skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative is a national Single Payer system where competition is negotiated in advance of any patients having a need (based on the historic rates of and future projections of patient needs).

You do this by making 'basic insurance' something everyone has, and a negotiating pool that more or less dutch-auctions per market with the practitioners. You might also include quality control measures like allowing patients to see any doctor they prefer from within the list (of doctors that met the group bid rate), and also allowing criminal mal-practice but not financial liability as a means of stripping titles from those who should not practice medicine. (The liability would be implicitly recognized as social; no big payout, but what life there is that is left you would be some degree of retired.)
> "I think there was some hubris there with the X," [Musk] added, before reiterating that it was "the best car ever."

Musk sounds like Trump sometimes. Reminds me of this other line of his:

> Musk is a self-described American exceptionalist and nationalist, describing himself as "nauseatingly pro-American". According to Musk, the United States is "[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth", describing it as "the greatest force for good of any country that's ever been". Musk believes outright that there "would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States", arguing there were "three separate occasions in the 20th-century where democracy would have fallen with World War I, World War II and the Cold War, if not for the United States".
What killed the smart watch for me is the watch form factor. I don't want stuff strapped to my body. I had to stop wearing a watch many years ago for a few months and I couldn't do it again since I lost the habit. It just feels unnatural. I understand that it can be laughed at, because I wear glasses. An extremely lightweight notification device inside my glasses would be the right form factor for me.
Yeah, I edited the post because I realized it sounded like I was making some kind of obnoxious classist statement, which wasn't the intent.
They should include a small digital watch under the glass UNATTACHED to the OS, so it has the features of a watch, and additional features while powered
Five Ways to Supercharge Your Lead Generation Efforts – Tagove
This was my first portable MP3 player:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_500

I still like the form factor and interface, but the storage was very limited. It could also be expanded with SmartMedia cards.

Second one was this MP3 CD player:

https://www.amazon.com/RioVolt-Portable-Player-Second-Anti-S...
In tech? I want to write a stats server that handles latency histograms based on drHistogram.

Also, my deadlift, left hook & bike endurance. Wouldn't mind a few multi-week self supported bike rides thrown in there.
> Free trial - Buy for $24.95

Ouch.
There is no denial that the author had an unpleasant experience, but it is nowhere close to what a real-life sexual assault feels like.

If I was the author I would choose different words to describe the experience out of respect of people who have been sexually assaulted in real life.
There's a network effect. People want to live in a place where they have plenty of options if their current job doesn't work out. Employers want to have a large pool of local talent to draw from. This is all self-reinforcing and probably the reason why companies start and stay in the SF bay area even though the cost of living is insane.
Ahh awesome! Thanks!
At least Musk has reviews from reputable organizations to back him up there.
You are an opera singer and a computer programmer? That's pretty cool.
Careful analysis questioned cosmic acceleration and dark energy existence
True, but then you can sell it and potentially have enough money to live out the rest of your days (or a significant portion of them).

There was a comment I read here recently about how a mortgage is in some ways a vehicle for forced savings. Not enough to retire on alone of course, but a big check if you ever need it.
That's what made it jump out to me too! But the key thing is that one number is in linear units and the other is in square units. So for any linear unit you choose (mm, in, km, furlongs, ...) an equilateral triangle with perimeter sqrt(432) units will have area sqrt(432) square units.
There have been worthy competitors but none with the finish quality and marketing budget of Apple.

The iRiver MP3 players were fantastic throughout most of the 2000s (unfortunate choice of name, they existed pre-iPod). They were the player of choice for the technical crowd because they supported line-in recording, optical outputs, and OGG playback (which mattered a lot more when capacities were smaller). They had an average-quality interface, usable but not amazing.

They were also one of the main bastions for the open-source Rockbox firmware, which supported a huge variety of codecs and WAV recording. Rockbox's appearance was utilitarian but it actually featured many great usability tweaks (exponential scrolling/FF/rewind, "car mode" that paused playback when power was lost, bookmarks, etc). They were an amazing player for someone who could do hardware mods. I kept mine going for a decade by swapping parts. I eventually used an adapter to plug in a CompactFlash card for a primitive SSD, and installed a high-capacity battery, which boosted the battery life to something absurd like 20 hours IIRC.

On that note I still don't actually know anything that can touch the battery life of the early iRiver flash players (iFP series). We're talking 24 hours on a single AA. I've actually been looking for a replacement with those same characteristics (extreme battery life on a single disposable AA or AAA battery cell) and coming up empty. You would really think there'd be a successor using modern electronics but everyone has gone to integrated batteries. Anyone know of one?

The Creative Zen Vision M was another really solid attempt. The scroll-strip was a worthy competitor for the (patented) Apple scrollwheel. Nice fit and finish, just couldn't make any waves in the market.
Those cars are using indicators, this is clearly not based in California.
> no space ship or space station would ever be designed like that

Doom isn't set on a space craft or (orbiting) space station. It's set on Phobos, one of Mars' moons. Given the likely terrain and challenges of building a base there, it's entirely conceivable the layout could be like that. As to the surreal look, well it felt good enough and immersive enough for me when I first played it back in 1994; especially late at night where it'd give me the willys.
Getting it running on my computer is hard: that's a pretty big problem.
Oh man, I thought I was the only one. It drives me nuts. Their disciples (for lack of a better term) sound alike as well.
You are correct. There are two different 'componentry' arguments here hiding in the question.

The first is essentially, how many separable ingredients does it require to make a person? This speaks nothing to how often, rarely, or combinatorially those ingredients are used. The answer seems to be a fairly consistent order of magnitude of ~10k unique protein components for a modern organism. With some retaining a lot of old or duplicated code that's been commented out, 'just in case'.

The second (your point) seems even more valid. Many of those individual components are themselves just mix-'n'-matched of separable protein domains. And in fact the entire olfactory system generates thousands of separably functional proteins from a single 'gene' by mixing and matching compatibly functional protein domains. And on this count it's much more difficult to form an answer for the required components in a person. Especially since the DNA itself is not of much help when you're regexing for similar protein domains.

If a production car contains 1,000,000 components to assemble, coming from 50,000 unique part numbers, with each designed part being built by extending/mixing-matching 2000 unique CAD files, using only 30 unique alloys/materials, how many 'components' does it take to make the car?

The better question, exactly, is how many unique functions must the car accomplish in order to be a car. There is still the issue of scale in that, is 'being attached' as valid of a function as 'cooling the engine' or 'moving forward'. At least the counting of components can be done given today's understanding of genetics.
If he's pardoned, presumably his passport and the ability to use it would be re-instated.

That would allow Snowden to go mostly anywhere and do as he pleases... instead of being stuck in limbo at an airport or as it currently stands allowed some degree of freedom within Russia. I should point out that pardoning Snowden allows him to LEAVE RUSSIA; which is a thing that I believe anyone should like to allow him to do.
That's almost part of the problem though. My feelings about LW/the Sequences/SSC/etc. are complicated with lots of positives and negatives-- way too much to summarize in an HN comment when I'm supposed to be working ;) -- but the main negative I was referring to here is that they are incredibly potent "insight porn". That term was originally coined to describe the work of hacks like Malcolm Gladwell, and while LW et al are definitely on a level above Gladwell's crap, something can be true and still be insight porn, with all the addictiveness and consequences to your mental faculties that implies.
I doubt it will ever happen. The reason it was delayed to start with is it's not at all politically palatable.
It's more of a "you touched it; you're responsible" scenario. The insurance market was bad pre-ACA. Then Obama touched it. Now it's his fault. If he had left it alone, everyone could have continued to just point the finger.
This is called "having roommates" in the US, and it's quite common, especially among students and younger people.
The first time I remember hearing about this was in regard to the semi-famous "Wizard Of Oz / Dark Side Of The Moon" combination, which supposedly only works at the theatrical frame rate.
Open source doesn't necessarily mean free
Personally I agree with Musk on the issue of American exceptionalism and nationalism. Not that the US is without faults, but on balance I absolutely agree that it is the greatest single force for good the world has ever seen. Now you can take that as an indictment of the world or an exaltation of America. In my opinion it's a little of both.
This doesn't seem to be very different from IRC with narrowly-scoped channels.
A "rabbit hole" for you... A major annoyance for me (a paramedic). Accurately categorizing the stupidity humanity can be surprisingly time consuming...
I believe you are thinking of http://unisonweb.org
''It's a nice feature for Macintosh users,'' said P. J. McNealy, a senior analyst for Gartner .

I am not completely sure what the tone of the comment here is. But I assume the analyst was trying to say the iPod was "Nothing more than a nice feature" for Mac users. The stock price fluctuates a lot depending on what Analysts say, having worked for a couple of post IPO companies - I notice these comments really do make a difference.And especially if you are newly-IPO'ed company - it can make or break the "market perception" of your company , and consequentially the "stock price" , and it drags your company into a downward spiral independent of how good you might be doing on field.

Out of curiosity - I tried looking up the Analyst quoted in this article , his personal website popped up a bunch of NSFW images! And the firm he consults for "http://www.digitalworldresearch.com/" does not even have a website built.

It just feels terrible (and happy at the same time) to read an article from the past where analysts who are proclaimed to be experts in a certain segment are grossly wrong.
> The article is also talking about non-client area scaling which is not a per thread issue.

It's talking about that and the per thread DPI issue. And again, it seems to be backwards compatibility that's the issue. Note that you have to opt in to the non-client-area scaling with a special API.

> Also, it gives the example of the print dialog in Notepad not scaling. That's a first party app!

Are you sure notepad.exe can be even changed? It's a tiny wrapper around a comctl32.dll TEXT control. The Print dialog is pure comdlg32.dll, and I'm sure there are backwards compatibility reasons why that cannot be changed.

Wine has to fairly precisely duplicate notepad.exe, so I suspect there is some backwards compatibility reason why it has to be the way it is.

Remember that Win32 is totally based on using exact pixel coordinates for everything. There are a lot fewer apps hardcoding pixel measurements of things in the Apple world (and coordinates in classic Win32 are in integers, not CGFloats as in Core Graphics/Cocoa). Microsoft can't even change the Windows 95 default style of buttons without opt-in without breaking apps!

> Apple rapidly rewrote its first-party apps

Not iTunes! It is still Carbon.
Nah. We evolved to be superstitious. It's evolutionarily advantageous. Why? Because it's much less costly to develop a random incorrect superstition than it is to miss an important correlation.

How harmful is it to meditate to 432Hz compared to... well maybe without that superstition they wouldn't even meditate at all. It's probably advantageous, even though it's bullshit.

As long as they aren't engaging in harmful behaviors (e.g. anti-vax), best to let it go.
Ohio, US.
Testifying to congress, on the public open record, is an important way that "We the People" of the US can audit the government that we hired.

It is even more treasonous to lie in such a circumstance. It would be better to refuse to answer the question if you are unable to speak in an open session (though better still is being able to not lie about how you protect the country).
I'd go so far as to argue that it's harder to get by as a white Appalachian than as a black urbanite. Plenty of people & programmes care about the latter; few about the former.
First IPod commercial
That's why I love e-ink. I've charged my Kindle about four times this year, if you don't count the couple minutes here and there when I plug in to move new books on. Although you probably ought to, since that's usually enough to top the battery off.
To think the continuing success of Apple comes purely down to make I think is extremely condescending to a very wide range of consumers.

Marketing can only get you in the door for you to buy the first product. You have to actually make something good in order to get customers to come back.
It's because of strain while vomiting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerhaave_syndrome
Complete Me – automatically generating shell completion scripts
In my experience at IMVU, surprisingly not very difficult. It's easier to learn Haskell in a team environment than on your own because your peers can help you connect the dots and accomplish your task at hand.

It did seem like less experienced people picked it up faster, perhaps because they had less to unlearn. The hardest things were learning to parse GHC's error messages and learning all of the names of the functions to transform between various data types.
it's not that different at all

it's (hopefully) just a little easier to work with :)

(especially for designers / QA people / salespeople / managers who don't know what IRC stands for)
CmdrTaco will probably never be able to live that down.
If you want the discussion to be about the Consumer Reports report, Tesla probably ain't in the title.
Reverse Phone Lookup: Can You Really Find a Name from a Cell Phone Number?
Not really. Snowden now stands as an icon to the tech world. He's a face of resistance who, despite of being "out of the game" still stands as a sort of historic monument or banner of defiance of the three-letter-agency's dominance. They'd love to have that guy eliminated. Who cares about Hinckley Jr. i.e. His actions didn't merit enough historical relevance to be a continued target. (Not to the same degree, imo)
FLUIDSTANCE L Balance and Motion Redefine the Workplace
When I'm getting ready for bed I remove my watch and pop it on the charging dock on my bedside. In the morning when I wake up I put it back on. Do you sleep with your watch or why is it such a pain to charge it at night like your phone?
If I understand, Font Awesome paid >$100'000 for a video, in order to ask for $30'000 on kickstarter? Or do you think that this video was cheaper? (good will because of the open source nature of the project, or some other factor)
Keras-based molecular autoencoder
Reminds me of the fast follower strategy:

https://hbr.org/2012/06/first-mover-or-fast-follower
Yeah, you and Mr. Musk are both entitled to your opinions, but unless you're willing to expound in details about how one would measure exactly the "greatest single force for good the world has ever seen", apply these measures systematically to every major world entity history has seen, and show that the US comes out on top, this is just basically 1am THC fueled dorm school debate.
This is awesome. 8kb is still pretty ridiculous for a routing library.

I do like that there is no special integration. A href links just work.
I think the 13.3 should be compared to the MBP and the 12.5 to the MBA.
So instead of paying an extra 10% in tax, you get to pay that 10% to the medical industry directly.
Luckily for us software development is a completely rational discipline, and is immune to fads, fashions, rhetoric, snake oil, and beliefs with no empirical foundation.
Don't know about Haskell, but what really got me (a long time CSharp programmer) into functional programming was this awesome site [1] (and a man behind it with his awesome talks) - which is focused on core aspects of FP (applicable in most languages nowadays) in real-world applications.

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/
why would you need to simulate that problem? the answer is yes- you can miss a green light if someone accelerates too slowly.
It is the intersection between a line and a parabola.
If you have a company car that is free for full personal use, driving around, on holiday etc. then the car is paid for and given to you by your company. Insurance, service and often gas is paid by the company.

On the flipside, 1% of the car's list price as well as 0.03% for every km distance between your residence and place of employment is taxed per month. So for 20km distance, it would be 1.6% of the car's list price. That is added as income onto your monthly salary for tax calculation, and those taxes then deducted from your actual cash salary.
Sometimes I read a few months worth of NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) event reports.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/e...

Patients given excessive doses of radiation. Lost and stolen troxler gauges and their recovery (or not.) Reactor SCRAMS and their various causes, artfully downplayed with technical jargon. Drunken contractors escorted off reactor sites. 30 year old flaws discovered in power reactors.

Someone's got to read this stuff...
http://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability/car-brands-re...

is a better link, since it has the actual table referenced by the article.
an i5 today is about the same speed as an i7 in 2012, but uses 1/3rd the power. to use any less power, it needs to get slower.
Where is the downvote button?

Who comes to HN to fetishize 15 year old mass market tech?
Of course it is. But if you want to paint him as a Trump-like demagogue using this sentiment of his, I think the burden of proof is on you to establish its absurdity.
For me, I think the answer to this is really that Haskell is pure and immutable.

Equational reasoning[1] is immensely useful when debugging. It isn't unusual to debug pieces of Java code that look like this.

MyClass c = new MyClass(..);
c.method1(..);
c.method2(..);
c.method3(..);
assert(c.someField == ..) // fails!

To figure what went wrong, you have to read through all three methods and depending on whether you have dynamic dispatch coming into play, you might need to read through _multiple_ versions of all three methods.

[1]: http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/12/equational-reasoning.ht...
This plant grows shimmering blue leaves to help it survive in the dark
Come on, MDs came out in late 1992. Let that sink in for a moment.
about World War I, not true.
I wrote “as much as.” So this varies from town to village, and how much income you have. So of course for some rich people it will be 10%, but I would guess for most its ~50% (living quality / income trade-off), while you really want it to be below 15% for a decent flat.
I'm generally a TSLA bear, I think they're a money pit and will run out of money, especially after that disasterous decision to buy SolarCity. I'm currently short TSLA via puts because I think the SCTY purchase is going to cripple both companies.

But there's something to be said about trying shoot for the moon, and trying to build "the best car ever." I, in fact, do admire that all-in, ballsy move, from a techie's perspective. And if it were limited in quantities, I'm sure he could accomplish it, because there are some very amazing features in all of Tesla's cars, however, I don't believe it's possible to mass produce reliably in the timeframe they need, given their track record.

I just don't think from the point of view of a business, it's the right thing to do.
> Let me know when battery life is within a couple of orders of magnitude of real watches, then maybe I'll revisit.

Check out Vector Watch. It's more like a traditional watch that is also smart (it tells you when you got a phone call, an email, a meeting etc), the battery lasts for more than 30 days and it's always on.
Do you know if non-US countries stage battle re-enactments?
They are called smart watches, because mr smart has to watch them all the time. Leave it alone for too long? No time for you.
http://www.pubmed.com .

Search anything medical. Don't know what a word means? Look it up on wikipedia... recursively. Read cited studies. Read studies that cite studies. You could spend the rest of your life reading this stuff. I've been doing it for years.
$2500/mo doesn't even get you a 2bdrm where I live in SFBay - and it's not the priciest area, either. Are you rooming?
Sorry, not drinking your koolaid. Any exploitable "stat arb" will go to zero as it's exploited, or if it grows large it will move the market. There are no statistical axioms which are guaranteed to make you money, because if there were it would change once enough people discovered it. Anyone that's far out enough ahead can find these things for a while, but there's no way the average investor ever gets close to it, they're not exactly cold-calling senior citizens with these amazing opportunities.
First you say that Russia is not fuelling a civil war and then you say that they are justified to do so. You are just running propaganda.
Of course, the author would agree that it's not close to real-life assault. If I said, "I shot a bear in virtual reality," it would be missing the point to complain that it's nowhere close to real-life bear shooting. No one said it was real-life, quite the contrary.

The story does bring up a central trouble spot in multiplayer gaming: no mechanisms in place for holding players responsible for being an asshat.
The Athenaeum in Boston has one of these: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boston-athenaeum
To see Earth and Moon in a single glance
Inherent flaw with IoT devices that we have been talking about for years.

This makes Heartbleed look benign.
Carmack later stated that it was "silly" to set the game on Phobos given the moon's size and gravity. I believe he said that around the time of the Doom 3 release - which is set on Mars, not Phobos.

I'd guess the reason the level layouts are not "realistic" is simply to offer better gameplay. Level layouts in modern games (even bland ones like CoD) don't make much sense either, but they're better at hiding it.
It's the same example displayed in haskell.org though.
VC tweets is also a great signal. Not perfect, but great.
You can most tweeted startups every week here:
https://chartups.com/topstartups/