skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gah, excellent point. Elective retail procedures such as vision improvement surgery and dental crowns, bonding, veneers, etc., all seem to top out around the average FSA limits of $5,000 or so. It's especially notable around the end of the year when advertisements encouraging people not to waste their FSA funds start picking up on the radio.

Now that the IRS has apparently imposed a limit of $2,500 on FSA deductions, I wonder if that's going to create pricing pressure on the "high end" procedures such as custom/wave/whatever LASIK here in the USA.

If I weren't a lazy sod, I'd look up capital equipment costs for medical procedures such as those and compare them to MRI, EKG, and other items used primarily for "need" based, insurance paid, procedures.

(Actually, I haven't used any fancyhands requests in a couple months. I'll be lazy and have someone google for me.)
BBC dismisses complaint from Android whiners about iOS favo(u)ritism
Sorry 10.8 or higher for now.
Why should I write at Medium.com?
Voxel.js is great! But it didn't exist when I started, (so it wasn't really re-inventing the wheel at that time) and it lacks some of the things which I have spent the most time tuning and getting right, like lighting and ambient occlusion. The lack of these features is also part of why voxeljs has better performance at the moment.

I contemplated changing to voxeljs when it came out, but Skycraft has some properties that might not fit properly into a generic voxel engine.. the islands, for instance, allow for some unique optimizations. And the small, one-color blocks allow for other optimization again. So it wouldn't be easy to make Skycraft work with voxeljs, or use the optimizations of Skycraft in voxel.js.

Thanks for the "Nice work" though! :)
Wikihouse - Open Source Construction Set
You're both right. That's a great explanation for why media is wrong.

But the article is not titled well: the article gives reasons why the media misses many important stories. To oversimplify, not enough resources, and resources in the wrong places. The OP also gives reasons why those resources aren't allocated well, but that overlaps quite well with your Jobs quote.
Blocking Image Hotlinking, Leeching and Evil Sploggers with Url Rewrite
Build your own Google TV using Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Socket.io
Such things do happen, but rarely. The only way to really "protect" yourself is to be the most useful possible co-founder yourself.

In any case, having access to your source code will not be an advantage in competing. Building new products is hard because you are at the time also figuring out and changing what to build.

If your idea is any good and has proven moderately successful, there will be competitors. Competitors who are not your co-founder and have never spoken to either of you, but just see your product and decide that it would be cool to have it in their city, country or business niche. And they will spend only 1/10 of your efforts on development and end up with a more maintainable codebase, because they have an example of what to build right from the start.
American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments
We haven't tried it, but apparently it Just Works (tm). You just need to link against the framework as you would any other third party library. There is no API (yet), so no API bindings required.
We payed for a private room as well. I did note that this wasn't something that was "advertised" but if you asked they were more than happy to give you a room.

Mind you this was 13 years ago in the old maternity hospital here in Edinburgh - don't know what the arrangement is in the new Royal Infirmary.

NB My wife gave birth in a private room in the midwife run "Normal Delivery Unit" which was fantastic - we only asked for a private room a few hours after she had given birth after she had been moved to a ward.
Well, since I'm not an American nor living in the US, DoD jobs are out of the question.

Secondly, I am unable to grok functional programming, which is why I quit trying to learn Haskell. I tried, I really tried but there's no way I'm able to wrap my head around functional programming. In my mind, there's a long list with two digits in hex, that the computer iterates as fast as possible. So if Ada is a functional only language that puts the brakes right there. If no, I'd be more than happy to start learning.
Odd, but your experience is completely unlike mine, and that of everybody else I know well. I almost never see stuff from people I don't interact with (except when close friends share it, which is bad enough). In my experience, most people don't need to hide more than a couple of friends, and certainly not more than a few at once.

Almost all my extended global family uses Facebook several times a day (we have a closed group), and I often sit next to other family members using the system. I am much more familiar with it than most people, especially with non-expert users.

It does require some effort to sort Facebook friends into half a dozen channels, but Facebook suggests people to add, which actually makes it rather easy. It becomes a natural progression, over time.

Meanwhile, whatever the theoretical claims, G+ remains almost completely unusable. In my experience, it's virtually impossible to get ordinary people to use it, and they don't last more than a day or two. And from a usability point of view, Circles are crap.

Although I've used G+ quite a lot, and have something over 5,000 followers, my use has declined over time. Following the last desperate (Facebook copying) redesign, I've more or less given in...
Seed funding, Series A funding, What do they mean
I have read articles about start-up fundings and keep seeing these two funding types. Can someone tell me what they mean and if there is more.
Has there been an influx of Indian users on Quora?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5817073
I'm always surprised that intelligent people are shocked that the consumer cellular network they pay £5 a month for doesn't have 100% uptime
i will try it as soon as i have my rPi
NFL Player: 5 Steps to Lead Your Team or Startup in the Right Direction
The secret to online safety: Lies, random characters, and a password manager
So you found someone who's willing to do a lot of work with you? Without a guaranteed pay? And he has invested a lot of time learning backend stuff so he can actually help you building and scaling your business? Awesome!

A co-founder is not just some random person with complementing skills. It's more like a marriage. And while marriages often start out good and, yes, can turn bad, it's quite unusual to not trust your newlywed wife with the keys to the cupboard.

I'm not trying to be negative here, but it seems that you're afraid your co-founder is learning too much about backend development, so he can steal your codebase and his front-end design, and steal your entire business and become an instant millionaire. Or he could actually be genuine, and willing to take the risk and reward together with you. Out of these two, which option seems more likely to you?

You say it yourself: you have no customers yet. You can't just steal a codebase and copy/paste an entire business to success. Per your words: 'once I get customers'. You don't have customers yet, ergo you have nothing. Stealing your codebase wouldn't make any difference.

You have to ask yourself if this person is really the person you want to start a company with, and work closely with for years to come. If he is: give him access. If he isn't: do both of you a favor and part ways. Nothing good will come out of this if you make him earn your trust whilst being co-founder at the same time.
I imagine the stress that this would take out of new parents' lives would be enormous. Apart from the physical and financial pressures, one thing that I think would weigh on me most when becoming a dad would be "are we doing this right?" Especially for those that don't have parents or an experienced role model to help them, at least as a concept this seems like a fantastic program for a govt to run.
While true, there is little stopping a team from supporting a set of high-powered Android devices.

The difference between Vine and a startup are obvious. Vine has teams for iOS, Android, and specific design, whereas a startup typically starts off with one or two devs at most. Twitter are known for being iOS fans, so they were always going to tailor their product towards iOS.
It has much more than MCMC, but the "Probabilistic Graphical Models" textbook by Daphne Koller (of Coursera) and Nir Friedman is a thorough introduction to the subject. It includes a discussion of MCMC that will leave you with a deeper understanding than the typical shallow treatment.

As an alternative, you can try watching about 90 minutes of lecture starting here:

https://class.coursera.org/pgm-003/lecture/71

but it will drop you right into the fray without much context.
First, people seem to think EC2 saves you time and hassle. Compared to collocated servers, this is true. But compared to dedicated servers, managed or unmanaged, it simply isn't. Hardware fails? They'll replace it (at no cost).

I totally disagree. OK, maybe it takes a bit more time to set everything up, but when you have it all up and running (AMI's, Autoscaling, etc.) you have a robust setup that can scale when you scale (up or down). Adding a new instance literally only takes some minutes. Try that with a dedicated setup. It's more expensive for sure, but comes with a lot of flexibility.

What I see as an EC2 (or AWS in general) issue / challenge is that it's hard to switch providers. When you use S3, SQS, Cloudwatch, Elasticache, Cloudfront, DynamoDB, SES, Route53 your code is totally integrated / adapted to AWS. You can't take your code and deploy it on a different setup elsewhere.
For Now at Least, Windows Dominance Continues
> (citation needed)

I can recommend, despite the paywall, Michael Massing's 2009 piece, 'A New Horizon for News' on what happened to the US news business: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/sep/24/a-new-h...

As for the situation outside the US, I have close knowledge only of the UK (where there has been a decline in print news, but not comparable), and Germany (which is generally very healthy, not to say I can't complain about it at length). What I hear about print news reporting in France, Italy, and Japan is more positive than negative.

> Media's job is no longer to spread information, but to create opinion.

I think this is oversimplifying and rather cynical. Much TV news is like this, but much print reporting and some for-web reporting (Bloomberg, Reuters) is informational in intent. I don't particularly enjoy reading the New York Times, say, their attempt to render stories in accessible terms tends to rub me up the wrong way, but I admire the scope and ambition of their straight news reporting. And they bring a lot of news to light.

What's the alternative? What would the world be like if we only got the kind of news from Fox News and weblogs, and nothing from news teams like those of the NYT.
Hi all,

Thanks for all the comments, they are very much appreciated. I'm going to write a follow-up piece soon - if you want to send me feedback directly, please feel free.

I tend to agree with the point that NPM isn't a big enough target yet to make writing subtly malicious modules worthwhile. However, I don't think that's particularly reassuring. I also suspect that more people are using SSL/TLS directly from node (and running as root) than you might think. Malware targeted at developers may well become more of a big deal in the future.

The issue is generic with most package management systems. What I really wanted to talk about was why malware is an apparent problem in some projects and 'ecosystems' and why it isn't in others. The general consensus when talking to other security researchers is that a decent package management system is vital to security. Much like the Google Play store is a key part of Android security. However, NPM (sadly) doesn't really support that hypothesis, as (when I wrote the piece) it wasn't obvious how to report bad modules.

I'd also like to applaud the work that nodesecurity.io is doing - it's a very worthwhile project.

Best wishes,

John
I guess what shocks me is that a system this large has any Single Points of Failure. I would expect distributed-system failures (netsplits et al), but not whole-system downtime.
Movie2k.to forwards to german pirate party.
I have found that you need to learn to trust other developers work. Even if you are going into their code to fix a bug.. you have to trust the rest of it works!
I know this will immediately mark me as a heretic, but I am a long time and current Emacs user, so this comes from a place of love, really :o) -- I believe the best thing for Emacs would be to be rewritten in Clojure with Clojure as the scripting language. This would:
* Maintain the Lisp culture
* Speed up the whole enterprise
* Allow multithreading
* Remove the need for most external programs
* Work across platforms (many Emacs extensions or programs rely on Unix commands which don't come with Emacs)
* Provide the ability to apply a decent UI - not that I have any on my Emacs - I turn the toolbar off, but dialogs for projects / browsers could be better (read: "not suck")
* Would allow the ability to immediately get a bunch of proper language parsers like Yegge's JS mode - all the ANTLR parsers are immediately available to use in Clojure and would give emacs the language-aware goodness that Eclipse and Netbeans have.

OK shoot me now, but I think it would be awesome :o)
"We do X, because people want X" is the stupidest argument I've ever heard. The funny thing is, those arguments are always coming from CEOs making X.

How about we were made to like that, because CEOs of X can optimize their profits? But ok, everybody can tell me now that people can make their own choice. In fact, they can't.

IT'S THE TRUTH.

(btw ending a thought with "it's the truth" is yet another incredible stupid thing...oh boy)
"I treat all people as classless."

Interesting then that you made that comment about Asda and not Waitrose.
Despite having such massive resources why does the Microsoft C++ compiler frontend suck so much when it comes to standards conformance? You guys are always consistently last when it comes to that.
Instead of boring A/B testing, let's discuss these "live chat widgets". Does anyone here actually use these? I consider them annoying popups and rather send an email if I have any questions.
The title of the original article is "Science, new media, and the public" published in the Science Magazine. https://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/40.
If you google the title you can find the full text.

Here is a detailed article on the same topic > http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/...
I agree losing all games in progress is a pain, but our card game is meant to have a 5 min order of time investment, so its not a huge biggie that users occasionally have their games wiped. Annoying 2% of our users is sufferable at the moment
Time Capsule cryptography?
I didn't mean to imply that the US was the sole combatant; I was responding to the parent who was an American.

War is still hell. The Romans razed Carthage, a war crime? The Germans in WW1 bombed London, war crime? The British torched Dresden, war crime? The Nazis bombed Rotterdam, war crime?

It's far too easy to conflate "war" with war crime. Some feel that the two are synonymous. I think each generation has a tendency to feel superior and more advanced than the previous generation; I think this is naive and ill informed. We're all savages of a sort.
Youre absolutely right and its not helped by the fact that many scientists are incredibly poor communicators. Its a shame because there is some really interesting work happening in the scientific world which lay people are missing out on.

I just think about the laboratory I work in and professors above me who fail to recognise that non scientific people arnt stupid, they just havent undergone 12 years of tertiary education training to allow them to understand the language of science without a translator.
While you make a valid point about the tone (this specific area has wasted the last 2 weeks of my life), I think you're being disingenuous regarding the " random collection of complaints that have nothing to do with the person being replied to" comment.

This person works on PGO and code generation and wanted feedback. Everything I said related to PGO, instrumentation, or parts of the CRT that relate to that (and one about their broken feedback system).
Generally the criteria is that clinical needs go first, so if someone needs a room, they'll chuck you right out again (and not charge you), which is fair enough, but also a reason for them not to create a too high expectation or demand.

Overall the NHS trusts have quite a bit of latitude in carrying out private services to offset costs by increasing utilisation of facilities and equipment (private surgeries are often carried out in NHS operating rooms, for example), but the extent to which they take advantage of it varies quite a bit.
“Warning” signs at historical sites tell visitors to relax and enjoy themselves
Yep, but not ones that would (directly) map "back" to hexagons.

One of the things that went through my mind as I read the article, was that triangles might make for useful maps as well.
I live in the UK, so all my medical costs are covered by the state.

However, I still don't go base jumping. Even if the costs are covered, I still don't want to spend six months in traction after I break my back because the parachute didn't open. Similarly almost all the people I know either don't smoke, or want to stop smoking, because even if you can do it free of charge lung cancer just isn't much fun.
San Francisco & Alpha Adoption Culture
I live in a small European country (Denmark) and I'm not aware of this behaviour. Do you have more specifics?
Show HN: Bookmarklet to tweet a quote in 2 clicks
Most companies with a business model similar to ARM can rely on copyright law. There are a large number of software firms with a business model similar to ARM.

As far as I'm concerned, patent trolls are such a cost to society that if ARM was collateral damage, I'd be willing to sacrifice them.

If ARM lost their patent protections, it would neither destroy ARM as a company, nor would it destroy ARM as an architecture. In fact, ARM as an architecture would become strengthened. ARM as a company would still survive, although a huge hole would be blown in their earnings. You would still need a copyright license from ARM to produce chips containing A15 or any of the other cores designed by ARM; it's only cores that weren't designed by ARM (Krait for example), that would no longer have to pay ARM.
> I can't think of any major project which decided not to port to python 3

Most major projects have not actually switched to Python 3, that just support it using 2to3.
Google+ isn't a social network; it's The Matrix
I think you may want to break down step 3 into some substeps.
I just happen to have an extra rPi lying around. Thanks!
Here’s what Europe’s net neutrality law would look like
Infant mortality rates can also be quite deceptive in that they aren't measured the same way between countries.

"Even the use of the most fundamental term, “live births,” greatly distorts infant-mortality rates, because often the infants who die the soonest after birth are not counted as live births outside the United States."

http://www.nationalreview.com/content/infant-mortality-decep...
IdeaPaint allows you to write all over the wall
You're probably better off designing an alternative protection scheme for pharmaceuticals.

As far as I'm concerned, the only reason that pharmaceuticals really need patent protection is that the huge regulatory costs are borne by the patent holder; generics can free-ride. Fix this problem and a viable funding model for pharmaceuticals can emerge, even without patent protection.
Why the f*** should people care?
Those features are actually designed for their marketing team, not developers. :P
I think it's entirely justifiable for any afghani to be joining the Taliban and fighting to kick out a foreign invader from their soil. Everyone has a right to defend their country's sovereignty.

I personally wouldn't advocate targeting civilians; but if there was no alternative, and my culture, country and way of life was being destroyed, I could see a rational actor choosing to do so.

The US would have been far better served by simply conducting a punitive raid in AFG to knock over the original Taliban and let the assorted tribes learn not to stir the hornets nest. Instead we've decimated the country without creating any real change. And we've also grown accustomed to a sanitized style of warfare where drone operators in Creech, Nevada plink small targets without working up a sweat.

War should be hell, lest we grow to like it too much.
This is awesome! Do you have any plans to continue working on this?
These are implementation details. Real architecture astronauts think only of the big picture.
I've already built myself a TV out of the Rpi, using OpenELEC+XBMC! Have a great remote, too in the form of the Yatse application.

I do appreciate the "hackerness" attempt of the article though, it goes to show why the Pi is so cool.
Unfortunately, contracts with most medical companies or governments handling HIPPA data disagree.
woah, this is really cool. How does this compare to XBMC on the raspmc distro? I am really tempted to try this out on my rpi because a lot of the software stack used could be hacked on easily.
Designing the No-Screen Experience
AFAICT, Docker can easily give you the diff between the base image and your built image, which should be small and portable.
Asus' $4,000 4K monitor goes on sale this month
Supercities change everything
Having tried just about every XBMC remote going (at least the ones I could find), Yatse is the best by a mile.

Luckily my TV works well with libCEC, so I don't need my phone/tablet every time.
Seems not sadly, but it would make a great gift.

Lots of people will complain about how the state is getting involved in peoples lives etc so it would have been funny if we could buy them online from overseas too, thus creating a profitable business
> Most of us choose not to, suggesting these benefits are worth less to us than money.

Or you could be suffering from a Tragedy of the Commons. Your American viewpoint may be preventing you all from pooling your money together and saving overall. Instead you all have to act as individuals, and in this case it is in your individual best interests to not spend the money, since you only get the saving if you all act together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
http://www.webfaction.com
Google: Powering our Finnish data center with Swedish wind energy
Ok so I understand there is already a discussion going on there (to be honest I don't quite understand this parent thread thing in HN). Let's keep the discussion there and in the meantime this site offers some photographic evidence about the events.
Categorically, yes.

Many people prefer getting immediate answers than waiting for an email.
Just no netflix.
As of March 2013 (two years past those publish dates), Amazon has still not agreed to the legal "Business Associate Agreement" provisions of HIPPA that would permit you to use their services to store Protected Health Information. They said they are considering it, but this has been the status for quite some time. Rackspace, on the other hand, has agreed (for a surcharge).
"Think of the children" and "think of the terrorists" are the twin udders of "the end justifies the means" policies.
Intellectual Property Rights Over Virus Dooms the World