skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but what's the evidence that rate hikes are actually significantly influenced by PPACA?

For 4 years before "mandatory purchase" was in effect, I saw annual 3-5% increases in premiums. In 4 years since, I've seen ~20% increases each year (last year was 'only' 11% increase - I'm bracing for much more).

The 'evidence' is insurance companies bringing in more people who previously didn't have insurance - generally, they either needed or used more services than whatever the premiums (+ subsidies) they were paying covered, and insurance companies lose money because of this. In NC, BCBS lost ~$400million last year (or so the claim goes). They can't sustain those losses indefinitely.
I don't know the details, but there are restrictions on the services that private clinics can offer in Canada.
Ok, don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I'm not trying to be an ass.

I'm a Linux guy (Debian/Gentoo mostly), but you will never get average users to switch to Linux, the same way you will never get me to use anything after Windows7 for personal use, I have a rage fit with all the icons and no proper command line and they will have a rage fit (or at least have a feeling of angst) if they have to type 3 lines of commands in the terminal to fix or setup something.

Where I see Linux as powerful, they see it as difficult. Where I see Windows and Apple as limited and inflexible, they see it as simple. So it seems people will go for easy 98% of the times.
I think your missing the subtleties of British English, "can't really blame them" means that you hold them responsible but that you also see their side of things.
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Maybe windows users are abandonning their PC faster than Linux users? They are switching to tablets and smartphones.
So in percentage, the increase of Linux market share for desktop could just be a decrease of windows (and Mac OS X).
Did you read the article or just the top comment? The most recent layoff is 20 people. The total for this year is more like 500.
Whomever spins smartphone/tablet ASICs will likely be a viable contender in that race.

Don't forget about HiSilion, Rockchip, Allwinner, Spreadtrum, and MediaTek.
> If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot.

Oh you're so smart you have never been scammed in your life. Scammers pray on weakness, one day you'll be weak one way or another and it can happen to you. Don't be too quick insulting people of being "idiots". Only scammers themselves think that way.
I think you should remove (future) from your subheader. You've demonstrated that you are a software engineer already from your 'What I coded' section so you're selling yourself short.
I'm not sure where you get your numbers from but I would disagree. I'll bet there is more BSD running embedded than Linux. And either of us will be hard put to actually show solid numbers. Everyone can point to their favorite vendors using X.
It starts slow, but an ever-upper trend shows something:

To me, it means people succeeding with it are incentive to others. Of course there is no marketing or TV ads to kick-off a large public (explaining a slow take-off).

In my family, the hacker sons had Linux for 10 years... Then Windows XP retired and the grand-parents had to throw their very clean and working computers. At this point they got Linux Mint, saved money, and (as end-users) did not see any difference with Windows XP (except that green color).

From that time, the aunt and sister have also moved to Linux Mint and are happy with it. By the way, libreOffice was unpleasant for them (habits and broken document layouts) and they smiled back to WPS Office.

Windows is gone in 4 houses, including 3 non-geek houses; IT wastes have a lot decreased and money is saved for better purposes... And it is ages the geek family members were not called for viruses or cryptohacks. They are only called for new installs :-)
Interesting - perhaps UK is a bit less restrictive? Or perhaps things have changed there some (my wife left a long time ago).
Right, but the must carry provision is not the only change the ACA made...
Why should or shouldn’t you become a Data Engineer?
https://acko.net

A jaw-dropping website by Steven Wittens that pushes the boundaries of what your browser can do. Nothing I've seen has ever topped this wizardry.

(You should view it on desktop, with WebGL capability.)
That was the culture at my first job out of college - no perks, but above-market compensation. I look for that everywhere I work now too, and instituted it at my last startup. Everything else just seems childish cargo-cultish BS by comparison.
Right, I forgot that UK had its terrorism period during 80s/90s. Thanks.
If the price was higher I would

A) Probably not do it

B) seek out artists myself

As it is I will be ordering two for Christmas presents now
The broken window fallacy simply demonstrates that there is an opportunity cost to going to war, not that it's unsustainable. Depressingly it actually is pretty sustainable for the American economy.

There's also an enormous opportunity cost to not spending money on young men in the military too - and just dumping them on the street, with a job market that cannot absorb all of them.

The US actually already did that once. In 2003. A large group of young, heavily armed men who have really only been trained how to kill were suddenly without income or purpose.

That story demonstrated the opportunity cost of suddenly packing up the military and sending them all home without a job.
Anti-abuse is one thing Twitter does terribly. It would be great if they could have a more politically even-handed approach.

// Downvotes - apparently people want Twitter anti-abuse to be less politically impartial.
The rationale behind banning cigarette ads is that those are products that actively harm consumers. What's the equivalent rationale for banning drug ads? Presumably, it's that drug advertisements cause people to, e.g., demand expensive brand names when cheap generic alternatives are available, or to demand drugs they don't really need. But isn't that true for almost all consumer advertising? Everything from toothpaste to cars to razor blades to jeans to handbags?
I would never request such explicit pictures from anyone but I would consider it a huge abuse of trust if I found out someone used wrong pictures claiming they're theirs, and that would be the end of that relationship.
A pluggable standalone HTML5/ES5+ES6 console that runs in every Browse
Less than that - there are more Windows server out there than you'd expect https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/09/19/september-2016...
My buddy Jason and the Mozilla devtools team have been working on the next version of the Firefox debugger, written in React and Redux:

https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html

Open source FTW
Ha, exactly. My annoyance over their actions isn't nearly big enough yet to overcome British politeness.
Did you really create an account just to say this?
Some interpret a salary as buying all of your intellectual output for as long as you have the job. This position generally holds that the employee needs to be hourly for the concept of "employee's own time" to make any sense.
Root: A robot to teach coding
Sure! I'm already under contract half time, and I work on my own company for like two full time, so I can't be a big contributor, but I contribute here and there to open source projects, so I can look around from time to time.

> For example, how would you break the re-write into parts, and prioritize?

I would probably do it component per component, factoring out complexity one method at a time. I avoid "big rewrites", aka v2 or whatever, because I've seen too many startups doing that to disastrous consequences (typically: a whole dev team not releasing anything for like a year, and a "new" app that is at the end not better than the previous one). Not really a surprise: v1s are iterated on and always keep track of reality, by releasing often - which v2s never do, they just try to bring everything at once.

> How might we organize tickets for people to help?

I guess people at Gitlab have way better ideas than me, given how successful they've been at that :) I see you already have a "help wanted" section, that's probably the most important, so contributors can quickly spot low hanging fruits and help a bit.
I believe what parent means is that because the workforce is old, they would be expensive for the company to properly insure, so the company has opted to get poor health care coverage. It's more the company's fault.
Maybe the old "the year of the Linux desktop" is obsolete because it's never going to be the "year of the desktop" for any operating system anymore.
>> you will never get average users to switch to Linux

Last I looked, Linux (in Android) was leading BSD-alike (iOS) -- and those are probably the two most popular platforms around... :-)

Especially for average users that are cost conscious.

(At a minimum, place one and three of installed world wide base?)
Got it. Thanks. The assuming successful by end of the year is an important part.

At the same time, some traders hit a profit number during the year they are happy with and then try to lock it in, choose to go risk off and just coast till the end of the year.

Especially if a trader feels they don't get paid for risk towards year end - this option is even more attractive.

Assuming the goal is to make profit and not just don't get kicked out. Traders who got lucky mid year not taking enough Q4 risk happens. Some firms step in if they see too little risk from a desk.

Very few funds are able to keep risk management info private for very long. People move. People talk. Some trading rules can be reverse engineered in data but this is easily spoofed.

BlueCrest closed last year and returned outside capital, so I agree things probably look very different there now.
Technically, yes. Submitters swear that their requests are valid under penalty of perjury.

Effectively, no, for 2 reasons:

1. They must be prosecuted and lose for the penalty to have an effect. Courts have historically been lax in applying this. After all, a big content company probably has to file thousands or millions of requests, and everyone (and especially automated processes) make mistakes, right?

2. EDIT - this is incorrect, see crilet2's post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805060

They're typically not submitting DMCA requests. YouTube's complaint system and automated content ID systems are not technically DMCA requests, they're just easier for Google and for submitters: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2807622?hl=en. Misuse can result in suspension of the YouTube account.
So Qualcomm is finally getting pressured by the other vendors in mobile space. Finally.

I'm glad Intel, HiSilion, Rockchip, Allwinner, Spreadtrum, and MediaTek are being competitive.
stock price is about the sum of all future cash flow. not current profit level. you can have different forecasts, but you cannot say the act of making forecast itself is nonsense.
Welcome.

I have some plans that would improve the portability of Go and some plans for some tools that will aid debugging complex Go systems. Sort of like a debugger, but much broader in scope and programmed in Go instead of some ad-hoc scripting language. Hope people will find it useful.

The ideas come directly from my painful experience in debugging low-level Go runtime issues.
Forget about command line and just try this:

Install Linux Mint (the one I find fit - but other distribs could do), with a web browser and WPS Office, explain your basic Windows user how to reply to system update popups (very similar to Windows).

You should not hear from them until the next mandatory system upgrade (in several years).
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I think that depends. Abuse and harassment was mentioned as a major factor that kept the company from selling in the past several months. If upper management isn't willing to give up the possibility of selling, fighting abuse would be an important goal, whether or not it's a cost center.

That's not a given, and I agree with braythwayt above that assessing the company's commitment is the most important consideration, but there are strategic reasons they could prioritize it.
http://spritesmods.com/

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but its simple and clicking through any project makes me to want to work with and/or hire him immediately.
You could fork it and theme it with Pokémon Go ;)

Fyi, i ran a facebook group with 15 k. people for Belgium. The #2. A little bit late to the party of location based messaging concering Pokémon though ;)
Technically, a senator can require that a bill be read aloud by the clerk. However from what I understand that pretty much never actually happens because even if a senator makes the relevant objection, the schedule can just be reworked so that the bill is no longer considered at that time.
Cost over COGS is exactly my point and why this is exploitation. What do you think the cost over COGS are for the artists actually doing the work? I'll give you a hint, it's often in the negative.
> And it is ages the geek family members were not called for viruses or cryptohacks.

They will soon

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-securit...
There are other things that people need by: food, housing, clothing. We don't use the government as a single entity for purchasing those goods. What makes them different from drugs?
I did when I saw that the headline was 1/3 too low.
I carry Etymotic earplugs with me at all times; they're cheap enough not to worry too much about losing. I also recently got myself a pair of Plantronics Backbeat Pro headphones -- they're great; pretty good at blocking background noise turned off, really good with the noise cancelling on (even in the office) and not nearly as expensive as the Bose headphones. And they sound great both with a wire and on Bluetooth.

I should probably buy some Plantronics stock, shouldn't I? Just a happy consumer :).
In fact, come to think of it, you can do `$foo(bar)` and `baz(bar)`, but only because undefined constants evaluate to a string of their name by default. (Yes, it's awful.)
This looks horrible on my mobile device :(
I've always said this but Linux (Ubuntu on the desktop) needed a few applications to ensure that almost all devs didn't need anything else. In my opinion...those tools (which didn't exist) were:

1. GUI git client (a few exist, but nothing close to Tower or Sourcetree)

2. A nice UI/UX designer (Figma is awesome but you need the desktop client to upload .sketch files that require external fonts - which is almost always the case for most kits - and that desktop client is only available on Windows & MacOS)

3. Creator Applications (Tools that you don't really need, until you do - especially if you are a lone/indie dev).

Initially I would have added MS Office to the top of the list, but Libreoffice has gotten a lot better (and people use/are not surprised by Google Docs now)

But that said, as someone who's used Ubuntu almost exclusively for development for the last 5 years, it's been getting better and better.
Is this not the rise of ChromeOS? (http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outso...)
It could be a fictional place, they have plenty of opportunities.

I mean, this simple scam does not show much of a person.
1. You can use facebook
2. You know a weak spot in men that everyone knows about, and in countries that are more developed laws prevent companies to abuse men.
3. You know how to match when you type with a video recording that you are showing a person/victim.

Edit: on a social engineering level this doesn't score that high.

And I'm not going to list the negatives that this shows right now.
I didn't see what was so special. You will need to enable javascript if you have that disabled.
[Edit: with javascript it's cool the first time but if I want to read an article I don't need the animation every time...]

I only read one article but it was really well written and presented.

[re-edit] I was not being dismissive or negative. Since I didn't have JS enabled I didn't know I was missing anything. This site (unlike many) was functional without JS (which is what should happen IMO). Only after a second look did I think to enable JS to see there was more to it.
I see no value in turning a whole industry into defacto civil servants. Doctors and nurses are people too who need to be able to choose themselves. I don't give a rip about insurance. Getting access to health care is what matters. Doctor/patient relationship is what matters. I see no need for government to get involved other than stopping ethical type (illegal) abuses.
They didn't have a good quarter. They had a slightly less bad quarter than originally predicted.
Soon: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
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I really dislike mine. Don't use it. I am not a web designer.

http://www.jaruzel.com/
Do Citizen Developers Help or Hurt IT?
I guess many vendors will have ASIC co-processors for some ML operations pretty soon.

The ones you listed are giving Qualcomm a run for its' money in mobile space, but automotive is a tough one to get into. Nvidia and especially Freescale/NXP already have automotive market share (and investment in the space)
I used Windows pretty much my entire career until recently, since I started focusing more on client side scripting and Azure (and being able to use VS Code for more .NET projects). I now see Linux as my go to environment. But I still have to use my company laptop for some .NET projects of course.
Thanks!

We'd love to have OSS help. We try to be as beginner friendly as possible.

Getting started is as easy as `npm install; npm start`. Here are our contributing docs - https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/blob/master/C...

We have lots of great "up for grabs" issues for first time contributors - https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/issues?q=is%3.... If you're interested, comment on one of the issues and it's yours.

This week we've had lots of first time contributors and there's a lot of low hanging fruit.
Problem is that there's no association - every flat is owned freehold and there is nobody who manages the building. However, any action that three households agree on becomes legally binding for every occupant. (This is just how it works in Scotland!)
You are a frog in a slowly boiling pot of water.

I see that you are a very young employee in a remote office. As such you are more likely than average to be cut in future layoffs. Depending on your financial situation you should possibly be looking for a new job already. You should definitely start looking for a new job when you hit your year cliff next March. It would be a significant career mistake not to.
The incompatible license is the GPL. I think that's where your problem lies. IllumOS, FreeBSD had no problem at all adopting them.
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Paul Krugman: Asimov's Foundation novels grounded my economics
s/random European countries/everywhere except GB/
Does https://standardresume.co/ meet your needs? It might be a little bit closer to a resume than a website, but it could easily be combined with a more personal single page website.
What products does ST Micro have in the phone processor space? Wasn't NovaThor cancelled?
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I'm just curious what happens to Freescale's i.MX product line...i.MX directly competes in the automotive SOC space with QCOM.
> Can you imagine a BMW owner complaining that his 2015 model does not have stuff that new 2017 models will get??

I am complaining, at least inwardly :-)
I feel like "wall of text and no modern styling" works better if you're already a world famous researcher (or if you're Y Combinator).
This is also what has been pretty clear to me all along.
It takes a few years, but once you're no longer a growth company and the lay offs start up, the company because a less interesting, more stressful place to work. And the best people stop wanting to work there. (See Yahoo, Aol, etc). What's going to happen now is twitter is going to try and trim down their own projects to siphon as much profit as they can from them, and then try to grow by acquisition instead of innovation...
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I found this tutorial really really helpful: http://academy.plot.ly/#react
The first question is "What is a server nowadays?"... An OS install? Or a physical machine?
They are just the individual notices of layoffs.
It is very rare for a company to have two big rounds of layoffs and not get addicted.
But that can always happen to any product.
There are much more sophisticated versions of this where the girls are real and they embroil men in months long relationships and gather much more...ahem...extensive material. They also seek out high value targets, not necessarily millionaires but people in a high middle-income bracket.

The case that I am personally aware of the scammers were based in Ukraine and despite the person being quite cool headed about it, it did cost him severely.
My Pixel 2 is the reason I got into Linux. Once I figured out how to run Ubuntu in Crouton, it's the only thing I want to use anymore.
This is something to check
I wonder how much that's an honest explanation and how much it's the financials
I have a couple of pairs of ER20s and some ER20XS for commuting, gigs, noisy places, etc. They do a good enough job that I can go to e.g. a Rammstein gig and not suffer afterwards (tinnitus flareup, headache, etc.)
Getting fired is objectively worse than firing. Getting fired is objectively worse than firing multiple people.
If I'm a deli, pub, pizza, or dinner place in Manhattan, I benefit WAY less from someone staying in another state than I do from someone staying in my neighborhood.
Their revenue went down 5% which is never a good thing but not a "stop the world" moment either. We don't know why their income crashed, but that might as well be R&D. It's still in a healthy place relative to revenue..

If their margin went down because of massive advertising/discounts yet they still lost 5% of revenue, that would be worrying. But we can't tell from the table alone.
I decided to read up on Shen, and followed some reddit threads about it, and the consensus seems to be that it is a very inefficient language and many of its abstractions are not actually portable between platforms, i.e. the language changes a bit depending on where you use it.
What Facebook's Boston Office Is Working on and Expansion Plans
http://kellysutton.com

Stumbled upon this one yesterday, it's from a paper, but well written:
https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html

A long time favorite writer:
http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/
It's without a doubt the provision with the biggest impact. The whole point of an insurance pool is to pay out less than you bring in, and if you suddenly introduce a lot of people that cost more than they bring in, premiums have to go up. A lot.
Nonsense. Creating a startup is the opposite of 'passive'. Also the word passive doesn't appear in the article title or text.
First the master: http://worrydream.com/

Surprised nobody's posted it yet.

Other people are also posting their own, so here's mine: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/

Other job-hunt-specific efforts:
http://www.dougkoellmer.com/portfolio/
http://www.dougkoellmer.com/resume/
http://www.dougkoellmer.com/games/

Can't be totally sure but I believe they've gotten me a job or two.
(Yes I remember meeting you. I hope you're doing well!)

I agree that it's hard to guess how things will go. Predictions are hard, especially about the future. Overall I think that if you go into it with open eyes and are comfortable with the fact that things might not work out the way you hope (but they might!) then it's probably the right thing to do for you. I think you'll get to work on pretty interesting stuff that's very important to the company right now. And if things get too weird/annoying you can always go work somewhere else.