skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you had said that you went into a walk in clinic I would expect a much lower service cost.

An asthma attack that cannot be controlled by the kind of self-administered drugs usually prescribed to asthmatics (or experienced by someone who does not have those drugs) is a life-threatening emergency; walk-in clinics are not not set up to handle them, will likely send you out to an ER if you present with one, and are often not open when they occur.

Even combined HMO/provider entities like Kaiser (who are footing the bill themselves, and don't get more money if you take a method that incurs greater costs) will, if you call their advice line with such an attack, direct you to the ER.
I generally try to get whatever anti-virus/malware Microsoft is offering, if not already bundled. There are way less perverse incentives at play, and if I'm running windows and worried about MS having extra info about what I'm doing... well, that boat has sailed. Anything I truly want separated from my identity (browsing wise), I use a VirtualBox instance running Linux. Even then I'm sure it's associated with my identity through IP address alone, but at least it may be seen as someone else at the same location if I'm lucky.
Ditto for my Moto E (which is slightly smaller than the G).
f-ing_tragedy, unless you are deliberately going for low karma you need to be a bit less subtle with your irony.
>> It runs on every platform we can think of (Windows 64bit, Linux 32 & 64 Bit, Raspberry Pi!)

How would I go about running the binary on OS X? I assume it's possible? Thanks...
You're right, that's what I had in mind but I didn't think this far... Thanks for clearing this up.
I looked around just for fun and found 3 places in ~2 minutes. I don't live there, so I'm not sure if these are terrible locations. Also, two are on the outskirts and it's possible they don't qualify as being in the city.

Bayview $3050
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/5364791015.html

Glen Park $3200
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/5356024005.html

Twin Peaks $3200
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/5341244930.html
Time: When you are poor 4 years is "seemingly" an eternity. The greatest gift money gives is the ability to think long term.
Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money
It will be interesting to see whether they value their principles more than sales in the Chinese marketplace.
It has lots more besides AVX512, so I'd consider waiting. These include: lower power, HEVC in hardware, JPEG in hardware, some VP9 in hardware, Better GPU, Faster AES-NI, and Thunderbolt 3.

If Apple supports it in software, it also supports jumping between power-saving states much faster.
Ironic if FBI counter-intelligence investigate the police over this one. I suspect the article is misleading in parts.
I'm working on the successor to my gothic RPG: Manor of the Damned! ... Think legend of zelda (SNES) meets Castlevania. :D

http://www.TheHideoutGames.com
Ian “Debian” Murdoch Beat Up by Police
First off: great cartoon; thanks for the link to it.

That said, that very real situation is why my wife and I took care to find each other, prioritizing a family and educational history alongside other "desires", why we work hard to provide a loving, stable, and nurturing environment, and why we're putting aside money in 529s for our kids.

I don't know what the outcome will be, but we are making our own investments and current sacrifices to help our kids achieve whatever seems best for them. That not every child worldwide has that same beginning is perhaps unfair, but it won't cause me to do less for my family in the interest of fairness.
Always programming. During holidays I like to get familiar with new technologies to see what they offer. Exploratory programming I guess you could call it.
>The fact that this causes poverty is simply tautological. Poverty is defined as a lack of market income + certain cash benefits. Once a person is unable to work they will become poor regardless of transfer programs or how high their consumption is.

Not in any place were welfare covers those costs. There are people unable to work for life (e.g. severily injured) that still get a special pension instead of getting thrown to the streets to be homeless.

And we're not talking about "unable to work forever" either. I've had hard working friends in the united states who blew all their pension savings because of some urgent need for a few months of hospital care or some surgery. This should just not happen (and it doesn't in other places in the West).

>The way to fix this is to measure poverty by consumption rather than income, but this is unpopular since it would reveal how little poverty really exists

How about you try lowering your personal consumption to the levels you find acceptable for the "non poor", and tell us how it feels? Or, try working 2 jobs to support a child as a single mother, and tell us all about the great cushy living these people have...

http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/03...

This idea, that poverty is some absolute value, and we should be thankful that we don't have to eat from garbage bins or live in caves really needs the Ole Yeller treatment...
> Everything from contraception to abortion to gay marriage has become a "right" even though nobody can point to the specific amendment that guarantees it.

9 & 10?

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_tra...
Right. It's like a weed. It's a sign of disrepair.

I'm not saying it's not beautiful in its own way, but it's hardly a uniquely American attitude to consider a sign of neglect undesirable.
Yes, if you're looking to wind up at an out of state uni, you're probably screwed and will have to fork over massive amounts of cash.

If you're looking for in state, though, the savings from a CC are huge, especially if you can still live at home while attending, and it doesn't affect your academic record (well, it may indirectly in whether your GPA transfers when your credits do)
Hello! A more general question: What are some of your favourite resources (books, articles, conferences) on information visualization? I'm familiar with the works of Tufte and Cleveland, but I was curious if you have any other recommendations. Thanks!
Well - we do have the concept of reasonable doubt. For the sake of framing it in the framework you've presented, we'll call it reasonable uncertainty. The problem with the case presented in the article is that all of the action happened before it proceeded to the part of the system where reasonable uncertainty is actually a valid argument, and ultimately, no charges were filed.

It is undeniable that police do not behave under the presumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty, or innocent until it's been proven beyond reasonable uncertainty - it is purely for the courts to decide that.

Police, when they suspect a person of wrongdoing will treat that person as guilty as far as the law will allow them to. They can handcuff you, put you in jail, point a gun at you, interrogate you, etc. as long as they believe they have a reasonable suspicion (not certainty, not a great deal of evidence, just reasonable suspicion).

Given the number of false positives I've gotten with Bayesian spam filters, I'll take reasonable doubt over Bayesian justice ;)
There are two kinds of H1B petitions:

1. Genuine candidates: I'm going to quote the extreme, people like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Vinod Khosla etc. came to the US on H1B and there are a lot of other "superstars" on H1B or naturalized citizens. More practically, there are thousands of other talented people from all countries who work on H1B. So the argument that H1B should be done away with is absurd, unless the US doesn't care about staying atop of the technology sector.
Also, H1B workers get paid the same as local workers; there is a minimum wage requirement that has to be satisfied by the company applying for the H1B. So if you buy the allegation that wages are being depressed by H1B workers, why don't you take a peek at the bulletin board of your break room (which have H1B applications with salaries posted) or online and lodge a complaint with the state department of labor rather than posting bigoted comments?

2. Candidates hired by "staffing" companies: Blanket applications made by these "staffing" companies which may or may not have actual jobs. These are the applications that need to be stopped/scrutinized by USCIS (they have tightened this during the recession 2008-2010). It's arguable there is a genuine requirement for staffing companies, but these need to be scrutinized thoroughly.
I disagree. How did you come to the conclusion that we don't need to fix this problem? Do you live in any developing country?

We are already spending a good amount of money on building solar power grids. Some portion of that money will be funded by developed countries based on the deal signed at the COP21 summit (100 billion USD per year). But obviously this isn't reported in the Western World. Read more about it here: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-why-is-western-media-so...

If anyone will be most affected by Climate change it is going to be India and neighboring countries. The recent Chennai floods is a grim reminder of the impact of climate change. Not to mention receding coastline that is impacting the livelihood of fisherman and causing relocation of villages. Not just India but even Bangladesh is also being heavily affected by the receding coastline problem (Read more about it here: http://www.academia.edu/4066475/Changing_Face_of_Bangladesh_...). Maldives (another neighbor) won't even exist by 2100 if this continues (read more about it here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/is-it-too-late-...). And you expect us to work towards modernizing the country by ignoring this imminent threat? What will be the point of modernization if it's going to be destroyed by floods or earthquakes?

But is the West concerned about these problems? Obviously not! And we don't expect you to. This is a problem of the developing nations and we have to find the solution ourselves. The only help that developing nations asked from the developed nations in COP21 summit was monetary aid to carry out building the necessary infrastructure and R&D to tackle this problem and I think we are headed in the right direction.
Same here... If someone here has a 2 bedroom, anywhere in SOMA, for 3350, I will sign that lease immediately.
We host several agencies' clients' websites. The majority host their clients' websites across several managed servers (VPS or dedi). They opt for managed servers because they don't want to deal with upgrades, patching, or day to day server work. It frees up their time substantially (dev work is time consuming too).

But the choice between VPS and dedi depends on several factors (traffic, requirements, compliance, projections, etc). I always recommend starting small unless the business whose website being hosted is already established.

As far as the hosting platform is concerned, you should always seek to leverage a control panel. This is one of those things you wish you had only after you're stuck without one (we support panel-free servers too). Your clients don't need to contact you for every little change they need to make.
"Of the 24 retailers in the New York City report, the worst gender pricing disparity surfaced at Club Monaco, where women’s clothing cost an average of 28.9 percent more than men’s clothing, according to an independent analysis by economist Ian Ayres. Urban Outfitters trailed with a 24.6 percent gender premium, followed by Levis with 24.3 percent."

24 is a very small sampling of retailers. What season was it? What was their methodology? I'd like to see a a table of the other 21 clothing retailers.
Yes, but the class requirement was the paper subscription. Pretty sure the professor was just an WSJ paperboy.
Meta question: The article is dated Jan 1, 2016. That's 4 days from now. Is it common for magazines to publish articles "in the future"? Do they do this so the electronic date matches the print date?
> The Force Awakens is exactly what you would get if you threw the original 3 in a blender...

I see the strongest influences from Episodes 4, 1, 3, and 5 (in roughly descending order.)

> I will probably watch 10 & 11 but I won't go to a theater for them, it's just not worth it.

AFAIK, there's not a firm plan to make anything beyond 9 (though I suppose a fourth trilogy is inevitable if the third is successful.)
Well you pay extra so that you can signal "I am a girl" (more specifically - a princess girl. Wouldn't you expect a princess to get more expensive things?). Like the black MacBook that cost 100$ more just because of the color (or was it the white one that was more expensive? I forgot). It's a status symbol. If you don't care, what is stopping you from getting the red scooter?
well-written specification

That may very well be the defining difference between the Chinese and Western-governments.
Writing Command Line Utilities in Swift
Demo Processor Uses Light to Communicate with the External World
Embedding the JVM to run code within webpages you say? Hasn't that been tried before? :-S
4 4 and 4. With no requirements, if you have an implementation of what is actually needed and it is not brittle you are all good. People who actually know what they are doing and don't write brittle code are more valuable than rock stars. I have seen too much code by rock stars based on the latest coolest frameworks and it has all been thrown out. Same for people who don't actually have enough skill and 'just' get the job done. One change and it all dies, turns to a pile of steaming poo or gets thrown out, only to be developed again using this week's cool new js framework. Less brittle code is smaller, simpler and involves as much deleting as adding.
we should work together! i'm working on grmmr (green-bridge.org) and we have a solid system for identifying grammar & visualizing them well. this system is built upon years and years of actual classroom usage. we're looking to build an app / a game that will let the user to identify, analyze the grammar and get applauded for that
The study: http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dca/downloads/pdf/partners/Study-...

http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/partners/gender-pricing-study.p...

the nyc.gov summary has a useful summary here

Over the course of a woman’s life, the financial impact of these gender-based pricing disparities is significant. In 1994, the State of California studied the issue of gender-based pricing of services and estimated that women effectively paid an annual “gender tax” of approximately $1,351 for the same services as men.12 While DCA’s study does not estimate an annual financial impact of gender pricing for goods, the findings of this study suggest women are paying thousands of dollars more over the course of their lives to purchase similar products as men.
Thanks for furthering the discussion!

I'm not rebutting anything, so there isn't really a point to examine or agree with. I'm merely pointing out that the parent is conflating two different situations, perhaps without realizing it. If the parent, or you, believe that the two are the same, simply state so, and perhaps we can have that entirely different discussion... instead of threadjacking here.

You mention devolving into name calling, and it initially confused me, as I didn't see it in my statement. Then I realized that you must have meant the GP's usage of "victimhood mentality" which is clearly a pejorative and one of the reasons for my post.

Duly noted.
That's not really true - with more and more tools and development philosophies coming available, we need more and more experienced programmers with the judgment to choose between them and apply them to the problem at hand.
There was a story[1] last year about a restaurant that did some research and found that wait times (and subsequently Yelp ratings) suffered because of phone usage by patrons.

tl;dr - people spending time on their phones, slows down service/table turnover at restaurants.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2690490/Service-time...
This may depend a lot on the state you are in. I grew up in Georgia and had never heard of this concept. I later moved to California which has many excellent community colleges, crazy low in state tuition for a CC and lots of transfer agreements and even a website devoted to looking up which classes will be automatically accepted, etc.

This may be a case of "YMMV depending on the state you live in."
Very nice but I have a feeling that this will have mid 4 figures price tag attached to it if not higher.
Absolutely! Once the cities are able to accommodate population by providing employment opportunities the burden on providing power, water and other basic amenities to remote villages reduces freeing up the Government to focus on reforms in other sectors. Luckily we have a Government today that works towards this goal.
Illinois Angel Tax Credit Program no longer accepts convertible bonds
Having read about the same thing and had my own phase of experimentation - I felt bad when I hold eye contact with someone too long and portrayed myself as "higher status" when it's someone who is supposed to have higher status than I am. If I hold the eye contact excessively, it feels like I'm ready to throw them under the bus when the time comes to it. So now I avoid doing it when it's someone who's higher status than I am, who I like and who I want to respect. I think varying eye contact has an effect on relationships, on the other person as well as on myself.
Might this even take us beyond “Make something people want”?﻿
Can someone validate that this is actually Ian, not a case of twitter account theft?
It always amazes me that my fellow Americans worry about socialized medicine. We already have socialized medicine; you show up in an ER, you get treated whether or not you can pay. Instead of paying for the "freeloaders" out of taxes, we pay for it by lottery - we bankrupt a handful of random unlucky stiffs who happened to get sick this week.
The art piece is not -making- an analogy. It is -mocking- a line of reasoning used by the copyright industry.

That is, the copyright industry comes up with numbers about how badly file sharing hurts their numbers by counting one download, that is, one copy, as a lost sale. They've extended that analogy, in fact, to try and prevent people from ripping their own music, DVDs, etc (it's still technically illegal to copy your own DVD to your hard drive, for your own viewing).

This is an art piece to show how nonsensical that argument is, that a copy does not equate to a lost sale.
Do not confuse security vendors with snake oil vendors.
The thing is, medical bills in the US are blown out of all proportion, and have nothing to do with actual costs.

This has been well documented and studied time and again.

It's not like Sweden or Denmark have much worse hospitals or doctors -- on the contrary, even a crappy US hospitalization will cost you several times more than what it would cost you there.

Heck, I was taken into a first class private hospital in an (advanced) Asian country, stayed there for the night, was taken care of by 4 nurses, had several exams/tests made, was consulted by 2 doctors, oh, and they even got me there by ambulance after a friend called (I had fainted atm).

I expected the worst, but the next day I was asked to pay something amounting to $50 -- without even having an insurance coverage (as I was just visiting).
Yes, articles are dated according to the print issue they're in even though they go online before printing.
The article did say "Nightclubs sometimes demand more cash from men for admission."
I didn't realize when first looking at it but this is an official Amazon application. The github account is "awslabs" and it's linked right at the top of the docs: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
Germany’s Basic Income Experiment
Intel Completes $16.7B Altera Deal
You know, given the sheer amount of JS that has been written successfully in the last ten years, I think it might be worth asking: is it really needed to continue mudballing that type of stuff onto the language?

Especially with mixins and things, it's really easy to add so much magic to the code that getting up to speed on what something is doing becomes prohibitive. It's really great for flavor-of-the-week frameworks, but long term maintenance can become a nightmare and proper performance tuning difficult.

Then again, maybe we don't care about maintenance and performance anymore.
You're just cherry picking though. When it comes to complexity there's plenty more of it in Js than there's ever likely to be in ClojureScript.
Lawful interception( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception) :
"Almost all countries have LI capability requirements and have implemented them using global LI requirements and standards developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)"
Well, if you go to a collision specialist who's legally prohibited from turning away anyone with a bent frame regardless of their (current or future) ability to pay, it's not unreasonable that they'll charge you more than Jiffy Lube does when you can pay. That overhead has to be covered somehow.
Note that the pink scooter has a grayed-out "Add to cart" button. They are sold out of the pink version so you can't even buy it on target.com (Where the screenshot appears to be from). The old price is completely irrelevant when comparing to what the red version now sells for. Note also that walmart.com which has inventory of both colors sells them each for $24.96, which is about the same price that target.com is selling the red version for. The author of this article knows this and is being intentionally misleading.
link to browse the books

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Car insurance typically are higher for males - usually based on the actuary tables that indicate that men are prone to get in more accidents.
Ok, fine, you don't see how it's possible. That's not an argument that it isn't possible, unless you also want to claim that you have a much stronger ability to predict the future than humans normally demonstrate.

But one way it could happen: It doesn't start with people accepting a highly restricted web. Instead, people just get gradually comfortable with things dying off or merging (which happens all the time) and don't notice that new things don't crop up to replace them except when owned by companies large enough to successfully negotiate with the gatekeepers.

For decades people have been happy with video being controlled by a small number of media conglomerates. For decades more they were happy with an oligopoly of 3 TV networks.

As to the "why aren't they doing it now", they were. They did their best to squeeze Netflix to pay for access to consumers at the same time consumers were paying for access to Netflix. This has now changed thanks to tougher rulings:

https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cogent-CEO-Interconnecti...

But they will certainly keep trying. It's a very easy path to revenue growth for them if they can get away with it. Plenty of money, and no need to do the hard work of finding new ways to deliver value. Plus the US right is partial to oligopoly and rentier capitalism.
You've got to be kidding me.

Ladies' night is all about objectification of women. Spinning that as "gender discrimination" against men is sick.
Discharge through bankruptcy and discharge through the US Dept of Education are different reliefs.

In bankruptcy, available statistics show educational loans are discharged, in whole/part, 50% of the time when attempted.

My client's loan was discharged through the US Dept of Education. Unlike bankruptcy a lender can't contest, there is no adjudication because the matter does not go to court and a lawyer really isn't needed.

It surely isn't luck. While most people falsely believe student loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy, even more don't even have any idea there is a separate process to discharge student loans directly through the US Dept of Education.