skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little offtopic, but this reminds me of Lessig's "the corrupting influence of money is the first problem facing this nation. That unless we solve this problem, we won’t solve anything else."

In my opinion the public option wouldn't have cost us much as a nation on the whole, and could have possibly worked out to great advantage, but was not going to happen because health insurance companies are too powerful for that sort of thing to get through.
Not true. Fixing the machines at a factory is quite lucrative but once you've learned it you really don't have to do any more learning.
Based on my search this year, that isn't necessarily true. Here in Denver, all of the insurers that were offering PPO plans in years past have left the individual market (not just the ACA exchange), save one: Anthem BCBS.

Availability appears to vary widely, both from state to state and within states. If I lived in western Colorado instead of on the Front Range, I'd have a couple of PPO insurer options. If I still lived in Minnesota (where my previous health insurance policy was written), I'd have dozens of options from at least four different insurance companies.

I really miss my insurance policy from BCBS of MN.
A Practical Introduction to TXL – Source code transforms (2001) [pdf]
> It's not a problem if a person picked at random from the population makes 50 million dollars with a photo sharing startup. But it starts looking a lot more like a problem when we're not picking people at random, but instead picking them mostly from the ranks of the most privileged people.

Our system allocates/distributes wealth pretty much at random, but not uniformly random: the RNG is biased towards people with certain backgrounds and/or the already wealthy. So for every "Disadvantaged minority rags to riches" story, you'll find ten "Stanford grad with millionaire parents and prep school education makes even more money" stories. I'd argue that the root societal problem, though, is the jackpot-like randomness, not the skewed distribution.
lol #ifdef VMS[0]

[0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=488759...
This is unfortunate. Health problems are unpredictable and very expensive, in my experience.

I was grateful for ACA (unsubsidized) in 2015 in spite of being on a bronze plan with a high deductible. Why? Because even though I was generally paying for care out of pocket due to my high deductible, the insurance company had negotiated much lower rates for this care than what the providers wanted to charge me. I guess I could have dealt with the 10+ providers and negotiated lower cash prices myself but I have a day job. In my estimation, the negotiated rates saved me $3k compared to the billed rates.

People I know minimized the dent to their financial health as a result of it of ACA as well. Life and health is unpredictable and one can be hale and hearty one day and hospitalized in the ER the next. The thought of being without health insurance and allowing one's meager savings to be wiped out as a result is an outcome that sends chills down my spine.

I hope I don't come across as shilling but I am grateful for the ACA. It is not perfect but just like democracy, it is the best that this country has been able to scrape up after 200+ years of SOL-care.
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Wow, it claims 2-5km urban and up to 45km rural!

Important question though, is there an affordable module available (ideally also easy to use)? Sniffing around, all I can find is modules costing $45 or more, which kind of kills my enthusiasm for using it in personal projects.
LoraWan is super interesting for IOT but as far as I understand it acts more like a traditional radio transmitter? Great for collecting data from lots of discrete sensors but less for bi-directional data transfer
How to add noWWW domain to a Rails app on Heroku
Old gnu software is full of code like that. If you want some nightmares, have a look at the source of tar, ar, or other tools. If you have to comment where the control goes back to your while(1) in a 200-line function (https://github.com/wertarbyte/tar/blob/ignore-missing/src/li...), that's 100% a code smell.
That would have been as good, and inoffensive.
python-like interpreter in python.

inception reference
Docker isn't a hypervisor...
For what it's worth, I have talked to doctors who want single payer just as much as some of us.
> This is ... the kind of content that i think should be put in a single "fact sheet".

Things like that have been done before. [0] It seems to be difficult to get good Google juice. Perhaps your writeup will be the one that cuts through all of the SEOed clickbait and is the go-to guide for good IPv6 info. :)

However, don't let me discourage you from taking on the task! It's sure to be edifying... or -at least- something productive to do to while away that obscenely long plane ride.

Best of luck!

[0] http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html
10 questions to make on a tech interview
The Federal plan operates like a big market. Each year, you can change between plans from a menu of hundreds of plans. You can also see other people's reviews of those plans. Over time, plans that can't compete drop out. Other plans get better and service gets better in order to compete.

Prior to the ACA, health insurance was heavily regulated. You could not buy across state lines. You could only buy (affordably) within the plans offered by your employer. Individuals oftentimes couldn't even buy plans (for any amount) that were offered to groups. With the ACA, this is even worse, but that's beside the point.

Creating a single market with the Federal plan would have removed tons of anticompetitive regulation and enabled anyone, regardless of who they worked for or self employed or whatever, to buy a plan from that single market.

Moving the tax incentive to people instead of corporations would have allowed people to pay for those plans with pre tax dollars.
Thanks!

Hope I was not unduly curt with the poster, but there are simply no packages available for 9.5.0 today, and won't be until Thursday. There is an official embargo observed by the -packagers group.
It would be almost impossible to enforce this. I've had several phones that try to force a shutter sound on me and I have always found a way to disable them.
I don't have links to any; they might be all internal. The current iteration of the patent grant was developed in collaboration with Google to meet their needs, so if there is any complaint they still have with it, that is news to me.

Only public evidence I have of this is Firebase (owned by Google) being unwilling to use React and then happy with the new license:

https://twitter.com/KanYang/status/586636624349569024
You're being unnecessarily pedantic, and it's not beneficial to the conversation at all. This appears to be a silencing tactic, trying to force me to put specific numbers down when they're completely irrelevant, and refusing to address the overall point until it's done so. I do not appreciate your use of this tactic.
Now you're offending citizens of the great country of New Jersey (as well as those who self-identify as "insane").
News Years resolutions of 'dating more' aren't going so well for you either. eh?
Microsoft monitoring how long you use Windows 10
It's missing ractive, which is one of the oldest virtual DOM implementations build by the interactive team at The Guardian. I use it daily for CertSimple.
It's hard to answer something like this without specific information. Very generally, for a crowded market think of things in terms of a 'distribution strategy' vs a pure marketing/pricing one. People invariably buy from a small subset in a range of choices. Your job is to market sure you become within that subset, and then have a hook to get you over the decision line in enough cases. People are generally looking for simplicity so dont overthink it. Just get the product in front of people and then give them that hook. Test/learn and be flexible. Look what the competitors are doing and emulate them if you unsure until you understand things better.

Most importantly, understand the financial metrics of customer acquisition. Not doing so is a common error. I see it in almost every business I consult. Firstly if you understand this you can test strategies much more effectively, Secondly don't look at acquisition as a cost. Treat it like you would an investment and you'll be well placed.
I think Uncle Eddie might disagree...
> It's a terrible feedback loop, one which the IRS penalties were designed to solve.

But it shouldn't be surprising that the IRS penalties (in current form) could not solve this. This eventuality was predicted before the law was passed in the Senate (e.g., [0]). It seems fairly obvious that this would happen unless fines are somehow pegged to the cheapest insurance rates (as dpweb notes in this same HN story[1]).

[0] https://reason.com/blog/2009/11/06/higher-premiums-less-cove...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dpweb
Well, that's not traditionally how health insurance works in the US, but it's how all types of "insurance" should work - it should not be for routine costs. Insurance, generally, should be for unlikely unexpected costs. Otherwise, it's just involving an extra middle-man in payment, and that middle-man is going to make a profit.

It's unfortunate that in the US, even for completely routine medical costs, you can't skip the middle-man, because prices are hidden and fake, and the real prices are negotiated between the middle-men and the medical provider (as well as which tests or procedures are allowed, under what conditions). I think the fixation on "everyone should have good health insurance" is making this dysfunctional situation permanently unfixable.
Didn't we, as a community, already try and subsequently scrap this idea when it was called UML?
There was no food preservation though.
Does this have to be explained?

Startups provide service/product that people are willing to pay for.

You must be providing some value to those people for people use or pay for your product. Maybe because it's convenient, quicker or better.

And startups add that value for millions of users.
Maybe that's why he thinks Docker is unstable.
The "getting everyone to implement that" part is the part which actually makes it a format.
Taxis are expensive and public transport isn't as convenient. A minibus taking me from within a block of my house to within a block of my work would get my business.

Labour costs are a significant part of any such operation, where I live at least.
PhD research?
That's because, at least in part, the costs in Canada and much of Western Europe are paid for indirectly through other taxes.
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 was going to do their individual gift wrapping but it was $6 PER ITEM. Considering I got about 15 items, that really adds up.

I think I'll still do some shopping on there next year, I just wish they had cheaper gift wrapping and card options.
When I was in an intro to programming class I used a similar tool. This is great for teaching people the absolute basics .
The reasons given for learning multiplication tables all focus on multiplication, but one of the best reasons is for division. Doing division on paper or in your head is made so much easier if you have your single digit multiplication table memorized.

But why 12 instead of 10? I think:

- There are loads of common everyday uses that overflow 10 by just a little.

- Clocks

- Eggs

- 11 is almost as trivial as 10, it would be a shame to stop at 10 when 11 is free.

- 12 is really super easy, and combined with the above reasons has a good case.

- 13s are significantly harder to remember and work with than 11 or 12, nothing comes in 13s, its the perfect place to stop. :) (edit: course, as soon as I wrote that I remembered the baker's dozen, which was super common to hear when I was a kid, not so much anymore for me. But I think the point still stands, because with a baker's dozen you only pay for 12, you never had to multiply by 13.)

* edited for formatting
> I think interface builder is the best ever way to build UIs

Do you have experience in other tools? Because a lot of people only know xcode/visual studio (maybe java) and think them have good GUI builders.

The best ever (and I have used A LOT) is the Delphi one. Very close? Visual FoxPro/Acces.

The rest are sad attempts at it ;)
That might be workable idea if the guy writing the replacement code has such a perfect understanding of the original code that he can spell out every assumption and edge condition that the code covers (as well as write tests to cover all conditions). The best you can hope for is comments and tests that cover the new author's impression of what the old code was doing, which is not necessarily the same as what the old code did.

In this case, since he apparently doesn't feel that he has that perfect understanding, he left the original code there, so when someone says "Hey! I counted on behavior XXX, this change broke my workflow!".

And any change no matter how trivial or "correct" always breaks someone's workflow.

https://xkcd.com/1172/
> Why do people think programming is wiring up boxes with arrows? That's like 10% of it.

I agree with this but would like to add: Why do people think programming is writing text into an editor? The suggestion that maybe there's a better way than writing stuff in emacs or vim is considered heresy.
In math, we prefer to use either (101010)_2 or (101010)2 or 101010_2 – which represents (42)_10

(With TeX formatting implied)
> In my opinion the public option wouldn't have cost us much as a nation on the whole, and could have possibly worked out to great advantage, but was not going to happen because health insurance companies are too powerful for that sort of thing to get through.

The only public option that would have gone through would have been one that the insurance companies blessed, whereby there were the mediators of all the payments. Which is basically what we got.

If you solve the money problem you can solve a lot of problems, but until you solve the money problem few or none of the rest of these problems will get solved.
I can think of about a dozen reasons why this is important...
Maintain a car, not just buy. For a family below the poverty line & living paycheck to paycheck, this is costly.

55% of commuters in New York city use public transportation, 34% in SF, 26% in Chicago, 40% in D.C., etc. Don't be a dick about cognitive ability when you're quoting a 5% number that includes people who don't even have access to buses.
To be fair, though, those smart people routinely wrote exploitable buffer overflows with code just like this (and "smart people" here is not sarcasm--they were smart!) C string handling may have been defensible 30 years ago (though I'm not sure about that), but not today.
>No, no, no, no, no! Why not clarify what are those accepted arguments?

> What the following code is doing?

def shuffle(args):
# do something

It's misusing the args - you shouldn't be using args/kwargs there in the first place - they should be used for forwarding and things like that - eg. you're writing a generic function decorator and things like that.

If you want a collection to operate on "cards" then pass cards as a collection, if you want to operate on abstract function parameters use args/kwargs
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Not in the living room. On your desk.

This is one of the things revision control is for, after all. If you are really worried your tools aren't up to the task of finding the old versions, you leave a one line comment with tag and rev.
$90 .. meh, a lot of people would see the value in that.
Classic Jevon's Paradox [1]. Use of the resource (cars) will become more efficient, and rather than use decreasing, it actually simulates increased usage.

Desktop processing apps were supposed to make office workers so productive they would only work a 4 hour work week. The reality? Workers are now so connected that they end up working 6-7 days a week.

If I can rent out my car when I'm not using it, my car is cheaper for me to operate, and more cars are available to drive people around, so they make more for hire trips when they otherwise would not have. More cars, more rides all around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I think ides should have a really easy way to see old code. I'm thinking like arrow buttons next to each function and you can browse though older versions.

It's true in theory all your old code is stored in vcs but it's such a bear to actually go look at it.
tbh, i was judging too quickly given that i don't have masses of experience with this... but i still think the intent of a stereotypical name is there. my reasoning was:

1.) never seen an arab transliterate the name this way. ahmed, ahmad and akhmed... but the k tends to symbolise a different letter (and sound) present in the arabic too. (so this turns out to be a flawed piece of thinking)

2.) the first time i saw this spelling was as 'achmed the dead terrorist', which has biased me. (p.s. i find that very funny, and i think the difference is that the comedian is specifically mocking a group of people who definitely exist vs. using an arab name to imply terrorism [or dishonesty or incompetence... or anything])

i'm sure its not meant with any particular ill will towards arabs, but i can't shake that feeling that this is some casual racism...
I'm not sure exactly what distinction you're making with instrumentally vs. intrinsically. People pointed out that economic equality as such has certain bad consequences. For example, wealthy people become disproportionately powerful. Here's an ok list turned up by a simple Google query:

http://ideas.ted.com/the-4-biggest-reasons-why-inequality-is...
Moon (and Earth) were given their momentum during the formation of the solar system. I'd say that's solar.

And if you want to make a distinction about which star forged the heavy elements required for radioactive decay, then I'll agree it's 'stellar' energy not so much 'solar'.
That's possible in software development. I have such a job.
I interpreted the press release to indicate that WiFi HaLow will be 900 MHz only, but can coexist with traditional WiFi implementations on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. (The Wikipedia page seems to confirm this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah) Just like when 5 GHz was added, this means getting a new WiFi card -- but that card could support all three bands at the same time.

So this would mean while you're near an AP you'll be on "classic" 2.4/5 GHz, but when you roam further away it would switch to 900 MHz "HaLow" for longer range.
No, I factored taxes into my calculation. I am aware that "free" healthcare is not "free" unless you do not pay tax.
While I completely agree with migrating towards Rust, these games are a little misleading. I can't find the source, but when I was reading some of the authors comments in the past, it sounded like there was unsafe code used.

Does anyone have a link to the source used in these tests?
That means it's up for grabs, although dyndns.org now asks $40 A YEAR?!?!?!
Of course the world or the way that you use cars would be different too...

#1, work/school from home, optimized schedules, etc

#2, you could get in/off the "car" in your own little capsule...

#3, those fleets of cars would park at the most efficient spots possible by using big data so the wait times could be reduced significantly (or the wait could be eliminated completely if the schedule is known ahead).
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I assume that the NSA would generate patents that thwart NSA intrusion methods?
You are correct, that the hardware can do so without too much overhead.

But I was arguing from the software point of view: segmented memory means no simple pointer arithmetic above the 32-bit limit. That means that software managing datasets above 4GB will always need special-casing, or be written with indirect allocation in all cases.

I don't see a good reason for mandating that kind of complexity in code. If you have a solution for allowing 64bit linear addressing in code, I'm all for it.
I'm a Canadian. I'm curious to know what it would cost to match my level of coverage in the US.

1. Public medical care. Good care, normally easy to see a doctor. Excellent quality. Can use this as much as you need.
2. Occasional use of the parallel private billing system. Costs less than $300 Canadian to see a specialist.
3. Private coverage for paramedical claims (Physio, massage, drug plan, dental, vision, etc.). Pretty comprehensive. Costs about $100 Canadian a month.

I work for myself. Is it even possible to replicate such a plan without employer coverage? What would it cost?
Not sure if I understand you correctly, but I, an existing subscriber, was automatically enrolled in Binge On. Like I said somewhere else, I didn't even know what it was until I read the EFF piece, and it seems like something I was opted in to for TMO's benefit, since my unlimited plan doesn't come with data caps.
Absolutely. It's like learning a new language - once you have the rules and flow down pat, the rest comes a lot easier. For as hard as people think the market is to break into, there are an abundance of FREE and funded resources to help, but almost no one takes advantage of them unfortunately.

The government itself spends tens of millions of dollars trying to get small businesses to participate, basically like saying "I'll leave the front door to this massive market unlocked, you just have to walk up the stairs and open it" but these startups all turn up their nose at them because they want to ride the business escalator (e.g. whatever is low-hanging fruit/revenue), even if it only takes them up a single floor in the long run.

I personally know more than a dozen privately-held and even family-owned companies that I bet almost no-one here has ever heard of, yet each one takes in more revenue than all of Twitter. These companies used no VC or investor funds whatsoever and were "mere startups" just a few short years ago. And people continue to ignore this market?

All it takes is a little bit of effort and commitment to reach astonishing heights unparalleled in the B2B market. Add to that you also get to make your own government more efficient, cost effective and innovative over time, so what's the issue here?