skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal Windows Platform. A development platform for making apps that work similarly on regular desktop Windows as well as the touch interfaces of Surface/Windows Phone, etc.
Absolutely. But I'd wager the vast majority of the increases land well above the rate of inflation. And since open-enrollment begins a few days before the Presidential election, it'll be interesting to see how those numbers are managed given that Hillary has hitched her campaign to the Affordable Care Act as an extension of her original campaign for universal health insurance when she was First Lady.
I meant the latter.
It's great to see an article treating the subject seriously! It diverges from the usual explanation "Men are so stupid that they will stop peeing on the floor if you draw a fly in them". Nonobstant that we pee on the floor because said toilets are so dirty that we'd get an STD by getting to close.
For everyone that complains about Let's Encrypt, I just want to state that Let's Encrypt solves the single largest use case for issuing certificates for domains - a single server you control which hosts one (or more) website(s).

All of these issues with 3 month certs, rate limiting, and limited certs/domain stem from much more complicated problems and it isn't fair to expect Let's Encrypt to tackle those.
> a stay-at-home/starting-a-company dad

I truly cannot comprehend how you can do both. Just doing the stay-at-home dad thing for a week was taxing.
You must be pretty healthy or never actually had to pay for care in the US. You also probably shouldn't assume you're the only one in the room who moved to the US from another country.

I moved to the US from Canada, thankfully I am pretty healthy and don't need the healthcare system beyond my yearly checkups. The first place I lived had someone who lived down the street who will be paying off a $100k bill until they die because of a heart surgery they had to have. Wonderful system.

On the other hand my father, who still lives in Canada, complained of shortness of breath one Thursday. Called his doctor and was told to go into the emergency room right then. He did, because he didn't have to worry about how much the visit would cost. They found a 90% blockage in his aorta. Was immediately admitted for surgery that occurred Friday. Was free to leave the next week. Total cost, $150.

Ya, US health care system is fucking awesome.
Why do you say inefficiencies? 40% is entirely out of context, because you haven't listed what other budgeting responsibilities Canadian provinces have.

Canada spends far less per capita on health than the us, and gets better outcomes.

It's certainly expensive, but it's hard to make the case that Canadian care is expensive relative to the US.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/09/20/medicare-is-more-ef...
Back when I was a tech journalist, I always felt uncomfortable speaking with representatives of the Tor project. Their approach to communicating always seemed needlessly accusatory and combative. It left me with the strong impression that they are more interested in shouting down criticism and downplaying the extent to which Tor is abused rather than educating the public and engaging with the broader tech community in good faith.

The poor way that the organization and its members have dealt with the allegations made against Applebaum over the years seems emblematic of the broader problems with their culture and the inept way that they handle criticism and internal failures.

I think a lot of us, particularly open source enthusiasts and civil libertarians, are inclined to give them a free pass because we value the underlying ideas that the Tor project ostensibly represents. But it's increasingly clear that not holding the organization to higher standards of accountability was a disservice to the ecosystem.
wasn't there some other article recently that stated the supply in NY is increasing to the point of benefiting renters (less demand/more supply)?
This article misses some of the most pressing questions! Do I aim for the water or the porcelain? Why are there a million varieties of urinals but all toilets are essentially identical in shape? What can we do to mitigate those terrible moments when a stray hair or something causes what should be one stream to become two? How can we best use a urinal at an airport while being forced to take our luggage with us in hand?
Unpopular content falls off of freenet as well (or used to, I'll admit I haven't studied it in years). If no one is requesting it it won't end up stored on the various nodes and will eventually disappear.

The difference between Freenet and IPFS is that IPFS is opt-in for duplicating data, where as Freenet was not (you couldn't even opt-out, only on the total amount you would store).
That narrative is a bit strange in the US, as the only federal/state mandated leave afforded to new parents (if they even qualify) is one that covers major medical/caretaker leave too.
Universal Windows Platform [1], which has been derided by some prominent game developers [2].

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/wha...

[2]: http://www.pcgamer.com/epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-pummels-microsof...
Dreamweaver let you try to do things that wouldn't play nice with HTML and it would use the limited tools available at the time to make bloated sites that still didn't look right in most browsers.

Then since Dreamweaver was garbage people decided that any WYSIWYG HTML-editor is guaranteed to be terrible and nobody ever tried again.
We need a serious disruption of insurance industry. A paradigm change.
> Sounds a little like you generally stop at the aesthetic level.

No, it doesn't sound like that at all. You've just decided to read it that way and make an ad-hominem argument instead of engaging with the statement itself.

> Hmmm. You should be making exactly this sort of decision all the time. The major task of a developer, as I see it after doing this for 36 years, is to pay a lot of attention to context and apply what you've learned by experience wisely. Erring on the side of caution and waiting until there's evidence you need something isn't a bad 1st order heuristic. I would label people who consistently stop at the 1st order heuristic and go no farther as "shallow."

I agree with everything you said, and have not said anything that contradicts it.

It's a good heuristic. And it's only that. And lots of people apply it poorly.
The Netherlands has also a private market like this: https://www.government.nl/topics/health-insurance.

I always go for a high deductible (and lower monthly fee) for example.

Edit:

(1) Costs for individual: It does cost me around 80 euros, my deductible is 800 euros (maximum allowed) and I'm 100% covered for medical costs at the physician and at the hospital.

(2) Costs for government: 11.9% of GDP.
Building Soundcloud's iOS App; in-depth retrospective
Multiple microservices are supposed to have different data backends, so that they are completely independent. Splitting your data up this way isn't all roses, but ideally the services are isolated so an update to one doesn't affect the others.
Troughs are great! I'm impressed by the simplicity of it, "this thing must be a cinch to clean! ten seconds of hose, air dry!" I despise the frequent click bait articles about "how to use maths to choose which urinal to use." Use any urinal! Grow up and don't mind your fellow men satisfying their natural impulses just like you. Overcoming "stage fright" is a marker of growing up; I for one admire the old guys who turn into the brass section of a marching band once they enter the bathroom. If you can't let loose in the bathroom after 2 hours at the mall, where is the safe space? The food court?

I don't think that being a total priss about these things is the obviously correct way to move forward. Not every man needs the toilet of a Japanese emperor (especially when your half acre of fescue hidden behind your picket fence is the ultimate urinary domain).

Also bidets are a joke, end up using twice as much paper just to dry off.
G stands for giga, exactly 1000 units.
the general understanding is 1024, but this would technically be a Gibi- (abbreviated to GiB or Gib)

the small b stands for bit, which is an eighth of a byte.
a big B stands for byte.

So a GB is exactly 1000 bytes, or 8000 bit
The benefit vs how they happened are very different things.

Initially, the benefit was that people paid all medical expenses out of pocket and could purchase insurance in case of extreme medical issues.

Businesses started offering health insurance as a perk to attract employees and would negotiate a group rate. This benefits the business by both helping to attract / retain employees as well as helping to keep those employees healthy.

Labor unions campaigned to have employer sponsored health insurance which lead to insurance lock-in to a business, usually on 3-5 year agreements, without the employee having any say in where they were getting their insurance from or how much it cost. In effect, this removed health insurance from the consumer market. Compounding the problem, businesses could tax deduct the cost of insurance while employees could not.

So both the cost and quality of insurance was removed from the consumer market. Insurance removes the cost of medical care from the consumer market. Federal tax deductions only for businesses incentivize this arrangement.

The problem here is not caused by capitalism.

This is also before we take into account sheer supply/demand factors around doctors and the regulatory bodies involved in the supply side.
And the problem is that everyone in congress is trying to push for their own optimal interests, so the compromises are less ideal than a more pragmatic approach that would have the same effect as compromise from all parties. It's not either's ideal, but still better.

If I had the financial independence to run for Congress, I absolutely would.. unfortunately I need to work for a living, and being able to sustain a living while even trying to run isn't something I'd be able to do. Beyond this, running as a Libertarian would be even more difficult.

First, I'm in favor of voting for no incumbents for a few election cycles... from there, I'd love to see actual politicians working to sell pragmatic choices towards consensus instead of the give/take we get today, with the boatloads of pork that come with it.
> You're going to need to cite some kind of scientific statistics or stats or studies.

There are plenty of studies that support his position.

But there are also lots of studies that oppose his position.

And everyone will listen to the studies that support their prior viewpoint and say that the others are bunk.

You could have a good debate about health care if everyone gave up their priors, was willing to listen to opposing evidence, and was willing to accept their preferred system has real honest-to-God not-said-sarcastically tradeoffs. Let us know when that happens.
It's certainly happening on major news sites and Reddit, but I don't know how far it goes into smaller communities. But... Consider how many comments you could post if you built the tools to manage accounts, did a little automated comment generation, and had a few dozen writers employed cranking them out.
It's a hierarchy like html, where p tags have implicit close tags.
Where's your evidence that most private school is paid for by rich people? Anecdotally, the people that I know that use private schools are middle class. Also, if there weren't public schools there would be more varieties of private schools.

"As a healthy person I'd rather take a two percent annual increase in insurance premiums for lower quality of care since I do not have much need for services." --
And I wouldn't. Why do your views trump others who disagree?
"We are Microsoft. We are here to learn. (Your knowledge will be assimilated.)" Rather unfortunate choice of words ;)
The automatic update restarts are the worst. Followed guide here and have not come into work with a restarted computer since (used Method 3):
http://www.redmondpie.com/disable-turn-off-automatic-updates...
So how can consumers respond to this corporate chicanery? In a capitalist system, the natural recourse is for citizens to turn to the private market for alternatives. Could this provide an incentive for Aetna's competitors to make it easier for Aetna's customers to switch to them?

One would assume that libertarians and free marketeers would cheer the concept of boycotts, as it is one of the mechanisms that citizens are empowered with in a laissez-faire society.
That would make sense that Disqus/Livefyre charge by the volume of comments. The amazing torrent of ignorant circle-jerk comments that flood Fox News articles has a silver lining now. I've wondered why they haven't just done away with their comments and implemented a chat room.
Here you go: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/...

You can find other articles and studies echoing the same conclusions.

> When people get sick they come to the US for treatment if they can.

No they don't. And many Americans go to other countries for treatment because they can't afford it in the US.

> You don't see world leaders and those with money going to Canada or Europe for treatment.

'Those with money' is a tiny portion of the population, which is why I said 'most citizens' get better healthcare in other countries (developed ones).

> The US is hella expensive for many reasons one is that we have the most bleeding edge medical technology.

Not really, US has some bleeding edge medicine, not the best for every aspect of health, and the bleeding edge stuff is only available to a very tiny portion of the population.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254504
The "Uber for babysitters" example is interesting, because Uber's current $50B+ business is exactly the "users they didn't want". They started out as a black car service, where rich people (and it was envisioned only as a service for rich people) could hail a limo, completely legally. And according to this video [1], the reason they moved down-market into "ridesharing for everyone" was because they were getting C&Ds and fines anyway, and so it didn't matter that they'd conceived it as a service for rich people, the only way the could survive was to make it big enough and useful enough to ordinary people that they could get the laws changed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54NIcx3HJSE#t=1170
Progressive enhancement is back!
I wouldn't mind paying twice the price of Windows 10 Pro if I could select what I want installed and the OS respected that. No telemetry, no Cortana, no Windows Stores apps if I need to have a MS account. No missclick-based features (you click yes and suddenly your local account is now an online account).

Since I'm stuck with this crap forever (Adobe, Office, games, etc) at least let me pay you not spy on me and install your crapware. And let ME control MY PC.
To be clear - I'm not arguing that you should ignore any user. I'm simply saying you don't have to comply with every user request and you don't HAVE to let a user request change the focus on your startup.
I think the only proper YAGNI reply would be not to use any kind of user input.

Of course, only if you actually don't need it.
The purpose of government is about whatever the governed of the current day decide that purpose is. Your view of government is just that, your opinion, not a fact. Liberals in particular tend to see the purpose of government as providing options for those who don't have any other options because the market fails many people. As such social programs have existed for decades, it's factually self evident that the purpose of government as decided by the majority of the population, far exceeds protecting rights.

> Are public schools better than private schools?

Yes, they are far better than private school, for those who can't afford private schools.

> Is the US postal system better than FedEx?

Yes, it's far better than FedEx for those who live in place FedEx wouldn't and couldn't operate profitably because the postal system's aim isn't efficiency, it's coverage to "everyone" everywhere, something no market solution will offer because that's not a profitable mission.

So it sounds to me like you don't understand the purpose of government and don't understand why government is necessary in such situations, because you can't think outside of your own self and realize that markets don't serve everyone.
From the linked page: "Open only to legal residents of the 50 U.S. and D.C". So, no, apparently I can't...
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

Your first point scares me the most though. If a reader doesn't get the twist a great deal of value is lost and I doubt they are going to put in more effort to get a better understanding.

I never thought about plot like this before, and now that I do, I feel like the way I used mental illness was a somewhat cheap shot I used to create the twist. Twine I discovered halfway through after going back and have another look at 'Even Cowgirls Bleed', will probably use that for my next one.

But taking on reverse chronology was hard as balls. Turns out you can't just write a story forwards and just read it to someone backwards.

Again, I really appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Communities have some commonality, something shared, something that unites them and then because of that encourages some decency standards. People that live in the same space, people that have the same hobbies, people that work in software related businesses and startups in the case of HN.

So you could build a community out of something and then have a general news discussion, that seems possible. Generally though, the vast vast majority of commenters have nothing original to add and they simply create noise. Perhaps those few nuggets of gold are worth the effort, it's hard to say, at least with HN we all have that common bond and then the actual topics tend to be related to it. Go scan the comments on a couple random foxnews.com articles and a couple random msnbc.com articles and tell me, if the article on foxnews is about the president or a non-white, I will bet you a nickle that you'll see a racist comment in the first batch or two. That's what you'd be working with..
The superchargers might have an impact on battery life, but in practice they don't seem to have much impact. The reason is that unlike all other electric cars, they heat and cool the battery pack. The reason why leafs do have a demonstrated huge impact for using their dc fast charging (chademo) is because their batteries get really hot when using chademo. The tesla cools the batteries when charging, heating if necessary too, and that's why people don't such much or any impact on range over time, even when using super charging.
I was going to post this graph https://twitter.com/paulg/status/762920971078627328 but in searching for a source I found the conversation underneath was more interesting. (For reference the source was https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy/ and it's interactive.)
That's an excellent point. Medicare and SSI are equally bad programs that should be phased out.
Intel “Aero” Drone Board Runs Yocto on Cherry Trail
The post got one critical detail wrong. The microservices won't have their own API. APIs are dead. They'll use Kafka for messaging. That's the future.
Tech Tools won't solve the problem properly anymore than better and more firetrucks and fire engines will solve a problem with fires if buildings are built without fire extinguishers, sprinkler systems, and materials that don't burn readily.

In other words, a much better plan would be to solve the systems problem which is this case is the "economic rents" -- market inefficiencies -- which use politics to create an artificial scarcity of housing through zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status. This use of politics to create the artificial scarcity transfers income/wealth from the apartment renter to the landlord.

It makes people like Donald Trump far wealthier than they'd be if we eliminated the laws that create the artificial scarcity.

There used to be an artificial scarcity of taxicabs in NYC where the number of taxi medallions were limited to 13,000 and the taxi medallion had a market value $1.2 million. Then Uber/Lyft came along and the taxi medallion owners and banks/credit unions that financed the medallion mortgages tried to use politics to limit their use in NYC, but thankfully they failed. Now we have lower fares (but not from taxis) thanks to Uber/Lyft and the taxi medallion "landlord" has seen the taxi medallion value drop to $700,000 or less.

Those who are interested in further understand the issue should see works by Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser, see the NY Daily News op-ed, "Build Big, Bill."

Also, Financial Times Columnist who has a BS and MS in Economics, Tim Harford, had written an enjoyable and brief book about Microeconomics called, "The Undercover Economist."
Make 'em legal, make 'em cheap, make 'em as mild-mannered as one unit of coffee (i.e. probably much less than even the lowest instant release formulation). Flaws?
https://docs.docker.com/swarm/install-w-machine/

"The create argument makes the Swarm container connect to the Docker Hub discovery service and get a unique Swarm ID, also known as a “discovery token”. The token appears in the output, it is not saved to a file on the host"

are there two type of tokens now?
I like the humility on display here. And I'm not trolling or being sarcastic.
The issue here is that you open yourself up to lawsuits under the ADA.
> surrounded by sick people in a subway during winter and all of them are coughing and sneezing

Fair enough; poor people during winter should just push their kids in a stroller 30 blocks through snow to the pediatrician.

> Heard of crazies pushing onto the subway lane?

Yup. Happens so rarely that my kid is in more danger when I'm pushing her across a crosswalk.

> Or the extreme humidity these days that make the subway atmosphere like a baking oven where your child is constantly crying in agony and discomfort.

That is a definite concern in the stations, but the trains themselves are air conditioned.

But the end point is that it's public transit, and it's ridiculous to suggest that certain members of the public are assholes for daring to use it just because they have children.
With the papers that have been done in rodents and primates, the fascinating take-away is that the implanted chips actually do improve memory despite our lack of understanding the neural code.

Just like the advances that have been made in brain-computer interfaces that record from the motor cortex, it's quite possible that the brain's plasticity allows it to work with relatively simple circuitry. There's no reason to slow down development of technology like this (as long as it's safe). I believe they've shown some pretty promising clinical results in humans already.

Also, they've got some of the best memory researchers in the world on their team (Boyden), so it's not like they're unaware of the challenges they are addressing.
I sit, too, but sometimes it goes through the space between the seat and the bowl.
The 3rd question behaves incorrectly, if I answer with "Other(please specify)" as answer, it's still not accepted. You will probably lose a lot of answers because of that and your poll will be skewed.
The title mentions code. The article is about HTML. IDGI
An AD environment refers to Active Directory; typically a setup used in large corporations with 100's of users and accounts.

This is wayyyyy overkill for a home user.
I don't know the backstory here but having 3 children in 3 years sounds quite normal to me. If you want 3 kids, and you want them while you're young, it makes sense to crank 'em out ASAP. I get that it must be pretty frustrating for the employers, but it also seems to be within natural human behavior (to me, at least).