skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. But not by the government.

$1.4 trillion spent by millions of consumers in a free market will produce far better healthcare than $1.4 trillion spent by the USG. When it comes to making choices, the market is far, far more efficient than the political system.

As for the drop in the bucket, it was to produce a web app by which those millions of consumers are supposed to find health care plans, not actual health care. The drop in the bucket is a miserable failure! It should serve as an index of what to expect from the system, as currently constituted.

There should be no USG health care site. Consumers should be free to type "health care" in their search bar and select the best one they find. High deductible or low deductible. Across state lines. Birth control covered or not. Mental or not. It should be like choosing a smart phone. And the government's role should be limited to keeping the suppliers honest.
Fun fact: over 80% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
why is alaska so large? The entire state population is only 780k.. so even if it were 100%, it should only be about two dots

Edit: also it says this data was published by the world bank in 2011
In our case that isn't actually how we think about any of this.

First, when we (or any venture firm) makes an A-round investment, we typically reserve another 2-3x of the A-round investment size for participation in future follow-on rounds for that company. So a $5M Series A shows up on our books more like a $20M commitment. The other $15M isn't necessarily always deployed, of course, but we also double down even more strongly in certain cases (either out of opportunity or sometimes necessity) so it balances out.

Second, it's not either/or -- we do venture rounds as small as $3-5M and we do growth rounds as high as $100M. Each fund has a blend of both.

In practice, we don't pay a lot of attention to any of this. When we get a great A round opportunity, we take it. Same with B rounds, and same with later-stage growth rounds.
Mac shipments continue to shrink as Apple loses ground in US PC market
I was on a bus over from Montreal, we were all in a big room after they had emptied the bus. One guy was born in Cuba and was Canadian now. The border guard asked him how he got to Canada? The guy says 'What do you mean?', and the border guard replies, 'How did you get to Canada, did you swim over?' Another guy had gotten a DUI in '79 in Canada, and the Guard was asking him about it in front of everyone. No joke, these guys may be doing their job, but they are a bunch of assholes, even to US citizens, and they are outside the law - you can be detained indefinitely at a border crossing without any probable cause, US citizen or not.
Direct link to the changelog you quote: http://backbonejs.org/#changelog
Coincidentally, http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesl...
Did you just compare heroin to cars? =/

Think his point is that heroin is generally not considered a good thing, although it can obviously have some nice effects.
Ask HN: What are HNs views on Marijuana/ Medical Marijuana?
Kind of off topic I guess I was just curious as to what all you professionals think about it
Why do you need capistrano.
It makes a difference to the male applicants that would've been accepted if there wasn't a bias.
Yes, I (roughly) agree. The consumer companies Scott was talking about are ones where they need to generate a "lightning in a bottle" effect to work as investments. There are other kinds of consumer companies that are much more straightforward to analyze -- for example, those that pay to acquire customers and have a model to make money by doing that.
South America is basically the same.
> My impression is that cities are chaotic, unpredictable, and fast-paced [...]

You should visit Sinagpore once.
along with a few photos of some of the Edison-related items I’m lucky enough to own.

He also owns Da Vinci's notebook http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1esdvq/til_bi....

Must be nice to be a gazillionaire...
Correct -- this is a key consideration for actually running one of these funds that is not always obvious on the outside. A $5M A round investment carries an implied commitment to invest $10-15M more in later rounds.
I didn't read that as snarky. I also don't understand the fruit fly analogy and I can understand why a fruit fly geneticist (who knows a few orders of magnitude more than me) isn't sure which aspect of fruit flies is the relevant one.
Of course this notion never cross my mind. What I was eluding to was money spent facilitating healthcare is money well spent, even if they overspent. After all, we are talking about the U.S. Government.
Hmmm. How much damage could a 250-pound fin-guided kinetic penetrator do, falling from 12 miles up? Could you kill a tank with that?

Not much good for blowing up wedding processions, admittedly. But it is interesting to think about. I don't think you'd want a stock Hellfire for a vehicle like this. Whatever the payload, you're probably looking at something more like a guided bomb than a missile.
I think the most refreshing bit about this, besides the fact that it's a goldmine of free information (thanks!), is the fact that it's all laid out on one html page. It makes me think of what websites used to be like before ads and crazy designs took over.
I haven't browsed through much of Wikileaks, butt I was under the impression that they do leak documents from many governments, not solely the US or GB. However, is it a surprise that the documents that get the most press are US-related? And, after all, the bigger the government, the bigger the paper trail / surface area for leaks.
Offering a torrent could be legally interpreted as giving up copyright for the work(s) offered by the torrent.
> foreign countries to stop exploiting them

Most developing countries need/would benefit greatly from foreign goods. The only way to get those foreign goods is from foreign currency, which can only be gotten from foreign companies. The main reason WHY companies are motivated to move operations into underdeveloped countries is because said workers are so exploitable.

Imagine if, from the dawn of capitalism in China, China mandated pollution and labor laws equivalent to the US's. I don't imagine that China would not be anywhere near as developed as it is now, and it's possible the current standard of living would be even worse. (just a thought example, elucidation from actual cases/examples appreciated)
Point taken although I'm not sure I agree. I hope "female students" is an acceptable compromise.
It seems to have lead a charmed life. I lost several of the ones that had no clips, they just rolled away unseen over the years.
Next to PHP, Java and Javascript are beacons of pristine language design.
Demands on Lavabit violated Fourth Amendment, lawyers say
Sweden is the same as Canada, highly connected but large unpopulated areas
"When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Facebook. It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days. You should only delete your account if you are sure you never want to reactivate it. You can delete your account here.

Certain information is needed to provide you with services, so we only delete this information after you delete your account. Some of the things you do on Facebook aren't stored in your account, like posting to a group or sending someone a message (where your friend may still have a message you sent, even after you delete your account). That information remains after you delete your account."[1]

"Maybe that was true in the past, but today when you delete your data it is gone. Trust me, I wrote it myself. The law enforcement guidelines that have been circulating recently corroborate this."[2]

I do wonder what sort of "things you do on Facebook" aren't stored on your account, though.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#deletion

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320240
That seems dumb. If you require a particular ordering, you should have to specify it and it might cost extra to put the results in that order.
Designed and manufactured a product in less than four months? Hmmm... Why bother with software when you can crank out real products at a miraculous rate no other American company can.
The hypothetical craft with the 250lb payload has a wingspan almost as wide as a 747's.
It is rather sleazy that they tried to portray Assange as a self-obsessed, egomaniacal cult leader of some kind. Claiming he was in a cult and bleaches his hair, etc. Quite an ad hominem (even if the movie is not intended to be a documentary or a polemic). People are going to watch the movie, see that, and go "oh, what a nut job" even though it's completely fictional.

Really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Also the claims that Assange is responsible for the harm or death of Americans, or that they later leaked unredacted documents.

The Social Network's dramatization of Zuckerberg wasn't nearly that acrid, in comparison.
I think Scott's interview is being overinterpreted. We aren't blanket refusing to do Series A investments -- in fact, we are working on multiple Series A investments right now (both consumer and enterprise). Scott was describing our framework for thinking about consumer vs enterprise in the current environment, not laying down the law on what we will and won't do.
I tempt to compare SteveJobs vs BillGates to Tesla vs Edison
I believe the developers working on Windows Vista, Copland, Taligent and GNU/Hurd would like to have a word with Mr. James.
Art for money - a critique
When we signed up long time go when we trusted the tech community and facebook, we went in with good intentions. But then facebook breaks our trust and sells us out to anyone who is willing to pay, something they explicitly said they wouldnt do when we signed up. Slowly and carefully like a psychopath working its victim, facebook is removing any sense of control and privacy from its users. Like for example removing this feature in the headline.

Back in time I remember we users had control of our news feed, we could actually stay in touch with friends, these days we have very little control of what gets shown the news feed, we dont even know how the algorithm works. Far too often we miss important information because facebook decided to post ads was more important. Well. Bring it on facebook, here is more inane crap.
If you can supply pointers to an open source project which can take arbitrary documents as input and generate thumbnail images from them, I just might implement it myself.
Correct, our beta uploader uses Dropzone. It'll replace the older plupload version but we've got a few bugs to work out.

Failed upload and duplicate detection notifications in the UI as well as retry are all planned.
When I saw it, I was struck with how primitive it looked inside. The same for the Apollo capsule.
3.34 Gb according to the torrent.
Yes we are aware and have been in communication with all services involved.
I feel like I've discovered this a little too late. Does anyone have any good suggestions for other quality software based magazines?
The current cohort of web browsers is the first to feature universal support for SVG: http://caniuse.com/#search=svg
I am really torn on this lawsuit. I work with NFPA standards. Currently many standards are available online for free on the nfpa website.

The issue with this being a completely free publication is how would we maintain the development? The people who sit on the committees already volunteer their time.

NFPA still has to maintain the documents, handle grant application, research, publications, free resources (like fire safety month). Would they be able to solicit enough donations to handle even their core duties. Large companies could handle it but how many copies are sold to firms that would prefer not to spend anything on it?
I think http://chaplinjs.org/ provides a nice happy medium between the two approaches. It extends (does not fork) Backbone objects to solve those no-so-basic things for you. Yet it still keeps the UI as separated from the core logic of your app as much as vanilla Backbone.

Less tediousness than vanilla Backbone and a cleaner separation from UI and core logic than Angular.
There's also the common swift, who spends almost all its time in the air and absolutely never lands on ground, due to being unable to take-off -- its legs are too short and weak to do that. They only land on rock faces and take off by letting go. That's where they build their nests too. You can see them in a lot of cities actually -- high buildings are pretty much perfect for them to nest on.
That's effectively the same argument as if all smartphones run HTML5 apps, why would anyone write native code?
More for development......
I'd suggest you to ask them directly.

I used them sometime back for a client's app (.NET/MSSQL) and I was impressed with their support and quality of service.
With only 660 students and around 3,000 highly qualified applicants, I'm pretty sure Mudd can be very picky about who they admit without introducing a bias.
It takes 10,000 hours of practice to disbelieve Malcolm Gladwell.
Wooing China’s Princelings
The people in here who ask questions aren't scientists. Asking "but are you sure the sequence shows flight and not moving on the ground" for a bird that is widely known to never touch the ground is not constructive criticism, not good science, it doesn't improve anything, it just distracts from pertinent questions from knowledgeable people.

Good science is criticism from people who have some knowledge in the field. Otherwise you're no better than the client who tells the designer that making the page title blink would add a nice touch to the homepage.
Hehe yeah, I agree with that article's assessment. Tesla and Edison weren't arch rivals, and both of them were important. I still find the comic fun to read :)
Streams and pipes for analytic or computational events
I'll go read several textbooks on fruit fly genetics and get right back on this.
By globalizing, we're basically diluting our own standards. It's happening, but that doesn't mean you have to help it happen.

If China has laxer environmental protection laws, and the US has stricter, then the US is basically working around its own environmental laws by outsourcing to China. This is happening, but that doesn't mean that you might as well go all in to China, until the point they develop environmental protection laws.
London...
For a lot of people, writing on a whiteboard with 4 prospective employers breathing down their neck is totally different than sitting on a plane or in a quiet corner alone with some paper to write on.
This seems to be valid compared to numbers released in April 2013 [1]. GitHub is growing fast.

[1] https://github.com/blog/1470-five-years
But since a large number of people are still using old browsers (IE and Android[1] specifically spring to mind) excluding them still seems like a no-go and makes these icons much less desirable for commercial sites.

They are extremely cool though, I love the animation and styling especially. The grunt integration looks great too. These really look like icons to make developers / designers happy

[1] Approx 30% of android users are still using < 3.0
http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

[EDIT] At risk of side-tracking things, I am not sure on their stance on the "save" icon
How could there be anything legal related to the method of file transfer?
Read this very internal memo and decide for yourself. Surely, you could argue for China and Russia breaking human rights, but they don't portray themselves as the moral authority in the world.

The document says this: kill squads, assassination, execution, immunity for the soldiers doing the assassinations. What the documents don't say - destabilize the region, overthrowing foreign governments for political benefit(you could argue they're just playing the geopolitics game with Russia), political exiles, breaching their own constitution in whatever way they can, hacking and cracking(surely an individual hacker would've gotten 50 or so life sentences for the things they've done).

You tell me this is a big stretch.
it isn't simple because consumers don't chose based on the work conditions the workers who made their products, but on price. At least, not the majority of consumers.
Sorry about the repeat post. Posted from one of the mobile apps seemed to have messed up somehow.
Really? I did not know that. Can you tell us why?
Recipe for recruiters on LinkedIn
30 Orgs Unite To Safeguard Canadians’ Privacy Rights Amid Spy Agency Scandal
Doing the math it looks like there were about 873 female applicants and 2271 male applicants.

It's certainly possible that a higher percentage of the much smaller female group were qualified than the larger male group.

In this case, where the assumption is that high school females are less likely to want to pursue a math/sci/tech degree, I'd guess it's likely that the average female applicant to Harvey Mudd is more qualified than the average male, simply because she's already going against the grain by applying.

But none of that has anything to do with the extremely positive aspect of making the compSci program more fun and accessible to all comers by ditching Java and C++ in the intro classes and focusing on solving real world problems. Bravo to that.
How would the students know that they had laxer requirements?
> NYC transplants to SF are rare

Not so rare that I don't meet one every few weeks. They pretty much all say the same thing: there's nothing like NYC but SF is more livable.

On the other hand, people who move here just for the tech boom tend to polarize hard into either the most earnest people you've ever met but who have little interest in the city, or complete a-holes who hate everyone/thing. That's my scientific determination at least.
I am curious what the fallback support looks like for these.
Supreme Court shields prosecutors in wrongful convictions (2011)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4643438/how-to-search-con...
personally, I think it's distracting and annoying no matter how subtle. It's a beatiful effect though.
It's funny you're quick to call TechCrunch myopic yet you obviously didn't click through to read the article.

The full headline reads "As More Startups Move To San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In The City".

Not so ambiguous.
I posted this to provide a different context to the "Don't email me"[1] thread.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6526098
Downloading a backup from your Facebook account before deleting it let's you save all of your valuable information. If you then choose to never open this backup, well I guess the information is not THAT valuable for you.

Deleting my Facebook was very easy and straightforward. 1) downloading the backup. 2) permanently deleted my account, not deactivate . 3) communication to my friends I no longer use Facebook and how they can reach me. I still recieve invitations and photo's via IM and mail, no big deal!
Wow. Its good to see Linus takes the occasional day off : https://github.com/torvalds
What are good ways to start a startup in the business intelligence sector?
Land of free: "We have decided a case that appears to say just the opposite," he wrote. "In Arizona v. Youngblood, we held that unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police," the defendant does not have a right to obtain all "potentially useful evidence."

There is no duty under the Constitution for prosecutors to turn over test results "which might have exonerated the defendant," Scalia said, quoting the Youngblood decision.
I'm not really sure I understand; why would calling the method "capitalize" instead of "capitalizeInPlace" be inconsistent?

(Also, the comments in the header file and the README file contain the name "capitalizedStringInPlace" instead of "capitalizeInPlace")

Another inconsistency is that most mutating methods in ObjectiveC don't return self, but either void or a boolean or an integer that reports if the method succeeded. But I assume that this inconsistency is on purpose because you want to make the methods chainable.
Only slightly so. The answer to that question is "because they can do more things, better".

A native compatibility layer does (almost) everything the 'real' system does, (almost) equally well. If it doesn't, people will be disappointed with it, and by extension, with your system ("yes, Windows Phone can run Android apps, but some will crash, and that game does only 20 frames per second")

If/when HTML can provide the same experience as native code on a mobile phone, many of what now are apps will move to web-only.
It's a press release, not an internal memo.
Wal-Mart Drops Ambitious Expansion Plan for India
New Gamespot redesign
Data isn't shown for every subunit of every country, the whole US have been sized according to their internet population, not each state.

What I find missing is mostly Taiwan, which should be the size and colour of Australia between Philippines and Korea on this map.
Amazon Buys Rohit Agarwal’s Tenmarks
Always a bit depressing when you are reading an interesting article, from someone well respected, then boom sudden MBA bashing. :/
Yes, for that i prefer my own Namespace and extend not directly from Backbone (e.g. same when you use Backbone-Marionette).

Before you change your views, you should think about an own class on top of backbone and extend from that class.

So you can handle default behaviours easier and centralized.
I actually really like it -- this site has been around forever, never thought of it as a business until I saw the cubes and workareas during the video (that didn't suck -- I didn't even cringe watching it)
Valve confirms Steam Machines will be GPU agnostic
What's Qigong?
> Can you even make a 'lean startup' type organization based on editorial content?

Blogging :)

Also Upworthy was a very interesting example of a successful news startup: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-upworthy-grew-to-104-mill...
Apple, yes. Google... not that much, for now at least. You can still decide not to use their appstore or their applications at all when you run Android.
I don't think I want icons with javascript in them: http://useiconic.com/concepts/smart-icons/
I was curious about that as well, especially given the latest cap news from the developer.
Eh, Apple and Google have a pretty good thing going right now. I'm not sure if we need microsoft to come in and potentially rain on everyone's parade.

I know "competition is good", but microsoft isn't very good at competition.
Two reasons:

a) The author might disagree with my asessment. A pull request would imply that I consider it an error, but I think it's more a question of style.

b) I already waste too much time on HN. Forking a project, trying to understand all of it, making changes, writing a pull request, etc. would probably take me all day but I need to clean the kitchen and take care of the kids and work on some overdue client work that I have been postponing for far too long.
> VC is a game of 1000x returns.

That's not true. Today, a lot of funds, particularly larger ones, are placing bigger bets on companies in later rounds, which is arguably a smarter strategy than trying to place lots of small bets earlier in the hopes that you'll get lucky and discover the Facebook or Twitter and have put enough into it to make your big percentage return a big absolute dollar return.

Taking Twitter as an example, its last round of funding in 2011 reportedly entailed a $9.25 billion valuation according to PitchBook. If its valuation at IPO is north of $20 billion, as some expect, the investors who poured $400 million into the company in 2011 would more than double their investment. If you look at Twitter's S-1, a lot of the biggest stakeholders were investors in Series C and beyond.
Calling them "icons" is a bit weird, but I really like the idea of an image with an api, for charts and other visualizations.