skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial ACA subsidies are running out so premiums go up. And because premiums go up some young, healthy, but not too wealthy people decide to go without insurance and pay a penalty instead. Especially since if the worst happens you can manufacture a qualifying event to let you buy insurance when you need it. Which might mean even more healthy people leave but hopefully the cycle with reach an equilibrium after a few iterations.

The BLS rate is the amount of money charged to insurers, not the money they charge you I'm afraid.

If you don't like the official statistics you can always compare against private measures like the Billion Prices Project.

http://bpp.mit.edu/
+1

This is the book I wish I had 25 years ago.
You're right, and I'll be sending out the emails tomorrow. Thanks!
Why We Don't Need More Women in IT
You don't always need smart (bird) soldiers, just well-trained ones. Case in point: The dutch police is experimenting with eagles to bring down drones[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/eagles-v-drone...
Any chance you could share some of those templates / views, if possible? I've been learning Spacemacs, coming from Sublime + Vintageous, and it's been a blast, but I haven't cracked the org-mode nut quite yet. Email's in profile if you'd rather not be public about it. :)
It's worth noting that some PhD students get passed because their advisors feel bad for them after they drop 8 years in the program and the advisors are too incompetent to actually bring up a student through the PhD with a successful project.

I've seen it happen five or six times (usually it's the same group of professors) at a top-tier research institute.
Yesterday's exurbs are today's suburbs. Today's exurbs are yesterday's small towns and neighboring counties. The sprawl keeps sprawling.
> It's only kind of open source, and only partly

CE is a very large subset of EE. But yeah, maybe "open core" is a better term.

> except maybe the coding env, not sure what that means anyway

Koding integration (I haven't tried it yet)
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/26/koding-and-gitlab-integr...

> if you've read the announcement

I assume you meant Github's announced features? Yeah, I think they're great.

> Github also has self hosting.

Costs $, Gitlab has free self hosting (updated parent comment)
I was not bullied, but my dad suggested publicly visible violence in this manner if I ever was bullied:

First, if the kid is bigger and you'd lose the fight, wait until in class then sucker punch the kid and beat on him in presence of a teacher. The teacher can prevent you from getting really hurt when the bully responds.

Second, after the fight, explain the bullying. You and the bully will end up in the principal's office. In the principal's office, sucker punch/surprise attack the guy again. This second step is to establish a pattern with the bully that he's in for a long battle if he keeps it up.

Third, after the principals office, it will be escalated to parents. Then dad would give me a high five.
Both are forms of "whistleblowing": one within proper channels; the other, directly to the press. That's why Snowden is commonly referred to as a "whistleblower", without disservice to the term -- because he (prudently, in the view of many) saw it necessary and proper to bypass government channels, given the gravity of abuses he had become witness (and tacit accomplice) to.

Though in Sterling's case it is clear that his prison sentence is (ostensibly) for his having done the latter, not the former.
I'd actually like to see the tax on businesses relative to the distance their employees commute. As a bonus, without changing other rules, this also makes part time labor filling a full time job less cost effective.
The Beatles are available on Spotify, have been for several months.

https://open.spotify.com/special/thebeatles

It make a lot of headlines when it happened.
http://www.recode.net/2015/12/22/11621674/the-beatles-are-co...
Like my sibling commenter, I would like to know what’s wrong with clojure when compared to other LISPs
Three story condo? In a remote area? With surface parking?

I'll pass, thank you.

Three story condo closer into town? With no parking? Sure! I'll give up my car even.

If, that is, you can get permission to build such a thing somewhere. THAT is the problem.
So your contention is that people can't stop smoking. Unfortunately that's contradicted by a fair amount of evidence. I'm going to go ahead and consider your theory falsified.
So Houston is the (a?) poster child for sprawl. But Houston now has really nice toll roads, and this greatly ameliorates any difficulty in getting around by quite a bit.

Developers do what they can in the tax and legal climate they operate in. Incentives are always extremely difficult.
> If the condo twenty miles out is in the middle of nowhere, it may not be any cheaper, once you factor in the cost of building out infrastructure there and providing public services further out. Often times these things are subsidized though, so Americans don't realize how expensive things actually are.

That's the textbook case of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses. The infrastructure you're talking about will be built by the city/state and the costs borne by everyone who lives up to the point of that condo 20 miles out.

When things are not subsidized, the developers only end up building luxury condos in urban areas, which is the case for most large metro areas right now.
Where can I find a link about self hosted Github? Just curious to read about it.
Of course it's trackable with the use of traditional breakpoints but in big applications with a lot of dependencies step by step approach (through different scopes where the variable changes names) could take long time. But yes the good practises you mention make it easier.it's just something I Would like to see automated.
Ted Cruz channels Senator McCarthy in wrongheaded internet power grab crusade
Wow. Good on you mate. I was in a similar situation not that long ago, my ego hurt for a long time. Tried to go through internal affairs etc, no luck :/ wish you more luck
All of those make wonderful coffee, and I admit that espresso being "the ultimate form of coffee" is strictly my opinion.

That said, espresso is a highly desirable form of coffee for many people. Also, any pro barista will tell you that espresso is NOT actually better with "single-source" beans. It practically requires a blend to get the best flavor profile.

Pour-over is probably the best way to taste single-source beans-- if you're interested in distinguishing the "terroir" (to borrow the term from the wine tasters).
I wonder if other people share my perception that most science fiction written by scientists is not excellent fiction (especially when the first desire is realism).

It seems to me that crafting a story is a quite different tool set from being an engineer, physicist, etc., which is why at least seems rare to find a great physicist who is also a great writer. Perhaps the best balance, then, would be achieved by someone who writes stories deferring to actual scientists for review...?

Also, I'm interested in being refuted here. These are unexamined perceptions I'm writing out here.
>I've been a computer scientist for 25 years, and I've always tried to approach everything on the most basic terms of information, transformation, and IO. I revisit this fundamental way of conceptualizing daily, no matter what problem I'm working on.

Indeed. Breaking things down to their most raw and simplistic forms allow you to build them back up as you see fit or translate something from one domain to another. Through the deconstruction effort, you maintain the formula and methods to construct it back with confidence :)

>
Like you, I can't fathom what the objection is to AGI. A human body is complex, but human behavior is simply not that complex in the grand scheme. I have never encountered or thought of any theoretical difficulty with an algorithm mimicking human behavior, or the behavior of a vastly more intelligent sci-fi AI for that matter.

Well, it depends how deep underneath it all you want to go. You can create a mimic machine or you can really get underneath the hidden layers and concepts and get at the root and create a truly artificial version of something. You have to be willing to dig deep and pursue answers wherever they are to be found even when they contradict your fundamental world view.

> I don't care whether AGI has internal subjective experience. At least, I don't care beyond circular philosophical musing. I certainly don't care as regards the construction of AI, because it has no bearing on the construction of AI for the foreseeable future.

Good, you have to be willing to put all your preconceived notions out to pasture. If you come to have a solid model that includes x,y,z or excludes it, it shouldn't matter as long as the model functions and is true to a stand-alone computational engine.

> AGI is going to sneak up on everybody incrementally, and intelligent people will still be arguing about whether it's possible, even while it happens.

Yeah, I kept asking myself why hasn't someone just gotten in the pits and started stringing together and forming a system. I got tired of asking questions and yelling out on an airhorn "this way everybody". So, I spent ~3 years researching the matter, created conceptual and computational models, and am now developing them.

>AGI is going to sneak up on everybody incrementally, and intelligent people will still be arguing about whether it's possible, even while it happens.

*nods head
Being an extrovert or an introvert has nothing to do with shyness. You can certainly be introverted and not very shy. Bill Gates is a great example of that.
Hm, do SSL certificates have information about the owner?
Type Systems: Refinements explained
> Facebook was originally somewhat exclusive, I believe you had to have a .edu email address to sign up.

You actually had to have an email address at one of the specific universities Facebook supported.

Over their first few years, they slowly rolled out Facebook to more and more universities, one at a time, and then they started adding high schools and corporations as well.

I remember my college being super excited when Facebook finally rolled out to us in spring 2005.
I think targeted surveillance is not enough - if you find a suspect, I think you need to take the bulk surveillance data and look at what that person communicated in the past and whether he is indeed a suspect, not just watch him only from this point on.
The new C standards are okay. I am not a fan of the quasi-generics spec and implementations. If C had a robust generics specification it would be just fantastic. Most of my personal C++ code looks like C with some generic implementations via templates where applicable, because I find it easier to reason about and quite sufficient for most use cases.
> What we eat will be decided in Germany and China now

Keeping your own flock of chickens and living off eggs and butter may come back in vogue..
Mainly just years of experience at different companies watching ZK, etcd, etc. fall over at scale and require teams of people to maintain them.

We have had zero outages caused by our eventually consistent discovery system with active health checking (knock on wood), and haven't really touched the discovery service code in months. It just runs.

I'm not saying that a system using ZK, etc. can't be made to work. It certainly can since many companies do it. It's mostly that I think those solutions are actually making the overall problem a lot more complicated and prone to failure than it has to be.
It absolutely is. DeepMind reported that 1 second of audio generation takes about 90 minutes to generate.
It is surprisingly easy to train a number of species of birds to attack any small object. Just have a room with a curtain and a bird on each side. Show one bird an actual threat, like a picture of a hawk, as the other is shown the object you want to train it on. Hearing the alarm and seeing only that object, the bird will learn that this thing is dangerous.

The trained bird can then easily train a whole flock.

I have long thought it would be funny to train birds to attack the little flags that you see on limousines that carry foreign dignitaries. Then release a flock of trained birds during some public event.
The stacktraces are a bit verbose but still very readable
Gmail Will Now Support CSS Media Queries
Yea, it doesn't check for registrant name atm, should probably show that, if there's no registrant org.
They aren't really cutting us a break though. In order to take advantage of the offer, we have to buy the new dot and then purchase something else from them. They lose nothing, and gain everything. A break would be $10 off the new dot.
I am in Europe and... they aren't that rare in France or Germany for example.
That's fair. I mentioned Uber because I remembered the criticism from the National Federation of the Blind [1]. However, it's tangential to my point, so I've edited my post to remove it.

[1] https://nfb.org/groundbreaking-settlement-end-discrimination...
I think this did two things, it made an "exclusive" club that people wanted to get into, and it also improved the signal to noise ratio versus a wide-open sign up
Sure they do. There are gentrification problems happening in most small-to-midsize "rest of the country" cities. Places like Cincinnati / Minneapolis / Austin / etc just don't get as much attention for it because the scale is smaller, but the effect on residents is very similar.

In these "rest of the country" places, you can't have a meaningful conversation about housing problems, because the residents will point to the suburbs/exurbs and say "those are still affordable -- that's where the middle class should go". Which is a better situation than say San Francisco, but it's still bad -- it's generating even more sprawl and further kills public transit (as this article highlights).

New dense urban construction in small Midwest cities is close-to-identical (within 10-15%) to top ten market pricing, even though wages are still 20-40% lower on average, and construction costs + land costs are lower. Small and medium sized Midwest cities cut themselves off at their own feet, building lots of "urban" housing that's priced identically to places like Seattle / Portland / Denver. They then act really surprised/frustrated when working class people complain about housing costs and gentrification in their "low cost of living" cities.

A $300k housing unit in "the rest of the country" is often just as unaffordable as say, a $600k housing unit in Seattle, if you measure that cost in terms of percent of paycheck -- which is what working class people rent/purchase housing with.
I wonder what sort of defences people will start adding to their drones. Sharp blades or electric shocks will probably dissuade a bird from going near a drone again.
I somewhat disagree. I'm in the process of building my 5th production rails app, and 8th web app (which will be used in production and make a profit). I've gotten ridiculously better at figuring out how to structure the underlying models.

This alone has made me way better at structuring databases for queries, planning properly, etc. My day job is more of a data science role and it's helped a ton to know how to build the whole stack.
Reminds me of the sad fate of the software developer :)
If viewing rights exist they should be taxed (at a premium). The valuation should be greater than the loss of all the affected height-lines.
We were completely awesome at eminent domain for trains. They just sort of went out of style. And the logistics revolution has made train freight more competitive than ever. The cost of air travel ( modulo whatever you suffer at the hands of the TSA ) is so low that trains almost have to be a custom travel experience to complete.
Porn watching aside, (always a challenge to block endless urls etc), 'squatting' at the terminals seems like an unsurprising result ...surely should have had a feeling this would happen when designing. A foreseeable challenge - not sure of solution other than time limits.

Also unfortunate. I feel like the terminals and free access are somewhat made with those down on their luck in mind, so hoping the project continues to afford them the opportunities. I suppose wifi is really the solution so someone has to use their own device...
In my parents house we had an intercom - it was just a dumb telephone switch which my dad bought second hand for cheap, and then few telephones around the house - so he would actually call me from downstairs for dinner(it was very annoying at the time :P)
Oh Alexa!!!
LinkNYC Wi-Fi Kiosks Will Lose Internet Browsers
http://clojure.org/about/spec
I'm not sure "missed opportunity" is the right name for that :)
I was fortunate to be able to attend. Sometimes I feel like I'm just not built for conferences: I prefer solitude, and people usually go to conferences to confer. That said, this was an exceptional group of people to be among: smart, friendly, helpful, passionate, and accepting. I know it's been said before: the rust community at this stage of its evolution gets this right.

I also attended the beginner and intermediate training on Friday, and I feel like this pushed me over the hump. Thank you, Steve and Aaron, for presenting the material so well.

I even attended the tokio hackathon on Friday night to push myself out of my comfort zone. I wasn't able to contribute anything that night, but I spent some time troubleshooting a build problem in the tokio-line project, just for the sake of learning.

I would recommend attending next year if you get the opportunity.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Java. Interested in learning other technologies.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/0Bx9NPTUcGft_eTRQa0ozYTdpYXM/view?usp=sharing
Email: johnnydu@berkeley.edu

Hello, I am a recent graduate looking to start my first job. I am interested in positions as a backend engineer or full stack engineer.
I understand why `await import('./foo.js')` works here, as import() is not a normal function.

But in the case of `await fetch('./foo.json')`, fetch is a global. What happens if my code overwrites window.fetch and redirects ./foo.json to ./bar.json? Won't the engine try to fetch foo.json (which might not exist) when it should wait for the code to execute?
see also official statement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12499710
While it isn’t a static guarantee, clojure’s new spec lib (https://clojure.org/about/spec), get you out of just being stringly typed
I was talking about languages.
As you note, groceries are one of the most cut throat industries in the continental U.S. We import food from all other parts of the world and not end up paying through the nose for them. My belief is price transparency is party the reason for this, and we are utterly lacking that i nthis part of the world.

A few people have told me that they would actively misrepresent their network status so as to get estimates from a provider before going aahead with a procedure: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-easier-for-an-uninsured-American...
Love how these guys call out the left and the right for their bullshit. Pretty rare nowadays...
What would be even more useful would be a "that's surprising!" button next to the result.

When an owner is often reported as surprising for a domain, the extension should either blink or directly display the owner without being clicked.
Hi - Codetree [1] does a lot of what you're asking for (specifically 3, 5, 6) and I love the other stuff you mention, we've been thinking hard on a couple of them. Would love to quickly chat about your workflow just to learn, not to sell, if you can spare the 15 mins. If you're interested shoot me an email at arif@codetree.com.

[1] https://codetree.com
Star's dust cloud gives birth to giant planet
Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low
Why Your Open Source Project Is Not a Product
I definitely wasn't advocating for torture. It should be flatly rejected.

To say it produces nothing just isn't true.
Firefox leaks ram horribly though. Not that Chrome is a ton better, but it's a little better.
Probably. You can add in 'speaker' as a bit of metadata to the samples (this is what is meant by 'conditioning on') and teach it to speak like different people, so if you have a diverse sample of speakers and you add in 'accent' as another variable, it might well learn to disentangle individual speakers from their accents and then you can control generated accents by changing the metadata.
Not old enough. I live in a house with a dumbwaiter so late night snacks can easily be sent back to the kitchen with a click of a button.

Other things that were great, and I now miss---vaccum tubes in offices. Sure you don't need them to send messages, but if you want to send anything physical, however small, now you have to walk.

Oh and I certainly miss the bell system, where you could stand in the living room and ring a bell in any room in the house to tell the occupants that dinner was ready.
This is even older than the first one I saw which was "Jesus vs. Santa Claus", in 1997
I am 99% sure that it was confreaks who did the recordings, but I'm not sure if there's something you can subscribe to. They'll be tweeted from @rustlang and @rustconf for sure as well as posted to the users' forum, and I can't imagine that /r/rust won't pick them up.
The main thing is making it secure and scalable. The old client-server infrastructure for database apps was not designed to be deployed over the Internet.
Yep! that's how you do it. But the poor schmoe who has a magnetic sign and ladder on his old pickup will suffer for it, and we have integrated that into our politics. See also Jimmy Carter.
The gray area is where an owner engages in serial short term rentals in an attempt to hide the fact that they are basically renting out their property. Airbnb itself has tried to blur whether these guys fall under hospitality rules or not.
That's awesome, add that to the todos.
Looked ok to me. Are your local regulations regarding right turns and pedestrian zones extra strict?

https://youtu.be/pmofgf-Y3Mc?t=47
Uhm... Bernie Sanders signed this. I think you'll be okay.
Madison, Wi?
AI robots will take 6% of jobs by 2021
Ask HN: Which Java framework will replace Spring?
Spring has a strong position as an enterprise framework for Java. Which new framework or technology will replace it?

I'm asking because I don't want to learn more of Spring, and want to technologically leapfrog it.
This rings as an endorsement for working at a dev shop or as a freelancer instead of sticking with the same company.
Maybe the app would tell you who is doing the inviting. You'd know from the person if it was sincere or not.
I don't buy it. He deserves that lifestyle because the job he does requires an advanced education, and we're constantly told these jobs are critically important to society and that there's a massive shortage of these workers. Hence, they deserve pay high enough to afford an upper-middle-class lifestyle, which definitely does not mean living in a small apartment with roommates or anything like that.

If you're saying that he does not deserve an upper-middle-class lifestyle with a higher-than-median-price car, then we've been sold a bill of goods.

If I wanted to live in a tiny apartment with roommates and never get married and have a family (because what woman is going to do that with you when you can't afford your own place?), then why would I bother going to college for a difficult degree, racking up student loan debt, and working hard in a difficult profession to build up a professional resume and quality work experience? I could just go work at a grocery store, and/or get on welfare, right?

What exactly is the point of striving to accomplish something if you're not going to be rewarded for it at all?