skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not apparent to me that my insurance company is engaged in attempting to get bulk discounts.

I have some recent bills that are 4x or 5x the supposed national rate for the services, having that hospital in their network appears to be a choice to try to collect premiums from people that live near it rather than the result of any sort of negotiation on my behalf.

I have the idea that we should ban networks. Not that we should ban insurance companies from trying to negotiate, but that we should prevent providers from charging arbitrarily different rates to different people. Especially hospitals that benefit from exclusive licenses, they should suffer under price regulation in exchange for those licenses (never mind that those licenses are intended to allow them to charge more for those services and "cost shift").
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There is a by-genre section in the article which shows little deviation in the trend across the board.
I am poor and I can't imagine suddenly deciding I want kids if I came upon a lot of wealth. A jetski maybe but not children.

Some people just want a lot of children. I'm biased against it and I think people shouldn't have kids if they don't have the means to provide for them but I can't get a politician to support this platform of pay to play.

I don't think basic income should apply to children. Only adults who are free to spend the money as they see fit should be eligible. The amount of basic income should not change by the number of dependents.
Guys I just have to give the obligatory shout out to Prof Hilfinger. The guy is legendary. My life has been made worthwhile to have been initiated into the deep mystic art of CS by him.
Sure, it's a generational thing.

However, I'm not sure if that's a matte of preference or realism. Our generation knows that "lifetime employment" at a single company does not exist any more. The only way to remain sane is to accept the reality.

I'm a student know, and repeating the same summer job search process every spring is stressful. I don't look forward to future with joy, but what alternatives there are?
... especially if you have family members (like small kids) that can wake you up, and you have no control over that.
>and one-time usable

It's not like you want it to save your life more than once...
Never underestimate the personal self righteousness component of climate change dogma.
The discussion looks "surprisingly civil" probably because admins were removing comments and threatening users with bans.
If you'd done even a tiny bit of research, you'd realize that there's actually a negative correlation between income and fertility.
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It still sounds like it would be more promising to focus the business exclusively on providing a better mapping service. It's hard to build out all of the functionality for a marketplace (including dealing with very hard problems such as fraud), and then also to achieve the necessary network effects. It would be much simpler and more broadly commercializable to provide a better mapping/navigation service. As a potential investor, I would worry that you are trying to solve too many problems at once.
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If your company strategy depends on having the "best" talent, then yes, you should replace former best when they are no longer the best. Think Olympics or professional sports as the canonical example.

If your company strategy can work with the vast majority of talent and where some job/company-specific learning is in play (which is the vast majority of companies), then you would naturally prefer an experienced employee to a rank novice. That gives some power advantage to the incumbent employee over a walk-in applicant.

If your company strategy can use nearly anyone and there is no significant learning on the job, then incumbent employees are competing on fairly equal ground with new applicants and it can become a race to the bottom, but it also requires the lowest amount of investment on the part of the employee.

Your job as a prospective employee is to understand what type of company you're considering joining, and to get yourself in the right place on that spectrum, where right is a function of your abilities, aspirations, and preferences. Some like the battle to be the very best. Some like the idea of a lifetime of learning and stable employment. Others prefer (or have thrust upon them) a job where not too much is demanded of them in terms of job-related learning and development.
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I find such errors are like bum notes in a guitar solo. They're just wrong. A sign of incompetence, and I don't want that incompetence rubbing off on me, nor do I want to experience other areas of potential incompetence. The errors are warnings. The job was to install a bath. You've installed a toilet. You were painting the sky, but you've painted it green, unintentionally. Most of these things should be drilled into us by now that we shouldn't be having to think about them. I know I make mistakes and would welcome every correction, but no one corrects because correct is not a goal. Unknown unknowns. Some errors are more acceptable than others. The "tea's and coffee's" example in the article is embarrassing to me, comma splices often slip my notice. I'm reminded of the tolerance thresholds regarding dirty dishes in the sink. Some people happily walk past while others, unable to bear them, end up doing the washing time and again.

Does this mean introverts prefer the consistency of opinionated frameworks and languages? Is Go preferred by introverts, Scala by extraverts?
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Whatever happened to the principle that whoever makes the through legal trade gets to own it?

Why does the US have such gigantic monetary needs?

How on earth does the US get into 18 trillion of debt?

Where's all thr fruits of that money????

Surely the solution is not for the government to keep being given more of the people's money?!!

Government is a bottomless pit waste of money with very weak oversight - the more money you give the government - the more it wastes.

If people paid for the things they need directly, rather than have the cost/administration overhead of government, society as a whole would be richer.

Corporations don't use very many government services - so why should they be heavily taxed?

The more ridiculous the taxes in the US become, the more businesses will simply incorporate overseas.

The US taxes need to become radically lower and radically simpler - then the US stands a chance to actually collect taxes.

See Ireland 12.5 corporate tax rate.
Dragon Skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Skin) claimed to withstand multiple hits without loss of performance, although there was some controversy around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYaSRIbPWkM&nohtml5=False
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What if we entered one and came out on the other side without even noticing something happened?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfFcs25KmMc more about the inventor.
some time ago, the definition of "trickle down" on wikipedia used to contain, in the first sentence, the statement that the goal is to achieve wealth distribution. the contradiction was too glaring, i presume ;) because, if so, then why not just give the money to the people? their spending will then inevitably reward and enrich those market actors that deserve it, leading to a much healthier market then one created by governments transferring money to arbitrary, politically connected capitalists.

ceterum censeo, basic income is the future!
Here's < 15 lines, clear, but not functional programming :)

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#borrowed from Nick Holloway <alfie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, 27th May 1993.
my $size=8;my @cols=(0..$size-1);
sub nextq {
(print( "@_\n" ),return) if @_ == $size;
foreach my $col(@cols) {
next if grep($_ == $col, @_);
my $row=@_;next if grep ($_ == $col-$row--, @_);
my $row=@_;next if grep ($_ == $col+$row--, @_);
nextq(@_,$col);
}
}
nextq();

Not sure if it's slower or more resource intensive than the Scala solution. I'm sure it could be golfed down to be smaller than the Scala counterpart. It has fewer characters already, even with the comments intact.
You still have the notes in the notebook, it's just that note you have a digital and more portable backup. If you're going to forget about the notes then this product isn't the issue.
Seems like an interesting product. They should rework their website though -- the website was slow to load and very annoying to read, I left it in very short time.
I'm the author of http://ReactForBeginners.com

I've had 4500 people take it so far and have had tons of positive feedback - take a look!
When I was in school I was surprised that my hand written notes were better than my friends who typed their notes during class. My notes had all of the relevant information, without being a long as my typing friends.

I really thought I would miss some things by writing, but that was very seldom the case.

I'm a big fan of writing notes during a lecture and then typing them up after class.
While true lifetime employment might be extinct, there are still gradations in job security. Your tenure at a large corporation or government job will generally be much longer that a startup. But you don't see people lining up to work in the government.
My experience suggests that those permanent employment policies serve to discourage employment. As a US-based employer, I'm often puzzled/confused by some of the practices around the world. (I'm sure the converse is probably true for EU-based employers considering expanding into the US.)
The US is at 5.5% unemployment, the UK at 5.4%, Germany at 4.8%. This is the ballpark of the natural rate of unemployment.

Do you really believe there is a significant pool of workers who are unwilling to work currently, but might work if we inflated away the value of their sticky nominal wages (thereby fooling them into thinking they weren't taking a pay cut)? Where are they?

(1) is just not true. Real comp (which is actually what I should have said, since comp is what determines buyer and seller willingness to trade) has done nothing but increase. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRNFB

If BI did not change this then it would not be stimulus. So which is it?
If you can find a pull-start gas engine lawn mower, you can learn lots from it. These things generally have a single piston. The pull string that you use to start it gets it moving in the right direction, and once it starts running on its own, it's momentum that brings it back around for another go.

Also keep in mind that this single piston engine is two-stroke and not four as in the article.

Back to four stroke engines: Momentum and the firing of other pistons keeps the whole thing cycling back around. The more pistons you have, the more there are firing between each revolution of a given piston (and thus overcoming resistance and supplementing that momentum) and thus the more power available to drive the vehicle.
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There is couple of simple illustrations of what you get from the Prof. Brian Harvey's course.

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Bootstrapping8

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Tutorial10
I'm confused because I think typically a person would consider implying an article or perhaps a piece of code is useless would be an extremely dismissive move. Do you think it is unreasonable for me to imply you are being dismissive when, faced with a quantified piece of research, you suggest it is useless without providing a quantified counterpoint?
> Last few cars I've owned seem to be designed to prevent the owner from even looking under the hood.

I found I can't even rotate the tires on my current car (Sonata) because it's got no central jack point. Seems to be designed just for shops that can lift all 4 jack points at once. :-(
I'm pretty sure there must have been a few times in the past 100 years where the US's crimes against humanity as broadly detailed in the CIA torture report wouldn't have been as widely & flat-out ignored ... (as the forces behind your collectively turning a blind eye aren't very fair or just either)
This seems insufficiently different than Twitter after their recent changes, where you are can tweet your status, write posts that are longer than 140 characters, and direct message other users.
I found the talk interesting. Some points:

Sam Altman has talked to the fund managers who marked dropbox down. They said it was mostly for accounting and Sam offered to buy shares at the lower price but they didn't want to sell

Dropbox's plan to move from syncing your files to keeping your teams in sync

Bloomberg's video player was awful for me. Crashed about 5 times.
"Once" though is one event, which might include your body armor getting hit more than once. If you're up against automatic weapons, especially the more stable heavy ones (e.g. belt fed General Purpose Machine Guns), a plate getting hit more than once in one moment is fairly likely. The military SAPI and ESAPI standards require stopping 3 hits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Arms_Protective_Insert
This looks quite similar to the robots from Interstellar.
You might be forgetting about them.

For others notes are crucial parts of our workflow and projects.
Yup, two stroke model engines from cars/planes are also great for learning. Pull start, cheap, easy to disassemble, and you'll need to learn about tuning too - which is another whole load of fun!
Also, this is (I think, I'm not 100% up on Scala), insanely inefficient. Usually when people discuss the n-queens problem, they do a backtrack search, stopping as soon as some queen conflicts with an earlier queen.

You can of course then go on and get increasingly clever, but I think you should at least aim for backtracking.
yes and no. Yes they can do it, no they don't do it for all websites because it's slow and expensive. I'm still waiting for googlebot to figure out a simple window.location = ...

In conclusion, if you rely on googlebot reading your javascript: 1. for a vast majority of websites it will never happen 2. for popular websites it will happen but not as often.

Also, interestingly, this is a new way Google could push Angular: just make sure Angular powered websites don't suffer from this...
> [...] but it's a pity the unix world fragments yet again
> on something that should be trivial.

FWIW: Theo mentions in the talk that he's willing to change things if that makes it easier for other operating systems to adopt pledge(2).
> 229€ vs. 200$ (unfair as usual...)

EU prices tend to include sales (VAT) taxes. Does that US price include the sales tax?
Which pizzahut country are you referring to out of interest? Is this US?
I agree, to a certain extent, but mostly for the initial load. I remember reading an interesting article about how twitter does exactly this with "time to first tweet" being the defining metric. Beyond that, I think stateless services/web sockets/DOM-manipulation would best serve users who have a need for real-time updates and dynamic content.

For reference: https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/time-to-first-tweet
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I don't think it's just the wide observed variance in skill/ability that prevents unionization. It's also the individual differences and the fact that our jobs aren't obviously unsafe nor underpaid.

For me, I don't see the upside in unionizing. I'm very much libertarian and believe in the power of the individual. I'll bargain for myself and make my own choices long before I'll pay someone else to do that on my behalf collectively with a bunch of other people, many of whom I disagree with.

Individual bargaining works very well I think, and from what I saw of the family members in the coal, steel, and railroad unions growing up, those are not the situations that I'd like to spend any time, attention, or money on. It's hard for me to separate the union aspect from "way shittier than programming job" aspect, but seeing my grandpa forced to stay home to support a strike he didn't seem to believe in made an impression on me.
Who will pay Puerto Rico's pensions?
Anything that raises average programming wages significantly is likely to reduce peak programming wages. (Companies are unlikely to just take the increase in wages as a hit to profitability. They're going to shave the peak and put everyone into tighter "bands" than is currently the case and probably dismiss some of the lowest performers [which might be healthy, of course].)
Indeed, it has been golfed: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=196582

-l /.{@ARGV}/?print:map/((.).*)(.)(??{$2!=$3&&length$1!=abs$2-$3&&0})/||do$0,$_.1.."$_@ARGV"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtd33JEsN0
It's hard to give up flexibility. I'm single so I don't even need flexibility per say but I'm in a 100% remote situation and it's hard to leave for higher compensation.

would you be interested at all in a service that curates all job boards and e-mails you jobs only if a job matches your criteria (in your case it might be comp, flexibility, and a wide use of different technologies)... if so shoot me an e-mail david at moja dot io. would love to hear your thoughts.
Wherefor (https://www.wherefor.com/) does provide traveling suggestions based on budget. However I think factoring travelling interests is a nice idea. Maybe there can be more keywords for exploring?
I also quite like the minimal design style of the website.
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Honestly, I can see more than 4 lines of code there.
The property is a trivial cost in comparison to personal injury liability.
I'm halfway through a similar transition to farming. It's funny how sometimes a new task can be an excuse to buy more tools. I'd be interested in reading more from you about your new work!
Free software. The open source movement has no deeper ethical reasons for their beliefs.
As a former teacher with no CS degree and now on my 3rd developer job that I really enjoy I +1 this sentiment. I have some other tips if you need some, e-mail me I'd be happy to help. david at moja dot io
Not the shortest, but the most clear solving in Z3 because instead of an algorithm you define the solution: https://github.com/0vercl0k/z3-playground/blob/master/nqueen...
Google for State Farm customers with personal injury claims. Plenty of vitriol out there.
It probably will. I can see dropbox branching out into cloud hosting for websites. Web 2.0 valuations have been remarkably stable. 90% of the time, valuations either stay flat or keep rising.
Unfortunately most Australian employers can easily work around #3 by just employing staff on short fixed term contracts. Then they're under no obligation to renew them.

In theory they have to offer permanent employment after a certain time, but there are lots of ways around that. I worked as a casual staff member at a university here for 8 years and they just shuffled me to a different department when I got close to that point. Didn't bother me as I was both working and studying there at the time but the "casualisation" of staff that want permanent roles is rampant.
Thanks for the feedback. That's a great idea!

Our goal is to make it super simple, and eliminate any manual labor.

Sorry no picture yet. We are hoping to release s video of the mock with the tech specs before the 04/27 deadline.
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I tried what you said...The results were very inconsistent. As there is no particular format for posting there was no coherence at all
> OSI's intent was always to refer to the exact same thing as "free software", just use different language, and thus different arguments in favour of it.

If you use "different arguments" than freedom to argue about software freedom, then it's no longer the same movement. The free software movement has always been about ethics. The open source movement has no ethical backing, it values code quality over ethical treatment of users (which is why people talk about "open source DRM implementations" -- since DRM is meant to subjugate users, it cannot be free software. But it can be "open source").
Looks very cool. When do we expect to use it?
How would you render (to a cache) server-side if the rendering depends on the display size in a complicated way (too complicated for CSS to handle)?

Edit: yes, I understand that rendering means generating HTML, but sometimes the HTML depends on display size.
> The majority of traditional online travel websites (e.g. Booking, SkyScanner) work under the assumption that you know where you’re going. But what if you don’t know this?

Actually, lots of online travel agencies and aggregators have a "discovery/inspiration" phase in their overall booking flow. At most you can say that they're not doing it that well because you didn't recognize it as what it is. Or maybe they are doing it well because the user is just led through their flow and gets interested in certain destinations without realizing he's being influenced.

How much research have you done what existing travel websites have done in these regards?
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hello !

I have completed two business courses on Coursera, namely:

1. The Global Business of Sports

2. Foundations Of Business Strategy.

Both these courses I took more out of curiosity, rather than anything else.

Both these courses were good and helped me understand a lot of perspectives, though I have spent 16 years, in hardcore sales and distributions across 7 different industries.

I believe the certificates do matter, in the sense that, you started something and finished with a minimum qualifier.

If you are a developer and managed to finish business courses and have something to prove for it, thats says a a lot about your capability and attitude.

cheers !
I suppose you were either there and knew what it entailed or are clear on your facts? The Soviet Union at one late stage couldn't even supply sanitary towels for half its population and thus women had to tear up old clothes to take care of menstruation. But who cares as long as it put "the fucking Fear of God into the capitalist class". It didn't of course and thank goodness because the last 20 years of capitalism has seen the greatest decline in world poverty ever in the history of humanity. That's the result of letting individual humans make decisions about how they want to trade goods and services with other human beings.

By the way, the Gini index ranks Bosnia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Egypt and Vietnam as more equal than the UK. But in which of these countries is it better to be poor?
The stars would start disappearing and being distorted millennia before, I'd imagine.
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As a fellow remote employee with good managers it definitely is tougher for me to risk it and make the jump.
Yes, there are definitely others in this space exploring the same angle -- this is our take. And I think a broader category of interests is something we're moving towards, but not our main priority at the moment.
BTW, I had never heard of the "comma splice" rule before (but I'm not a native English speaker). It looks more like a stylistic rule than a grammar rule, and I can see nothing inherently wrong in using the form - the Wikipedia entry says it's considered acceptable or even compulsory in other languages. As a stylistic rule, it sounds like a particularly silly one, given that there are numerous examples of authors using comma splices in literature.

The Wikipedia entry mentions "The Elements of Style" by White and Strunk as one of the sources of the rule. The manual has been criticised by professional linguists, who noted that White and Strunk didn't even seem to understand what constitutes a passive voice (while discouraging their use). The manual also contains other silly prescriptions, like avoiding split infinitives.