skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the Medicare/Medicaid market is huge and they tend to pay their share on time and without hassle. Companies put up with the pricing nonsense because they net out on top

This is certainly not true for providers (ie, hospitals and doctors). Medicare is notoriously painful with billing and reimbursements.

In addition, they don't come out ahead. In fact, Medicare reimburses about 7% less than COGS, which means providers are already losing money per patient before they have to think about covering their overhead.

The reason they accept Medicare is because it's very difficult, legally, not to. Despite this, Medicare has gotten so costly for them that many hospitals have recently started talking about finding a proper legal path to dropping Medicare altogether.
Makes me think of a hybrid of Second Life and Minecraft. Trying to appeal to two very distinct demographics. Not too serious, not too cartoony. Somewhere in between.
Is the claim that back when it was 80% men they were hired in those numbers simply because of their gender?
Why not? Speed is a perfectly valid criterion for a browser's usability.
Brexit: British expats sue EU's Juncker over talks
I feel like this takes the term "ruining" too literally. Yes, clearly nothing was completely ruined with each subsequent change, but the current incantation is certainly not the same as the first, and people are right to criticize the change (just as people are right to defend it). No one change might have been the death, but all together, it is very understandable that some people might call it "dead" and have moved on.
Or places that lack oil dollars, but have plenty of land ruined due to desertification, a real problem in some parts of Africa.
As long as RethinkDB is AGPL most will just stick with postgres.

Is it possible (or likely) to get the creditors of Rethink to change the license?
Yeah but if you read the article and look at the syntax for C++ match-like statements, it leaves a lot to be desired.
That's OK. I don't feel very bad about the British conquest of India, or of Richard Gere kissing that really cute actress either.
I just did. 391/555. I ran it against FF 45 and got 429/555. Are we suing Mozilla now for not supporting the standard like we want them to? Obviously not.
As a former filmmaker I like what you have done. It seems as if you are effectively the distributor? The site looks nice and the movies sound interesting. The refund options are a bit confusing. The biggest question I would have would be about awareness. How am I going to learn about the films and is that going to happen when I sit down to watch a movie?

I imagine that many people are like me and sit down to watch something but aren't 100% sure on what they are going to watch so we browse through are Netflix/Amazon queues. I think Roku might have a combined browse/search feature that would help. Build up the Twitter following and reach out to indie filmmaker to see if they could mention you in a tweet. I could see Mark Duplass liking your site and tweeting about it.

Keep up the good work!
The standard rounding for financial applications is typically Banker's Rounding, which is another way of describing rounding to the nearest even. E.g. 1.5 rounds up to 2 but 6.5 rounds down to 6. Over the long haul, this method of rounding produces the least amount of error. Some regulations and laws, though, specify different rounding techniques or specific phases in a process where rounding must or must not be performed. Especially critical in things like forex and other trading type applications. In addition to what byoung2 mentioned, Canadian law has specific rounding regulations that change based on what payment method is being used, but (as far as I know) don't generally apply to things like interest calculations and stuff like that[1].

ISO 4217 works well for display purposes but doesn't work for all financial applications. Consider, for example, scenarios involving tax or a product billed based on usage. By rounding off at each processing step, the company could be losing substantial amounts of money. The last two companies I've worked have used varying types of mechanisms for tracking fractions of pennies. In some circumstances, it makes sense to store everything as integers with a separate column to represent precision, but I would probably not do this unless you have a specific use. It's a lot of noise and mucks up the source code worse than, say, a BigDecimal or Decimal type. At the current job, we store everything with 6 digits of precision because of the nature of our billing and use Decimal as a reserved type for only money.

To be honest, if you have an accounting department you probably want to involve them in these discussions because rounding decisions can have impact on your financial statements and, potentially, any audits that may occur in the future. I've worked on two financially focused applications so far and I would strongly suggest that you build out a very defined and clear way to manipulate money for rounding purposes. Building out those processes in a standardized and well-defined way makes for easy unit tests and also helps those who come in the future understand the decisions made.

[1]: http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/rounding-690000...
For those who got kicked off Amazon or eBay
Same here!!! I wake up at 5-5:30 every morning, even on the weekends. It gives the right amount of Me Time and I am much more focused all day.
But each time, what it "was" did get "ruined" ... at least enough to change it into something different.

It's like the old koan about a radio: if you replace the speakers, then the housing, then the circuitry, then the controls, is it the same radio?
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Curious: From your perspective, what are some reasons you prefer Chattanooga over Boulder?
The Amygdala – the secret ruler of your emotions
There is an intriguing consilience between this post and sama's "We're in a Bubble" (http://blog.samaltman.com/were-in-a-bubble).
Again, perhaps not the 'exact same'. How do we know this time it wasn't done fairly?
No claim. Just astonished at the assumption implicit in this thread, that it can't be correct that 80% of competent managers at Yahoo! are female.
What do you not like about Boulder? I was there for a summer and I loved that place.
You'll find success faster if you split up and join the talent pool sooner rather than later.

If you're trying to get hired as a team, that sounds new, so employers might not have heard of such a thing.

It's the first time I've heard of something so preposterous. Maybe if it was a progressive state like Colorado, I could understand, but Tennessee? I can't stand the hot, humid summers myself. Then you have chiggers and scorpions to worry about. ;)
Only because it's all illegal. If prostitution was legal, you could go to a well-reputed bordello where the managers are known, and know that everyone in there is doing it consensually.

I'm sure the owners would be happy to provide background checks for all employees, if it gets the police out of their business.
>Well, that's a problem right there. Instead of helping the web forward, Apple is keeping the web and web-apps second-class citizens.

The are de-facto second class citizens. The are apps that run on a second platform (the browser).

If someone wants first-class support, build for the OS.

Apple already spends tons of money to make an OS and a dev SDK for it.
Or the older version about a ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Not at Yahoo! Not any more. When give a fair playing field, the women outnumber the men.
And... Apache in C
In base 10 that's all true. The comment you replied to proposed using base 12 instead. If your arguments are based on the assumption that we can only use base 10, then you can't really make an argument against base 12. It seems your arguments are constructed on the assumptions that contradict the proposal.
He was being billed from his savings account. It was only when the threshold increased (which Google increases after some time) that the bank raised the warning. (Source: The Register)
I am quite sure there are plenty of other blood-sucking insects around that will fill the ecological niche left by mosquitoes rather quickly.
This is just another version of the white savior complex. Developed countries support 'peace' processes that make them feel good about themselves, with little regard for the root causes of the conflict to begin with. Apparently they think us colombians are too backwards to deserve first-world justice, so they applaud compromises that they would NEVER accept themselves.
The article doesn't mention what was the scam they did? Anyone know?
I don't think so. I have 2 close friends who used to be prostitutes, and I'm pretty sure both of them would eye-roll hard at this. All you're doing is willfully choosing the focus on the dark instances, regardless of their actual prevalence, and try to claim that the whole picture is like that across the board.
I don't think she would be any less controversial if she were a man.
After Obama got a peace prize, it's really hard to take any of this seriously.
> DRM will be there anyway. Be it Flash, be it something else.

Then let it be Flash, so it can die with Flash. Let's not perpetuate it, or make it any easier. Let a hundred competing "standards" bloom so media companies have more work to do, and might decide that DRM seems like too much trouble and decreases their target audience. Let browsers prune away support for DRM with their outdated plugin interfaces.

Don't give any one "standard" the blessing of any standards organization. And don't accept something inherently non-standard as a standard. Don't accept as a standard something completely unimplementable in a fully Open Source browser. Don't accept a standard interface to custom binary DRM implementations.
To Nexedi, if you're reading this discussion:

As you know Apple these days has devices and platforms to which users entrust a tremendous amount of very personal and often private data. Therefore, Apple is relatively careful about security issues, and slow to introduce features that may open holes that expose users' private data.

Your entire blog post does not even once mention the word security. It seems this concept does not even enter your thinking at all as an explanation for why Apple must be very conservative about adding the types of functionalities you list.

When weighing the tradeoffs between the benefits you mention versus protection of user security and privacy, I'm pretty sure Apple has the right to make the choice it is making, and you'll find your argument is a difficult one to make.
> Even though it came first, Unix was probably more powerful than MS-DOS.

This is the understatement of the decade. Of course it was more powerful. I used Xenix in 1987 on an IBM PC, probably a 80286. It was a Xenix/MS-DOS dual booting system. Multiuser and multitasking with Xenix or single user and monotask with MS-DOS.

I used various flavors of Unix on Z8000 or 68k architectures in those years. All of them were obviously better than MS-DOS.
You can ask any question in a politer way and in a ruder way. Compare.

A: What does your competition look like in this space?
B: What's your plan for overcoming Company Y's huge lead in market share?

A: Tell me about your development process.
B: So what percentage of your process overhead is cargo cult edicts from upper management?

A: How much runway do you have? How long before profitability?
B: When the current owners look for their exit, how screwed will I be?

A: How do you deal with technical debt?
B: Show me the worst code in your repo.
Of course it is. In a company that size where employees work all across the country it's actually very hard for the CEO to find out about sth like this.

He can only create structures (e.g. internal audit team) that are powerful enough to detect it and report it to him.
> you will not hear another criticism from Lisp programmers

From what I've seen of the lisp community, one of their favorite activities is criticizing variants of lisp that aren't their preferred one.
It's not just any man...it was a lot of men.

This kind of discrimination could be excused if it brought a tangible value to the company, but this reshuffling did nothing to help this ailing company.

Meyer's actions were discriminatory at worst; at best, it was merely gross incompetence.
That was an enlightening read! I had no idea that humanity was so dependent on one process for so much of its essential existence!

If you think about the context in which we are operating though (desert with a lot of sunlight) it might be possible to colocate a solar powered reactor producing all the ammonia required for the hydroponic farms in the desert. This is just handwaving though: it seems like apart from electricity, the next biggest input is natural gas. While this may not be a problem in, say, Saudi Arabia, probably would be in Namibia.
As soon as I heard about burning man, back in 1996, it had definitely jumped the shark. If this guy knows about it, it's no longer hip.
Which means you can't actually ship any useful implementation, since it won't have a backend to talk to. And an Open Source implementation would inherently be non-functional.
Koan about the radio?! Try nearly 2000 years old, also known as the Ship of Theseus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus).
It does not work without Java:

http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/getting-started...
I don't know how common it is, but some companies have a process whereby your peers supply the feedback, and a management team reviews it. Surely this must address the issue of a manager who doesn't like you, right?
> really cute

You americans. Sigh
The slew of differences dont seem very "designed", meaning some corner of the world won't end if life wasn't that way. They seem more like a consequence of "my pet lisp interpreter as I began implementing it". I know that smell 'cos I've been through it myself and subsequently redesigned and reimplemented things.
The way this relates to FOSS communities and the culture that surrounds them is really interesting.
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That's why I wrote 'feature complete standards'. Anybody can come up with half finished standards that are only there to serve some proprietary technology.

An interface to an unspecified DRM module is not a useful web standard. And due to the nature of DRM, a fully specified DRM standard is also completely useless. DRM is just not compatible with open.
In Germany marketing to physicians is legal but doctors are effectively forced by insurance agencies to prescribe whatever drug is the cheapest equivalent unless there is a medical reason not to.

So even though there is marketing going on the actual effect is rather minimal.
Hmmm I wonder if there would be a way to also grow green beans / soy beans, which always deposit nitrogen as a byproduct of their own growth. I have a mini urban farm in my teensy Chicago back yard and Rotate beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes to ensure the soil contains the right nutrients.
Is picking senior management about fairness?
If you want a portable C, *libc is practically a requirement. Having POSIX is also a huge boon.
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2016: OP's blog post ruined Burning Man.
Right... except we don't do that because the enterprise edition code is right there.
Having more accounts isn't automatically a good sign for the stock market. It's too easy for a bank to get accounts, you just offer people a sign-up bonus. The number of clients alone will usually not inflate the stock price.
On one hand, it'a easy to see this as an educational and cultural failure. On the other hand, many of our policies treat screwing over foreigners more lightly than screwing over fellow Americans.
those sound like the same people who ruined my indy band.
I first became aware of Burning Man in the late 90's. It sounded interesting, but a lot of people said it wasn't worth going to anymore because all the new people had ruined it and it was nothing like it used to be. The argument doesn't seem to have changed much since then - "it's gone downhill over the last few years and is nothing like it was 8-9 years ago when I first went."

It wouldn't surprise me if in 2026 people are talking about how terrible Burning Man has become and how it's nothing like the wonderful Burning Man of 2016.
Why, did they remove almost all the woman there in 1 year to change it for men? Talk about apples and oranges.

Besides, do yourself a favour: Just walk into any Computer Science major class, check the number of woman/men there and let us all know how much they go above those 20% and go check the numbers in the previous years while the board of Yahoo (and any major company in that area) was being built. Ok?
I'm uninformed, but is it possible the vote was basically a choice between "war" and "not war"? Maybe people voted for anything but more of the same?
Yup, a lot of people like to say X has Y, however execution of Y is just as important(if not moreso) than the initial idea of Y. Technical ideas don't thrive in isolation, they need to be nurtured and grown.

Just look at the dominance of Javascript in the programming landscape, you're seeing decades of high quality executions of the language(I include community in the "execution" definition) despite it being far from the best technical language.
How musical AI is learning from MIDI
Getting hired as an individual is obviously easier than getting hired as a team, but they may have a bit more leverage as a team because it can solve many problems for a company very quickly and they have some demonstrated experience working together. The risk of a team dynamic and "fit" is reduced dramatically.

Getting hired as a team is hardly new. Acquihire is incredibly common, and this is essentially the same thing.
In this world, at this time?
It says "Any group of 2 to 5 people can apply as a team to Stripe". Maybe if they split...
Heh, That's what i told the scammer, the scammer told me they had a refund from the IRS for me and they just needed a credit card number to "wire" it to.

But I am just so rich right now that I have no need for the extra money, maybe you could just "wire" it to some worthwhile charity. And of course take whatever you feel adequate for your efforts too. But yea really right now, I just got way too much money.

<scammer click>
Can you contrast this with ceronman's comment below (or maybe above) that the areas most likely to vote for the compromise were the people most affected by the guerilla violence?
The company culture tries to go in a good direction, but it fails at the individual manager level. From people I have talked to, this is not just me but widespread, especially financial services in Plano, Tx.

I get yelled at on a weekly basis. Belittling is comon too, such as being told "you're not that smart and this isn't rocket science". Managers are non technical managing a technical project and micromanagement is the norm.
This isn't true to my knowledge (I work at google). It's usually just another person from the interviewer pool. Decent chance you'll never see them or any of the other interviewers again after joining.
> why is this a problem if the publisher doesn't want a third party to use their work without their permission, or at all?

Because whether they are allowed to do that is a determination that has to be made by the law, not the company.

Imagine someone is using your work for commercial gain and you want to sue them. If DRM is a thing and breaking it is illegal, you can't -- you need to make a copy of what's on their website to use as evidence against them, they put DRM on it that says you can't. (In practice this rarely happens because all the DRM is broken anyway, but what does that tell you?)

And the same situation plays out in a hundred different ways. Imagine politicians owned all the clips of them speaking and could throw anything that discredits them down the memory hole. Or evil companies could prevent the press from publishing incriminating documents.

It isn't a matter of whether there is some alternative. That is a thing that cannot be allowed to happen.
Kissinger was directly and personally responsible for lengthening and intensifying the conflict. Giving him credit for ending it later on seems odd.

I'm a big Obama fan, but I'm with you on the 2009 prize.
Generally I see it the other direction as a technical support person- each tenant's host is responsible for reporting uptime to a central service (because it's SaaS) and the customer is aware of this (even if it's basic syslog forwarding). Because we are not reaching in and they are sending out their customer data is still isolated.

Any time you are reaching into the customer datasets that is where you have the possibility of breach via that access and would have to make sure all of those events are audited and that audit records are secure. If it is sending monitoring data to an aggregation service that can be well-defined in contents and much easier to demonstrate that no sensitive tenant information is shared.

It's much easier and saner to setup a server to receive and configure each tenant's host to send exactly what is needed and then analyze who didn't send their stuff at regular intervals for a more direct investigation and everyone can agree on what needs to be done based on that.
The post seemed to claim that because each small change didn't ruin it, it's not ruined. I'm saying that it's ruined to some because it's no longer the thing they fell in love with.
Except they had. First world countries had the worst war on history and they rebuilt their societies making big concessions. Europe and Japan know a lot about accepting had agreements exactly as our peace process suggests. This is a great way of supporting the work a great president truly committed to changing our country because he was born rich and it's extremely obvious that the peace agreement with FARC and possibly ELN it his way to transcend. I applaud this price and the support of developed countries to the process.
You can read similar to chapter two, high dimensional spaces, in https://jeremykun.com/2016/02/08/big-dimensions-and-what-you...

Also, chapter three about SVD, is in
https://jeremykun.com/2016/04/18/singular-value-decompositio...

and https://jeremykun.com/2016/05/16/singular-value-decompositio...

the advantage is that you have the python code available.

https://jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-wi...

The book seems to be interesting.
I've had a great time playing with groups in BigScreen (Beta). I spent three hours playing with a free to plat smash bros style game within big screen beta. It felt like I was back in college but my roommates were from Estonia, England, and Michigan.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/

Try it out. The rooms are smaller so less people jumping in and out.
Actually it makes you hear Archie Bunker. How and why you make associations is up to you, not others.
Hm.. A few months back, I took a risk with couchdb thinking it might be largely orphaned, but had enough satellite community.. what with all the derivitive DBs and infrastructure.

I'm a little annoyed to have to be worrying about upgrading now, but there apparently are worse organizational structures for supporting an OSS project than a hands off non profit.
Listless Jobs Report, misses by 20k
The period with many less mosquitoes can still have a dramatic impact on future disease transmission. During the limited population period, the number of reservoir hosts also decreases dramatically (they either get over the illness or die). So later when the mosquito population rebounds, there is much less virus for them to spread.

For the diseases mentioned at the link there are animal hosts (other primates) so it won't be as effective, but for something like malaria where humans are the primary reservoir species, the effect can be very large.

It can also be effective in lowering the rates of transmission in urban areas.