skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doctors on average in the US in fact receive an education and training level that competes with the very best in the world. In regards to doctors and nurses, the US produces a very high quality output. Quality has rarely been the problem in the US (cost is). That has been the case for at least the last 70 or 80 years, going back to or before WW2.

That's why America has many of the top rated hospitals: they're staffed by the best doctors. It's not the buildings that make them so good, it's the staff.

The US was famous for decades for having the world's best doctors and facilities. The world's rich and powerful would fly to America for treatment. It still possesses that reputation for quality.
I am not saying that there would be a lucrative ROI, but if you expect bitcoin to rise sharply it is a good way to trade cash en masse for bitcoins. So you would (most likely) be outputting heaps of cash and receiving bitcoins in the process. Between fees and currency appreciation you could probably make your money back and have a fun experience. That is, unless a completely unorganized company opperates their business in a cartoonishly unprofessional manner, and your ATM arrives 3-4 months late and broken...
Your question is a little confusing. I'd go with boto because it is the most stable. All the other libraries are kinda second-rate.

As for choosing an SDK because you want to familiarize people with a language I think you're looking at it the wrong way. That's not something you should be optimizing for. You should be optimizing for how the tool fits the problem you are trying to solve. Programmers are used to learning a new language and framework pretty much every other week so choosing node because it will help your new hires learn JavaScript is the wrong reason to do it. They're gonna learn JavaScript on their own or they know it already.
> If a delivery goes bad, what will they offer?

I have contacted their support for Google Express before. It was because a delivery did not show up. Turns out I had selected the following day as the delivery day. Happy the mystery was solved (user error) I thank them. I get an email a few minutes later with a $5 credit for the confusion.

Another time I ordered a Space Pen with a clip. I got one that was without a clip. I contacted them and they said the one with the clip was no longer in stock. They refunded my money and let me keep the pen. Never asked for the refund.

> Google has notoriously awful customer support.

Yeah, I too read that somewhere on Hacker News.
Modules go at least all the back to Algol 68 and Mesa, but C designers choose to ignore them.

C++ design goal of being able to target unmodified C toolchains as a means of being accepted by C developers, meant C++ also had to keep away from modules.

Luckily C++ can stand on its own nowadays and depart from such decisions.
I am not sure what you mean by "embraces null". It sounds like a good thing (from what I know about the languages) but you have clubbed it in a list of cons.
Google Shopping was absolute garbage before they started charging; sellers just dumped random crap on there and didn't bother updating it because there was barely any incentive to.

For the user, it's the difference between: 1) having a wasteland of outdated, incomplete and inaccurate information or 2) having a browsable set of ads.

In the latter case, you're aware there's money behind the placement, but it's still far more useful than Google trying their best to do organic search over a corpus that's complete crap.
As of this month, GWT has 150,000 monthly active developers, and is deployed to 20,000 unique domains that we can count (we can't count intranets) User base has tripled since 2009 and held relatively constant.
German blog on how Mailbird thrives in the startup ecosystem in beautiful Bali
bitcoin appreciation I think. They essentially buy low and include steep transaction fees, which I think are warranted for how convenient this would be, and then you hold the currency if you are speculating.
Sorry. My comment was not positive. I love YC and what they are doing. But the fact that they are turning a blind eye to these kind of practices has been a sore point for me. First AirBnB, then Rapgenius(now genius) with their black hat SEO and now you. I though YC was about helping geeks succeed without making compromises to their moral principles.
A related thought: I wonder if we will some day live in a world where translation is not required. Where everyone knows English and has no trouble using English tools and consuming English content.

Same goes for measurement systems (metric), time, currency, and other formats. I reckon it would simplify our lives greatly and spare us the trouble of dealing with 1000s of encodings, multi-byte strings and different text directions.

Technological landscape is the only place where such unity between nations is possible, I tend to think that this is what should be pursued instead of translate-everything-everywhere approach.
Note: I decided this was too off topic and deleted the post.
Download size isn't the only issue. Larger scripts are slower to parse and startup, slow down debugging tools, inhibit JS VM optimizations and use up more heap in general.

This may not matter on desktop intranets, but it will matter on the mobile web.
cause it was a lot of money for a gamble that turned out nicely, and also she probably does something more inspiring with that domain than a broker?
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Yep its stereotype / baiting but always possible an ounce of truth[1]. the worst mistakes to make are ones that let other people typecast you. so maybe its semi-constructive.

eg, how many instances of "team"?

cmd+f=(team)=1

_______________

Here’s my story:

I left my role at Facebook 2 years ago to build women.com. With wide eyes and beginners confidence, I struck out on my own. I crafted my vision, wore a hoodie, and tried to raise a seed round on a dream and a deck. After 3 months of fund raising, I received term sheets (pre-product and pre-tech <>team<>), but success was fleeting. My partner and I hit the skids, split up, and ended our partnership.

However, this was my dream and a couple of speed bumps weren’t going to crush it. I decided to bootstrap and get a working MVP into the hands of users.

--------------------------

Although this contextual snippet may also explain a bit more regarding both observations. The word 'team' only appears within a parenthetical--and even then only within a vignette of previuous failure.

perhaps, even if nothing but for PR purposes, this type of presentation may be improved by being more even handed going forward?.

This just seems like a leadership coaching pont. If she were in another similar/leadership role (non CEO) it would still be relevant.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/08/27/are-modern-p...
nope. all 6 its all good.
My story of applying, getting in, and being gay in Y Combinator.

My story of applying, getting in, and being a white man in Y Combinator.

My story of applying, getting in, and being a Java 9to5 developer in Y Combinator.
At the same time the right to water has been protected by UN as a basic human right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_water

For this reason what happens when the price for water is raised and the consumers can't pay becomes a very interesting issue. Detroit has raised their prices and then started to cut off consumers that don't pay. Something UN has criticized Detroit for:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/26/united-nations-detr...

http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/u-n-to-intervene-in-detroit-water...
Portland, Wind River, Intel ICC, Borland C++ Builder, Aix XL C++, HP-UX HP aC++, OS 400 XL C++, ARM DS C++, TI C++, SN Systems C++, ...

Not even half of them are already full C++11 compliant.
one of the important factor seems to be missing is the negative feedback loop - the more devastating the outbreak the more resources will be thrown at it
Extremely? You don't think things like backups, enterprise storage etc has any need for security mechanisms as well as information security management (policy, access control etc)?

If you do, we live on very different worlds.
Judge Richard Posner's Dissent on Voter ID Laws [pdf]
This is true, you'll notice atm machines when under maintenance shows the classic XP screen. Though I do not know, why they still use that.
How much do you care about your customers?
Rest assured, if Go manages to become a success in the enterprise you will get them.

It happened to every language without exception.
After reading this, I was reminded of an older 2006 article also from the NYT "There's Money in Thirst". Its a good companion to this article. I hope thirst isn't a business opportunity that leaves many without.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/business/worldbusiness/10w...
You could get rid of Facebook signup but incentive your users after the signup to connect their Facebook account for "a better matchmaking" and to not meet their friends or grandma.

It I would also suggest them to import all of their social accounts (instagram, pinterest, twitter) which makes sense since your role as a matchmaker is to gather informations as much as you can.
I am shocked, shocked that a Bitcoin-related vendor was crooked.

Really, this story does totally suck for you guys but there should be absolutely zero trust or respect for anyone selling anything related to bitcoin at the moment. You're just begging to be ripped off.
Very interesting, so It's sort of a repl server. Using node.js you could even execute and return the results.. I'm starting to see how someone(who knows what they are doing) could create a POC LightTable plugin...
I was about to say the same, should have the (2013) tag.
Complaining about farmers using too much water is the same as complaining about people eating too much food. The word "food" doesn't even occur in this article that appears to have started with a conclusion ("markets are magic!!!") and omitted facts until the conclusion was justified.

The disruption to our nation's economy and lower classes caused by an increase in food prices or scarcity as a result of hasty water management changes would potentially destabilize society.

Edit: the article also failed to mention that the water delivered to farmers has most likely not been purified, chlorinated, or protected from animals, so of course it will be cheaper than culinary water.
After Mangalyaan to Mars, Isro Plans to Send an Indian into Space
HelloTel, Like Tinder but for Travelers
Google should use this data as an overlay for google maps :)
I would love to watch that data on that way.
Any google employees reading this? ;)
I don't think that's true for physical businesses. Technology actually allows businesses to be more monolithic and centralized because it reduces the pain of managing lots of moving parts. Making purchasing and delivery decentralized may have its own benefits, but I hardly think it is an evolutionary conclusion in itself.
It's the kind of "right" that only exists if other people provide it - people who quite reasonably, don't see your "right" as a reason they should work for free.
That's a very clever idea, especially since many of the calorie counting apps tend to be very bossy and intrusive. It might be a very good and fun way to get people to think about what they have eaten.

It's a shame it's iOS only, because I'd be interested in giving it a whirl.
Important lesson for expensive capital goods: Pay upon delivery or net 30. Do not pay in full before shipment.
"It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner. For, in so distributing and combining the truths and the formulæ of analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine, the relations and the nature of many subjects in that science are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more profoundly investigated. This is a decidedly indirect, and a somewhat speculative, consequence of such an invention. It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject. There are in all extensions of human power, or additions to human knowledge, various collateral influences, besides the main and primary object attained."
-- Ada Lovelace, 1842

Quite remarkable foresight, I would say.
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> A nightmarish minefield where you'd suddenly be being charged again for minimal updates to trivial apps.

If this is true, we should be seeing it in non-MAS apps. Can you cite some examples of these practices in existing Mac software, outside of scams/malware/etc?
If you don't have the resources to fit a startup into your life (in some combination of time or money - she just happened to have a surplus of money), then maybe you shouldn't be doing a startup? Nobody every said startups/YC is a fit for every single person in every stage of their life.
The problem is that if you specify ssl_protocols somewhere else rather than default/first server, it won't work. So, yes, serve error, but specify ssl_protocols in there.
It's common for ATMs to be built on XP, there's no denying that. But the reason is because they were built on it initially, when it was still okay to do so. To using Windows XP for the base of an ATM (especially one that -- by design -- must be connected to the Internet) in 2014 is more than irresponsible. I can't imagine the kind of cargo cult thinking required to make that decision.
See the email from Jordan on August 27, 2014--he claims "average income is ~$2300/month". Given the source that's probably a best case scenario.
I've seen some FPSes get the player's preferred control mappings in a really subtle, cool way: ask the player to perform some actions very early in the game (often as part of a "training" sequence), and configure the controls however necessary to make the user's input correct.

For instance, in Portal 2, to check whether the player wants inverted controls:

http://youtu.be/niE5oiRs7pY?t=45s
By far the best reference on this subject is the Aguanomics blog and his book Living With Water Scarcity. This article barely scratches the surface of the insanity of water allocation and the difficulties of regulation surrounding the industry.

Suffice it to say, making water more expensive might not even be a solution until is it extremely expensive, because we already have water pricing so complex (in many places in the US) that many people have no idea what their water needs are or how to efficiently use water. Roughly a sixth of residential water usage in some areas effected by the drought in California is leaked from the building's pipes unused.

The solutions are complex, involve analyzing risk and allowing high water prices in years without scarcity to fund investment in infrastructure (desalination, for instance) to avoid scarcity turning into a shortage (which no one wants).
Aside from all the little quirks of MyApp N+1 (multiple versions of the same app installed, new users accidentally buying old versions), there is one major flaw in this practice: upgrade pricing. I'm usually happy to pay $20-40 for a solid upgrade on a $100 productivity app; if I had to pay $100 all over again, I probably wouldn't bother.
A bit OT but who are all these people making the mods? It seems really complicated and I'm impressed great developers choose to spend so much time on it. What's the incentive?
This seems to be reporting "not vulnerable" no matter what I put in. Known vulnerable sites still are getting the checkmark.

We wrote one also at https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/poodle
i really enjoyed this one too, but just for clarity's sake, this talk could have been called "great customer service with a sprinkle of product on top". it was all about how to organize a company with the goal of making customers love you, which leads to benefits like having no sales & marketing spend (not sure if they literally had no s&m costs or not).

the anecdotes, research and techniques that kevin used and drew upon were impressive. had to try very hard not to feel dishearted about how clever you need to be to succeed.
They use it because it works for them and it's not worth upgrading and taking on that risk. That said, that in no way excuses using XP for new development.
This is really, really weak sauce. They show right on the graph it following the trend line for reported cases, which looks to already be leveling off.

The problem is, as the WHO has made very, very clear: "Problems with data gathering in Liberia continue. It should be emphasized that the reported fall in the number of new cases in Liberia over the past three weeks is unlikely to be genuine. Rather, it reflects a deterioration in the ability of overwhelmed responders to record accurate epidemiological data. It is clear from field reports and first responders that EVD cases are being under-reported from several key locations, and laboratory data that have not yet been integrated into official estimates indicate an increase in the number of new cases in Liberia. There is no evidence that the EVD epidemic in West Africa is being brought under control ...

Evidence obtained from responders and laboratory staff in [Liberia] indicates beyond doubt that there is widespread under-reporting of new cases, and that the situation in Liberia, and in Monrovia in particular, continues to deteriorate from week to week. Approximately 200 new probable and suspected cases, but very few confirmed cases, have been reported in the capital Monrovia in each of the past three weeks. A substantial proportion of these suspected cases are most probably genuine cases of EVD, and the reported fall in confirmed cases over the past three weeks reflects delays in matching laboratory results with clinical surveillance data. Efforts continue to urgently address problems with data acquisition in what is an extremely challenging environment, and it is likely that the figures will be revised upwards in due course."

In other words, awesome job building a model that fits garbage data.
Snipe hunt
Not trying to be snarky, but I never understood how the stock market works (it seems just as random).

In fact, the article has a paragraph where one player is offended that he might look like a gambler and is compared to a .. stock market investor? Trying to set fantasy sports apart from gambling didn't work for me that way..
> Sure you have control over the first N bytes. Look at the request-line: "GET /hello/world/this/is/my/url HTTP/1.1". Sure, you don't control the spaces, but you can assume any practical implementation uses a single space character. Combine that with control over the method (with XHR or statically through <form> or <img>) and the path, you're in business.

tptacek is right. To make BEAST work we had to control _all_ the bytes of the very first block. We tried very hard to make it work with Javascript, but we couldn't. Java applet (and maybe Flash) was the only tool that gave us that kind of control.
GREAT VIDEO: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
So it failed just because of the stupid outdated law system - just like many other great ideas.

Maybe it's just my idealist part, but isn't it a shame so many efforts (or much effort? not sure) in this world went to waste just because of blabla you can't distribute or blabla you cant build upon... This is digital millenium, wake up!
The fraud level in the Bitcoin world is so high that it makes South Florida look good.

There's a working Robocoin ATM at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA. Nobody uses it. Nor should they. 15% bid/ask spread, 5% fee.

Incidentally, the retail price for an ordinary ATM machine is $2,000 to $4,500, depending on the features ordered. A standard through-the-wall bank ATM is about $9,500. Even if you order every option from cash deposit through biometrics, they don't cost $25,000.
I'm confused what selling an open source project would even mean in this context?
Mac OS X Finally Gets a Dictionary for Sinhalese Language
Awfully similar to the VLC on iOS story. Terrible license (GPL) + one angry developer = millions of frustrated users.
Bukkit made a lot of mistakes (don't we all), but I think that this talk tries to pin them on the wrong thing. Bukkit was in a failure state the second they included the Minecraft binaries. You're beholden to a third party the minute you create a server for the service, but linking the binaries in an OS project dooms you to failure eventually. Mojang could have DCMA'd the project (and thankfully didn't).

The talk seems to focus on license as the resolution - and it's an important point. However important licenses are, they aren't as important as not linking third-party closed-source binaries in your "FOSS" project.
> I find it fascinating that despite not having the house+back yard that many Americans strive for,

Frames it as if the Spanish have failed (therefore also actively tried) to achieve this American ideal.

Overall, despite not having what some other culture have ... they are still happier, doesn't come off as curiosity about other cultures. It comes off as a surprise that other cultures are happier supposedly despite having tried to emulate that other culture, which is seemingly the gold standard.

It's a very subjective interpretation anyway, and you'll just say that it's a false impression.
Yeah, they were too, it seems; there a slide asking the author himself whether the code, the copyrights, the logos, or just what exactly was sold. No answer was provided.
I live in Dubai, where apparently the city has the highest worldwide per capita usage of 500 gallons/day [0] (18 months ago, so probably higher now) but we also have fairly cheap water, it works out to be about US$10/1000 gallons. Even though we are in the desert, we don't have any restrictions on water usage (there is a nice green park next to my apartment). Apart from cheap fuel, one of the main reasons why is that water production is by-product of electricity production.

Most of the electricity here is produced by natural gas (yep, not oil) which is used to heat water into steam to drive turbines. This needs a lot of water, which there isn't really much in the desert, so it uses sea water. This distills the water, after which limestone is added to make it potable (drinking water has quite a lot of minerals in it, so drinking distilled water isn't that great for you) and then it is sent to the water grid. The overall process has an efficiency of 82%.

Further reading:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/uae-s-largest-power-...

https://www.dubal.ae/who-we-are/our-production-process/power...

[0] http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/uae-water-consumpti...
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Not sure why you're downvoted. It's no doubt a reference to Da Vinci's Last Supper.
The only good thing about App Store is visibility. People aren't going to find out your own website, but they have learned to search on App Store. Developers need to have an alternative market place that are equally easy to download and update applications.
Mobile MVP – Ask community about your decisions, take pic, rate it