skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the HN post 6 times today and every single time I read puto. Not trying to troll, just being honest about the name.
My bad! Completely forgot about that!

Considering that rvm and gems are a real pain in the azz, I think this could still benefit from a rewrite.
Not at all mate! I love Mozilla. If you look at what has come out of their efforts over the last year, you'll probably see why I said that:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/16/mozilla-in-2013/
I sign up too for any info :) I'd be very interested the rendering stack you picked.
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I work for a similar company. When our clients encounter issues like these (esp when money is involved) we will be sure enough to respond quickly and if it escalates to the CEO, I believe, we always pay the price in terms of compensation or apologizing for our mistakes and some clients just leave us. But even after escalating your problem to the CEO and you get such response, I think you should leave drchrono and if you don't get compensation back I think it's appropriate to sue them.

BTW the company that I work for is called CareCloud (we are established in revenue cycle management)
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If everything you said is true, then I feel terrible because I've recommended DrChrono to at least 10 different independent physicians in the last couple of years, two of whom I know use it. I regret that I recommended it without actually trying it out for myself and judged it based on their marketing material and association with the YC brand.

I hope there is more to the story here and maybe they haven't been able to explain their side well due to reasons beyond their control (legal, contracts etc.) I come across a lot of physicians who run their own practice here in Florida and DrChrono has been my goto answer to their EMR/EHR maladies. I really don't want to recommend AllScripts or EPIC.
You could have a hybrid which would have good and bad features of both worlds: if you have physical buttons on the side (or all sides) of a screen, and a "reset" button or "mode" buttons. Then the button sequences after "reset" or "mode set" can still be learned by muscle memory, and you don't have to look at the screen. But the buttons can still have multiple uses and the screen can still give directions, especially in the learning or less often used features.

The positive click of a physical button is much less error prone than a touch screen (although touch screens with a vibrate function can be a bit better).

These kind of displays are used in aircraft and spacecraft.

http://astronautabby.com/files/2013/11/Astronaut-Abby-Lockhe...
They've been there and no one used it.
Don't let the fact that drchrono is a startup stop you from suing. Drchrono is a business. They've breached their contract. Tear them apart. If possible, put them out of business.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140204160630/https://news.ycom...
I should say that for market segmentation it appears to work - those that stick to the rules are limited to media from their region. But this is another driver piracy.
Yes, mine is just a few photographs on a page. No video. I guess you need to have a certain number of photos uploaded/tagged on Facebook to create a video, whereas I make an effort to not upload any such content.
This sounds like growing-pains for a growing business that has perhaps bitten more than it can chew. I would suggest you wait, now that you are surely going to get their attention :)

If they don't respond to this, then by all means take them to small claims court.
keep sharing and enjoying content
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Its not about affording electricity. Its availability of electricity. Even when you can afford a washing machine, electricity shortage makes it impossible to run the machine. Sometimes the power goes right in the middle of a wash cycle and you have to wait couple of hours before the power is restored. And in summer, power cuts are more prevalent.
Scott Aaronson is one of the main D-Wave skeptics. His most recent post on the subject has a nice overview on the latest works on d-wave "quantumness":

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1643
PillPack developer here: I'm imagining our office in complete chaos as we test delivery drones. Excuse me as I head over to YouTube to watch quadrotor videos :)
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Does the contract give you the right to get your patient & billing data back?
I just read through the article and the headline here is a big overstatement.

The article says that according to the speaker of the police of Zurich who test rode a Tesla that the screen is very distracting. Based on the complaint a district attorney is now starting an investigation. Switzerland is one of the countries with the highest density of Teslas and this is an issue that is only coming up now which should mean that the screens passed initial government screening.

The article does raise usability questions and mentions how other cars with large screens handle this problem (e.g. screens visible by the driver stopping to show media while the car is driving, or impeding functionality while driving).
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Check out the Firefox ESR builds. They're supported for 1 year. Not super long-term, but better than 6 weeks:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/
Just don't cut back too much...

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-09/09/why-alcohol-i...
One disturbing thing about Mozilla security is that most of the "Critical" flaws[1] in their list would be marked as "High" on Chrome because of Chrome's superior security model.

[1]https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firef...
You should be getting a reaction in about 5, 4, 3, ...
I really hate when people justify being impatient and demaning by using examples like Bezos or Jobs.

Nobody gets to the level of success as Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs without learning some level of patience. Amazing technologies like the iPhone and the Kindle wouldn't happen under the duress that I've witnessed at startups where a micro-managing founder is barking orders at people and expecting everything to be done yesterday.

People (and the press) tend to focus and sensationalize an individual's spectacular moments of impatience much more than their more regular day to day patience.

So the bottom line is, learn to be patient and expect to spend 80-90% of your time being patient. Impatience and being demanding can be a powerful weapon in helping get things done, but they should be used sparingly and in short bursts.

And expect that people will remember that one time you lost it in a meeting for a lot longer than the 100 meetings where you were attentive, supportive, and helped get things done without losing your cool.
Doh, I feel stupid now. I only looked at bandwidth costs, not the request prices. That's what I get for editing my post late at night based on reading, instead of based on personal experience.

For low bandwidth, you're absolutely right, the costs are at best the same. For high bandwidth however (once you get above 10TB), CloudFront works out cheaper (by about $0.010/GB, depending on region). But that wasn't taking into account the request cost, which as you point out, is more expensive on CloudFront, which can negate the savings from above depending on your usage pattern.

I'll update my post accordingly, thanks for pointing this error out!
The "hack" I've seen the most frequently is buying a ticket that gets you in the priority lane in addition to a standard ticket so that one can go through minimal security wait times and then cancel the ticket in time for a refund.
Having worked in the medical billing industry (supported a "competitor" to DrChrono), I've seen many complaints like this come through our e-mail system. It's not always 100% as cut and dry as it should be. The medical billing industry is a huge disaster. One lady threatened to sue us because we weren't doing her billing, but when pointed toward to multiple requests for the government mandated information (CMNs) she must provide, she said "she didn't know what that meant" (and that's with support staff more than willing to answer those questions, instead she apparently just trashed the emails).

Other times medicare would just pull the rug out from under us and enforce some new requirement that would takes weeks to implement.

And other times it surely was our billing company's fault. Something was billed with the wrong diagnosis code, then the insurance company takes too long to get back (or doesn't at all, or the system has a bug and doesn't process it), then it falls off the biller's radar and gets forgotten.

Either way, you should get a reply from them letting you know WHY your billing isn't being done, when it's going to be fixed, and what steps will be taken to avoid it happening again. I think there are really two separate issues here, the quality of service (which is debatable whether you should pursue legal action) and the price increase (which you probably should get some legal council about).

Regardless, the medical billing industry is a pain in the ass and I'm so glad to be out of that line of work.

*If a 1990s moped can be seen as a competitor to a ferrari
HN accounts of drchrono co-founders, although both last commented over a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=d8niel

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Skeletor
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Most US airlines don't offer lounge access for domestic first class tickets, but they generally do for international business/first. And sometimes for "premium" transcontinental routes (like JFK-SFO).

Then again, the food in US airline lounges leaves a lot to be desired. The free meal would probably just be cheese and crackers and carrot sticks...
That's cool. You're not the guy we built it for.

We built that SDK so that Junior Dev Jimmy can make calls to our API and actually finish integrating our service without giving up. That guy can't code his way out of a paper sack, and certainly couldn't successfully send us an HTTP request or parse the result that we sent back. We built him a client library so that he'll stop sending us stupid emails asking how to call our server-side API using jQuery or, not making this up as it's happened several times from several customers, a form on an HTML page.

Anything we can do to get that guy up and running and done implementing our API, we'll do. Because the guy who hired him is paying us money, and the last thing we want to do is explain why he needs to fire his only developer and find a new one.
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As a counterpoint, I use Microsoft stuff more than ever now. I migrated my email from Gmail to Outlook.com, I subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium, I use Skydrive as my cloud storage provider, and I'm starting to dabble in ASP.Net for web development again.

Oh, and I use (and enjoy) Windows 8.

So, yes, people like you exist. But so do people like me.
Yes, exactly. I really didn't not want to go that route and reached out to drchrono several times but to no avail.
"Microsoft pioneered tablet computers"

I always thought that was GO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GO_Corp.

Although I suspect more people know about GO from Jerry Kaplan's book Startup than from their products.
I'm most familiar with the example of the Kin, and it was not an example of "experimentation and innovation", but a case study in how Microsoft has largely lost its ability to execute on a proven concept.

For that matter, the Zune was a (late) iPod clone; sure, it had some experimental features (that didn't pan out, but, hey, they tried), but it was hardly seriously innovative.

It also was yet another example in how you'd best not trust Microsoft, as part of it they threw their PlaysForSure ecosystem under the bus.

Hmmm, getting whole sectors of the world to trust Microsoft in the future is going to be a tall order for the next CEO, assuming he doesn't just punt on many of them, which might be the wisest thing to do.
This. Startups are not an excuse for crap services, and this should never become something acceptable.
I thought that screen controlled all the aspects of the car, radio, defrosters, fan, heating, cooling, &c if the screen is off don't all of those become unusable?
I can only give you a datapoint. This has not been the case in our case. We never paid more than what we expected.

If you think VPS providers is an alternative to AWS, you have an entirely different use case than ours. For an application with high availability requirements, messages queues, scalable data store, etc. admin work is not "monthly backups". Implementing and maintaining highly available load balancing, message queues, data stores, DNS, auto scaling, etc. all require a lot of work, and often skills that you may not have in the team. AWS makes these tasks easier. You still have to do admin work, but much less of it, and don't have to be expert at each one. That's worth a lot.
The wavelength curve the rods are sensitive to spikes in the middle of all the wavelengths curves for all the cones. So I think the mental sensation of gray is pretty accurate, actually, since it is close to being just a rough measurement of all the others.
IMHO the re-think wasn't too far off. Microsoft's tablet OS is pretty nice. It was just late to the game and needs a stronger app ecosystem but they're working on that. The UI for Win8 desktop was DOA. They really over-shot there but have taken what I feel are appropriate steps to mitigate some of the damage and I think we'll see a nicer, better solution come Win9.
What are the market share stats like on FF versions these days? Presumably the auto-update feature means the vast majority are using the latest FF within a few weeks?
Interesting project but I'm a bit turned off by how this is all framed.

"We're building a new blogging platform that can use Ghost themes, check it out" comes across a lot more positive than "We're porting Ghost to PHP, please give us money to do this."
As we say in the guidelines,

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN is a news site, not a forum for people with issues with companies we've funded (even when concealed as Ask HNs). So I'm killing this. If you have an issue with Dr Chrono, please contact them directly.
> The plane's not going to leave without you.

I saw at least one case where a checked-in passenger arrived around 7 min before the official departure time (he was in a bar) but the gates were already closed and they didn't let him in.
For multiple definitions of right (if the top comments are to be believed) :P
An AST is just objects. Just like Lisp was designed to manipulate lists, Scala is designed to manipulate objects. The difference is that an AST has more structure, which is a good thing. The least structured are just plain strings, then come s-expressions, then ASTs. Lisp is only halfway there to a modern macro system.
That's a great point, but I'll take it further. Even if you know how to build all that stuff, you still have to build it, there are a lot of decisions to make up front. Depending on the company (Stripe comes to mind), I might choose to trust the SDK's decisions by default and only move away from it when I have specific pain points. A lot can be solved simply by isolating the SDK's usage inside a wrapper that defines our application's usage of the SDK.
This is a very bad idea: "Maybe you can suggest a solution that would have 20% of the cost and get 80% there?"

It's definitely right to think about the fast and cheap way to get there, but the point of a minimum viable product is that you do 100% of what needs to be done, not 80%.

The best case outcome above is that somebody who's a much better programmer than you takes over, does the last "20%" in "80%" of the time, gets bitched out for being slow, and gets burned out.
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You could have a glider. Or a boost-glide vehicle to be more precise.
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On the flipside, a frequently updated browser that is constantly improving is a bit of a moving target. Because of the ease for them to push out updates, vulnerabilities can be fixed and pushed out to the vast majority of users in short order. Malicious people may only get a few days/weeks to wreak havoc at a large scale, as the vast majority will have updated shortly after the problem is fixed.

In Forefox's case, the frequent releases more have to do with rapid improvement and iteration than anything. Read the changelog and notice how it was largely a bunch of mid-moderate improvements. Some CSS goodies, some JS goodies, some security goodies.
Copyright statements proliferate inside open source code
I haven't been over-posty on facebook for a while, but my most liked posts are the birth of my two daughters, and a picture of my older one that climbed up on the window sill. anyone find a way to save the flash video? usually you can view source and find it pretty easily...
The GLSL editor is really great, with just one thing making it a pain to use. Namely, the split between the vertex and fragment shader is always vertical (apart from when the tools are really thin overall). Does anyone know how I can force it to use a horizontal split?

While I'm whining, is it possible to show the console at the same time as viewing the source for files? The fact that I have to switch between the console and source tabs in FF is pretty much the only reason I use Chrome for debugging.
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If a company doesn't treat you properly and refuses to help, cut your losses and move on.

Switch to athenahealth. By far the best company in the space (my wife works there so I'm biased), but you can dig in to their financials (NSDQ: ATHN) and see for yourself.

http://www.athenahealth.com/

Medical billing is an incredibly broken process, so I applaud anyone trying to fix the problem. There is never an excuse for treating customers poorly, however. If you do, you will no longer have a business.
No thats the sweat from your skin :-)

Trust me years ago I worked on on project that was simulating a nuke reactor (the CFR breeder) and had to spend an afternoon wrapping a dummy fuel pin with insulation in full bunny suit, respirator and latex gloves on a very hot day when I took the gloves off there must have been 50 cc's of fluid in the gloves finger tips.
I think it would have been a better explanation if it included a color space graph, with the different directions corresponding to stimulating the different cones. You'd need a lot less text and people would grasp a lot more intuitively that a a line cannot stimulate 3 different cones in all the combinations.
Just wait until Australis.
"In Europe and other countries adhering to UN Regulation 48, vehicles must be equipped with one or two bright red "rear fog lamps" (or "fog tail lamps"), which serve as high-intensity rear position lamps to be turned on by the driver in conditions of poor visibility to make the vehicle more visible from the rear."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_lighting#Rear_fog_la...
If you want a browser that is released once per year...be my guest: http://www.apple.com/safari/
Nobody is imposing porn selling on Google.
Very true, I can't imagine going thru the effort to do this to get some pre-packaged cheese and Bud Light.

Probably better to just hang out in a hotel lobby which has the same amenities and less hassles.
On the contrary, Facebook is a great platform for important, meaningful things. It's just that most people don't think to use it that way. But I also think most people want to consume important, meaningful things, which would mean there's room for important, meaningful posts.
Use rbenv:

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

Best decision I've made.
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Alt-F4, just like always.
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I picked up the same combo last year. It really is a nifty setup. My problem is that I rarely use it. My driving patterns are irregular enough that I can't safely leave the device plugged in, drawing power. The ODB2 port in my car is very inconvenient to get to, so most days the device just sits in the glove box gathering dust.
I don't even like doing something like that on my laptop. The kind of sustained attention required to navigate a touch screen (no tactile feedback, must look) through multiple levels while driving ... I don't even see how this got approved for driving in the US.
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I believe music information can also be displayed on the screen right behind the wheel (where the speedometer etc is) and controlled by physical buttons on the steering wheel rather than the touch screen. Ditto for several other common operations.
"Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation . . ."

This strikes me as an odd thing to say, especially so given the nature of the communication. Am I alone in this thought?
If you open the Network tab of Chrome Developer Tools and start the video, you can find the request for the video and open it in a new tab.
The Onion has a news video along these lines:

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
Using Google Chrome, you can open developer tools, click in network, then, click in the "HD" button in player and find for mp4 file.
Admittedly it is up for debate which is length and which is height in a VTHL craft ;-)
>> When these kids grow up and enter the workforce, they will want to use the tools they know, and will not understand the point of in-house Windows sysadmins, or the software licensing fees.

When your company reaches a certain size, auditors and such will put an end to that.

"This gets backed up where?"

"Where's your antivirus?"

"Why aren't you using _STANDARD_PRODUCTS_?"

etc
Yes, legacy Firefox versions drop 95% almost immediately: http://cl.ly/image/1E433h1I1S01

(that is taken from a PR5 hospital site, should be pretty indicative of the general market.)
I think that the original use of the term was as a synonym for anarchist, because anarchism had been outlawed.

Libertarians have to call themselves something - I figure they can keep the word 'libertarian' and old-school libertarians can keep calling themselves anarchists or, if they believe in some sort of government, 'libertarian socialists' (which is also a fun phrase to drop in front of the more ill-educated right-libertarians). The nearest alternative to libertarian in current use is 'anarcho-capitalist' which is problematic for right-libertarians in that most of them believe in some sort of government ('Anarchists who want the police to protect them from their slaves') and problematic for anarchists who think that the capitalist employer/worker relationship is entirely incompatible with any conception of anarchism.

Neo-liberal is already in use for more conventional political outlooks, as other posters have pointed out.
DevDocs: combines multiple API docs in a fast, and organized interface
Pillpack is the 10-15 year plan.

The 20 year is actual delivery within your body: take a pill once and it gradually releases the correct amount at the correct time with an option to flush it out of your system as well.
ASK PG: Why HN killed a reasonable complain about YC company
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