skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to say something obnoxious but true.

Lots of universities train people to be able to work at startups; but only Stanford (and, distantly behind it, MIT and Harvard) trains people to own them. Very few schools inculcate the confidence, as a 22-year-old with no work history, to walk into an investor's office and ask for a million-dollar seed round. But at Stanford, where seed investment is a graduation present, that's normal to people.

The rest of the country has some fierce talent and there are capable people everywhere, but there are only a few places where it's normal for people to think of being a founder as a logical next step. Merely working at a startup isn't the same thing.

I think this can be overcome. There's a lot of talent outside of a small, privileged echo chamber and there's no good reason why it should be excluded from the highest levels of work autonomy. I'm just pointing things out as they are now.
Unless you buy from farmers at farmers markets who accept bitcoins…[0]

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5787.0%3ball
I don't own any bitcoins, nor do I see myself owning any bitcoins for a long, long time, if ever.

Its bad news for bitcoin, but it is very minor bad news. Bitcoin only needs to be legal in the US or Europe for it to work world wide eventually.

Just imagine a time 30 years from now and a company wants to manufacture something in Thailand (lets say it is product as big as the iPhone was in the early 10's.) and that company would like to pay in Bitcoins. Do you think that that government of Thailand is going to keep up their ban?

Of course not, if Bitcoins get big in a few other countries, that is all that matters.

[Edit] Taiwanese replaced with Thailand. Not sure how I made that error.
How does Elon Musk’s SF-to-LA-in-30-minutes Hyperloop work?
All I know is what was on the hotel bill (Westin). It's possible that they had negotiated a rate with the service. I did tip, based on the guideline I was told, about 50 rupees per day.
TL;DR; It's just an idea.

Which any good entrepreneur knows is as valuable as leaves on a tree.

Implementation is whats important.
Disabling a car’s brakes and speed by hacking its computers: A new how-to
Prototype of a GPU particle engine in WebGL
> Medical tourism, though very fine for a lot of folks who want a cheaper alternative, is driving up the cost of medical treatments in India by leaps and bounds.

In the short term, maybe. In the long term surely it will reduce costs or at least stabilise them.

Millions of CPUs and RAM chips are sold every year, but the price of them doesn't keep going up, does it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it applies to any nation that the government always retains the monopoly of "issuing" a currency.

EDIT: ...which probably means that sooner or later, bitcoin will probably be outlawed everywhere.
That's not an ad hominem attack. Ad hominem is "You're an idiot, therefore what you said is incorrect".
Skimming, sure. But really reading the paper, ie confirming its soundedness, requires going through most if not all the ideas and steps presented. Depending on the paper it can take weeks or even months. The ten tests in the OP take at most a few hours, I think.
How to calculate the Big-O of something
Care to expand? Do you think that quantifying your life actually has some benefits? I was never totally sold on that claim.
Patent War Adds Front in U.S.
There is a big difference. Visible means you can see that "contingent" existing. Talked about means they don't actually exist, but people always refer to them as though they do exist.
ITU Offers Embedded Systems Design with Raspberry Pi and Arduino in Python and C
At most i would want a separate area which also allows us to push topics too it, because as evidenced by another famous tech site I used to be a fan of, there are groups who seem to think its their duty to ram their politics down the throats of others and they use all sorts of stories to do so.

However to be honest, I would just prefer a hide button next to the flag so I can bury it for my display only. Then I can tune out the zealots without throwing a flag
Alright, I can only say that in my case seeing simple recursive decomposition in scheme, macros, pattern matching (scheme, ml) then Haskell made much more sense than diving directly in Haskell very tight syntax/semantics. Without functional programming background, lazy languages with patterns can look like black magic, hence my suggestion.
Hated lack of caps in zines, still hate it in blogs. It's an affectation of profundity sorta inherited from e.e. cummings, but mostly from his 60s imitators.

Now if people would start tech blogging in rhyme or iambic pentameter, that might be awesome.
For a long time, I avoided capitals in exactly this way. It wasn't as negative as the reasons you've suggested. I figured that capitals were unnecessary for parsing because I didn't have difficulty reading my own writing without them. It wasn't until I began writing in larger paragraphs that I noticed what you've said here—that capitals do actually count in terms of speed.

I wouldn't be so quick to attribute this to arrogance or nonconformity. I noted that the brevity of individual paragraphs is similar to the way I had been writing. Mixed with the font, which does make it easier to catch the beginnings of sentences, it's entirely possible that he's making exactly the same mistake I made in exactly the way I made it—such that he hasn't yet noticed it does have an impact on reading speed.

Edit: Some of the other comments take a similar view, so I do want to point out that I may lack context. I don't use GNOME and I'm not particularly well-informed on the subject. My comment refers only to the lack of capitals and an anecdote about my own experience with avoiding capitals.
Yeah if they just used their paper charts, logged the position and compared GPS with the dead reckoning (or depth lines, radar shore returns,..) the attackers would have a much harder time... My sailing instructor always stressed that GPS is unreliable and especially when close to danger one should cross check what it says with other methods. Came in handy when my plotter failed.
Emboss and Contour are so easy
For someone who has spent a great deal of time decrying how facile and shallow TED has become, Evgeny Morozov has really doubled down contrarianism for contrarianism's sake without contending with irony therein.

He styles himself as a truth teller to some sort of "techno-elite", but he's really just a troll with nothing interesting to say.
I would observe, that all of the "low cost" equipment and techniques that are being described here were developed by "greedy" corporations and hospitals in the USA (or possibly Europe). It's easier to be cheap when you don't have to fund any original R&D.
Simple Algebraic Data Types for Ruby
Oh boy, another vapid commentary by Evgeny Morozov, following the tried and true formula of:

1. Pick topic close to the heart of techies
2. Deride the worst/most fanatical examples of said topic in practice
3. Make non-techies feel safe and smug that techie people are just mindless electric sheep

Because the idea that there's a way to streamline your life's mundane tasks so that you can do something other than watch cat videos is just beyond imagination. Nope, people obsessed with efficency are automatons who would only use that free time to just work harder and/or view cat videos.

This essay is even more nonsensical than his usual. It's like he ran out of wild anecdotes abo life hacking and had to find other words to which "hacking" has been appended.
Also might want to get a better server. I'm not trusting a messaging service whose marketing site I can't even reach.....
From the article it's not clear what the major drivers are in bringing down the costs. What I've gathered from the piece and another link posted in the comments:

* No air conditioning

* Buying used scrubs

* Buying in bulk, directly from manufacturers [1]

* Surgeons that work "typically work 60 to 70 hours a week" [1]

The additional link [1] seems to indicate that the innovation is simply volume. The highly-trained surgeons perform more surgeries, the expensive equipment is utilized more hours of the day, etc.

[1] http://m.theaustralian.com.au/archive/business-old/the-henry...
1) got my first android tv around 2012 and that was the second version of mk802, early models were available before.

2) grab a remote is better than grab a laptop and fire an application, plus you need to power it on, etc. but if you prefer that it's ok.
Netflix and pandora apps are available in Android, no need to use a web browser.

3) " but based on all the reviews, it's capable of playing 1080p video no sweat" well, is not what the review says:

"If you’re using the Chromecast extension for Chrome on your laptop to project an otherwise incompatible video site (like Hulu or HBOGO), however, video quality can dump quite a bit depending on your setup. It’s using your laptop as a middle man to encode the video signal and broadcast it to the Chromecast, whereas the aforementioned compatible sites just send video straight to the dongle, mostly removing your laptop from the mix. When casting video tabs on a 2012 MacBook Air running on an 802.11n network, the framerate was noticeably lower and there were occasional audio syncing issues."

You even need an additional transcoder! the mini pcs can decode MKVs by themselves (and lots of formats more)

4) network resources, yes they can: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.plattner.ci...

Look, I got an apple TV and one of those "dongles" connected to my TV, and trust me, when I need to play an MKV is way more easier to use a remote to access the File NAS than firing up Beamer app (http://beamer-app.com/) from my mac to watch a movie.

Chromecast requires extra hardware to complete almost anything, so yes, I think it's less capable than the mini pcs at 36 usd that ship free.
I love this - wish we had this when I studied at Tech (BS+MS in ECE, over a decade ago). I'm now working on my own startup (outside the US), and was actually thinking to try and meet up with investors in Atlanta. As others mentioned in this thread, ATL is a great city to live in - perhaps it's not as hyped as SF or NYC, but I enjoyed my time there and would love to come back one day. Keep up the good work!
You really seem to just want to argue about nothing. Your position is a strawman. The original poster I replied to was literally saying "can't use haskell cause academic norealworld". That is lazy and unintellectual. I wasn't talking to you, so constantly trying to re-frame my statements as though they were directed at you is not productive.
You are succumbing to the common fallacy of associating cost with quality.

Last week, my dad (who is a doctor in Turkey) was telling me about a new study that compared the cost of healthcare services in various countries around the world and the satisfaction of patients. He said that the USA ranks close to the bottom of the index, meaning that considering how much American patients pay for healthcare, their level of satisfaction is incredibly low.

This is why "healthcare tourism" exists and is dominated by American patients.
Microsoft touts Linux virtualization improvements in Windows Server 2012 R2
You're Fired!!! LOL j/k
Being this guy is great fun, but honestly try avoid being obnoxious and /too/ needy. It's a great way to learn but its also a great way to find yourself out of a job, you need to get your work done and other people don't need the distractions.

Learn as much as you can, but maintain a high level of respect for peoples time, including your own.
You make very good points but I got the impression that Shopping Express may work a little differently. It seems like Google might actually call the store and have the store employees prepare the order, or at least confirm that some items are in stock. One clue was an extremely quick turn around time for out of stock items: my order would be canceled less than an hour after being placed and hours before the intended delivery time for being out of stock. Of course, this doesn't rule out the possibility that the shopper happened to be at my Target at the time and was just buying every item for the day.

That being said, you do bring up good points and that may well be the reason.
is this still being developed? there hasn't been a new version out in more than a year
To be a real situation, it has to have actually happened. Do you have any example of such?
"But then, we're hackers. We're meant to be the people who find practical solutions to complicated problems, and I think that political issues do present the kind of problems that hackers would like to take on."

Well said. Politics is ripe for disruption, to use the cliché.
YC companies/alums that are GT related---

Level RF- now Soylent (disclaimer:involved as ex-founder)

ViaCycle -same YC class as LevelRF/Soylent

Paul Stamatiou is a prolific entrepreneur/YC alum.

InstantCab is a YC company started by Tech alums.

--------additional------
Chris Quintero -ME 2011, went on to help start http://bolt.io

Bractlet is a GT alum company that is now in the surge accelerator program in Houston.

CallRail and Design-A-mosaic are both founded by GT alum Kevin Mann.

Robotic dragonflies came out of a kickstarter project.

Titintech came out of GT as well from a Mechanical engineer.(disclaimer:involved in Rice BPC)

One of the first VSats was launched by GT alums- Steve
Chaddick who later went on to start Ciena, a massive telecommunications company.

There seems to be a set of people who 'have to be entrepreneurs' and there's a set that 'want to be.' IMHO, The set of people that 'have to be' can be pushed anywhere and don't have as big a concern about coworking spaces,environment, meetups, hackathons etc..

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I myself failed 2 physical product ventures(thermoelectric at JumpStartFoundry and LevelRF at YC) while at GT and also worked for 2 at the ATDC that were both venture backed and had physical technologies.

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Interesting post in any case.
You might want to consider a media query for that sidebar.
It doesn't. But it does mean that you won't be able to pay Thai companies except maybe a few small/rebellious ones with bitcoin.
It is unfortunate that this thing's name collides with tox, the testing tool.
The title's misleading: Bitcoin was never sanctioned in the first place - the laws presumably whitelist, rather than blacklist.

I don't think the political will exists, in either case - the political jockeying that currently stands in for the entire totality of both policy and political discourse doesn't leave much space for a quiet and novel campaign like this - I suspect, in fact, that the only thing that has fallen into the above category within the last ten years are CITES violations (drug stings should probably be credited to the DEA.)
Back when I was teaching English in Japan, I stayed up late hacking on Game Boy code to keep that part of my brain active. It was during that time that I really realized that I wanted to work in software, or at least something with some creative output.

I didn't use any of this though, I found a Japanese book on the GBDK C compiler. It's still available here: http://gbdk.sourceforge.net/
and there are more resources here:
http://devrs.com/gb/software.php#assemble

I've thought since then that working on a simple machine like that is a great way to learn the fundamentals of computer science.
As you might tell by my :(, I wasn't aware that it did this until quite recently. When it broke my site.
Happy SysAdmin Day To All
India is the second in health care tourism all across the world and if you want to see what are the comparison for each surgery in India with respect US for the same surgery http://www.techcrump.com/need-a-surgery-then-fly-to-india/ and here you can also see what is the state of healthcare in India for the peoples in India
This is from 2008. Could you add (2008) to the title?
Being married to a Journalist and also hanging out with her journalist friends has made me realize that, VERY OFTEN, the person writing the article isn't the one that writes the headline. And they sometimes hate the headline as much as the readers do, but that's how it goes in that industry, I suppose.
5 Steps To Making The Right Cloud Provider Choice
If solutions with manual scheduling like Python's greenlet are acceptable, Lua and basically any LISP should also fit the bill.
Is it just me or do flat styles actually have worse usability? There's absolutely no visual cue for what's clickable and what's not.
This is hilarious, actually. I like that the same guy also has pending action on the lucrative "methods for making slip resistant file folders" market.

https://www.google.com/patents/US20120217211
There is more to it than that though. Aircraft often fly instrument approaches using GPS alone, getting to within 500 feet of the ground while still in clouds. If someone could make the aircraft think it was just a couple extra miles in the wrong direction it could be disastrous.
I don't see any reason why "future" programers could not just learn low level stuff. Your reasoning is completely subjectively based. Programing is something more than just specific knowledge.

programmer from dictionary:

>>a person who writes computer programs; a person who programs a device, especially a computer. <<

iOS Programers fit that description.
Global CSS settings, fundamental HTML elements
Not Taking Advantage of Android Widgets?
> Exemptions are a thing, my friend. I have never been denied enrollment in a class (tbh I've been granted entry in a few classes that I wasn't even ready for yet). It's just a matter of persistence.

I hear you loud and clear—I should have kept at it. Unfortunately, I gave up after a couple of dead end phone calls :/

> I love what these people are doing though. Clough ULC is incredible compared to what Skiles was, and with groups like these, it could really transform learning at GT for the better.

Holy crap yes, Skiles was such an inhospitable hell hole. And I also love what these groups are doing; I wish there had been more activity in the arena when I was an undergrad there.
Read it again, it's not PSEUDO...it's PAEDO.
NEL was provided as an example to think about, not as a 'proposal'. There was no suggestion that students use this for everything.

Keep in mind that this is a structured 100-level class targeted at undergrads who are relatively new to programming and haven't seen much in the way of functional programming and Hindley-Milner typing.
By fining or jailing you if you are transmitting&storing those bits; or by shutting down your company if you are selling goods or services for bitcoin.
Your troubles are over, pt-heartbeat 2.1
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Personal anecdote:

Something I find interesting: We're taught not to put all our financial eggs in one basket, so we diversify our financial investments - cash and a variety of stock, maybe your own house.

And yet, people typically invest all their energies in one career path, and then lock themselves into that career with commitments that disallow job flexibility.

People often get made redundant, or their employee goes under, or the industry they work in collapses. And if that doesn't happen, they're stuck in a job they hate because... commitments.

Or maybe I'm just lucky. I'm 32 and I have, as Deepak Malhotra put it[1] "quit often and quit early".

I'm 32 and have, in sort-of-chronological order:

* a trade certificate in metal fabrication and welding (I'm a "Boiler-maker / Welder" as it's called in the trade) and have worked nearly 10 years in that industry

* I am a qualified Naturopath - I have studied Clinical Nutrition and Western Herbal Medicine (214 herbs)

* I have worked in IT Infrastructure and Physical Security, and have assisted in project managing a AU$1.4 million dollar data centre upgrade

* And I am currently, and for the second time, working with Physically Disabled men (just two guys) providing in-home independent living carer

I've never been without employment, nor felt stressed thinking I might have trouble finding a job.

Only now am I prepared to go to Uni. I've got employment covered. Now I can go do with Bachelor of Arts I want to do, and have no delusions about getting a job at the end of it.

Is there a point to all this? Surely. I'll make one up.

Why do people invest all their academic energy in one career path? Then get angry at that industry when they realise, like every form of employment, it sucks when you don't want to be doing it any more.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D73mm29XXAw
This has been a project on 4chan's /g/ board that began after Snowden's initial leak. Its good to see that this project has developed into something substantial.
A pseudo-tourist is your misreading of the word paedo-tourist.
How's their service going to stop a Man-in-the-middle attack, client endpoint exploits? Or the HN effect crippling their marketing servers.
I think it's wrong to bifurcate the audience into technie and non-techie, as if the only people who don't buy into personal optimizer narcissism are decidedly untechnical. You live in a little bubble if you think that's the case.
For the same reason I don't like errors in return values: most of the times you cannot recover from failure, only do some cleanup. Since you should always consider than anything you call may fail and put your cleanup in a finally/defer, you don't really need checked exceptions.

Even in say, a GUI application (which you don't want to crash on failure), you'll usually contain all failures at some level and for instance display a pop-up indicating that something failed.

I suppose checked exceptions are good for recoverable failures, but I encounter preciously few of those.
I suppose the local salaries tend to compensate that (as, for example, in Norway) ? How much a SW developer makes, on average ?
Highly depends on the store. In my experience only one supermarket here will do that, every other store will not. Another point, you can't earn gas points and save money on gas later on doing that. Another point, with my loyalty card on certain purchases at Walgreens and every time I fill a prescription there I earn points which can then be spent like cash there later on. It's a pretty generous program, actually, I have earned a couple hundred dollars.
> "and since i understand why people react this way, i can smilingly fall back in my chair and enjoy reading mean comments with a bag of popcorn."

Wow... so now that you've read Machiavelli and Cialdini, and feel you understand users better... then instead of using that to respond better to them and make the world a better place for them... you decide to take delight in their unhappiness instead?

Wow, I've never said something like this on HN before, but unless undetected sarcasm is wooshing over my head: what a prick.
Well, there's a computer game[1] for people with depression that teaches them to change though patterns, and at least according to preliminary results, it success rates are much better than that of a therapy.

And, there's the field of persuasive technology that works on building technology to help people change behavior. According to wikipedia, there are numerous studies showing changes in health behaviours.

So i wouldn't rule out computers inspiring people(which seems like an interesting problem to think about/work on).

[1]http://pandodaily.com/2013/06/25/a-game-thats-better-than-th...
Well, it is certainly possible by a government to force farmers to not accept bitcoins at those markets.
Microsoft to offer Java as a service
Child porn is bits too. People seem to be okay with making those bits illegal.