skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discrete Math: The binomial theorem and coefficient from the ground up
Can anyone say 'Damage Control'?
I'm replying to a comment days later, only because I didn't see this earlier.

Median compensation for all physicians. I encourage you to look at the actual distributions, based on age of the doctor and specialty. Early doctors make very little, and primary care doctors (GP, family practice, pediatrians), make the least. Oh, and while they are in training (residency, fellowhips), they wouldn't quality in the median compensation calculation, because even though they are MDs and treat patients, they are still considered students/trainees, and they make very little (~40K residency, ~60K fellowship, depending on area of the country). Those are the specialties that are in need - hence the reason to focus on those.

Really, I don't know why you're arguing this so much...

The cost of health care is a very complicated topic, and not one that is conducive to this type of forum.

My source: me, my wife, and a bunch of our friends. I almost became an MD, but left med school to get a PhD. I left for a variety of reasons, but once factor was the math didn't add up. My wife is an MD/PhD (pediatrics with a specialty). And we know many other doctors - all young, the category I was focusing on, and some make a lot, and others make very little.

Your data model is too simplistic to get a full grasp of the situation.
A simple solution might be to "double lock" your system. In addition to your password manager, use face recognition (via the laptop webcam). I know such a system can be easily spoofed, but it will stop the casual opportunists you described in your brief, and without requiring too much effort on your part to unlock (and I can only imagine how long-winded many of the otherwise simple tasks might be given your unfortunate position).
Oskar Burman (GM at Rovio): We're on the verge of revolutionising learning
Photo was taken (by my mom) with an old 35mm point-and-shoot. I scanned the print recently, using a modern scanner.
Reading Dawkins In a Cabin. Atheists Complain About Free Bibles
This looks like it would be massively useful, but it's really expensive at the moment which keeps it out of my hands unfortunately :-(

It looks like it could be applied to all sorts of accessibility situations and problems though!
So that people ask questions :) No, simple mistake. But I can't edit my post anymore.
I don't see the contradition between the articles. It says why VC's do OK when startups go for the big time but that it isn't always in the companies interest.

I think it should also depend on whether you have genuine (low acquisition cost) exponential growth. If you can show that growth I think funding should be possible without revenue and riding the growth might be worthwhile but if not you really need to be about alternative approaches.
Guys, please stop.

At least five democratic governments, have all conspired with each other to capture everything they could, and keep it as quiet as they could.

There is no other place to go, no other place to run ones servers from, no other person or corporation who will solve it for us.

We are empowered, free voters, with the ability to organise and change laws. If we want things to change, call your congressman, walk into their office every day and don't ever stop.

It's not something someone else will solve for us.
That sounds awesome, but financially speaking I think it would be prohibitively expensive unfortunately.
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Oops! PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion
I was just perusing that link, and my god you have just saved me so much frustration. The shortcut:

⌘+` Switch between document Windows in current application

Solves the single most confusing thing I have dealt with on OS X! By happenstance of populations, almost none of the Mac-owners I interact with are power users of any sort (programmer, accountant, etc.). When using their keyboards and fumbling around like an idiot, I always ask "How do I go to the other window of Chrome?" or similar, and they don't know what I mean. I have Googled for this before, but could never figure out how to phrase the action to get an answer.

If I could reduce my karma just to be able to increase yours more than one for this comment, I would. Thank you very much.
Thanks for that, I didn't know about Alt-Up (and had always been annoyed at the removing of the parent directory button in Win7). F2 is one I'll have to remember too. Context menus and click-pause-clicks are annoying.
The video of the killing is strangely satisfying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXPqrXZ1eU
Ask HN: Rear view bike camera for Android or Google Glass?
I travel a lot in traffic, and today I got an idea of rear view mirror streamed from camera (mounted for example on a backpack) to google glass or android phone mounted on a handlebar. However I wasn't able to find anything suitable. Does any of you use something like that?
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Video: Evolving wind turbine blades
They're working just as well as expected.

There are three factors that reduce the output of an RTG over time. The first, and most obvious, is the radioactive decay of the fuel source. (As an aside, potentially this can be more complicated than one might think because as the primary isotope decays it builds up other radioactive isotopes which also produce heat and have different half-lives, so you need to solve a series of differential equations to determine the heat output over time, but for Pu-238 it's actually fairly simple since the main decay product is a much longer lived isotope, U-234) Anyway, the half-life of Pu-238 is about 88 years, so you'd expect it would take about that long for the heat output of the RTG to drop by half.

However, the radioactivity of the RTG fuel source also degrades the thermocouples used to generate electricity over time, and this reduces the power output on top of the decay of the fuel.

Additionally, as the amount of Pu-238 remaining falls the amount of heat generated by it also falls, lowering the temperature of the RTG and reducing the Carnot efficiency of the device, though only marginally.
Props for the Leave It To Beaver tshirt :)
a smaller government is even easier for big corporations to have power on

What makes you think so? Smaller government has smaller "attack surface", as hackers say.
It's bizarre that this type of essential advice is news to so many founders (including me). It's understandable from the VCs perspective though. Since they're mostly in it for huge exits it's rational for them to prefer companies with zero revenue, but good traction, over profitable (or close to profitable) companies with the same traction. Simply because the close to profitable company will have much more leverage than the zero-revenue one. In fact, a zero-revenue company who has been aiming at a VC Series A will often be forced to accept the term sheet at one or another VC whereas the profitable or close to profitable always can downsize, get a loan etc if they're not comfortable with the terms they can get at a VC. All this is because profitability isn't to the VC that much of a hint of long-term mega success as some growth metrics might be.

Related to this, it's a shame that the VC terms are often not well understood among first-time founders. If they were, I'm sure more people would try the revenue-route.

For a founder, it all boils down to how much this possible revenue will harm overall growth. In some cases (Instagram etc) it really does. In most other cases, it does not (or very little). But the zero-revenue route is easy to decide on since it's less work. "Yeah, let's take sales and all that later on" is easy to say especially when endorsed by the VC industry.
The Voyager probes used to be moving much faster, but as they've fought the gravity of the Sun they've slowed down, that's the price they pay for leaving the Solar System. The result is that now the Earth moves faster than the Voyager probes, relative to the Sun.
New Google Maps
I would love to build something, my programming skills are to put it mildly… well… Rubbish, but if you were willing to help that would be wonderful!

I really like the idea of using the accelerometer as one layer of security, because there is no situation where I'm going to be the one who's picking up my laptop! I think it could only be one part of the overall though, because if they don't pick it up it would still be completely open.

I've tried facial recognition software, including the one you linked to but so far haven't found one that is reliable enough; there were far too many false positives and for a large chunk of the time it wouldn't recognise my face at all. In theory though, reliable face recognition would be a great solution.
What I dislike about Euro VC is not so much this focus, it is their insistence on risk reduction in the above way coupled with low valuations not properly accounting for said derisking.
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or 'ASDF'.
Which means it gets shown in anime for pure Rule of Cool reasons, and then Japanese people have not the slightest idea that it's actually the flag-symbol of Jews.

It's not like I would know the standard symbol for Shintoism unless I googled it.
Great way to validate.

Quick question around this qoute from the crowtilt campaign.

"Our hoodies have been retailing for $245 in some upscale stores around the country, but weare selling these below our wholesale pricing ($90) at $69 + $9.95 (priority shipping)"

Do you mean this type of hoodie sells for $245 or your actual hoodie?
Your website has never been hacked (except for all the times that it has)
Throwable Panoramic Camera
The standard Brita pitcher filter is a mix of granular activated carbon (from coconuts), and the ion exchange resin you talk about.
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Is it me, or is there absolutely no "depth" in these medium articles?

This content isn't any more thought provoking than the content you find in any mainstream magazine at an airport kiosk.
Can someone explain to me why Gittip is called that?

I've never looked into it before because I assumed it was related to Git/Github and was thus some complex Git-related method of moving money around.
So I get that I can do the following with Spectacular

itsInstance 'length', -> should equal 0

Instead of what I can currently do with Mocha+Chai.js

item.length.should.equal 0

But besides the different syntax (which doesn't matter to me) what does this framework offer me that Mocha+Chai.js doesn't?

Btw. the above is an honest genuine question. I'm not questioning that the framework has something to offer I just can't figure out what it is from reading the website (the DOM features doesn't mean anything to me since I'm currently writing tests for a library).
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"you don't need scientific evidence to know"

"but it seems as intuitive"

Knowledge can come only from reasoning based upon observations. You cannot know anything by intuition. You can believe your intuitions and feel that they must be true, but you cannot know they are true.
Adding the visual editor to Category Description in Prestashop
Can't your add words to your dictionary on iOS?
John Cage? You were quoting Gustave Flaubert:

> Pour qu’une chose soit intéressante, il suffit de la regarder longtemps.

http://flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/correspondance/conard/outils/1...
It's especially useful as a left-handed gamer.

Right-handed gamers have the mouse on the right and use WASD for movement—and there's a comfortable distance between the two. Left-handed gamers have the mouse on the left—using WASD feels very cramped.

The benefit of using WASD for movement though is that there are a plethora of keys in its vicinity that can be remapped. With the numpad, not so much.
Agreed. Best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, next best time is now, etc
Things to know about Appengine Datastore Indexes
See the other article by the same author: "Hungry? Why not try eating?"
Haha ... i can imagine entire journals devoted to the field of Photography resolution historical changes and it's socio-cultural origins. :)
PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion
This Seagate is quite cheap (24 pound)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-STAK200-FreeAgent-GoFlex-Sha...
and it seems to be hackable too even though, according to this article[1] , you can't simply enable ssh (you need a serial connection[2], I think I bought one of this cable for a couple of euros from some chinese site, but I've never used it, it was just as a "brick" insurance for my dockstar :-))

NB of course a raspberry pi is always a great solution for its price

[1]http://v2.blogdoch.net/2012/08/19/wusel-080047/
[2]http://www.varkey.in/2011/06/seagate-goflex-net-serial-conne...
Just tested on win7 and everything works great! Really nice work.
When I submitted this[0] nearly two years ago, the only comment was:

It looks like it gets stuck in a local maximum.[1]

... which seems to ignore the fact that the evolved version seems to produce more power than the industry standard solution.

I find this a fascinating study, but haven't found any follow-up over the intervening years.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995298

[1] It looks like it gets stuck in a local maximum.
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So by your logic, Bush wasn't to blame for his version of these programs either? How about extraordinary rendition and water boarding?
Some discussion already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053421

There are also several other submissions of the same story.
Some discussion already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053421

Also submitted several times from other sources.
Some discussion on this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053421

Also submitted several times from other sources.
Also they want people who know their(the company's) internal systems inside out before they even get an interview.
> Here, we're capitalists - we believe in startups, and are not philosophically opposed to making money.

You're conflating a bunch of disparate ideas with this sentence. HN is not a forum for making you money. That is not its purpose. You are being asked to not use it for that purpose. Taking offense at such a request is, in my opinion, a fairly black mark against your sincerity.
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Isn't it common knowledge that mosquitos don't like wind? They make it sound like some great discovery.
You are batshit crazy
Or why not toss a tech writer in the arena (or a QA person if you want tests, or etc.)? Why should it be a homogeneous team of programmers?
Key metric appears to be that 99.99% of startups will not be the former FB, Stanford Grads, Suster is talking about so, there's a higher probability that they will succeed if they actually make money. No? If someone isn't willing to pay for your startup, are they really a quality user?
That, and because terrorism works: it causes terror, and people want to be protected from this terrifying threat, even if in reality it's not a very big threat.
What I take offense at is this idea that making money is bad. It's not.

I'm providing something that some people find useful, and since in this particular instance, there happens to be a way to make a tiny bit off it to reinvest in more books, I'm not ashamed to do so.

Making money is obviously - very, very obviously - not my primary use of this site.

You know another thing people do here? We promote our own stuff that we worked hard to build. Other communities intensely dislike that, but we don't, as long as it's kept within reason.
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Why relocating our team to Spain was the best decision we've ever made
I'd love to switch to ymail, if it didn't suck so bad. I just read, that Y! will be /reassigning/ email adresses that have not been used (no login) for a year.
This is no news, look at this:

http://linuxforme.com/the-holiday-startup.html
>HN is not a forum for making you money. That is not its purpose.

So? People advertise their startups and even hire employees here all the time.
Trapped my back button.
Feeling bitter, jealous, stupid and uncertain
Buying a better lottery ticket: Mobile App Marketing with Rob Walling
"As an investor that’s a no brainer. Hmm. Let’s see. Should I write off my $2.5 million or put in 16% more ($400k) to see if we can get to break even and maybe find more money and/or find our magic growth curve?"

That's the "sunk cost fallacy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...). The $2.5M is already gone and so the ROI should be evaluated on whether the outcome is better worth putting in the $400K (while also looking at the opportunity cost).
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The picture certainly doesn't change the impression...
I thought it was the street name for some new drug, which I had some cognitive dissonance on, since coke is already white.
Drag&drop design tool for Bootstrap. Up-to-date UI elements.
4chan did it again
The reason of ever-growing state enterprise is the absence of real market feedback. Any private enterprise (business or charity) has only its own money to burn and gets new money from volunteers. In case of government, new money is guaranteed to flow in because it is extracted from people by force. So there is no way any government agency can ever "feel" they are spending resources on something which people don't like.
Some of them once or twice a month. Some if there's an occasion like birthdays or christmas.
Hmmm. It's also possible to do the same "pretend to be a keyboard trick" over bluetooth - it's just a little more expensive than via Arduino/USB. It's about an extra $50-ish to add bluetooth capability to an Arduino (at least at sparkfun.com prices).

I'm in Australia, so the UK is a bit far to be prototyping - did you see Helgosam's post else-thread? Sound's like he's at least in the same country as you and capable of helping out (and/or putting you in touch with other locals who're in this space…)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Helgosam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6054049
Those are transparent. People are expected to declare their interests.

HN hides long urls, thus it's possible for the referral part to be hidden, meaning people might not be aware of the referral link.

Asking people to declare a referral link doesn't seem to be that onerous.
This question has been asked before - previous replies here on HN include:

brg: Because software development is an act of invention. While
experience and education often tell us that something is
possible to accomplish, the route to the end is unknown.

The metaphor Michael Wolfe provides is good. But software
scheduling isn't so much about diversions and stumbles as
it is about the trials of invention and artisanship.[0]

zoowar: It doesn't matter what estimate software developers
make, program management sets arbitrary release dates.[1]

(Typos fixed)

More than one person here referred to Michael Wolfe's answer.

And for reference, here are some of the submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033335

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6028623

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6024765

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3808866

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3743048

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598325

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3588950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3535100

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3530928

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3528809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3527970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521393

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3520585

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3535010

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3743088
Yeah, it's not like they used "Socialist" in the full name of the republic or something...</deadpan>

For anyone interested who doesn't understand the spectrum of socialist organization, read almost any book by Ludwig von Mises (start with "Socialism", where he catalogs the socialist orers of the early 1920s) and work your way forward.
A memory error perhaps, causing an int64 overflow?
What the hell, man. This is ridiculous. Can you not see that davidw is not trying to squeeze another 5 cents from you? You and TezzellEnt just decided to impose your own moral views on the community, and what's worse - on behalf of the community. I don't care about affiliate links if they are not blatant spam, which david's post is clearly not. And I don't need this patronizing editorializing.
Tim Ferriss Needs A Startup To Invest In
If you're building an open-source tool that you never intend to make money off of, then you're not the target audience here - you're not building a business in which VCs are going to invest. This is for people who are giving up current revenue in the hopes of making lots of money in the future.
GCHQ 'did not act illegally' on Prism
Yahoo's net income rises at 46% costs drop [news]
In theory everything goes through the big G servers and might even be activated remotely as far as we know at the moment, anybody in the developer program cares to weigh in?
>Yeah, it's not like they used "Socialist" in the full name of the republic or something

Like North Korea uses Democratic?
I don't think your comment was harsh at all: all very useful advice for the author. More critisicm like this!
Well, it is not very common for them to do that anymore, anyway. There are plenty of counterexamples if we allow historical examples. The East India Company being the biggest and most obvious example.
> You should never let your ideas become polluted by empirical evidence.

Maybe you should take a leaf out of your own book and revise what socialism actually is, and how the USSR wasn't that.
Amen. 100% agree. I've been in a few meetings were these VCs play the dumb-I-don't-know-corporate-finance card. These VCs do not create value, but solely profit by buying into a business which is already making serious money, without the "genuine startup risk", with the "genuine startup risk" priced in. This situation has been created thanks to the lack of competition at the investor level.

I can only say that other financing players in Europe are starting to wake up. I've already seen two European startups making serious money go on to raise considerable capital via debt financing, one via a bank syndicate and the other via an institutional investor. Terms are less strict on management, capital cost is a fraction of VC equity, no equity/board seats are given away, avoiding the abusive-VC free ride. On the other hand, debt-finance does require considerable financial discipline (which can be good and bad). As long as you have a clear idea of how that capital is going to be used and how much cash is going to come back to the business, startups with user traction and free cashflow should go the debt financing road.
No, neither deals with scarce resources. Capitalism deals with investment and return on investment (via profit) as the directing agent of production. Socialism deals with distribution of "goods and services" according to some socially defined value system. The various socialisms may vary on how this value system is aimed or directed, but it is usually "republican" (for the people) in outer character so that popular support is maintained; even if it is benevolently dictatored for executive expediency.
How to talk a computer into creating a program for you
I love how everyone is so worried about male fertility and how it is referred to as a sperm count 'crisis'.
The real elephant in the room which is never spoken about is overpopulation of our planet. This is far bigger problem and in my opinion, any slight percentage drop in male fertility would be a blessing in disguise!