skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in single payer systems, bankruptcy is often the result of medical issues. You have to remember that many conditions prevent you from working, so even if your medical bills are paid, you still can't afford your daily expense.

Interestingly, it turns out that research commissioned by the Canadian government shows that 15% of people over the age of 55 who declare bankruptcy cite a medical problem as the primary reason. Medical bankruptcies can, as I've been saying for a while, be driven by something other than the lack of free government provided medical care.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/09/bankrupt...
This is a reoccurring trend with Feedly (taking advantage of content creators while making money off of their content)

Unlike most RSS readers, Feedly refuses to share how many readers a content creator has via their user-agent (the standard method for doing this). When I asked them about this, they simply said to wait for analytics in 2014. https://twitter.com/feedly/status/408797947053101058

Are you going to make me pay for that too Feedly?

I really like their product but can't stand their policies. Why piss off the very same people who are feeding your product?
Well I don't have an old Nokia, I have an old Samsung slider with a 2 MP camera, so for me there's nowhere to go but up. I, and I think most other people, are pretty easy to satisfy in that department anyway.

Also, travel? Like, around the US? I think I'll be fine, plenty of people seem to get by with AT&T just fine, right? And when I go overseas I have no one to call, and usually don't want to be contacted (that's part of the whole "vacation" thing) so I consider lack of overseas support a feature :)
Technically I think you mean the impact of the median startup is zero.
> What you do, however, is remove the reason job seekers go to college in the first place. There are not that many jobs that actually require a degree, other than as a superficial filtering mechanism, so you can take them out of that system.

This is a second order effect which I am not so sure which actually happen reality. I posit that it is also likely that people move the requirements to an internal portal, everyone gets wind of such a thing, mainly when HR reps start writing that "breakthrough book" about secrets of getting your first job and everyone still keeps going to college.
Sounds like you want a multi-dimensional rating system that works. Patience, it's coming. We're focused on doing it right.

1. Sign up at http://tinj.com

2. ...

3. Profit... I mean, we'll let you know when we launch.
The Lumia phones are not fast. Fast scrolling, sure, but apps take 3-4 seconds to open and don't stay in memory very long.
Why can't you define a set monad? The first definition I can think of is making behave like Haskell's list monad?

That is to say that "xs ==> (\x -> f x)" Would take every element in the set "xs", pass each of them into f, and union the results into a single set.
Disappointing truth be told, Theodore Sturgeon's observation certainly applies to programmers talking. Mostly because the same ratios apply to the quality of programmers listening.

Most programmers are quick to pigeonhole you and what you say. Pay attention to their conclusions and note how careful they are(n't) about gathering enough info to arrive at those conclusions. Look for signs to see if they are skeptical of their own mental models.

This is how to pick who you should work with.
One of my goals in life is to write a piece of software that everybody hates. If those same people depend on it to survive, that is a hugely satisfying bonus.

Bill Gates did the same thing, he must got off on that.
"Social" is eating the world. From the inside. Like a peptic ulcer.

I noticed this behaviour in the Feedly iOS app yesterday and wondered if it was new. Evaded it by sending the link to Safari and copying the URL from there.

I like Feedly. I empathize with what I imagine to be their internal discussions about how to add value that they can extract for themselves. I hope they can succeed in a way that doesn't ruin their product.
So whenever someone isn't very nice with me, I prefer to assume that they're a nice person who just happens to have bumped their toe into a table leg or something.

Nice persons tend to apologise, if they don't apologise they are probably arseholes.
"Can I bring my dog to work?"
Unsolicited comments telling people why they are going to hate their new device, particularly when they are side reasons rather than core functionality, isn't healthy criticism. It signals to me that the criticizer is looking for any and all opportunity/excuse to talk down about the device.
A quick Google search tells a lot about the hate-relationship that the-digital-reader.com has for Feedly: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athe-digital-reader.co...

Worst part is actually reading all the comments here and there that turns to be ads for this-other-best-rss-feed-reader.
Last time I used it there were no podcast apps that would update/download in the background. That's an entire category.
I simply refused to use their sharing function on Android. It's not a new behavior.
"Any link shared after about 10am links to Feedly. I don’t know of any other service that pulls this kind of stunt."

Twitter wraps every link in a redirect.
Hm, am I right in thinking that numbers are defined to be atoms in lisp. And also that there are limits to how one can use macros, in that you'd not be able to a) rename FIRST, as in (FIRST list) to 1 (or '1): (1 list) or ('1 list); and b) that you couldn't modify the syntax to "decompose"/parse a slice syntax like: (1:2 (list-of-lists)) (here 1:2 would mean for example first element of second sublist/cons) ?

Now, you could of course write an interpreter for such a language in lisp, but am I correct in assuming that there's no reasonable way to get a (standard'ish) lisp to compile an expression like (1:2 ...) to the equivalent caadr(?)-like expression?

I saw there's a library for clojure that adds "slice notation" -- but does so by adding a (slice x y list)-macro which of course is fine -- but it would seem that (x:y list) would give similar benefits to the cadr/cddr etc -- allowing selected subsets to be highly optimized, for example? (As well as offering concise syntax)
Not better performing?

Whatsapp had an interesting presentation @ Erlang Factory worth considering -- http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2...
Watch K&N's Beautiful Ode to American Manufacturing
You may not know David Vespremi, but if you’ve spent any time at all around the aftermarket scene, you know his work. For the past decade, he’s worked as an automotive marketer with BoostedGroup, helping big companies tell their stories in compelling ways. One of those companies is K&N Filters.

Now, that partnership is coming to a close, and Vespremi wanted to say thank you. He took a small production team, spent some time in the K&N Filters manufacturing facility, and came out with a beautiful and moving tribute to both the company and American manufacturing.
A redirect that still lands at the original page, though. Huge difference.
> Risk is high almost always, with some exceptions.

The exception is taking on high risk with your startup.

I can imagine a pretty low risk scenario where you finish school, and start working in a relevant field programming. As you're making money and learning valuable skills you can spend your free time building your business. Unlimited runway and learning from your day job would increase your probability of being successful massively.

The billionaires and facebooks of the world are bad data points to model your future success by.
I agree. That is a big difference. Thank you for adding that.
I don't quite understand; why are they calling this a rendition? The guy was originally from Nigeria and they were trying to return him there.
David Hahn did.
Battery NOT User-Removable.
Phone NOT User-Buyable.
Honoring Navajo Code Talkers
For $30 per month per line (no contract), there's also:

100 minutes talk, unlimited text, first 5 GB at up to 4G speeds.

Plan is only available for devices purchased from Wal-Mart or devices activated on T-Mobile.com.
I am a big fan of ZFS, but after looking over the pages I have to admit to wanting to give the HAMMER filesystem a try. ZFS performance under Linux is "good" but not great.
Loneliest Human
GDC Vault - The Failure Workshop
> RSS is not a growing market and I think only independent developers with small costs will end up alive in a few years. Feedly will either have to evolve and find a bigger market, or pare down the cost of hosting the majority of Google Reader expats. And that doesn't square well with taking investment.

Exactly right.

The rush to fill the Reader gap with a broad and compelling offering (high quality mobile and web apps) was a problem outside the scope of small developers, but the long term prospects for the market are below sustaining levels for larger, funded businesses.

I do hope Feedly can figure out a way, without making me dislike them en route. If not, I hope they offer a data export.
Wow, wonder why the mods nuked this one. Seems relevant to the site.
ranking / rating done right/optimally seems to be a highly problem specific challenge. What problem domains are you focusing on?
Writing Type-Stable Code in Julia
Apple didn't become the most valuable company in the world on a strategy of niches though. And they won't stay there if they go that way.
This is an important point, so let's be precise here.

The fact that a reactor is fueled by waste doesn't mean it doesn't create waste or have a waste-disposal aspect.

There is nothing in the physics of building nuclear reactors that prevents us from building a reactor that does not leave behind any waste that is either chemically reactive, or even modestly radioactive. No currently implemented reactor designs do that, but it is possible to create one that is both fueled by current reactor waste, and has no waste disposal aspect.

It is unclear if we could ever license such a reactor given the current climate.
I went with NewsBlur b/c I didn't like Feedly requiring my gmail address.

After 5 months I finally subscribed, because it seems to work well enough and I want to see it survive. I'd easily have paid Google the same amount or more for a Reader subscription, but hey with Reader gone, I'll have to migrate to Google Plus right?

Wrong, Newsblur it is.
If you do a search for your feed you will see the number of readers.

Right now the API is limited to developers building user facing apps. Offering a long term API to other kinds of developers is not a commitment we are ready to make.

The analytics we mentioned in that tweet will be free.
Wired article from three years back: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia
They should be tackling monetisation for publishers, microtransactions, spotify-style royalties, etc. There's a lot of room for innovation in the RSS market, but being arrogant and squeezing as much as you can out of free content doesn't help anyone in the long run.
Cleese's point about open time vs. closed time maps exactly to Ash Maurya's ideation switch for a lean startup:

http://practicetrumpstheory.com/2013/01/the-ideation-switch/
I'm sorry for coming off that way. I just hate the fact that all you guys are coming off extremely negative and then wondering why I'm not responding the way you want me to. I've dealt with a thing or two in my career my friend. I'm not trying to impress the HN community by any means, I was simply posting a link to something I made. I don't live for HN, and this is clearly not a startup along the lines of HN. All you guys need to relax. It's all water under the bridge to me. If I get a C&D letter, I'll deal with it then. At the moment, the client is up and running and that's all that matters. Thanks for your input.
Move your number to Google voice

Then you can use your unlimited data for calls (if I'm not mistaken)
Of course, some of the work done in the construction/mining/decommissioning could be powered by electricity from other reactors, getting closer to carbon-zero.

But realistically, there is no extant electricity supply that has zero carbon costs over it's lifecycle. At least that I am aware of.
What model of computation is this? Heap-to-stack pointers are routine, any object/closure system is going to have them.
HKRNews.com - alternative UI with sidepanel for articles and arrow move
As a PHP developer with just an associates degree, I can tell you that my first coding job was in fact paying $13 / hr, but roughly two years later I had enough skills to freelance at twice the rate. It has only gone up since.

I think the GP was saying that the low end welding jobs have been automated out of existence; I don't think that's the case for low-end coding jobs.
They can't throttle the access as the requests are made client side. It's the same as if you were using your smartphone to access vine except on a web browser. None of the content goes through my server, the only thing that is served by my server is the PHP that holds it all together and the JS.
Not sure someone can write an effective article about running a business if they can barely buy beer.
Thank you for writing this. I'm working on my second solo project, but really my first in a long time. My goal is nothing else but to see it through to completion, to be a finisher.
StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities
http://ekisto.sq.ro/

Ekisto is an interactive network visualization of three online communities: StackOverflow, Github and Friendfeed. A graph layout algorithm arranges users in 2D space based on their similarity. Cosine similarity is computed based on the users' network (Friendfeed), collaborate, watch, fork and follow relationships (Github), or based on the tags of posts contributed by users (StackOverflow). The height of each user represents the normalized value of the user's Pagerank (Github, Friendfeed) or their reputation points (StackOverflow).

Sharing this because I thought it's really awesome - published Dec 1 by Alex Dragulescu.
It's yet another example of the brilliance of the American public when it comes to power. Shut down the nuclear plants! (spin up coal plants instead). Block Yucca Mountain! (pile up spent fuel in short-term storage instead). So on and so forth.
The value of the business is not guaranteed. You may work hard for three years building your cupcake store only to end up with a business that's completely worthless because the overpriced-cupcake fad has been displaced by the bacon-filled-donut fad, and your recipes and brand name (which unfortunately has the word "cupcake" in it) are now worthless.
What relevance does Chernobyl have with modern nuclear power plants?

In line with this notion, I am reminded of automobiles. Automobiles of yesteryear were more dangerous and significantly more polluting (causing serious health problems for the residents of Los Angeles). But of course we clearly cannot point to a '57 Chevy with no seatbelts or catalytic converter and say, "Clearly cars are too dangerous and noxious to allow".
Don’t Fear Directives In Angular.js
This is something I noticed while developing BuzzSumo (a real-time searching for trending content). The top most shared links for a topic were from feedly, with the original article after that. We ended up just blacklisting feedly, so that the original article would appear.
Hacker News API now supports pagination
Also check /r/BitcoinSerious. The sidebar of each subreddit should describe what makes it different from /r/bitcoin.
Well, there's this company:

http://generalfusion.com

VC-backed, too!
You can now officially start using Dogecoin
I used switching to that t-mobile plan as an opportunity to set up google voice. At least now I can cover future number changes.
Aside: the ship using the AM sank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

The more interesting questions: Was the ship's sinking the loss of a one-off prototype? Was the device blamed/abandoned, even if not at fault? Craftsmanship suggests it wasn't an early version--but where are the others?

On topic: humans are no more smart today than they were 2000 years ago; they just have better tools. Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes,someone once said.
Welcome to Elicitation 101 [1]. The author points out one of the most obvious and easily used ones:

Deliberate False Statements / Denial of the Obvious: Say something wrong in the hopes that the person will correct your statement with true information. “Everybody knows that process won’t work—it’s just a DARPA dream project that will never get off the ground.”

[1]http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/counterintelligence/...
Unlimited 2G data. LTE is limited to 5GB per month. I've hit their throttle before, and while it's nice that you don't go dark, it's not for normal use.
Ask HN: Email app: How to store emails for enterprise?
I am planning to build an enterprise Email app similarly to Mailbox + Evernote. What is the best approach to store emails for enterprise customers?

Granted, on-premise solution is needed at the end. How do I build for that transition? And where do I start? (or I just have to demonstrate to the 1st client then execute an on-premise solution?)
Macs are a small part of Apple's revenues, but Apple is and has for awhile been pretty much the only company making substantial profits on laptops and PCs. Similarly, pretty much only Samsung makes big profits on Android, and Galaxy S4 is just as expensive as iPhone. They also have the advantage of vertical integration in manufacture.

Finally, Google doesn't make any money on Android. Key difference from Microsoft and Windows.
I see it more as a way to stop relying on Akamai [1] for Terremark [2] Application Acceleration Services.

[1] http://www.terremark.com/services/infrastructure-cloud-servi...

[2] acquired in 2011 http://www.terremark.com/about/news-events/news/2011/0127201...
The Muse: Team
For reference, when the next thread about "women in tech" gets posted ...
Remember folks, if you're not paying for it, you're the product, not the customer.
> For example, the shuffle seemed more aimed at people who wanted something easy and light to clip on while exercising.

Speaking for myself, the shuffle is definitely aimed at my use case (I actually used a zen stone). I want to control my in-car music by hooking up a player with a purely tactile interface. Using my phone means every time I want to interfere with the player, I have to look at the screen... a huge step backwards in usability.

The zen stone had an adavantage that an ipod shuffle might or might not also have... no one ever broke into my car to steal it (although it was taken when they broke into my car to steal my backpack).
Android 4.4.1 now rolling out
One problem with revenue sharing is that Feedly has too many nonpaying users and not enough revenue. They probably cannot afford to share.
Clean un-entanglement is the rare exception.

This is true only for pure-state entanglement (which itself is a rare exception ;-).
I just fixed that, my bad. Your resolution must be extremely low.
Lots of good discussion on that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5635461
Why isn't there a Hacker News for Hacker News for X?
Simple sequence would just be:
build; run_tests

The syntax you quoted is doing a logical AND of two expressions. Expressions are any bit of script - including calls to executables (like the example).

It's a pity that PowerShell is Windows-only (Pash notwithstanding); its syntax is small, supports pithiness and verbosity equally well, and has an easy to understand flow once you're over the first learning hump.
That would be hunch.com. It was bought by eBay a while ago, not really sure what's been going on with it. The concept is great, but in practice, your mileage may vary. There are a few other similar sites too... but none of them have really taken off in a big way.
Do not agree! Monads were always this vague weird thing until I started using IO heavily. Once I was comfortable with IO, applying the abstraction to other things was obvious. I've also helped some other people learn Haskell, and being able to just explain how IO works is much easier than trying to explain the Monad abstraction.
The rumors of Bundler's death have been greatly exaggerated
This was my initial thought on reading the post as well. Forgetting about billion dollar buy-outs, a business that does reasonably well is going to build value over the years, even if the owner is only taking a small salary.
Robots now Debone Chicken with Surgical Precision
This is from one of my college professors, nice to see it make it on HN, and it looks like there's a bit more material since I used it in class. I found it helpful in explaining basic concepts (more-so than the bland textbook that I had to pay for).
I remember when learning how the read was getting down letter sounds then syllables. Then trying to picture the words as you sound them out.

I think for some of the beginning basics you need more than a book to translate the written into the appropriate sounds, etc. Once you can get a handle on that it get easier.

Another tool to employ is to get them to learn the most common words (i,e, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolch_Word_List ) that will help them trough most words in sentences...
Show HN: Introducing Kegplan.io
Your problem is that you believe sensible plans are offered in the American market at all. Look at all the love people express for t-mobile's $30 / month plan. That's because it is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else you can get.

In China, I pay about US$15 every 3-4 months for a level of texting and voice talk that would easily cost $30 / month by itself in the US. (I don't have a data plan.)

I've tried going prepaid (also t-mobile) in the US. The economics worked out as long as I never expected to use my phone at all; if I expected anything, it was a money loss. And even while I expected nothing, I had to keep paying $10 / month so that all my paid credit wouldn't suddenly expire.
Isn't copying someone else's blog content to your own site copyright infringement? Couldn't the author of the content send Feedly a DMCA takedown notice?
FCC postpones spectrum auction until mid 2015 [updated]
Dear Apple, Love China
So many white men. (just an observation, not commentary)
Germany in particular caused this question and I am seriously needing to make the move. My English is perfect. Thanks for all the answers
So move your hosting outside of US reach. Find an Icelandic hosting company. I'm sure the .is domain is available as well.
1366x768, looks good now!
Aye, you are correct of course, typing fast always trips me up.
Instead of paying trolls, monetizing trolls might be a good idea. You could have people buy karma, buy mod rights, buy out other people's mod rights, etc.

Of course posting and downvoting would have a karma cost.
By_drone – EasyPost Prepped for Drones
Yes and no.

Feedly and other news reader services have de facto permission to gather blog posts at the request of users and then show them to those users. This is a half step beyond that, so you can't really call it copyright infringement.
That too. There's been something of a confluence of posts on this topic in the past few days. Not that it isn't a topic that has some attraction here.

Another datapoint: a recently posted (here?) interview of Richard Feynman, shot only a few weeks before he died. What really got me was the mischievous nature he displayed: constantly smiling and joking. Einstein was somewhat similar. God may not play dice with the Universe, but each of these two was, I think, toying with it.
I read the article, I didn't see any of what you describe. Can you provide an example or two?

He is railing against the modern notion that everyone should go to college and that a degree is the only path to success. This is prevalent and I grew up being told the same thing. It's not all explicit, but when the high school -> college -> white collar career is all you are pushed toward, all that is emphasized, other paths (skilled trades namely) are implicitly marginalized. Many people my age and younger view a job such as an electrician or a tool and die maker as a failure and it is unfortunate.