skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take the "ad-hominem reply" back-- It seems you are at the "name calling" stage of disagreement:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Di...
If you expect your needs to fluctuate wildly, then AWS is the thing to go; if they fluctuate mildly, then metal will be cheaper but has other issues, such as all the administration tasks are different.

AWS allows you try to run a large setup and then just drop it if the project doesn't work out; AWS allows you to cheaply run large but infrequent tasks quickly - you're not paying for idle servers.

Also, you may want to choose dedicated hosted servers instead of "in-house metal", that's a solid middleground between that and AWS.
While some of the procedures may fall under malpractice (multiple enemas, surgical sedation without consent), they're definitely violations of the AMA's professional conduct and ethics oaths.

In re the billing, it's probably an automatic thing from the hospital itself, rather than the physicians.

Attorneys had to be falling over each other trying to get to this client.
S&P 500 in 1995
I love Crunchbase but I would have more sympathy for them if their long tail content was given a bit more maintenance love. If your content stagnates, you deserve competition. To be fair this takes effort, but how many young people would knock themselves out for a low paid or unpaid internship there to get this stuff done? It seems more like a lack of caring, although admittedly I'm an ignorant outsider.
He is not confused. That was satire.
On the upside, they've said they'll give it back.
How does that work day to day out of curiosity? What does collaboration look like for you guys?
I think I recently saw something mentioning that it was at 100
These are private circuits leased by Google and Yahoo you're talking about here, connecting data centers that they own outright. Are you arguing that because these links are geographically located in a foreign country, the NSA should be able to disregard the provenance of the data they carry?
The increase in number of seed funds from an LP's point of view
I never use their service but I have been following them. It's sad to see them go as I think they have a good product.

From the comments, there seems to be a consensus on not charging enough. It'd be interesting to hear from the team why they didn't try charging more or even going thru the crowd funding route.
How reliable is Crunchbase, anyway? In my experience, its frequently outdated and incorrect, but I don't search it often.
Show HN: Alienfeed – A Reddit terminal client
So using Postman is cheating I guess?
Your decision to invest shouldn't be equivalent to whether the company is going to be successful but whether you will get more money than what you put in (accounting for risk, alternative investments, etc).

Failing businesses are sometimes good value.
My most (only) popular (relatively, for me) repo - a perceptual hasher for php https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher

The project I personally have the most fun with is https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug, a page scraper and profiler that I built to run a threaded feed generator which is still very much a work in progress (http://precis.gopagoda.com/) - the only reason that isn't open sourced yet is it's still terrible.

Crazy fun to play with but terrible.
If another company came up with a dual-powered version of the Tesla, then I would definitely buy that. The current round of plugin hybrids don't offer enough battery-only range for me. I'd like to see about 100 mile battery only (in case I forget to plug it in), plus a small engine and 10-gallon tank. I wouldn't think the gas engine would have to be that large, especially if it were designed to use the battery as a buffer (i.e., it would only need to have enough HP to maintain highway speed, and acceleration could be handled by the battery).

Which brings up a question -- how much horse power is needed just to keep a car cruising, without accounting for acceleration? Edit: just looked up on Wikipedia, the Model S gets 100 miles per 35kWh. So that works out to (assuming 65 mph) about 23 kilowatts average continuous output, or 30 HP. Considering that many car engines are 300 HP, I don't see a 30 HP engine being that extreme.
Winning and losing apply to everything in life. I think people who were exposed to competitive activity as children deal with setbacks way better. That being said chess is not exceptional here - about any sport would do as long as compete, train and are part of the team.
As to making a living as a programmer being easier - no argument but it doesn't relate in any way to my post.
Ah, the old canary canary...
One thing they should make clear on the website is who is actually allowed to apply for these positions. I'm in China and applied many times for "remote jobs", just to discover that the position was for US citizens only. It's rarely mentioned on the job ad, but I think it should.
The iPhone 5c Bought the iPhone 5 an Extra Year of Life.
Hayden White would distinguish between a hollywood narrative in which a false(r) history is deliberately created for entertainment or sensatinalism, and an attempt at an accurate account, regardless of how biased it is. There's a difference between intentionally crafting a narrative and expressing one you have formed through your experiences. Bezos is suggesting the former, which is quite different than what White was talking about. Not that that proves anything, but you're dismissing what she's saying completely by misapplying a theory.
> They might do similar work, but I see software engineers as being accredited engineers, with that is a legal attachement to the title.

My job title is "software engineer" and I don't have any accreditation to speak of. Such is the case with the vast majority of people with this title.
Many hackers have a vested interest in the development and progress of society as a whole. It's extremely evident in open source communities, especially.

Matters such as this highlight major problems with society, and many hackers feel a personal responsibility to address those problems in some way, whether that be by reasoned discussion, protest, or various forms of support for larger causes formed to deal with those problems.

This is not fearmongering, this is shining a very bright light on an issue that has spent far too long in the dark.
Their fanatical race to be there on day one of every new appstore launch, and ride the promotion that entailed was brilliant for the time.
All I'm saying, which should be self-evident, is that a successful business can be a bad investment if the price is too high and a failing business can be a good investment if the price is low.
The AMA and other relevant organizations have been turning a blind eye to the torture of POWs by the United States. To date, no doctor who has tortured prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has been sanctioned, where they should rightfully be stripped of their licenses and put into prison.

I don't know of any case where a doctor has actually participated in an execution, but it seems doubtful whether anything would actually happen to them.
I'm not sure that looking at a complex system like the US economy and focusing on one aspect of federal regulation is useful in determining the cause of the s&p500 rise.
...it dumps all sorts of bacteria into a nominally sterile area.

I hope you were specifically referring to bowel perforations, because normal, uncomplicated colonoscopies are not conducted in a "nominally sterile area."

Per Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_intestine#Bacterial_flora

"The large intestine houses over 700 species of bacteria that perform a variety of functions."

I think you did mean "a bowel perforation dumps", when you said "it dumps", but it felt a little vague to me.
the security alert i got this morning says otherwise:

The following Microsoft products are vulnerable:

Windows operating system: Windows Vista SP 2, Windows Vista x64 Edition SP 2, Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems SP 2, Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems SP 2, Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems SP 2, Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems SP 2 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems SP 2 (Server Core installation)

Microsoft Office suites and software: Microsoft Office 2003 SP 3, Microsoft Office 2007 SP 3, Microsoft Office 2010 SP 1 (32-bit editions), Microsoft Office 2010 SP 2 (32-bit editions), Microsoft Office 2010 SP 1 (64-bit editions), Microsoft Office 2010 SP 2 (64-bit editions), Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack SP 3

Microsoft communication platforms and software: Microsoft Lync 2010 (32-bit), Microsoft Lync 2010 (64-bit), Microsoft Lync 2010 Attendee, Microsoft Lync 2013 (32-bit), Microsoft Lync Basic 2013 (32-bit), Microsoft Lync 2013 (64-bit), Microsoft Lync Basic 2013 (64-bit)
It is serious! Does it reek of insincerity? We are looking for some good talent please spread the word if you know of anyone
Steam Greenlight: Obduction
Thankfully your options are not limited to Tesla and Facebook
I am curious if there is any research related to this idea: "Once a narrative gets rolling, people seem to just act out the part they invent for themselves inside whatever they perceive the story to be".
This kind of behavior on the part of law enforcement will lead to destruction of public trust in the police. And that is a major step on the way to destruction of the American Empire because when Americans no longer trust their security forces, then nobody else in the world will trust Americans at all.

The medical clinic and the doctors who performed the procedures should all sue the police officers involved personally as well as the police department since they lied and they solicited the doctors to commit crimes. This kind of rogue police behavior needs to be severely punished in a very public way to send the message that "peace officers" are there to keep the peace, not to disturb it.
A simple tool that turns a pure Python package into a single executable.
So someone inside Apple decides to post a warrant canary. Presumably -that person- have never been served with a 215 warrant. They ask around: anybody else been served with a 215 warrant? Of course, the answer to that question is always no - whether they have or not. So what does it really tell you, when a company puts out a warrant canary?
If you have to ask, it's probably rape.
Saw you on here last month and popped resumes in for the Technical Consultant and Tech Writer roles; radio silence ever since. Possible that something went wrong?
I did mull this over when I wrote the post, and it is something I do consider, but I cant say "Oh dont sue me because I my tax dollars will go to repair the screwed up damage the society I support decided to support."

Hopefully this guy getting ten million dollars will make the citizens revolt AT the police agency, and drive the stake deep. I do agree we need a standard of liability, but who is going to start the groundswell to make that happen?

People only care when their pocketbooks are on the line as far as I can tell.
The problem is that when things do go wrong, especially if you fit certain stereotypes, there seems to be little recourse beyond a costly court battle against an organization with far more resources than an individual (monetary and social).
This reminds me of the women in Texas who had their vaginas and anuses searched after being stopped for littering.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/troopers-texas-prob...

at least one officer was charged with sexual assault.
Ah, wow, that will be very challenging to post some json. Hmmmm... 'man curl'. Yup.

I mean, this is an interesting idea that will keep out the folks who don't know how to search SO, but that's about it. Plenty of other riffraff will be able to 'apply'. (Heck I might even be able to figure it out.)
Create a Virtual Tape Library Using the AWS Storage Gateway
This tool is similar to others like PyInstaller and cx_Freeze. It uses a simpler algorithm and is a lot easier to use thanks to the fact that it doesn't try to deal with non-Python dependencies.

There's a video of me demoing the project in my portfolio at http://johnsullivan.name/projects.htm#superzippy
If you need to strip a lot of boilerplate and modify the code of a large framework in order for you to use it enjoyably, maybe you should look into different frameworks instead? Perhaps a microframework.
In America "peace officers" are now responsible for disturbing the peace, not for keeping it.
Here in Australia, there are lots of high-tech businesses working on unsexy problems who get funding, that no one ever hears about.

The only reason I know anything about any of them is I ended up in the right place at the right time. It's a shame, but that's how it goes.
This is practically a modern day Milgram experiment, but substitute fake electric shocks with real anal penetration. Pretty shocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
they have seen doctors kill their relatives and harvest their organs

Oh man, I shouldn't ask..

.. but I'm going to. Link to more info?
I guess the Stanford Prison Experiment would be a prime example.
Hopefully the legal system will dish out some justice for him.

For him with dollars and for the rest of society by putting everyone else involved in the unemployment line, if not prison.
Depends a lot on speed, the shape of the car, and other factors, but on the order of 10-30 HP for something like the Model S at 70mph I think.

I still really want a hybrid truck, running diesel, with the ability to seat 2 people, secure cargo space (like a custom bed with lockboxes), 4wd, and the ability to run the engine for a week or two in place as a generator (e.g. at a remote comms site). Run the engine during the day to keep the batteries charged, operate at night off battery.
I really like SQL - as I was learning SQL, I thought it was terrible, but now after years of using it really makes getting to data easy, I'm very excited to see you choose SQL instead of JSON or something less query like to query...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

"Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The participants adapted to their roles well beyond Zimbardo's expectations, as the guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some of the prisoners to psychological torture. Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, at the request of the guards, readily harassed other prisoners who attempted to prevent it. The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his role as the superintendent, permitted the abuse to continue. Two of the prisoners quit the experiment early and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. Certain portions of the experiment were filmed and excerpts of footage are publicly available."
I'm a bit confused. I can only manage to screen shot the website itself. How do I, say, screenshot my desktop?
Medical Rape - comes to mind. I was speechless.
Why is key recovery desirable?
I think the danger is in the big automakers getting EV right, before Tesla reaches the middle and low end of the market. Nissan has the Leaf, which is by most accounts, a great little car. The Chevy Volt is the best-selling in my neck of the woods, it seems. Tesla makes better electric cars...as far as the reviews indicate. But, they're also much more expensive.

But, here's the reason I just placed a limit order for tomorrow morning (I'd check into TSLA a couple of times this year and thought, "Nope, still trading too high."): Tesla is currently selling as many cars in a year as Chevy sells in three days. So, the stories I can envision in my head for how this will play out are one of the two:

1. Tesla will fail to scale up. They will not be able to continue executing on their business plan effective. Growth will halt. The big auto makers will gradually move into the EV market. They will use their leverage as larger players with more money to throw around to beat Tesla on the battery front and on manufacturing costs. Tesla will remain a bit player, and be bought up for patents in a few years. The stock will not do well, long term, in this scenario.

2. Tesla will continue to execute well, if not flawlessly as they have done up to now (let's be honest, Tesla has an amazing record of doing the right thing at the right time). They will continue to grow at a very rapid clip. They will enter new markets. They will sell more cars than they can manufacture (and maybe more electric cars than anyone else can manufacture also, due to the current limited battery availability). They will continue to execute well on battery acquisition and development. They will continue to execute well on solving the cross-country EV trip problem...before any other manufacturer. And, they will become a major automaker. The market is huge. They're less than 100th the size of Chevrolet or Ford. That's a lot of room for growth, even with their share price being hundreds of times earnings (yes, it really is a very expensive stock, in that regard).

So, my primary question is: Will they execute really well. History says they will.

And, my next question is: Will I get other chances to buy at a discount over what it's trading at now? I don't know. I've regretted not buying stocks in the past due to it looking really expensive. I put off buying GOOG for a long time. Watched it from IPO on up to $750+. Then it went on sale for $340, and I backed up the truck as well as my stock portfolio would allow (so, I'm currently approaching a triple bagger on GOOG). TSLA is no GOOG. Probably never will be. But, it's potentially a much larger company than it is today. I'm willing to bet a few bucks that it will be. But, it is definitely gambling and not value investing.
For the past year and a bit, The Verge have been lightly dipping their toes into startup journalism. See Alexis Ohanian's "Small Empires" on there for an example.

I personally hope they give it a bigger shot, as it fits their cross-section of tech and culture that they're aiming for, and I've loved the writers since some of them were back on Engadget!
I've stayed in multiple apartments where it was never a problem and, by design, won't be.
I hear what you're saying, but respectfully disagree.

I love to hear about failures in human systems above all else, and value HN's ability to find them for me.
Yeah but they carry guns and have power over you if they want to. That doesn't make them at all like the rest of us, and they should be exemplary in the way they deal with taxpayers.
Rage. That is what I feel. I hope the town is bankrupted and the officers, doctors, and judge who contributed to this are all put behind bars, where, ideally, they'll get to experience what unwanted anal searching is like.

The police are totally out of control in this country. They are out of control because they are untouchable. That was the lasting legacy of the Rodney King acquittals: you can do what you want if you're a cop. You can beat a black man senseless for nothing. You can beat a homeless man to death with your fists. You can pepper spray, tackle, and beat peaceful protesters dancing in a public square. You can smash people's cameras who are trying to document your abuses. You can send SWAT teams to the home of the mayor of a small town, shoot the family dog dead, track the blood all over the house, put the family on their knees for hours with guns to their heads, and then when it turns out it was a mistake, leave, laughing and saying "you're lucky we didn't arrest you."

Almost certainly it will get much worse before it gets better. Armed with ever better surveillance, city police are going to get much more powerful. And power corrupts. I think we'll be hearing about a lot more of these kinds of abuses.

Eventually, 400M Americans are going wake up, realize that they've had enough, and effect real, lasting change.
> I'm a white, upper-middle-class, works-with-USG/DOD, contracted in war zones, lots of friends in government/police, etc. person, so I have it exceptionally easy, sure.

It sounds like you get it at some level, but to make the point extra fine: this is privilege. When white middle-class guys (which includes me) say, "eh, they've always been nice to me, so I'm not sure what the big deal is", we're failing to care because it the problems don't affect us. A cop's not to stop and frisk me for no reason or kick down my door looking for pot or harass me for some trivial moving violation or throw me in jail on unreasonable charges to get beaten and raped every day. They're always nice to me. So it's easy to say, "cops are kinda great, and that one time my house got robbed they were ON it", and just never internalize the fact that for so many people, they're an armed oppressor working with official government sanction and little accountability. That it takes something as mind-blowingly outrageous as court-sanctioned rape to get our attention and we're still not quite willing to look the system in the eye and say, "man, this is just fundamentally broken"...well, that shows just how deep that privilege goes. Is it any wonder that bad cops and prosecutors (and, gulp, judges) feel empowered to do this kind of shit?
Some password hints with that same encrypted password:

idiot
hero
worst president
My President
prez
gwbush is the pw

I think I can guess what the password is ;)
For me, I run XFCE with Xmonad as the WM. It's all sorts of awesome, letting me best use each of my screens. I've found it very customizable and awesome.

What are the things you're looking for in a desktop environment?
The problem is that it's not just the engine. If you want an engine then you need a fuel tank, emissions controls, either a transmission or a separate electric generator attached to the engine, etc. All of that stuff adds weight and cost, or reduces the space, weight and cost budget you have for batteries and electric motors. By the time you've paid for it you might as well forget about the 30HP engine and put in a 100HP engine, at which point you have a Prius.
https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa

Parser combinators for Objective-C.

I wrote this ~10-11 months ago because there were no internal-DSL based parser combinators available for Objective-C. I'm not sure if the landscape has changed since then!

Performance-wise the resulting parsers are SLOOOOW. I have created a branch that uses ranges instead of immutable strings, but have yet to merge it with master.

I originally designed it as a replacement parser for NUI (https://github.com/tombenner/nui) but the performance wasn't up to scratch compared with NUI's tailored regular expression based parser.
Dang, fell asleep there mid-conversation :/

I am noticing that it is unexpectedly difficult to reason through the security model of Javascript crypto code. And you sure are patient, and I thank you for bringing about that realisation. It is beginning to dawn on me that it is amazing how _happily_ we allow any random site to go ahead and use are CPUs to do _God knows what_ as soon as we visit their site. That's rather trusting of us when you think about it.

But we gotta. Because why? Because dynamic content supposedly; it was easier to have Turing-complete Javascript than figure out how to make HTML/CSS dynamic. Never mind that a generic VM approach should have been taken if that's what you're gonna do, and let random site-designer Jo(sephin)e choose the language they like hacking with rather than create yet another language that we're all going to bitch and moan about. And you can tell that the assembler for the Web / VM approach should have been taken because that's what Javascript is becoming. Exhibit A: ASM.js

And at the time we should have figured out that in addition to sandboxing we also needed a security model that would cater for end-to-end secure (anonymous?) communication. Pity we couldn't see 20 years down the road. Now we're stuck with Javascript (which I actually like, don't get me wrong) and GMail (which I'm regretting that I use, nowadays) . sigh
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