skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't have a cite offhand but insurance industry employment has gone up by quite a lot (close to double if I recall correctly) since 2000.

Let's say I'm an insurance CEO. You tell me, that by spending 20 million on increased claim scrutiny, we'll net 1 million in total savings by disbursing 21 million fewer dollars.

What do I do there? It's obvious, I go for the 1 million. So I just spent 20 million in order to hand out 21 million fewer dollars. The policy holders are worse off, the country's worse off, and the insurance company only got a crappy 1 million out of it, compared to the 21 million they're no longer disbursing.

All perfectly rational given the incentives -- which is why the system's broken.
It is more like a well established touch typer switching from qwerty to dvorak, it can happen just takes will to change and a good amount of time.
I normally see north of 80 on the sites I work with, but I have never seen as high as you have gotten.
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here's the basic set of rules i adhere to:

1) only pick a few keywords.

2) make sure you have those keywords in the title tags, in an h1 that either copies or restates the title, and in an h2 that is basically a site summary sentence/paragraph. you can use css to hide or image replace the h1/h2.

3) get some other sites to link back to you. old, established, trusted sites are best. avoid link farms. avoid becoming a link farm yourself to obtain links. links with "nofollow" attributes don't count.

4) the url you have helps. whether it is yourkeyword.com, your-key-word.com or whatever.com/your-key-word, it isn't a huge thing to worry about (especially if you can't help it). but it does help to have the keywords in the url in some form.

5) in the end, content trumps most things. search engines are smart enough to recognize most spammy things. if you want to get good results, produce a good webpage with good content.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. I'm always amazed by the little single-serving amusement sites that get sustained attention. Congrats.

(RE: Word of mouth - point taken.. I was just expressing surprise that you didn't take advantage of more direct forms of social media virality)
They can review any e-mail communication that was addressed to or from your corporate account. This is also true if they are sued by a third party.
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Just installed, great so far. I love the shortcuts to the results beside the first one
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I'm pretty sure that was exactly what they were trying to do...
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The price scaling issue worried me at first, and then I noticed the monthly budgeting — great feature. In the long run, you’ll always sacrifice price (vs. an external hard drive) for off-site data persistence anyway.

In any case, this looks really awesome for documents/projects backup to supplement my TimeMachine drive.
1. I don't think anyone would complain about health care if it was handled well by insurance companies. However, health care, by and large, is suboptimal in this country. http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php shows the price to outcome outlier that we are.

2. We need to look at profits in the health care industry as similar to a VAT. If you have a profit margin at the end of the line, even if it's 18%, it's not that big of a deal. However, if each segment along the line adds a VAT, even a 5% tax of every segment can add up to a third of the cost, depending on how deep the pipeline goes. Each segment of the line is taking a profit. 3% of the health care industry, x% of the hospital (less than you would think because they subsidize so much of the uninsured) y% from the pharmaceutical industry, z% from the individually owned clinic... The end result is a disproportionately expensive system in this country.
It appears to be using the spotlight index. I wish it would also allow opening directories. I often have common filenames in each project directory (i.e. website1/index.html, website2/index.html). Would be nice to say "open website1" and have Finder pop up.

Also Large Type, which I think is really useful to people who need to project something quickly and without record. :)
Yes it is! As the parent comment said, the new design it's search focused with solid reasons behind it. Most people I know do basically 2 things on Facebook:

1. Search friends, or suggested names constantly. And the new layout focuses exactly on this.

2. Chat. (During chat: "do you know X Y?" -> 1, "saw person X with Z G" -> (if don't know) -> 1)

Disclosure: I usually don't use Facebook (just to connect with old friends, sometimes).
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Tell HN: NYC Supper club cooking a dinner at SXSW, come!
Hey guys, we at a razor, a shiny knife, a Brooklyn based supper club, will be throwing a dinner in Austin on Sunday the 14th.

It will be a 9 course vegetable-centric, but not vegetarian(unless by request) meal to give you a break from the obscene amount of BBQ you're likely to eat while at SXSW. I'll field any requests for info or questions via e-mail, so feel free to shoot me a line to the e-mail in my profile.

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Really beautifully captures overall trends as well as outliers such as the following: in the first example (life expectancy / fertility) check out the path of Rwanda from about 88-97 (slowly move the slider.)
I can't judge how much it'll cost to back my iMac up. I have about 750Gb of data.
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One reply to address the others. Yes, Spring does not require iface proliferation - it just makes life easier when you decide you need different implementations of the same idea if you've committed to ifaces up front. YAGNI still holds true since it's usually easy enough to refactor in an interface when it does become necessary.

As far as comments about the ugliness of Java in this regard, I couldn't agree more. However, Java is Java and Python is Python, etc. If you are working in Java, and a lot of people are and don't have the option of switching to something else (think corporate, where what is common and familiar is good), if you are committed to Java, then you must embrace its paradigms. Interfaces and implementation classes are one of those. Enjoy it without fuss and focus on the problem at hand. You'll lose less sleep that way.
Obviously it's more complicated than that, but the "we have to pay for the best and brightest!" meme starts to sound a lot more like self-dealing when it turns out the best and brightest do approximately the same quality job as one of those dipper things that replaced Homer Simpson at the nuclear plant for a week once.

Well said. My post above explains why CEO pay actually results in a worse product.

The "best and the brightest are not the ones who end up as CEOs of big companies." Pick one at random out of the Fortune 500. Give me a year to study the company and then replace him with me; I'm now the top dog. There is a 60% chance I will do a better job. I'm 26 and have no advanced degree. Do the same with a small business or a farm. There is almost a 0% chance I will do a better job. What does this say about large companies and their management?
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How on earth do you counterfeit a CPU of that grade without a trail a mile wide ?

I'm sure plenty of consumers would never notice if you swapped an i5 for an i7 but to counterfeit an entire CPU is next to unbelievable.

My guess is that if they follow these to the source they'll end up at an intel fab where they were discarded as rejects for some reason or other.
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Really? No one's broken hardware with bad software?

Kids these days.

Back in the early 80s there was a series of POKEs that would fry the old PETs. If I remember, it'd blow out the CRT flyback transformer.
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That makes sense,
However there must be some killer feature that makes them superior to the x64 architecture. Could it be memory architecture? Power efficiency? How would you explain to a PHB the advantages it gives you over x64?
That's been my experience, as well.
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I paid full, but I'll probably more beer/wine anyway.
My responses will focus on the PC market, mostly. The console market is a different beast altogether.

> Instead of relying on a single instance of a product making money for years to come, focus more on new games

Sell it at a loss, make it up in volume? Right.

> or in-game content sales.

That's exactly what I DON'T want. Dragon Age has a guy in your camp with the "I have a quest!" marker above his head. Except it's a paid quest. And you can't make him go away. Die. And what, exactly, is supposed to prevent someone from pirating in-game content sales?

DRM sucks. But so do people. LGP is a small company fighting the good fight. They have clear evidence that piracy is taking place. There are only a few things they can do about it:

- Suck it up and take it. This is the route that most indie/small companies take. Estimates at the piracy rates from other indie devs seem to be about 80-90% [1][2][3].

- Build DRM like 2k games, using SecuROM and like technologies, that make users despise you. This option is expensive in both money and reputation.

- Build DRM like Steam or Stardock's Impulse, where the pain of DRM is offset by the community aspects and other perks. This option is expensive in money, but the reputation damage is minimal.

- Do something quick and simple. LGP seems to have implemented this option.

I posit[1] that DRM does reduce piracy. It cannot stop it, but it can reduce it. Most vendors try to come up with a 100% solution that turns out to be an 80% solution while screwing the legit user over. LGP has chosen to aim for an 80% solution, and I bet it will be just as effective as the other DRM schemes (which is to say, maybe 10-20% of people who would have pirated won't. It only has to pay for itself, remember!). The LGP solution isn't described in much detail, but if it works the way they claim (no internet connection, etc) it seems to fail open. How common is that? I really hope this works for them, because evidence that this works would be a great precedent.

Due to this scheme, when LGP says they're giving you a license for the game and not the game itself, they really mean it. They're giving you the benefits of a license-based scheme rather than just the usual punishments. This sort of scheme is exactly what I want the RIAA to implement; I want my collection in the cloud, and I want to be able to download and play the music on any computer I want, as many times as I want.

1) http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350

2) http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/

3) http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/25809/TapFu_Developer_Cla...
Has anyone tried both Backblaze and this?
No. You seem to be confused. The content of our posts and the work we do remains editorially totally independent. These aren't "hybrid" deals. These are deals where we continue to produce our content as is -- with no changes or no requirements and no say from the companies who are sponsoring. That's on purpose -- and we're quite upfront about that to the companies we work with. Why would we risk our reputation by pulling punches, when it's our honest and forthright opinions that make the site what it is.
Thank you for the advice and constructive criticism, and I do take what you say as that. Most of my counterpoints you addressed already (I guess that's a sign of a good leader :); yes my web site CV is more generic, and yes it is unusual for you to be without Word.

The truth is I really respect the leadership at the company that gave me an offer and I WANT that job. My lack of attention to detail to this could be a reflection of that.

Thank you again.
I think you will get over this after about 3 days of using Haskell for real. It's an essential technique that greatly improves readability once you get used to it. Remember, functional programming is about composing functions (and effects), not about data flowing through the program. Ideally you will never see your data, but sometimes it's easier to mention it. (I thought the same thing; "I hate point-free". But then I started writing serious code, and realized that it's much easier to read when you don't mention the irrelevant.)

You have saved a total of 4 keystrokes. And made that line of code look really weird and hard to understand.

Anyway, your examples are faulty. Here's what they would look like in real life:

Point-ful:

sum :: Num a => [a] -> a
sum xs = foldr (+) 0 xs

Point-free:

sum :: Num a => [a] -> a
sum = foldr (+) 0

So there is no confusion; there is actually less confusion. Sum is just a fold over (+) with a seed of 0. That's all it is; the fact that there is this "xs" variable is irrelevant -- we know a fold operates on a list already, there is no need to say that again.

If the sum example confuses you, that's fine, that's not the best example of point-free style. Perhaps these are easier to understand:

Tack on ".xml" to every filename in a list:

(++ ".xml") <$> files

instead of:

(\x -> x ++ ".xml") <$> files

Extract the `snd` part of a value during a monadic computation:

f >>= return . snd

Instead of

f >>= \x -> return $ snd x

And so on. Basically, point-free style lets you omit the parts that are understood. In the second example, of course you're operating on the value that >>= binds. That's the point of >>=. No need to say that every time.

So yeah, I think point free style is one of these annoying features of Haskell, that seem to be put in so that users of Haskell can pat themselves on the back and feel like they are very smart. But in the end it does not add much to the language and makes it much less accessible.

Nope, sorry. Point-free notation often makes code simpler and easier to understand (and easier to compose, of course). If it doesn't make your particular code easier to read, then the solution is simple -- don't use it in that case. But it is yet-another useful tool in the toolbox.
You can't figure out what 750 * 0.15 comes to?
True, but one big "gotcha" to this is that there is no way to do a complete restore from a time machine volume. There is no iscsi initiator on the OS X system DVD (and therefore no way to select your TM backup for a complete system restore).
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Lots. Roughly US$112.50 per month. CrashPlan and SpiderOak are better price value, although I might look at using this to have a secondary backup of critical items. Even that, for me, though, is about 200GB (photos & music) or about $30/mo.
Who said anything about ignoring your readers and the choices they make. I said the exact opposite.

And, come on, don't put up strawmen. Just because you're not lobbying to change the laws doesn't change the comparison which was apt: rather than admitting you need to fix your business model, you blamed your users for the choices they made. It's obnoxious, and you guys -- of all the sites out there -- should know that better than anyone.
Personally, I write the type signature before I write the function implementing it. It is a nice thing to look at as you are writing the function; it keeps you focused on what to do. Oh, and it is great documentation, that the compiler ensures is up to date -- if your function does something the type signature disagrees with, your program won't compile. Excellent!

One other thing I do, which is maybe not as common, is liberally using "type" aliases. Instead of:

connectToDatabase :: String -> String -> String -> IO DatabaseHandle

I would write:

type Dsn = String
type Username = String
type Password = String

connectToDatabase :: Dsn -> Username -> Password -> IO DatabaseHandle

Self-documenting. (The type declarations also let you hang haddock documentation off them; good if you are using that type in more than one function. Then instead of documenting what a "Password" is everywhere you have a Password, you can just document it at the type declaration. Time-saving!)

As an aside, I could also get type safety by using "newtype" instead of "type". For something this simple, though, I find the flexibility of being able to use any old String to be rather useful; ``connectToDatabase (mkDsn "MySQL:foobar") (mkUsername "jrockway") (mkPassword "OH HAI")'' is a bit verbose, after all.

(I am also usually too lazy to derive Monad, MonadError, MonadWrite, and MonadIO instances for things like "type MyAction = ReaderT String (WriterT [String] (ErrorT String IO))", so I use type instead of newtype.)
so if a company doesn't act like a patent troll it's fair gain litigation wise?
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Right, I use it as a supplement to my Time Machine drive as well, for my most important stuff (documents + photos).

Maybe I should call out that use case on the landing page.
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It does seem to have the disadvantage that it's one-shot and you burn up your generator.
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I'm in the same position with Butler; I'm not sure what Alfred offers over LaunchBar or Butler.
I suffer from hypertension. I'm not currently fat and haven't been for some years, I run 35 km every week or more, but I still need the pills (with their nasty side-effects).
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And I know code should have type signatures but it often doesn't.

Often? All the libraries in GHC have type signatures. All the libraries on HackageDB I've used have type signatures. All the apps I've written have type signatures. Even most Haskell blog posts (and wiki pages) use type signatures.

I think you should just peruse some production Haskell code, and try writing a bit of your own. If you set aside your belief that everyone is out to confuse you for a few minutes, I think you'll find that most Haskell is quite readable, and quite writable. You'll see how other people compose functions, what the idioms are, and then stuff like "sum = foldr1 (+)" won't confuse you anymore. Instead, I think you'll see how you can read and write code more quickly, and how to understand your program in terms of function application instead of in terms of passing around boxes that hold data.
Mouselook around, or whip it around if you're playing an FPS. I can't think of too many times where actually walking backwards would be advantageous since it usually makes you move more slowly.
I think the only way to do it, is to somehow package an old and cheap chip in the i7 package. It still won't be cheap but it is doable.
Agreed, it's a great concept and nice execution.

Suggestion: If any of the devs see this thread, it'd be great to have privacy settings, so (optionally) only approved folks could see your travel plans.

Edit: After RTFA, I see that "...And after the SXSW madness, the plan is to implement more privacy features, we’re told."

Cool.
Makes it clear that it doesn't matter which one you choose, for the vast majority of us, as long as you choose to use one. If you are an independent developer, or in a small group project, choose one of these DVCS (choose CVS or SVN if you've got a substantial number of people well-trained in using them; a lot of hw chip designers seem to be used to using CVS). Any one of these three have enough tutorials and intro docs online that most of us can get started using any of them with very little effort.

I've been using Mercurial for most of my projects for over a year and a half now, have used git for a handful of projects, and have used bazaar for one (git and bazaar were chosen by others who started the projects). I have encountered nothing troubling (except for my own fumbling errors) ever.
Ask HN: How to recruit great hackers in a remote location?
I work for a small company based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. The company, ssimicro.com, is a great place to work, has many qualities of a startup (although we've got enough funding that we pay very well), has opportunities for entrepreneurship from within, and desperately we need great hackers.

The problem so far has been that most of the people we've contacted or who've contacted us are unwilling to move to what they perceive as the cold, dead arctic. All the people we've interviewed said they loved the job atmosphere and what we're doing (the fully-loaded bar/beer fridge, pool table, huge TV + PS3 tend to help with that). But they feel like they won't enjoy Yellowknife at all, so they don't respond.

How can we go about more effectively finding great hackers to help us build software services that make use of our unique, satellite/microwave-last-mile network?
Yes, it is bad. The distinction between less and fewer can aid interpretation of a sentence, especially in spoken language.

Consider:
"I have less chocolate" vs "I have fewer chocolates"

In the first case, even if you don't hear the correct ending to the word chocolate, it is clear that you are talking about an amorphous mass of chocolate. In the second case, it is clear that you have distinct chocolates.

Natural language works on multiple redundancy, expecting some wastage as the information is conveyed. Any common mistake that detracts from the precision with which you can express yourself is a bad thing.
The "counterfeits" don't work at all; the "processor" is just a piece of metal and the "heatsink" is made of plastic.
As I said, I'm not a Techdirt reader. However, just going to http://www.techdirt.com/index.php?edition=itinnovation blind, I would not assume any such independence at all.

Admittedly, that's a slightly different issue.
Wow.. Inspirational. Thanks to the Mite team for providing these numbers. Simply awesome.
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From the reports I've seen, the CPU was entirely fake -- it was an inert chunk of molded metal.
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The Finder's Economy is to online, what secretaries, agents, personal assistants and the like are to your life offline. Soon enough, many major online sites will offer ecosystems for 3rd parties to play intermediaries, as the World shifts towards a services economy. Finder websites will likely emerge as well.
> Switching the engine off in drive or neutral does not appear to lock the steering.

Turning the engine off with the key need not lock the steering, but it will lock the steering if you turn the key past off to lock.

In a run-away engine scenario, are you likely to stop turning the key in a position that you don't use very often? Or, are you likely to turn it as hard as possible?

There may be an interlock that is supposed to keep the key from locking the steering while in drive or neutral, but do you trust it? (What about manual transmission cars? I know that I can lock my steering while in gear. I forget whether it requires clutch-in though.)
It really sucks from a developer perspective in that one of the major differences between iphone and android is that you could download an apk from non market sources and now they remove that choice from users grasp.
I was thinking of adding Pogoplug support. That way storage would be much cheaper, although backing up to a Pogoplug at a friend's house may be much less reliable than backing up to S3.

Would anyone be interested in this?