

If I see that many customers are coming and that I might actually block people from getting a table, I leave.

Only exceptions is Starbucks because its a huge chain and they have always had an official sit as long as you want policy which has worked out very well for them. I am not sure about the actual business trade off but I often end up at Starbucks because I know I can sit there as long as I want - this business might otherwise have gone to independents. I realize though that what works for a large chain might not work for the coffee shop on the corner.
This isn't necessarily true. Rust, for example (disclaimer: I work on Rust), was open very early on, and the language when it was released looks almost nothing like the language now. The various transitions have been painful, but the community is really understanding and helpful, and the language has a small but vibrant community as a result even though it's far from production ready.
If jailbroken, you can enable WebGL with the Enable WebGL tweak (free).

For what it's worth, it works really nicely on the iPhone 5 in Chrome with this enabled.
Yup, and as others have mentioned ICD-10 is worse.

There are also CPT codes that specify the procedures and diagnostic techniques that doctors and other healthcare providers do.

Insurance is then a mapping from ICD codes to allowed CPT codes. Good luck getting that information from your insurance company, however. Once I had a claim denied because someone transposed two digits in an ICD-9 code, and the treatment obviously didn't make sense. The insurance company couldn't tell me what the codes were - just that it was not an approved treatment for the reported condition. That took a lot of painful debugging to resolve.

Oh, and CPT codes are copyrighted by the AMA [1]. If you want to use them you have to pay licensing fees. Too bad it's not usually a case of "want to use" but instead "must use." I'm not sure if ICD codes are copyrighted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Procedural_Terminology#...
But why is that in this new timeline? Was there a line in there about Eric Bana bringing it back from the future? I thought Scottie just invented it.
He aint got no superpowers ?
Its just a matter of practice and maybe a little natural aptitude. I frequently work in coffee shops, restaurants and bars. Once I have headphones on and music playing that's a signal to my brain that its time to concentrate. It also helps to choose your seat so that you wont have people brushing past you.
That author really needs to take a class called How To Write Plain English.

I struggled to parse text like, "...the 88 teachers who teach can only be used as Indian samples, if and only if, one is ready to situate them in socio-economic givens" or "... disabling us from looking at the micro-manifestations of issues from a methodologically nuanced, institutionally useful and politically sensitive position"
I don't know. I have been working on a Java/Scala driver too and thinking how you could translate a scala lambda to this kind of representation It would be really cool to do

db("tablename").filter( x => x.name == "foo" )

and be able to translate that to the relevant query, but I can't really think of a way without using Macros or reflection.
Congrats Richard on a great new release.
Not necessarily. AWS doesn't sign Business Associate Agreements, as required by HIPAA/HITECH for any healthcare payers/providers who want to use their services today, and for any Health IT companies who want to use them starting in September (per the new Omnibus Rule announced in March).

AWS and Rackspace have both hinted that they are considering becoming BAA compliant, but they aren't today. Azure (Enterprise) and pricier services like Firehost are.

It is possible that you could make a legal case for storing encrypted patient data on S3, but this is still a gray area, especially when some states (like Mass.) have enhanced patient privacy laws that trump federal laws. And before anyone replies, note that it's a LEGAL question of possession of data, not a technical one about encryption algorithms. We have very expensive HIPAA attorneys who do understand how encryption works but are still undecided on this.
When I visited the USA I was surprised to see comparative advertising on TV. That was something I haven't seen here (Australia).

An example would be fast food ad's - they would show their burger side by side with a competitors comparing the size and cost etc. Nothing like that in Australia.

Update: Wikipedia says "In Australia, no specific law governs comparative advertising"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advertising#Austral...
"We need to get programming talent on-board." Sounds to me like they still haven't learned their lesson...
On the plus side, this will probably only ever happen to you once. Once you've felt the pain, you'll never let it happen again.
BYOI
Go long on the dollar, we'll go long on Bitcoin and gold. Let's see where you are in a few years when QE-infinity keeps on going.
That is genius.

I have to wonder though, how they plan to do it in less dynamic languages? Just spell out the s-expr and forget about using the language's own syntax?
Except the tablet revolution, massive leaps forward in translation and speech recognition, an electric vehicle being named Car of the Year, multiple states passing self-driving car legislation, featherweight wearable computers that project an image directly onto your retina, a private company successfully docking a spaceship with the ISS, discovery of the Higgs Boson, large-scale entanglement in a quantum computer, a man jumping from a balloon at the edge of space while millions of people watch live over the Internet, an SUV landed on Mars via a sky crane, a computer crushing the world's best Jeopardy players, wireless video calls via a pocket computer...
Actually makes total sense. Companies like Google should always remain ahead of the curve. They should innovate much faster than any of the open standards could grow.
Probably one of the most common users of portable (ok, maybe I should say mobile) xrays are large animal veterinarians. I've seen them used with horses. Generally there's power at barns (someplace nearby, at least), but I imagine a generator would work.
Take a look at some of the links here:
http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/linux-one-handed-keyboards/

In college I had a TA who broke his hand. He coped by using a mirror keyboard layout so when a button was held down, the values of all the keys changed.

He ended up being able to type 60wpm and ended up challenging some of his students to a typing contest and beating them.
Using the term 'blackhat' is pretty darn vague. It's just as vague as using the word 'cloud' (Basically a buzz word).

I wouldn't call this guy Blackhat though, if he's stealing credit cards then that's straight up fraud.

Usually when people use the term 'blackhat', they are referring to someone who breaks companies terms of service but just below actually breaking the law.
Deeply painful for the novice developer, good for the computer scientist.
The original title is clearer, because it's germane that the vulnerabilities are in the X client libraries rather than the X.Org server.
Isn't skin effect an AC thing in cabling?
The reason DC power is sometimes preferred for high-voltage high-power transmission is specifically because there is no skin effect and the cables can therefore handle more power per weight.
Is Passion Enough To Succeed Online?
"Technical support informed me that my first HD died 20 days into my contract. The backup HD hummed along for a year."

That sounds more like RAID than a backup HD.
Google 'kerning' easter egg
However remember that backups are only half of the disaster recovery picture. You need to have a tested restore process ready to go as well.
I was working in coffee shops for 2 years and thats what I did.

As for getting stuff done, if you find a coffee shop where people are working / studying, its great.

I have worked remotely from SE Asia for the past 8 years; Id go to visit clients in the USA two times a year and they would give me a cubicle in Palo Alto. I really enjoyed the company of my co workers, all great folks and it was great to see them face to face after IM ing them for 6 months. But to get actual work done, Id go outside and sit in a Coffee Shop...

The article is spot on about the downsides of working remotely - the biggest issues are routine, discipline, and communication.

What it does not mention are the downsides of working in the office:
- Distractions by chatting with friends
- Distractions by meetings
- Lack of discipline because they pay you to warm your chair for 8 hours. If i am in the office, its work time - obviously. When I work remotely the only way to prove I was actually working is getting shit done.
The constitution of Germany published as Open Data, with all changes (German)
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This looks a lot like LINQ. C# is probably one of those "less dynamic languages" but has had this for years. It powers a lot of ORMs and other frameworks that need a queryable expression language. It supports writing custom 'providers' so that you can write LINQ against almost anything.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397933.aspx
How many people did it affect? I would be too ashamed to admit it if i was a company offering services for programmers but didn't back up my server.
I mean that Systems Administration is as thoroughly exhausting a career path as programming. They didn't lose information because they coded something wrong or inadequately.
I was thinking maybe a path type syntax, yeah you have to use strings for your field names but this way you can wrap it in a 'get' node .. Seems to have worked well with Play! json classes
Keep Calm and Kill Zombies
So, maybe you can point me towards some documentation that states that the AMD A10 is somehow massively outclassed by this new AMD-created CPU/GPU combo?
Their #scroogled campaign tweets were primarily fueled by the contest to win $500 prepaid Visa card - so they were essentially paying people to bash Google. Nobody noticed.