skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But as someone who has owned several Ultrasharp monitors, I don't feel that it would hurt their brand to come up with a different differentiator for 4K monitors. The brand is Dell, not Ultrasharp. I can almost guarantee that anyone who even knows what Ultrasharp means would be the kind of people to research the specs of a monitor before buying it anyway. So maintaining that 'brand' across all their high-end monitors just doesn't seem necessary.
These types of discussion about language always reminds me of http://www.economist.com/node/15108609 which I find a fascinating read.
His page numbers are zero indexed. Cute. I would have loved to take his proposal for an introduction to computer science course.
A tumor doesn't have a profit , it just grows diverting more blood from the body and expending energy with one purpose of growing. In hospitals case, their purpose is to grow and provide fat salaries to their executives.
I don't know I thought the one ad with the musician from Bandon, was kind of catchy; but it did seem like a poor use of public funds.

The musician is Laura Gibson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2UUcXCo9g and the song is very hopeful.

But, buying all that airtime and all those billboards... http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21410-live_long_and_pr...

Definitely showed the risk of a marketing campaign too far in front of the product. Not to mention that a marketing campaign for something with so much pent up demand is kind of goofy.
This seems like "in the long run" eventually-we'll-get-to-933-then-everything-will-be-better thinking, and if so it lies at the root of the problem: market forces are non-stationary, making equilibrium-based-reasoning necessarily flawed. Most of those who work all day every day selling X have consistently been able to develop and exploit profitable inefficiencies more quickly than the market can correct them. As such, the success of such proposed free-market solutions depends on the particulars of how the system's higher-level dynamics are parameterized. In other words, naive deregulation and free-market-introduction will not reliably improve things, and could make (/definitely have made) things much much worse.

Just as there's no communist utopia, there's no laissez-faire promised land.
I'd go with 'sarcastic' myself - I assume he is not attempting to mislead anyone or to pretend that he sincerely believes it.
You seem to be flagged, i can't imagine why. Probably for criticizing modern medicine? Either way i see what you are saying. That "not-fully-qualified-as-a-doctor" professionals seem to be the go-to people for minor injuries like stitches and sprains, while for major injuries you go to a hospital. Makes sense. Why open a whole computer when you just want to know 121451*1231 right? And i guess that does bring the price down because these people aren't buried under education loans for their medical studies
Google level of support.
You'd be surprised, for a lot of industries -- and for select departments of others -- the holidays are a source of relative slowdown. I've done more than one migration, roll-out, or refresh over the holidays, since there's usually less users to concurrently support (and thus downtime is less disruptive).
See, first world governments really are better at everything!
Go for it! (Btw you DON'T get bills? as in not ACTUAL bills stating how much it cost you? The bill just goes to the insurance/govt?)
I think this is kind of like an air conditioning company saying, "If it can cool you off in the tropics, it can cool you off anywhere!"

The facts are simple: there are significant parts of Africa that are very sparsely connected to what is commonly available in many (or most) other countries of the world.

I get how this can be somewhat offensive, but I also think the point comes across and isn't directed at the African people.

If it works in Africa, then, objectively, it works in sparsely populated and sparsely connected areas.
Send to Wikimedia.
I'm in tech, and am not really complaining for myself. But non-STEM folks are having a pretty tough time. The digital age has devastated non-STEM fields and majors. There was a time when getting an English or History degree from a respectable university opened a wealth of opportunities. Now they're more likely to be found selling shoes or making my coffee. My mother, a sweet 55 year old woman who never attended college, is the accounting manager for a business with tens of millions per year in revenue.

How? She was given secretarial work in the 70's and slowly clawed her way up while raising 3 kids, and was even lucky enough that her 7 years out of the work force in the early 90's when we were young didn't affect her career trajectory very much.

The possibility of this happening nowadays is slim to none. You need a degree to even be looked at for a lot of office work these days, and you can be sure you're not going to be promoted when they can bring in someone younger, with a degree relevant to their business sector, willing to work for less to fill any positions you could potentially be considered for. This also applies to lots of liberal arts majors as well as just high school students.

It also doesn't help that for as long as I can remember, my teachers, parents, and counselors have told me, my siblings, my friends, my classmates, and my generation that we should follow our passions and dreams, and success will follow. Luckily I like math, science, computers, and I've been a bit of a geek since I was a toddler, so I fell into my, coincidentally, highly-in-demand CS degree quite naturally. The same cannot be said of the bookish history, literature, or philosophy nerds I know.

There is blame all around, but from my perspective it seems like a lot more of it lay at the feet of our forebears than us.

But hey, at least us computer geeks have it good, eh?
Er, the profit margin metric exists whether or not the hospital is for-profit. All operations have a "difference between income and expense".
This is not my home turf, but this is beautiful and exciting. Is your ajaxy frontend in a state worth open sourcing?
At the nursing stations on every floor of a “not for profit Health Care Ministry” hospital that I regularly deliver patients to, and take from them, in front of every terminal, is the following motto:

“The care we give our patients? Priceless.

For everything else there is ChargeComplete.

Bill your patients for the things you do."
I wonder how the math works out.

If you assume that each dev has a salary of $100k, they're probably costing the company $200k for benefits, office space, etc. so $40 mill pays for at most 200 years of dev time.

Add in managers and a profit margin and $40 mill probably buys you a team of fifty devs for two years.

That doesn't sound too absurd. They may have failed, but $40 million seems like the right ballpark for a healthcare exchange.
I had a similar experience. EKG and some time and a needle. Similar bill. I just never paid it. My credit is horrible but I manage to get by.
Shame he didn't spend that time working on the rest of the movie, like plot and dialogue.
This is an interesting perspective but it also fails to imagine a shift in paradigm. The way I see it and the way the article acknowledges it to some extent, you can't build a new smartphone with the existing paradigm where carriers have control. What happens if the communication infrastructure that they control gets disrupted is anybody's guess. But maybe by then what we call a smartphone isn't called a smartphone anymore...
Hong Kong's first case of H7N9 bird flu virus confirmed
Perhaps you should go for
find . / -name filename
instead. Using du -a | grep filename works for sure, but it a bit of hack.
Wow. That ideology you've got there is impressive, especially considering your current system either kills people who can't afford it, or bankrupts them. Any universal healthcare is the wrong system? Laughable.
I think the root cause of both this and the healthcare.gov failure is Gall's Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall's_law

The problem with dealing with the government is that they have a long list of requirements that they absolutely must have. As a result, the programmers will work to satisfy all of those requirements, and will let the unwritten requirements (like, oh, "must not fall over when more than a dozen simultaneous users connect") lapse. Frequently with software you have to trade off requirements against each other; when you go to implement it you realize that what the customer actually wanted is self-contradictory. The essence of good product management is being able to make these trade-offs smartly.

One thing that all the big companies realize is that to build a large working system, you have to start with a small working system, and then evolve it so it keeps working at all points. Google doesn't dictate exactly how the product is going to turn out at the end - it sets a general direction and product statement, and lots of individual product managers or tech leads then work on figuring out the details.
Could Video Games Be The Next Job Interview?
They are raking in revenue. If they aren't making a profit, that's simply evidence that they are less efficient than socialised systems. Presumably because of moral hazards (health insurers or the government pays, not customers), and information asymmetries (customers can't judge whether or not they are being conned).
Perhaps this is nit-picky, but this isn't at all parallax. It's fixed elements mixed with non-fixed elements. For it to be simulated "parallax", it must have elements that move at different speeds that mimic the effect that real-life parallax would have.
I disagree. They've got an attractive presentation. Perhaps the new layouts are a little gimicky these days; no doubt they'll eventually be pared down to something that is minimal but has the same spirit. Nonetheless, I think what these guys have put together is quite attractive and communicates exactly what they want to communicate about themselves and their product.
Clicked it expecting some rubbish. Left in amazement at this guy's ingenuity. I always find it incredible when people can repurpose stuff like this because I usually need everything just right. This is great.
Wow... Things like these actually make me glad I am in a developing country. We have top of the line medical facilities as well (we have sucky ones too), but even the best hospital in town[1] wouldn't cost this much. Heck a few stitches would gost me entire annual health insurance there!

[1] Aga Khan University Hospital, Managed by AKDN, the 2nd largest NGO in the world (2nd only to the UN)
The previous generations didn't exactly do anything to help us realize this reality. Hell, I feel like I won the roulette wheel of life sometimes in that my CS degree, which I naturally graduated towards, is in great demand. And other kids were pushed equally strongly to their history, sociology, philosophy, and english degrees.
True democracy in Hong Kong is 'impossible', says Basic Law expert
Modern "x86-based" CPUs are actually mostly RISC architectures under the Hood. Instruction sets are a mere front-end nowadays and don't tell much about the inner workings. Think of bytecode.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I enjoy it even more living with him. Maybe I'll ask him to come on and explain what inspires him and how he thinks...
And vice versa. We are all in this together.
What can we do about this ? Is this a technological problem ? Who is protecting the status-quo ? What exactly makes healthcare so expensive in the US than other first world countries ? Thats what I want to know.
Too bad they passed up on the next lexicographical model name.

I think a "Tesla Model T" would have been both ironic and a bit prophetic. Perhaps they just wanted to avoid the inevitable constant jokes.
Even that's not true though. When I was consulting, and even now at my current company, I dealt with multiple people who were needed support for a number of reasons (ads not displaying being the biggest). They'd get absolutely nothing back, and then maybe a couple of months later things would just start working again.
Carlos Juan Finlay celebrated in Google doodle | Technology | theguardian.com 
Died in August 2015?
Parametricity in Go
Nice. Some observations:
Many languages compile to JavaScript(has highest number of source languages).

Java(I think JVM) and C++(native binaries??) has higher source languages.

Clojure has highest target languages(good to learn then).

Java to Java => Beanshell is interesting.
Another Scala rant on HN
Experiences Changing Programming Languages
Robert Scoble Explains How To Not Look Like A Jerk With Google Glass
You know how we avoided this problem at reddit? We didn't edit the user's submissions. :)
CodeBrew - Scala worksheet in your browser
Speaking of Oregon, I went to find the online application today and was disappointed (but not surprised) to find out it can only be submitted using IE. Tens of millions of dollars spent and I can't even use a modern browser.
As mentioned in the article, California already requires this[1] and yet the examples from this article are from California. Not much of a solution.

http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/chargemaster/
I scrolled like 10 pages and didn't learn a single thing about the device.
They claim it seats seven and has two trunks. Do you dispute that?
With an estimated mortality around 30%, I wouldn't want to catch this bug.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to spread human-human particularly well - yet.

Mortality source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9#...

Transmitability source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9#...
Late IT Cash Surge Foreshadowed Health-Law Woes Government
> How on earth can you think a free market solution is appropriate for emergency medical care?

You could say the same thing about funeral services.

Yet it is a free market. And it works well. Because people buy plots ahead of time and negotiate services well in advance.

Nothing is stopping you from walking into an emergency room at your local hospital and negotiating a fair hourly or daily rate for care.

Well, nothing except them looking at you like you belong at a loony bin because why should anybody give a shit what things cost? Insurance pays for everything! Until it doesn't.

What a wonderful world we live in, where we don't need to worry about what something costs ... until your premium is thousands per month and you run to some halfwit politician to fix it. I would laugh, but I know many are crying right now, trying to make Obama's website work for them.
I'm primarily a PHP person. New to Ruby. Didn't want to restrict it to a particular domain. That's why didn't include my tech capability. :-) Thanks for your feedback!
So many of the comments here can be answered with the specs page. http://www.brck.com/specifications/

The design is intended, as most marketing pages are, to capture attention and interest. Scrolling storytelling is a very effective way to do that.

HN readers, in general, are very critical of emotional-impact-based decisions. The truth is, many people respond to things that are 90% aesthetic and 10% functional. Note: Jabberwocky[0]. If you want to dive in deep, you are a part of the crowd that doesn't make impulsive decisions based on marketing. Congratulations - click on the specs link to see an easily readable, fairly cold page.

If you want to make an impact on the majority of people, consider that most people are less concerned with technical details or even descriptive language, and more concerned with how they feel.

[0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnwBHVQJWJs
Why Apple Bought Topsy
> American cars vs. the rest of the world, American houses vs. the rest of the world

This is entirely due to how cheap land is over here, and it's not even true in a large number of places in the US. Compare New York City to the Midwest, or (especially) the Great Plains.
Wow. The new Myspace is actually quite beautiful.
You should team up with http://echonest.com/ they have the team and the experience and could probably help you do something cool with it.

Given the seed terms; I'm imagining an infinite dub mix, where you pick and mutate beats and fade clips into each other. Too bad our legal system makes such a thing impossible.
iNO Mobile here in Singapore has a whole series of elderly-targeted phones, here's one:

http://www.inomobile.com.sg/2012/07/ino-cp10/

actual retail price now is SGD 79, which is about USD 65. I'm not sure if I can get these at our 7-Elevens, but I think they have something similar with large keys.
Growing up isn't about not partying. It isn't about being boring. It isn't about getting married and churning out children. It isn't about being "the man" in any way. It isn't about becoming a fiscal miser who doesn't enjoy his/her money, nor does it prevent you from enjoying some drinks or even your drug of choice, if that's your thing.

It's about accepting and owning what's expected of you as an individual, autonomous, functioning member of society. Nothing more. Owning control of yourself.

Does this mean you have to get married, have children, and stop partying? No, not at all. Does it mean you take the initiative to pay your bills on-time and hold up your end of the bargain at work, at home, in your relationships, and society in general? Absolutely.

I'm in my mid-30s, and I did a lot of very hard partying clear into the twilight of my 20s well into my 30s. The money might have helped, but "growing up" made it a hell of a lot easier to enjoy those times simply because worry wasn't even on the radar knowing everything I could personally control was in check--because I made sure of it. Nobody else controls any aspect of my life that I myself can control.

And yes, with wife, child, and more micro-manageable responsibilities than I could have ever imagined when I was younger, I'm a hell of a happy person. Family, friends, gadgets, code, etc, etc.

What makes you grown-up isn't arbitrary; in the end, it's in fact a pretty clear line that transcends generations: Own. Your. Shit. But I'll leave the rest of the thread to conduct the typical older/younger generational ad hominems.
YouTube comment channels now even angrier
I did a quick look following your response. It seems that many hospital's profits aren't terribly bad.

"Forbes found 24 hospitals with more than 200 beds make 25 cents or more for every dollar of patient revenue they take in."
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/corporate-news/116745-h...
http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/30/profitable-hospitals-hca-he...

Bloomberg ran a lengthy story on how hospital consolidations are running up prices for all manner of procedures.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-20/hospital-monopolies...
"Hospital profits raise eyebrows as medical costs continue to soar" [2010]

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/corporate-news/116745-h...
Before we get into how terrible Google customer support is in general... has anyone actually tried their phone support for this service and can weigh in on it?
Yahoo Acquires SkyPhrase - Pie In The Sky Or Future Cloud Offering?
This is only a valid strategy until you have enough money/exposure. Then you get targeted by asshead extortionists and the law is on their side. After the first lawsuit, you will never "never once worry" again.
This isn't the case, I just verified it.
A test.html page with <script src="dummy32k-a.js"> and another for dummy32k-b.js show as downloading concurrently in chrome devtools network timeline.

It makes sense since the HTTP fetch order doesn't affect semantics as long as you obey the execution order from the page. Unless you're doing something very contrived, such as serving them as no-cache and generating different js dynamically from server side if a previous script has been requested...
When we (note: "we" is defined as the set of individuals located on plant Earth who are legally able to cast a vote in the political unit known as the United States of America) can have an ideological disagreement on the role of government that no longer includes one major participant in the debate being able to effect that participant's desired outcome (little-to-no government) by simply standing on the side and refusing to debate, I think we'll then be ready to debate the relative merits of the system we currently have versus any other system in the world.

Until then, best of luck with your trolling.
The wierdest programming language?
As a newly inspired hacker, I'm fairly new to the world of software, and would love to learn a new language. Now, rather than sifting through the endless stream of debates on stack overflow in search of the "best" programming language, I have a different plan.

I'm going to learn five entirely unrelated, unusual, and potentially useless languages, just for fun. What would you recommend? Why is it awesome? What makes it neat/cool/wierd?
How true, and ironic indeed.
I suspect the affluence of smartphone users in general is more selected towards those that can speak/write english. Also, most apps are not localized to native languages, and so the people that use apps are exposed to english more often. It's much harder to get reviews on Android, especially for different countries.
Get in touch with the Internet Archive, perhaps?

http://archive.org/about/contact.php
In a serious bitcoin/mental poker implementation you could let people put up a bond that's used to pay the other party if you do that. It's not exactly zero trust anymore but still better than the conventional model.
This Landmark Study Could Reveal How The Web Discriminates Against You
Have you seen the profit margins for the hospitals with these high prices? They certainly aren't raking it in.

These hospital are almost exclusively non-profits. Measuring the profit margins of non-profits is folly. They funnel the excess money into salaries, marketing, equipment and expansion (often unnecessary).
Ok i din't read it all the way through so thanks for posting that. But SERIOUSLY?!?!? You know it wasn't our generation that wrote "romeo and juliet".... And i thought this was backwards now? I thought young people now care even far less for relationships and more for sex...
Yeah, that was pretty special. It's because it's a fillable PDF...
Yes but a megadrive did not fit in your pocket, and the game gear, while backpackable, had awful battery life. The smartphone is successful running game gear level games because it will do so all day, and has a setup time of four seconds from impulse to game.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6181627 (3 months ago)
I was hoping he'd find some way to double-hinge the wardrobe door so it could function as both a door and a desk! Still obviously very cool and far more than I could do (or more importantly, as you say, even come up with).
I know that FedEx (and probably USP) are both very interested in flying big unmanned autonomous vehicles (cargo planes) between airports.
> You could say the same thing about funeral services. Yet it is a free market. And it works well. Because people buy plots ahead of time and negotiate services well in advance.

Well, except that when I die, my corpse only goes one place: the ground or the incinerator. And, as an added bonus, I get to choose that destination in advance. Oh, for the joys of only ever potentially needing emergency (or even urgent) care in a single location.

> Nothing is stopping you from walking into an emergency room at your local hospital and negotiating a fair hourly or daily rate for care.

I'm pretty sure that this is called insurance.

> until your premium is thousands per month and you run to some halfwit politician to fix it.

Or until you buy insurance on the open, free market and then have that insurance canceled for some obscure reason usually related to your suddenly becoming too expensive for your insurance carrier. Or knowing in advance that actually going to the doctor for that pain in your side will mark you as having a preexisting condition (even if the insurance doesn't pay for it and never even sees a bill) thus previously making you uninsurable or only able to receive coverage for a staggeringly high premium.

I could go on but I don't want to bore you with my real life tales of navigating our so-called health care system.