skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medicare funding drives GME availability, but that is only because it represents the lion's share of the funding for it. Universities in Florida and Texas[1], the two states with the biggest shortfalls in residency slots, are taking steps to address this by finding other sources of funding or creating partnerships with non-academic hospitals to have med students do their residencies there.

I may be mistaken, but I don't think the federal government even has the power to restrict the number of residency slots.

[1] http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/MedicalEducat...
Recursion to Iteration, Part 4: The Trampoline
I read the report linked in the article and Mochizuki et al do not seem to think that studying this would take prohibitively long time. Some select quotes:

> During these lectures, Yamashita warned that if you attempt to study IUTeich by skimming corners and “occasionally nibbling” on various portions of the theory, then you will not be able to understand the theory even in 10 years; on the other hand, if you study the theory systematically from the beginning, then you should be able to understand it in roughly half a year.

> Unfortunately, however, there appear to exist, especially among researchers outside Japan, quite strongly negative opinions and antagonistic reactions to the idea of “studying the theory carefully and systematically from the beginning”.

>From the point of view of achieving an effective solution to this sort of problem [=education], the most essential stumbling block lies not so much in the need for the acquisition of new knowledge, but rather in the need for researchers (i.e., who encounter substantial difficulties in their study of IUTeich and related topics) to deactivate the thought patterns that they have installed in their brains and taken for granted for so many years and then to start afresh, that is to say, to revert to a mindset that relies only on primitive logical reasoning, in the style of a student or a novice to a subject.
> age 36-43: professor at a good, but not great, university for $65,000 per year

Podunk U in the midwest gets filled with MIT/Harvard degreed profs, who couldn't wait for existing profs to die off at their alma maters. It also captures the Harvard rejects with 4.0 GPA's, 2300 SAT's, 12 AP courses. Extreme selectivity at the elite institutions improves the quality of the non-elite schools. Better profs, better students. Does Podunk U have the potential to churn out some great students then? Even if its prestige isn't as good as an elite.
We can't all be randian supermen impervious to the prattling of the lesser beings here.
Nice idea, I will try that. A question though: I have always heard that adding salt to cooking beans makes them tough. Add salt at the dinner table to taste.
> Keep in mind the whole point of insurance is shared, proportional risk.

The fundamental problem is that the more information is brought to bear on the idea of "risk", the less shared it is. This is especially stark in health insurance: do you have family history of serious diseases? Do you carry a particular gene? Do you engage in risky behavior like smoking, adventure sports, promiscuous sex? It can price some people out of the insurance market altogether, and make it less of a "shared" pool. This is precisely the problem the ACA is trying (with debatable success) to tackle.

Auto insurance is arguably more directly tied to statistically risky behavior rather than factors beyond your control (like genetics), but the potential is still there. We as a society are not ready for total information awareness on the part of our insurer. If Google offered insurance directly, could they deny a claim based on an email you sent before or after an accident? Raise your rates if you search for fast cars online? What's the difference between actually risky behaviors, and behaviors that are merely correlated with higher risk? The insurance markets are opaque enough without adding black box algorithms working on nearly limitless data inputs.
Surely this is a joke? Not only are the bitstreams coming from the hdd digital, they're also buffered and decoded. I can see different decoders affecting the sound, but not the hdd.
Poll: what was your favorite thing at CES?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/9/7520583/poll-what-was-your-favorite-thing-at-ces

Comment if TheVerge poll doesn't have your favorite gadget from CES.
I completely agree with this comment in every point.

However I’ll add that it’s my experience that free customers are the worst, by far for customer support, and that as such rwhitman probably got burned disproportionately. A percentage of free customers demand straight up magic, and get loud in public if you don’t deliver. People who are paying, particularly paying significant amounts of money, expect their money to be well spent and results in proportion with what they pay. IE they tend to be reasonable.

Still - if you where not expecting support to be a major part of this experience - you should now.
I might agree with "What if there's a limited social capacity to do science?

but "more fraud and bad science" seems (to me) to be excaerbated by increased pressure for limited funding, rather than the opposite.
> On January 4th, some of Bitstamp’s operational wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of less than 19,000 BTC.

That's a nice way of saying "we're out five and a half million USD"...
I think the problem is that even most "Holy shit, we broke all our expectations!" Kickstarters are...modestly successful grants, in terms of scientific funding. And most crowd funding for science is, for lack of a better word, not worth the effort. The campaigns that are existing dwell mainly in the realm of "can fund a grad student's field work", and carry a significant burden in teaching/educating university admin in terms of where this money comes from, trying to not get them to take overhead from it, etc.
Exxon's value has little to do with the actions of nation states. Rockefeller was relatively speaking wealthier than Bill Gates ($336 billion in 2007 dollars) before nation states got involved in the oil business.

The world's proven oil reserves are ~1.5 Trillion barrels. At 50$/barrel that's 75 Trillion $ before refining. You don't need a large slice of 75 Trillion $ to be ridiculously wealthy.

Large commodity markets require efficiency which might not be sexy, but it can directly translate into profits. Look at the world’s richest people and you see several people from the Walton family because efficiency really can be worth far more than all the social websites combined.

PS: Not to mention 12 out of less than 200 countires are in OPEC and they controwl ~81% of the worlds proven reserves. It's fairly common for a small number of countries to supply the majoirity of a given comodity. EX: 81% of the worlds rice is produces by just 9 countries, and just 6 countries controwl 81% of the worlds coal.
This argument wouldn't hold up if copyright infringement were involved. Why should it hold up in this case?

I'm undecided.
In my opinion insurance companies should not be profit centers like they have become. They have a real social function to spread out risk across large population. With the information Google could leverage, my hunch is they could run a very tight ship where the insurance company could (theoretically) consistently remain a healthy company at zero profit margin.

Not to say that would be their goal if they started an insurance company, but once technology catches up and perfects what insurance companies do, the only differentiator at that point is monthly premiums.
Supposedly much cheaper than the coal one[1]. Although I don't know how representative this 1000 MWe coal plant is.

[1] http://thorconpower.com/costing/bottom-line
Two interesting points to consider: The two sources you listed have a nearly 100% difference in the amount of water they claim Israelis are using (300 liters a day vs 183 liters per day). Both are high compared to Wikipedia's usage figures, at 137 liters a day.

Second, when looking up information about this, it seems that about 150 million m^3/year of of in total is pumped from the aquifer, while it seems that overall, Israel gets (...very vaguely) about 2 billion m^3/year from other sources (desalinization plants, for example, were aiming to supply 500 million m^3/year by 2015, no idea what the current status is). In short, it seems the West Bank is going to need to import water from somewhere to match Israel's consumption. (Also, information on this seems /very/ sparse and disjoint. I'd appreciate finding a good, well cited source...)

Also, note that there are multiple aquifers that seem to be referred to as 'mountain aquifers': There's the larger, Western mountain aquifer, which extends from a few miles from the coast, through Israeli territory, well into the West Bank. In terms of area, it's hard to say since different maps seem to draw it at different sizes, but at a guess it seems that it's split 50/50 between the West Bank/Israel, and according to one map, the Israeli side is cheaper/easier to extract. And there's the much smaller Eastern Mountain Aquifer, which is mostly contained within the West Bank, although it seems to have some corners peeking out in the north and south near the Jordan river.
indent(1) has been around for ages. Where does this sudden need for universal style goose stepping come from?
What do you mean? Do you mean this:

perestroika: ORIGIN Russian, literally ‘restructuring.’
People seem to be speculating well beyond what's in this article. It looks much more like they're just going to have a site for selling insurance, not becoming an insurance company.

It looks like just more of their credit card comparison thing: https://www.google.com/compare/creditcard
There are few different focuses in the post. It bounces around so I may not be responding correctly. As someone else said the attitude of the approach matters.

The first example of a junior developer making an application. They are full of pride, having taught themselves one technology stack to produce one application. Unfortunately she leaves out the approach. With assumptions, this junior developer is looking for validation of their achievement from a senior developer working at the same company. They are not peers, they are not friends.

If the first thing out of the senior developers mouth was a straight faced "is it responsive" with no sign of sarcasm then they don't want to be your friend, mentor, and only care about the number of bugs you create or fix. Great, you've learned as a junior developer that this senior developer is not on your side, and you should seek validation else where. From other junior developers perhaps, or ask another senior developer for feedback while first informing them you put a lot of work into it and what kind of feedback you want.

The senior developer taught themselves that same stack, and a dozen other stacks. They did it for free, it doesn't matter that you did, you've made 60 pages of code they've wrote several libraries of congress's worth of bugs. Your success doesn't mean anything to them because there is nothing special in it, and they are not your friend. There are other junior developers on the team that also taught themselves a stack, maybe two. You won't find admiration for your achievements from within the group. If you want a mentor then approach the senior developers with that, say you want to learn more, want to shadow them, peer program perhaps. However don't expect it from them, no one is entitled to it so you're asking them to put in care and effort. Even asking someone to review your project has a cost, it takes time, caring, and effort to do it right.

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The interviewer asking a question like that was attempting to engage you in a critical problem solving thought process. You don't know, that doesn't matter, how would you find out, what steps would you take, why would there be alternatives.

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The feedback the junior developer received isn't skeptical it is dismissive. Being dismissive isn't nice. It isn't snobbery, you get to be senior developer by being a better programmer, by being better at just that stack, by being there first, by luck or by time.

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If you worked at a Michelin star restaurant as a sous chef, and on the side you worked for a month perfecting a veal dish, then presented it to your head chef. You bet your ass they would be critical of it. If you presented it to your friend, they would shower you in praise and enjoy eating it with you.

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On hiring, yes there are problems, there are cliques, existing developers might feel threatened, but those don't just apply to junior developers.

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All that being said I love a developer who takes the initiative to teach themselves a stack on their own time. That is awesome, keep doing it, don't stop, find other sources of camaraderie and mentorship.
3 lies millennials tell themselves about investing
One approach to getting a list of topics is to look at the degree requirements for a couple of universities. I'm wrapping up a similar project, and here's what I included, along with some resources I used:

* Algorithms (CLRS, Skiena)

* Databases (db-class.org, any text by C.J. Date)

* Probability, Statistics, and Combinatorics

* Programming Languages (I liked Grossman's course on Coursera)

* Linear Algebra (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebr...)

* Natural Language Processing (Coursera has several courses)

* Machine Learning/Information Retrieval/Data Mining (I used a couple books, Mining Massive Datasets and Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce being the two I'd recommend)

* Networking (Coursera has a good course)

* Operating Systems (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgQo4JkN4Bw&list=PL62A66DDD3...)

* Distributed Systems (I read Tanenbaum's book)

* Computability
They cache static content like images and host that, yes, but they do not host any dynamic pages or "websites" themselves.

They have some hosting capabilities but I think that would be better described as a "mirror" rather than a host. Most of their infrastructure is routing and some is mirroring/caching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

"In governance, sortition (also known as allotment) is the selection of officers as a random sample from a larger pool of candidates.

In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the primary method for appointing political officials and its use was conventionally regarded at the time as a principal characteristic of democracy."

I think we ought to give it a go, see what happens.
Then why not write a blog post and explain these updates and submit it to HN normally, rather than through "Show HN"? I didn't realise Show HN was used for this sort of thing.

(edit) From the guidelines:

> New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally don't make good Show HNs. If you've had a breakthrough, a new Show HN might be ok—just don't do it routinely.
Even in Bio it is not that bad. It took my brother an extra year than he wanted to find a post-doc(cell biology), but he is making over 40k in an affordable midwestern city. It's good enough that he can rent a 2 bedroom townhome by himself in a nice part of town.
I have currently got some bit-swizzling [1] going on to fit the concept of a Piece into u8. (one of 6 colours and one of 6 shapes). I'd like to turn this back into a nice enum if I can!

Introducing laziness by writing an iterator was actually one of the biggest single improvements (I couldn't figure out the syntax for a while, but lifetimes worked much better than I was expecting)!

[1]: https://github.com/iamdanfox/qwirkler/blob/master/src/piece....
Could you post the Scala version as well, for comparison?
"Insane" pay is, in my experience, not actually insane. Really good, solid six-figures, but not insane.

Most MD/PhD positions are doing research directly applicable to medical treatments and/or clinical trials. And it's definitely possible to be an MD/PhD and not be paid a tremendous amount.
"QNAP1 promoted the leading edge piano transients, following through with a lighter, brighter instrument tone – possibly Steinway-like? The same piano had more lower mid body on QNAP2 and slightly softer hammer impact, perhaps more like a Bosendörfer."

I suspect just using an off the shelf hard drive would sound more like a Yamaha.
Why is nobody addressing the neutrino coloration issues at the heart of the issue? We offer a private listening space ($599 an hour) unlike any other, lined with a few light-years of lead (substantially compressed) to prevent a minority of neutrinos from creating aberrant distortions in source material. Together with the vibration-reducing space-time deformation we create by putting this much mass in one place, we've heard from several noted audiophiles that this is the only true way to reveal the music the way the artist intended.
Don't. Use the primary newspaper's food critic's list. For Los Angeles, I use: http://ballots.latimes.com/lists/101-best-restaurants-jonath...
I would expect it to go like electric cars. Maybe in 5-10 years you will be able to buy a high-end one, but the time to a majority having one will be double that, at least.
It seems that thorium reactors produce less nuclear waste than uranium reactors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle#Fission_pro.... Could someone with more knowledge on the subject give a rough estimate of the amount of waste we would be talking about?
Wow they have multi-sig support now, that is pretty amazing. Would easily be worthy of its own article in other circumstances.

If I understand it correctly it means money can not be withdrawn without both the account holder and bitstamp signing the transaction. This means that neither can the money be stolen by hackers, nor could bitstamp run off with it. There are actually some bitcoins in the real blockchain "with your name on it", as opposed to you just having a claim on bitstamp.
Show HN: Python CLI progress bar in lesser than 10 lines of code
The Most Fascinating Profile You'll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
I wish, also that a login page would tell me if I entered in a password that doesn't meet their password requirements and then show me what those requirements are again. Often, when I get the password wrong, I have to go to the signup page to see what random password requirements this site requires so I can remember what password I made up for it.
codesign also encrypts the binary, it is not just signed. https://github.com/jevinskie/Clutch is a utility that decrypts apps for you.
Maybe the Freedom Box project [0]? Their open software and hardware would enable better privacy, decentralized Internet...

[0]: http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
My prediction is "Internet of Things" will begin to transition into "Local Network of Things (Accessible via VPN or Gateway)" for this exact reason. It'll still appear as "Internet of Things" to most end users though.
Giving OP benefit of the doubt I think s/he meant to say "When I'm not using a framework."
Have they figured out how the attackers got in? Have they competed the forensic analysis to determine they can't get back in through the same or similar vectors?

There's nothing really here about what happened or how they have mitigated it. Perhaps it's too early and they don't really know, but then isn't going back live fairly risky?

Aside from a persistent firmware threat, which has nothing to do with the attack vector, I don't see why "yay we're on AWS now" is any different unless they know the compromise was due to a specific piece of infra which is no longer present. Isn't it much more likely to be a bug in their software logic which would certainly not be fixed by restoring a backup...
Sure: https://github.com/iamdanfox/QwirkleSolver

The Rust version has had some algorithm improvements to reach 0.015s, but it was conceptually identical when it was solving in 0.7s.
Bigger, faster, more open, more secure ... what's missing from this list?

Oh, that's right, how about more uptime?

Provider Outages Total Downtime
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Amazon EC2 12 2.01 hours
Google Compute Engine 65 3.27 hours
Microsoft Azure VMs 102 42.80 hours

Source: https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-of-compute-group-by-re...

And this doesn't show the other Microsoft cloud services that have even worse reliability.

At my company we invested a lot of time trying to make Azure Service Bus and Visual Studio Online work. Both were so dreadfully unreliable as to be unusable.
The article does speculate that insurance companies might be worried that Google would one day want to start their own insurance company.
Much of the conversation in this thread seems to be quite unmoored from the content of the article. Everyone here seems to think that Google is interested in becoming an insurer. But all Google is going today is creating a portal to resell insurance from existing providers.

Sure, Google could eventually decide to become an insurer itself, but that strikes me as quite a leap from offering vertical search for auto insurance policies, and one they have shown no interest in taking.
Yes reddit is not a place for people who are easily offended, but what on the internet is?
Box is living proof of the concept "you can always buy marketshare."

The true test will be can they retain market share. Aaron says yes (what else would he say). His competitors say no (what else would they say).
Oh, I realize Calculus isn't a necessary prereq to linear algebra. But my impression is that people normally learn proofs alongside Calc than learn proofs alongside Linear Algebra. To be honest, I was writing more out of a desire to be humorous than accurate; sorry!

Anyways, I've picked up "The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming," so hopefully I can learn proofs alongside programming and logic, which is probably the best route for me at this time.
Fair point, and I don't consider it "bad" in the workplace. I've worked in places where there was an abundance of different styles (in academia), and it worked great. I'm actually kind of trying to return to academia (as staff, probably) for that reason.
He feels a threat to his authority and ideology and is responding accordingly.
If you want closer performance characteristics and simpler use patterns, in the meantime, storing the parent GameObject by value rather than through a pointer might be easier.
Ah, good point. The overhead of doing two checks isn't that high.
A very important issue with Key Vault is: what to do when the Hardware Security Module dies? All electronics fail or stop working at some point. How do you make backups of keys that were on the HSM?
I pay around 7.5 cents/kWH for coal-based power. (+ $30~40/month in various fees and taxes.)
Perestroika is the era in Soviet history when the USSR began to 'thaw' in its relationship to the West and reform its economic policy to be less collectivized and more capitalistic.

In this case, Microsoft would be the USSR and its policy of closed-source Windows/.NET domination would be the old Communist Party hegemonic philosophy. That would make Satya Nadella Microsoft's Mikhail Gorbachev.
Having a standard library for a specific task doesn't forbid alternatives to be implemented and used. But it discourages them enough, which is a very good thing for consistency (especially in reading code), lowers the barrier to entry (eg: I don't have to learn how to parse json with the specific library the project I'm contributing to is using), reduces binary size (I don't link three different http libraries, mine and those chosen by my dependencies) and generically reduce the time wasted by humanity in useless duplications of efforts. When the standard sucks, well, good alternatives will appear.

Also, the sad state of Python packaging is the reason why stdlib bitrotted; technically, your package manager could take care of backward compatibility: if eg at some point in the future you want to switch from a json library to a (far) better one, more in line with how idiomatic language has evolved, you just need to repackage the old one as a third party package, and make sure the packager manager brings it down for the user automatically.