skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you lived outside of the US at all? Perhaps in a country with universal health care?

I only ask because anyone who has knows that in a vast majority of examples, the simple act of guaranteeing basic care has nothing at all to do with the questions you raise, in the same way that not paying to use the interstate has nothing to do with you being able to drive to your friend's house for free.
Associated Press: Sources Won’t Talk Anymore
Considering horizontal gene transfer, I would say there most certainly is a route for stated existential threat. Bacteria trade plasmids back and fourth all the time, including those that code for antibiotic resistance. So while you are correct that the most likely outcome is a return to the pre-antibiotic era (still really bad), you underestimate the dangers in the resistance in that all sorts bacteria can become resistent, both against the medications themselves as well as against the body's own immune system.

Also, notice I intentionally said an existential threat to society, not humanity. It's fair to say that no longer being able to perform surgical procedures safely would be very destabilizing to modern society.
They were innovators, but the products that made them rich were a lot simpler and more focused on short term profit than the more ambitious projects that they are now famed for.

The point is that they made their money with short term projects of limited scope, and then embarked on the more ambitious ones.

(Gates came from a rich family though)
"Will Obamacare Hurt Jobs? It's Already Happening, Poll Finds"

"Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as Obamacare. And almost one-fifth—19 percent— answered "yes" when asked if they had "reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act.""

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100825782
I do this all the time with Amazon's Trade-In Program. A couple of times a year, I look at my book shelf and video games. If I haven't read/played them within the last 6 months, and have no compelling reason to hold onto them for the foreseeable 6 months, into the box they go.

Amazon then gives me a pre-paid shipping label.

I find the whole process enjoyable. "How much will Amazon give me for this?" is an exciting game. Then things go in the box, and you can visibly see the consumer weight you're lifting off your shoulders. Then you get to see the fruits of your labors with a newly empty bookshelf.

The money they give me for it is only a small part of the benefits I feel from doing it. I try to do the same with Goodwill donations of old clothes, but I have to admit some laziness in actually getting down to the Goodwill (which is essentially zero difference from driving the box to the UPS Store. Procrastination is a weird and wonderful thing.)
Rails rockstars is here
www.railsrockstars.com
Google Nexus 7 shows serious performance issues after 18 months
Find a story on Reddit, and usually TL;DR is a first comment. Here, we actually prefer to first read and then comment, or not comment at all.
I much prefer those simple pages. Load fast, display fast, no distraction.
A little bit like HN.. except for the load fast part :P
Cinema is only available on the iPhone 4S and 5.
What difference does it make whether pg did it or someone else did? The change was not a good idea.
Video stabilization has been around for ages. I personally don't find it anything disruptive or imaginative. Even on the iphone there are lots of app for video stabilization.
May be latest concerns about being prism'd by the Big Brother will boost this development.
Yes, both the BA and sales engineer would be other options.
I'm so glad that We is on there. Very few people I've ever met have read it but it's one of my all time favorites.
So it's like gold, but better.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.CON.FERT.ZS

Interesting data in the above about fertilizer consumption in agriculture. The link was found at http://stirringthepyramid.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/who-overu...

Farmers don't like to fertilize, it costs money. I remember long ago it being used to plant crops in fields that normally were off rotation because that crop was very profitable that year. That was ages ago so I don't know if it applies still.
Agreed, in general rich web applications still have a long way to go in regards to accessibility.
Anyone on iOS 7 get the update?
>Then we bring in the big guns, things like Vancomycin

Vancomycin used to be a big gun, but not really any longer. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancomycin

From the article:

For many years since its initial use, vancomycin has traditionally been reserved as a drug of "last resort"... Recently, however, vancomycin resistant organisms are becoming common. Thus, vancomycin is increasingly being displaced from this role by newer antibiotics

>So governments limit Vancomycin use so as to not give bacteria the opportunity to evolve and develop resistance.

Vancomycin actually has a high hurdle to use naturally. It possesses poor oral bioavailability; it must be given intravenously for most infections. It can't be abused as easily by doctors prescribing it for things like colds because you have to be hooked up to an IV to get it.

Having said that, it is still a very old antibiotic (from 1953) and resistance has built up from its use. A few months ago I had Vancomycin + Ciprofloxacin administered intravenously for four days due to an infection following a severe puncture wound to my foot. It's still prescribed but it's not "the big guns" it used to be.
Grecy didn't say any of that. I'm responding to two comments: 1. "Surely care should be available to all" and 2. "everyone through taxes".
Summary: open source is a public good / has positive externalities, and thus is likely underfunded.
Xoxofest 2013 info posted
Completely agree. I created a site that is a vine web viewer for shared vines on twitter. To date I've collected over 86 million shared vines and the majority of those are in the last month. It took the entire month of February to reach 1 million vines, today it ranges between 1-3 million a day. The introduction of the Android app really accelerated the growth and I suspect a slight lull will come up as the newness wears off.
But what if modern liberal ideology is wrong and human beings do exhibit sexual dimorphism? Will we ever stop firing researchers who hypothesize this long enough to find out?

You can't even bare to read an old book where someone might disagree with you. There are millions more like you, and together they wield a lot of power.
One reason why your recipe for success isn’t working
You forgot, "Beautiful".

That's the most important part. Beautiful.
The wear is per axle, not per wheel.

It looks like the conclusion was read exactly right. A car with 2000lbs per axle will put sixteen times more wear on the road than one with 1000lbs.
TL;DH

Too lazy; didn't hire
I think it is important to understand the limitations of the profit motive. Too often it is held up as some sort of panacea, as if all problems are the result of gov'ment getting in the way of heroic capitalists seeking glorious profits.

Fact is, unfettered capitalism will innovate to the direct extent and in ways that it is profitable to do so. Which is why you see very little "innovation" being done to benefit poorer citizens - why innovate for a market that can't buy what you're selling? Rather, let's spend millions developing "solutions" to the problems of those who have so very few of them. A sad irony, that.

This is where a well-run government can improve things - by artificially creating profit motives in important areas where there was none before. A tax on short-term investing or day-trading would be a great start to discourage utterly worthless short-term speculation and HFT, and is a great example of how unobtrusive policies can create desirable incentives.
Face recognition detection APIs, libraries, and other software
Here's the real problem: suppose you have a bunch of data on people and are convinced that somewhere in the data exists the spectrum from sociopath to non-sociopath.

Who is going to label the data with ground truth? Clinicians who "know it when they see it"? What is the ground truth that the classifier is going to train on?

If you're going to do an unsupervised classifier (eg clustering) who is going to label the clusters? What is going to keep the data from turning into uncorrelated mush?
Not really. It's the norm on Sony consoles since the PS2.
What do we want from open source? For a long time, foss movement rallied around building desktop experience, but now given the prevalence of macs and non-desktop computing this seems to be no longer the case.

What kind of open source should we incentivize?

For example, do we really need to incentivize ten thousands of ruby on rails testing frameworks?

I would argue that grassroot open source needs help in discovery and reaching their audience more than they need "incentivizing", and discovery means filtering.
It's true. There's a bit of CSS. There's also a tracking script.

I also needed a web server to host them, an FTP client to transfer them, plus the entire infrastructure of the web to make this work. ;)

So beneath the simplicity of "just words" is some complexity.

But all that stuff is invisible for most people visiting the page. The point is that simple words on a page can be powerful and effective.
Be a sales engineer at RethinkDB. Great product, happy customers
Talking to users about their needs and defining them for programmers to implement, and thinking of features for software based on user needs, etc. The programming background might give you an advantage as to knowing what is possible and providing detailed documents for developers based on what you would have wanted as a developer.
So the question becomes, to how young a person does this apply? How far back can be extrapolated? Is a slow 40something as meaningful a data point as a slow 70something year old?
they also used to penalize kids who were multilingual too. Some might still do that. It can be a detriment if your child speaks something other than English when young.
They are Yc alum
Link to LW statement: http://blog.leaseweb.com/2013/06/19/statement-on-former-clie...

Why does LW have to explain anything? They're under no contractual or legal obligation to hold onto rented servers for more than a year without payment. Had these been servers MU owned outright, I would be a little more sympathetic to Dotcom. However I find it highly unlikely that LW didn't follow their end of the ToU and more likely that the contact information Dotcom had on file was either outdated or incorrect (that or he and his lawyer are just lying or manipulating the facts to support their narrative).
Yes, understood - I was just surprised it wasn't being discussed here.
Only 4KB!
IOS 7 - icons concepts
Yes, but given that variants of this system are in place all over the world, your questions have already been answered a hundred times over, should you choose to look for the answers.
The questions you ask are interesting, but not answered in any way by the linked study.
It's pretty damn impressive, much more impressive example than the one they showed for Instagram.
This is the same reading experience we get in HN.

Just think — we treat text as our user interface!

High quality content + focus on readability = bliss.
I think you and I have discussed this before on HN.

>I see no real issue with this, as it certainly does NOT mean they in any way control your options.

Of course it does. In Canada I'm looking at moving jobs right now, and one of the things I'm weighing up is the health benefits now vs. the new position. I also would love to take 2 years off work to pursue my photography and writing passions, but I worry what I'll do without my company paying my my group plan.
My options are without question controlled by my employer. In Australia, that is not so.

> Aside from cost, the benefits of Group Insurance is that there are no pre-existing condition exceptions. You have guaranteed acceptance as a nature of your employment.

If the care provided by my taxes was sufficient (as it is in Australia) there would be no pre-existing condition exceptions. In Australia, you have guaranteed acceptance as a nature of being born.

> and as a result employer offered extended coverage is significantly cheaper for the individual.

You've been tricked into thinking group plans are cheaper... if the government was buying a group plan for everyone, it would be drastically cheaper again.

> Personally, I think HSA's are the best possible way to offer extended health benefits to employees

Why do health benefits need to be offered to employees? Why only offer them to a subset of the population, that is, those with jobs? Surely it's better to offer them to everyone.
If I could only buy one, I would choose RWO. Relatively low fee (0.5%), both domestic and international exposure. But it "only" yields 3.75%.

For more of an income play I'd look at IGR (yields more than 6%, trades at a 7.5% discount currently).

Another one I'm watching is "O".

Risks: Prices can swing wildly due to any number of reasons. Rising interest rates can depress real estate prices in the near term. Income should stay fairly stable though in my opinion, so I'm taking the long term view and try not to obsess about daily price volatility. I wouldn't put more than 5-10% of my capital into REITs.
> Looking back at the technological innovations that came about at the early part of the last century simply due to the war effort, I have to wonder why it seems like no simulation games allow you to take advantage of that fact. Why couldn't declaring war with the right amount of propaganda lead to a massive spike in productivity and technical advancement?

Largely, becaues those acheivements are a result of prioritizing R&D in wartime (devoting more resources to it), and those simulators don't give you much incentive to deprioritize R&D outside of war. If you downplayed the direct "war weariness" effect and instead required devoting output to otherwise nonproductive ends (entertainment, consumable consumer goods, etc.) to maintain morale, and had long-term sortages of those produce unhappiness, then you could model that effect better.
Well, something good came out of this silly idea: I had no idea Amazon does this!! Thanks!
Still an order of magnitude faster than Reddit. Maybe I'm just a noob at programming and scaling, but after all the engineers Reddit hires, how are they still so slow and crashing?
We use Google Talk.

My setup is LimeChat -> Bitlbee -> GTalk.
Scientists discover a 'bubble' of live bacteria at 33,000ft
...and one that I think will emphasize beauty in video, much like it has done with photos...

Am i the only one who doesn't think those filter app pictures look nice? I don't understand how so many people find it beautiful...
As noted in a different reply to you, here is something indicative of something I worked on recently: http://imgur.com/GPYmt3T

If you'd like to see my portfolio, please PM me your email and I will reply to you privately with it. I generally do not share it except upon request.
Bitcoin Sees the Grim Reaper
At my last company we made heavy use of Yammer.
Vine ripoff, Vine clone, what poor Vine will do...

WTF? There was no innovation in Vine at all. In fact, its more like Vine made a clone of Instagram in the first place. Videos on Instagram is just a logical improvement, slow evolution of the service. Nobody complains that Facebook allows to upload videos, and that it's trying to clone youtube after all.
Microsoft Communicator. If you're in a big company that already uses MS Exchange for emails then it's a pretty easy integration. Probably not a great solution for small companies due to the cost.
Be honest - who here for a second thought this meant that Nate Silver had improved the effectiveness of antibiotics?
Personally I like the limited "editing" capabilities of vine, where you hold a button and "fill up" part of the 6 seconds of video. It creates some really interesting possibilities that this simply won't have.

This does have filters but I don't think that'll make up for it
I think this is a beautiful exposition of a powerful truth: words are magical, and we can now publish anything we want so that anyone who wants to can read it. That is amazing power, and it's available to almost anyone who is literate, in the developed world.
Works with my Kindle touch. Not sure what you are talking about.
True minimalism would be a plain text file.
I don't think there's a whole lot of long-term vision out there. It seems the political conception of the future is mostly filled with tackling the challenges of global warming, unreset and other sorts of eco-doom that the zeitgeist is enthralled with. Musk, Kurzweil and a few others are the only people who look far into the future outside of the eco-doom/security paradigm any more.
I did'nt read the "Innovator's Dilemma" , i just follow the history of the XX-XXI century and the news..

you may have opportunities when the market is new, or when you create the "market" yourself.. but with time monopolies will take control and no more inovations allowed.. until of course.. someone innovates aside of the system and a new cycle begins.. but the old status quo are still there trying to demolish the new wave that is a threat to its dominance..

i could quote a lot of cases here based on reality.. but anyone can find several examples of that just thinking a little bit..
Interesting that the website where he makes money, is full of pictures and colors for the call to actions. http://buildandlaunch.net/
http://marketingland.com/vine-passes-instagram-total-twitter...

But... they forgot to mention that Twitter was promoting Vine heavily during this time.
What legal options can the public choose from for this follow up?
Because Argyria makes you look more like a walking corpse rather than someone with a nice blue hue.
> It can be tempting to stand on an ivory tower and proclaim theory, but what is the real world cost/benefit?

That's an important question. The real world costs of fulling understanding the behavior of a system like Redis, amortized over all the users of that system is likely to be very low. That's a huge benefit of using well-tested pieces (whether they are Redis, Cassandra or Oracle) as the foundation of systems.

The important question to ask is what you are losing. Losing availability in these complex cases is acceptable for the vast majority of applications. You can save a lot of complexity and cost there. Losing safety is much more of a problem, because the effects can be very long lived. Once you have put inconsistent data into your database, you are in a world of hurt for potentially a very long time.

I think that it's actually cheaper in the long run, even for small systems with small goals, to build on top of safe components. The costs of writing code to deal with the shifting reality of inconsistent data is higher, as are the costs of not writing that code.

I don't think that proving the safety of protocols, testing those safety properties once implemented, and understanding failure modes is "ivory tower" at all. It's just good engineering practice.
I want more specific honesty in these announcements. Example: "Volvo — they're boxy but they're good."
Because there's no valid reason for it to be required to always be connected.
> Do you believe that Obama (or secretive figures in the NSA) are actually planning gulags and concentration camps?

What about a president 10 or 15 years from now?
Here on HN, you occasionally find tl;dr near the top of a comment thread -- but it's followed by a nice summary of the article. Instead of expressing the rather worthless sentiment of "I didn't read this", it's expressing the far more valuable "if you're not sure you want to invest the time in reading this, here are the highlights of what you would have otherwise missed."
I agree with him, and this is why I find Reddit, HN and some blogs I get to read around here (M. Gemmell's, M. Arment's, J. Gruber, PG) so good: they focus on the text, not on the fancy (and this nags me again to clear all cruft from my blog, but... some other day.)

PS: I kind of missed "all craftwardship is of the highest quality" in the page, though (or text that menaced with spikes of http or something.) I guess I'm too geeky today
One area where open source makes a lot of sense is in government infrastructure. It lets governments avoid having everyone's data stuck in propriety formats and then extorted by software companies for access later.

The UK government, for example, has recently mandated a preference for open source: (http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240179643/Government-man...)

Unfortunately, governments are still getting caught in proprietary solutions. Here in New-Brunswick, Canada for example, the government has just chosen an officially sponsored electronic medical record system for the province.

Unfortunately, they picked a proprietary SAAS system which means that if doctors signup, everyone's medical records will be uploaded to some private company's servers.

The company charges $24 000 per doctor upfront plus $400 a month subscription for continued access with a price guarantee for only three years. After all our medical records have been converted to their proprietary format at a huge cost (not included in the $24000), this company will be in a position to charge whatever they want.

The government gives incentives to doctors to signup to the proprietary system ($16000) and have given monopolistic exclusivity for at least three years to this system when it comes to connecting to hospital lab results.

There is actually a good open source alternative developed in other Canadian provinces. The OSCAR open source EMR is quickly becoming the most popular system in those provinces. Support plans often costs less than $100/month (it would be free if you were a geeky doctor willing to install and support it yourself). Somehow, the vast marketing and sales budgets of proprietary companies compared to the more minimal OSS sales push was able to sway our government into giving a quasi monopoly to a costly proprietary system.
Not only have they added 200 engineers from other projects which will now suffer delays and quality issues, both also "They're running 24-7, what we call lights out." which will ensure massive burn out. Brilliant...
You actually wanted:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20130618_deadzone.h...

http://www.gulfhypoxia.net/News/default.asp?XMLFilename=2013...
Show HN: Daily Grooves, keep-it-simple music discovery
I've had great luck with prosody. I used to use jabberd2, but I switched away from it due to its dependencies on various badly-maintained libraries.
C is a safety property ("nothing bad happens"), but what you're talking about is (kind of) a liveness property ("something good happens"). Real systems need both, so we have to discuss what to do about making correct progress in the face of failures.

Theoretical CP systems can't just block indefinitely, because the network can delay messages for 1 second longer than you choose to wait. Real-world CP systems can usually assume the network recovers--but it might be days before it does, so they'll need some strategy to handle all the requests in the mean time.

Typically, systems choose to time out or otherwise abort certain requests--exactly which depends on the logical topology of the system. For instance, if the primary node for a given shard of the DB is unreachable from a client, a CP-over-shard system would fail those requests--but not others. A totally CP system like ZK might fail requests in any minority components, but continue to work just fine if a majority component is preserved.

Bottom line: you can build CP systems. The only constraint a CP system has to obey is linearizability: successful operations must appear in the same order on all nodes.
"Also, wouldn't the government need to be operating a certain percentage of the Tor nodes to do effective traffic analysis?"

Not if they can conduct surveillance on the entire Internet.