skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I feel your pain. Reading your post gave me strength, knowing that I'm not alone. I woke up this morning wanting to read Viktor Frankl's "Man's search for meaning" because inside I'm crying and I've broken.

I've known rejection my whole life. By my father, by family, by girls, by kids at school. When you give love and get rejection in return, it hurts. I stopped expecting anything in return when I give. I was picked on by every bully that came my way since primary school. My grandmother gave me nicknames all the time. I had no friends growing up and I thought of running away every day. I dropped out of college to support myself, took some financial risks and lost all my money. I quit my job a couple of days ago and I still have to get a new job. I'm on my last dime as I'm typing this.

But I know, somewhere on this earth, there's someone who needs me. I know it doesn't have to be someone I know today, it doesn't have to be my family, the girls that rejected me or my father (he wasn't there for the 20 years I needed him, then he passed away and we never met, having only spoken twice on the phone for no more than 2 minutes each time). Maybe it's an orphan who needs a mentor, maybe it's a woman who will think I'm "the one". Maybe it's a startup that needs another programmer, maybe it's just someone on the side of the road who just needs someone to talk to.

My good man, I just told you my story to show that there's still hope for people like us. We've known the worst, we've known failure and rejection but that's what makes us strong. We know how to give even when everything around us seems like a conspiracy to make us quit. You just gotta hold on. Speak to someone, call the suicide watch line. It will get better if you're willing to speak to someone.

All the best
Let me fill in the gaps for you.

First off, this article is comparing the cheapest clinic in India, with the most expensive and most revered Heart center (Cleveland Clinic) in the world. NH is basically like getting your heart surgery done at a non air conditioned WalMart. There are no patient rooms. There is a patient room. A giant room with beds lined up civil war style. The food is akin to gruel, ETC... Of course there is going to be a significant cost difference. This is like comparing staying at a Hostile and getting dinner in the soup line with Staying a night at the Hilton and ordering a New York steak dinner for room service, of course there is going to be a significant cost difference. Leave it to a reporter to compare the cheapest abroad to the most expensive here (a bit of stretching to make the store line a bit more catchy).

Second, the reported cost is false. "NH maintains its costs low, savings that are then transferred to the patient. NH's cost of open heart surgery is USD $2,000. The hospital charges $2,400 to the patient, compared to $5,500 charged at an average private hospital in India."
http://healthmarketinnovations.org/program/narayana-hrudayal...

Third, the per capita income in India is $1,000 nominal dollars, in the U.S., it's $50,000.

So the average adjusted open heart surgery in India is actually $275,000 when converting to USD and comparing using the average per capita income. (Narayana Hrudayalaya's "discounted hospitals" only charge $120,000)

I know that the average income does not fairly reflect the true cost differential because India has a disproportionately large population of people living in abject poverty. It does make the cost difference margin quite a bit less though.

If you are wondering just how places in countries like this can operate more cheaply though? I will tell you. US laws. In America the law states that hospitals have to care for anyone even non citizens. It also puts stringent regulations on hospitals. Regulations that do not exist in India. These Regulations are very expensive to comply with.

Narayana Hrudayalaya's establishments are not hospitals, they are not for emergency care. They do not treat non-paying clientele. In America, our medical costs balloon out of control for many reasons, one of the larger ones being the care of non-paying patients. Emergency rooms and therefore hospitals cannot turn away patients for any reason. They must admit illegals and uninsured (even for long term care). They cannot recoup money from these individuals so the paying customers get to flip the bill so the hospital can remain in business.

Just try going to an emergency room in India as an illegal alien. You will be promptly jailed and deported. Try going without insurance or means of payment... Good luck with that (same MO as all these countries where these "cheap procedures" can be had)

There are some countries where these procedures are still cheaper than in the US and they cannot legally turn away illegals and uninsured. They have a slightly different formula. The government flips the bill (subsidizes the hospitals) thus allowing them to compete cheaply (which keeps the costs low).
Is NASA not a community? I don't know.
That's a nonsensical analogy. We understand gravity to staggering levels of precision. Psychology may be a science but to suggest that we have anything like the detailed models and level of experimentally verifiable understanding of it, that we do for the laws of Physics, is what is disingenuous.

This is partly because psychology is such a young science in comparison, and possibly partly because by the nature of complex systems we are less able to create such precise mathematical models which describe it.

It is nothing like relativity and neurology has no analog in QM. I am not sure if it's psychology/neurology or relativity/QM you lack a firm grasp of but it appears to be at least one or the other.
Want better Exchange (EWS) support on Linux?
Someone suggested they went through his rubbish once they were standing out side his house. Seems like a bit of a gamble though as by this point they would have invested quite a bit of time following him etc. And how many people these days (young and living in a shared house in Islington especially) still have a land line, and are even in the phone book?
Fair enough, I stand minorly corrected!
Strike Vector: Why more games need to be made in Photoshop first
To avoid this kind of security problem, use providers that use official Ubuntu Cloud images only. If Canonical haven't certified the Ubuntu images you're using, then your provider could have done anything to them. You'll need some other way to determine their competence.

Cowboy images like this are exactly the reason trademarks exist. Commercial providers who don't get certification are in fact violating Ubuntu's trademark by telling you that you are getting Ubuntu, when in fact you are getting a modified image which is possibly compromised (such as in this case).
YouTube videos are almost uniformly bunk. Please post actual text I can read, by someone credible preferably.
And that's really worrying. For me, it makes various threats and other cyber bullying look like a game. 'I wish you get cancer' yeah whatever f-off kid.

But this one can easily ruin someones life. Or at least give enough stress to shorten it for a while. Not even talking about legal expenses to prove it's not yours. I mean... Police finds reasonable amount of Class A drugs at your place. 'it's not my' 'yeah right, everyone says that'.
Which universities produce the most startups in India?
I don't know much about MS SQL Server or database in general, what would you guys consider free and open source alternatives to MS and Oracle Enterprise offerings?

Where does mysql stand in all this?

Thanks.
The FCC (and a bunch of other government agencies in the U.S.) will happily take a post office box as an address. That's the official address on my ham ticket.
If this takes off one of the common uses would be flinging the last remains of dear loved ones into space.A "human dust" would surround the lower orbit. Anaerobic bacteria will thrive in the dust fed upon by deadly viruses. Skeletal remains would form microscopic spherical super-strong bone pods encasing these deadly viruses. This dust will stick to spacecraft on re-entry. The deadly viruses infect the human population resisting any medical intervention(since cooked in space) leading to the inevitable apocalypse: Zombies. Totally worth the 5$ I say. Please down vote me. I am bored.
If you need more entropy for SSL traffic than a headless server that sees very little I/O load has available, I've found http://www.vanheusden.com/te/ useful in the past. The ~800 bits/sec is produced in our tests isn't massive, but it was considerably than the machines we used it on could generate from the kernel's usual sources on these machines. It claims to produce valid results in VMs too, and given the way it works it might be perfectly valid to scale is some way simply by running more than one copy.

If you want more than that in a cheap Heath Robinson manner (Americans: think Rube Goldberg if you are unaware of Heath, their work came from very similar inspirations) then many SoC solutions have a built-in RNG of sufficient quality for general cryptographic use and some solutions expose them easily. If you enable the relevant module a Raspberry Pi can provide up to ~550,000 bits/sec when asked to, for instance, which if one-off cost is a factor beats paying a few hundred dollars or more for a USB device providing the same sort of rate.
What a fucktard
Now, now, no point mocking those strange "young people" for living in a location with such an insanely skewed gender balance that pairing everyone off is mathematically impossible.

Haters gon' hate.
None. Continuous integration and feature flags FTW: http://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/
rohypnol isn't used to facilitate a valid dating strategy but a valid raping strategy so your analogy breaks down
As an aside, you can use PBKDF2 with an iteration count of 1 to extend the output of a hash function to arbitrary lengths:

output = HMAC-SHA256("passphrase", "salt" + x"00000001")
+ HMAC-SHA256("passphrase", "salt" + x"00000002")
...

This is useful when you want to derive keys from a (strong) master secret, but if you don't trust the underlying algorithm, all bets are off.
Are you referring to the hardware RNG in TPMs? I thought they were very low bandwidth in terms of entropy, would that be a problem on first boot?
Yes and no. It is willpower/decision making fuel but there is no change in energy use.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fro...
Not all developers/publishers charge higher prices. You can see here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/149928
Umzug 
Umzug , umzug wien
Umzug Wien und Österreichweit , Herzlich Willkommen Bei Luxusumzug , Zögern Sie nicht und starten Sie noch heute mit Luxusumzug Umzug in Wien – und ziehen sie der besten und preisgünstigsten Umzugsfirma in Wien um , Luxusumzug „Umzug“ bietet Ihnen Dienstleistungen an wie zB Umzug in Wien und Österreichweit .
The brain is far from a black box. There is technology to trace all signals and even all molecules traveling around. What is missing is understanding how it works, not seeing into it
Business models and luxury vs need
> those 7-number participants simply felt that they worked harder and therefore deserved a better prize.

That is exactly how you expect reduced willpower to play out in practice in a situation where people are forced to make a conscious choice (as opposed to just absent-mindedly picking something). Nobody "just" takes the option that is counter to their long term goals, they rationalise the choice either then and there or afterwards, and rationalisations that we "deserve" something or are morally justified are amongst the easiest for us to grab onto.
What good would email address confirmation do? You do know about mailinator, right?
Confessions of a reformed wantrepreneur
It's saddening that so much of the thread is spent dwelling on this issue. I'd love to hear your take on the actual crypto at play here, if you have time for a critique?
>In short, skin-in-the-game evolves out of artificial systems

"Skin-in-the-____"
Goddamn butterflies
After seed capital and before 1st round of VC you will already make some sales. Maybe there is a way to increase sales and cover the salaries and expenses from the sales... If you can do this, this may be better than taking the VC...
> shut down a service people have paid for because it was still not making enough money to be worth it.

but why would it not be worth the money paid for? you can't just charge some token market rate, hoping for scale to profit - you _ought_ to charge the amount it costs plus profit to run it, and so even if you had 1 user, it would be profitable.

Now, whether this is something the owners want to maintain is a different question vs can't charge enough to be worth it.
There is a fee per claim. They just pay it.
MultiPLX RSS Reader pushes full-text search and trends
At this point, "salaried-exempt" status should just be eliminated. The "exemptions" from the FLSA now make up the majority of the full-time workforce.
The Scariest Quote You'll Read From the Trial Nobody Is Talking About
I can really recommend Git Flow.
The name is chosen by someone who isn't in on the trick.
Where the heck do I host my … Node.js app?
She's back, the article's great, all is right with the world. Let's read the first comment... oh.

Seriously, I thought the article was great. It would be great even if it wasn't written by Kathy Sierra.
It really annoys me that the people that hassled her before are walking around somewhere. They really need some bad karma to happen to them.
My cook makes 15K per month. Life threatening procedures are relatively rare. Incase he has to go through a similar surgery he can go for a 'package' which will cost him 50K. There are no 'noticeable' differences between the health care that he will get to what my family member got. He can afford 50K for something as rare and life threatening like this.

Mouthshut.com was just an example to demonstrate what it means to have a free market. My cook obviously can't access it - but he will ask me and his relatives on which doctor/hospital is good/cheap. He faces greater infomation assymetry - but the fundamental advantages of a free'r market still accrue.
i expected the influx of traffic to cause some (free) services to fail, and so to hedge my bets, i signed up for several that i found as acceptable Google Reader replacements. Hurray for insurance policy!
Car hacking scientists agree to delay paper that could unlock Porsches
Up and running with Express on Node.js and frineds
> then pretend to dial and ask for that name, your friend says something "Yes, that's me, who are you?"

As long as I tell my friend "I'm going to call up, pretend you are whoever I ask for", then when I call up and say "hello is Mr X there?" it's irrelevant whether I just dialed my friend, or whether he was sat on the line waiting for me to fake dial.
> It surprises me is that investors put money into teams of hugely technical people who can't sell the amazing tech they can build and yet don't insist that they expand the team to bring in people who _can_ sell right at the start. It's often almost an afterthought, something that can happen later once the product is "finished".

I disagree.

- Selling from start is difficult (even for good sales people). There isn't any thing to sale at the beginning.

- Building from start is essential.

- Resources are finite for a startup. Good people (Sales, tech both) costs decent amount (equity or $$$)

VC expect founder(s)/CEO to take care of early stage of sales/marketing/advertising etc. till the time scaling on these operations is required. To me it makes sense to avoid (expensive) hiring unless absolutely required, especially in the early days of a startup.
The exponential scheme is easily avoided with the use of shell companies.
> Another new concept is the ability for either side to push data over an established connection. While the concept itself is hardly revolutionary — this is after all how TCP itself functions – bringing this capability to the widespread HTTP world will be no small improvement and may help marry the simplicity of an HTTP API with the fully-duplexed world of TCP. While this is also useful for a server-to-server internal APIs, this functionality will provide an alternative to web sockets, long polling, or simply repeated requests back to the server – the traditional three ways to emulate a server pushing live data in the web world.

As far as I know, this is not true. Server Push is only for the server and can only be done as a response to a request. It's not a WebSocket alternative.

Server Push means that when a client sends a request (GET /index.html), the server can respond with responses for multiple resources (e.g. /index.html, /style.css and /app.js can be sent). This means the client doesn't have to explicitly GET those resources which saves bandwidth and latency.
Does http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04#secti... http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04#secti... and http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04#secti... mean sendfile(2) can't be used with HTTP/2.0?
Good UI. What is your backend stack?
Skim through some of Krebs' past articles.

He has publicly outed many "cyber-criminals" on his blog and typically provides plenty of proof to back up his assertions. These criminals, of course, don't really like that.

I understand his motive for publishing details of things like this that are directed at him but it makes me wonder if another criminal reading it won't try to "one-up" the previous guy.
Capital of Catalonia? Hey, they may separate away.
"One of the biggest problems of Lisp is the lack of reliable libraries" - on Common Lisp there's quicklisp, which is a source of libraries. I'm not using Lisp at production, so I can't attest to their "reliability", but don't seem "buggy" either.
Not really, at least as compared to ordinary pass-by-reference. Javascript, like Java, uses references for all objects, but passes by value. So the references are passed by value, but the objects themselves are passed by reference (since they're always references).

Passing references is quick, even by value: it's just passing around pointers. Here's basically how it would look in say, Go, with pointers:

package main

func main() {
var x = 10
test(&x)
println(x)
}

func test(ptr *int) {
var y = 30
ptr = &y
}

And the equivalent JS:

function main() {
var x = 10;
test(x);
console.log(x);
}

function test(ptr) {
var y = 30;
ptr = y;
}

// depending on environment, either call main() or run on onload or DOM ready

The main difference between the two is that in JS, x and y were already pointers; in Go, x is the actual value 10, and y is the actual value 30. However in both cases the test function takes a pointer that is itself passed by value.

The programs, naturally, both print 10 and not 30. The pointer was passed by value, and modifying the value of the pointer only changes the pointer, not the referenced variable. To change the referenced variable you'd have to dereference the pointer — and since JS doesn't provide access to raw pointers, that's impossible in JS. You can, however, mutate the variable using array accessors or dot notation; for example, in Go:

package main

type Vertex struct {
X, Y int
}

func main() {
var z = Vertex{X: 1, Y: 2}
println(z.X)
test(&z)
println(z.X)
}

func test(ptr *Vertex) {
ptr.X = 10
}

And once again the equivalent JS:

function main() {
var z = { X: 1, Y: 2 };
console.log(z.X);
test(z);
console.log(z.X);
}

function test(ptr) {
ptr.X = 10;
}

// depending on environment, either call main() or run on onload or DOM ready

As expected, the programs will first print 1, and then print 10.

As you can see, pass-by-value in JS is generally the same as pass-by-reference in other languages; it's all pointers under the hood.
Ajoke: Abducting Java Onto Emacs, K is silent
I agree it's a skill, and hopefully over time you have a better understanding of what ideas are more likely to succeed. However, I don't think anyone out there can guarantee a great idea. How many times has Google failed again and again? Zynga is worth billions, and yet they're going to struggle to create another Farmville and they'll have difficulties staying relevant in the coming years. You can put the smartest minds on earth in a room for years with an unlimited budget, and they can't promise to deliver the next Facebook.

So, when you have that great idea, and you see it starting to grow, you better take good care of it. They don't come easy for anyone. That's part of the skill though, recognizing the good from the bad, and knowing when to jump ship, and most importantly, when to try again.
You have to realize that we do not hear about all the other cases where they cased someone but did not learn enough info in the end.
Why can't you just run continuous integration on all the branches?
Tutorial: Build a Port Scanner in Ruby
A guy went and invented calculus in something like 2009.

It went through peer review process and got praised for being revolutionary.

However the author was a MD.

Peer-reviewed scientific literature means nothing on its own.
Latest checkin: "Added a toucan." :D
Errr, he has plead guilty to crime X, it they are prosecuting for crime "aiding the enemy"

So does this mean, that if there is no evidence he intended to aid the enemy, that he will be set free?
I really enjoyed this blog post for some reason - I think the frank dissection of how the whole plot was hatched was really interesting.

The main takeaway for me is how worrying the chosen attack vector was, and what it says about the state of the USA. Think about it - the most effective way to remotely cripple someone you hate is to turn the USA's ridiculous drug enforcement apparatus on them. It's not a bomb or insults, or any kind of direct or overt physical harm, it's simply mailing them a narcotic and tipping off the police.

What if this guy hadn't been monitoring things? He could very well have been in a nasty, highly stressful, possibly career ending situation simply due to America's stance on drug enforcement.
The final cost of an actual airplane usually covers a lot of testing before going to market. It involves special test pilots that are ready to risk their lives while testing it. If we can find/fund a test pilot for this project, the price point can become a reality.
Is this a possible way to store information in quantum computers?

EDIT: Note to self, reading is tech.
It seems like booting up would actually be a great time for generating a decent amount of entropy, what with all those devices starting starting up from a relatively unpredictable physical state (temperature etc.), hard drives spinning up, and so forth. I'm kind of surprised that the Linux kernel doesn't exploit that.
I suppose he meant that he can't trust a product of someone who can't event run his website, since the software may be unstable. Security is not involved. For a new product the website should give to the visitors the feel that you are a professional (I'm trying to give a constructive critic here)
have fun handling 100x build volume...