skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pity. RAM is not a problem, but it's more "by how much should I increase it?" :-)

Thanks for your response, though.
In the EU, how will people download Firefox if they don't have a boot-strap browser already available?
So what is it about heath care that precludes economies of scale?

There is no fixed-cost capital investment that increases health care productivity dramatically. That is to say, the "health care factory" has not been invented yet.

A hospital of 100 doctors is only (roughly) 100x as productive as 100 doctors individually (unlike manufacturing, where 100 assembly line workers >> 100 blacksmiths).
Just call an insurance broker. I recently went shopping for health care coverage expecting the worst and was pleasantly surprised how close the quotes were to my employer provided plan.

I took away from it a feeling that I am less stuck than I thought I was, even before universal health care.
Replace "Microsoft" with "all cloud operators" and, though still paranoid, at least you won't sound like a raving hater.
Apples-to-oranges. Most European countries have many other obstacles to starting a business. It can be almost impossible to fire workers. Some places have mandatory short work weeks. France apparently has special police that monitor them! There have been onerous regulations about running small businesses from your house. The tax code is different and often less favorable to small businesses. And the cultural climate is "famously" hostile to entrepreneurs.

You can't extrapolate the outcome of universal health care in the States from Europe's experience. The conclusion that universal health care would hurt entrepreneurship (or even fail to help it) remains counterintuitive.
his arguments are applicable to any online service (giving up data to third parties). the idea that opera unite can substitute for the functionality of something like azure -- resulted in me flagging this article for reasons of absolute nonsense.
Until recently, Labor Mobility was helped greatly by the housing boom - anyone could sell their house with little economic impact and move to a better job in a different area.

Now we have the double-whammy of a housing bust and astronomical health care costs. Cobra helps, but it only lasts 18 months, and that's definitely not long enough to build a successful business.
My point is that, had the hacker sent this to a real news agency rather than TC, they would have published docs too.

And my point is, I'm not so sure you're right. Unless there's actually something newsworthy contained in the documents, I think only the sleaziest news outlets would publish any details at all beyond perhaps the fact that there had been a break-in.

For example, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/02/business/who-me-print-a-le...
Good news - App Engine scales to support ones of users.
you shouldn't need to cough that out :)
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No question about this. It potentially can help any industry where the healthcare costs are high in relation to other costs, this include heavy manufacturing where there are pensions to pay. All provided the tax burden doesn't out weigh everything else. If the collective tax rate was doubled, then that will kill the start-up market.
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People keep trying to compare Snow Leopard to Windows 7, in an attempt to prove that Windows is overpriced.

You have to realize that Apple has already made their money off of you, since you bought a MacBook. OS sales are Microsoft's only source of profit in this space, and they got what, $20 dollars from the copy of Vista preinstalled on your laptop, so you can understand the higher retail price.
Can I have a down vote capability please.
By sharing, I meant that he is not sharing his code in such a way that they can feed it back in their own BSD...pies.
Here's an idea: Full-disk encryption software should disable itself as soon as it detects that your backups are not up to date. Of course, if you have no backups it should refuse to encrypt your disk in the first place.
Your analogies are all faulty. You can avoid paying car insurance by not driving. You can avoid paying homeowner's insurance by renting. There is nothing you can reasonably do to ensure that you won't break your leg, lose your appendix, or develop a lymphoma.

Meanwhile, you can't simply buy health insurance. Under our current system, any insurer can refuse to cover you for any number of reasons, or assign calamitously high premiums to you. The medical pretexts required to do this are numerous and opaque. Ask any 30 year old woman who's tried to buy health insurance if you need convincing.

Many people with families simply cannot start or join startups in this climate, because there is no feasible way for them to cover their family. Without health insurance, you can be bankrupted by relatively minor health events; more importantly, you put your family at risk for receiving inferior care, particularly on the preventative side.
a friend's USB drive...
1) That's not the RTM. It's barely within 400 builds of the RTM.

2) I am fairly certain that pirated content is unacceptable here.
you just have to use it and feel the difference, i won't spoil the fun
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but if healthcare was totally free, what's to stop people from totally trashing their bodies then asking for organ transplants on the public dime?

I guess the government is the entity to stop us. After all, as you point out, once you start using public money to pay for something that makes it everybody's business, right?

So now the government is concerned with how I choose to totally trash my body, because it has an impact on public health costs.

And what part of this was good, again? Yes, the part where we got free stuff from some magic place. As much as we want!
These would be the same people that claim to have rights over who can let who watch their broadcasts, no? I don't see how anyone can have licensing rights to stats regarding events.
It doesn't matter if its Google or Microsoft or any one else. Once they amass huge data, they become the target of governments etc. We should figure out new ways to manage our data ourselves, and still be a part of the web.
No, I think you skipped the last paragraph of my comment. It's not about how other people use BSD code; it's about the word "free", and the feeling that "you can modify and distribute this only if you accept my terms and restrictions" is perhaps a strange definition of that word.
It appears that others find this more than tenuous:

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN21171999
1943: The War Labor Board rules that a wage freeze designed to keep inflation in check during World War II does not apply to health insurance benefits, creating an incentive for employers to provide health insurance as a way to build worker loyalty.

http://books.google.com/books?id=UDWZpSUR1aMC&pg=PA100&#...
As a result of wage freezes in the World War II period, group health insurance became an important component of collective bargaining...

Also, it's silly to say that only employers can afford health insurance. Obviously the employer considers the total cost of employing you, including salary, healthcare, FISA taxes, etc. If employers stopped providing health insurance, it's likely that wages would increase (approximately) by the cost of that insurance. Then you'd have that money available.
These are good tips but I'm not sure they're novice accessible. Implementing memcached or bytecode cache are non-trivial.(PHP novice but an experienced coder maybe, but when I hear PHP novice I tend to think novice coder in general - my bad)

But this does make a great place to start if your little php site is starting to get more traffic then you dared hope and its time to start dealing with some scaling issues.

If I'm going to give a novice PHP'r tips it would be along the lines of thinking about using a good stable framework.
My brain is a jewel. I am in awe of the mind that I have. I and my experience of life is not inferior, and may be superior, to the NT experience of life.

Amen. Too many people try to victimize their situation by labeling themselves with a disorder rather than embrace their unique condition and work with it, especially when it comes to neurological "disorders"

Can't focus? I must be ADHD.

Lacking social abilities? I must have Aspergers.

Fear of your own thoughts? I'm OCD.

Haven't learned how to manage worry? Generalized Anxiety.

Can't manage your emotions? Bipolar or manic.

I'm not saying there aren't legitimate (serious) cases of people with neurological conditions, but in my own personal experience, things like "Generalized Anxiety" and "ADHD" are the result of years of habits and personal choices that have become automatic and subconscious behavioral tendencies. However, they can be unlearned and they can be worked around.
Society of Professional Journalists has a pretty well designed Code of Ethics. http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

It instructs journalists to "seek truth and report it" but also to "minimize harm." In particular, "Only an overriding public need can justify intrusion into anyone’s privacy." And, "Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity."

Most professional news organizations subscribe to some form of SPJ's Code of Ethics. TechCrunch, clearly, does not.
Had to submit this, one of the craziest ideas I've heard for 'security'. Because people don't want to bookmark, share or reload their web pages.

And if you can get bad data into a system, it doesn't matter what the URLs are.
But because insurance works best when the risk pools are largest, and irrational behavior among consumers (ie, spending zero in your 20s and free-riding in your 50s) will prevent those pools from being built organically, this seems like a perfectly sensible place for the government to apply regulation.
I agree with you about the customers needing to know about Twitter selling private data, but the TC article mentioned nothing about any nefarious going on inside of Twitter. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to be a whistleblower, but in this case, publishing those docs would amount only to gossip. And that's why this is a totally different situation from Watergate.
Of course these "productive organizations" often also have portfolios of patents that they use to prevent small businesses entering their market. And they often spin-off separate companies to act as patent trolls. The whole thing is rotten but to many people profit from it for it to change any time soon.
Apricot Computers was awesome. ARM, BBC Micro, Acorn.
Yes, the conventional wisdom is that C is less secure than high-level languages. If you're talking memory management, that's correct. DJB does nothing but stack variables for NaCl to avoid performance and potential for memory leaks.

But for side channels, C is almost too high level. For example, it takes assembly code (cpuid) to figure out cache configuration. Even worse, a language like Java or python gives you no control over the memory layout of the key in RAM.

So the right combo in my opinion is a carefully tuned C implementation (possibly with a little assembly or compile-time tweaking). Then add your language bindings to call it from a HLL.
When you talk about tax rates and health insurance, it's important to keep in mind the shadow tax paid in the common case by families and businesses that employ them today. Privately-run health insurance is expensive, and there's an inherent adverse selection problem because coverage is discretionary.
IANAL, but it's unlikely that publishing the documents would be illegal. Unethical and sleazy, sure. But what law would they break?
The argument isn't that a majority of people would start small businesses with health insurance. It's simply that more people, in absolute terms, would.

Again, I don't see how this could not be the case. The same dynamic that keeps the head of a family of 4 from joining a startup keeps that same person from starting a startup. There are fewer start-ers than join-ers, but they face the same obstacle.
Right and if you notice there is accident medical in auto insurance, because we HAVE to drive and we can't let the heath uninsured drag the whole system down if they get in a wreck.

Lack of universal coverage is also driving up the cost of automobile insurance.
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I couldn't agree more...
cryptlib has many HLL bindings. If you're building something that's compatible with its Sleepycat license (GPL if you're OSS, pay if you're not), then just use it.
Modern healthcare is a new innovation though, it's hard to compare it to the past. The term anti-biotic wasn't even coined until the 1940s (Penicillin was still new then). It's not big deal to pay out of pocket when there's not much to pay for.
After having many of my blog posts ripped off by spam artists, I'm inclined to feel otherwise. Robots.txt isn't an effective weapon in the "war on copyright infringement."
just have a send us feedback link displayed prominently on the website.
http://featurelist.org/ has a feedback widget to pop on your site which emails you feedback (and saves it on their site too so you can check it all in one go).

Recommended.
Just a remark; the site is joke (quite to the point, IMHO). The author(s?) state it clearly:

The articles on this website describe the neurotypical - "normal" - person as if they are diseased. This is not because the authors of this site think NTs are diseased. This is to illustrate the way that, by selecting and twisting the facts, medical researchers can portray autistics, who have a difference with positive as well as negative attributes, as defective individuals and genetic mistakes.
I'm not advocating getting health insurance, exactly, but your life as you know it will end if you get seriously sick or injured. (Exception: if you have millions in the bank you're probably just fine.)

Personally I'm paying for health insurance, but only the bare minimum (rather high deductible). I consider it my rock climbing tax: insurance can give you some freedoms (the freedom to take a bit of extra risk, in this case) as well as take them away.
For number 1, you should also consider how much of what you attempting to aggregate is already being done.

Movie recommendations? That seems like it would require you to tell the software movies that you liked. The problem is: Who wants to do this on a site that doesn't let you do anything else with movies? People are more than happy to tell Amazon what movies they like (by buying them) or Netflix (by renting them), but why would they take the time to tell your application what movies they like just so they can get recommendations which they could have gotten at Netflix, which they are going to use to go to Netflix and rent anyway.

Email lookups? Beating Gmail is very unlikely. I don't care about instant notification of email. I care about being able to manage email in a sensible and streamlined way. Again, your application it sounds would just tell me I had emails so I could go to Gmail and manage them... Well, since I'm going to Gmail anyway, what has using your application helped with?

Aside from that, I do not think many people will actually pay a yearly subscription fee for such a service. People online don't like paying for anything.

I'm not trying to bash the idea. I'm just saying it needs to do something DIFFERENT.
I echo the scale factor, it is both the chicken and the egg. And the problem is the same, actually much worse, in the whole Europe.
Of course, NaCl isn't written in C; it's written in a combination of C and dynamically-generated assembly (Bernstein wrote his own macro assembler/"high level assembler", qhasm).
I'm not sure this is necessarily bad news. It's a great thing if this means that India and China are producing highly educated, productive people in large numbers. It's a bad thing if India and China haven't improved, and the US is just slipping badly.

That said, we really have to stop holding India and China as a model for education. Yes, they've had some tremendous success, but they absolutely do not produce hundreds of thousands of ultra talented scientists and engineers. Most "stem workers" produced from this system are unemployable as by the standards we have in the US (to be fair, so are many college grads in the US - we just don't record them as "engineers" in our numbers). IIT is a remarkable institution, but it is tiny. I think something like the University of California system - which provides a quality education to hundreds of thousands - is much better approach.

Personally, I'd learn from China and India, sure, but I'd prefer that we set our own standards for excellence as a nation and strive to achieve them.
Sounds too much like welfare in thread that is already driving the free market "I'll get mine" types insane already.
What I was trying to get across in my post is that there is no easy answer currently. cryptlib may be best if you are ok with the license. Keyczar is a good start, but it needs more time to be fully-baked. GPGME is a bit clunky and C-only. I have no clear recommendation, and that sucks.

Hopefully people will rally around these. Cryptographers to review these libraries and NaCl. Developers to add the HLL bindings. Note that NaCl has a high-level API, so the HLL binding may just be SWIG + wrapper to convert length-counted byte buffers into the appropriate sequence type.
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All quite true. I like the British and lived there a long time but there's a bias against startups and small companies which makes it hard to get the ball rolling. Also, it's true that the grant culture is heavily embedded - partly because of the social system, but also because the cost of living in the UK is relatively high. Remember that in the UK as with most other European countries, sales tax is close to 20%. In general, I'd say living in London is about 50% more expensive than living in San Francisco.
And here we were, thinking bill had bought them as a public service.
Am I the only one seeing such nonsense articles every now and then?
I downmodded you because at a glance fell into the category of 'dumb joke'. The conversation at the top of the page is interesting, and I want to keep this at the bottom so as not to interrupt distract from the useful discussion. If you intend this as a real insight, please flesh it out with more explanation.
sparkfun.com -- General electronics

homeshopmachinist.com -- Metalwork and machining

makezine.com/blog -- just making stuff in general

candlepowerforums.com -- LED lighting

I describe myself as "just an engineer." I learn whatever tools I need to get a job done, so I don't distinguish much between software, electrical, mechanical, etc.
Definitely Psion in there too!

Oh, and Symbian is the British 'iPhone/Smartphone'.
I think "irresponsible" is much too strong. As tptacek says, he is getting a lot of review and his constructions are not excessively risky. I just think they need more time to be reviewed and the early findings seem to be that they are pretty good.
While you are correct that the population of the USA is around 300 million, the population of the UK is roughly 60 million. Of course both numbers are presumably more than the "target" you are talking about, but I think it's safe to say that Great Britain is about 20% of the size of the USA.

Also, I don't understand the growth-rate math. Why would the UK company have 1/100th the number of users?

How much would the variety of English you use on a website alter your traffic? I'm asking because I really don't know. Does anyone have research on this?
I think you're close. When we download an OSS project I think we have the expectation of being able to integrate it into our own projects, and there's some amount of disappointment when it triggers a GPL conversion.

When Steve Jobs comes to the party, you don't say to him "Look, you're not sharing your cake with us, so we're going to kick you out." You say "Holy crap! Steve Jobs!" But when Joe-decent-coder-not-a-celebrity does the same thing, it leaves a different taste in your mouth.

I think another (similar) part of the equation is the hoity-toityness of the GPL and/or FSF. Just read the GPL preample (WTF does a license have a preable for, anyway?). The first time I read it, it sounded to me like Stallman and/or the FSF were called forth from the burning bush to save us from the horrible slavery of permissive licenses. If you ask a random person off the street what sort of license an organization called the "Free Software Foundation" would use, I guarantee they wouldn't invent a whole Gettysburg address worth of rhetoric for why free software needs a handful of restrictions.

We can have a debate about whether copyleft is good or bad in the long run all day long. I'm just saying, on a gut level, on a prejudicial level, if somebody presents you with a barely-half-page BSD/MIT license of "Use this and don't sue us", and then an epic novel about how you can have patents as long as they're nondiscriminatory, or granted prior to March 28, 2007, or that we'll put you on probation for 30 days (or maybe 60) if you violate something-or-other, and you must provide installation instructions with such-and-such, and you can't distribute such-and-such in a password protected RAR... On a gut reflex level, the second one hardly sounds like free software. Maybe after researching it, you come around to their point of view. But most people don't research it, and some of the ones who do disagree.
You're correct, not every news outlet would publish them. But I believe more would than wouldn't. Especially in these times of dwindling cash flow, the desire to bring eyes in will bend even the resolute.
I agree that this is not a tenuous connection, but you failed to mention in your first post that the wage freeze was during the Second World War. Oil was rationed. Factories converted for war production. The entire economy was mobilized behind the war effort. This is most definitely a case of unintended consequences as relating to health care, but your original post implied that the government just willy nilly intervened with health benefits, when the truth is that it was the side effect of mobilizing the economy for national survival.
I love their strategy for when it's too hot--turn it all off and go home. Not a lot of companies have that amount of redundancy so I don't see this being the "next big thing", but it's a nice low tech "hack".
"Bob can incorporate Alice's code without making any changes to his license terms, while Alice would have to change her license terms in order to incorporate Bob's code"

This is an inaccurate way of describing what happens. It buys into an incorrect idea of "GPL as virus". Alice's code remains Alice's, regardless of whether she incorporates Bob's code. Her licensing is unchanged. The combined work has to be distributed according to all licenses that make up that work. That includes the BSD and the GPL licenses. Because the BSD requirements are effectively a subset of the GPLs, and there is no incompatibility between the requirements (i.e., BSD is GPL-compatible), then it's as though everything was under the GPL. But Alice is free to deincorporate Bob's code, and everything is as it was.
Ask HN: What are your (web) server setup conventions?
I'm doing freelance projects and sometimes have to host my sites. I'm really lost as to how I should organize everything though. I've just set up a new slice and I want to ask the community how, apart from the "apt-get install" commands, people organize and set up their servers.

1. Is the /usr/local directory good for anything?

2. Where do you stick site code?

3. Where do you stick user submitted content?

4. Where do you stick custom compiled binaries?

5. Any other tips or conventions you want to share?
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