skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia, whenever I had a CT scan I was provided with a CD-ROM full of data in some kind of medical format. In my experience, patients usually transport imaging data/films between the imaging bureau and the medical practitioners themselves.

I always planned to try to read it, but I never did (it certainly wasn't a bunch of bitmaps!)
at the end of the day, the admission offices don't

Oh, they are very, very highly numeric places -- they just concentrate on the kind of numbers that have to be burned after calculation. ("We only admitted how many black students this year? STOP. Pick up the green folders pile and find me students you think would do well if they stretched a little bit.")

I used to like Japanese universities for doing admissions via high-stakes entrance exams. Having worked on those systems, I think I now love them. Publishing the score distribution for the exam last year, broken down by department, with the exact passing score needed for admission in the bloody application packet is just the cherry on top of the pie of awesome.

If Harvard leaked as much data as a Japanese university there would be a public firestorm. (Because Harvard engages in severe, systematic racial discrimination, but prefers to lie about the existence and extent of it.)
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>highly random/subjective.

Part of the reason they seem so random is because we don't know their methods.

For example, most people don't know that many schools use email click-through statistics to gauge interest. Demonstrated interest affects your chances to get into a school (Cornell does this).
I'm not sure exactly what new information we're supposed to get from this article: obviously, when the stock market busts, those with the highest exposures to it are going to be hurt more in percentage terms than those with very little exposure. That this has happened does not indicate any systemic change that's likely to alter the overall concentration of wealth.

There are potentially some such systemic changes occurring, of course - the middle-millionaire worker bees in the finance industry (particularly the gamblers...oops, I mean traders :) ) are probably going to see a leaner few years ahead. But the more normal pieces of our economy, where wealth is gained via production instead of positioning, are not changing in any fundamental manner.

Re: your comment, I just re-read http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html, and it brought up a very important point regarding distribution of wealth, one that I'd not considered before. It's a real shame that we don't have any numerical way to measure overall wealth level across time periods, all we can do is measure relative distributions at a single time. Trivially, there's got to be an ideal distribution of resources at a given time that will maximize the expected value of total wealth as we move forward (this is true even if that "total wealth" number is calculated with some penalty for massive inequality).

But what I hadn't considered before is that this optimal distribution may change significantly as the baseline rises.

The usual assumption, one I've been guilty of in the past, is that a constantly shifting distribution of wealth implies that even if we hit that optimum, we're going to move right past it. But it's quite possible that with the leverage of technology coming into play, the distribution that optimizes overall wealth could continue to concentrate a higher and higher percentage of said wealth in fewer hands, and the "steady state" equilibrium that the physicist in me is desperate to solve for is actually shifting upwards over time.

I wonder if there are any existing economic models that explicitly account for this effect (not an economist, so I'm not sure); it would be very nice to have a realistic model to see concretely the means by which an income gap might not be such a bad thing for everyone, and to be able to see the relative effect of controlling that gap via taxes. After all, if the net effect of chopping half the income of the top 0.01% of earners is only to reduce the net economic output by .5%, many people would find this to be a fair tradeoff, since there is some societal utility in equity. But if it's going to reduce overall output by 5% to do such a thing, forget it, we're all going to be worse off in the end.
With respect to Multics, unix would run on smaller computers. Moore's Law means we keep getting those, so whatever can get a foothold on them has an advantage. The question of "why unix?" instead of one of the other small OS at the time is less clear. Luck may have played a part.

With respect to Plan 9, it had to compete with unix which was already established.

Note that during this time, another OS also became popular: DOS. Like unix, it ran on smaller hardware (actually, even smaller than unix could run on... giving DOS a foothold advantage denied unix). And clearly, DOS had some luck with respect to all the other small OS available at that time, being put on the IBM PC. There were two other OSes available for the PC (CP/M and UCSD p-System). Why did DOS win there? I don't know, but it was much cheaper, and possibly, MS BASIC compatibility had a role. Before the IBM PC, personal computer manufacturers would tout "MS BASIC" compatibility as a benefit because it gave users access to existing software.

Once you establish a platform with applications, it's hard to beat you. People don't want the platform - they want the applications. It's a network effect.

By targeting low-powered hardware, you can get established ahead of others, so that by the time the hardware has grown powerful enough to support a "real OS", you have already won. It's a disruptive innovation.
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What a strange advice!

You should never play for 'perception', after all, everybody that it matters to will have full disclosure anyway and you set yourself up for being called out at some point in the future.

Just say it like it is. I notice that you're still not coming clean about how much you in fact did raise. You're under no obligation to say it but the way it stands right now it could be $100K or it could be $999,999.

If somebody misquotes you that is not your problem, if the press embellishes your story, well, that's what the press does more often than not. But if you purposefully engage in the spreading of false (or suggestive) information then that does not really help.
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We eventually got into the habit of placing a number of unrelated requirements into each area then doing our best to come up with a rational way to fit them together. Often, by the end of the session we would find that the initial idea wasn’t nearly as interesting as all the pieces we built around it, and the structure we had designed to explain it actually worked better without that initial idea.

This is so very true! As weird as it sounds, creativity thrives on constraints.

Think about all the wildly imaginative classic games. How many design decisions were made because of the NES' dedicated tile-engine hardware? How many clever enemy variants were derived from methodical planning around limited ROM memory?

Your brain simply can't processes the entire spectrum of all possible thoughts. Pick some arbitrary constraints and you're suddenly much more productive of great ideas.
I've always thought that even with the most idiotic person, if their brain could be plugged into a computer, it'd be beyond that of any supercomputer. Anyone wish to elaborate?
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Keep in mind the data is described in Mathematica as well.
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Try something completely mad if you want to get out and interact with the world. What about moobile web development? Pull up next to the burger van at you local car boot sale, in your Mr. Webby trailer and offer 'By one, get one free' websites. IDK, just an idea.
Sun does a lot of open source work. I wonder what will get the axe and what they'll keep.
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id seemed to be happy, too.
Sorry. You assumed I was curious about PasteBins because I'm curious about sites that let you run code on them. Now, it turns out that I'm slightly curious about PasteBins. I think they're slightly more interesting than URL shorteners. They're not nearly as interesting to me as sites that let you run code on them, though.

FriendPaste is neat, but it's not as daring as letting people run a bunch of different languages on your server like CodePad does. I imagine one reason it's not open source is that they're relying partly on security through obscurity. I would be if I were running such a site.

BTW, I did check it out more in depth, and its python interpreter runs "import datetime" and "print datetime.datetime.now()" fine, but gives an error than an md5 library is missing when you try to run "import urllib2". So it supports some standard modules but not all.
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Move to another country and sit in an office there? Ok, sure, you're still in an office, but the novelty of it all will be a good experience.
"I haven't devoted nearly enough time to figuring out the difference between four stars and five stars"

I grappled with a similar issue a few months ago when I wrote about the 5 star rating system used by Yelp. If time and mood are factors in evaluating a movie at a point in time (when the movie itself doesn't change over time) then the issue is muddled further when using a 5-star rating system for bar or restaurants where the same person can have wildly different empirical experiences in the same day.

It seems to me that it's almost impossible to capture all the variables necessary to accurately capture and assess how you feel about something at a given point in time (movie/restaurant/whatever). Even if we could, would enough people want to go though the doubtless cumbersome and time consuming process of collection enough of the time to draw any meaningful conclusions?
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Maybe an interesting question: what if those schedules were hard to make? e.g. they resulted from an expensive analysis of a traveling salesman problem.
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There doesn't seem to be much correlation between buttons and what happens on the page.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

For example, if I click on one revision (Gerry Giraffe) and then on the next (Kramer Koala) stuff happens, but if I click back on Gerry, nothing happens. Perhaps further instructions are required.
More creative, but less reliable.
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This was posted 498 days ago as well. Relevant comment page is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158948

I'm not saying a repost is bad. We clearly have a lot of new users from the last 500 days.

However, it would be cool if there was a way to automatically see when a page got reposted, though, in case there was some interesting commentary that could be revived from the first time around. That sort of function could add value, I think. (This time around, it doesn't, really - only 5 comments with 7 karma between them.)
> I'm not of the opinion that publishing work on-line is the same as giving it away, and I'm certainly not of the opinion that _why taking his stuff down is the same as breaking into a place to steal and destroy things

Publishing work on-line IS giving it away. If you don't want that, just don't publish it online. If not, it's like singing a song at a party and getting all upset on your friends for memorizing it. Sorry, but the cat is out of the bag, and you can't tell me that _why (being involved in an open-source community and all) wasn't aware of that.

_why's taking his stuff down is also comparable to stealing/destroying things ... his work still lives on because other people bothered to make copies, but he also took down the mailing lists / homepages of those projects, disrupting the communities behind those projects, leaving nice people that invested time and resources for those projects in the dark (I don't know how much time/resources were external, but that's irrelevant).

Being an artist doesn't excuse you being dick (although it also doesn't negate your achievements). But when you're being a dick, since you're living in a society that would brake if all of us where dicks, then you should pay the price for that.
The article points out that variation in wealth began to increase when the top personal income tax rate dropped under Reagan from 70% to 35%, thereby making it far more feasible for individuals to capture great personal wealth. (If you think 70% is high, during the great expansion of the middle class post WW II the top tax rate was 93%. Coincidence?) There have been a number of signals from the Obama administration that they wish to increase the top personal income tax rate. If they increase it enough, then wealth variation WILL come down. Increasing power of technology or no. The only questions are how high they would have to raise taxes to do it, and whether they will do so.

That said, the economic value created by the increasing power of technology is a great driver of wealth, and will remain so for some time to come. But government policy can certainly create a "headwind" that is sufficient to reduce the number of great fortunes created.
Not to be negative but I saw their pitch at Duke and they actually embellished the amount of users on thier facebook app and stole information from other teams in a pitch competition
This is the type of thing that makes me love and hate emulator development. It's amazing how much code can actually depend on behavior like this, and how often bugs in an emulator are cases where things aren't implemented in the same "broken" way as the original hardware/firmware.

It does make it interesting and challenging, though.
Having launched a few ventures, I've learned that smarts and hard work are not most of the story - having the right venture is.

Tipjoy struck me, from the very first time I heard of it, as the entirely wrong idea. It "solved" a problem that didn't really exist, competed with multiple existing solutions, and I couldn't figure out who the customers were supposed to be.

I will say that ivankirigin came to his senses and abandoned his bad idea far faster than I came to my senses and abandoned various of my bad ideas, so hats off for that.
I don't get how it works technically. How can they make people follow and unfollow other people?
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I feel compelled to dispatch an anonymous postcard to _why, just to say thanks. And to wish the best farewell. Maybe I'll find one with a furry animal on the front, like a lumberjack or something. Tomorrow.

You see, phoning seems rather creepy. And besides, I really don't have anything to ask him, or of him. He's taught us all so much already.

Yeah, a postcard seems best. Just a message in a bottle, a ping into the void. Naturally, the letter shall read in a language known well among those he has enlightened.

Thanks, old friend.
If someone acted as a dick, we don't care whether he's an artist or not.

Even if he's our friend, we still recognise when he acts as a dick and point that out.
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I'm sorry? Can you be more specific? Given what we're working on, reputation is all we have (albeit as a function of how well our software works). We'd never do either of those things.
The second comment is too sad to believe.
Do such things happen at many places? or is it just an isolated case of bad managers?
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I enjoyed going through this list - so I thought you might too!

Here are a few to wet your taste buds:

- a thought-provoking one: Deorum iniuriae Diis curae. ("Offences to the gods are the concern of the gods." - Perhaps very apt in these times of religious tension.)

- a kind of meta-proverb: Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. ("Anything said in Latin sounds profound." )

- a weird one: Temeas simium meum. ("Hold my monkey!" - Eh?)

There are plenty of others, go and discover.
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Looking back, I spent too much time worrying about my scores and not enough time making sure my essays reflected my unique achievements and skills.

That's still framed in the broken system in place now. Can your really tell someone enough about you in a 2-page essay for them to make an informed decision about your application? Test scores are just as bad, if not noisier, signals; they're just easy to grok numbers, so like one of the other posters mentioned, they come with implicit authority. That entire process is broken; we're not trying to sell another snake oil "what are my chances" calculator. There's real science behind what we're working on, and it's not a consulting service for the wealthy.
I saw an exhibit with things like this at "The Museum of Jurassic Technology" in Culver City (LA area).

http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/hagop/hagop2.html
I could be wrong, but that doesn't sound like the type of thing YC would advise...
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I would also recommend Yehuda Koren's (Bellkor leader, if I recall correctly) KDD 09 excellent paper, "Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics" http://research.yahoo.com/pub/2824 which speaks exclusively of how to handle temporal dynamics.
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thats quite common for advisary board positions (usually < 1%)
The whole story seems to repeatedly wave the arms and shout:

"Hey, Twitter! Hey, Facebook! Here we are! We know how to do this! Hire us, hire us, hire us!!!".

At least that's how I read the story. And I'm quite convinced it's their intent.
Which shouldn't be a bad thing too.
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Pecunia non olet ("money does not smell"). The phrase originally related to the urine tax levied by the Roman emperors Nero and Vespasian in the 1st century upon the collection of urine! Food for thought for the IRS!
How the heck does this thing work? Looks like it has some nice bells and whistles- wish I knew how to ring/blow them.
moniker. So far quite happy, I do understand they got bought out by 'oversee', but so far no bad effects from that. We first tried out how they treated us as 'small' customers, then we switched our premium domains (ww.com and daz.com) there once we had the feeling we were in good hands.

The funny thing is that even when we just hosted one small domain there and asked a bunch of questions we were treated pretty good.

I switched to moniker after the bulkregister buy out by enom and to date I don't have any complaints, service is pretty good and prices are reasonable ($7.50 for a .com or thereabouts).

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Is that true though?

I know that Obama said it.

But I have not heard that said about the proposals.

It could be, but I have not heard that, so I can't say it.

But, thanks for at least letting me know what was wrong with the tone of my post.
How about teaching?
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Great start, though provide alternative payment options if possible - that way you don't scare anyone off.
There are a whole bunch of reasons why this would be nearly impossible, but it's an interesting thought experiment nonetheless.
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You're missing the point by a wide margin. I voted because I felt they were lousy comments. Whether I agree with them or not is hardly relevant, as I don't think they're even worth paying that much attention to.

The whole idea that comment moderation should be based on whether you agree or disagree with the message is a toxic one that has killed civil conversation on dozens of sites, replacing it with thoughtless and instinctual groupthink that frankly makes everyone dumber. (I won't even pretend to be above it at all times myself, but I try, and would hope to not be alone in that.) Ultimately, you can't stop everybody from voting that way, but you can discourage it, and that's what my post was about.
Maybe that's because the answer to the question you're asking is NaN.

What you actually mean is that you want a plot of the price of gold and the price of silver vs time.

For which the query is:
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Took me about 5 minutes of playing around.
It takes a HN thread and a free github account to restore everything he "took down"

And it took, [precisely that](http://whymirror.github.com/)

Zed, you and other are arguing as if he actively deleted your own copies of all that work and that he had an obligation to support it for ever.