skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's certainly the case around here that doctors are moving under the hospital umbrella.

That's part of a trend that's a few decades old, and which has accelerated in the last 5-10 years. It's not a function of the number of physicians; physicians are selling their practices to hospitals because they can no longer sustain themselves in private practice.

> I don't think the hospitals are forced to keep their prices obscure though (see Massachusetts or Oklahoma), it just happens to be the best way for them to make revenue because if people could easily shop prices, they would.

If anything, hospitals would prefer to be able to compete this way directly. They can't, though, because there is no single 'price', even if you're talking about a discrete, routine procedure that has no risk for complications. The way medical billing works, they don't necessarily have a set price for a given service per carrier. And even if they do, that doesn't always correlate to what the patient ends up paying (which is, of course, the thing the patient actually cares about). The reason they don't have a set price - even internally - isn't because they don't want to. It's because the contracts with public and private insurers have resulted in the amount of money they need to charge for a service being a function of so many external factors that they literally can't.

Chapter 224 is a perfect example of a feel-good law that doesn't actually do anything in practice, because it fails to address the underlying complexity that's the root of the current problem with price transparency.
His regrets after Malcom X was dead were warranted, and doesn't excuse his betrayal. What matters is how you treat someone when they're alive, not what your sentiments are after their death.

It's been several years since I read Malcolm X's autobiography, but he did specifically talk about his relationship with Ali and what happened, which was the real basis of my comment. Malcolm's depiction of the events is much more negative from my recollection. I just provided the above link instead, since I wasn't able to find an excerpt from the book.

Not sure why my previous comment was voted down, given that it was both true and on topic. I can only assume someone would prefer to keep their hero on a pedestal rather than admit everyone has their flaws.
> The title says Semi-automated what is semi about it the entire article seams to imply fully automated translation.

Each machine translation is proofread and edited by a human before publication.
How do people stumble across Scala? It seems to me that the best programming languages for any given developer is that which sort of emerges into your life by luck of the draw. Probably the first was through your first job or your on-ramp into gig work. Then you may pick up more as you land on other projects. Sure, it's good to pick up ideas by learning other programming languages, but you can only get so far into the learning curve before you start cutting into time that could better be spent elsewhere. Is Scala (with its steep learning curve) the sort of language you would pick up just to improve your programming skills?

I would think the answer to the original question would be that if you have to ask then probably it's not the right direction for you. This is especially the case if you are looking for something for your next project. You have a big learning curve before you even get started.

Start at the end and work your way backwards. What's the fastest way you can get from point A to showing off your project? Even better. What's the fastest way to get from point A to making a dollar?

Pick up something that's already on your shelf, throw up a sketch of something finished on your wall and then get to THAT as fast as possible. No project should start with "learn Scala" unless you're being paid to learn it.
Except when the upgrades come with more nagging for Apple services.
Rosetta's Comet Is Even Weirder Than We Thought
At some level definitely.

The whole concept of countries creating way too much currency to pay their bills is a good reflection of this -- Zimbabwe and Venezuela being two recent and current examples. The irony is that all of that "extra" money actually means the recipients become substantially poorer as the supply chains get fucked up.

If it is just a little extra injection, the outcome would not be as extreme. In the most general cases, my guess is somewhere with a tight housing market would see a lot of the money just flow to landlords, in a renter's market the money might flow to consumable goods like drugs and alcohol.

If social & welfare programs are removed in exchange for BI, it is possible all the money would just have to be spent on medical and education. I don't really know the math behind everything but it could just be a restructuring of things that are already occurring. Do extra marketing and "profit" costs exceed government waste? Who knows. Certainly the ability for the government to influence social behavior would be reduced by a lot.
From the article:

>Or consider the unemployed young man who fathers a child. Today, society is unable to make him shoulder responsibility. Under a UBI, a judge could order part of his monthly grant to be extracted for child support before he ever sees it. The lesson wouldn’t be lost on his male friends.

> Or consider teenage girls from poor neighborhoods who have friends turning 21. They watch—and learn—as some of their older friends use their new monthly income to rent their own apartments, buy nice clothes or pay for tuition, while others have to use the money to pay for diapers and baby food, still living with their mothers because they need help with day care.

The author seems to be proposing that child support for 3 children can/should be taken from their fathers' UBI grants. Therefore, the mother would receive a larger grant based on her number of children.
Given MiTM, etc attacks, why does this particular statement not sit well with me?

"Any discussion on end-to-end encryption in XMPP should begin with a reminder that in a federated system end-to-end encryption is not always necessary. When you trust your provider encrypting the transport layer is sufficient."
I think the most important one here is the Windows Store.
A naive question: how often are replacements ever dropped in?
Note that businesses will typically use Win10 Enterprise, often with WSUS.
https://github.com/18F/chat

Seems like the Slack invite app is not deployed to cloud.gov right now.
Have you seen the new McD's ordering kiosks? They're definitely there, and I find I prefer them to the previous cashier experience.

That combination looks bad for fast food front of house workers...
Or you can have no appetite to play whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings and refuse to upgrade.
Did you check the downloads? I think the schematics there are going to be more readable.
Only if the government added money to the system without removing it elsewhere.

Any sane policy doesn't involve just printing money and giving it to people. It involves taking that money from someone else, through taxes, and THEN giving it to people.
Maybe you should go back and read again.

> Even if Chrome had push notification on iOS

This is what I said. And this applies to rest of the paragraph. Also open standard has absolutely nothing to do with this, and that was exactly my point. You guys think just because it's open standard it's all open and good, but my point was it is not. The reality is Google and Apple are effectively duopoly when it comes to anything push notification related (GCM is the gatekeeper for Android, APNS is the gatekeeper for iOS). So it doesn't matter if a technology is open standard, it wouldn't even matter if it was completely open source. The reality is your push MUST go through either Apple or Google.
Then why, every time XMPP is mentioned, do droves of people praising Matrix and bashing XMPP show up out of nowhere?
Much of the appeal of UBI is that there is no massive government pork program to determine eligibility, track compliance with rules, etc. The "U" is important to many of us, provided it allows the disassembly of the massive bureaucracy present today.
> we are only fueling the flames of javascript fatigue

The majority of people I have seen complaining about Javascript fatigue do it from the peanut gallery. If you are a Javascript developer: you shouldn't have javascript fatigue unless you chase after the latest and greatest - which you shouldn't do. If you do not experience have "cereal fatigue" at the supermarket, you shouldn't get Javascript fatigue either.

It took me all of 30 seconds to skim the home page and to conclude "hmm, I don't need this now", but I've filed it at the back of my mind should I require it some day (I might not remember the name then, but I'll be able to figure out the search keywords).

> We need to stop fragmenting and start doubling down on existing libraries.

I reject this sentiment. You can't force people to contribute to projects they have no passion for. You also can't prevent people from scratching their own itch and registering a domain for their slightly different flavor-of-the-week JS project. Best you can do is ignore them or support them. The undeserving will wither eventually, you do not owe any project your attention.
Is this close enough?

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11853096/statement-on-emmett-ren...

Or maybe:

http://archive.is/HpiQb

Both refer to removed posts, but one has someone encouraging riots if a Trump rally comes to town, and one wants violent left wing extremism.
The dreams must be incremental. For example, for me, dreaming about a house so big it has 'wings' is a latter-stage dream.

I'm still fantasizing about the German doors from the other HN thread this week.
Translation: Socialism
I forgot it and completely agree, they want a cut of anything installed on the machine. And following this logic I wouldn't be surprised if they would make it increasingly difficult to install any non store app. Requiring them to be signed first, then signed by them against a fee, then simply not allowed like iOS does.

Which is why not having the option to turn down upgrade after having been upgraded to windows 10 is problematic.
This is a good time to mention that ad tracking tends to be separate from for example SQM telemetry in general.
Trying to power a metal-shelled computer with a 2-prong plug always seemed to me like an example of Apple painting themselves into a corner. The only two options as far as I know are to leave the case floating (which seems bad) or to tie it to the outlet's neutral pin (less bad, but still not great). The latter presumably leaves you at the mercy of how well the building's neutral pins are grounded. The fact that Apple decided to use fairly puny wires between the power brick and the computer probably doesn't help either.

[Also, the link on electrovibration seems to imply it's a capacitive effect, so it's caused by an electric (not magnetic) field.]
I never said or implied anyone was using weapons to threaten people. Maybe they are, I have no idea. But that's irrelevant as my point was that appealing to the lack of a law is a weak argument if your intent is to show a lack of censorship.

I intentionally left my own views out of the last comment as I try to stay away from these kinds of discussions since they're rarely productive and my views are pretty all over the place and change frequently(other than free speech, it's pretty much the only thing I'm an absolutist on), but I've seen your last point stated more and more frequently lately and it rubs me the wrong way. One group is saying "You can't say X/you shouldn't be able to say X", while the other group is saying "Stop telling me what I can and can't say". The first group is trying to suppress opposing views directly, while the second is trying to suppress the attempted suppression of speech, not the opposing views themselves. They are not equivalent.
I agree with most of your points but one stands out. Tor is absolutely perceived as a threat to US national and general security. The silk road takedown put it vividly on radar.

The goal of an operation like this would be to replace the non compliant actor with a compliant actor. In this case, remove the guy and replace him with someone willing to insert code to compromise the codebase.

We don't know if that's what happened/is happening here, but we don't know it's not either. And I personally don't subscribe to the stupidity/malice law that's regularly thrown around here on HN.
I just run win7 in a VM on Linux.
I prefer spaces. Tabs can render differently in different editors, making alignment harder.

Always irks me when I come across some config file format that only accepts tab delimeters.
They did do something similar with Windows RT, but that was completely locked down with no existing Win32 app base to worry about. And yes, they do have uninstall I think with 30 days before files are deleted.
"In my humble opinion clojure.spec is the most VPRI-worthy feature Rich Hickey has shipped since delivering fast persistent data structures." Love this quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb__daXOQJ0
I think I know what you're talking about when you mention Authoritarian Followers---something like abused kids who only know how to deal with situations in which they are abused, even when they grow up.

The worse part is they want to have "followers" themselves as well, subconsciously, repeating the cycle.

I still have many properties of Authoritarian Followerism in myself, but I'm making progress.

One of the difficult parts is many people around me show blatant signs of that followerism and it's easy to get sucked back down with them.

E.g., a coworker protested my protestations against our company stack ranking employees based on "quantitative" metrics, and then many months later backpedaled on his words when someone who had a more important title said the same concerns.
> Related: [comment from 1977 days ago]

Yes, people have been bashing XMPP forever. http://stpeter.im/journal/1384.html

The XMPP protocol is quite qualified to compete with WhatsApp, considering they are using XMPP (with some custom non-standard compression).

XMPP is a fine protocol. Just because a bunch of people has been chanting "XMPP is a just a bad protocol" over and over does not make it true.
Large businesses. It's the DIY small businesses that always have problems. They should switch to Chrome OS.
The answer to your question is obvious if you've ever worked in a large development organization.
My mistake. Still, I think it should be a flat UBI. The point shouldn't be to supplement income but to be income. Plus I think, politically it's a harder sell to provide levels is support ("WE DONT GET AS MUCH BECAUSE WE'RE SUCCESSFUL THATS BULLSHIT", etc.)
This is a good time to mention that the minimum for volume licensing is only 5 copies.
Under UBI the payment and coverage of UBI would be one of, if not the, largest expenditures of government. Vital to getting votes will be keeping the amount received steady and high. And that might mean printing money if necessary.

With land tax the system is self correcting and balanced. With the taxes you mentioned you'd eventually get the inflationary spiral as a market correction.
Why don't you just openly call him stupid since that's what you're implying, or just not post at all if you can't refrain from doing so.
When I was a kid, my dad had a postcard lying around with a reply from Isaac Asimov about a pattern my dad said he found in primes by writing them in a table or something. The answer was basically, "when you look at the page your visual cortex is doing a ton of math you're not factoring in..."
I mostly agree. A few people would stick around to get the check and BI, but a lot of people would just say "Take this job and shove it!"
lein figwheel new?
lein devcards new?

Depending on your definition of experiment I think Clojure has a MUCH better story for getting to a good beginner setup with live reloading than webpack/react
Elon Musk did everything but confirm that Tesla Model 3 will be fully autonomous
It's down for some internal IT reasons, but should be back up at some point soon (but not this weekend).
The US measures unemployment differently, you're right. Which one is a more accurate measure however is up for debate. Given the higher US poverty rate, lesser social services and lower minimum wage, I don't think underemployment in Canada and underemployment in the USA carry the same weight.

I should add current Canadian unemployment (as of March) is under 1% higher than the 2006 level as reported by StatsCan.

I think you can attribute the high level of Canadian household debt to the insane cost of real estate in urban Canada. Real estate prices have inflated dramatically.

You're right, I didn't use the word recession correctly. But I don't think anyone can reasonably argue Canada or the US are currently in boom time.

US GDP per capita may be higher than Canadian GDP per capita, sure, but US external debt is 114% of your GDP, versus 92% of Canada's.

I'm not an economist.
Edit: Note that i am not disagreeing that MS is engaging in a dark pattern by opting-in users implicitly, and then only informing them about said opt-in having happened. The snide and snark in this post only came about because i realized rather suddenly what was actually happening, and how the misreporting and sensationalizing had skewed this whole thing in a way that the reporting helped literally nobody but people's click counters.

Know that the upgrade is not unavoidable, and if you have friends who don't want it, tell them how they can avoid it.

> The windows boxes in our office have been upgrading themselves, much to everyone's dismay

Go around and ask which of your colleagues closed this window without actually reading it: http://i.imgur.com/aWFX0vc.png
Its all about our human connections. You can be rich and still maintain these human connections. We are social beings after all.
Pearl transforms your iPhone photos into narrated stories to share with friends
I don't know if Facebook has done any formal studies. Here's one way to think about it: if you have a webapp and have state in JS objects that you have to synchronize with the DOM, that generally takes a fair bit of code. React provided an approach for eliminating synchronization code entirely.

My own experience and that of the many others that created webapps pre-React and then adopted it is that its model simplifies our work and removes bugs. That's why we use it. It's also why there are a bunch of other vdom libraries and Ember and Angular have both moved toward similar one-way data flow models.

There's a lot that we do day-to-day that doesn't have research to back it up. At some point, we have to try things out for ourselves to see how they work for us.
One major difference being that Vue.js doesn't really quite support TypeScript even with d.ts files provided. It will work only to a point until things fail to typecheck due to generative aspects of Vue's API.[1]

I think a useful comparison is taking a look at t7[2], trueadm's template library. Last I knew, it wasn't ready for use with Inferno yet, but that is a peek at the direction it is heading. It's rather similar to Vue's templates minus the v-directives magic in favor of leveraging JS for things like control flow.

I'm not 100% sure I'm sold on it, myself, as I rather like beating out Vue templates in Jade rather than doing everything in JavaScript with template strings. That being said, I haven't directly tried to implement anything with Inferno or t7 yet to turn in an informed opinion on working with it.

Inferno is one of the few other library than Vue I'd even bother looking at, however, at this point in time. They both aren't horribly bloated, are rather quick and have a mostly sane model to work with. Cito.js[3] is also interesting and works with t7, if you're looking for even less frills.

It is also worth noting that if you care about licenses, Vue is MIT and Cito.js and Inferno are using a much more heavily restrictive license, MPL 2.0, which will matter if you're a commercial developer doing standalone apps. For this reason alone I have to throw Inferno and Cito.js into the trash at work.

[1]: https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues/478

[2]: https://github.com/trueadm/t7

[3]: https://github.com/joelrich/citojs
I've been using it for a couple of months for Apache Spark - it allows me to create succinct big data jobs running on a Hadoop cluster. Short code which does not try to be too clever for its own good is really great at making the algorithms be more comprehensible.

One problem I have is sbt - our projects are all defined in Maven, and for many library / dependency problems, Google leads me to sbt solutions which are hard to understand. Guess I will have to learn another build system.

I would like to use Scala again in a larger project, but there are so many existing Java frameworks out there that can solve the problems we have. So it is hard to define a business use case that requires experienced Java developers on the team to switch to Scala and use libraries and frameworks that are not as thoroughly tested and supported compared to the already known ones.

Tooling: The Scala plugin for IntelliJ is getting better, but it had some bugs like suggesting to remove required imports which broke classes. I like the easy navigation between Java and Scala libs - sure, you get "null problems" from using Java, but you can use almost all your existing Java code (Just don't try to use commons.StringUtils.join instead of Scala .mkString ;) ).
If people could read we'd live in a completely different world, run by people elected by voters because it was in their best interests; where no one clicked a EULA, because the contents of them are insane; and no one bought the extended warranty.
Those quotes are about enforcing responsibility and repercussions for unwise decisions, and how that functions as deterrence. Taking money away from the father is framed as punishment, the mother getting money is just a happy coincedence (remember he excludes children from the UBI and then he sketches a scenario where a dad has to lose a lawsuit before having to pay). He doesn't concede that people in some situations simply need more money to live, because that concession would be fatal. After all, if some people need more money than others then you need to do means testing (oh wait, that's what every country is already doing and the root cause of all the inefficiency he seeks to eliminate), which is the exact opposite of the UBI.
I've never learned perl in depth but I've never seen a perl script that didn't seem either a) overly complicated or b) terse to the point of being opaque.

Shell scripts, for all their warts, tend to be fairly readable and easy to follow unless deliberately obfuscated. I would include Python here to a point as well, though Python is certainly friendly to architecture astronauts also.
Solving that is what this post is about
It's possible that kefir contains the necessary bacteria, or that children at an early age have exposure to them through kefir.
The tool doesn't look like it's meant to be run within a cloud. Instances in a VPC without internet access would have only private IP addresses within the CIDR range of the subnet in which they are launched.

It's to find out which cloud a public IP address belongs to, for which the public data source/whois lookup seems the only option.

PS: the metadata (in case of AWS) can be accessed only within the instance itself.
If UBI seems possible to pass within 5 years, that will be signal to ramp up investments in low-end rental properties. You have to do it before it's certain to pass (else the purchase price runs up), but I can't see anything happening to rents other than a sharp move up.
It means you may soon have amazing error messages when working with Clojure. You'll also be able to write your code in such a way that it gives you amazing error messages when some part of it breaks.
I've seen people use it, and I've heard good things about it. Never seen anyone use bing maps, or say anything good about it.

Having said that, I agree: there's no way in hell Apple Maps could ever become a universal map.