skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much money, exactly? Healthcare's expensive; it costs time and money to train professionals and develop techniques and drugs, and there's no real measurable payout. Keeping people alive doesn't provide the sort of ROI that markets are interested in.

The situation in India is still such that the majority of people cannot afford any significant, additional outgoings in the case of medical emergency. You're therefore implicitly talking about a healthcare system that provides everything you're imagining at zero cost at the point of delivery, which means that the entire cost needs to be taken up elsewhere. In countries where this approach is actually taken, it requires considerable tax income and a relatively wealthy population to provide it, and India simply isn't anywhere near there yet.

Assuming you manage to get enough money into healthcare, what then? Solving that particular issue doesn't mean that the level of regulation will be automatically appropriate - it's regulation that determines where the money ends up, and whether you spend everything on extending the lives of those who can afford to pay you back, or broadly improve quality of life for everyone. There are still massive regulatory issues in the Indian system (particularly around safety standards), and the odd interesting advancement doesn't change that - nor is increased spending going to fix it. They're separate issues that need to be tackled in tandem.
Yes, progress is being made. Software, network backbone, and data center support is all pretty good now. Last mile access and content are the main areas now where you can't expect support by default.

Many of the largest content providers (Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Netflix, iTunes, CloudFlare, Limelight, Akamai, 40% of the US government) have deployed IPv6 in production. Many of the largest ISPs have as well (In the US: Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google Fiber).
This is a brave post, Ben!

Gotta agree with most of the comments here -- I think it's incredibly hard to find someone who's "been there before" who can walk in and actually do it for you in a CEO role. I've spent some time looking + asking others in similar situations.

That said, and though I strongly prefer moving people up from the inside, I think there IS opportunity for finding people who can bring specific areas of expertise, like fundraising+connections, building a sales team, leading a tech team.

And I think there's a lot to be gained in finding a strong mentor or group of entrepreneurs in similar situations to act as a sounding board. I can't help with the former, but perhaps the latter. Let's hang again, soon.
NPR ran a story about 3-4 months ago where they interviewed this teenager in Florida while recounting the story. I couldn't believe my ears.

It sounded like textbook entrapment. Are the police in these areas so desperate for drug-related arrests that they'd use tactics like this? IIRC the case ended up being her word against his on the key points of his conviction. That too rubbed me entirely the wrong way. To first lure him in and then use only one person's testimony to clinch the conviction sounds totally unjust.

EDIT: Link to the This American Life story about Justin's case http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/w...
While possibly true, not every situation will lend itself to easily finding other damning information with a plausible outside source.

Just look at WW2. There were times that the Allies knew things would happen, but couldn't act on them because it would tip their hat to the Germans that there was a leak somewhere (possibly leading them to the knowledge that the Allies had cracked Enigma), and the pay-off wasn't worth the risk.
The FBI did the same thing in Southern California. The mosque actually reported the guy to the FBI.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/fbi-informant
I don't know what "extreme metal" is nor have I found a Metal netlabel yet but the site with the worst redesign strategy in the free music world has some great ones. Might not be the style(s) you are into.

http://www.jamendo.com/list/a41418/whispers
http://www.jamendo.com/list/a37727/the-awakening
http://www.jamendo.com/list/a27926/darkshine
http://www.jamendo.com/list/a42180/coma-circle-lp
http://www.jamendo.com/list/a76571/angelic-asylum
http://www.jamendo.com/list/a43370/anno-domini-mmix
Sounds a tad over-zealous. I can't blame the NYPD for being interested in Muslim communities though, after 9/11. I don't agree with these tactics, but let's not forget that New York, the US and essentially the whole world were furious about the thousands of deaths, while a good part of the Muslim world was ecstatic...

It also doesn't help that some interpretations of the Quoran promote Jihad, some don't, and it's really complicated or impossible to tell who is thinking what, especially if you aren't muslim.

Today we feel less passionate about 2001, but the consequences of these emotions are still not over.

What I hope humanity will learn from this incident is to try to keep emotions cooler the next time the world feels challenged in this way.
How will you combat the huge amount of fraud?
https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

(It's like a smart version of cd.)
They are using 'most popular' as a synonym for 'biggest' here. Regardless it has nothing to do with the content of the article.
It's probably autojump, or fasd

Autojump: https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

fasd: https://github.com/clvv/fasd
It's a smarter `cd`. See also it's successor (AFAIK): https://github.com/rupa/z
London (and other) police ofrces have been doing similar for a while.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/17/met-softwar...)

(http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=19807)

(http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/met-police-acquires-mob...)

Police grab as much data as they can, and keep it for as long as they can. So it's a problem if they can cheaply and easily slurp cell-phone data because we know that they probably will.

See, for example, the length of time they keep DNA data.
Skype Doesn't Let You Cancel Pro Services
Autojump : https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

"autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to."
For additional discussion, check out the previous time this was posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357123

My favourite comment is the top.

>> Question: "So why didn't anyone tell me?"

>> Answer: "Because it wouldn't have mattered."
The article is an op-ed piece...not a technology article.
Using Ockham's razor, it's in all likelihood probably just an annoying bug for this user or a small number of users …
Read. [...] the reality that he has all sorts of documents that could quickly and seriously harm the US if disclosed, yet he has published none of those.
I agree with this, FF might get great benchmark results, but the overall experience is what matters and I still think chrome feels snappier overall.
Your suggestion is irrelevant for passive attacks.
I once needed to create a GIF quickly and found http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ a great and cheerful tool.
Rumsfeld's culpability for what happened in Iraq is extensive.
Man views porn using Safari, files lawsuit against Apple
Just because someone is brilliant does not mean they are a good educator.
Don't use humans for your reasoning here - we have a lot of trouble doing controlled studies.

In particular, the statement "men who have higher testosterone levels are more likely to produce male offspring" is pretty much equivalent to the statement "women having sex with men who have higher testosterone levels are more likely to produce male offspring", unless it was measured by impregnating women in a double-blind setting. If it was based on conceptions from a sperm bank, it might be better evidence, though my understanding is they still generally report some information to the women about potential fathers and give her some choice in the matter (but I could easily be mistaken, there).
‘Lean In’ to lawsuits: firms should avoid Sandberg’s baby advice, say lawyers
Shut up and listen
Sure, but even so they could be more clear. The statement is so vague I don't know if I can even choose to agree or disagree with it!
This is very helpful deck in the context of B2C (business to consumer) companies who are looking for funding. The deck does not contain the text, so here is the text of all high-level points in the deck:

1. Identify your perfect customers --Focus on them and on nothing else.

2. Stop writing code. --Did you talk to customers yet?

3. Investment != success --It's a means to an end.

4. Investor meetings aren't job interviews --Build a relationship over time.

5. Talk about your idea --startups die from obscurity but thrive on feedback.

6. Be careful with hires --Trust your gut feeling.

7. Don't worry about engineering --Worry about getting users.

8. It's a marathon, not a sprint --90% of the time, it's about endurance.

9. Don't study the outliers --Study real business.

10. Your relationship with your co-founders is critical --Don't "go to bed" angry.

11. Relax. --You're going to make mistakes. It's fine.

Author can be reached at gilad@smore.com
Cert provider does not have the secret key, so the only thing you can do is get a new cert and and then do man-in-the-middle. It's doable for an individual target, but not doable for a massive dragnet.

If a compromised RNG can be used to decrypt data, it might be useful for wholesale decryption of all encrypted traffic on the web.
afaik it's been bastardized into meaning government-run or something like that. Or it's a mixup with socialized healthcare. Wikipedia has more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialized_medicine
This property is quite intuitive. Small and big here are relative to the variance of the underlying distributions.

Simple case: think about trying to decide if as normal distribution has mean 0 or mean 1. If the std dev is 0.001, it won't take you very many samples to be fairly confident to this resolution, but of the deviation is 1000, you'll need a lot of samples.

Similarly if the std deviation is only 1, but you are trying to decide if the mean is 0 or 0.001, Far more samples needed.

The intuition generalizes quite well. In the OP case, typically requires sample size estimates will be proportional to the square of the ratio between the size you want to measure and a deviation estimate.
>Why do we celebrate this theme of Professor as omnipotent,

"We" don't

> benevolent dictator of the classroom?

What do you suggest? Democracy?

> My last year in school the combined cost of tuition, books, and room and board hit $40,000.

I think that it has never been communicated well what it really costs to deliver instruction, labs, etc. At least at state funded schools, tuition is only a small part of the cost of running the place. Of course, that money isn't always spent optimally, but that's another story.

> At what point do you become not just a student, but also a fee for service consumer, with an appropriate set of expectations for some level of responsiveness and customer service?

Expect to pay a lot more for concierge level service. Also, I'm skeptical of the efficacy of that approach.
Not sure what level of education we're talking about here, but at least in Norwegian universities lectures are mostly not mandatory. I never attend them. I do the required work and do well on the exam.
The key is that: instead of spending 2 hours on a lecture where I'm sitting there passive, maybe not paying attention and the lecturer will only give the big picture and not the details (so I still have to read up on the subjects afterwards), I instead spend 1.5h reading/doing it by myself.
Haskell's Monad is a very, very special case of the mathematical monad. The problem with Stephen Diehl's approach is that it treats the topic in full generality making it much harder to understand how the special case is actually much simpler.

I prefer http://web.jaguarpaw.co.uk/~tom/blog/posts/2012-09-02-what-i..., but that's probably because I wrote it.
* If I am unable to find you in the classroom. I will proceed to search every adjacent desk recursively until I find you.
It seems more cost efficient to just read one of this books and pay him $500/hour for private tutoring.
Most people won't simply leave if the ads are not intrusive; many of the people who are annoyed by ads will already have Adblock installed, anyway.

Did you consider having a paywall for a portion of your content?
I think the big issues people see in A/B testing is because of a fairly tricky reason: the underlying distribution of the data. The usual ways of estimating how big your sample size are have one huge giraffe of a problem hiding in them: they assume the underlying distribution is normal.

The correct way to estimate your sample size is to use the cumulative distribution function of your underlying distribution. See a brief explanation from Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination#By_cu...

Now what's the problem with A/B testing? Most of the stuff we test A/B for is incredibly non-normal. Often 99% of visits do not convert. We're looking at extremely skewed data here. Generally the more skewed the distribution, the more samples we need.

For a very basic understanding of why: consider a very simple distribution with 99.99% of the time you get $0 and 0.01% of the time you get $29 - fairly similar to what we A/B test. Do you think a sample of 1000 or 10000 is going to be anywhere near enough here? Of course not.
Indeed, it is autojump. :)
It has been 2 years since that decision was made. Where is the "very real" upside potential you are talking about. Windows Phone has been an underdog since 2010! Claim your argument based on facts and what is going on - rather than what you feel like.
It was quite obvious even a couple of years ago that Samsung will basically dominate Android to the extent that android == Samsung given the market share. The whole open platform is a façade that Google has created.
"This assumes you are familiar with Haskell typeclasses and basic category theory."

Where do I learn basic category theory? Anything better than just perusing wikipedia?
No, it's just that most people who rail against socialism don't actually know what it means, as you see above.
Open platform? BS! Google has milked the term to its benefit. There have been many discussions here that question the openness of android.
Here's Your Damn Flying Car, Or: The Ghost of the Web Yet to Come.
Haha consider the possibility that some of the insane ranting you hear about x.509 is actually balanced and accurate criticism :-)
A college CS or pure math course should cover it.
I'd imagine almost any other 70 old year teaching a math class would pass around a very similar syllabus.
News is flawed (revisted)
Previously the non-portability of upstart was seen as a reason for Debian not to switch to upstart.

Now the non-portability of systemd is seen as a reason for Debian to drop the ports.
Why is a dot release on the homepage of hacker news? Not saying that to be snarky but is there any specific reason.
TLDW:
Appelbaum believes it's better to defend your fifth amendment right than to lie (EFF agrees, Assange doesn't). And in areas of zero freedom, it's better to have the ability to give up your password (plausible confession -- my term) than to have the adversary believe that there's a hidden volume they haven't beat out of you yet.

There's more to this long running debate, but that's the gist of Appelbaum's position.

My take: Plausible deniability gives you the option to defend the fifth, lie, or give up your data, but your confession may never be plausible. Which is better depends on the sensitivity of your data and the willingness of your adversary.
While we're talking about what "feels snappier," why hasn't anyone mentioned Safari. It is, by far, the smoothest browser on my computer. It may not do as well as Chrome in the benchmarks, but the scrolling is a thousand times smoother and everything feels quicker.
So just because you are only 19 your money isn't as good as somebody who is older? And here I thought one of the best things about capitalism is that it doesn't discreminate.

Anyway fuck that, customer service matters if the professor can't deal with that he can go back to typying out papers.
There is another blackmail in the blackmailing society of the US, what a country, glad that I don't live there, the more I read about the place the less appealing it is.

I probably get bashed by patriots, but I don't care.
Because the professor doesn't scale, not in an introductory class with > 100 students. Most all problems with the material that arise there can be dealt with with the help of the TA. At graduate level it's different, of course.
I think this is for people that already know how to use monads effectively in Haskell and wants to learn more about the mathematical background.
Any advantages this would have over a computer without an internet connection?
I use Dropbox, which also makes it easy to switch between the desktop and laptop.
I love hearing about new findings like this. Blows my mind how much there is to learn/discover every single time something like this comes out.
Tenure schmenure, if you want profs who do interesting research, they'll need some time to tend to that research.
Wikipedia is "evidence"? Considering we are discussing Dijkstra, this is beyond irony.
What, other than the (rather trivial) algorithm named after him, has he really done that is worth noting? To me he is like Crockford - all talk, no code.
DragonflyBSD is impressive and is trying to improve on modern OSes (See HAMMER filesystem). I hope tc-play becomes crossplatform.
Can we please stop repeating the misleading statement that Firefox is fast enough, because of benchmarks?

When people talk about Firefox being slow, they're not talking about page rendering speeds or JavaScript execution times. They're talking about the longer delays in switching between tabs, in closing tabs, opening a bunch of tabs at once and still having the interface be responsive, and so on. User interface stuff.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any user-interface-responsiveness-speed benchmarks, so it's basically impossible to "prove". But that doesn't mean that people who complain about Firefox being slow are imagining it. The only reason I use Chrome instead of FF on my machine is precisely because the UI is an order of magnitude faster in mundane things -- instantaneous rather than pausing a bit on every little thing.
Then these overqualified research professors should not waste their time teaching and have this conflict of interest. They should be just mentoring the next generation of research professors and doing their research, since that is where most of their money comes from anyway.

I've gotten far superior instruction in math for example from dedicated instructors at community colleges than I ever got at my university. 30 people sized classes vs 300 sized and it was almost half price. These community colleges are only devoted to teaching and generally they do just fine. A dedicated 24/7 tutor lab and khan academy to be honest would of even been better in some aspects, since you can just tunnel through material, have a tutor help you in a spot you get stuck in and keep on tunneling.
I used gifsicle to optimize the gif.
Yes: no software, no ports, all media is tangible, no storage, hard to fingerprint (compared to say inkjets).

However there is one problem with typewriters people generally forget: you can extract everything that has been typed from used typewriter ribbons...
Planets also have 'tails' in that sense as well.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Shock

Also, here is the original NASA.gov article that the article is quoting:

http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-s-ibex-provides-first-view-...
I meant consciousness as reflexive self-awareness, not in the sense of being alert and awake as opposed to asleep or anesthetized or in a coma or whatnot but these mental 'states' are interesting as well.
Wow, how did my Haskell tutorial get to the HN front page out of nowhere? :-)

If you like my stuff, keep an eye out for my new Bitcoin book, which will be coming out this fall. I've been slaving over the artwork for months, it should be a beautiful book! The working title is "Bitcoins for the Befuddled".
Electric Rice: A Future Way to Charge Your Phone
There's probably no technical reason why other than design choice. It may be related to cleaner URLs omitting the %20 encoding.

However, hyphens would probably have been a better choice for URLs as Google treats them as individual words as opposed to one long keyword.
All of a sudden everybody and his dog requires systemd or upstart or whatever flavor of rebranded and upgraded and extended and whatnot initd of the day.

I failed to see a reason behind this movement except of the "you're an old fart and this is how we're doing it today" explanation. And when BSD comes up and say this is not portable, everybody say we're on Linux and we don't care and you should jump the shark as we do. What?!
Are there online services that provide hardware based entropy? Found one: http://openfortress.org/cryptodoc/random/

The problem here is that to securely use entropy, an encrypted channel is needed, but it's hard to establish one without a source of entropy.

Mobile and personal computing devices need to have hardware entropy. It should be required.
Maemo/Meego wasn't really an option. It wasn't ready back then and it doesn't seem to be ready now either, since rumours say that Samsung has axed Tizen development.

I think the only company currently developing Maemo/Meego succesor is Jolla with their Sailfish OS. Although they've also missed deadlines they've given themselves, so their product is starting slip more and more into to the vaporware category.
bradley manning used cd's and supposedly edward snowden has a bunch of usb drives. Solves a very reasonable problem
Do Things that Don't Scale
Great person != great teacher. To be honest, if you watch [1] his lecture, he doesn't grab me as a good teacher. In fact I would probably fall asleep in his lectures. I've seen a lot of professors and how they teach during my undergrad and graduate mathematics education. It's not uncommon to witness a professor who has numerous awards for their research but who is awful as a teacher. It could be lack of motivation on their part for all I know. Dijkstra could be the very best out there in some matters but it doesn't mean we should take after his style of teaching.

To be more specific, Dijkstra's organizational matters make him seem to me as somewhat cold and detached. Watching his lectures on youtube confirms this feeling. He also TEACHES in that way and frankly this is not the best way to get knowledge into students' heads. Nor will students ever feel like he really cares.

Perhaps such a person will be more engaged if he teaches a graduate course with topics from his research but from what I've seen, this is not always the case. In fact, the worst course I ever had was by a professor with numerous awards, who's also great at giving presentations and talks, but who taught his research topics like absolute crap.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNCAFcAbSTg
If the default scrolling isn't to your taste, you might want to try addons like this one for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smoothwheel/?...

Of course, if you're happy with Safari, by all means stick with it.
That requires a large amount of power, so you'd still have a big amplifier.
Debugging a segfaulting binary without debug symbols
It first clicked for me when reading Barr and Wells' Category Theory for Computing Science [0], but I don't know about your mathematical background. Category theory is algebra, so it's probably advisable to study basic group theory before tackling category theory. (I have a hard time seeing how functors make sense until you've understood the general concept of a homomorphism, which is perhaps easiest to do in the context of groups).

[0]: http://www.case.edu/artsci/math/wells/pub/ctcs.html