skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, just going through I just saw your comment, but I thought you deserved a reply.

> apparently the medical system even under such physiologically unhealthy conditions still has all the MD's it needs

Interns will agree to work 100 hour weeks because they have no alternatives, but I don't think that it's necessarily efficient from an economic standpoint. They have all the MDs they need, sure, but it's highly arguable about whether it's efficient from an economic standpoint. We'd have to compare the cost of medical errors (which is non-negligible) from interns due to fatigue vs. the cost of hiring another intern.

> I was just worried the problem was that students were not aware of what awaited them after 6+ years of bank breaking schooling...

We're talking about basically a decade between when you make the decision to become a doctor and when you receive a MD. Even if you start out on the path to be a MD with perfect intentions, people change heavily over the course of a decade (and especially so at that age).

The grim reality is that even after undergrad (halfway in), if you chose a typical "med school" major you're still in a bit of a bad spot unless you decide to go into research in the life sciences. After graduating med school, your MD qualifies you for 1 thing and comes with the heavy cost of crippling debt. Deciding you don't really like medicine in your 3rd year of med school is incredibly costly and practically unfeasible for most people going through school.
This will be a great way to automate Java and Flash updates, so users don't have play uncheck the adware every time there's an update.
Amazing how Microsoft keep stuff in obscurity.
Most people don't use that directly, though. Most contribute an instant answer to either the "spice" (external api, like recipes) or "goodies" (self-contained functions) repos, https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice and https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies.

What motivates someone to contribute to DuckDuckGo? It's fun, useful, and your work can potentially be shown at the top of the search results page for millions of people.

disclaimer: I work for DuckDuckGo.
Doing GoLang SQL Migrations?  Try This Alternative to Goose
Just hope that oracle doesn't try to sneak install the ask toolbar with every update.
Facebook was removing a potential competitor from the market, just like they did with Instagram.
No bonds are free of risk. Further deflation can be extremely high with real world examples hitting 50% per year. Remember at 50% deflation your zero risk cash is makeing an effective 100% ROI. So those AAA bonds need to make an effective 100+% ROI or there going to default and nobody with a true AAA raiting is going to pay that kind of interest. Worse places that had a AAA raiting often fail in those kinds of shocks.

PS: Basically, the root cause of that kind of deflation is rolling defaults contracting the money supply.
We got an invite. Thanks for asking.
Tempora has nothing to do with the companies giving the NSA access to their data. Try to stay on topic.

Shifting the burden of proof? You're the one claiming something illegal is going on without any evidence. I might as well call you a rapist and ask you to prove you aren't.
Do you really want to be the guy who says "But what about IE?" every time someone does something cool targeting modern browsers?
It seems there is always one.
Not to mention, use it for HTTP...
Windows Management Framework, Desired State Configuration, DISM, etc?
We were accepted but decided it wasn't the best fit for us. I know most of the companies in their current batch and they're doing some cool stuff. It's great to see accelerators with a cryptocurrency/blockchain focus like PnP and boost.
Bet you could make a lot of people vegetarian by banning slaughterhouses.

That's what 4chan is. It's a memetic slaughterhouse.
After reading that, the only conclusion I can draw is it's all too hard.
Sure, but the risk premium is generally independent of risk-free rate.
This remind me of the race towards smaller phones we experienced in the pre-smartphone era I don't see Sonys ultra small mobiles being in vogue anymore. We seem to forget a simple fact.

The smartphone was not a better phone but a smaller computer. The idea that mobile is somehow replacing most of the other platforms and their usage is simply misplaced.

Mobile is part of a diverting technology trend not converging.
I did a quick scan of libfetch (fetch(3)) and it seems clean. Thats sort of interesting to me because I've wondered for some time why ftp does not actually use libfetch. Can't say whether ftp not sharing the libfetch code is good or bad, in this case.
I wonder if anyone would like clearly-advertised "unlimited data, harmonic throttling":

First X amount of data at full speed

Second X amount of data at 1/2 of full speed

Third X amount of data at 1/3 of full speed

Fourth X amount of data at 1/4 of full speed

etc...

(With perhaps prices based on what that X is, or the decrease in speed could be more gradual.)

This is clearly "unlimited" since you can transfer as much data as you want, it just takes a little longer for each additional amount (until the next billing period). :-)
Having been an engineer in control room environments for both rocket launches and fighter jet flight operations -- it's not really "officialese bullshit". Aerospace has a definite jargon and there are preferred ways of saying things on comms to reduce ambiguities. "Triage the data" is actually a good way of describing what you do in an anomaly investigation. You figure out what the most likely thing that went wrong is, then the next most likely thing, etc. and look at data regarding those things in order.
Rainwater is pretty dirty from pollutants in the atmosphere and has a strong pH value in many cases depending upon location.

EDITED for spelling and added clarity.
> We make jokes about how nearly nothing is "rocket science" or "brain surgery" for a reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

My favourite of those.
Inevitably that effort would still fall short, and therefore not really at all. The leverage of linux is the linux community, and the access. Not ls vs dir. IMO. In any case, if they provided the Windows 8 experience built right on top of linux (and all the binaries and everything still worked) it would be a marvel.
Not quite the same - while internally it is basically how you describe, pkgmgr.exe (or more properly CBS/CSI, http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2008/04/23/unders...), is solely for servicing Windows itself. Users can't create packages.
It's been nearly a decade since I managed any Windows servers. I'm more than willing to believe there are features of modern Windows systems that I don't know about. Perhaps you can fill me in on what I've been missing...I assume you're implying there is some equivalent to yum or apt-get on Windows that allows easily updating system and third-party packages from the command line without human intervention?

And, do most vendors make their software available through this mechanism? That would be a miraculous improvement over the couple dozen different update services that run on a Windows box (Java updater, Adobe updater, Apple updater, Oracle updater for VirtualBox, etc.), all of which have wildly variable reliability and are mostly impossible to script or automate. If those are gone from the Windows management experience, that'd be great.
This is something I posted in a Quora question and should hopefully answer it for you.

1. Privacy enabled by default. This certainly helped get traction when the NSA security revelations came around. DDG is not the only privacy conscious search engine but certainly one that pushes it as a feature more then others. See https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

2. !bang syntax. Remember back in the early days of Google they had a “Try this search on” and a list of search engines? !bang is that idea on steroids. This makes the cost of switching to DDG much lower then any other search engine because you are not locked in when its results are lacking.

3. Gabriel Weinberg (Creator) came up with a way to index the web for a fraction the cost of anyone else. I.E. use someone else’s index through web API’s such as Bing/Yahoo Boss. This means DDG can have an index in billions of pages without buying hundreds of machines and then crawling and indexing. Consider Cuil as an example. This isn't a reason to use it so much as explain why its a viable thing to use.

4. Persistence. Quite a few search engines based on Yahoo Boss and other API’s have come and gone, however DDG continues to be worked on. Just being around for 4 years gives it credibility.

5. DuckDuckHack. If you are a developer you can go to DuckDuckHack and add functionality you want. This may not sound that good, but because DDG already has traffic its a good incentive for start-ups and others to build on the DDG API to get some traction, which means they want to use DDG and promote it which fuels growth.

6. People. The people working on DDG are pretty awesome.

7. Uncluttered results. The results are pretty much just some links without too much fancy stuff going on.
Can we please drop the "cool kids" cliche? It's a tired generalization.

Clearly at this point both architectures work, it's childish to see this as an argument for server-side rendering. Obviously it works, so do client MVC systems.

The value in this article is the humble detailing of their mistakes that many of us also experience in our careers.
Solutions to important exam questions (currently for engineering)
https://bookstreet.in
QE does not fail when interest rates are zero. Further, there are a variety of tools the central bank can use besides interest rate manipulation. See the blog of Scott Sumner - he covers this in extensive detail.

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

From a behavioral/psychological perspective, interest rates seem more likely to affect consumption choices. All of Keynesian and monetarist economics is predicated on the idea that people are ignorant of real prices and focus on nominal prices. So 2% nominal interest - 0.5% inflation looks like a 2% rate of return (invest more!) whereas 0% interest + 0.5% deflation looks like a 0% rate of return (consume more!).

[edit: the salary example is NOT loss aversion. If you lose your job for $100, and turn down a job paying $90, you "lose" $100. If you accept the job you "lose" $10.]
And yet inflation has barely cracked 3% since the proverbial printing presses started up, and has bounced around at <2% for the past few years. Hence the cause for concern: we pulled an unprecedented amount of currency out of thin air, and the result was below average inflation.
Firefox also has profiles. I use one explicitly for YouTube, because I disable all the things YouTube needs to work in my primary profile.
The guy said, "smartphones simply enable you to do things that you can't otherwise do". People were taking pictures with their cameras long before smartphones and uploading them. I was using Microsoft StreetMaps (I think that was the name) and a $100 GPS serial device to map trips around the SFBA. People have used a compass to navigate for thousands of years. So yes, smartphones don't do things you can't do otherwise; they are just compact and more fun, if you can them in your pocket. If you can't then you might want to look at a small laptop or notebook, more bang for the buck.
That's what I said. I'm not a Windows users. I follow a little Windows phone and some Surface 3 news.
Definitely true for me, I take more cabs in Providence since Uber became available because the local taxis are so inconvenient/bad I never considered it a real option, and I take more cabs in Boston because Uber is a lot cheaper than the yellow cabs.
I bet a huge number of the population who has used the FTP client has never used it for HTTP because... using an FTP client for HTTP just doesn't make sense.
You guys are both correct actually, covering all 3 reasons Krugman provided.

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflation-bad/
The bank does not give you a loan, as your business itself does not function as collateral and any capital equipment you bought is worth half as surplus. Instead, they prefer low risk loans that can be turned into zero risk via financial magic.

Furthermore, you only needed the loan in the first place because despite material living expenses being at an all time low, housing rent is at an all time high (thanks to those zero risk loans!) and you do not wish to squander the little savings you have.

Your employer dismisses your idea of working 16 hours a week because it would simply confuse them and there is a long line of people still willing to work 50.

You either keep your day job and forget about your idea, bootstrap while being distracted with a separate consulting business, or set out for the Silicon Valley Casino where you will possibly win 5% of $1B or more likely 5% of $0B.
Eskimo: a Node.js app framework
Revenue: I wish. We're in a highly regulated environment and we didn't raise enough money to get a broker dealer license so we had to defer revenue because we couldn't afford it as well as the legal and compliance costs.

Traffic/Traction. Wow, Two different things. We're an investment marketplace for agriculture and agtech (http://agfunder.com). Listed companies have raised $10.5M since Feb2014, we have another $2M in live deals, and about $12M in deal flow coming on in the next 4 weeks. So in that respect traction is huge, this is not being funded by thousands of investors but by VCs in Silicon Valley family or in Russia, offices, strategics. In our case the LTV of a customer is in the hundreds of thousands so we don't need traffic in the millions. We average about 5,000 uniques per month, and we have about a 1% conversion rate, of which 0.25% are investors.

Sold previous startups: No. I wish. I wouldn't be living off my credit card right now.

Apple/Facebook/Google: No.

KickStarter: No, family then advisories, and then friends of friends got us this far but it has been very very painful and it seemed like just when we were on deaths door (Maxed credit cards, zero sleep for 2 weeks) that we had a stay of execution.

Ivy: Yes. I have a PhD from Yale and have published in Nature, Harvard Business Review, and most recently TechCrunch so I had a lot of social proof to work with (That said I have ADD and dyslexia and I didn't graduate from high school so don't let a poor start hold you back). I'm sure this played in, but it is possible to build up your CV. I think YC (and frankly everyone else) wants to know that you are someone who is capable of doing something extraordinary. You need to give them data points. Start with some baby steps and leverage your way into something bigger. I submitted several articles to TC before one was accepted.
Blame marketing.
We've been doing pretty much the same things since we started in 2005: we've never given specific feedback about rejections at the application stage (it wasn't going to scale even when we only got a few hundred applications). We funded 8 startups in our first batch, which was roughly 2-3% of the total applications.

We definitely fund people who have no connection to folks we already know, or Silicon Valley for that matter. And we also fund startups who are at the idea stage and have no traction (though traction does help).

I'm very sorry we rejected you, but we are honestly often wrong.
Yeah, that ones a bit of overkill. I just want one that notifies me via my phone that it's done washing, and reminds me when I've forgotten it and there's clothes rotting in the basin.
>>Only until prices fall enough that people start spending again and hiring picks up again.

But why would I bother investing capital to hire people to make stuff if I've got guaranteed returns just by sitting on cash?
Google Fit Arrives on the Play Store and the Web
I've wondered for some time why ftp does not actually use libfetch

Because ftp(1) was written long before libfetch(3), and nobody wanted to rewrite it.
If you have a bond which costs $100 and pays $101 in a year's time, and a 50% deflation rate, then the real return on the bond is 102%. The real return on cash is 100%.

Inflation or deflation with magnitudes exceeding 20-30% is generally a very bad thing, and is also not what the article is discussing.
It's a fraudulent concern meant to enable more printing.

One of the many psychological toys the Fed & Co. use, just like they regularly threaten to raise interest rates (for years at this point) to buy more time on holding down the bubbles they've created without having to actually do anything.

The reason so many people are afraid of deflation, is they're from the Keynesian school of economics. They've been brainwashed for two generations to think inflation is how you grow an economy. No coincidence, the Keynesian experiment has been a global disaster of epic proportions, leading to the greatest accumulation of debt in world history; and locally, a 40 year stagnation in the American standard of living, perpetually high real unemployment, increased poverty, and increased inequality (because the rich can shield themselves from inflation, the poor cannot).

Every country in history that has ever attempted to implement a Keynesian inflation based economy, has failed, with the result being a disaster. Such examples include the US, Japan, much of Europe and lately China has signed on to the debt / stimulus / inflation party. Japan is a famous, fake deflation example. They haven't suffered a penny of deflation in 30 years (an inflation based asset bubble imploding, is not deflation); if Japan had suffered decades of deflation, their wages and prices wouldn't be among the highest in the world.
I don't know why this is controversial. You aren't going to carry a camera around with you everywhere you go, nor a GPS, nor a laptop. But you'll carry your smartphone. So you can do more things because you have your smartphone with you.

Anyway, my main point was that culture was the reason for the dark ages, not ability to do things. And smartphones don't override culture.
@leephillips - good news is that linux installs fairly painlessly on the iMac 5K. I'm running Fedora 20 and it's going really well. Some slight funkiness with sound but I'm sorting that out now.
Need hardware accel for gnome shell so required this workaround for the ATI drivers: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054435
Shoot us an email: open@duckduckgo.com and we'll take care of that.
In fact inflation is running closer to 7% to 8% right now.

You're of course referring to the current bogus CPI, which was put into effect in the 1990s to hide the real rate of inflation.

It conveniently leaves out nearly every major source of inflation a person would actually want to measure.
If Windows 10 was built on top of Linux I'd get a lot more excited.

GPL would make that impossible. There are reasons OS X is based on BSD, and not all of them are about technical superiority.
We're an investment marketplace for agriculture and agtech. On the face of it, this sounds totally dull in the world of SnapChat and Secret. Our job is to make sure that your grandchildren have food to eat by 2050 when we we need to feed 10 billion people. I started the company because I was working for a company in west africa before this. We failed to marshal enough capital to grow our business beyond the pilot stage and because of that 1,500 subsistence level farmers lost their only source of income.
Sex with 21 women lowers risk of prostate cancer, academics find
The problem with deflation is nominal rigidities, i.e. sticky nominal wages or the prideful worker effect. Hence you'll need to fire the workers with wage > productivity, and those workers will refuse to accept new employment since new offers will have lower nominal wages than their previous job.

Contra mainstream academic economics, sticky wages are not actually the main reason deflation causes unemployment during recessions.

A sharp, unexpected deflation causes unemployment because of the non-neutrality of money. When deflation occurs, people first stop buying durable goods like cars or new homes or architectural blueprints. The reason workers get fired is because there is simply nothing for them to produce, because they are not worth being employed at even zero dollars. Many workers are quite willing to pay cuts in hard times, but get fired anyway because there is a glut of inventory and lack of buyers, so they are not worth employing at any price. You'll absurd that in a deflationary recessionary it's the workers in industries where spending is easy to cut that get hit the hardest.

Also, is also when wages are deflating or balance sheets are deflating that this is a problem. If nominal wages are steady, but the prices of goods are gradually decreasing due to technology driven productivity increases, then there will be no general ill effect on unemployment.
thanks for the comment. YC is definitely great about being very respectful to applicants in its process and blog posts, so don't get me wrong.

I'm just wondering if there's a way for people to understand what their chances are. For example, if 0.01% of people that have lower than a 650 GMAT get into Stanford, then that would be useful information to know (for hopeful applicants).

Similarly, if the "has revenue" cohort has a 15% interview rate, and the "pre-revenue" cohort has a 0.5% interview rate, that would also be really great to know. (same thing for solo vs. multiple founders, recommended vs. non-recommended, etc).

I understand that YC has no obligation to provide this information, and perhaps there are very good reasons why it wouldn't provide it even if it was available. It would just be useful to know if possible.
Let me speak for the middle class that I am here :-)

For the most part I feel that my investment opportunities are similar to people a lot wealthier than me. Investment costs are way down than what they used to be and there are a lot of options that once weren't available to the average investor.

What's killing me is the low rates which are mostly a function of near zero inflation in the US. If I were in the US I would have almost certainly been invested in housing right now but being in Canada where house prices kept going up this is not a realistic option. Stocks are crazy expensive and super risky. Real estate is super expensive and risky. Bond yields are a joke.

Just give me the "standard" inflation/yields back!

The problem though is that without an increase in "consumption" (either individual or as infrastructure) we're stuck in this cycle. If there's no buyers the economy is slow, prices stay down and yields are down. QE/low yields have pumped up the stock market and maybe housing (at least in Canada it did for sure) but it remains to be seen where this money is going. Some of it must be pumped into the economy but it hasn't been enough yet to make a big difference. We'll see how it goes...
Cool, but will you still have to restart your computer every time you install something?
Ebony – Harmony Timber Floors
Ebony is the most popular hardwood flooring import from Brazil. Its rich tones of chocolate and gold with a consistent colour pattern adding a sense of warmth to any design decor. Known for its hardness and durability, this exotic hardwood is a great choice in both residential and commercial installations.
Failures are inevitable. I am sure the team has learnt more from it than it would if it had worked. When you have failed once you don't leave any stone unturned and in the process improve on tens of more things.
Huh, I haven't done that since Vista.
2 years ago I was exploring frameworks for an enterprise project. I tried Batman along with most others, I can easily see why building your own framework would have been an option any earlier than that.

Most frameworks weren't even at 1.0 stable yet. I initially wrote a fairly extensive prototype with Ember, but there were breaking changes so frequently I couldn't keep up with the learning curve. In the end I chose Angular because it had the best documentation, Google dogfooding, and testing was an obvious priority. Worked out so well we're on our 4th major Angular app now.