skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance is simply the act of diversifying risk and normalizing returns. When you are insured, you are consequently assured (confident) that you will not receive some huge, unexpected cost but that you will rather pay out in manageable portions over time.

It could be across a pool of investors, as you describe in the spice-trading example. Nobody wants to self-insure because of the chance of a huge catastrophe taking out their ship and netting them a huge loss and likely a lifetime of debt.

It could be across a pool of investors, as I describe in the health-insurance example. Nobody wants to self-insure because of the chance of a huge catastrophe putting them in the ER and netting them a huge loss and likely a lifetime of debt.

The reason we leave it to big organizations currently is because they have the resources (data, underwriters) to accurately asses and price risk. They charge a fee to do this. They are allowed a certain amount of extortionate leeway due to government regulation mandating certain minimum amounts of insurance, which you allude to in arguing with companies for reduced rates.

Things we could do to make the system better:

1) Reduce barriers of entry for doctors

2) Stop prescribing unnecessary treatments/prescriptions

3) Better education regarding health choices

4) More taxes/tradeable permit system for companies that pollute bodies or the environment (McDonalds, ADM, Dow Chemical, Bayer)
If I understand it correctly from what your company's website is doing, essentially, you're leveraging the fact that good drivers tend to know good drivers and there could be a social pressure to not affect the group's members.

The function of your company would be similar to that of the traditional insurer except all of the premiums go to the pool for claims and admin instead of also having to share it with shareholders/investors.

What I'm curious is what happens when claims are more than what's already in the pool? My assumption would be that premiums would have to go up to cover the loss so you're banking on the fact that by group selection, claims will be less than the average. And in the event that claims are more than the average, there's probably insurance taken out on that.
After 3 yrs there is only one trend: the total dominance of MongoDB
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Assuming they're not airborne and can't live long away from specific environment(s), this wouldn't be a problem.

Also, there are plenty of other things to hold food that can be used instead of plastic. I doubt sanitation would be the main problem.
> That's too categorical a statement. It depends on a lot of things.

I didn't mean it to be. Of course there are extreme cases where GC pauses are unacceptable on a web server, but those are relatively rare. Even Google mostly uses Java (although they are heavy C++ users, is it for their web servers?).

There are always extreme cases, which is why I asked the question.

> My experience in switching from slow languages to fast languages, even doing the same IO, is that you do tend to see real performance gains unless your page was absolutely trivial. Slow languages really are slow in practice.

Slow vs. fast is not black and white. Is Go slow? Is Lua slow? I Java (on a warmed up JVM) slow?

We're talking about GC vs. non-GC languages here. Do you really see a difference in performance gains?
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* Intel ISEF 2009 Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner - I-Ching Tseng [3]

* Mealworm science project could help environment [4]

I have no access to the Stanford paper - paywalled so I am not sure if paper have credited this 16-year-old girl's discovery at the time.

[3]: https://member.societyforscience.org/document.doc?id=74

[4]: http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=51062&ctNode=427
I would classify djb's redo as being "fun", in large part due to its high implementation terseness and conceptual elegance permitting equivalency with make while ensuring target file atomicity, proper incremental rebuilding and a highly straightforward way of expressing build dependencies/relations based purely on metadata from the file system namespace, all while being persistent and driven solely through the shell.

Build systems can be eye-opening. tup, redo, memoize.py and Bazel all demonstrate different, interesting paradigms.
> interpreted languages really comes into full play.

There are plenty of non-interpreted languages that don't require GC though. When you pick Rust you are picking manual memory management. Does even Google opt for non-GCed languages for their web servers?
The "I'm scientist but I'm cool also because I play guitar" is a really unfortunate message. Specially when you think in all young scientists that need to have a second job (unrelated) to keep their job as university associated teachers. Those things always remember me the Poochie satire in the Simpsons.
I think it started as expenses/spending/saving but has now become rent/other expenses+spending/savings.

Recently I've seen other "rules" emerge which are far heavier on the expenses. Fidelity, for instance, suggests a 50/15/5 split between expenses/retirement savings/short term savings. I think having such high expenses is pretty risky, myself.
In short, I built a search engine for my genome. Im letting the rest of the world use it ;)

I did my PhD work in diabetes genetics. It runs in my family, and Im kinda pissed that its killing off a large fraction of us. The eventual goal is to make this into some kind of communal science effort where people can contribute open source analysis pipelines. I need the right kind of organizational structure however to keep the data safe and centralized but still allow open source research.

So, some kind of platform where algorithms can get in, results can get out, but raw data stays locked up. I want a world where this kind of research happens in the open, and not privately in biomedical corporations.
99% Invisible is almost always a good listen and it's concise, most of the podcasts are 15-20 minutes.
I'm not sure what the article means, but I'd say the way a lot of schools do merit aid is crazy. For example, in law school a few extra points on the LSAT will get you from being rejected to getting a full ride.

And schools are doing that sort of thing entirely because the US News and World Report rankings take into account average LSAT scores. Its just pure gamesmanship. The school doesn't really benefit from having an extra 172 scorer verse a 169. But they'll throw 150k in scholarships at the later.
>There are some proposals to mitigate the risk of Kessler Syndrome by using microsats to recover and deorbit larger bits of debris, and lasers to evaporate smaller particles, but let's ignore these for now: whether or not they work, they don't work unless we start using them before Kessler syndrome kicks in.

Lol, ok then let's ignore proposed solutions.
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> I know ML derived languages well so I'm not a stranger to functional programming. And I'm a pretty competent C programmer, but it seems like Rust is about as complicated as C++, which I find offputting.

Have you used languages with memory safety and no garbage collection before?

I think Rust has no more features than it needs to support its goals, and would be interested to know what features you would like removed.
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http://imgur.com/8lTUOtz

What's with the complete weird error pages?
I don't disagree with anything you said. I think the curse of knowledge and Dunning-Kruger describe the same effect (one in a semi-quantitative way and one in a philosophical way).
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There are many ways to design plans around this nowadays. With Obamacare making health insurance
guaranteed issue (they have to cover you), you really would just try to foot the bill for at most 12 months before you could go on a marketplace insurance plan. While it might be gaming the system, it's now law.

Nowadays, health insurance is really "assurance" sprinkled in with a doctor subscription (as daniel-cussen mentioned). With that in mind, a hypothetical plan design would collect premiums that bundle reserves, a concierge medicine program, like HealthTap, and critical illness insurance, cancer, and/or accident insurance. These insurances only cover specific incidents for the immediate term. Once someone triggers one of these events, you could push them onto the exchange where the larger risk pool would then cover it on an ongoing basis.

Whether or not that would be ethical is up to you...

From an economical standpoint, depending on your area's availability (read urban centers), you could likely put together this entire package for a collective and pay the ACA tax for less than an ACA approved plan.
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I will post it eventually. Need to clean things up first.

On the frontend, there really isn't anything new aside from whats already been featured in the many examples for dc.js:
https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/

What people might benefit from is the python scripts Ive used to processes the CDC data so that it is nicely compressed.
Also, until Stable rust gets custom_derive, the barrier to entry for Serde is too high.
Thanks for your replying. Static typing I won't argue with you, but is static linking important for a web server?

One of the big areas where people choose Go is for cli utilities and static linking is a big reason for that choice. I can see Rust becoming a competitor in this space for the same reason. But for a web server that you control I don't see a huge advantage to static linking.
> Rust has a very powerful type system, and combining that with lifetimes

If you don't count lifetimes, Rust's type system isn't really more powerful or complex than, say, that of Swift. There are no dependent types here. There are no type families. There aren't even higher-kinded type parameters.

> The type system grows more powerful (and more complex) every time I revisit Rust, it seems.

What additions are you referring to?
He did actually say why colleges are getting more expensive much faster than inflation: their state budgets are being cut.
> Except that it did not happen as advertised. Peak oil was advertised as "running out of oil period," not "running out of easy-to-access oil."

Some people have misinterpreted that way, but they are people who didn't understand the basic underlying theory. Peak oil is a production peak driven by running out of cheap-to-extract reserves faster than technology reduces extraction costs, such that the amount of the resource that can be profitably extracted with available technology drops.

It is very different from resource depletion, e.g., running out of all of the underlying resource.
On the other hand, it lets them do things like certificate pinning for themselves in their own browser, no? So, good and bad.
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the loans should not be able to be discharged in bankruptcy court. what the government needs to do is what it did to the medical industry, assign costs to books, classes, and such, that it will reimburse through the loan process and no more. Then require the same costs to be offered to those who are not using government loads.

school costs are not high because you cannot discharge your loans, they are high because colleges know you will try to get the loans and its not the schools responsibility to deliver affordable classes.

simply make it part of federal law, if you accept any federal funds you will adopt the a federally prescribed costs structure for an education. if you want your students to have access to federal funds the same rules also apply
Hi Steve,

I don't have a login on rust-lang yet, but I wanted to add this comment regarding the documentation:

The rust-doc auto generated pages are really confusing. The sidebar generally fails to show where in the hierarchy of the API docs you are (ideally it would highlight the current page you're looking at in the hierarchy and provide the full hierarchy to give you context), the breadcrumbs don't indicate that they are links, the breadcrumbs indicate the type of the entry to the left rather than the right adding semantic confusion, and long pages tend to not have a TOC meaning you have to either search in the page or know the page structure ahead of time (probably mostly an issue for new users).

I feel like those are all simple mechanical issues that could make the auto-generated rust-docs a lot more useful.

It'd also be nice to tie non-auto generated docs into a crate's documentation, but I haven't looked into how rustdoc works so I'd guess that's possible but a lot of people don't do it.
Hm, perhaps.

Though I swear they were well coordinated...
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Not to sound snarky, but uploading my fitbit data IMO just solved the mystery of obesity (at least for me).

I burn ~3200 calories a day and I walk >10 miles a day. This is the 100th percentile of your data and that floors me.

So I have to say that step 1 is getting people to get off their asses and move. It'd be nice if they cut down on red meat and sugar intake while they were at it, but small steps, no?
It's no wonder that boxed mac & cheese, hamburger helper and the like rule the roost at home along with the dollar menu at fast food places

For the vast majority of people, this is convenience, not cost. I can and do make nutritious, tasty, and inexpensive meals. But when I'm tired and not in the mood to cook, chicken nuggets and fish sticks are easier and the kids don't mind them.

As for the other stuff, I have absolutely no idea how you managed to make 3 gallons of soup for $160. I made about 2 gallons of beef stew a few days ago and the total cost would have been under $15 if I bothered to account for all of it.
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Perhaps, but the organization that is providing the work is still likely to want to make, sell and profit from as much crap as it can along with all the other crap makers.
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You (wrongly) assume drug dealers and their surrounding cast are balanced and rational individuals. There's a huge spread, but when you interact with criminals living on the edge of society you should not expect to be safe.
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I'm curious, what happens if you have more than one credit card -- do you get to pick which gets charged?
Nothing in that list makes me think Rust won't ever be a good language for game programming. It reads more like these are the current pain points that need to be addressed, and even with that list there are no real showstoppers there. Most are just nuances that they would like to see addressed.
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Thanks for linking to that GTech MSCS degree. That is perfect for my brother who is disabled and is learning CS on his own via MOOCS.

The UIUC iMBA smells like a scam. MBA's are mostly about the networking.
Well, so this project of mine is in beta, which makes you the 22nd Fitbit user. Not the best sample size :) Im on the higher end too. Not sure how we stand up against the 20 million other fitbit users out there.
Embed CSS on any website! ;-)

How do you specify npm dependencies. Does it "automagically" inspect your `require` statements?