skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My premiums have gotten lower (in one case they were completely covered by my employer). My father is going through some very expensive medical care right now for cheap and my mother has insurance for the first time in more than a decade. What has gone up is my providers increasing their charges with the final negotiated price being something like 50% higher than before.
We did just expand the address space, is my point. The entire IPv4 range is mapped into IPv6 on a prefix - which is what you're suggesting. IPv4 can be represented in IPv6 as ::ffff:192.0.2.128 for example.

My whole point is that its irrelevant what we did or didn't do, because hardware routers are not software reconfigurable. Whether you expand the address space a little or a lot is irrelevant, because it will cost exactly the same to replace that hardware - in which case, if you have to expand the address space you should expand it by the most you possibly can in order to ensure you don't ever have to replace those routers again.
Largely agree, but since when was PG merely "bourgeois"?
Most readers get access through a library or their place of work (usually those involved with scientific industries). I don't know if I've ever heard from anyone paying those prices for a single article. If you went to a 4 year college at some point you might want to check if your login to the library still works. You can search for the article there to read it.
>Except that I can't buy it

Microchip sells radios that do LoRa: http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/technology/person...

They're available on mouser for ~$17: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microchip/RN2483-I-RM095...

>it doesn't seem to have a stack, and doesn't have any open implementations to examine.

Here's the source code for a development board with LoRa: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/LoRaMotePack...
Another Peter-Schiff-was-right moment.
So the Amazon Underground tracking requires location tracking as well? If it was just usage tracking I don't see an issue with it seeing as Amazon Underground is meant to be optional and you get free apps in return.
I agree totally - there are very valuable insights one can gain in any "unskilled" labor context that will serve them well throughout the career: time discipline, customer/public relations, personnel management (if you become a manager) and its pitfalls, inventory, having one's limits tested, having one's patience tested, having one's sanity tested...

When I was in high school, most of my peers had such jobs. Nowadays, most college students (or even recent graduates) I know have little or no wage work experience. It's not a good thing, IMHO, and not just because it worsens student debt.
I'd end up paying even more for everyone else who isn't paying.

You're neglecting the fact that unless you get hit by the proverbial bus, you will eventually have one or more very expensive medical conditions, just like those freeloaders you're being forced to pay for now.

The whole idea of selling "insurance" in a market where you know that everyone is eventually going to file expensive claims is just stupid. No other insurance market works that way, nor could it.
Fair point, and as we can see he has learned a lot from the experience which he might not have in New York City.
The plan I have currently has a $6k deductible for my family, for in-network care - $10k outside of network. This would not bankrupt us currently, no, but it would have as recently as a few months ago, and almost all other times in my life.
In 2010, 80.7% of Americans live in an areas with an overall population density of 2,534 people per square mile [1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-cities-population-idUSL2E...
... [On] the Federal level, our expectation is that we will see the changes start to appear 5 years from now. ...

Can you share the evidence or reasoning on this particular point? I would expect that reforming the federal contracting system would require major legislative and organizational changes ... and I simply don't see that happening with the current Congress or slate of presidential candidates.
Let me quote from http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html:

> when I hear people saying that economic inequality is bad and should be eliminated, I feel rather like a wild animal overhearing a conversation between hunters.

Nobody is arguing "inequality is bad and should be eliminated". People are arguing that inequality has increased too much and should be dialed back. The question is how (and what is a more reasonable level).

> I'm all for shutting down the crooked ways to get rich. But that won't eliminate economic inequality,

Ditto

> And while it would probably be a good thing for the world if people who wanted to get rich switched from playing zero-sum games to creating wealth, that would not only not eliminate economic inequality,

Ditto

> You can't end economic inequality without preventing people from getting rich, and you can't do that without preventing them from starting startups.

The policy debate is not and never was about "ending inequality". It is to find a different level. And the precise reason people are not advocating for "eliminating inequality" is incentives.

As you can see: Strawman. Strawman. Strawman. All the way. Sorry.
Location: Seattle, WA (for the month), Moscow, Russia (after).

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I won't be able to get to tinkering with this for a couple weeks, but if it does what it says it does, I've been wanting almost exactly this for a very long time. Thanks for getting it out there.
Are you sure HTTPS counts? That seems insane to me.
> "that's why you need to take the market out of it and have single payer." It's a consistent argument only if you believe that you'd be better off with single payer.

No, it's a consistent argument for those who think beyond themselves; it's good for society as a whole. One doesn't have to believe one personally benefits, that's now how liberals work.

> A good market would be one where you paid your doctor

A good market for healthcare is one where it isn't a market, but a social good provided to everyone, like other civilized countries do. The market is not the correct answer to every question of how to distribute goods and services.
Looks very similar to: http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/ (http://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/PlatypusDocumentation.h...)

BitBar focuses on just the Menu Bar use case though, and does a more polished job than Platypus.
isn't youtube's content mostly if not all freely accessible already? the premium portion can be hosted as ssl-only, what about the rest 99% of the content that is public already, why do we need care about hijacking in this case?
The driverless car that you rent will make the fixed costs of using a car go to zero but increase the marginal costs of driving (because there's a middle-man now). However, Jevon's Paradox crucially depends on the marginal cost decreasing, so I don't think Jevon's Paradox applies in this case.
Diversity Policies Don’t Help Women, Minorities, Make White Men Feel Threatened
Were you using the built in web capabilities or embedding a library to handle the encryption? In theory Apple's methods for accessing HTTPS should be safe while embedding OpenSSL would not be (unless you linked to a shared object they deployed).
I live in a region whose wealth largely derives from oil. Everyone's answer to the low price of oil is to double down on oil (despite the fact we're one of the highest cost producers in the world, and most firms are losing money on every barrel at these prices). It would be comical if we weren't in the worst local recession in 30 years...
Having done my time in health care startups with an emphasis on billing and reimbursement flow, let me say that I would have been overjoyed to have been put out of business by single payer (or by a U.S. version that, like Medicare, would be "single, multiple private administrators"). Medical billing is just an utterly perverse environment to deal with, and the Feds were the only player who would consistently tell you exactly what to bill, how to bill, and why to bill it that way.
I read the original (andrewxhill's) post as making a point analogous to the "fork in the road" example: it's fine to maintain a full posterior on ideas, but if you need to choose, you should put in the effort to choose the best idea, not blindly try to merge them into a single idea that might combine the worst of both worlds. The latter would be like searching the forest between the two roads instead of just choosing a branch. Under this reading the point seems quite sensible to me.

You seem to have read the post quite differently, in a way that causes it to seem totally wrong.

I actually do think it's just a fact that "average" in both colloquial and mathematical usage means something like "to collapse multiple values to a single typical value" (even Bayesian model averaging collapses a distribution over probabilities into a single probability). But even if it were genuinely ambiguous what andrewxhill meant, you generally get a lot more out of a post by choosing the reading that allows it to be insightful over the reading the causes it to be nonsensical.
You need to know how you respond to the easy stuff first. This guy jumped right into the deep end without looking.

He spoke to a previous user, consulted a doctor, and took it as part of a test by an Oxbridge Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology with "an international reputation in the fields of cognitive psychopharmacology, neuroethics" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Sahakian ].

That is some level of 'looking'.
Unfettered capitalism has problems. Proponents like it's clean, easy models, but capitalism needs restraints. To blindly claim otherwise at this time in history is foolish and shows one is in a state of denial.

They're just skilled opportunists; our genetic inheritance from our reptilian cousins.

More likely from our primate ancestors, don't you think?
Holy crap that is a bureaucratic nightmare. Why does encryption even need to be registered in the first place? I don't see any point beyond the holdover of 'encryption is munitions' which is a pile of crap in the first place.
Probably a coincidence. I only found out about virtual-dom after I released Mithril.
If it were just an editor I would agree, but the #1 killer app, org-mode, puts it in a different class of application.
Ask HN: Computational Chemistry Program Exchange
Hello Hacker News. I am looking for the computational chemistry/physics codes that were freely distributed through the Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange (see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bk-2013-1122.ch008). At one point, these programs were available for anonymous FTP download but have since vanished from the web. Any help is much appreciated!
I disagree. KVM has the best and most flexible passthough support that I've used.

Successfully running Windows 10 on top of Arch, with my GTX 970 passed though. Works without a hitch.
When I first started reading about American health care being a foreigner I saw a persistent argument that in single-payer system "people will die in lines".
Yet here in the United States the lines in medical institutions are greater than anything I've seen abroad, open slot for appointment with a doctor in one month is a usual deal.

And why can't I buy antibiotics without a prescription. Don't I have a right to heal myself?
What are you saying PG is confusing then? He is talking about economic inequality caused by technology.

Are you saying that technology can't cause extreme economic inequality? Comparing a Wal-mart worker vs. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Paul Graham sounds like extreme economic inequality by your definition.

I think you are missing exactly the point of the post, while accusing him of being confused.
You can use google to search amazon. It works pretty well imo.
> This drives me nuts. The problem is never giving money to people. Technological progress has the same effect. The problem is taking it away from others!

If automation is driving people out of work, I need not take anything from you to give to others.

Quite the contrary, you yourself will have nothing of value to "take" in the long term. What technology giveth, it taketh away.
Thank you! This explains so much. I hope the Android experience gets better but I fear my next phone will have an Apple logo on it.
You're arguing for the hypothesis that memorizing up to 10 * 10 is going to make a difference versus memorizing up to 12 * 12.

In business? In the STEM fields?
Is there a demo app for this?
If anyone is new to both frameworks Angular 2 or React; I would prefer React. I have learned React in a day. I can use my existing knowledge of js in React (for, if etc), whereas in angular learning those directives is still a pain (in Angular 2 as well).

I love the fact how each component in React can be composed! Its just beauty!
I needed a Mac to write iPhone apps using XCode. I found a 101 on eBay for about $750; 256GB SSD plus 4GB memory; upgraded to 16GB memory for $80. The 101 was perfect for what I wanted.
Being stuck on 16:9 is bad enough, but worst of all was the move away from the "7-row" keyboard. The island ("chicklet") Thinkpad keyboard is better than other OEMs versions of same, and of course, I won't leave home without a Trackpoint.

But every day since my x201s died—replaced by an x230 tablet—I miss the seventh row. ScrollLock and Pause|Break are not legacy controls, and I get blocked every day when I reach for those keys, and as they say, "There they were: gone![1]"

Oh, and I see no reason why all the pro-line Thinkpads (X,T) don't support 32GB, minimum.

Lenovo seems to be getting the Thinkpad brand back on track, but for my money it's not happening quickly enough.

[1] Possibly from character, Ed, on Northern Exposure
Makes me think that there could be a business in making a snap-in case for the 12" MacBook to add an optical drive, extra battery, Ethernet, etc.
I have lived in a number of countries during my career and I have personally experienced two overseas socialist healthcare systems in my life, one third world and first world.

In the third world country, I had to have a very niche test that could only be done at the largest hospital in the city, a government owned hospital. It was a terrible experience. The corridors were packed with sick people sitting and waiting on the floor, it was hot and the ventilation was poor. I had to wait for hours to be seen while hoping I would not catch some disease while feeling incredibly sad for those around me that who must endure that hell regularly while for me it was just a once off.

In contrast, in the first world, the hospital care was just as good as the USA but without dealing with a billing department(can't remember why I was there, might have just been to see a physician for a cough). But from what I was told by a doctor and nurse I befriended while I was in the country, everything was done on a government budget. You want an MRI? If you don't have insurance, the expense comes out of the physicians allocated budget. What happens if the doc has expended the budget? You wait until the next budgetary cycle. Want a procedure done (that is deemed non-urgent)? Its free, but you need to wait months until there is space for you. Non-urgent includes cancer that won't kill you ... a friend's mother waited 6 months to get her stomach cancer removed. She was uninsured and it was free. Good deal (the surgery was something like 12 hours long with multiple surgeons working in shifts!) but they knew that if probabilities did not work in her favor, the cancer might have spread before they could remove it. They decided it was not worth selling the house and other assets to pay for private surgery. It was a good call in retrospect, but if it were my mother, I would have sold my house.

Another friend had a benign brain tumor. The doc was very reluctant to send him for an MRI. Three months later he got one. They instantly sent him for brain surgery. Removed it (for free!). But had it been malignant and spread, the time it took for the doctor to decide to use the MRI might have killed him.

The doctor friend I mentioned above, would tell me government bureaucrats would fight him on his spending, analyzing each of his patients and second-guessing his expenses. He hated them with a passion.

I remember only reading complaints about the UK system until ACA began to be debated, then suddenly it was the benchmark of great healthcare.

tldr; socialized medicine is great, and I would definitely support it, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's all that great. The upper-half of the middle class would still take private insurance and would still prefer being seen at private hospitals where they get the best care no expense (or bureaucrat) spared.
Likewise - I wanted to get my mother a new computer - (a NUC PC, SSD, Memory, HD, Anti-Static Strap, CD Drive, USB Keyboard).

I was able to get everything I wanted shipped in 4 days to 100 Mile House British Columbia, including Clearing Customs, from amazon.com, not even amazon.ca. No worries about carrying packages while traveling, was able to specify everything exactly as I wanted.

There is zero chance I would have been able to do something exactly like that in the local computer shop (The Source), and probably wouldn't have been able to do it in Vancouver at the large computer retailers.
Linode under DDOS attack again
Yeah, I'd like to see this answered too. If OP was just using the built in WebKit browser this seems to have all been a big misinterpretation of the rules. If they did indeed roll their own browser with HTTPS, why?

The post is a very good guide to navigating that bureaucratic process either way though.
Video: "the drug is definitely working because I've been lying in bed for an hour, and I just can't get to sleep."

An hour?? Amateur. It takes me 2-4 hours every night to fall asleep, no matter how tired I am when I lay down. And then I wake up 3-4 hours later, and then fall asleep again after another 30 or so minutes. Been that way for as long as I can remember.

So yeah, I'm always tired during the day. Was starting to affect job performance, and things to help sleep (eg melatonin, no blue light or caffeine before bed, etc) weren't helping. So I tried modafinil myself, as well as armodafinil. The latter's much nicer. But neither are any kind of miracle drug.

I don't get any headaches from it, but I do notice my palms sweat a lot more, my appetite decreases a bit, my joint paints are amplified significantly, and it's easier to stay awake. But it's not like being wide awake. It's still clear that I'm mentally worn out. I'm not really sure if this is an atypical result, but I can't really see how this is a very good "study drug" given that. It is a boost, definitely, but it's a very tiny one, like ~10-15%.

I also build up a tolerance surprisingly fast. I can't use it more than two days in a week. Thankfully, the tolerance fades pretty quickly as well.

Also, to anyone who tries it, be sure you stay away from caffeinated beverages while on it. This stuff seems to amplify caffeine's effects or something, and it's quite unpleasant. A cop of coffee plus 200mg of modafinil's about equivalent to taking two caffeine tablets for me.

Of course, you probably won't be able to get it. Doctors are incredibly stingy with prescribing this, and even if they do, the US brands are around $1000 - $1300 per month.
Yes, there are numerous studies.
First, model averaging is a bit different than when you describe it as (at least in my reading, but maybe you mean "single probability" differently than I read it):

> even Bayesian model averaging collapses a distribution over probabilities into a single probability

as I mentioned in the child comment to the other reply to this comment, model averaging creates an average value, but the type of that value is a distribution. That is, you have a distribution over distributions (each coming from a different model) and the effect of averaging does not reduce you down to a point estimate, rather it reduces you down to just one distribution.

This is why it's totally fair to say a posterior can be an average. It is the average of a bunch of other distributions. I think if I had said it that way in my first comment, it would have removed some confusion.

But it is important, because the criticism that "a posterior isn't an average" is very wrong. A posterior most certainly can be the average of some other stuff, if that other stuff was itself a bunch of distributions -- and that's exactly what I am trying to talk about.

But to your other point, about the 'sensible' vs. 'not sensible' readings, I mostly agree. However, the problem is who gets to decide when two ideas fall into the "knife-vs-spoon-clearly-exclusive" category, or when it's more gray than that, and the choice is not so black and white, and there is not a need to over-commit to just one approach?

The reason the OP post strikes me as problematic is that it seems like a matter of opinion, or in the worst case a matter of bureaucratic/dictatorial mandate, as to when ideas are of the type that can be averaged vs. when they are not.

I'd generally like people to be more humble about it and tend to believe that conventional wisdom and model averaging are better, at least as a first heuristic, than deeply committing to just one thing. That way there might be less urgency to rush into the claim that some debate is "knife-vs-spoon".

I sort of see the whole "knife-vs-spoon" thing as a kind of Godwin's law of brainstorming. Once you invoke the "knife-vs-spoon-so-we-can't-average" claim, it's like game over and all useful intellectual discussion dies and everyone just either picks Team Knife or Team Spoon and then the political battles start. Unless it's really mutually exclusive, I'd rather that doesn't happen.
Which doesn't really count. Its fine AWS uses Xen, they have the budget and the team to maintain their fork, warts and all.
I think I remember reading that if you're using Apple's APIs and frameworks (like their builtins for HTTPS) then you don't need to go through this rigmarole.
Is this a joke? I have a Lenovo-produced T60 in its tenth year in daily use. I also still have its predecessor, a T43 labeled IBM (but manufactured by Lenovo) in regular use, but by my sister. Lenovo has a lot of problems, but they're every bit as capable of making a durable product as Apple.
I find that hard to believe too since Apple has basically deprecated HTTP is iOS 9 and OS X 10.11.

https://twitter.com/satefan/status/608093548827664384
Amazon Underground pays the app developer for the duration of usage of the app, and so needs to track how long you are using the app for. Perhaps it needs data tracking enabled to identify the duration of usage?
Awesome tool! I've always wanted to make menubar apps but never wanted to learn Xcode+ObjectiveC.

Related:

Is there no simple way to get the current temperature for location based off of GeoIP using `curl`?

I had to use this monstrosity to get the current temperature:

#!/bin/bash

export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH'

ansiweather -a off -l 'San Francisco' \
| cut -d '>' -f 2 \
| cut -d '-' -f1 \
| awk '{ print $1 $2 }' \
| tr -d 'C'
Didn't vote, but if I could vote for "stay at 1 point" I'd do.

I mean, that comment isn't too bad but sometimes I (we?) get a sneaking suspicion that some of these (I didn't check the commenters comment history so I cannot say in this case) are attempts at "karma farming", which is annoying.
I too am unclear on whether or not the location tracking was related to the usage tracking. Usage tracking is basically the entire point of Amazon Underground.
No.. that is not the same logic at all. I did not say they're "the same". I said that if one is bad, the other is bad as well. It's just by a matter of degrees that it differs.

It's frustrating to debate a policy position when people don't even bother to understand what the relevant arguments they're disputing are.