skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting into dental school is exactly like getting into medical school in the USA. It's very competitive, especially at the top schools. Everybody is type A personality, great grades, hobbies, research, leadership, community service, etc.

Before being accepted (and before we were married), many people/admissions officers/etc made a huge deal that my wife would have to sacrifice our relationship to get through school. We even had a Dean of a dental school pull me to the side while touring with my wife and tell me that we would not make it if she was accepted. This was largely overhyped and I'd say the stress in our marriage has only increased 5%-10%.

Dental school itself is also a lot like medical school. Every dental school I know is roughly 8am-5pm with the first two years spent mainly in classes, and the last two years spent in a mix of classes and student clinic. You take many similar classes as you would in medical school, for example, gross anatomy (i.e. real dead bodies) of the entire body before spending a few extra weeks on the neck up.

One thing to be a dentist is that you have to be good with your hands as every dentist has to give injections, fill cavities, etc,

Socially, I think dentists have a perception problem. Many people think dentists are trying to cheat people out of their money (similar perception to chiropractors) and being a dentist is certainly less prestigious than being an MD.
Drag?

And by the way - the title doesn't end in a question mark. ;)
Gaining traction seems difficult but not impossible
If you mean "The News of The World" then you need to get your facts in order [1].

Their journalists and editor, Andy Coulson, were arrested for illegally hacking into personal voicemail accounts for the purpose of muck raking.

Rupert Murdoch chose to shut down the paper after the extent of the behaviour by that paper's staff was revealed to the British public. The UK government had no hand in closing the paper.

[1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking
It seems they've hit some sweet spot that helps people get creative ..
I work in the call center branch of a fairly large corporation. Obviously we're not saving lives and dispatching fire trucks, but for some reason it seems like we're dead set against doing incremental rollouts and user testing in any meaningful way.

Don't get me wrong, I see things get to user testing phases and we have reasonable ways of logging bugs and problems, but almost every project I've seen had kept on trucking to meet an arbitrary deadline regardless of how poorly any of the testing goes, then the system hits the floor, chaos ensues and everyone runs around in a panic until someone managers to staple together a solution.

Kind of depressing that it looks to be the same in the government with calls that are a little more important than ecommerce sales.

I want to say that the guy that is in charge of the 911 phone network spoke a few times at a call center conference I recently went to.
More like Meta Up/Down, I tried for ten minutes on iTerm2 before remembering to use my Escape key.
This seems like a great opportunity for someone to develop an open source high-availability, fault-tolerant 911 dispatch system.

You're right! And then we can make a one-size-fits-all Retail Bank program that every bank will use. And a one-size-fits-all Policy Administration System for insurance companies. Once we've solved those problems we can move on to a one-size-fits-all Dispatch system for every company that has employees in the field.

Then we can wake up and realize that there's a reason why this hasn't happened in the last 50 years. Any system can accommodate maybe 80% of a particular niche's needs. But I'll be damned if you can get business users to agree on that final 20%. One says "black", the other says "white" and then you have some oddball that says, "potato."

And then there's the whole continent of minefields in regard to disparate devices, patents, trademarks, proprietary system interfaces, etc.

If you do take this on, best of luck to you - but don't quit your day job.
"I have no idea why if porting Chrome to bionic was so hard, they didn't use a regular Android build but run Chrome using ld-linux and glibc (and the rest of the system with bionic). You'd have to write something to bridge Chrome's content to the outer system via shared memory and IPC but (having done so once myself) this is much less work than hacking up a whole operating system!"

Just so i'm clear, your suggestion would be to use a completely hacked up libc, running on a platform not made for it, using shared memory and IPC hacks as well, for an app made to run as part of a TV 24/7?

I'm not sure i'd agree with your engineering choices. :)

"They really wanted to be able to run Chrome, before Chrome had been ported to bionic/Android..."

It's weird that you assume this is the issue, and then explain why it probably wasn't.

I can assure the the platform was not built on glibc solely because of the need to run chrome :)

The reasons GTV was such a "messed up platform" are entirely mundane (IMHO).
Small correction: "anti-American" should be "anti-American Imperialist" and "anti-government" should be "anti-oppressive government".
Please, take the time to read the article.

> “In fact, we don’t monitor emails. That’s what kind of assures me is that what the reporting is is not correct. Because no emails are monitored now,” [Senator] Chambliss said. “They used to be, but that stopped two or three years ago. So I feel confident that there may have been some abuse, but if it was it was pure accidental.”

They've essentially admitted that Greenwald's information is accurate, they're just claiming that Greenwald is late to the party and they've already dealt with the problem in secret.

It's interesting, because if you go back over the testimony I'm very sure that all of the NSA denials will be in the present tense. So it's quite possible that the NSA has not been lying at all, they've just been counting on us to fill in "That has never happened" when all they've said is "we do not [currently] do that."
It's actually pretty strange that even he limits the damage to the US only. Whereas it's clearly worldwide damage.

EDIT: I suppose he phrased it this way so that we listen more closely (or listen at all).
Now imagine for a moment 911 line was a private company. People subscribe to it, pay a monthly fee, call it, wait to get through and don't receive help in time. What do you think people would do then? Stop paying and likely file a lawsuit. Good luck doing this with a government.
"Elon Musks final invention will be a time machine. It will only work once before exploding. Before entering it, Elon will turn around and tell us he has done his duty and given us many gifts, and now we must use those gifts to advance mankind. He hopes great things for us.

We beg for him to stay and aid us further. He smiles sadly, He looks at us with his tired but happy eyes, shakes his head, and steps into the machine. He returns to an early 21st century earth...and begins his work once again. As it has always been, as it always shall be."
Very cool, I'm looking forward to checking this out. Support for injecting HTML, javascript, etc. into the notebook and even loading custom css & javascript sounds great. I suspect we'll start seeing some really slick looking notebooks with pretty themes.
On the contrary:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/25/ubuntu-china

As a proof of concept goes, the world's most populous country is pretty good.
The sensationalism is high in this article.

Operators had to record 911 calls with pen and paper

I know I work all day on a computer but I wouldn't consider using pen and paper a hindrance.
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From the linked page:

"All prices exclude VAT"
>Two months training is not enough training?

You've never answered the phone, have you?

I've worked in customer service and (while that's not exactly any way on par with what these operators go through) there's an entire volume of stuff to keep in mind before going in. Being an operator involves engaging in a fundamentally unnatural mindset that's often completely antithetical to what your normal responses would be. No matter who's screaming, shooting, dying, it's still your job to remain calm, clear and transfer as much information as possible to emergency workers.

Try listening to a few 911 calls. There are tons on the interwebs (LiveLeak has a whole lot). Be prepared to lose sleep for a day or two.
For someone who has taken nothing more than undergraduate physics as a requirement for my degree, can someone explain the benefits/risks of using an acoustic wave system over others? Has anyone previously looked at this sort of system for travel? If the wave were to be disrupted and these capsules come to a screeching halt, how fast of a deceleration are we talking about? Never more have I wanted to crack open my physics texts again.

And how will this affect the elephants?
The problem is, at some point it becomes the _individual's_ best interest not to pay for education, but it's in _everyone's_ best interest to have more education. This is a classic collective action/free rider problem.

So you if your ideas are good, you get support from your neighbors, and you get your idea moving, so the benefits start to accrue. Then the situation changes so that education 'exists' whether you individually pay for it or not, so you need to put in some penalty for not-paying otherwise the system falls apart when people start acting in their best interests... and next thing you know you've ended up with governance.
It's interesting that I can make a toy electric motor by with a battery, a magnet, and some wire.

While some people do make tiny internal combustion engines the work involved in incredible.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLn7xG8vuPQ)

World's smallest V12 engine:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3KdpzL3Hkk)

Making model IC Engine valves: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nofj1CGSCM4)
I just watched it, what in particular seemed so dangerous it would warrant so much precaution ?
I don't think it is just computer training, it is complete 911 training. Maybe includes emergency procedures and even simple psych profiling.

This system is disgraceful, and endemic of cheap outsourced computer systems that places like EDS have been getting away with for a long time.
6,437km/h (4,000mph) to zero is going to be one hell of a stop.
Pointing out hypocrisy of the government isn't anti-American.
I used to live in NYC, Seamless is a lot better in NYC. In SV it's pretty lame and overpriced.
I thought it was very easy to believe. A central conceit of the piece is that the system's maddeningly insane and needlessly difficult to interact with. If the system actually worked as advertised, you would certainly be right, and no doubt that was a goal of the refactor.

But training people to deal with crashes and exceptions is very hard, especially if it is under pressure. Often, this sort of training only takes places as catastrophes happen. Imagine you're an operator, and you have to use a system that's made of failures and bugs, you're exhausted from working doubles, and you can't debug anything: when it fails you have to rely on someone else.

(I have never worked in 911 operator facilities, only industrial operations.)
There's A+, from Morgan Stanley. It is actually a variant of APL, but it looks mostly like it (unlike J, it retains APL's hieroglyph characters, etc.) Licensed under GPL.
Exactly what I was thinking. The only question is how many tickets can Sharepoint take per minute?
(Haskell) State is pure
"Big data problems are almost all inherently columnar..."

Can you name some that are not?
My gut tells me that must be a couple of times the speed of sound...
justinhj,
would you mind to tell what you did and what you do now? Did you prepare the move or was it painless to find a different position?

I also don't want a management position and plan a technological move. Are you happy with what you did?
The wiki is way more useful than the above link.

https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki
Virtualdub is a personal favorite. http://www.virtualdub.org/docs/vdscript.txt

I suppose FFMPEG could work too.
It's not an off topic remark, because acabal brought it up himself. He's the one who talked about born-here Americans not knowing the beginnings of totalitarian states, and if you can't see the problem with a born-here American talking about totalitarian states without actually having experienced it, and using it to back his argument, there really is no point in furthering this conversation.
Woah, support for inject HTML, etc. sounds very interesting, and seems like a big deal.

On another point: I'm increasingly intrigued by the idea of having something like IPython (or perhaps, IPython itself) be used as your command-line shell. Right now it's possible, but in a bit of a long-winded way. I think this is a matter worth looking a little more into.
Link to associated video:

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/chomsky-says-snowden-should-be...

The quoted segment starts at 1:21:25
> Bonus points if someone builds a way to crowd source the data so that it gets logged from multiple DNS servers round the world.

What you want is a website that answers: Does Country-C block Website-W? A user gives it a URL and it has VPNs surfacing in lots of different countries and it tries them all, and displays in which countries the URL is blocked.

The website also stores and records all blocked/unblocked websites, and allows this data to be downloaded.
Which doesn't suddenly give it a point, that just shows they're aware of what they're doing. Spamming suggestions some of which they will fall into by chance is silly.
Have you ever been in a 911 call center? Many, many, many things are computer driven, not the least of which is interfacing with the various agencies one may have to deal with on a per call basis. Then there's "whose jurisdiction is this"? Kind of hard to determine with pen and paper. Who's dispatched to what? Who's covering which stations now? How many calls are in the queue? The list goes on and on.

Having to record things on pen and paper is hardly sensationalism. It's more or less a worse case scenario in the 911 dispatching arena...
Didn't mean to imply otherwise. I've learned quite a bit just reading his code. He has a ton of projects and I worry that he's spread himself too thin. I assumed this project had been abandoned.

Sorry TJ, didn't mean to sound like a dick.
> Right now it's possible, but in a long-winded way

How is it long-winded? Basic operations such as cd, ls, etc., all work inside IPython.

Also, try envoy[0] for subprocesses.

https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy
But Greenwald is claiming that there is nothing technical stopping low level analysts from snooping on anyone without any form of authorization. This directly counters the line put forth by the national security establishment and its apologists since the revelations began.
Like a true armchair warrior, how many engines have your tried building?
why everyone is crying about spying issue. The original purpose of internet is military. US government gave access all of access to the internet, because we all wanted to use it. That doesn't mean US govt cannot use it the way it wants to use it.
Where do you get that figure from? The speed of sound is around 1000km/h,right? Still one hell of a stop but it might not be that fast, since basically its the air drag doing the braking.
Worse crimes happen with some frequency yet the response is never nearly that large. Boston is the only time I have ever heard of an entire major American city being shut down on order to chase a single criminal. His crime was not exceptional, aside from the "terrorism" angle. Such a massive overreaction is hysteria.
while Twitter's infrastructure is impressive[1] (though, not because of the tweets/second number you've cited), that is an entirely different problem set with different challenges and no regulatory/integration concerns.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...
It does on HN : P

Well, the acoustic idea wouldn't solve drag at all. The craft would still have to move through air.
Well, the problem is that these bindings don't usually implement the corner case Vim functionality I've come to rely on over the years. Can it record macros perfectly? Does :%s/foo/bar/ work? How about selecting, then :s/foo/bar/gi? Does the period key reproduce all actions properly? How about :%s/foo\([0-9]+\)/bar\1/ ? Do all of the basic actions do exactly the same thing as they do in a vim editor? Does % take you to the nearest parens or brackets, then cycle between the opening and closing one? If so, I'm sold. These aren't just random desires -- all of these are necessary for anyone who thinks in Vim.

A few years ago I tried some emacs vim simulator and it had glaring flaws in multiple categories. Vimpulse or Viper or something, I think.

It seems like it's a catch 22 because anyone sufficiently skilled with emacs to design a perfect vim simulator also has no reason to do so, since they're emacs masters.

(I'm on a phone else I'd check out evil now.)
Thank you, I stand corrected. I was aware of the copyright issues (where the University tried to say it was theirs) but knew less about the general IP 'land grab' that University undertook. More background is at the link below.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ccf-campaign.html
Cybercrimes causes $500 billion in economic losses
Solar panels don't store energy. They only convert it.
> Though seriously, when was HN ever about health and safety?

The computer version of safety is called security. And HN cares a lot about computer security.
You point to an important omission in my scientific article! My gut just assumed the reason would be 'drag', specifically reducing it.

I guess the question is: would it require less energy to push capsules/cars through the tube with an acoustic wave than it would to force them through the tunnel e.g. with some sort of propulsion?
Large scale disruption is impossible because the government and its employees are protected by guns and the force of law, permitting special interests, cronyism, and incompetence to flourish. We in the marketplace (minus Industrial Military Complex) have no such protections, and actually have to produce value to make a living in a fair exchange of goods and services.

Most government employees are unemployable in the marketplace, so it's in their interest to follow orders, at whatever cost, to keep their jobs.

The best thing for young professionals is to fight the system intelligently for those that have the resources to do so, or avoid it entirely.

Edit: As is with NYC's 911 boondoggle, a SF startup could've built out an amazing system at a fraction of the price. But that wouldn't be the government thing to do. It has nothing to do with building a quality product.
Aerosol can. Spark. Gasoline.
Soup10 takes the anti Chomskian side and writes whiny comments full of ad-hominem attacks. He makes no attempt to consider Chomsky's side.

But I still have hope and I am sure soup10 unlike Chomsky of course has a long list of documented bullet points that explain government's side.
As a random aside, why do APL programmers try to import their idioms into C? Take a look at the VM code in J or Kona and prepare for a shock.

It's too bad. I find VMs interesting, but I wouldn't touch that C with a ten-foot pole. It's IOCCC quality.
> You are conflating the overall cost with the per-year cost.

Performing the division to approximate yearly costs from the source I linked does not support your point. Obese people may have had the highest costs, but not the highest average yearly costs.

In a single payer health system, the "insurance provider" sees ROI from peoples' productivity, meaning the single payer system has incentive to keep people healthy even if it costs more. OTOH, private insurance wants to dump you as quickly as legally possible the moment your costs exceed your premiums weather you are healthy or not.
But the problem doesn't end on encypting endpoints because the NSA can infer information from the flow routes. You need something bigger, like honeypots and many other tools of confusion.
Chomsky is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time. The man has nothing to lose and nothing to gain by voicing his thoughts. Too bad he is getting up there in age but hopefully we will enjoy his presence for many more years.
They're just starting to get serious, but the Internet Association is playing way too much softball, and more importantly they're pushing more for the specific corporate goals of their financiers than the interests of the internet at large.
You could bind mount new copies of config files in other locations, but you have to know where they are...
If you can travel the world in 6hrs cheaply and if it goes well feel it should be developed everywhere possible http://www.techcrump.com/travelling-the-world-in-just-6-hrs-...
Wolfram|Alpha gives 343.2 m/s (1236 km/h) at 20 °C and 1 atm.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+sound

Of course, in a closed system that isn't directly touching humans, it doesn't necessarily have to use those conditions. Still, I don't think you're going to get anywhere near 6400km/h.
I don't use Bootstrap/Foundation/etc. because:

- It doesn't really fit with my workflow. I find that when I use a framework I end up designing the copy, content, and functionality of my templates to fit within a given confine, which ticks me off. I prefer starting with the content that the page has to display and building the CSS up from there (it helps that I have more front-end experience than the average webdev.)

- I don't like the look of them, for the most part. Yes, you can customize them, but you can still tell who started with a Bootstrap template. No, most customers won't care (or even know what Bootstrap is), but I care, dammit, because I've seen a few dozen too many MVPs that never evolved their design past the "hey, lets change the nav bar to red" stage.

That being said, this is still incredibly inspiring. These frameworks are resulting in more people producing and publishing valuable work, which is awesome. I can't wait to see what the future holds for these projects.
This only works for liquidity events.

Think about it.

No management fees are being charged; only performance fees.

I'm not in the VC business, but there are a lot of investors who are going to be very, very hurt in the next couple years once consumer technology valuations crash. On the other hand, this move may let the party last a bit longer.

Too many people are chasing companies believing the investment will lead to a 10x or 100x return. But, investing in unprofitable businesses is quite different than publicly traded investments and private equity investments.
I can't figure out how the OP proposal differs from Charles Alexander's. Low frequency (long wavelength) waves travel around the tube at the speed of sound. By traveling at the same speed, and correctly choosing a point along the wavefront, one can take advantage of significantly reduced apparent drag. It's implicit in Alexander's suggestion that either (a) the total length of the loop is an integer multiple of the wavelength of the waves, so they are "resonant" in that sense, or (b) the envelope of the wave is much less than the length of the loop. (If neither (a) or (b) held, the wave could not be formed in the first place.)

So what distinction is OP making? That it's resonant, and so definitely (a) and not (b)? I think it would require a calculation of how fast the wave would disperse in the tube, which OP has not done.
Some programs rely on dynamic libraries for modules so you can't, but the main issue is glibc is not designed to support static linking. Use eg Musl as your libc and it is fine.
"...and Intergraph [the Alabama company that designed the new system]."

http://www.intergraph.com/ - Flash header on company's homepage hangs on Chrome. Not a good start.