skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a proposal to improve health, it's a proposal to spend less money on medicine. A more complete quote:

I thus claim: we could cut U.S. medical spending in half without substantial net health costs. This would give us the equivalent of an 8% pay raise.

How should we cut medical spending? ...cut ... our government and corporate subsidies for medicine... give medicine far less prestige than we now do...taxing medicine, limiting it by law, or nationalizing the industry and using agency budgets to limit spending.

He then acknowledges that most of his ideas are not politically feasible.
ha! I still have my CueCat, from radioshack days. They were all about "convergence" then.. yeah, that failed.
Half-Life was almost completely redesigned from scratch because they realized well into the project that the game they were making was not fun. You can read about it at http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991210/birdwell_01.htm , I've posted it here before.

The rest is history.
You can link Git up to use any mergetool you want, if you have a specific one in mind. I've seen it used with Perforce visual merge tool, opendiff, kdiff3, etc. If you have a tool you like, it's not too difficult to get it setup.

See:
http://progit.org/book/ch7-1.html#external_merge_and_diff_to...
Free Shadow Movie | Online Shadow Movie 
In this movie was Sonali kulkarni,Nasir khan,Hrishitaa Bhatt,and Milind Soman. Sanjana Rajpoot (Sonali Kulkarni), a police officer is flummoxed. Six months after a serial murder case came to the police’s notice, it is still unsolved. http://free-bollywood-movie.blogspot.com/2009/08/watch-shadow-movie.html
When people ask me about 'traditional media dying' I try and explain that traditional media is 'influx' and that there will always be advertising offline... hence companies like www.tapinko.com and Eclipse Systems can/will be ok.
At least they learned from the heavily armored helicopter whose gigantic windshield was made of non-bulletproof glass.
Catching a Mathematical Error Using Haskell’s Type System
Something tells me that this pitch has been emailed to various VCs many times over.
You save it as a collectors item. This is the first of it's kind.
The building's maintenance department still hasn't fixed one of our office doors. The springs are broken, and it's a heavy glass door. It could break your hand or brain you pretty good if you're not aware that the spring is malfunctioning. It's been two months. And we're not even a gigantic corporation.
In your second link, at the end, quoting from a response to an email sent by _why:

say are you related to francis gillett who wrote that play about the kids who never slept and lived in wyoming.
I have seen photos taken with the G10 at ISO 80 that can rival the most expensive SLRs. It's all about knowing your kit and working within its limitations.
I'm a rangefinder guy, so I shoot film.

I'm still tapping my foot waiting for a small digital, interchangeable lens kit to come out that isn't a giant DSLR. My crummy eyes can't focus anything TTL.
A response to Dropping Django
Gotta hope that the reality will be as potent as the "hope" - since ubiquity of implementation of HTML5 may once again tax our patience. [If only all browsers updated as smoothly as FF (imho).]

I've also got to hope, along with commenter to the blog: "hope it won’t involve the same amount of oddities between browsers, as for example XmlHttpRequest does."
Health Care Doesn't Affect Health (on the margin)
It seems to me that health care for the rich only is inevitable: under the assumption that there will always be arbitrarily expensive medical treatments, it seems clear that it can't be feasible to guarantee any kind of medical treatment to anyone. The only ways to prevent rich people have access to medical treatments that poor people don't have access to would be to either make sure there are no rich people (communism?) or to make expensive treatments illegal. The first is probably not a good idea or very difficult to pull off successfully, the second seems silly. Deny some people good health care just because other people can not afford it?

So I take it for granted there will always be expensive treatments (in the extreme case, assume an illness for which no cure is known. Researching a cure might cost billions, that only a billionaire could afford).

It remains to discuss what is the basic level of health care that should be available to everyone. Judging from the article, the Whole Foods guy seems to think the basic level should be good food for everyone, others might want a little bit more. But that is just nitpicking about the details.

Given the crap the medical system feeds us these days, personally I am scared of the "you are only allowed the treatments the state has made you eligible for" route. I want to be allowed a say in the health care I receive, even if it means I'll have to try to earn more money to afford it.

Also not sure what is more unethical: paying for an expensive treatment a poor person can not afford, or consuming useless treatments at the cost of my co-insurers.
About time. I had to give my wife a lesson on why not to pay attention to the checklist on the front of the box. She bought a supposedly 8MP P&S. Which had 2x the resolution of my aging but still fantastic Olympus.

Every shoot taken with it looked like it had been smeared in blue grease. And the box didn't have any of the information I considered important; 2GB card, 8MP res., avi capture are really useless benchmarks for a camera.

Things you should be looking for are a fat sensor (1/3" in my case), very low f-stop, high ISO, and resolution. You can do a lot of things with high resolution except fix a bad photo. The first three things means you'll get the pass capture the device can give you.
Ways to Improve Your Web-Based Business
Posted.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775284
Is Itunes about to go social?
One could argue that it doesn't. Not necessarily what I think, but enough to make a difficult case out of it if it ever came to court.

In particular, the "amount and substantiality of the portion used" is "the whole damn thing". As far as I know, each photograph counts as an individual work.

The defense of "parody" is pretty strong, but as far as I know only applies if the subject of the parody is the copyrighted work itself. In this case the copyrighted work (a fairly neutral sort of photo) has been used to parody a third party (Mr Obama) who isn't the owner of the copyright. It's like Weird Al: his version of "Beat It" is a parody of "Beat It" so he didn't need permission, but his version of "American Pie" was actually a parody of "Star Wars", so he did.
This was fantastic. Very well done and hysterical.
The nice thing about this tweet-pitch idea is that it allows larger number of investgors get less intimdated by and more exposed to a larger number of product ideas. This increases probability of finding a perfect match between an investor-beliver-in-the-idea and a founder-beliver-in-the-idea.

PG should be jumping of joy right now - this could be a major leap towards future where more people feel free to work on their business instead of the job thing.
So what? I understand that it's considered a "big thing" by people who spend a considerable amount of energy cultivating an online persona, but I have trouble believing this is actually as big of a deal as it is being made out to be. I can think of two reasons for such an action:

1) Generally being "done" with that particular identity or community, and having lost interest to the point where the effort required to maintain it was disproportionate with the enjoyment or self-aggrandisement derived from it. If this is the case, then eulogising and lamenting and celebrating is misplaced: Perhaps introspection would be a better reaction - asking, "what is wrong with the community such that a high-profile member no longer wants to be a part of it?"; or

2) Some kind of personal or mental problems that have precipitated this, in which case, the value of maintaining an online profile is probably just less than the perceived value from removing all traces of an online presence.

Or alternatively, any number of explanations to do with hackers or vandalism could be in play too.

I just think the response has been totally disproportional to the event, at least until more information is available.
How international relations theory would cope with a zombie uprising
Yeah, this is FUD, plain and simple.
Thanks, much appreciated. Looks like a screencast is in order, truth is from http://www.webticketing.net it takes 1 click to register (on the front page), then one click to create event. From there on, it will all go live the instance you click the confirmation email.

We really should demo how easy this is though.

Mat
The Facebook part doesn't bother me (seems like kind of a no brainer in fact) but the rest seems fishy.

The report claims iTunes 9 will be able to sync with other MP3 players. But if that's so why has Apple been fighting to keep the Pre off iTunes if they plan to implement a similar feature in the near future? Also the report mentions the Samsung YH-J70 but the supported formats for that player don't include AAC. Is Apple going to convert music files just to support other players? And what about DRM? Many earlier tracks still have DRM on them and Apple's making a decent amount of money selling "upgrades" that get rid of that DRM. So are they really going to strip it off for a rival player (which would allow the user to just copy them back onto the computer to get DRM free tracks)?

As for the DVD import I have to ask one question: Who is driving that decision? For Apple it represents fewer iTunes sales (since people can rip their existing DVDs) and the Studios will be worried about piracy so they aren't going to want the feature either. I mean, as a user it sounds great but I can't see anyone "in the room" who would want that feature implemented.
I love Panic so much.
Cool information on developing cutting-edge technology, detailing the competition between two developers, deus ex machina in the form of Steve Jobs As Godlike Figure, rejection of Jobs to maintain the company that later wrote my favorite code editor ever.

I'm pretty sure this was on HN before, but I don't mind. This is an incredible story in a lot of ways.
Yes, but not recently. This is after all the guy who posted anonymously on his own company's board at Yahoo Finance for a couple of years. He weighed in on such weighty matters as his own hairstyle, then disappeared to honor a bet he lost to another participant.
Ants and Buffon's Needles [pdf]
Unalone, you completely miss my point.

You know what I am observing here? Let me make a flowchart:

1. Person sees _why is "dead" => 2. Person sees social proof that _why is important and significant => 3. Person realises social requirement is to demonstrate conformity with (2), does so

Needless to say this also follows:

4. Unalone sees external threat to group => 5. Unalone realises opportunity exists to demonstrate fealty to group by attacking externality => 6. Unalone posts 2,082 word screed to HN doing so

Simple as that really. Brb, I have more to say.
Compare this with a form that simply requires email address and password to sign up, and .. well, you're going to get a lot better result, in terms of conversion rate, on the latter. The less, and less intrusive, you ask on signup - the better your conversion rate will be.
More Bars, Less Security, in More Places: AT&T can’t keep out script kiddies
Has anyone managed to get this running on OS X? A few weeks ago I played with some header files but didn't have any luck.
Design Decisions: Basecamp's new signup form
Yeah, the guy who already had _why's quote engraved on his iPod was totally conforming right now, rather than sharing a heartwarming anecdote about how he really liked one of the things listed here.

4. Unalone sees external threat to group => 5. Unalone realises opportunity exists to demonstrate fealty to group by attacking externality => 6. Unalone posts 2,082 word screed to HN doing so

Really? I'm the person here who enjoys criticizing YC companies and Paul Graham because their reputations often get inflated. As for writing long screeds: This is hardly my first. I can't help it that I write as quickly as I talk. Unless I'm repeating myself and wasting words as I write, I figured length weren't no problem.
I guess if you were looking for ideas to... repurpose, here's an easy idea feed for you:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23micropitch
They should've outsourced.

How do you know they didn't? Predatory consultants and contractors absolutely flourish by hanging off the underbellies of large institutions. Somewhere in the Empire, some corporation is billing $450 per replacement blaster trigger.
The post itself has nothing to do with quality of design. It's about how successful the people and agencies are in business terms. And in business terms money = measure of success.
Flagged. It's humourous, but there's no real intelligence or insight here worthy of Hacker News.
I agree that the G10 is a good camera overall, but she would have been happier with less resolution and lower noise. For most people, the design trade-offs are non-optimal.
+1 for your EDIT.
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These admirably concise descriptions are only compelling if you factor in what you already know about these services: what they do to be different and successful.

Your description of Dropbox leaves out why it is different from the legions of other online file sync services that are kinda OK or just lame, for instance. Putting yourself back into 1995: "why would anyone want to buy books online when there's Barnes & Noble, Walden, etc right down the street? Ecommerce is great and all but 'Blah.com: buy X online' is not necessarily a reasonable idea."

If I had never heard of these before I don't know how you could describe what it does as well as essential other details that don't fit into 111 characters.
College Applicants Getting Personality Scores
Agreed. The mainstream parties today are so overloaded that I suspect noone fits their stereotypes completely. The amount of finger-pointing and name-calling attributable to this sort of misconception is unfathomable, and I think it's one of the most serious problems in American politics.
Awesome story, really well written and entertaining as Cabel always is.

Especially the first-hand stories of Steve Jobs.

If you want to hear more from Cabel I recommend listening to his hilarious
presentation given at C4[1] (http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/14)
which is mainly on the history of Panic.
Amazon, MS, Google clouds flop in stress tests
Am I the only person who uses WA on a regular basis to actually get information?

Here are some searches I do with some regularity:

Weather:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+in+phoenix

IP address of my current machine:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=current+IP

Date calculations:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8+weeks+from+september+...

etc...
I think they called them tow cables. Presumably, if one fighter was shot down, another could tow it back to base behind it.
"That's very subjective."

No, taste is subjective. That _why is unique, a hacker, an artist and creative is not.

"And I was claiming to be an outsider to the Ruby community"

Yeah, hence why I'm highlighting the inanity of your insistence on viewing his work through the prism of "Ruby" rather than for what it is: creative code in multiple languages including one he invented, artwork, music, books and commentary on making programming more accessible and fun.
Okay, now do twitter.
Sony Ericsson W205 
Sony Ericsson W205 has a 1.8 inch TFT color screen with more than 65,000 colors and a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. The internal memory is only 5MB. This may, however, via a Memory Stick Micro (M2) be further extended so you have enough space to store many hours of music or hundreds of photos. transfer of these files.
Ariel Waldman: Space Hacker
History backs that up, as well; MS didn't dominate UNIX through technical superiority, but rather by providing a unified and open development environment.

Note that "open" and "open source" are neither the same nor in any way exclusive.
Better Yet: "What _why's Departure Says About FOSS".
I was trying to find a reference for that! Any pointers?
Something was wrong. It seemed I had angered the techno libertarians.
I used to think that we were pretty lame compared to other species, until I discovered that because of our skin, we are the best at cooling our bodies. That's why in the midday heat of the savannah, the only animal walking around is gonna be a human.
What happened to the Twitter Whale MIA like _WHY?
HTTP Server Error 503

No available server to handle this request
Temperature monitoring with Arc + Arduino
Yahoo Domains – Thoughts From A Happy Customer
The trap I've heard described is that people are living longer thanks to "hardcore" medicine like heart bypass and other things which prolong but do not always improve the quality of life, along with greater general food security, yada yada. However, they are not living as long as they necessarily could in a theoretically perfect environment AND they are not living to greater ages with the same general level of health they could with better behavior. The last bit is what creates the actuarial and cost problems--people living longer but needing more attention and intervention throughout their life.

So, and I think you agree here, the optimum situation would be to improve general lifestyle habits and have people live older, more productive lives on average without generating excess costs relative to what we see today. If that's possible, it's a good goal. And since it can be improved incrementally in both directions (quality up, cost down) without a 100% see-saw effect, it seems like an attainable goal.
How weird is it that I just read this webcomic from 2003 yesterday. And it did the same joke
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/177.html
Finally, a reason to tweet.

I'm not a big fan of Twitter, but given how many VC's and investors are using it now, I'm signing up for two right now (a personal account and another for my startup).

EDIT: Or not. Looks like Twitter is down again: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com
Same problem here :/
A beginners tutorial on how to overcook jquery, and how not to design a UI. I have read this guys blog before, this post is just as lackluster as the last.

Everytime I click "Registration", I think that I am done, oh wait, more stuff to fill out, jeez all I wanted was [ enter some simple service you must sign up for ].

Before this guy reaches into his Jquery bag-o-tricks, he should first brush up on basic form attributes such as "tabindex" http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_standardattributes.asp
"what is wrong with the community"

This communities in this case would be the entire online and open source communities.
You Don't Need Bit.ly, Tr.im & Co.: Just Host Your Own URL Shortener
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Four_Thirds
I agree - slight oversight. Thanks for all your advice, though - appreciated.
503 error page needs some love.
I'm pretty sure stiff is slang for dead person, but it gets used more generally than that, for example: 'working stiff', a working person nothing going for him.
Progressively disclosing required fields is silly. Doing it two fields at a time is asinine.
I'm not sure what your point is (or why people upvoted this). Are you suggesting that Flickr's Terms of Service provide them a broader interpretation of copyright infringement?

The logical extension of what you're saying is that "Fair Use" should not be invoked until there is a lawsuit. AFAICT, there will never be a lawsuit, as Flickr preemptively removed the "offending" content. Since Flickr is effectively acting as judge and jury in a closed doors case that the defendant wasn't invited to, when does he get to use his clearly applicable "Fair Use" defense?
Strange days, these.
His Rule #2 really bothers me. To test whether or not a traditional application will work on the web he suggests actually writing the application... (albeit in rapid releases)
Ten Tweetable Scripts
How to Prevent Comment Spam | TechJaws: Internet Security and SEO
VeriLisp: turns Common Lisp into a frontend to Verilog.
Product design: Prototypes, patents, patience...then profits
They don't have a business model to explain. <ducks>
I like that of all the comments, this is the highest rated (as of 9:14am Pacific time)
That simple regression does not indicate anything...the author does not show that the data follows an exponential; he just imposes it. What about a non-parametric regression? What about structural breaks in the time series?
Looks like the operations side of twitter needs a solution.
I'd love to know more about their current architecture and bottlenecks.
Learn HN:  Arithmetic Sheets for Parents/Teachers with Kids
I wasn't able to find anything like it online, so I thought it may be useful for the hackers out there with kids. I'm reading the book "Secrets of Mental Math", and the exercises they present are basically what this tool outputs... basic, random, arithmetic problems. So yeah, I actually created these for myself, not my kids :)

Tool: http://www.elctech.com/math/random-arithmetic-worksheets-generator

Post: http://www.elctech.com/articles/random-arithmetic-worksheets

Code: http://github.com/dylanz/Arithmetic-Sheets
disappointed when this was not an article about Warhammer 40k.

+5 to your nerdosity
What happenned to Drafty?
Quick summary - from the article:

"If you would not pay for medicine out of your own pocket, then don’t bother to go when others offer to pay."

Overall a well argued article.
I'd say most Linux machines in the wild are running on consumer devices.
Future of Journalism a la Rheingold
Yes, Japan has QR codes all around, and there are QR code readers for the iPhone, but (until recently) it lacked the macro focusing camera to be able to use it well.

I was more thinking of the recent augmented reality webcam demonstrations where the camera looks at patterned paper on a table, and draws 3D game characters on them, and tracks them as they move and rotate.
Pure mathematicians generally do not like secrecy. It would be just too childish to keep such a word to oneself. They also know well to not assume the result as proved until a refereed journal confirms it. All that would have happened if the word got out to NYT would be a PR mess about which the mathematical community couldn't care less.
I believe it's impossible to succeed without failing.

Not anymore.

OP overlooks the key to avoiding failure: release early and often. Customer feedback during development, not afterwards, is the rudder that keeps your project from going down the abyss. Unless you're an ocean liner. Like Microsoft.
How One Article Increased Sales 22% - From a small e-commerce owner
The big white X-Wing.
Both can be true simultaneously. My server is running on a consumer device.
What Makes a Genius?
Ewoks are cheap Wookies: http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=...