skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tying your cause to "anti-tech" is a great way to doom yourself to irrelevance. The vast majority of people won't ever side with you.

We techies know we can have tech and freedom too, and that the fight is over good tech, not no tech. Everyone else always picks convenience over privacy and freedom.
This topic is full of bitcoin advocates doing terrible jobs of reconciling themselves to a new .800~.900 standard USD.

However you criticize MtGox, this has spread to other exchanges. That's the price now.

Personally, I think this is the effect of the Chinese market reversing its positivity on Bitcoin.

(which is an outgrowth of bitcoin's lack of delivery on any significant front.)
Its kind of missing the point to bring up the notion that all the economically advanced countries have public school systems that go on for years, when most of the people arguing against the education system would probably agree that its main purpose is to turn individuals into a compliant, unquestioning, regimented work-force required by such a system.

What's more interesting is whether schooling exists to supply an economic system, or whether it should exist to create a rational, creative, questioning, skeptical, critical thinking population. Is that the measure of a successful education system, or a successful society?

I think the really dangerous thought is not that the people in the schools are special snowflakes held back by the system, but the realization that those at the top are not special snowflakes and are instead propped up by the system. Because then even the very faint illusion of meritocracy as a justification for the distribution of wealth and our current system falls apart completely.

Perhaps a good education system would also have to face the friction between freedom, merit, enlightenment, democracy, and economic output. The US has a strong ideological undercurrent that the earlier factors directly lead to the last. I would argue not only that is it possible that there is in fact potentially an economic cost to a free and enlightened populace, but that such an ideology primarily exists in the US as a social-psychological-bulwark to justify the position of the wealthy. To chip away at such a subconscious connection would lead people to the realization of the dangerous thought I mentioned in the preceding paragraph...
The person who sang that song was convicted of a hate crime, and is now facing criminal charges, so I don't see this as a legitimate reason to run away.

I would like to see some evidence for a mass exodus from South Africa, specifically would be interested to see if large amounts of money have been taken out of the country to fuel this. I don't think any data exists for this. I was pointing out that what was said was anecdotal, and am obviously aware that what I said is too. The issue is that this complaint about SA is simply not a realistic reflection of what is happening in the country.

BEE is necessary in SA. The extent of racial inequality even today is exceedingly obvious to anyone who lives in the country. It definitely isn't perfect, but any census data will still reflect that levels of unemployment among Black South Africans is higher than those of White South Africans (don't have time to look for the source now, but I read a paper on this). I don't see how there is an easy fix for Apartheid, and this is fine. I'm sure if we went and counted the assets of race groups we would find that White South Africans still have a much larger share, and a large majority of white people are employed in family businesses/practices established during Apartheid. Growing up in SA, this is just blatantly obvious to me. The job situation in SA is such that if you are qualified with a technical degree, you shouldn't have a problem getting a job regardless of race.
This has enormous impact by bringing transparency to medical procedure pricing. One could quite literally save $10-50K by opting to do a procedure just a few miles away.

Nice work. Where did you get the data for this? Is it publicly available?
I think that even coal mining kills thousands of people every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_accident
>Instead the employees were greedy, thought they could double dip by being part of the huge baby boomer group (thus not paying in a fair share, considering what they would get out) and retiring handsomely.

The big thing you are missing is that when the boomer pension contracts were created? you could expect a reasonable return, over and above inflation, on your T bills. Because safe investments that paid out reasonably existed, defined benefit pensions were a reasonable thing.

The economic reality is very different now, and the very idea that someone could make good on a defined-benefit pension is kinda laughable. My point is that the economic realities were different in the 80s. The big danger in the 80s wasn't that the value of your investment wouldn't go up, it was that inflation would go up even faster, making your 'defined benefit' worth much less in real dollars.
Doesn't a discount align the incentives better? Is there active resistance to discounts in the investor community? Among angels at least, I personally haven't seen it...
Looks like you're setting the <iframe>'s contents with a data uri in the src attribute, you save some characters if you use the HTML5 srcdoc attribute:

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Show HN: Windows programs fuzzy search
I created an open source replacement for program search in Windows, with fuzzy search.

I'd be happy for any help in it's development as well as any advice.

Go check it out: https://github.com/pindamonhangaba/loca
load page.

press "+"

visible error message
Is there evidence of correlation?
Great first step. And pretty soon we'll have quality of care reviews--from patient questionnaires thanks to ACA/Obama Care.
Awesome: A New York Times bot is second-guessing NFL coaches on Twitter
> I'm not talking about social security, I'm talking about pensions.

Social security is a pension.

> To which a 401k or IRA is infinitely preferable.

I dunno, the people who have had 401k's wiped out in various economic collapses might disagree on whether such plans are "infinitely preferable" to defined-benefit pensions.

> But SS has the same problem as pensions: there's nothing to stop future politicians from eliminating it at any time to free up some headroom in the budget.

Well, except voters, which have stopped politicians on several occasions who wanted to make much smaller changes -- which would not even affect current beneficiaries -- to Social Security than eliminating it.

> Perhaps a mandatory 401k everyone must have, contribute to and refrain from using until age 65 would be the best of both worlds?

Well, certainly, it would be one of the best (of the very many!) public subsidies the financial services industry has received. Not sure it would be good for anything beyond that, though.
What are you talking about?

The reason the vast majority of those 175 cases exist is due to the lack of vaccination. That's exactly the point the article makes, and that's exactly the point I've made.

Europe has had a measles problem for a while. It's hitting America now precisely due to the reduction in vaccination rates.
Isn't Lisp really hard to understand? Or is it just because I'm unfamiliar with the syntax?
This looks like DRG data by hospital released a few months ago by CMS, so what the hospitals bill for to Medicare, although the actual payments are set by CMS. Still, charge master data is the starting point for people not on Medicare/Medicaid
> If you work your entire career, you don't really have a recourse if they then refuse to pay the pension you were promised.

Society needs to find some way to make promises of future money in exchange for present goods and services enforceable. If only there was some mechanism for that...
What I said isn't a platitude. It is straight to the point.
It definitely was not Childhood's End that you're thinking of, although that's a fantastic book. I haven't read Fountains of Paradise but will have to add that to the list.
Has anyone produced a keyboard with piano action keys that works like the gTar does?

Seems like something like that should exist.

http://www.incidentgtar.com/
If you can't appreciate George Grellas's contributions, then please refrain from giving us yours.

George's writings on HN, from a seasoned startup lawyer who's been around the block many times and has much to offer, are incredibly valuable, and all of us owe him some gratitude for it as it is high quality and he is not paid for it. And I'm sure he has plenty of business to handle without doing it for leads.
"why buy my car now when it will be cheaper in bitcoin terms next year?"

Because you want to go on vacation this year?
A physical connector has an electro-mechanical function, and the PHY layer has an electronic function. Regardless the technology, both are always required.

So, lightning located some (small) part of the PHY in the connector rather than in the client or host (where it would likely be cheaper). Apple could have merely cross-wired the pins on each side of the connector to achieve a reversible design and thus eliminated this excess complexity.

I suspect the design is motivated by IP/counterfeit protection. I do not believe any of that benefits the end user at all.
Thanks. Yeah, a lot of people travel abroad to save money, but its possible to find comparable prices nearby too. Patients aren't trained to shop around with procedures though.

The Obama Administration has tried to make pricing more transparent--this particular data set is publicly available. Here it is: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
...are all the people who didn't get a flu-shot responsible?

Sure, if by getting a flu shot you can reliably prevent infection. That's nowhere near as true for flu as it is, say, for polio.

Why are we even suggesting removing an individuals right to make their own decision based on their own research?

You're assuming there that most people make their decisions based on research - they don't. People's irrational fears affect their ability to accurately estimate statistical risk tremendously.

Plus we already do this - education is mandatory. What if I decide that my child would be happier not being educated? Should I have the right to make that decision?

That's not many steps away from mandatory abortions for undesirable genetic traits.

Of course it is - one is performed purely for the benefit of the individual (and perhaps their family) whereas the other is performed to try to eradicate communicable diseases which cause untold misery across the world for the benefit of everyone.
The next step would be to bring in death/complication statistics by hospital and ratings by surgeon
If you were a doctor, would you rather charge more, or less? What keeps you from charging the highest fees in the world? Your reputation. If you're not the best, you cannot charge the most. All of capitalism works this way.
Maybe? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=359323.0
"has the advantages of convertible debt without some of
the disadvantages."

For which counter-party? The startups or the investors?
Almost, still that demonstrates how good Russians got at exploiting the system.
$ python -c "print '0x%x' % (2147483629*2147483647)"
0x3ffffff600000013
Right, but they are only doing that because they serve so much traffic. The original post suggested performance "falls to shit pretty immediately at load." I cannot imagine they meant that you need to do some serious gymnastics to get around performance bottlenecks when you get to Facebook's scale. My supposition is that most web scripting languages would need tuning at that level.
I notice substantial overlap between the things these men are wanted for and what the NSA and FBI have been doing....
Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor
I solved this problem by charging for everything I do, be it a discussion, requirement gatherings, analysis, estimates, quotes etc. There is a lot of value in the early communication. I wouldn't go back to doing this for free now since it really set a different tone, and people actually care of the time you spend on their projects in that case, much more.
Planning Your Location Strategy For Rails
"a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful."

Your statement /was/ to the point. that doesn't make it not a platitude.
Thanks. Doesn't immediately support your claims though I may look at the book.
Hacker Newsletter issue #178
> Yes. I consider an annual deflation rate of 2-3% just as stable as an annual inflation rate of 2-3%.

Please provide a single example of a viable currency that has deflated over a long period of time. Because bitcoin, by design, will force deflationary pricing forever.

Deflation is horrible. It is much much worse than inflation and any sustained deflation destroys the economy.
If you are only doctor performing that procedure in a city... Well you get the point.
Are there any studies that do a deep analysis of the impact of the Bayh-Dole Act? Were there any benefits? If not, is this an act that we should lobby to undo?
What do the numbers and colors of the hospital symbols mean? They do not seem to be correlated with price of procedure.
How Many Zero-Days Hit You Today?
Saw this couple of weeks ago http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/
> So they're more like comefroms than gotos.

Except, not, because the jump source for a particular exception handler is no more (and no less) determinable in advance than the jump target of an exception raised at a particular point. They are very much unlike either gotos or comefroms.

If you are going to criticize exceptions, do it directly, rather than by asserting that they are like something that they are completely unlike.
Ask HN: Coinbase down?
Seems that the coinbase site is up but the login page is extremely laggy and any attempts to login keep failing. Anyone else having this problem?

It appears that there is a massive sell off going on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6863465
Bagging the changes in the Set specification (Perl6)
I was reading this and I'm like, Unicode (I assume UTF-8) isn't really that complicated at all. The UTF-8 system is straightforward, no more complex than simple run length coding. I'm also thinking that Unicode is basically a list of glyphs in every language plus a few control codes for rendering glyphs correctly, BOM, etc.

It's like saying a dictionary contains dangerous information.

I think the problem is software that enables Unicode input but is not willing to handle all the different types of input. For example, it seems like a bad idea to even let people input combined words of different languages; that's why we have input methods that filter out bad combinations; and dumping this on the font renderer without making sure the difference is highlighted.
I can tell you the majority of angel investors in Dallas I've talked to that do not have experience with west coast deals do not like convertible notes.

We closed a note with Dallas investors that DID have experience w/ west coast deals that featured a cap and a discount.
Complex systems always fail.
Heh, about the part where it goes “I even say, ‘I’ll do the work. Just give me the go ahead and I’ll do it myself,’ ” she says. “But they won’t, and so the system stays less efficient.”

I get that at least once a month. What I generally do now is tell people "You are wrong" when I'm told no. This has caused a few surreal situations (one was a bunch of NASA guys listening to a presentation on how Widget T was badly behind schedule and needed a lot of work done, with the first production batch of working Widget Ts in a heap on the conference table).
"So the Series A investors would essentially be cashing out the BOOST investors?"

Yes. But lets look at it from a couple of different perspectives before we conclude they won't like that.

First we'll assume that the Series A is much larger than the BOOST redemption cost, anywhere from about 10x to 20x. We make that assumption because it the BOOST aka "seed" round is much bigger than that the Series A looks more like a Series B than a Series A, which is to say the company valuation isn't really in a place where VCs would jump in ok?

Lets put some numbers down which makes talking about it easier.

Lets say the Series A really is 9X the BOOST so in a post money valuation with 60 percent for the company founders/employees we're looking at a cap table that is

versus
60% employee 60% Employee
36% VC 40% VC
4% BOOST 0% BOOST

So in the left scenario everyone stays in, and in the right hand scenario the Series A investor has effectively "bought out" the BOOST investor. (the money flow is different but the effect is the same). Lets assume that value post money was $5M.

Company value increases 5x and the company is sold for $25M.

Series A guy in the left scenario gets their liquidation preference + 36% of the remains (with participation) whereas in the right scenario they get their liquidation preference + 40% of the remains (again with participation) in the second scenario.

If the company is going to do well (and they assume it will) they do better by not having the BOOST guys in the cap table then they do with them there taking a percentage. If the company does poorly they still lose their same investment they would have lost anyway.

Things are simpler for the BOOST guy too, instead of managing dozens of small share holdings in small companies they get a smaller but faster return. This creates a reliable source of seed money for the ideas, which creates a larger pool of potential Series A investments for VC companies.
I've never seen a job ad for "idea people". Usually, idea people are made fun of, like Michael Keaton's character in Night Shift (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084412/quotes) - or Scriber, in A Fire Upon the Deep (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uRjpxtbshBYC&lpg=PT110&o...).

"[...] It's that, the actual doing, that's going slow."
Scriber nodded knowingly. That had been the central problem in his life too.

The "big" problem is the space of ideas is huge, expanding exponentially, each variation admitting many more ways of varying. And... the vast majority are no good. So youth's easy enthusiasm for ideas quickly turn to caution, doubt, ridicule, and they become bitter cynics before their time, getting very angry with youth's easy enthusiasms.

The exception is an idea that actually has a verified concrete benefit. A good idea. But here, people don't care about the idea; but they care about the benefit.

A common problem is when the greatest benefits of your wonderful idea are not yet verifiable... the solution is to find (or work to create) some benefit - perhaps much smaller than the dream - that is concrete and verifiable. Then, people will adopt it. Ideally, as time goes on, you can add more and more benefits which comprise the dream til it is complete (or at least give you time to work on making real your dream's benefits.)
The price number in the marker is the average cost of the selected procedure at the hospital at that location.

A green marker means its the cheapest price within the map's boundaries. Red means its the most expensive.

Thanks, I will make that more clear
I don't disagree with anything as you've stated it here.

The word "greed" (typically) goes beyond "rational foresight"to include opportunistic self-enrichment (esp. in the absence of transparency, effective oversight or control). But doing a DCF of a career trajectory vs. a simple Salary comparison is legitimate math any employee, IMHO.
I guess it's you who is just unfamiliar with the syntax.
Do you find (+ 2 2) harder to understand that 2+2?

If the code is well indented, IMHO it's quite understandable. For example, what do you think of this Lisp code snippet (it's not the best possible code, just some stuff I have at hand to show without you needing to know the context):

;;takes two list l1 and l2 of same length, and return (l1[0] l2[0]
;;l1[1] l2[1] ...)
(defun mix (l1 l2)
(if (null l1) nil
(append (mix (cdr l1) (cdr l2)) (list (car l1) (car l2)))))

EDIT: formatted the code as per gcr suggestion.
> For all I know mr. Mandela was directly connected to bombings that made innocent victims, such as the Church Street bombing.

FYI, he was not connected to that bombing. He was in prison at the time and only heard about it through the news and visitors. Some websites claim that he stated in his autobiography that he personally approved of the bombings. This is obviously false. His autobiography is available on the net for everyone to read.
So freaking cool.
I disagree, it demonstrates that the US government has a hard time prosecuting Russians.
These are quite well done. I'm curious what program was used, and what variation of "8-bit" was used: was any chip-sounding sample fair game, or was it NES/Gameboy/C64 emulation?
I'll poke around. I admittedly have a bit of 'subreddit blindness'. I'll check those subs out on www.stattit.com. Thanks for the suggestion.
Anything with that kind of growth is eventually going to crash. Human behavior is extremely predictable.

Is this "THE" crash? Maybe, maybe not. Will it go back up? Probably.
agreed. How many times have you actually shopped out a procedure by making 10 doctors appointments for checkups and quotes, typically, when they need to operate, you just go with what they say.
Or the the lack of a extradition treaty to the west - dont want Andrey Lugovoy extradited The MET police and presumably the security service have some questions they would like to ask him a few questions.
No need to apologize, I'm sure he's not too concerned about what some random snot-nosed kid thinks when his post hits 100 karma points.
Medical care is not really capitalism. Doctors get about the same reimbursement from any given insurance company no matter how good (or bad) they are, unless they are bad enough to get dropped from the insurance company's panel. Some negotiate for slightly better rates, but that often has more to do with the number of similar specialists in their geographic area on the insurance panel.

Insurance companies consider doctors a commodity. They only place where capitalism really applies is when patients are paying cash.

Source: I'm an MD. My specialties are forensic and child psychiatry. Interestingly, despite severe shortage of child psychiatrists, it is not reimbursed as well as some specialties that have a glut of providers (like cardiology). Not complaining, it's well reimbursed enough for me, but just making another point that it's not really capitalism.
It's just dirty. All the particulates it's stopping is going right into the mucus.
How do you reconcile the idealism of the web as we all _want_ it to be with the pragmatism of the web as we know it to _be_?
This is something that you could google. No need to ask on here.
This comes up every month, at least :)
Drupal lives in its own separate category somewhere near Mars. Just because Drupal is slow does not mean that PHP itself is the reason why.

> APC will only save you the loading from the disk and compiling part

Is that not the slowest part?

According to the benchmarks here, http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7..., PHP is only really slower than Node in serving up a plaintext response and a json serialization (although, it is only about a 5% difference in responses/sec between the two).
And misconduct like that results in clear evidence which none of the people who claim to "know" can produce.

A lot of people who just do not understand how thing kind of market works make these allegations— due to things like issuing a market order and then having the trade execute at prices which are dissimilar to the last price but completely explained by the published orderbook.