skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will say that you are comparing one doctor to the national average. This only shows he is better than average, but what is the Indian average mortality rate. Another issue that your article mentions is that he specializes on a select procedure and another doctor mentions that this option of specialization is not available to all surgeons.

Don't take this as part of any sides argument. All I want to point out is that the numbers you provide only paint part of the picture. Yes maybe flying to India for this one doctors procedure would be worthwhile but is it true across the board.
Self moderation is augmented by the cycling of stories off the front page.

HN is in a news cycle where there is a nexus between the business of "high-tech" and politics playing out in a new way - or the same old way, depending on one's cynicism.

As always the solution to a low ebb in HN quality is to post interesting content, or even better to write some.
> People don't seem to get that you can compartmentalize

There is probably a difficult-to-find balance to define for this, regarding technology.

The reason why:

- Technology is everywhere and a separation is difficult. Even the human body is technology.

- Technology exists in order to solve problems. These problems grow everywhere, in all aspects/areas of our life. And they must be discussed by technologists as much as everybody else so adequate solutions can be created (be they a business or a non-profit project).
from the manual:

"2. CPU
2.1 OVERVIEW OF CPU FEATURES
The CPUs of DMG and CGB are ICs customized for DMG/CGB use, and have the following features.
CPU Features
Central to the 8-bit CPU are the following features, including an I/O port and timer.
127 x 8 bits of built-in RAM (working and stack)"

How much memory is needed today to make games that are only half entertaining?
Exactly. In BS 2 it was such a pain to remove the gradients from buttons, the box-shadows from inputs and all the other extra UI effects that you didn't want to use.
For rare conditions and the very sick, there are a lot of thorny issues, and fee-for-outcome may be hard to implement well. However, those don’t represent the bulk of medical procedures; the vast majority of what’s done in a hospital is utterly routine and predictable, and the outcomes are most definitely quantifiable.
Ask HN: back into Python after 4 years. How to get in sync?
I'm crafting web apps in Flask/Python (after 4 years of Perl) and found out that I'm out of sync with the language. What would you recommend to read?
People are passionate. If a subject comes up which ignites the passion and touches them, they will get worked up about it. It’s not a unique feature of HN. Its everywhere from Reddit to Facebook and YouTube comments.

I’ve come to believe there is a lot of group think when it comes to the nature of comments. It’s a consensus of opinion and if you write something which goes against the tide of the consensus, you will be down voted especially when its around subjects people are passionate about it. I don’t have a problem with this per se but it can be annoying when you just wish to give an opposing view point.

The fire, anger just touches some and the quiet ones shy away from posting for fear of down votes and those who just wish to give an opposing viewpoint, end up being censored by down votes and negative comments. To be honest, its seems Reddit has influenced a style of voting behavior. It’s a “hive mind” mentality.

I personally believe if you stopped displaying the total Karma for each comment and on your profile, it would stop it being a point scoring mentality. Quality content and discussion, not gaining karma points should be the focus. Keep the number internal. Sometimes people say something popular just to get points of Karma but there is no benefit of having a Karma total displayed, it just turns into a phallus measuring completion ultimately. With the total Hidden from profiles and comments, you will see in time a different dynamic.
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> As always the solution to a low ebb in HN quality is to post interesting content, or even better to write some.

This is an economics problem:

* Posting an outrage story written by someone else, or a political article: cheap.

* Writing good, interesting, and thoughtful content yourself: expensive.

The relative quantities of the two goods, without any intervention, is left as an exercise to the reader.
There can be a marketplace for private companies. There is competition for hiring workers as well as for selling goods. But the state is a monopoly. While the state might start out as well-meaning, it will quickly attract corruption which imposes itself on every citizen, leaving them without recourse. If you leave a bad company and join or found a better one, that's business as usual. If you revoke a government, that's revolution.
Ask HN: Best way to store web traffic logs?
I am in the process of setting up a new website, and was hoping to get some advice on how others store web traffic log data.

At the moment I am thinking of just using Google Analytics and Mixpanel.

I have no intention of saving apache access log files - so Im looking for a web based service.
I was considering rolling out a custom db table just to log hits, but it just feels wrong.

What are you using? If you are storing data in a db, what is the db (i.e. mongo, postgres, cassandra)?
Because everyone born in a capitalist society has been taught from day one that "the more expensive the better." Just as you would assume a $200k car is a really good one.
Technically, the spying was just legitimized by that voting. The issue is non-existent, NSA programs are legal and mandated by Congress. Case closed. Disperse.
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My problem with political topics on HN is that the focus is (in 90% of the cases) completely US-centric.

Hearing what US people think about their health system, their education system, their immigration system, or SF roads is pretty uninteresting to me, since it doesn't affect me. I can tolerate them once in a while, just to be aware of the general opinion, but I have zero interest in diving in detailled discussions on the details.

And the political context and problems in my country are completely different, so they can't even be taken as example or something.
Yes. There is far too much political nonsense on HN.

Most people do not downvote it. Most people do not flag it. A few people who have flagged it have lost flagging privileges.

Some of the new users brought in with political stories are using behaviours learnt elsewhere.

I've noticed a few long time users are missing. I don't know if that's got anything to do with the atmosphere on HN, or if they're just too busy at the moment.

But please, flag content that should not be here. Down vote comments that should not be here.

And please stop feeding the fucking trolls - While it's possible to have a discussion on the finer points of climate change science there are a number of climate change denialists[1] on HN, but there are also people happy to feed those trolls. It's disruptive and harmful.

[1] Also other wingnuts.
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That's true, but it's definitely more of a hassle to pull out a laptop, or go digging through a box to find that tablet you never use, than it is to grab a remote that only exists to fulfill this one function.
Agreed, hence the question. We're dealing with peoples (volunteered, mind you) financial data, think something similar to Toshl or Mint.com -- because of that, I want to make sure it's done right!

Seems like I may have to roll-my-own-cloud after all. VPS's setup within Australia to make sure that data never leaves our routes in the country... a pain, but one Beastly server should be able to handle the load we're expecting, at least on the web-app side.

We've got a bit more lee-way with the data-crunching Clojure side I think...

Now, what about Gitlab/Comms software? Is that easy to setup on AWS? How do startups run their own internal software? On a seperate server to their app, I hope.
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Cloudflare is down (but at least they use Cloudflare :)
Yes, since looking at your other comments in the thread, we're in agreement. I just misinterpreted your original reply to me.
I eat sleep and breathe politics. It's what I do for a living, and it's most of what I care about.

That said, I don't come here to read about politics.
A big improvement: the media queries are ordered properly, mobile-first. Great decision.
Brilliant. Cheers, I've been looking for something like this for ages. Sick of my hacky bash and PHP scripts.
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I'm in Australia from the UK and yes, the prices can be ridiculously high. I have my own version of the McDonald's index, the bread index. In supermarkets in the UK quality organic whole meal fresh bake is £1.10 which is about $1.80 AU. A loaf of white junk bread in Australia costs over $4.00. And so it is with lots of things.

So many rent seekers.
Look at the last chart there

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/clip_imag...

Through the last years the trend is to less and less ice in the Summer. 2005 and 2006 -- more ice, all other years less and less, 2012 lowest points in the chart.
I had a feeling that was the case :) I will use this for smaller personal things for sure, but I think I've got to handle my startup slightly differently; I've got a lot of security things I have to be wary of!

Thanks so much for this tool btw, I really like the look of it!
Yeah. I collected it for the sake of doing anything with it. Now that I have it all I'm not sure what to do with it.
Rule of thumb: if you can quote Obama's point of view on something, it's probably politics.

(food would be a false positive, I suppose, but you wouldn't get so many other errors)
Please explain why a free market shouldn't exist for Photoshop?
What nextw33k said! It's not an issue for me: I _know_ the gotchas when dealing with this stuff (that's why I asked!), but the people I hire in the future might not.

I only know about it because I've been burned by it in the past!
latest feature removed: capital letters.
In what way do any of these markets resemble a completely free market?

I am not allowed to buy songs from the US iTunes Store, or the US Steam Store.

DVD's are region locked, and parallel importation is illegal.
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So... There will be more inhabitable land? There is always an upside.
> Why should I learn Haskell?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1604790/what-is-haskell-a...

For my own 2-cents, once I learned QuickCheck[1] and Parsec[2], I found myself slowly rewriting them for every language I program in.

> Will it help me professionally?

Speaking as another professional, probably not.

I love Haskell, but my colleagues can't deal with it. They can't write it. They don't know functional programming. And to be entirely honest, they will never understand Monoids, Monads, or macro-hacking.

> ...Help me being a better programmer?

Maybe. If you like already like to think of software axiomatically, then yes, it will make you will make you think of software more conceptually.

But honestly, getting javascript, ruby and go under your belt will also make you think differently about software, and those are more practical languages.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck
[2] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parsec
Or, you know, people are unhappy because they actually used those features.

And it doesn't surprise me at all that Gnome Devs read Machiavelli.
But that ignore the other kinds of discussion, where there is nothing deeply interesting being said. The discussions where people enter with fixed views, and argue from those viewpoints, and cherry pick the data that supports their viewpoints, and ignore the data that argues against their viewpoints.

The intensely, but shallowly, interesting articles are harmful.

I like the light-touch user moderation applied so far, but maybe it's time for a few trusted long time members to have a down-vote hammer - a button that gives between 3 to 10 instant downvotes - to help moderate unsuitable behaviour, and a megaflag - something that gives super powerful flags to move stuff off the front page.
Can't resist posting this anecdote from Atul Gawande's (best known for his New Yorker medical pieces, such as the one about checklists) book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance...at the end, he describes spending some time in India as a visiting surgeon to see how innovation was possible in comparatively squalid circumstances. The Nanded hospital he describes below serves 1,400 villages, about 2.3 million people, with just 9 surgeons (Gawande says that'd be comparable to the state of Kansas having 9 surgeons):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312427654

note: It's a little OT, but I guess it's an interesting anecdote because it talks about how absolutely significant surgical innovation (not just, "good for the India masses") can occur in desperate situations. I have no idea if that applies to the state of the art of heart surgery in India.

------------

Among the many distressing things I saw in Nanded, one was the incredible numbers of patients with perforated ulcers. In my eight years of surgical training, I had seen only one patient with an ulcer so severe that the stomach’s acid had eroded a hole in the intestine. But Nanded is in a part of the country where people eat intensely hot chili peppers, and patients arrived almost nightly with the condition, usually in severe pain and going into shock after the hours of delay involved in traveling from their villages.

The only treatment at that point is surgical. A surgeon must take the patient to the operating room urgently, make a slash down the middle of the abdomen, wash out all the bilious and infected fluid, find the hole in the duodenum, and repair it. This is a big and traumatic operation, and often these patients were in no condition to survive it. So Motewar did a remarkable thing. He invented a new operation: a laparoscopic repair of the ulcerous perforation, using quarter-inch incisions and taking an average of forty-five minutes.

When I later told colleagues at home about the operation, they were incredulous. It did not seem possible. Motewar, however, had mulled over the ulcer problem off and on for years and became convinced he could devise a better treatment. His department was able to obtain some older laparoscopic equipment inexpensively. An assistant was made personally responsible for keeping it clean and in working order. And over time, Motewar carefully worked out his technique.

I saw him do the operation, and it was elegant and swift. He even did a randomized trial, which he presented at a conference and which revealed the operation to have fewer complications and a far more rapid recovery than the standard procedure. In that remote, dust-covered town in Maharashtra, Motewar and his colleagues had become among the most proficient ulcer surgeons in the world.
I'm intrigued, and I'll play around with it when I get home.

I recommend that you put up some kind of sample blog with it on github as a demo of the look-and-feel; the first thing I tried to do was go to hodgesmr.github.io to see what it looked like, and I was disappointed :-\
It has nothing to do with multinationals. Same thing happens inside, on national markets. Clients are segmented by providers of goods/services based on what seems to them realistic assumptions of their wealth and/or will to buy their products. Those who are thought to have more cash on hand, or more in need of the product 'here and now', are charged more. It can have variable success because estimates may be way off, but that is the goal.

Going onto international markets, country is a very good criteria, because GDP per capita is a well known hard figure. It would be stupid not to use it as a segmentation criteria.
Thanks. This form of internet journalism really irritates me, trying desperately to create a compelling narrative out of fairly dry technical parts, only to end abruptly to some upbeat testimonial - it reads more like a poorly written press release.
Reading this text with no capitals at all is quite a pain.

It feels like you are just trying to look special by not following a thousand-year-old standard.
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This is probably a result of owners forgetting to update prices in 2nd class regions (= everything that's not US or UK).

The solution to it is price tiering as opposed to being able to price whatever in whatever country.
Meh, at some point they should start to realise that you can't change everything every release and expect everyone to keep up. It feels like it's becoming more of a chore than the real initial win it was able to deliver on first release.
Irrelevant. You simply cannot frame laws that will be effective at preventing the transborder price segmentation of digital assets without anything less stringent than pegging the currency, or at least the price level.
I wonder how many medical offices with a staff of 3 have a Cisco 3950 in the closet...
None of them. They've been done. Let it go.

(And, for example, the experts didn't even get binary search right for bloody years; why are you expecting mere mortals to do any better?)
If prices should be the same everywhere, then I should pay the same for rice as a rural villager in a developing nation

You forgot about transit prices. Getting rice from that village to that village is much cheaper than getting it to you. This is not the same with digital downloads, where there is zero cost difference to the vendor once the network traffic leaves their LAN.

To hear fat, comfortable westerners complaining about the price of Photoshop is just revolting.

Well, the important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior. I mean, how dare anyone complain if they're not starving? How dare fat, comfortable people A complain that they're being charged more than fat, comfortable people B?

After all, it is a strawman you're making, suggesting that Australians are bitching about paying more for software than people in developing nations. They're not, they're complaining about paying more than those who are at a similar level.
I have to be honest, whichever way you slice it it would be a nightmare to untangle the two countries on all sorts of levels. I even heard there was a concern as Scots are over-represented in the British Armed Forces.
I don't necessarily disagree [1]. The point that I was making was that childcare is often sold as a high-status job, when in reality it is generally a low-status, low-reward job. This ties directly into your argument about stay-at-home dads being looked down upon. It's the other side of the same coin.

[1] Nor do I necessarily agree, either, but I don't want to get sidetracked.
Unless your an american with their head up the 'free markets' arse
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But facts are facts right?
Thanks for the manual. =]

I know it's not an official manual but it's worth mentioning: GBA Tonc - http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm

PDF download: http://www.coranac.com/files/tonc.pdf
It's great to see an open sourced Ember.js project on the front page. I've spend most of the last year working with, around, and on top it. But, and this is a but of serious hesitation, why would you use Ember.js for a blog like this?

I'm nearly positive the answer is just "to learn Ember" - in which case, great!

To everyone else: don't start using a JS MVC framework for your real projects without seriously justifying their use in the first place. They should absolutely not be considered part of a default app stack. You will go through so much pain in doing so, and that pain needs to explain itself, in the concrete terms of the project requirements.
If you are planning to run at any sort of scale I advise staying away from logging into a database. Tying throughput to i/o like that could really hurt.
Have any heavy C++ devs switched to go? What's the major advantage/compelling reason to switch? It seems to me that Go is more comparable to Python/Ruby and Java on the Web, but maybe I'm wrong.
Yes, this. I'm not angry over the removal of compact list mode from Nautilus because of "loss of freedom", but because it's the mode I find superior to all other view modes.
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"You don't see this kind of innovation in the American health system because it has been engineered with greed in mind right from the start."

Actually, it is not just the healthcare industry. All industries in capitalist societies are engineered with greed in mind, and that's OK. It works very well. The problem in the healthcare industry is not greed, but insurance. When someone else is paying for the care you don't care how much it costs. You don't shop around. This enables doctors and hospitals to charge more. American healthcare is very cost efficient where the care is not covered by insurance, for example plastic surgery, lasik etc.
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> why don't conservative men fall over themselves to fill that role?

Because it doesn't work. Women prefer uncaring[1], unpredictable[2] guys over dutiful housemates[3][4].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22517110

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/opinion/sunday/i-heart-unp...

[3] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/asa-shw012413...

[4] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/9572187/Cou...
Of course modern games use more memory as they are running on completely different platforms. Memory usage has nothing to do with entertainment level. A 8-bit Chess Game might be as entertaining to someone as is Call of Duty 26 to someone else.

(Game boy has 8192 bytes of working ram. 127x8 bits is only for stack)
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> Same thing happens inside, on national markets.

This shows you have absolutely no idea what this discussion is actually about. Arbitrage, a key component of a free market, keeps major price discrimination in check within national markets.

This is about corporations using the force of law to prevent arbitrage working across international boundaries.
I'm not quite sure what you've done there. You seem to be confusing type signatures with function definitions. You've also used GADT syntax, requiring -XGADTs, which isn't needed for a simple vector type.

> Cons :: a -> Vector n a --> Vector (1 + n) a

This makes no sense, you can't specify constants in a type signature, and you certainly can't add constants to a type variable in one.

I may be the one not in the know here, if so please show me this magic.
I think another major one is the cost and quality of our broadband networks. It's expensive here to download movies, or even to have a connection that's good enough to stream.
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Have a look at my recent submissions.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=DanBC)

Some of it is guff that shouldn't have been subbed. Some of it is interesting and it got ignored. Some of it is not particularly great, but it got a few upvotes then got many more as it hit the front page.

Items 3 and 4 in the list were posted very close together in time, and were unlikely to have been subbed by anyone else. One got no votes, the other made front page for a while and got comments.

* How to Almost Build an Engine With Only Parts From the Hardware Store [video] (howtolou.com)
87 points by DanBC 21 hours ago | 44 comments

*Programming the Vintage Intel MCS-48 Microcontrollers (theresistornetwork.com)
1 point by DanBC 22 hours ago | discuss

And then there are the articles that get upvotes, and also get flags. The responsive URLs article (11 in the list) got 6 upvotes, but was flagged to death. The Wikipedia loo roll article got 9 upvotes, and two comments (with a 3rd comment asking why the hell it had been posted) but was also flagged.

I don't claim my subs are any good, or that they shouldn't be flagged, but it is confusing.
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