skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW as of 2015 California requires there be "primary care network providers with sufficient capacity to accept covered persons
within 30 minutes or 15 miles of each covered person's residence or workplace", specialists within 60 minutes or 30 miles, and that there be sufficient capacity for doctors within those limits to accept new patients[1].

Getting that enforced isn't easy, but that situation not only shouldn't happen but should also be grounds for regulatory action against the insurer.

[1] http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/20...
It's a tough market for a startup. I've worked for state .gov, and probably oversaw about $20M-50M in purchases annually.

Some downsides:

-Our procurement cycles are very long, sometimes as long as a year.

-Procurement contract vehicles are a horror show. The contract terms and conditions are often not negotiable, and may impact your ability to get credit, etc.

-You may find difficult to deal with services terms imposed by some procurement regime.

-If you don't have a field sales force, you'll probably need lobbyists to get meetings.

-You'll need to deal with all manner of crazy compliance regimes. HIPPA, FERPA, IRS 1075, CJIS, etc. Plus local policy.

-If you "partner" with the IBM/Unisys/Dell/EMCs of the world, you may find yourself screwed holding recievables for the big vendor, used as a straw man by the vendor sales team, forced to use high cost/low quality consultants from the big vendor, or otherwise messed with.

On the upside, .gov is usually terrible at negotiations, and they look at spending differently than commercial customers. You can make a fortune selling stuff, but you're not going to do it with traditional SaaS business models. You need to invest substantial time, energy and dollars into the pre-sales process.
Google Play Music and Youtube Gaming are two of the larger ones.
their commenting system is absolutely horrible.
In many cases that's true. Medical debt is the cause of most personal bankruptcies in the US. But it's not a good option either, so better to avoid both if you can. If you have substantial savings then you'd stand to lose those to your creditors in bankruptcy. If you have no savings and don't plan on taking out any loans for a long time then it might be a decent option.
Like https://github.com/pidu/git-timemachine for emacs?
We debated a 'trial' or take home work as part of our process after reading similar blogs touting their success.
Then we talked to our most talented engineers about how they would receive such a challenge and almost all said they would be put off by the notion of doing either free work or low paid work.
I myself feel like it's a chance for me to see if I even want to work at the company... but for many the mere suggestion can answer that question for them...
Please stop using HN to beat the same ideological dead hobby-horses over and over again. It is not what this site is for.

Please also edit the incivility out of your comments. There's no need for a nasty swipe like "Try again."
ML stands for machine learning, correct?
yep. There's nothing wrong with making it easier for the next person. Swift will be a great language for a lot of people.

Btw, I'm putting some notes online too:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift_cookbook.html
Fine, so keep those aspects. There still remains plenty of relatively pointless undefined behavior. For instance, is the following well defined?

int f(int* p, int* q){return ++p + ++q;}

It depends! It depends on whether p == q. If so, it is not defined, and on high optimization levels, compilers will tend to give the wrong answer, but on low levels not so much. I bet a lot of people (but probably not all) would be willing to take the speed hit so that this becomes well defined, as it is in most other languages. (Note: I haven't fact checked anything I wrote here; no doubt some language lawyer will correct me if I'm wrong.)
Minor nitpick: I think you mean

now = datetime.datetime.utcnow # no parentheses

More generally, I think the strongest argument for using "from" is when you're dealing with redundant "foo.foo.bar" names. Would you really be confused at seeing "datetime.utcnow()" instead of "datetime.datetime.utcnow()"?
Suave v1.0.0 released (F# Web development library)
This is pretty neat. As a professional iOS developer who loves Obj-C (yeh omg), this is a good set of projects/tutorials to compete step by step. I'd suggest cleaning up your code and posting on github. It'll be a great way for people to reference and even possibly show your future employers.
I've run barebones hypervisors in production for years; KVM is head and shoulders above everything else I've tried. libvirt and virsh provide a reasonably nice interface if you don't need web-based tooling, and of course config management makes everything a lot easier to maintain. I haven't used salt, but if it has mature tooling for what you need, KVM would be a no-brainer for me.
Yeah - at the moment we don't have VS2015, but as long as that particular node.exe is signed with an MS certificiate it'll run fine.
I have panic disorder and have sometimes stayed up all night panicking (sucks) - I tried everything and nothing worked as well as meditation, which has basically cured this for me
When you think about it, the two are really the same thing. A lot of people (some 15 million) got coverage, and they're not paying for it, you are.
I agree. While I understand that Apple's philosophy of controlling the entirety of the user experience is somewhat sacred territory, they have already violated it several times. First ITunes on Windows which resulted in a huge windfall and introduced non-tech people to Apple's software, and then again (although this is more in the opinion realm) when they loosened restrictions on Iphone software.

If they made a modular, powerful, and somewhat affordable MacBook, I just think it would sell like hotcakes.
It's really the biggest saving of shopping online, period. I would pay a great deal more to not have to stand in a line and get stuck behind someone pulling out coupons and a checkbook and doing a price check at a checkout aisle in a store.

Physical stores can't even implement the obviously better solution of getting everyone in one queue, and then directing them to the next open register (except for TJ Maxx and Marshalls and a couple others)
Multiply that "relatively safe bet" times the millions of times this would happen if Wikipedia relaxed their stance.
I opted to have Amazon gift wrap and ship directly to my sister this year. The surprise was that what she opened was not what I ordered. I'm guessing they have a gift wrap station and once it was wrapped, it looked just like the other gifts, so the wrong one got put into the shipping box to my sister.

The return process does not handle this well.
The 13" Air can often be had for $799 which makes it that much more appealing.

I have an i7 2012 13" Pro loaded up with 8GB of RAM and 512GB SSD. It's a pretty potent machine but the screen resolution holds it back somewhat - I wish they had put a 1440x900 screen in it like the Air.
All great tips, except I still feel could write docstings in markdown.

Is there a way to use Sphinx but with markdown?
I've been wanting to migrate my (self-hosted) WordPress sites to something that generates static pages (based off of my own templates). I likely won't ever do it, though, simply due to the time required to convert the hundreds of posts/articles I've previously written.

IIRC, Medium has an API which should make moving to a different platform easier, should one choose to do that in the future. One would certainly feel less "locked in" and be more willing to try such a platform if the cost of moving was so low.
but see, that's not "insurance"
The Pew study looks at household income. I guess that is one way to look at it, but it never struck me as a reasonable model. When you look at wages, the story is far more concerning. Focusing on wages surfaces the fact that households have broadly gone from one income to two since the 70's. Modeling based on household income understands the depressing of wages as a loss of leisure time. I'm not saying it's wrong, just an odd perspective.
Here's a bunch of animation articles written within the past 6 months:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?q=animation&age=180

It's actually not that difficult on iOS.
LoRa has long range but throughputs is extremely low. It is useful for some applications but not for all.
Did they not record the bzr commit IDs in the Git commit messages during the conversion? If they did, finding a Git commit that corresponds to a bzr commit ID should be trivial.
Some registrars offer an API to their own (free) DNS service which makes it possible to update records automagically. An example of such is Gandi (https://gandi.net), which also happens to be the one you use (according to whois). This way you're free to do any sort of DNS trickery, including simple dynamic updates through a cron job on the router. Given that you already have a domain with them and use the Gandi name servers it should be easy to set up something to do just what you want. You'll need to get an API key first, for more info check http://www.gandi.net/domain/api
Bleichenbacher signature forgery in Python-RSA
> That's the kind of smug naivete that makes young programmers so insufferable.

That is really toxic language. It's important to call out bad practices where they exist. Not having good comments and test cases for intended behavior is a bad practice. Yes, in the real world, plenty of code gets shipped without adhering to these practices, but it's really unfortunate to see someone talked down on for showing where good practices could have prevented the current circumstances. AFAIK, neither of you have personally written those lines of code, so why is ego getting in the way here?
Yahoo Shuts Down Its Video Portal
Isn't one for LoRaWAN specifically, but there are other options like Weightless-W (which doesn't have any hardware released for it yet).
Is there some context to this? I am assuming it's a parody of some then-current controversy?

Edit: Appears to be a parody of Comodo issuing rogue certs. More - http://www.scmagazine.com/experts-weigh-in-on-comodo-ssl-cer...
It is a way to measure if something is really expensive.

Another way to look at it is that $90 is about a regular night out. The choice is between investing 1 evening of your time to save for 1 night out later, or instead invest nothing but lose one night out that you need to spend in front of the TV.

YMMV, but probably the tipping point in GP specific situation is that he also had to post them all by himself, which is a huge pain and is probably alone worth it to have amazon do it.
> (overpriced and ugly)

My parents bought my daughter a present and got the gift wrapping option and it was this amazing blue velvet gift sack. We saved it so we can use it again it was so nice. In fact, for the $6 my parents paid, we couldn't get a bag that nice ourselves.

I guess my point is, YMMV.
>State control

It took me a long time to figure that was the point and it still kind of seems you could write in good old plain javascript:

x = "some state"

if (you want to change it) { x = "some other state"

DrawThingOneThatDependsOnx()

DrawThingTwoThatDependsOnx()}

Rather than spending days learning the tons of bloat, tools and tech that effectively does that for you under the hood anyway?

(Plus with vanilla js running up to 40x faster than React https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9824884 apparently)
I agree that it's a good thing, I just mean to play devil's advocate above. I am afraid they'll have a harder time to attract players to the FOSS version due to the availability on Steam. And especially for RTS games, multiplayer community health/size is vital to growth.
ugh, meatbag is a pop culture reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-1ry9zMi4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYMnimTvt3M
Why would you stand in line at the post office to ship something? Buy and print the labels at home using something like Paypal's shipping url[0] if you don't have any idea about the weight use flat rate boxes. Fedex has a similar flat rate box shipping with their "OneRate" rates. Then all you are doing at the shipping place is dropping packages off so there is no line waiting.

[0] https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now
.. and you're stuck forever in the spacemacs layers abstraction, per my comment above. (Try installing a package from Melpa)
13 inch is SMALL. Does a MBP exist with the same features (user-accessible disk/ram/battery/optical) in the 15in range?
However, the first version has a race condition. The file might not exist between the if-statement check and the call to os.remove.
This is really overkill. When I'm writing C, it's generally for one of two reasons:

1. Interoperability code with some library or the OS.

2. C as the closest thing to a portable assembler there is (e.g. to implement something like the Ruby interpreter).

What I need for this isn't perfect safety; it's the ability to reason with some confidence about the code I'm writing (I may want to be able to rely on code review by merely mortal programmers or create my own tools to enforce this). If I wanted a safe, expressive language, I wouldn't use C in the first place.

But right now even something as simple as a malloc implementation is riddled with traps even for reasonably skilled programmers. The Linux kernel uses -fno-strict-overflow and the FreeBSD kernel uses -fwrapv because the price to be paid by enabling the undefined behavior of -fstrict-overflow was too high.
They didn't get rid of catastrophic plans, they just made them completely unusable. You need a hardship exemption and be < 30 to qualify for one, but they aren't eligible for subsidies.
Comparing to my "free market" insurance before the ACA was passed, I had much more coverage (it was real insurance: eg: pay in advance against a risk, rather than covering pre-existing conditions which violates the definition of insurance, since you're not pooling money against risk, but paying for current liabilities.) ..... and not only did I have more coverage, but my deductibles were 1/5th what they are now and the costs were 1/5th as well.

Effectively obamacare is 25X more expensive for me (and this is comparing plans in two different states since I recently moved.)

AND! On top of that-- rather than just getting insurance when I needed it (Eg: you just sign up and buy it) you have to have enrollment periods and all kinds of arbitrary limitations and a 60 minute application process on a "marketplace" that really gives you minimal information about the plans, and demands to know far more about you than you really ever had to give up before to get insurance.

One thing about insurance-- and Warren Buffett has made a lot of money on this-- is that they invested the proceeds between when they were paid premiums and had to pay out claims-- and so insurers paid out more than %100 of their premiums, because some of the investment returns would be spent on claims. This allowed them to keep premiums low, and they still made a profit.

Obamacare basically made this illegal because now instead of selling insurance (or good insurance which was demonized as "cadillac plans" during the "Debate") you're selling "programs" -- so the incentive is to not buy until you get injured then sign up for insurance (and just claim you have a life change to get around the limited enrollment periods.)
Which means the economics are on its ear and its completely unsustainable.
And when it totally collapses-- I predict that people will be claiming its because "insurance companies are too greedy"

After all, they complained about "greed" when insurance companies were paying out MORE in claims than they were getting in premiums (can you name any government program that has provided more benefits than it costs-- effectively negative overhead? Hell, as I understand it welfare spends %75 of its budget on overhead and only distributes %25 as benefits.)
No matter how much government screws up this situation, they will blame industry and use the utter failure as "proof" that they need even more power (and even more intrusions into our lives) and even more money to "fix" it.

None of this is a surprise- it was all predicted by those opposing the ACA.

Fortunately, the asian countries are developing first rate hospitals and medical tourism industry.

The only question is, will I be able to accumulate enough to retire to Thailand or somewhere before I get hit with a serious medical condition? Looking at how things have turned out in other countries (eg: New Zealand where if you're "old" you're just not covered and you have to leave the country for basic things like dialysis, even though there are dialysis machines in the country)... I've got a ticking clock.
This is about minimizing power-per-range, not maximizing range itself. IoT devices have very local utility, one assumes.

I do like the idea of regular laptop-and-tablet Wifi having better range. But in dense environments, that might be an anti-feature: more interference from more (distant) neighbors. Suburban/rural might be the best use case.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838658

Did you really not see this on the front page!?
I still had to pay my $2500 deductible on the $2600 ECG, so the insurance company didn't worry about haggling them too much.

If you're young, relatively healthy, non-clumsy, male, and childless, chances are you might not go to the doctor once in a year, so it'd be a gamble, but you might very well statistically be better off pocketing the insurance premiums.

Better yet, put on a furry suit, bark convincingly, and go to a vet if you need some common medications or procedures that are mind-bogglingly expensive when prescribed for humans.
> Once you have done the math, you really understand the problem, but that is a very steep mountain to climb.

s/really/actually/

And yes, it is hard, but it actually works.
retroffiting probably wouldnt work due to layoffs compensation, severance package etc. Instead they will shut whole warehouses and replace them with cheaper ones. They already did that in Europe (moved from Germany to Poland)
Where do you live? I didn't realize places that remote still existed! (Only partially joking)
s/compress/compile/;
I hereby declare "woo only, soon only, double aggrandizingly you bodly - rigatoni" all rights reserved. I am the author of this. I reserve all rights to this phrase forevermore.
This announcement is just a courtesy heads-up to people who are waiting so they can arrange their schedules. The actual announcement is Wednesday. They didn't announce the price because then people would write news articles about it and they want to be able to do their marketing pitch at the same time and convert the buzz into preorders.
The reason nobody could sell you insurance with your pre-existing condition before is that regulations prevented making plans for conditions. EG: You couldn't make a national diabetes insurance plan for people with diabetes (and the economies of scale that go along with a pool of all people with diabetes) because it was effectively illegal.

If the ACA had merely fixed that, then your premiums would be going down more and you'd be getting better insurance.
When a little bit of socialism fails, why is the answer always more socialism?
Not in this context. It's an old functional programming language that influences a whole family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
Thats what we are from robots perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXvVVCr_6P8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-1ry9zMi4o
Hiding in plain sight.

The program names on the website are links to the source code, the task names are links to measurements for the task, etc etc

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/measurements.ph...
The short version of this is that there is a lot of money to be made from enterprises by selling them outdated technology because enterprises are almost always slow to adopt new technology. That's how Dell and Microsoft Sharepoint still make a lot of money.

It's not necessarily a bad thing when taking into account the economics of training IT personnel and the added costs of supporting cutting edge technologies. But I don't think many individual buyers would argue that the 2012 MBP is a better computer in pretty much any way than a 2015 MBP with Retina display.
>You could... return it? I thought they were very clear it wasn't refundable and there were some discussions in the forums about it with some negative quotes from the customer support...

You're right, but I spoke with support and made my case and since it had been such a short time since I bought it, they went ahead and did the refund.

>Careful, they already said they support linux with the dk2 and we know how that went. Don't rely on what they say they "are going to do". Only buy it when they demonstrate complete and fully working linux support, not earlier.

Sorry about my wording. I'm not going to buy it until there is actual support that I can actually use at the moment I open the box.
I laughed at this harder than I should have.

It's funny because it's true.
Cars could make pit stops to get cleaned while the owners are not using them.
Ev Williams (founder of Medium, Twitter, and Blogger) is well-connected in the tech and startup communities due to his past companies, so he was probably able to easily convince a lot of famous tech/startup people to switch. Anyone can build a slick new blogging platform (and many have) - only Ev (and others in a similar position of privilege) can actually jumpstart its adoption among the tech elite.

TL;DR: success begets success
Although cleaning filters and a standard parser works well too.
Show HN: NPM bundle-dependencies program
It's cool.. but I'm just not that impressed! People have been making wings that have rather tremendous flight times and top speeds for years... coupled with a Pixhawk or an Eagle Tree vector and you have something that will easily out perform. However this is a nice off the shelf solution.
Paul Graham Doesn't Write Essays
No, the 15" only comes in retina/ssd/no dvd drive model, the 15/17 inch dvd drive models were phased out in 2011-2012
Glad I checked first, thanks for the input guys :)
It varies significantly by state, but existing public options are similarly priced or cheaper in terms of cost per person than private healthcare.

https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
Huh? Citation?

There's also the time stamp. When the bug was submitted, it was 4:31 AM in Alabama, but 10:31 AM in Greenwich.
What was the lifetime cap on your pre-ACA insurance? Could you get it if you had been sick before applying?

Here's a sadly common scenario: you have a baby born prematurely and they end up in NICU for a month because of a heart condition. They exceed their lifetime cap after two weeks because NICU has always been atrociously expensive. Because they have a heart condition, they are never able to get insurance on their own.

Basically, your pre-ACA insurance was an implied one-shot deal. You have one chance to get sick and get better, because after that you'll never have insurance again.
Silicon Valley-style coding boot camps taking off in Australia
Anybody want to figure out the year of this?
There are plenty of places like that. I go to school in upstate NY and while I live in a decent sized town, there are plenty of towns inbetween there and NYC that are pretty barebones.
You just literally described trains and buses. Don't assume the form of the vehicle remains the intimate 3-across sedan style.