skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can rent for about the same money, and still get shelter. There are convenience advantages for owning your own home, but it still seems like a bad "investment" to me.
I ruined this thread by deleting my parent comment, sorry about that. My comment essentially was saying that I played played competitive Quake (1) at age 13-17 and was extremely good, but now I play competitive QuakeLive at age 30-31 and I'm even better.

I really don't feel like my reaction times have noticeably decreased. Quake being such a pure game it's pretty easy to test one person against another. I play regulularly with a 17 year old kid who is a pro-level dueler. I can stand head-to-head with him in a big open space and win a rail-only fight. Sure, there's experience involved, but it's mostly twitch shooting.

Like I told my last wife, I said "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes."
1. There are some people who claim to make whole-brain simulations based on earlier anatomical data [1,2]. I don't expect that anyone can make meaningful predictions by simulating the new map, because the neuronal models used are either rudimentary, or do not capture neuronal variability (also non-neuron cells may be involved). However, the analysis of the connectivity between various regions as well as intra-region may lead to accurate predictions about what many circuits "do".

2. Functional imaging is advancing, but it's still very hard to capture large-scale neuronal activity. The current state of the art, calcium imaging can visualize activity from one focal plane, not too many neurons at a time, with slow time resolution, and only at the surface. I 'd say we are pretty far from that as it would require some amazing imaging technology.

1. http://www.izhikevich.org/publications/large-scale_model_of_...

2. http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
Yes, I live in New Zealand. As another poster has said, it appears to be due to US money laundering laws.
> But you don't need to use a third party

But how do you get bitcoins in the first place without going through an Exchange ?
Thanks! I use d3.js + SVG for most of the interactive ones. SVG makes it easy for me to attach mouse events to the elements in the diagram, and d3.js makes it easy for me to create, remove, and animate the elements individually. For the tower defense (breadth first search) page, I have three elements:

1. The graph (square grid for now but I'll make other types) — nodes and edges and edge weights
2. The search algorithm (breadth first search for now) — visited, open, costs, parent pointers.
3. The SVG visualization — a polygon for each node colored by its search state, and overlays for text or arrows

When the slider moves, I rewind or advance the search algorithm, which tells me which nodes have changed. I then update those nodes in the diagram. I considered running search once and recording a trace, but it turned out the performance bottleneck was the SVG, not the algorithm, so I didn't bother. It's fast enough to re-run at each step.
Agreed. I can see how that could be even more damaging to the development of healthy psychological defense mechanisms than a lack of aggression from peers.
This is a good point; it would be a shame (but not exactly a surprise) if society focused its regulatory policy on the symptom rather than the disease. One seems to hear a lot less about the evils of AirBnb from relatively-cheaper cities.
I feel ya, here in India. Not the best night sleep Ive ever had... that's for sure!
Removing the need for undergrad does nothing to increase the supply. I also fail to see how it reduces costs. Everything is bottlenecked at the residency step.

Current billing rules do not allow for additional reimbursement just because a trainee took care of a patient. You're basically saying the hospital should foot the bill. Fine. That's a valid argument, but then you've got the problem of convincing hospitals to open up residency slots to train more doctors (and pay for them) instead of just hiring a PA/NP or two.
I don't use them. I like having someone whose office I can sit in and very politely refuse to leave until things work out to everyone's satisfaction.
It would be very nice to get a $5CPM, but I'm hovering around the $1CPM range right now. It's not bad for a niche site like mine on Adsense, or so I've been told.

If I had some extra time I'd put some effort into selling ad space but as of right now my full time job takes up most of my time.
> I mean, corporations should not be able to donate to political lobby groups, and campaigns.

While I agree with the idea itself, I don't think you can prevent that realistically. In the end, it's not "corporations" that donate money, but the people in charge of those corporations. If those people (the CEOs, VPs, board members and so on) want to make a donation, they can always do so privately (and most of them certainly have the money to do it).
No, I agree with you that economic factors are generally more important. I just thought the "will" part was more interesting to talk about.
But it's Coinbase who wants me to trust them with my driver's license and passport despite being Some Faceless Internet Company. That business model kind of sucks. It may not be their fault that it sucks, but it still kind of sucks.
Ah, seems I misunderstood the situation -- I was thinking of the article's use case (of simply wanting to receive BTC as donations) rather than the GGP's problem, which was getting the BTC in order to donate.
I just wanted to donate money though. Even if I download a wallet app thing, how do I transfer my actual currency to BTC? I still need an exchange don't I? Then I buy "already mined" coins in exchange for my dollars, so I can then donate them.
60K views for $6 would be $0.10 CPM. His was 60k views for $60 which is $1 CPM.
That only works in continental Europe, South Korea, and a handful of other countries that use the CEE7 (Europlug) standard.

In the UK, the plug adapter is going to be twice as big as Dart:

https://www.google.com/search?q=uk%20plug&tbm=isch
Healthcare has been such a regulated industry in every aspect that anecdotes like these do little to discredit free markets.
Basecamp, which seems to do a whole lot more than this app, charges $20 a month for a 13 person team (limited to 10 active projects). I never looked at the product at any point in it's existence and made me wonder if they were going to go out business at any moment over that kind of pricing.
Why We Don't Invite Groups to Interviews
Mine used two boxes of different sizes as stairs to reach the counter and the retrieved chocolates from the cabinet above. Then she climbed back down and moved the boxes back to where they came from so we wouldn't know. Only then did she relax and eat the chocolates.

I thought my wife was stealing all the chocolates for days until I caught the toddler doing it.
(author here) I agree! I'm planning to reorder everything; see https://twitter.com/redblobgames/status/410182845777195008/p... for my current plan. The choice of heuristic is near the end of the new flow.
I guess I made enough on paypal that they were all of the sudden interested in proof of my SSN, and a copy of my DL. That is when I realized that my paypal account was setup in an unlicensed company name, that didn't match my SSN or my DL. They won't allow me to correct the error. Had to close the account.
It's not bad considering this is an emergency service that might prevent you from losing the full amount.
In Praise of Idleness. Working only 4 hours a day
You're welcome! I do change the design every few years. The earliest one on Wayback Machine is https://web.archive.org/web/19981202094104/http://theory.sta...
How many monthly pageviews are you receiving? What percentage of your userbase has bitcoin fund available?
He is being downvoted because it is crazy to expect websites to work around the bugs in various 3rd party plugins. This is an issue for the plugins to fix.
Expecting an immediate return of investment is a little naive at best and stupid at worst. Such a change has to be communicated properly to visitors. They have to be accustomed to the donation option. Most probably are not aware of BitCoin, or have heard bad things about it. Sounds like he didn't want it to succeed.
That's the problem, it's only easy to get BTC from someone else with BTC. It's hard to get BTC for USD and get USD for BTC. Most USD transactions that are not in cash are reversible and no BTC transactions are, that makes it very tough to get BTC on the internet. Add in all the know your customer laws to prevent money laundering and it's very difficult to exchange BTC for USB without effectively setting up a new bank account.
Ha -- yeah, that likely has a lot to do with it -

My most profitable site is aimed at a pretty broad demographic (movie/entertainment blog)

Other more technical sites tend to do quite worse with CPM
Presumably because PayPal transactions are reversible; Bitcoin transactions are not.
Ahh, ok. That would explain it. I can see their point, it helps cut down on illegal activity. But it's also a pain for users like yourself who would have really enjoyed their service.
1. Always maintain a TODO list. I usually have it as part of the README for the project I'm working on, after that...

Just open up the editor and start coding. Pick something off that list, and hammer away at it. It may suck, but just keep going, re-write it, pick something else on your todo list, but keep going. The secret is: There is no "zone", there's hard work, and perseverance. The "zone" is just a figment of your imagination.
Imagine what that thing will look like with a gigantic UK plug adapter ;)

Moreover, the North American ungrounded plug is one of the easiest plugs in the world to pull out of a socket. So if I plug Dart into a adapter for any other part of the world, plug the adapter into a socket, and then try to pull it back out, Dart will separate from the adapter and leave the adapter in the socket. It happens all the time when American electronics are used abroad, and it's extremely annoying.
There's some research that at least some expert systems("decision support system") implemented in the right culture do improve medical services[1].

But still due to huge resistance by doctors, who like the autonomy of the job, such systems are rarely used.

I could only imagine how rapidly such systems would improve if the backbone of medicine would be dependent on them, and enough revenue would be shifted towards them.

[1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24573664
If you try to put money into Paypal you'll likely create some link with a verified source (credit card, bank account). So if some investigation were to happen Paypal at least has some hints as to your real identity.

With coinbase people could put in their (mined) bitcoins, and then sell them. In that case Coinbase has effectively no way of figuring out who you are.
A collection of not so obvious Python stuff
I don't know much about how CRLs work, or what the "authoritative" clearinghouse for the CRL list is (if any) but ideally your browser only needs to download the bulk list once, then based on checksums or timestamps should just download diffs since the last version it had.

Basically we need a git repo for CLRs.
I have written code under a variety of influences.

Marijuana's great for design work, less great for debugging. Creative solutions come more easily. I tend to get distracted when trying to understand why something doesn't work the way I think it does; it takes more work to stay focused. Good for broad association, systems thinking, and novel ideas; less good for careful analysis.

Whiskey is good for breaking out of analysis paralysis; it makes me happy and a little stupid, which is good for just bashing something out that works instead of going around and around about the best way to do it. Sometimes I drink when I'm coding late at night because it eventually slows me down enough that I can stop thinking about work and go do something else. A few drinks later and the code may still work but I'll want to rewrite it all the next day.

Methamphetamine is an incredibly powerful tool for grinding through big jobs and maintaining focus for hours. It's like coding with super-powers. Whatever you focus on, you FOCUS ON IT; you can just sink your teeth in and bash away at it for seemingly ever, hours and hours of clear, crisp, effective code. It's hard to pull back and look at the big picture, because you just want to pound away at the keyboard building on what's right in front of you, but on balance it is still a more productive state of mind for coding than sobriety is. Alas, it's also very addictive, and worthy of extreme respect.

LSD is... fun, but not helpful. The last time I tried it, I remember being so distracted by the colorful edges of the pixels on the screen (this was before retina displays) that I had trouble actually reading the text. It was really fun to watch but I got nothing done.

A very light dose of ketamine makes everything feel a little floaty and weird and sort of funny. It's fairly distracting, and staying focused takes extar work, but complex and useful insights just sort of materialize in your head. It's good for getting out of your ego, ditching mental ruts, and letting yourself come up with novel solutions. Not as good at this as marijuana, but it's also less prone to put me to sleep.
This isn't true. An admissible heuristic guarantees the optimal solution. With an inconsistent heuristic, A* can re-expand states multiple times, but will still end with an optimal path.

In other words, if the heuristic is consistent, then it implies that A* will expand the optimal number of states.
PayPal is a reversible transaction where they know their customer (who you are paying), so they don't take risk when accepting your credit card. In BTC unless you have it already you need to become the customer of an exchange to first buy BTC and the laws there make it such that they need government ID. There are alternatives like mining it yourself (very hard) or meeting someone in person and paying cash (you'll pay a premium).
Have you heard of this thing called the Internet?
I think http://drifty.co used to be 100% bootstrapped.
You said it yourself - for low transactions. When people donate/do transactions around the web they wont spend probably more than $100 in one go. If any bitcoin service would be worried about scam they would implement same security measures - lets say limit of $100 per transaction or total of $1K per year before they ask for papers. Easy and saves them a lot of money on processing applications as well.
It's poor customer service, but according to https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/tree/master/..., they were not vulnerable when the first mass scans were done. That's not definitive, but it's at least somewhat reassuring.
I like people from the US who want to cut out people poorer from being helped by an MD because it's "impossible"; when so many other developed countries seem to manage with it just fine.
Replace "AirBNB" with "a bulletin board" and try to make the same argument.
Try http://alibaba.com or http://aliexpress.com:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/borosilicate-glass-bea...

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Borosilicate-Glass-Beads/5255...

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Borosilicate-Glass-Balls/5255...

That last one says US $0.11 / piece. It's hard to tell how well these would work as lenses though.
I've been a Glass Explorer since December, so I can provide my experience as well.

I don't know that Glass has transformed my daily routine so much as it has given me other options. Most of what a I do with Glass could be accomplished with other devices, but with Glass some things are more convenient or less distracting. Navigation and Hangouts/SMS being the two most significant features. The fact that I can listen to a message and respond to it completely through text-to-speech and voice recognition is tremendous and I rarely need to use the monitor for most tasks.

I don't have prescription lenses, but as I understand with those models, it is part of the frame and not something you can detach. I have the sunglasses visor, and that is easy to add and remove as long as you have removed them from your head.

The battery has always charged quickly for me, but with my usage I can get through the day without needing to recharge. Therefore I'm recharging over night and it has never been a problem. I do have an external battery pack that I carry with me and if I'm going to be wearing Glass in excess of my typical usage, I find I can recharge Glass while I'm wearing the device but I have to sacrifice using the ear buds as they occupy the same micro USB port.

Wi-Fi works but usually I'm tethered to my phone over Bluetooth. I have T-Mobile and good coverage in my area, so I've not had a lot of issues with slow data and can't comment on that.

I think if you want to feel like your getting your value out of it, you would want to fully embrace it. If you have that sort of disposable income, it isn't even a question. If the price makes you any hesitant, you might not feel you are getting a good ROI.

For me it was and has been worth it.
It's sad that the US had such a simple minded person for a Secretary of Defense. The tax code is complex for a reason: it has to deal with reality, which is itself complex.
Wouldn't that be the role of insurance? I don't see how bringing the government into this benefits anyone except maybe NIMBYs.
I disagree, at the most basic level they are both about allocating resources most efficiently.
They didn't have an exit and aren't bootstrapped...
Take a look at this paper:

http://web.cs.du.edu/~sturtevant/papers/incnew.pdf

Specifically, look at the Martelli G family example.
> But it's Coinbase who wants me to trust them with my driver's license and passport despite being Some Faceless Internet Company.

Most Internet Companies are faceless. Yet people still use AirBnB, Uber, and other services that connect them to people they don't know - and that kind of thing can be a source of risks as well.

By the way, whenever you go in a hotel overseas, they'll ask you about a copy of your passport too. Do you trust every single hotel that they will keep your passport copy secure ? I'd probably trust Coinbase more on that than any second grade hotel out there.
You really should replace the words 'for up to a week' with 'indefinitely'. Mentioning a time limit at all is misleading in that context. This isn't pedantry: it's mere correctness.
The begging model definitely does not work, and it is a disservice to yourself and any other stakeholders in your site. It annoys users and produces minuscule revenue compared to advertising.

While some will disagree with me, a perfect example of this is Wikipedia. They could implement ads without any of the nonsensical negative consequences they claim to be afraid of and generate billions of dollars in the process. That money could go to improving and supporting the site, and since they don't seem to want profits, to massive donations to causes important to Wikipedia and its users. Unfortunately, they have chosen to annoy users and deprive important causes of billions of dollars.

Just say no to begging.
This is inaccurate. The AMT disqualifies home equity loan interest, but not purchase loan mortgage interest. It does remove the deduction for property taxes (and other state/local taxes), which is perhaps what you were thinking of.
Canadian doctors are protected taxpayer subsidized insurance called CMPA. Typical cost is 1/10th of what it costs in US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Medical_Protective_Ass...
So if someone offers you a job and you quit your previous job, only to find out your new job is no longer on the table, then you can sue for lost wages?
They didnt ask for my passport and drivers license because I live in the US but if they did it wouldn't push me away, its not like I have a million dollars to money launder, and in the group of Bitcoin users, I am a small fish

I got rejected from one exchange that asked for a driver's license and proof of address, my driver license was ok but my proof of address was not, three days later that same exchange, MtGox, goes down. It is very easy to call a Bitcoin-based company a joke but I think Coinbase is a legitimate company.
With Pay As You Earn a debtor won't pay more than 10% of AGI to federal student loans. Note that's AGI, not gross income, meaning you can contribute to retirement and not have it counted. Loans aren't as big of a constraint on career options as people make them out to be. Debtors are also willfully ignorant of these sorts of options and choose to instead destroy their lives paying debts that don't need to be paid.

To be clear, it's a huge problem, and we shouldn't have this sort of debt loads on those who want to educate themselves. It also weakens the broader economy and drives up professional services costs. But to say people are killing themselves because of student loans is a mistake.
Bigger point: ads amount to not being paid for your work on your site but just being paid to hock crap to suckers. By making a cool site, the sleazy ad biz thinks you're cool enough to be one of their salesman. Despite the intertwining, you are getting paid to be a sleazy salesperson and you are making a cool website on the side. Making cool websites is hard to make pay the bills. Putting ads in people's faces is just one of many bullshit things you could do to otherwise pay your bills.
Is this the only reason bank transfers take so much longer in the US than UK? Why are UK banks happy to take the risk? (I'm genuinely curious and don't know much about why the US is slower.)
Multi-tenancy vs. OS-Level Virtualization
> but most make way more than $300k after only a handful of years of experience.

'Eh, not really [1]. Most will wind up in the upper $100k region (most being in some form of primary care). Not after a handful of years, but 4+ yrs college, 4+ yrs medical school, then bare minimum 3 year residency (with most 4+), with each step an order of magnitude more difficult.

> most doctors are sons and daughters of rich folks

Many are, but since we're in the anecdata game, none of my friends were.

Not going to lose sleep over it, upper $100's is plenty to compensate for high debt in the long run. But to pretend its not extremely stressful for most is to be misinformed.

Lastly:
> 5 years of service in a shortage area

After spending the last 2 years in a qualifying region (though not for that purpose); topping off 12 yrs of post-high school with another 5 living somewhere you'd rather not be (to be polite) is no small feat. Thats 35 yrs old before you get a shot at living and working somewhere reasonable.

[1] http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2013...
What is unclear about the response: "As indicated, our engineers have verified Mint is not affected by "Heartbleed." Password resets and re-issuing of SSL certificates are not required at this time."

It seems that they are saying either (a) they are not using OpenSSL, or (b) they were using a version of OpenSSL without the vulnerability. Is there anything wrong with assuming that given their statements?
If you're interested in A* with humanoid robots, check out my post here:

http://victor.hwanger.com/a-technical-peek-into-motion-plann...
I try and solve a problem or two on Project Euler.
This is so inspiring, magnificent.
Building parsers for the web with JavaCC and GWT
Back many years ago when I used to interview people for restaurant work we had a stock phrase that we would write on rejected applications: "others more qualified." It's as simple as that. Nothing especially wrong with the candidate, but we had better choices.

Interesting to see the same dynamic in place in the gamut between mundane restaurant work and YC applications.
That's a nice side-effect. Really it's about finding the next billion dollar business for Google.
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