skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jon McLoone really seems to be approaching this topic from a place of frustration—rather than from an overwhelming sense of beauty. I think both mathies and visual designers can agree that 12 is a very beautiful number. In fact the ONLY single thing that makes sense about the imperial system is the division of feet into 12 inches, something mirrored by picas and points in typography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(typography)

This beautiful number is evenly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and itself—a very high percentage (50%!) of the positive integers leading up to and including itself. (To be sure 60 is also a beautiful number but its ratio of factors to non-factors is of course lesser.) I can see you gearing up to argue that 6 is more beautiful, and I get that. I really do. But the ability to evenly divide into quarters is just so ... pleasant :)

Does the ability to divide evenly in several ways serve as a soapbox from which to argue that it is mathematically important to memorize the first 12 numbers of which 12 is a factor? I suppose not. But could we simply do 12 the honor of learning these two extra columns of the multiplication table because it is beautiful? (And really you’re just learning ONE extra column because 11 is such a simpleton. Silly 11.)

Of course dividing things into 12 units can SOUND pleasant as well. Western music is founded on dividing an octave into 12 units—though the exact method of division can take many forms. Here’s just a sample:
https://github.com/stewdio/beep.js/blob/master/beep/Beep.Not...

So I love 12. Join me in loving 12. Together we can praise 12.

Full disclosure, I have been known to previously adore the number 12. On December 12, 2012 I proposed this “Cleaner Grid of Time” beginning with the months in a year:
http://stewd.io/b/2012/12/12/twelve
I have been thinking about Apple and EPEAT for a while now. Why not make MacBooks with removable batteries etc that are not outdated for governments etc that need it?
Looks like KVM has poor support for PCI passthrough for GPU (e.g. OpenGL and CUDA)
My girlfriend gave my family presents. All presents (7+ ?) came in felt bags.
The undefined behavior is there so that the language can be used across heterogeneous systems. 9-bit chars, 36-bit words, 1's complement arithmetic, decimal registers, NULL somewhere other than address 0? You can have all that with standard compliant C.
More likely mom dad and the kid will each have three cars
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You can make anything you want, just don't use any copyrighted work without the copyright-holder's permission.
> "Whether it's catching someone's license plate in traffic, doing something really cool and sharing the first-hand experience with my friends, or recording a pool shot or curling throw so that i can later review it to work on my form."

Only the first use case is actually improved by having the camera on your face rather than your phone.

I'll gladly admit that having the camera already strapped to your face makes it faster to use than something you have to pull out of your pocket - the problem is that this speed has very little marginal benefit 99% of the time, and pulling the phone out of your pocket isn't really that big of a pain in the ass.

I see Glass similarly to how I see most Smart-Things - they solve a problem that most people don't really regard as problems.

It's either strictly inferior to pulling out your phone (via limited/inaccurate/slow input like voice or the swipe-pad), or it's slightly superior but only marginally so. And it's 95/5 the former vs. the latter. Not a compelling case for a product at all.

> "Part of the conditions for developing for glass (at least when i was an explorer) include agreeing to not do facial recognition at all."

I'm aware, which makes the device even more pointless. At least the LinkedIn Recognizer had some semblance of a use case, albeit creepy. I don't think anyone was able to come up with anything mass-market using the camera that was actually useful - niche enterprise uses most certainly, but mainstream mass market?

> "In fact, I would argue that without the camera, There is absolutely no point to google glass. You can do google voice commands and use headphones with any new phone."

I half-agree with you - I don't see much point in Google Glass outside of niche enterprise/industrial context, camera or no. That said it might be the less shitty smartwatch (itself a product that solves a problem most people don't really regard as problems) - I'd prefer a little screen at the corner of my vision over a buzzing vibrating blob hanging off my wrist demanding I raise my arm every time.

So yeah, maybe Google Glass can rival smartwatches in terms of usefulness. Fine company it keeps, then.
The biggest savings of Christmas shopping on Amazon is not having to go to a physical store to do the shopping. No driving around wasting hours in traffic, waiting in lines, and dealing with cranky people. The added benefit is that Amazon also usually has the thing you are looking for too. So if you add up all that time saved, time spent wrapping is really not that bad.
Same here. Texas resident on to our 3rd insurer after BCBS dropped PPO. Twice as much for less coverage with twice the deductible. F*cking Obamacare.
> Stockholm is the second most prolific tech hub in the world on a per capita basis, behind Silicon Valley.

> The Nordic region represents 2pc of global GDP but has accounted for almost 10pc of the world’s billion-dollar exits over the last decade, with more than half of these coming from Sweden,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...
With respect to the third point, I think this needs a source.

People in NYC don't own cars because public transit options are convenient, extensive (at least in Manhattan), and inexpensive.

While Uber/Lyft/etc are convenient and flexible, an unlimited MTA pass is $117/mo. It's hard to imagine Uber's cost dropping so dramatically so as to compete with that.

But maybe you'd argue that they don't need to, because Uber is replacing taxis [1]. I do think the discounted car sharing offerings like uberPOOL and Lyft Line could bring competition to public transit. It'll be interesting to see where their pricing settles in the long run and if/when either experiments with an unlimited rides offering.

1: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-is-taking-millions-...
> It seems like you're saying you can write off any medical expenses which doesn't seem to be true according to the internet

He's referring to an HSA, which comes with triple tax advantages (contribute pre-tax, pay no tax on gains, and pay no tax on usage).
It's very effective to showcase your skills, especially that others can endorse your skills, it just gives credibility to you.

And I can see my classmates on the website too; somehow it updates me on their life which is not possible on Facebook (because you may seem boastful).

Many recruiters have been able to reach me via LinkdIn. I don't treat it as a spam. I feel proud that I don't look for jobs, jobs look for me. Someone from Singapore even contacted me via phone just because of my credentials.
> is attention to such detail a happenstance, is it particular to the Telegraph, or is it just of relevance to the British press in a way that North American text news simply does not reflect

When waiting in the train station in Oxford I could buy bottled water and get a newspaper for free. Every week the newspaper changed. The UK has a lot of newspapers with a large range of reporting styles. I discovered that this is very typical of middle of the pack reporting in the UK (like that found in the Telegraph).
That's just what I'm saying - bypassing censorship is not a primary design feature. Tor's original design was only for low-latency anonymity. Circumvention was initially a side-effect of Tor functioning as a (very slow) proxy for its users, and later dedicated circumvention features were added (unlisted bridges, obfsproxy, etc) to make Tor more durable in hostile environments, for the purpose of making the anonymity features more available, which of course reinforces the side-effect of Tor being useful for circumvention.

Most recently, the rendezvous system and hidden services have been particularly powerful in reducing censorship on the end of content publishers, but this feature was added two years in, it is an area in which Tor performs significantly more poorly than, e.g., i2p, and very few people are actually talking about this when they discuss using Tor for censorship evasion.

I love the Tor project, but people should understand that it is an anonymity system, not an anti-censorship system. When you are facing censorship on your end (the reader's end) and do not require anonymity, just use a SOCKS proxy or a VPN. They're radically faster, often easier to use, and there are a million different options for evading blocking and detection - using DNS queries as a covert channel is a popular one, but the sky's the limit.

If you need to evade censorship on the publisher's end, then this generally comes down to an anonymity problem (the publisher must remain anonymous for their protection) and so onion-routing becomes a reasonable approach. This is relatively uncommon, though, and I believe people should more strongly invest in other projects that originally built around this goal, rather than having it added later. Some of these are more robust against attempts at direct censorship (rather than just punishing the creator) as well, as Tor is relatively centralized.
KVM. SolusVM on top for clients / people who don't want to screw with the command line.
You're making some argument for a restricted address space? Why?
They have an incredible return policy period. I've had items that I bought, completely forgot about, contacted them a year later and they gave me a full refund, shipping and all. Granted, I do have over 200 orders from them in the past year.
Not in one or two clicks away in a way that doesn't take my focus away from what I'm looking at.
Where I'm from (Ontario) there are not very many private elementary or high schools- some, yes, but not many. A good friend of mine went to one, and his parents paid something like $20k per year for him to have that extras opportunity. He's a smart guy, and maybe his schooling was part of that.

But the reason there aren't that many is that the public sector schools are pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good compared to what we see in many American states. Teachers jobs are hard to get because they're paid well (and yes, they have a strong union, but let's not derail this point into an argument about their merits). As a result there are very diminishing returns on private schools for kids, and so they aren't so common.

What this means is that most kids are being given an equal opportunity, the same strong education, at the cost of slightly higher taxes. We accept that, generally.

The choices when it comes to left or right leaning policies come down to how much society in general invests in children's future vs how much each parent must invest in their own child's future. When you push too far to the right, the entirety of the child's future is based on how much the parent can invest- and when that happens, we have inequality of opportunity.
I believe 18-20% was the norm for the past decade or two. Nationwide, I think the growth has supposedly slowed very slightly.

That doesn't make it any easier if you're one of the people who are getting screwed, though.
Samsung refrigerators become self-aware, demand glacial water
This is a small tool which I've created after constant boredom of moving markup from HTML documents into React components, when translating new designs into the app. For more or less complex structure it takes me usually half an hour to translate HTML from document into React components. Now I need less then 5 minutes to figure out components in the markup, annotate them and execute a command to get everything done.
An additional point is that most of the time config-dumps from a running program include ALL configuration settings. 95% of the time it's simply not important - what I actually want to know is "what is not set to its default".

Which means I need the config files.

I'm not against ALL comments - i.e. if something has a non-obvious external issue, that's worth noting. But people argue that the very verbose default comments, for example, should be left in - that's pointless, and potentially hazardous.
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No problem, it was well-written enough that I wouldn't have guessed that! But, in that case, sure, I think you're seeing selective bandwagon-jumping because medium is trendy. I will be curious to see how many people publish on medium just once or twice as an experiment, and then revert to their original platform, versus those who make a permanent change, though.

As I said, I have no hard figures, so this is mostly conjecture on my part, and I'd be interested in actual data...
Well that's not true though, really...Candy Crush is worth $7 billion because that's roughly the amount of money the market is willing to send Candy Crush. That's more or the less the definition of societal value - what society values something at. In this case, it values it at $7 billion.

But that's a distraction. The broader point is that these views aren't mutually incompatible. In the essay PG says it's fine to combat poverty at the expense of wealth - aka higher taxation and de facto wealth redistribution - but attacking income inequality is impossible in a society that allows people to create solutions to problems that lots of people have, because that transfer of value, again by definition, will create income inequality.
Git blame?
The Federal plan banned those things long ago and yet still created a functional market that helped contain costs and boost quality. It still does today. Only, just for Federal employees and Congresscritters.

The real issue is the ACA is a solution from 60 years ago that doesn't meet the problems we have today and has actually made a bad situation worse.
I had an individual PPO plan. Also, my current plan isn't an ACA "marketplace" plan, it's a non-marketplace HMO plan.
I'd be fine with no tipping if I thought the drivers were being paid reasonably but I don't think they are.
Somehow I missed the reference to the follow-up, but I mostly wanted to link this HN discussion to the one from two weeks ago.
Yes, it's funny to me how so many educated adults are in this conversation, when the problem is mostly political.

On one hand, you have a population that believes that no one should be left to die if they show up at a hospital (probably due to their religion and whatnot).

A significant portion of the same population also believes that everyone should stand on their own two legs and that offering healthcare to all via increased taxes is socialism.

Conclusion: We end up with a system where all costs are distorted and people are given this illusion that they buy access to subsidized health care (aka health insurance), but they get to satisfy their egos by pretending to deserve the health insurance they have and they get the satisfaction of knowing that their neighbors aren't getting free handouts from their taxpayer money.

Side benefit for employers: You get a trump card over an employees' mobility because the best value for health plans is via health insurance plans tailored for employers, ideally white collar due to the type of work.
Should I take that to mean that there is no option to get equivalent insurance to what we have in Canada?
Obama said no one is losing their coverage. He didn't lie.
Node/NPM is installed as part of Visual Studio 2015 these days, is it not?

Edit: Note I'm not saying you should install VS2015 just to get Node, but it might help you convincing the powers that be that "hey, Microsoft installs these components as part of VS2015, so it's not that weird, I promise".
Does she have a source for this? Because PG's essay never made that claim, which is why people are accusing her of strawmanning.
Unfortunately I had several things in my Amazon cart which said “order within 8 hours and it arrives December 24” (or whatever), that when I looked back at 3 hours later had lost the guarantee, and now could only promise to arrive by the 26th/27th.

Didn’t turn out to be a big deal, but folks shouldn’t take those guarantees for granted.
Yeah, in my case it isn't though my employer either so there is another reason to avoid it.
How are you going about achieving this?
Or the next lazy person in 1/100th the time.
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Might be a better option to just declare bankruptcy.
UW brain implant could help paralyzed limbs move again
> Similar surgeries in the States have cost my insurance north of twenty grand.

I'm assuming you're referring to the amount your insurance company had to pay, not the amount that you had to pay. If so, keep in mind that the prices insurance companies pay for procedures are not designed to make sense on an individual level[0].

I've explained this in more detail on previous comments, but basically, hospitals lose money on publicly-insured patients (Medicare/Medicaid), and so they have to make up the difference by overcharging private insurers. This is why the sticker price for procedures is so heavily inflated - they're intended to be the starting point for negotiation, and the insurers then negotiate standard rates (still inflated, but less so) for in-network providers.

In other words, the amount that your insurer had to pay for your ECG includes an amortization of the amount of excess cost that your insurer bears in order to (effectively) subsidize the patients on public insurance.

In theory, this should not affect your out-of-pocket costs (though of course, in the end, it all does come out of patients fixed monthly premiums, so you still are paying for it in some way).

Yes, this is unnecessarily complicated, but that's the way billing works.

[0] That is not to say that the amount that the insured patients pay for procedures shouldn't make sense on an individual level - just the amount that the insurer pays on top.
There are a couple more dimensions on recent (more recent than this article) models running M. There's a TEE (~android TPM equivalent) chip involved in encrypting user data, it knows whether your bootloader is locked or not, and it will not yield the keys to locked user data when running in unlocked mode.
I agree with you about the preprocessor example, but I bet that this is just a case of the standard being silly and real implementations are doing the right thing (that is, you will get an error message).

I also agree with you about bounds checking arrays: this is the wrong problem to start from when there is so much lower hanging fruit.

I want to agree with you about unspecified evaluation order, but I worry about possible side effects. If tomorrow someone waved a magic wand and all C compilers have a command line switch --left2rite that forces left-to-right evaluation order, how many programs that currently "work" by accident will suddenly break if this switch is enabled? Maybe it's very few, maybe so few that the change is a net benefit. But are you sure? The programs most likely to break are not the ones with the best test suites. I will say this though: implementing this switch is a good idea anyway, for at least two reasons. New programs can use it (at least if they don't worry about portability to a compiler that doesn't support it). More importantly, we can then start doing experiments to gather data and try to answer the question of how widespread the problem is. Until then, we'll never know.
It's Context menu -> Git -> Show history for function in Jetbrains products.

Gives all the commits with changes inside the function, shows each one side-by-side.
Does Y Combinator increase economic inequality? Maybe not
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Considering what USPS, FedEx, and UPS charge us plebes without a corporate account, I'm surprised you could even ship 5 packages for under $90 ($6*15), let alone all 15 items.

Not to mention the cost of standing in line. I spent 30min at the post office mailing a SINGLE package back in mid-December.. and I thought I was ahead of the christmas game!
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> I think the fixation on "everyone should have good health insurance" is making this dysfunctional situation permanently unfixable.

Nah. Every citizen should have good health insurance that requires no out-of-pocket expenditures.

There should be one plan, available to every citizen. There should be one payer, the Federal Government.

Anything else is a recipe for price-gouging and ballooning costs.
Anyone know what his experience level (with programming in general) was outside of swift prior to starting?

Was this a pro iOS developer learning to do stuff he already knew in another language, or a guy who's never written a line of code in his life before this?
We started on a $1500 indv / $3000 fam deductible PPO in 2014 for about $800/mo for two people. In 2015 the premiums went down maybe 0.5%. In 2016 the premiums have gone up 6% and the out of pocket max went up $500 per person to $4k.

ACA has absolutely been a net positive in my life. I had cancer in 2012 and so it would have been literally impossible for me to get health insurance outside of a group plan. With ACA I've been able to go independent, start my own business, choose my own clients, and fully control my destiny.
Don't miss it too much, my BCBS of MN policy just went up 45% year-over-year. It's pretty good coverage, but it's still nearly $10k/year just for the premium for my wife and I.

Still, I was also one of those pre-existing conditions that simply could not buy any insurance before the ACA.
The US government was spending 25% more on healthcare, pre-ACA, and with less comprehensive healthcare than Canada. Actual healthcare cost overall (on average) is roughly double for all of the year's listed in the chart.
> In my opinion the public option wouldn't have cost us much ...

If you look at the margins the insurers are using (the maximum a public option might be cheaper), they're not much. 10% is rare. Given government inefficiency, I'd expect a public option to have been at least as expensive, and probably more expensive.

So why would a public option be cheaper ?
And including ANY comment in code - as in, mixing code and comments in the same file - means that your workflow doesn't support external documentation keyed to branches, hashes, filenames, and line numbers.

Likewise, naming variables, functions, classes, and continuously typing out the same name over and over again means that your language and IDE is not rich enough to contain pronouns, making you have to type tediously instead of something even sightly more natural.

Why don't we improve languages so that they have pronouns for the stuff you're doing right there? Why don't comments get linked to line numbers in some external layer? And why would anyone commit commnented-out code to a repository?

The only answer to all of the above is that we are living in 2015 and not some future year. you work with what you have.
There is also http://pen.io/
~7% ($350)
"I shopped for Christmas on Amazon, it was kind of a pain. I had to ship it all to myself, wrap it, put on gift notes and then pack it all up and ship it all to my family across the country."

I'm struggling to understand how that is any more of a pain than trawling around town to find appropriate gifts, then completing those very same steps. And with Amazon, you at least have the option of their (admittedly overpriced and ugly) gift wrap.
> Yeah, it's pretty crappy in NC.

That's because your state is run by people who want desperately for the ACA to fail, and so they are intentionally making it as crappy as they can.