skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that it's a great argument for universal coverage. At 2,000 dollars for open heart surgery it's still a lot but at least considerably more affordable. What will be interesting/exciting to see is how well they do at their facility in the Caymans and whether US insurers will cover the cost of treatments there. Ambulatory surgical centers have a record of greater outputs but also better outcomes than their generalist competitors. This is pretty compelling - (and at $2,000!):

"Dr. Shetty's success rates appear to be as good as those of many hospitals abroad. Narayana Hrudayalaya reports a 1.4% mortality rate within 30 days of coronary artery bypass graft surgery, one of the most common procedures, compared with an average of 1.9% in the U.S. in 2008, according to data gathered by the Chicago-based Society of Thoracic Surgeons [...] Dr. Lewin believes Dr. Shetty's success rates would look even better if he adjusted for risk, because his patients often lack access to even basic health care and suffer from more advanced cardiac disease when they finally come in for surgery."
As a guess: Not likely to work. Different forums are different little cultures. Data-mining a culture tends to be viewed as a hostile act by the members. "One post wonders" and similar tend to be viewed with suspicion. Even if you could get past that, such queries sent to multiple forums would practically be guaranteed to violate cultural expectations of one or more of the forums to which it was forwarded. The only way this would work would be if you had a staff who made it their business to belong to a bunch of different forums, be in good standing in those forums, and know how to rephrase any questions sent them so it meets cultural expectations of the various forums. This is already done informally when someone like me says "Hey, if you want, I can ask around and let you know what I find out, if anything."
Google uses dynamic pricing with AdWords to make billions of dollars.
A nicely documented overview and introduction.
Where would the modern internet be without groups of people getting completely outraged by things that they shouldn't really worry about.

You may not be outraged by the curtailment of our freedoms by a man who is unelected and has been booted out of post twice (at least) and who is spearheading a new copyright initiative immediately after staying at the pleasure of a media magnate, said initiative doing nothing for the public domain and everything for vested monopoly interests.

You may not, but those of us who prefer not to enforce the profit of the super-rich by the rule of law, solely for the benefit of those rich, we should be outraged.
My best guess is that most online players are now "augmented," using at least PokerTracker (hands played databases) with HUDs (heads-up displays that overlay the game window and provide some significant statistical info based on mining hands and odds calculations without player input). I believe, based on what I've read at 2+2 and other sites that even small limit games (say 25/50 cent limit hold'em) are mostly played by players with these tools.

I stopped playing at smaller games almost two years ago because I became convinced I was playing more bots than people - in spite of the fact that I was winning and continuing to build bankroll, I wasn't interested in entering the arms race that I saw the software requiring.

The game sites have a strong incentive to not put in too many safeguards against software automation - they take a small portion of each pot on each hand at a table. The majority of players using software to augment their play during a game are multi-tabling, thus more games/hands = more money for the sites.

I had an interesting exchange with the support staff at one online site, where I was arguing that the simplest thing they could do to discourage data mining was to allow players to use another screen name during sessions as an option. They shot me down pretty quickly.

Even though gathering statistically significant info about a specific opponent requires a prohibitively large number of hands (more than 10K?), most people on HN are highly aware of how we can build algorithms that classify data pretty easily with limited info. By simply deciding that most players fall into a relatively small set of classes, you can probably grab enough info to be positive EV against a new opponent in a relatively small number of hands - this is what you do as a player, but I really feel that adding a software tool to do it tarnishes the game. It makes it a little like playing chess against an opponent sitting there with a laptop with a chess playing program - really the program is what you're playing The human opponent is really just a complicated interface.

But I miss the game, it's a great way to stretch your brain differently than hacking.
please don't link to secondary sources! The real article about that topic is quite interesting. Read it here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141222/iPhone_owners...
Did you miss the part about having your internet accessed revoked if a super-rich media giant catches you trying to sniff their money. i2p, tor, etc. will simply be interpreted by the rights holders as "is trying to steal(sic#) copyright material" and users will have their whole families internet access removed without trial or need to provide evidence.

i2p only works if you're allowed to access the internet.

# usually steal is used, as here, when the activity is actually mere copyright infringement; stealing requires that the material would no longer be available to the rights holder.
Choose a better title, damnit.
I'm surprised Apple agreed to show the source code in the first place. If I'm not mistaken the software on the iPhone is licensed and not sold, so end-users would have no right to the source code, right???
In my case, not thousands: a million and a half. And counting.
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Because, process aside, most of the rest is a joy.
In my case:

1) That's part of the problem. It doesn't mean it can't be done better for those who are in.

2) The market segment you work in should not override decency.

3) Who says I don't do that too?

4) Because the numbers work out VERY well by selling at $2, too.
We developers are, too.
He got it long before Hacker News did.
What he's saying is that Linus is a more behind-the-scenes person, not a public figure (although he does make quite a few controversial forum posts). RMS is out there, at the front, campaigning for his ideals.
So you think that being in prison would be perfectly pleasant just as long as you had a broadband connection? Some life you must lead.

As an office worker I went between an office of about 4 metres square (16m^2)shared by 2 staff and my house, which when I started was about double that size (including all rooms) and shared with my wife. I was let out my office for lunch but no recreation time.

Now I had significant freedom to go out and about, visit friends and what have you, but, yeah life can be hard.

Broadband should be a right as more government services are becoming accessible only online - my Mum volunteers in many capacities in a rural community where access to services for the elderly is becoming hard because internet (web) access is assumed. If my web access is removed it makes it harder for me to be a citizen (subject really but hey); harder for me to be a consumer, harder for me to be an active part of the workforce.
What sort of non-democratic regime were you thinking of that would give criminals a vote but would not follow the populous' voting decisions?
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I wouldn't really call malaria a "disease of poverty" - it's a bad idea to take the most effective prophylactic indefinitely (it's an antibiotic), and it can have plenty of side effects - and it's nowhere near 100% effective. (coincidentally, I've been taking it for the last 3 weeks) So non-poor people who live in affected regions can't keep on taking it either and therefore can and do catch malaria. It is treatable if caught early enough (I guess this is your poverty angle?) but anything but pleasant even if treatment is successful. Moreover, once you've had it, it can come back anytime during the rest of your life, rich or poor.

Of course, that makes it no less of a problem, and curing it once and for all would certainly be prizeworthy.
If your startup is domestically based or requires important people to have home internet access, and that access can be completely removed if your kid downloads (or is suspected of downloading) something that big-media say is infringing their copyright, then can you see how that might disrupt your online activity.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and posit that internet start-ups generally do less well without internet access.
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Yeah that councillor would never be able to visit reddit again. That would totally stick it to them.

Well they might have to change their username, or just never visit it, ...
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Only if they hurt animals.
From what I read, Apple isn't agreeing to, they may be compelled to by the judge. You are correct, apple isn't selling users the software on the devices, they are licensing it, and the terms of that license likely stipulates that users have no right to the code (I don't know for sure, because I've never read the license, even as I type this from my iPhone).

In this case the license isn't the issue. The court isn't bound by the license, and if it deems it necessary for evidentiary purposes, over and above any objections Apple raises, then it will order Apple to turn over the code.
Hey Pete, what's the difference between Voldemort and HBase? Looks interesting.
It's either the one made by the dinosaur or the one dipped in barbecue sauce. ;0)>

(in case anyone missed it, not all songs fit the two options "awesomely similar" and "completely unalike")
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He'd certainly start by insulting everyone not using git...
Grooveshark is always looking for quality people. I know the marketing teams are continually bringing new people on and we will probably be scaling our dev team soon as well. We're in Gainesville Florida though. Send me an e-mail.
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After trying out Google Wave for some time, I would argue that it’s definitely not ready for prime time.
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The article is clearly theistic. It is also long, people read the first quote and flagged it thinking you might be trying to introduce them to a theistic notion of some sort. Atheists on the internet are like that - if they weren't they'd be agnostic.
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Shouldn't it have been along the lines of the "eschew obfuscation" quote:

"Omit all the needless words, lexical expressions and verbage that are not required and so can be removed."

Or such.
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Humorously conservatives (who somehow became anti-science) are cheering this theft but were appalled by the theft of emails from Sarah Palin that showed she was breaking the law (State business on personal email).
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nice to see you love it too whimsy and you seems to be impress, if it helps you, enjoy using it.
On the iPhone app store you see constantly dynamic prices.

Most apps start with an introductory price to boost their ranking. Then it goes up to normal and if they see that it doesn't sell anymore, they lower the price again. Or they do weekend/Holliday sales too.

I think for a user it's not just the fact to save a buck or two, it's more the satisfaction you get when you feel you got a good deal.
you mentioned that the iphone canabalt was done with a port/version/something of flixel, too? can you give any details about that?
I'm sorry, don't you mean to make fun of liberals for engaging in the Palin email theft (the person who did it was the son of a Democratic politician) and condemning this one?

Or maybe you mean to joke about how tribal humans are. That's probably it.
This is why I opine that Ruby is a bit too complex!
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Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe
It doesn't matter who the adversary is. If a flaw is found, the work is incorrect.
"Apparently, the rule of thumb for online sales is that 5% of your online visitors can be turned over if you have a really sweet offer. Given that we have roughly 5,000 visitors on our site per day, and we put the sales button on every page, the maximum we’d sell is 250 packages a day."

I think they're in for a shock. 5% sales conversion on random traffic to your blog? That's probably off by an order of magnitude. Random visitors aren't in shopping mode. Ask anyone who's ever got a bunch of traffic from Digg or Reddit.

You're lucky if 5% click the link to go to your sales page.
I could hear music in my head while playing this.
Why does it say [scribd] in the Hacker News title?
GMail Beta started out invite-only, and was that way for quite a while, thought by the time I got into it, I didn't have any friends who needed an invite.
We're a Republic rather than a direct democracy. You really don't vote on climate change at all (unless you're a Senator and I just don't know it).

Your job isn't really to study climate change and come to a conclusion. It's to elect someone who you think will do a good job of that.

It would be impossible to be informed enough about every issue you'd need to vote on while not working full-time on that sort of thing. Legislators have entire staffs for that purpose.

I realize I'm not thinking like the average American in that respect. They think something along the lines of "I think gay marriage is wrong, so therefore I'll vote for someone else who thinks gay marriage is wrong. He agrees with me so his decision making process must be good." To choose candidates by that system you'd have to be an expert on a large number of topics that 99.9999% of voters are not.

Instead my goal is to figure out which politician is most intelligent, hardest working, and has the correct motivation, and assume that they and their staffs will come to better conclusions than me since that's their job and not mine. I don't assume that someone who agrees with my relatively uninformed notions on things like climate change or the economy is correct just for that reason.

So I guess my point is, there is no relevant judgment we can make on the global warming topic. Consumer behavior is a drop in the bucket (if the CO2 problem really exists) and its going to take radical public policy changes that we do not get a direct vote on to fix.
Faster, cheaper, uses less power, and for people who do not need to program or edit videos on the go, much simpler.
How far we have come in ten years.
I was recently reading BillG's Business at the speed of though, and came through these lines. (Page 111)

"dell solved the problem .... Using load balancing technology, Dell feeds incoming web request through one of its many front web servers so that transaction load can be distributed. .. Dell can add a new server in about an hour ..."

10 years ago adding an server in one hour was such a feat for a company like Dell that it gets mentioned, today the most cash strapped startup can do so if they so desire. Just something to think about how the rules of business have changed and startups have a level playing field.
Nor will I provide McIntyre with computer programs,

Sad fact: most journal articles do not include all the details necessary to reproduce their results. There are usually all sorts of heuristics and tricks used which are not interesting enough to include in the paper. Typically, the experts in the field all know each other and share source code/tricks in private conversation.

As for the "ivory-tower conspiracy", it apparently isn't bullshit. As these emails reveal, there is a conspiracy to make it difficult for Steve McIntyre to examine published scientific results. There is also a conspiracy (revealed in other emails) to oust climate skeptics from scientific societies. It isn't paranoia if they are really out to get you.
David's calendar is one of the best. Pair it with the Betahouse (local coworking space) Recommends calendar and you will be all set. (http://bit.ly/5jp2Rg)
From the teachers I know, and I went to a university that is traditionally a teaching school, they don't use their minds much at all. Most teachers aren't dedicated to the job, they're just looking for a job. They show up, punch the clock, zombie their way through the day, go home at the end of the day, and repeat the next day.
well, rubyspec covers builtin and bundled libraries. Not that this makes ruby-the-language simple, anyway.
I don't suppose you are looking for a job by any chance?
Not really an excuse. Layers of abstraction are all about hiding difficulties with using APIs. If PHPs API for accessing prepared statements is cumbersome, then write a wrapper around it that solves the problem once.

Hell, I even did it for ADO.NET. ADO.NET is not that hard to use, but a surprising number of developers get a lot of the details wrong, such as when to open and close a connection (i.e. NOT once for every query) and when to dispose objects (at least at some point in the object's lifetime, please!). So, I wrote an ADO.NET wrapper that handles all of that stuff, providing an incredibly thin, simplistic interface. It's been very useful to me, and hopefully other people can find it useful, http://sqlsiphon.codeplex.com
Not exactly sure of the license, but they do have something on GitHub. I believe Maglev itself is open source, but it relies on the GemStone/S VM, which is NOT open source.
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Thanks, this seems like a nice book.

As it happens, I've been learning ARM assembly in the recent weeks; just for fun so far. I've mostly used some instruction set references or ARM cheatsheets I found on the web.

Having written mostly m68k assembly before (well, 6502 too...) I knew a bit how to read ARM assembly but I wanted to learn it throughoutly and gain such insight into the instruction set that can only be achieved by writing non-trivial programs with it. Before that I wanted to learn x86 assembly but I soon gathered I'll have better use for my time than that.

I like ARM instruction set quite a lot: it's nicely coherent, has nicely orthogonal features (such as conditional instructions), and doesn't seem to be ridden with despicable backwards-compatibility hacks like x86 assembly.

I like that for once something as good as this has significant marketshare in mobile cpus. Just wondering if they could gradually creep into the market for desktop cpus as well.
True, but Gmail is email, which meant you could still interact with everyone else.
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"Why not ... [submit] his own analysis of the public data ... explaining how it improves on existing analyses?"

This is the meat of the matter. Scientists write letters to journals all the time saying that they think an author overstretched. Those letters, in and of themselves, do not negate the previous research. Scientists also write original papers showing that a previous hypothesis is invalid. Those papers, if they are well written, are easy to publish, especially if they make the journal more interesting.
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PDF links automatically give a scribd link after the original.
The Coral CDN can also be helpful in cases like these. I sometimes use it when a site gets fireballed.

http://coralcdn.org/
FYI

The GemStone Virtual Machine and associated binary files and libraries
written by GemStone Systems, Inc. are governed by:
GemStone-Web-License.txt
Skip the profanity and you have a cogent argument in there somewhere.
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A word of warning. Get in the habit of thoroughly commenting your assembly early on, or you likely never will. If you start by commenting too much, you can gradually bring it down. If you start commenting sparsely (or like me, not at all), it's considerably more difficult to increase it.

That said, you picked a good first ISA to learn seriously. ARM has some very cool features, even if it does have its serious faults (poor floating point/vector support, even where it's available). Learning x86 will be trivial from there; the only difficult thing is knowing what the side-effects of functions are, as x86 is horribly inconsistent in that regard.

Good luck!
can't yet, but I will have good news about that stuff soon i hope!
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This is effectively what canonical do with video codecs - "if you have the right licenses or you have rights in your legal jurisdiction to use these codecs then here's a pointer to find them". This is no more illegal than saying to someone how to produce alcoholic drinks from grapes, say, in some jurisdictions that will be illegal (under Sharia law) in others not.
Germany made this mistake before World War 1. In an effort to enhance their security, they put a lot of effort into developing their military. This frightened all of their neighbors who banded together against Germany and went to war with with. So, in trying to enhance their security, Germany actually made themselves less secure. Apple is doing the same thing today with the App store. Steve, developers, not the customers, are the heart of the App store. Lose them and you'll end up losing it all. Don't be stupid, fix the App store and fix it soon. Our patience is almost gone.
I think you've cherry-picked that belief. The discussion I have seen has convinced me that the "hockey-stick busted" thing is a red herring.
Fred Wilson: Protecting Business.
html5 provides the infrastructure to run web apps offline. people used slow BBSs and the web long before broadband. Broadband is hard to give up but if you've never had it being connected is enough motivation to use whatever you have.
I have a particular fondness for ARM assembly. It's a beautiful instruction set, with a minimal elegance and internal consistency.

My only experience of a "normal job" was between school and university, writing import/export filters for a DTP application written entirely in ARM assembly. It was quite a year.

If you want to get into ARM assembly, this is the original and best:

http://www.peter-cockerell.net/aalp/

I still have one of the original paper copies. 1987 was a long time ago, but the legacy of those heady years is still strong.
Isn't that true of everything that comes from scribd?
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Slick? Passenger spawns additional processes that require maintenance. I was always envy of Python's mod_wsgi - can it get even better? What don't you like about mod_wsgi?
Why would the current matter? Assuming the boat and oars are all in it?
This is very useful, good work.

I suggest a change in the pricing model to adjust to the most likely use from customers (many would like just a one-shot), something like:

- "Test" (one time): $29

- "Project" (one month): $199

- "Enterprise" (one year): $890

("Enterprise" can be dropped).

All of them can have say, 1000 pages or pages/month and 5 or whatever users, and then there can be a small additional extra per 1000 more pages or 5 more users.
I have the lifestyle of a 20 year old

Sounds like the lifestyle of a 40+ yr old bachelor to me. You have a "long term partner" (presume you mean life-partner not business), you have low living costs, you have disposable income, these are not part of a normal 20-something lifestyle.