skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This bit struck home for me:

Some have also suggested that unfavorable US
performance is explained by higher risk of iatrogenic
disease, drug toxicity, hospital-acquired infection,
and a cultural preference to “do more,” with a bias
toward new technology, for which risks are understated
and benefits are unknown.

I know some people who use both the US and the Israeli health systems to some degree, and one contrast I've heard is that Americans (patients as well as doctors) tend to prefer newer, less well-tested (because newer), and more expensive (because still patent-protected and brand-name) drugs even when the new drugs have the same or worse performance than decades-old alternatives. I'm not sure if the health drawbacks of this approach are significant, but the economic ones are stupendous; the newer brand-name drugs can be ten times more expensive than the old ones.
The show debuting right after the disclosure of torture programs is easily explainable. Writers frequently grab at whatever tasty bits of news or culture come along to provide themes and scenes for their works.
My childhood exposure of Canada was through the movie strange brew. Still a favorite of mine.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/

I figured all Canadians were hosers who scarfed donuts and drank beer.

Then I watched Kids In the Hall and I figured they were mostly funny gay fellows.

Then I watched South Park . . .
I warmly recommend Payoneer.com, this is how we've been doing it for the last few months and its working great. There are a few fees but they are minor in comparison to PayPal and banks...
Isn't there a direct relationship between bandwidth speeds and mobile tethering usage? Is it safe to assume that this (free wifi) will become obsolete within the next 5 years?
I don't disagree with what you've said in any way.

Programming is simply clear step by step thinking to make something happen. Focusing too much on the syntax and strategies in the beginning can be a distraction from the raw and immediate feedback from your work.
We consider the system font critical, and we render the page with that because it it will load instantly. The custom font is then loaded after the content and used on the following page.

Note: this setup is only used sparingly on our site as it has been waiting for this piece of work to be completed.
Comcast adds television subscribers for the first time in six years
Something I've found as a quant and data scientist without a PhD is that PhD Bigotry is common. Really fucking common. Plenty of companies will give you second-rate projects just because you don't have a PhD.

That said, it would never make sense for me to get a PhD for job-related reasons: the opportunity cost is too high. (In fact, it's too high even considering that I have a lot of intellectual reasons why, if I had more time, I'd do one.) Economically, I'm better off to deal with the annoyance of PhD bigotry (and leave jobs if it is an issue) than go into a program that has almost (and possibly over) $1 million in opportunity costs and that I'll exit (if I'm lucky) at the unfundable age of 35.

I know why PhD bigotry exists; people conceive that the alternative is to admit that 4-6 years of time were wasted, so they have to build up this bullshit belief that without a PhD, you're just not research-grade. But I find that ridiculous. 4-6 years learning things you're passionate about and can use is never wasted; but don't bring me down (by insisting that everyone who hasn't made such an investment is somehow inferior) just because you're insecure about your choices. (Who isn't?)
Life expectancy per cup of coffee consumed each days peaks at 2 cups a day. Which doesn't actually prove anything, but is at least suggestive. There are a whole bunch of health effects related to coffee, but in general you can get all the benefits with moderate consumption, but the negatives are in proportion to dose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee#Health...
Exactly ... we're fat (I'll own it - I'm fat)
Thesis latex 
My supervisor wants me to write my phd thesis in word. Does anyone know if there is any Way to convert from latex to word? I Will write it in latex in any case but he wants the word file....
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As a Rails developer you should always be learning, you know and understand web frameworks (Rails primarily) and mobile technology quite well and are specialized in at least one area of the application stack (UI/UX/HTML/CSS, API’s, core, mobile, db, devops, etc). Working with others in a group environment and solving problems with efficient code and the right tools is your thing. Like the rest of us you will end up wearing many hats, supporting each other in areas such as solution design, ops, and customer support. Over time you will have plenty of opportunity to grow into other areas of the organization if you choose.

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VP Technology, IQMI
Humble Bundle X is out
you mean, like, retweeting them?

I ask people questions all the time on twitter, and frequently get useful answers. In turn I often RT my followers own questions if I don't know the answer.

I'm sure Jelly will have other benefits, but in this respect it just another unnecessary layer on top of twitter for me.
Two-factor authentication is not a silver bullet
I've been a huge fan of single-.ttf packages for various industrial applications - i.e. all the symbols of the app are simply custom glyph indices. This sort of stopped being 'a thing', somewhere along the line, but in some quarters, .ttf is just as performant a file-format as a .zip-appended-.exe is to others.

Font-rendering is an important science and branch of Human Communication, imho, and a lot of very difficult problems have been forward-solved by fontographers, before us, we must always remember! Those who propose to make new symbols must be compelled not to forget the old!
I love trying new products and experiencing the on boarding process. It's always very interesting for me to attempt to understand the root problem a new product is trying to solve and the steps they use to help explain that to you.

I don't understand Jelly. I downloaded the app, attached my social networks, and the app told me to ask a question (while the camera was on, which was kind of intimidating). I didn't have anything to ask, so I closed it out. I was then taken to a screen which says I was all alone and that I needed to invite my friends to try Jelly. Why would I invite my friends to try out a product I've never used?

I think Jelly will have an issue with gaining users as well as keeping them. There is a strong use case for asking questions which has a photo attached, but not much of one for answering those questions.

Anyone have a different experience?
I thought about it a little, I'd probably not let them program much in the beginning and simply create results that they can keep hacking on through a high level tool.

To that effect, I'd probably recommend at this time appery.io .. to make mobile web based apps, which also bring in data.

Appery introduces enough about building apps, as well as the data and logic flow in a browser that people can learn one language (javascript) to see what's possible and branch out from there.

What do you think? Feel free to get in touch.
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Love how hypothesis testing is spreading like wildfire. Books are products, too.
A masters being the standard undergraduate degree is still roughly true in Denmark, though in a bit different format. The traditional undergraduate degree was a single 5-year program. Under the EU's Bologna Process harmonization, this has been split into a 3-year BA/BSc, and a 2-year MA/MSc. But in part because this is recent, many people see a BA/BSc as only 60% of a degree, not a place to stop and go get a job. So getting a Masters to "complete" the undergraduate program is still sort-of expected, though not everyone does it.

Unlike in the U.S., Masters and PhD students are therefore not lumped together as "graduate students". Bachelors and Masters students are instead lumped together as "students", i.e. people who are taking an undergraduate education, often living in dorms, and receiving a small stipend (the SU) to support their cost of living. PhD students, by contrast, are junior research staff, employed with a proper salary (typically ~$50k), living in their own apartments or houses, entitled to attend departmental meetings, etc.
The SO issue you linked to has nothing to do with null pointers.
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those people certainly don't know their latin. just kidding.
Look at it this way, everywhere on your screen you see repetition is an opportunity for a new, simple symbol that can be represented with fundamental glyphs.
I've had one for years, and he has real friends and everything. I use it for testing my own apps and signing up for other peoples apps I don't trust. But it's been a great help when there are services I want to use that require FB. Ya, against the rules, but I'm not the only one, and my fake users friends are real people who chat about politics and have liked some of the things my fake profile has liked.
> In a world where 140 characters is considered a maximum length, a picture really is worth a thousand words.

What a silly world these people live in.
If I can help make it happen in some way let me know. Feel free to use my farmhouse as a base if you plan on doing this in Europe.
How was that exchange with the clerk 'being a jerk'?
"the median is the preferred statistical standard" - that depends, not sure what this blanket statement means. But yes, you are right, I am looking for the distribution or a sense of it anyway.
> When that happens, will we be left with a useless ecosystem surrounding a fundamentally inflexible core

I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Bootstrap's use of font icons? If font icons ever became an issue, they could easily[1] swapped out of such frameworks.

Also note that font icons are also useful in places that can only display text, but allow for changes in fonts. You can see people make use of such icons for things like (e.g.) displaying the weather in xmobar or dzen.

[1] Might be a bunch of work on the back-end, but I don't see how the interface would change all that much. You get the icons now by just applying a class to an element, just the behind-the-scenes CSS would have to change.
No support for ALIAS on namecheap
Imagine hotels using this for their "free in room internet". I would seek lodging elsewhere.
One nice thing is that the interpolation smooths out any bumps, so it's kinda like using a steadicam.
And a lot of "is this a growth"? "Does this look infected?"
I think the point of the story is to illustrate that a Facebook account is not a useful way to validate a customer's identity.
Forgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting for Gopher to come back in-style though. ;-)
hey Colin,

To check submit something else and if that does not go auto-dead your account is fine.
The first photosynth iOS app was pretty cool and really well made when it was first released. Hopefully it'll be updated with this new 3d stuff!
You need to fix your links, remove the quotes at the end of them please.
How long? Until one of the other languages (say... clojureScript) develops a large enough ecosystem and best practices around it to allow portions of code to be shared between the client and server.

Oh, that also means that this given system has to reach critical mass. Oh, and since everything's server and client side, the compilation has to be rock solid and be easy enough to understand without reverting to javascript in frustration.

I miss programming in Node, for nothing else that I hate having to keep up with so many paradigms and switch between the two. I only have X amount of hours to keep up. When I move back to heavy development in a language after even a few days off, there is friction.

And as someone who writes both front end and back end code, it gets frustrating. I'm not as good as I could be, given the hours in the day I have.
One possible reason is that the PhD in some fields can be an "easy" way to get a paying position after graduating. There are a lot of smart people graduating from undergraduate programs, and there is a general paucity of good jobs for these people. A PhD provides a few good things:

1) Credentials look good on paper

2) Work is generally perceived as interesting and worth doing (at least, until they start doing it)

3) Some fields/programs offer stipends. In many cases, a small stipend doing what you think will be interesting work is perceived as better than a larger salary doing an uninteresting task.
Universally available public health care, or lack there of. Americans spend a disproportionate amount of their GDP on inflated (private) health care costs, and are therefore more reluctant to seek treatment before conditions become acute.
If you make cost the log of the conversion rate plus the log of the %age fee, and treat each node as a distinct node for each currency, you do get max flow min cost.
Urgh. You're making me do homework? Lame. And no. I don't have to show only scenes where the "good guys" are torturing someone. That wasn't my point. I was talking about the normalisation of torture. I wasn't trying to say that all shows had become 24 or something. I never called these shows propaganda (like 24 obviously was). That's HN saying that. I was just saying that they all contribute to the normalisation of torture.

Anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Same_Old_Story - Victims are paralysed with a muscle relaxant and then have their faces peeled off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_(Fringe) - Multiple victims are strapped to tables and tortured. Three scenes in all I believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure_(Fringe) - Woman strapped to a table, she's a test patient being tortured with painful drugs, begging them to stop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_(Fringe) - Olivia strapped to a table and tortured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Child_(Fringe) - Woman are paralysed and then slowly killed.

Well that's the first season. I'm off for dinner now. If you want to try something similar for the first season of the X-Files please do!

(Sorry couldn't reply to your reply, I think it's too deeply nested or something)
I wouldn't say you can so easily throw away a court order.
Eh, true. But on a basic level, with empathy turned down (and it is, after all it's just a show and no one is really getting hurt), it's basically the same thing. "Other people" can just be meat that's in the way.
If you tweaked the chart to show relative lifespan based on income, I wonder what you'd see?
It's a FAKE NAME. If it's disabled, just make a new one. Hell, you could make a new account every time you log on with a random bang-on-the-keyboard password, what's the difference?
Thanks a lot!

Just checked them out, and it looks exactly like what we need, but the sign-up unfortunately site reads "Currently we can support applications only from companies paying at least $5,000 Per Month." While we will process more than this in January, it will only be a couple of hundred in February and March, and it's my understanding that they would want us to sign up for a plan.
Show HN:Holiday project- Adding Frontend Perf tests to Continuous Integration
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/torturecardozo.pdf

"He asked them where the bomb was. The terrorists-highly
dedicated and steeled to resist interrogation-remained silent. [He] asked the question again, advising them that if they did not tell him what he wanted to know, he would kill them. They were unmoved. So [he] took his pistol from his gun belt, pointed it at the forehead of one of them, and shot him dead. The other two, he said, talked immediately; the bomb, which had been placed in a crowded railway station and set to explode during the evening rush hour, was found and defused, and countless lives were saved."
There is some weight in the argument. It goes like this:

a) font-file, indexed set of glpyhs. A glyph is any set of line primitives that is associated with the symbol. We load the file of 'sub-routines to draw', and index it .. stupidly .. with some font_glyph_array[]. Which we then index, according to keycode-translation-{NSA-insert}-pipeline.

ahem

b) SVG. SVG is 'pure math', in that the glyphs and bitmaps aren't there, but rather the CPU is going to be asked to calculate things. For this reason, 'most SVG rendering libs are crap' is true, because SVG is intended to be turned into whatever is useful for your CPU, before then being re-rendered for the next frame. Of course this takes a lot of time .. but at least it prevents buffer sploits.

Hmm.

What I like about SVG is that for every id="" there is to be found, there could be a unique 'identifier' to the application, at the user level, that abstracts the <g>. So, if I want a 'button', I just wrap everything up in <g id="button">, and off we go. Of course, ymmv, and probably I'm not trawling the DOM per-frame, like you're supposed to, but hey: its a button that can be immediately Cut-/_Pasted by the designer, and I don't have to think about it.

So SVG serves the purpose of every graphics file-format, ever, which is to stop the Designer and the Programmer from actually having to talk to each other.
You can use whatever curve, shape and symbol you like, but the unicode U+0079 should essentially represent the letter 'y' (rather than 'umbrella'): that's precisely the point of it.

If I don't get your symbol, I should be able to revert to a font that I do get.
What exactly are "Quora-like answers"?

What's wrong with researching things yourself and getting the satisfaction of learning and figuring something out?
As pcrh hinted there is a bit of an echo chamber effect in academia. I noticed it as well. Many professors will advocate and encourage students because they themselves chose that path. Some just see it as a good career, some want postdocs and TA students to help with grading and TAs.

One professor I had I heard telling the student, you can have a stable teaching job, good vacations, good life. It wasn't about contributing to science, about advancing research, being interested in the subject it was about trying to coast and mooch of the public university system.
Sure, but Europeans are quite capable of using a term differently if they believe that's what their audience expects; and most people on HN are probably still USA-ian ;-)
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Those are really nicely done effects, and I could see finding a use for some of the effects -- but not triggered on hover, I've pretty much given up on anything triggered on hover, because of need to support touch.
Thanks for the feedback. Does the new blurb work better? I'm thinking of adding a FAQ or how-to page. So far, my focus has been on simplifying away anything that is unclear.
Icon fonts have always been kind of a hack. SVG is the right formats for many reason - the primary reason: it's XML. We just need better browser support.
It's simple: the immigration system rewards advanced degrees.

While Americans often pursue Ph.Ds because of a desire to pursue academia or pure research, most people coming to the US for educations are looking for a way to stay in the US, and there are H1-B slots specifically for those with advanced degrees from US universities.

Further, the life of a graduate student on stipend is remarkably similar in lifestyle comforts to working in their native countries, and they will be rewarded with better jobs in their native countries even if they do not stay in the US.

That is what fuels the graduate student STEM system.
part of it is simply due to the inertia of already being in an academic environment. students commit 4 years to do their undergraduate degrees. instead of pursuing the unknown (ie. searching for a job, moving potentially, meeting new people, becoming more independent, etc.) students stick with what they already know in academia, albeit in a different, more serious form.
I can't find it (sorry) but there's a pretty amazing interview with Carmack floating around about how he apparently has mostly solved this issue. It really drives home just how much of a genius the guy is.

Edit: this isn't it, but will do the trick http://oculusrift-blog.com/john-carmacks-message-of-latency/...
The USDA marketed equally to everyone, yet we see a wide gap in growth in life expectancy shows wide disparities between the poor and wealthy[1]. The growth of life expectancy of those with money has kept up with the OECD growth, while the life expectancy of the poor has largely stagnated.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/economic-ineq...
I think a honest comparison should use something like the Big Mac index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index), but for healthcare.

If one does that I bet that first decile American scores way lower on the number of hours he can afford to spend in a hospital per year, or on the number of days he has to work for a visit to the dentist.

On the other hand, I think he will be able to buy more over the counter medicines.
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Were they playing anything or just walking around in the demo? I have one and have tested it out with many people. When people get sick it's usually because they've been in one of the less interactive demos just sort of looking around wiggling the mouse etc. The people who I let loose straight onto Half-Life 2 or other games where there is some sort of goal rarely get the same type of nausea. I think this is worth taking into account when people say "it's nausea inducing".

For insta-nausea put someone in the Tuscany demo and move them around while they wear the rift. Hilarity ensues!
That sort of thing seems like a real possibility for self-driving cars and drones too. Swarm navigation sounds like a really interesting area actually.
Well to be fair, Nest claims their software can save people on their heating bills... and that is definitely happening.
Mount it on a dolly?