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Reach out to local high schools, most these days have some form of CS classes or after school programming activities and love having local professionals come in to teach.
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I'm not sure I'd say it's the 2nd-largest. Second-most articles, yes, which is a different metric. Total size of an encyclopedia has to include not only the number of headings, but how much text is under them! For traditional paper encyclopedias, something like word-count is typically used, though that is tricky to use across languages, since languages have different notions of what constitutes a word (and different information rates, if you want to get into that). Something like "compressed size of the database" might be an approximation for encyclopedia size that normalizes for different languages' use of words & UTF-8 bytes.
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I'm wandering what alternate solutions we can come up with.

It's really simple: reply to negative Yelp reviews and state your case. If you are reasonable, then people will understand. This is also called taking the high road. It works a lot better than the stupid tactic they have employed.
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Don't check out Hackforums, Trojan Forge or Hackhound. They're not what your looking for. You won't get into Darkode. Carder.pro or carder.su is a start from there you get links to other websites, you just need to keep google and searching and you will find.
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In my experience the failure rate is far below 5% for vanilla HM algorithm. I've never seem a pathological input in the wild that wasn't contrived specifically to test the typechecker.
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1) Docking employees' salary is immoral and (in the US) illegal.
2) The bride is not a business partner; she is a customer.
3) The guests are not forced to stay at the hotel, unless the wedding invitations come with an "or else" clause.
Women's brains actually gets smaller during pregnancy
If you look closely, the point is a little past 0, perhaps 5-10.

I've read somewhere that, a laboratory has been able to to acheive this level. I'm unable to find the article to back this claim up, however.

(I'm a .NET developer)
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Instead of finding shoe boxes in the attic, in the future we will run data mining scripts that find information in the crazy wide ocean of information out there - like our grandparents Facebook profiles.
>You are dealing with purposeful behaviour.

I agree.

> One mans 'obliviousness' is another man's 'innocence'. In other words, it helps to not mis-understand this situation as the work of the ill-informed or 'incompetent'.

What do you propose? Just because some people understand it as a deception or a possible deception, that understanding is not universal. Plenty of people accept these "ignorance" claims making it so that executives are able to effectively use the plausible deniability gambit. How else can we work around it?
This is what happens when you have a monopoly (in this case a regional monopoly). Customer service is an expense item, so minimize it and you make more profit, after all what can the customers do, move? I worked on a project for a company where the call center did reservations and customer service. They only paid the workers if they took a reservation; thus any customer service call resulted in a hangup. These customers never used their company again. The difference is a monopoly doesn't have to care as no one will leave.
Well it's certainly plausible that this is the case... They have no meaningful competition at the top end of performance, so clearly they're don't need to bother dumping as much money into R&D as if they did. If they've found that a basic level of incremental improvements maximises profit, then they'll do that. And at the moment they're held up by fabrication issues, sure, but die shrinkage is an important part of their 'tick tock' development model so it makes sense they'd be waiting for this, it's hardly an indication that they're struggling in the grand scheme of things, or that they will fail to deliver the same steady performance improvements moving forward.
My argument is that it's a net loss for society and a way to produce drugs that does not rquire billions to be wasted on marketing would produce better overall results.
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> It would more or less make every doctor, nurse, and technician an employee of the US government.

Medicare paid out $583bn[0] in benefits in 2013. Total annual healthcare spending in the US $3.8tn[1]. Does that mean each healthcare professional is 15% employed by the government?

Not in the least.

Northrop Grumman has ~25bn in revenue as of 2012. A majority of its revenue comes from government spending. Does that mean Northrop Grumman employees are employed by the government?

You spend $12 on a movie ticket. Is the projectionist employed by you? The box office personnel? The on-set supplier of craft services?

> it would remove broad market price discovery from allocation of medical services.

Like we have broad market price discovery now?

For perfect price discovery, the purchaser of a product must have access to the same information as the provider of a product. Given the average citizen, can they make an informed decision about what the cost of an appendectomy should be? The outrage over the $82,000 hepatitis c cure informs us that no, they don't. And even if they did: is the average healthcare consumer going to refuse to purchase a life-saving drug or procedure because it's too expensive? The purchaser in this situation _has no bargaining power_. They cannot determine whether or not to purchase a life-saving service due to cost! It's buy it or _perish_.

For-profit healthcare is a hostage situation. In a hostage situation, market forces are moot.

0. http://kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-spending-and-fin...
1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/02/02/annual-u-s-h...
That's great! However, I would like to be able to add places without the need to be on site at the time of writing (e.g using a geocoding service like Google Maps API)

I suppose it is a way to avoid spam though.
It's not a cost savings in the long run.
1. They will spread it to more people.
2. The disease causes more issues that will end up costing more than this drug.

This will not be an issue when the masses that have Hep-C now are cured. This is mostly a short term financing problem. Would you rather solve the issue for $1X now or pay $3-5X over time to deal with it. I would rather cure the masses now and lower the long term medical costs.
In the spirit of HN; this post and your previous one could be shortened to just this one ;)
I agree with your point. It's generally better to have some article that no article. But Wikipedia is also supposed to be readable by humans, to provide insight and understanding. I am not sure that mere formatted collection of data, as opposed to a real article, does that. And I believe there are many Wikipedia editors who feel the same.

Though, wouldn't it be more efficient to put the data into some machine readable form, if they were already processed by the machines anyway? This would then allow anybody to create algorithm to extract information (meaning) from the data.

So I think there are also good reasons to keep the human and machine created articles separate.
By the time you get around to reading all the fine print, you're pretty mentally committed to signing. If your bride-to-be has her heart set on the quaint old hotel, is already buying decorations to match, telling people the preliminary plans (and they're starting to book in advance), etc ... and then you get down thru the fine print, about to seal the deal, and you see an absurd "you'll be charged $500 for each negative review by people you don't control", are you REALLY going to walk away from the deal? Really?
I've heard something similar suggested as part of the reason for the spread of Islam. 5 prayer-breaks per day where you get to chill out in the shade for a bit is a pretty compelling offer in a hot part of the world. Especially if you are doing manual labour.
Thanks for the write-up. This hits a serious pain point for anybody needing to interface with older institutions or businesses preferring fax as their main communication channel.

Appreciate the reminder of the OS X Preview signature signing capability!
If you want to read any of the bot generated articles, just try http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Slumpsida

I tried it 10 times and got 6 bot articles.
Nice catch, thank you!

I've styled the cell/sheet save buttons so it stands out better as of https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/commit/1e819ebf and released to npm as of 0.20140804.1 — Shift-refresh on the ethercalc.org site to see the highlighted buttons in the format tab.
"So we created webworker-threads, a cross-platform implementation of the Web Worker API for Node.js."

The AOSA article is a great read. Further, the result of that EtherCalc work is one of the coolest projects around- an implementation of Web Workers for Node.js using native threading:

"This module provides an asynchronous, evented and/or continuation passing style API for moving blocking/longish CPU-bound tasks out of Node's event loop to JavaScript threads that run in parallel in the background and that use all the available CPU cores automatically; all from within a single Node process."

https://github.com/audreyt/node-webworker-threads
Not my experience at university (maths degree). The people who were very good also put in a lot of time. But not in a forced way, they simply enjoyed the subject so much.

It's possible the people you saw had already mastered the subject even before you took the lecture. Or it had so much similarity to something else they had already mastered that it became easy for them.
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But then it's just as valid to write a bad review about a McDonalds restaurant your group of friends decided to go to, because the wine selection sucked.
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Ask HN: Is there an over supply of tech products and services?
I'm a keen follower of the tech scene, especially all the great stuff that comes out of Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. Something that puzzles me is the sheer volume of projects and startups that are launched and receive funding.

Surely not all of them are able to generate any sustainable revenue that is long-term. What's the value to the creators therefore who sink countless hours into creating them and to investors who pour in so much money?

There's only so many consumer eyeballs and wallets in the world, it almost seems the supply of products and services is unimaginably over supplied to a fixed demand? Or is that the wrong way of looking at it?
Um... Not work so hard?

I'm not a programmer, so I'm viewing the stuff on hacker news from outside the bubble, so to speak. And from here, y'all look crazy. To the average person, spending extra hours at work with no overtime pay is absurd, but you all discuss it like it's no big deal.

Your industry needs a huge cultural overhaul. People must be trained not to accept burnout as normal.
wow this is really cool! how is this done?! what kind of sorcery is this?!
With respect to the Intro to Linux course, I think you probably overestimate the intended audience. I'm not sure the typical Windows user who has seldom or never touched a command line would find it "amazingly easy." That said, the course covers well-plowed land in a pretty pedestrian way. Working through any of dozens of books on the market would probably suffice just as well for the motivated learner.

I agree that most MOOCs seem to be rather watered down relative to what I expect their parent university classes are like. I suspect part of this is that a lot of both problem sets/projects/etc. and outside reading tend to be removed. Some of this don't well with the MOOC format. I also suspect there's a limited appetite for MOOCs requiring many hours of "homework" every week. They do exist but they seem to be in the minority based on what I've seen.
You're better off reading the English version rather than the poorly translated Swedish one imo.
So you think it is valid to leave a 1 star review for a restaurant, because you don't like the menu posted in their website?
What you're looking for is an anti-dilution clause. There may be one in the stock option agreement that prevents this. If not, whether they can do it is going to depend on the stock option agreement and the laws of the state where they are incorporated.

I believe the best advice for you is to find a lawyer in the state where the company is incorporated and hire them.

It sounds to me like you've already gotten a raw deal on your ownership, and they think they can just walk all over you. Dilution at the time of funding should affect everyone the same, and if they want 12 percent for an option pool, then everyone should get diluted fairly (every share should lose %12 of its ownership). I believe anything else might be considered fraud, depending on the terms of the agreement.

You can exercise your vested shares whenever you like (under most agreements) and the only legalities I can think of are the tax implications.
Talk to a lawyer, to know your best options
20 minutes is what I realistically achieve, with the amount of interruptions and stuff I receive. I used to get most of the 8 hour day being productive a long time ago (when the organization was just being set up)
Looks interesting, but the C# benchmark is horrible.

There's no way a properly written C# program would take IIS + ASP.Net C# ............ 171.8 ms! A bare bone Katana/OWIN self-hosted hello world echoing endpoint can easily surpass 5K+ req/s while the equivalent ASP.NET MVC hello world echoing endpoint can surpass 3.5K+ req/s with the standard routing.

I suspect the biggest contributor to the slowness is all that string concatenation - because every 'version' of a string is hashed and stored in memory e.g. "a" ["a"], "a" + "b" ["a","b","ab"] etc. (use StringBuilder or write directly to the output)

I suspect the Java benchmark also suffers due to this. (use StringBuffer)
It's something like this: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepechiniella_persica. Basically, if you click "Random article" (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Slumpsida) you have a about a 50/50 chance of hitting an article by the bot.

Some of them even have pictures but most are pretty sparse. In my opinion, it's not that bad to have these articles but they should be improved.
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"As a software developer, I’m passionate about writing codes and creating new things. However, as I also need to perform managerial duties, I had less and less time to do so. Repeatedly, I had to work for days without writing any useful code for the team, I became highly agitated."

It's surprising how hard it can be to find time to just write code, even with a full time job in software development.

Meetings. Email. Technical feasibility. Gathering requirements. Testing. Investigating bugs. Various forms of technical support. Architecture and design. Documentation. Time sheets. Reports. Fixing builds and managing dependencies.

All of these are good and important and necessary for any software product to succeed. But they call also really suck the passion and productivity out of a person.
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Quite interesting ideas.
It's odd but sex is not mentioned even once as a legitimate release.
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I'm inclined to think the same, but you wouldn't discard fan translations either... If users show interest and enthusiasm for localizing the game, the best thing would be to find a way to integrate that effort into the process. Maybe you could earn some in-game coins or something?
You are correct, it is not extortion. It's blackmail.
We know next to nothing about the historical architecture and culture of tropical countries because they made house out of bricks and straw, and wrote on clay tablets. Historians lament this fact and descendants like us have little to lean on and build upon culturally.
So you might have seen two types of ads. One type will say what the drug does, but if you say that a drug does something, then you have to list the side effects.

Then there's the pure branding ads, where you can say the name of the drug, show pictures of people dancing in forests and playing with puppies, and say "ask your doctor if somethingodin is right for you", without having to spell out the side effects.

So first you learn what the drug does, and all the horrific things it will do to you. Then, when you vaguely remember that the drug helps treat a thing you have, you see the branding ads, and then you talk to your doctor, who, while ethically bound to go over the side effects, is not being monitored by the FDA, and thus will hopefully present a rosier picture than the first ad.
Ask HN: Linux games are also now being pirated
Hello,

I've just seen that games for Linux are now being piated also, for example, look at this:

http://thepiratebay.se/search/linux/0/99/400

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10681932/Complete_Humble_Bundle_for_Linux_%28__more%29_part_2

How is this going to affect the Linux gaming momentum, or the Steam for Linux efforts?

As I understand, Linux is trying to be a serious competitor to gaming on Windows.

How are we going to encourage more developers to make Linux games since Linux gaming is in its infancy and users are already pirating the games?
Someone is trolling the Linux kernel mailing lists really hard
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It's not just the star ratings that are broken, it's the entire hospitality system.

Having had the opportunity to take a good, long stare at the underbelly of how hotel rooms are arbitraged, marketed, booked, and how the ensuing reviews and PR is cultured, the whole damn thing is a cartel controlled by surprisingly few entities and individuals. Bookings all funnel through systems like TRX and concur, all of whom take a slice (the actual hotelier, if there is one, tends to get about as much as a recording artist in terms of percentages - and they often end up PAYING booking engines and arbiters to fill capacity), and reviews are similarly curated and controlled. There are numerous businesses whose entire function is controlling ratings for hotels and hotel groups - and they use every dirty trick in the box.

We worked on a startup which did hotel bookings in such a fashion that it circumvented this ratings cartel - and promptly had several major groups refuse to work with them, until they played the game.

It's dirty, monopolistic, and so full of anti-trust it's not funny - but lobbying.
This algorithm is really incredible, I can only imagine the improvements to this in 20 years
This is Sonatype's response to the earlier "How to take over the computer of any Java (or Clojure or Scala) developer" concerns and discussion [1]. I'm very relieved they've fixed the big problem there, as having so much infrastructure reliant on plain HTTP was a giant hack waiting to happen.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8099713
> for everything in between, it's a matter of taste, which is why Netflix tries to infer your tastes and predict a star rating for _you_ rather than gives you an aggregate rating.

This works only to an extent. There are many movie qualities that can be very important to you that you can't represent with a 5 star rating system. Because of this, the main way Netflix clusters your preferences is by the things they know, like genre, actors, producers/directors, etc., and they assume your high rating is (in part) for these things.

This problem is much more prevalent in music suggestions (Pandora, Spotify, etc.) where your preferences are determined almost entirely by genre and artist.

The problem is even more prevalent in ratings for restaurants. If you give 5 stars to an excellent Mexican restaurant, Yelp and Google Maps will suggest to you other Mexican restaurants.

So as a savvy user, you are in a strange position of having to realize how they are clustering things, and give 5 stars to things you don't really like, because you want to be given recommendations for high-rated things in those genres.

And you can't give 1 star to a movie in a genre that you like, otherwise the system will think you hate that genre.

So I would agree with the previous comment, that the "star rating" system is totally broken.
My point is that marketing for medicine is an almost 100% waste for society as a whole. It serves no useful purpose except to move market shares between functionally identical products.

Oh, and a considerable percentage of "research" is really marketing, since its goal is to find minor variations of existing, perfectly effective drugs whose patent protection is about to run out.
Two words: Brandon Mayfield. Mis-identified by the FBI as being related to the Madrid train bombings. The Spanish police told the FBI his fingerprint didn't match. The Feds used National Security Letters to search his house and computer and plant bugs. And, finding NO evidence he ever traveled to Spain, deduced he was a master terrorist, capable of travelling under false papers. Locked up for weeks in solitary - under a fake name - as a material witness. Oh yes, it can happen here!
off topic, but why don't people use image maps anymore?
It's not so much a formatted collection of data as it is like an excerpt from an encyclopedia. It's sparse and the articles are pretty similar to each other but it has proper sources, and someone might actually find the information useful. And it could serve as a starting point to improve by some enterprising Swedish biologist.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.

If you want to buy an off-the-shelf "home appliance" you will get just that -- a product where you cannot update firmware/software, reconfigure security and firewall settings, etc. Maybe it's secure the day you buy it -- but in 5 years? With no updates? No way.

If you buy something more enterprise grade -- or, the best option, roll your own with some of the very good options like FreeNAS or OwnCloud, then you will be able to keep it secure and up-to-date. But this takes more effort - and is likely the reason the OP did not opt for one of these very fine options.

> "It's a worrying meme that you shouldn't even expect your internet-connectible devices to survive the internet, and when they break its your fault."

That's not true -- you have an ethernet/network capable device; not an internet capable device -- nowhere on the box does it say "Plug this directly into the open public network in front of your firewall or inside a DMZ. You need to be responsible with your devices. Just because it can serve a web page does not mean it should be accessible over the internet! This is true even with enterprise grade gear.

Saying you want to not worry about security at all but still want to put devices on the public internet that need protection is like saying you want to have a car but don't want to ever change it's oil. Sure, you as an individual can avoid changing oil -- hire a technician. Same goes with your home network.

So no, it's not a bad attitude -- it's irresponsible and/or ignorant home users.
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great idea for a startup! i'm a bit confused how everything is paid though, i'm assuming the joint payments get put in a singular account that the rental company pulls from...does this mean that rental services need to sign up too? A small graphic with like 3 steps (you sign up, they sign up, you pay your rent) or something would help clarify this immensely