skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's put it this way:

34 k would pay for the original poster's trip to my country (Uruguay), the best treatment available, and he'd have money left over - heck, 34 k would probably pay the doctor's wages on that hospital for a year.

There are very dodgy and shady costs with US healthcare.

I have the very best healthcare available in my country (Hospital Británico). It costs U$ 150 per month. A kidney stone would probably run me in the hundreds of dollars. 3k would probably bankrupt me.

http://www.hospitalbritanico.org.uy

Some differences are that doctors in the U.S. are paid an order of magnitude more, and I've heard hospitals have legions of well-paid administrators doing paperwork for insurance companies, which will have legions of people doing paperwork on their side, and government doing its bit, and lawyers doing their thing. All that money is obviously not going directly into healthcare, it's basically bureaucracy friction. I suspect "real" healthcare costs, even factoring expensive U.S. doctors, would be shockingly cheap.
I would be interested to see if you actually "felt" like you were reading the original author if something was rewritten this way.
My guess is that they want to make sure the Patent covers 3D Printed versions as well.
Thanks for joining!

"Could not get anyone to help on the website design" is a HUGE problem for so many startups, even this one when we just started. Hopefully we'll be able to help you find some help on your next project!
I don't see the feedback link anywhere so I have to tell you here.

I signed up then went to add my real name to my profile from the 'settings' link, but it kicked me out when I tried to save it. Now it won't let me log back in. I use the same username as I do on HN.

I use Lastpass & it has my password correct in it's settings, but it doesn't look like the field is allowing it to all be entered into the field- some characters are missing.

If I log out of Lastpass I can log in.
I think you had a bad experience with that one listing -- and the proper recourse is to write an honest review, just as you would on Yelp for an experience that wasn't what you were expecting. This helps prevent it from happening in the future.
Maybe they were looking forward to Halo before Microsoft bought Bungie.
Both of those gender markers look like they would be easy to alter with a bit of sewing, so the idea that clothing is gender neutral to make reuse easier still stands.
This particular service isn't focused on black girls for the purpose of being racist or exclusionary.

The short and easy answer is analyzing racial representation and statistical disparity. Certain groups can be vastly over-represented or under-represented relative to their populations, and the reasons for these are always complex. In the software industry, women are under-represented, this is a fact. With black women in technology, figures are probably even further under-represented. Why? I don't know, ask an expert.

One day, a black female software dev/tech/entrepreneur/sympathizer saw this disparity and decided to do something about it. Maybe she saw social patterns, or had personal experiences that could relate better to this particular group.

Your comments about race and racism are extremely uninformed.
Really, what we are saying when it comes down to it, is that design choices are a form of communication. Staying 'modern' with your design is a decent shorthand for communicating a certain level of competence to your audience. I do wish that designers would look at it more broadly though. Perhaps it is not fair to compare web to print since print has had a longer history to draw from, but one of the things that I appreciate about print media is there is never just one 'go-to' style so fads don't get as tiresome because they rarely are pervasive.
Why would you want to be a force for something like that? Spend your energy doing something productive. I think Airbnb has an honest mission and the legality will hopefully work itself out. I guess if you're just looking to make a quick buck, maybe. But then why not go into finance or something, rather than build a startup that aims to hurt startups?
> B2C tech startups cannot takeoff in places that don't have really high densities of people because places like that wind up having the people with the mentality to use technology to get ahead/make their lives simpler.

One reason I find this unconvincing is that Toronto specifically has very similar size and density characteristics to the Bay Area. Toronto's metro area has a comparable population [1][2]; and before it was amalgamated with its suburbs, the city itself also had a very similar population and population density to San Francisco [3][4]. Toronto is also home to U Toronto which has one of the world's top CompSci departments. I suspect there is some sort of policy problem at work here rather than a lack of density, possibly as banal as drawing from a smaller talent pool.

[1] Toronto/Hamilton/Niagra area: 8.7 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_horseshoe

[2] Combined San Jose/SF metro: 8.37 miilion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland,...

[3] Old Toronto: Population 736k, density 19,600/mi^2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Toronto

[4] San Francisco: Population 812k, density 17,620/mi^2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_francisco
I know what you mean, and I'm sure that's what the OP intended, but these "verticals" are energy, minerals and money. Literally everyone needs these things, which is the definition of a horizontal market.

Anyway, as a Canadian computer scientist I'd be very happy to see knowledge industry grow here.
I could be wrong but it seems to me that only the latest two designs (A Robot Named Jimmy and Verde Moderna) are what would be considered "modern" designs and the rest are from before the relaunch.
There's some absolute gems in there for connoisseurs of eloquent incompetence.

"Consider, for example, the role of commerce - the freedom to engage in which was a fundamental spark to the American Revolution. Although it may not be as apparent as when a customer enters a physical store, visiting a web site is a commercial act, during which a value exchange occurs. Consumers receive content, and in exchange are delivered advertising."

These people are nuts.
Not only is it for developers, designers, and businessmen, but it's also for comedians, chefs, and cab drivers too! (And that's just the C's)

We're hoping that with a little less friction and a lot more diversity, some incredible things can me made.

Thanks so much!
We're looking into it right now, thanks for reporting! If for some reason the header login doesn't work, try

http://www.thinkero.us/login
Anyway, I can't imagine anyone under 45 willingly living in "Silicon Valley"

In my experience, a large percentage of engineers of any age have suburban tendencies. There are way more "nerd's nerds" down in the valley. If you want to run into people who build robots as hobby projects, they will be at Menlo Park Techshop on the weekends, not at Dear Mom. (although I've heard these days that a lot of maker-hacker types live in Oakland)
For full-file queries, sure. But I could imagine asking temporal questions like "show me changes made in the last month that introduces API x", for example.
There's the military role in funding technology as well. Silicon Valley's proximity to Moffett Field isn't coincidental, and Canada's funding for military contractors is nowhere near the same level.
This article is way off from what I thought was the consensus; there were a shit ton of grant dollars going into CA universities from the US govt, and silicon valley is where it is because Stanford (I'm simplifying a lot and ignoring other details, but to a first approximation I thought that was the consensus view).

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the article's not convincing me. e.g. quotes like this, "Do you think Google will be a billion dollar company had they license the technology to Yahoo?" Yes, since they did. They also would have sold to Yahoo IIRC but Yahoo didn't want to pay enough (cite: http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html).
Do you really think J.K.Rowling is under pressure by anyone?

Beside, authors like to write under pen names. Stephen King used Richard Bachman for that, but was also outed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bachman

> He says he deliberately released the Bachman novels with as little marketing presence as possible and did his best to "load the dice against" Bachman. King concludes that he has yet to find an answer to the "talent versus luck" question, as he felt that he was outed as Bachman too early to know.
> Yes, but sane CFOs have to evaluate "what's the best use for this money?" and trade off share buy-backs (or overt dividend declarations) against other investments the company could make.

Sure. That means they decide between investing a certain amount of capital in some projects, or returning that capital to the investors.

> So, it's perfectly reasonable to say that any investment with dramatically worse return than a share buy-back is a financial loser.

Not, it's not reasonable. Investing on a project has return for the company, but dividends or buybacks don't. They're in a different category. I think OP wanted to say "it would have been better to invest the money at the risk-free rate than investing on that project".
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It would be cool if the Silicon Valley area could somehow be replicated without the tech industry. I wouldn't mind living in the Atherton of the 1950s.
yeah, one of my motivation was a friend of mine who wrote a comic book in collaboration with an artist in Argentina. Man I need a mechanical engineer wouldn't it be great if someone could partner with me( an Electrical Engineer) to build an awesome project.
I put the issues into the 'Issues' section. but I see other stuff there that leads me to believe that's the wrong place. Is that where beta issues belong?

When I update my user info it doesn't display on the profile either.
I think this observations was much more true of Rails 2.x and before than Rails 3 forward.

People forget that "Rails 3" was actually Rails merging with Merb. A lot of hard-coded inflexibility of Rails 2 had to be extracted out, and the framework became much more malleable as a result.

When I hear people talk about being stuck to a certain path with Rails, I wonder what they are talking about. Then I think back to Rails 2 and think, "oh, right....".

Rails still encourages a certain path by convention, but it is much easier to deconstruct than before.
Johnny 5 is a great project with some realy smart people, but I don't like how it abstracts arduino so much. I prefer just messaging with node-serial.
The second time I went to set my user info it didn't kick me out, so I bet it had to do with the fact that I tried to change my avatar, and that I clicked the gravatar looking thing at some point, so I'll let you know that was part of the process that made me get booted.
The Man Who Wasn't a Sports Fan
Doesn't fit horizontally on an iPad in portrait orientation.
No, the commenter admits to "knowing nothing about the subject."

To be credible, a skeptic can't be ignorant.
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^W

"Only in [browser name]" is so 1997.
Is this true for most jurisdictions? That doesn't seem like the kind of law that lends itself to being universal.
CSS Zen Garden was the site caused me writing my first CSS file.
In order to save space, you suggest... Electromagnets? That would require even more space.
Can I get some feedback? I see via google analytics that 73 people viewed this, but no upvotes.
The Apple Online Store is down too
Can you expand on how it's terribly insecure? Curious.
for one reason mobility is much easier in larger cities. you are usually able to be around without a car, albeit at the cost of time/convenience, or with a car using less gas than if you're commuting from the suburbs.

also housing, while nicer housing in city centers tends to be very expensive, cheap high density housing is nearly non existent outside of it.
I think you're broadly right but your specific example is a bit off. An unexceptional English lit major at Yale will walk into any number of prestigious and potentially lucrative jobs in publishing, finance, consulting, nonprofit work, politics, etc, whereas an unexceptional English lit major - or even a business major - from Expensive Second-Tier Private U will have all those doors slammed in her face. It's the latter group whose expectations need adjusting.
This is extremely interesting to me. It completely conflicts with the Microsoft Employee Agreement. While Microsoft has some tolerance for moonlighting (conditioned on many things such as managerial approval), if the processes are not follow it defaults to assumed ownership of all IP created by employees.
I agree - but that's part of the problem with this article, as well as similar articles like it. The people they interview seem to genuinely believe that they were rejected because they didn't have a literal 24-months of experience, rather than simply lacking the skills (of which experience-time is just a proxy).

If we started communicating to people that they're not good enough for the job, maybe we would have fewer people running around complaining about how unfair everything is.
We don't have a section for beta issues/feedback reporting, so writing here would be great.

Issues section is for posting civic or other issues you find in day-to-day life that can be solved through community involvement or discussion.

As for the info not showing up when you view your profile, we're aware of the issue and will fix it as soon as possible!
As someone who mostly works with user facing web applications:

1. You will always be playing catch up if your growth takes off. Not an excuse to write your system in BASIC, but enough of a reason to forgo efficiency a little bit. Shipping something that is 90% efficient is better than not shipping something that is 100% efficient. I have lost almost one year on the latter.

2. The importance in a web application project (if you are aiming to use it as a business) is your ability to adapt to what the market wants. If you cannot push out features (inefficient ones), then somebody else who can will swoop in.

3. In terms of numbers: I have built systems that handle 10K/requests per second without a sweat. Using standard boxes and Go. Note that as nice a Go is, its still a young language. A typical python/ruby/php system can be made to handle that, but requires a bit more work. Now, what I tell people is build something safe (as in no SQL injections, XSS, etc) first, then focus on growing it. Picking a good stack early on helps, but don't pick a stack you don't know. Someone who is proficient in PHP should not use Rails (example).

4. The key to web services is to find and build things that people want. How do you that? Pay attention to people on social networks.

If you have a background in C, Go and Python feel the most familiar. Some prefer Ruby, which is another fine language. Be aware of the current trend of everything being written in Javascript. Learn to use the language as you move along. You will need it.

tl;dr

Don't think about business-oriented web apps in terms of efficiency from the start. Use what you know to build something secure and stable, and then if it catches on, scale it.

Like PG said, do things that don't scale.
I don't see where I can add tags after I add an idea, from the 'Edit' dialog. If I forget from the start I can't add tags after the fact it seems. That's a real bummer.
If you can't tell, or it's hard to tell, over years, then why go through all the trouble and expense?
Had Google been sold to Yahoo through licensing, they would not have become a multi-billion dollar company.
That was my point.
Speaking of ridiculous hyperbole, are you sure you haven't confused vaccines with something else? Vaccine's active ingredients are made of very teeny tiny things such as deactivated viruses, and are not generally noted for their explodyness.
oh hell naw!
I've had people here for a while - they were homeless. I took them in, helped them stop doing (most) drugs, and taught them a trade.

Nobody in my condo cluster had a problem with it.

And yes I live in Marin.
Short version: "suck on this."

Long version: http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/04/one-true-wanker-of-decad...
I'd be careful about discounting emotions. A closed heart is just as dangerous as a closed mind.
Why is all the content squashed into the middle of the page when I view on a laptop? Am I supposed to think it looks good like that or is it designed for a phone/tablet? Shouldn't the site be showcasing technology that allows pages to look good on desktop and mobile? (Honest, and probably stupid question -- I would like to understand.)

e.g. http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/211/211.css
I appreciate the appreciation. :)
This makes launching a new startup/project seem as easy as creating a grocery list. But it's not.

This app is certainly pretty, but I think the real value is in solving hard problems, whereas this looks like it's just making easy things slightly easier. If it solves any hard problems, I'm certainly not seeing it based on the landing page or video.

That said, there's something cool about this and it looks like it could be the foundation of something interesting.

edit: Also, don't limit passwords to 20 characters.
The established part of a community wants a system that protects their best interests. "Dealing with reality" is not a pointless existence, but just pandering to and playing the system is. The system must be worked or worked around for good (whatever you think that is). This makes me happy at least, but to each their own rationalizations.

I have been on enough PCs to know how it works. Sometime that diamond is just a well written turd, and sometimes there is a diamond hiding inside the turd. Reviewing is much more than just sorting the rest.
Ok, thanks for clarifying that. I've posted more here.
I agree, but would also point out that the pertinent cases you're referring to weren't a part of the mainstream Rails API.
We'll let you know once we add that. (Which will be soon since it's literally the second thing on our Asana task list!) Thanks for your in depth feedback! Glad you were able to log in. We'll be testing that some more to make sure it's smooth for everyone.
This is a nightmare and I can't figure out anything that's going on nor what this website is about. This should not exist :(
I was having dinner with some college friends recently who hadn't heard of Google's self-driving car. O_o
You can work with LaunchSky.com to facilitate ideas. Both sites help good ideas happen. I can see people use LaunchSky to get feedback and Thinkerous to find resources.

http://launchsky.com
This is so. cool.
I think you mean reaping, as in collecting grains at harvest time, not ripping, as slang for passing out of your anuses. Though, the imagery of a nation being so flush with money that they are collectively farting cash is somewhat amusing.
As an aside, "bowing to the English Crown" - the BAT, South Georgia, BIOT don't actually have any native population, and Pitcairn only has a population of 60.
"Mobile site is not available at this time
Please browse the full site on your desktop."

No option to use the desktop/full version via my mobile device? Maybe some information about your offerings that compel users to open their laptops and check it out would be beneficial.
So, I agree with you that more effort could have been put in the comment. That being said, poster 'revelation' is not really wrong either. Some links to dig deeper into his points:

>prisons are overcrowded

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...

>the media tells us the world is becoming more dangerous every second

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome

>local police need SWAT teams and assault rifles

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-militarization-of-america...
we're making it better...slowly but surely

That's a feeling not a measurement. Clearly economically it's getting worse. And emergency services seem to be getting worse. What exactly is getting better?

All I'm saying is that, especially in crisis, the truth and measurement are far better than emotion. What exactly is getting better?
Mobile redesign is on its way. Sorry for the inconvenience!

http://thinkero.us/ideas
Agreed. However, I think you're misinterpreting my point about emotions (probably because I did a bad job making that point clear).

I didn't talk about this in People Are Stupid, but emotions can be useful. Sometimes they help you by motivating you and triggering appropriate thoughts. Without them, often times you wouldn't reach the same thoughts as you do with them. HOWEVER, often times they're used improperly. Often times things like anger, spite, frustration and ego lead people to... be stupid. And again, this happens both frequently, and about very important things.

It is this that is my point. I think it is both true, and important to say. You can't solve a problem without admitting it. People are stupid, and the world would be much better off it people weren't. So I'm saying it.
You are absolutely right that I didn't have to reveal my "prejudice" here.

For that I apologize.

However, you are mistaken that I don't have to trust StartSSL, or any CA
at all. In requesting a certificate, I am siginalling that I require
a method by which an unknown party can reasonably verify that they are
indeed dealing with me. If I am already well known, and a target of
attack, it doesn't matter which CA I deal with, every one is potential
source of vulnerability. However, if I am not broadly known, and
seeking out deals on certificates, and not investing in
an EV certificate (why just get a padlock, get the snazzy green bar!), what exactly is the purpose of me investing in a
certificate? Well, you're paying for your customers to have faith
that whatever faith they have in you is not misplaced, or more precisely
no bad guys will get their credit card number which they are sending to
you, along with their personal details.

This whole idea behind SSL, https, and ultimately DNS is a broken. And
yes, my response was naive enough to be read naively. For that I'm
sorry. But this particular post is probably not the place to discuss
these shortcomings...
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I want my bandwidth back. Two thumbs down. Boooo. BOOOOOOOOO! Good DAY sir.
It sounds like you need a programming mentor or peers. Someone that can help you think through the hard parts, and possibly lend some of their experience. If possible, go to programming meetups where you do not just meet other programmers, but also code together. In lieu of peers and mentors, you could also pay someone to do a code review.

Alternatively, if you feel you are stuck, you might be using a suboptimal approach to solving these problems. Usually any complicated program can be broken down into approachable and smaller chunks. You could also write a really crappy, but working version and use http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ to get your code in better shape.

"Intermediate exercises" by themselves probably will not help you as much as other activities. You've already stated that you continuously run into these walls. It might be good to do some analysis on why, and talk with others on what makes these problems so challenging. Working through these challenging parts can be ridiculously insightful and fruitful in clarifying your understanding of something, or fixing bugs in your mental models.

A couple other related thoughts: You could use your side project as a playground to practice new concepts as you learn them. Also you could get a willing and experienced mentor.
Used to get bad headaches almost daily.

One crazy week I forgot to take my daily multivitamin a couple times - then I realized that the week was more headache-free.

So I stopped taking it entirely and now I very rarely get headaches.

As a control I tried taking it again and even another brand and headaches came back.
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