skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These debates about insurance and payment models are important, but still ignore the biggest issue. US healthcare expenses increasingly go to treating conditions caused by poor lifestyle choices: obesity, substance abuse, and sedentary lifestyles. Certainly there are ways to cut waste and shift costs around more equitably but unless we can improve those root cause factors we're only going to be kicking the can down the road. At some point we just won't be able to provide effective care to everyone regardless of who's paying or how much providers cut prices.

Even countries with socialized medicine are going to run into the same issue. Canada and the UK are only slightly better off in those lifestyle choice factors than the US, and their trends are moving in the wrong direction.
How is sight like enlight.ml made?

How is it hosted, how do the pages come together, etc.

That would make a great tutorial, even if it's at a high level.
> Preventative care that actually works is super cheap

The same's true about car maintenance, but plenty of people drive on dying brake pads and stretch oil changes anyways. A hundred bucks for a checkup is still more than many folks are willing to pay. As an example, here's a kid who died for want of a $80 dental procedure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...

> not controversial (mostly vaccinations)

LOL.
I am amazed the amount of selfishness we exhibit.

If I am unable to pick up groceries for the lack of cash, I can surely choose to order it online (using a credit/debt card). A vast majority of Indians cannot.

A majority of Indians don't have access to banks either. They will be forced to exchange their now illegal currency with the help of agents who would charge them 50 to 60%.

Most of the ATMs are out of cash. There are huge queues at banks; most of them are giving away Rs. 2000/= bills. Amusingly, if you were to give the new bill to a shopkeeper chances are that he'd refuse to tender the change back as the closest denomination to that is a Rs. 100/= bill.

Statistics reveal that only 6% of the black money is in the form of cash. As such, the argument of declaring higher currency notes as illegal tender in order to curb black money in unconvincing.
I know it's culinary heresy, but unless you're eating it raw (like spread on a piece of baguette) it doesn't matter much what kind of fat you cook with in most preparations. If you were to take 99% lean ground beef right now and soak it with a few spoons of olive oil or canola, it would probably be pretty rich and moist.
Laptops are indeed powered off of DC, which means that there will be a constant voltage measured across the positive and negative pins of the MagSafe plug.

However, the voltage measured from either pin to ground might very well fluctuate. Without the grounding pin on the power supply, the DC side of the supply may 'float' with respect to earth ground. If you plot the voltages measured from each pin to ground, it probably looks like a pair of sine waves, one shifted 20 volts above the other.
I use Zapier/IFTTT to automate various aspects of my business (automatically shuffling emails between different lists, logging payed invoices into a spreadsheet, some basic expense tracking).

For personal use, I use it mainly to make sure I get an email about some high-priority sites I follow and to log my weight into a spreadsheet.
The idea that Trump is unencumbered by campaign contributions is a pipe dream, because he has to buy the loyalty of Congress in order to pass laws, and they are more encumbered than ever.
In .NET Core, there are new TagHelpers that probably do some of the same stuff... not sure exactly of the overlap, but I've used them and they're really nice.
> I am quite sure this decision was taken after discussing with lot of people who might have done PhDs in Economics and serving for Govt.

I have no hope for this country to find such views on HN of all places.

EDIT: I acknowledge this is low content comment. So I quote "the first job of an economist is to tell governments what they cannot do". Please sit back and give this a fair read [1].

[1] https://mises.org/about-mises/what-austrian-economics
Considering that prisons in their current form overflowing with brutality and cruelty are an acceptable mainstream position, I'd rather not care about being extreme. If one believes that prisons as a structure inevitably lead to arbitrarily bad abuse of power, then one is for the abolition of prison.
One of the more eye opening aspects of the paper is just how little code it took them to duplicate the Zookeeper API atop Tango. Granted there are some caveats about a research project vs an industry ready codebase, but I still interpret it as strong evidence that their approach is a good foundational abstraction.
I'm sorry if I gave you that impression. Actually, I'm pretty upset I made you feel that way to begin with. Talk about ironic, given the point I was trying to make. I kind of took your comments as a segue to respond to the sort of un-thinking ignorance I mentioned your comments getting compared to/judged by/fighting against. It wasn't you I was suggesting don't know what depression feels like, but generic "suck it up" thoughts I was thinking about in response.

That said, I still absolutely agree with you. Lifestyle changes can have a profound impact on depression, and perhaps more importantly, can help support other behavioral changes long-term. They might not make the problems go away, but they'll absolutely help people get through the worst aspects, even if other treatments (medication, therapy, CBT, etc.) are needed alongside them.
> Nevertheless, NZ infrastructure is built to withstand this sort of stuff

Building maybe. But our main transportation routes often have little redundancy and go through some potentially hazardous areas. State Highway 1 down the Kaikoura coast is a great example. Hopefully Lewis Pass survived ok.
Yeah, sorry, that was a typo, I noticed it too late, HN won't let me edit it now.
What's interesting is that Bollywood stars whose names were in the Panama Papers are lauding this 'demonitisation' move... it kinda underscores that real 'black money' isn't stuffed in mattresses, it's stored more cleverly in different types of assets, companies, offshore accounts.

Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, had this to say a couple years ago about the idea:
“Unfortunately, my sense is the clever find ways around it. They find ways to divide up their hoard in to many smaller pieces… I would focus more on tracking data and better tax administration to get at where money is not being declared. I think it is very hard in this modern economy to hide your money that easily.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/09/heres-what-raghuram-...

The fact that our Prime Minister’s fans are so enthusiastic and the move is aimed at curbing ‘black money’ makes it hard to clearly take a stand against this move, but I personally find it ill thought-​out. The fact that some wealthy people are evading taxes by sticking cash in a cupboard somewhere doesn’t mean that hundreds of millions of ordinary people should suddenly be unable to buy milk or bread, damn.
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Hey, it's hosted on GitHub pages. The code can be found here: https://github.com/samayshamdasani/enlight

If you take a look at the html files, along with the CSS - you may get an idea. I plan to make a tutorial on making a personal website from scratch like how I did (no frameworks, etc.) and then making a tutorial on technologies like Jekyll, etc.
AI will indeed kill humanity.not by going renegade but doing exactly what we tell. Soon enough we gona lose all capability of doing the most simple tasks
A few years ago, a Dr. R. Andrew Hicks of Drexel University designed a non-reversing mirror that is a single sheet of glass. The reflection is slightly distorted, however.

News coverage:
http://techfragments.com/inventions-non-reverse-mirror/
https://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16585-amazing-mirrors

Photo from his website:
http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/images/opticks.jpg
I don't doubt that the factory is going to be a grim sight. I was more thinking about the centralization aspect, which would cause massive damage if the lab covering an entire state or country was contaminated.
I suppose that if election promises were to be fulfilled then the government might have chosen to act upon those stashing billions of dollars in tax havens abroad.
I can imagine it's higher, of course. But it's not 100 times higher.
You are right. That's an error on my part. I just wanted to emphasize that the clock was designed in CSS, and that it's not some image off the internet or something.
Thanks man, I appreciate it!
Prolog relaxes the requirement to think linearly, bottom-up. If you write all the facts and predicates bottom-up it's easy in Python. Dictionaries, sets, and comprehensions take care of everything. As you say, it's trivial.

If you want to write top-down, defining what a mother is before defining who are parents and who are female, then you'll need to write functions and it gets trickier in Python. The sticking point is when to transition from functions to dict/set -- what's a predicate and what's a fact. We could get fancy with decorators to create some funky predicate class, but let's stay away from metaprogramming for the moment.

I agree that Python (without getting fancy) requires the programmer to think through a bit more of the inferential logic than Prolog would under some circumstances. How often do those circumstances arise in practical problems? I'm not sure.

However, I've got to accept the challenge: "What is a list with 30 unique integer elements that sum to 100?"

First, there is no list with 30 unique positive integers that sum to 100.

>>> sum(range(30))
435

Allowing negatives would create an infinity of possible solutions. So, I'm going to rephrase the problem: Generate a list of N unique positive integers that sum to M.

>>> from itertools import combinations
>>> m = 30
>>> n = 5
>>> combos = (c for c in combinations(range(m), n) if sum(c) == m)
>>> next(combos)
(0, 1, 2, 3, 24)
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> I don't think the nomenclature is the important point here.

Only if you already knew the difference between what Google asks you to sign when you submit patches to Chrome and what the FSF asks you to sign. If you want to call them both "CLAs", fine, but at least I hope you understand now how they're fundamentally very different. Not every bit of legalese is the same just because it's annoying legalese that you'd rather not have to deal with.
> how incredibly stupid one has to be

because literally everyone was raised in the same privileged home you were ? Nobody was abused or neglected and not taught right from wrong ? everyone is literally just like you ?
I've missed the last 6 summers in Ireland but I hear you!
While I agree that the President is just one person, what bothers me is that I can't ever remember having someone elected to the highest office in the nation without any experience.

It's troubling listening to Trump talk about world affairs and other issues without getting this sick feeling that he is completed bewildered. Then he seems to surround himself with people who don't have clue either.

It's quite frightening and I feel like America shit the bed and now we are all going to have to sleep in it.

I really hope it all works out because there is just so much at stake for everyone.
There is a more in depth interview about this subject in podcast form, if that's what you prefer: http://www.maximumfun.org/adam-ruins-everything/episode-10-p...
>US healthcare expenses increasingly go to treating conditions caused by poor lifestyle choices: obesity, substance abuse, and sedentary lifestyles.

Nice rhetoric, but source?
I think you're forgetting a dimension.
Slightly off topic but one thing I've long been curious about is what are the requirements to call yourself 'software engineer' as a job title?

In many parts of the world claiming to be an engineer (in a professional capacity) without the required qualifications opens you (and your employer) up to all sorts of liability issues.

I am a Materials Engineer I've long suspected the software engineer title is not regulated anywhere near as heavily.
If it's really just 6% of tax evasion, then I honestly think this is just a political decision trying to keep their promises.
Fuck, my wife and I are in possession of my parents gold (+small diamond) band and rings and wore them during our courtroom marriage ceremony - but we switched to tungsten rings with a carbon fiber inlay because the gold was too fragile and the wife kept scratching everything (including our daughter) with the diamond.

We're much happier with $20 disposable rings (both of us have lost one already); no fear of loss or damage and it gets the point across fine- hell, when I proposed to her I didn't even have a ring, we would have done it this way in the first place.
It sounds more that both of you are [insanely lucky to be / oblivious of being] well off rather than that you're gifted with exceptional knowledge about marriage.
Thanks for the feedback! That's what we're trying to test out - whether the TTS is something you'd trade in exchange for having real-time news read back to you while you drive to/from work.
CSI meets public wifi: Inferring your mobile phone password via wifi signals
"If people come in asking for a room, and you think they look like trouble—rowdy college students, say—if you have ‘Vacancy’ out there, you’re kind of obligated to give them a room,”

to put it another way, the "no vacancy" sign makes it more difficult to discriminate
Its actually the opposite. It is completely unnecessary for every day life. I know plenty of people here that don't speak any Japanese and get by just fine.
As far as working goes, it depends on the type of job you want. Most of the people I know with low Japanese skills are English teachers. Most engineering jobs require business level reading/writing/speaking since you often work in teams.
Yep.

And AMD just doesn't care - literally:

"For the most part, because—in the case of Nvidia—they don't appear to care that much about VR. And in the case of the dollars spent on R&D, they seem to be very happy doing stuff in the car industry, and long may that continue—good luck to them. We're spending our dollars in the areas we're focused on."[1]

Everytime someone complains about how little OpenCL is used, I just think of that quote. I'm happy to use products from a company that cares about what I do.

(And yes, good OpenCL implementations would be great too. But the world won't wait for AMD on this).

[1] http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/04/amd-focusing-on-vr-...
Check out healthcare costs by age:

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/danmunro/files/2014/04/hccost...

Hence the importance of research into life extension technology combined with provision of assisted suicide for those who wish to die.
Yes, radio listeners. But for now more focusing on the tech-inclined crowds.

You'd be surprised about that last question though -- a 2015 survey indicated a lot of people switch between radio, streaming music and podcasts while they drive to work.
It was very funny making Dialogs with a randomly moving "OK" button responding on WM_MOUSEOVER (or something like it). Make them bigger, toolboxes, always on-top, and disable the top-right "x" button. Fun times :P
Victim blaming and false. End of life medical treatment (I wouldn't call it "care") is an enormously expensive and often ghoulish practice.
Hey mythrwy are you pregnant, you're looking a lot bigger? And also you should dump your partner because they conform to mainstream social standards, total red flag. Oh and you're raising your kids wrong.

Hey why are you offended? I was trying to help! You could be gracious about it.
Those Trump supporters exist, I'm sure. I've never met any of them in California, though. I assume the media has the same problem.
I felt this on an Apple laptop in California a couple of years ago, in an apartment with only two-prong outlets in it. I'd describe the feeling more like the laptop cover was vibrating, rather than bumpy. The feeling went away and the laptop cover became smooth and normal if I lifted my feet off of the ground.

Once all the outlets were rewired to be three-prong, with ground, I used a three-prong power cord and the problem went away.

Pretty scary feeling, and scary to think that two-prong outlets and appliances are legal anywhere. I'd also be surprised if Apple hasn't been sued at some point by someone getting electrocuted when using their laptop and a non-grounded, two-prong power cord.
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While i sit here watching gvfs shit itself randomly because of a minor glib version bump. This kind of crap is why there is still no "year of the desktop".
Single payer works well in many places other than the US.

People on private insurance plans in the US die or suffer while waiting for care their plans allegedly offer, while executives of those private insurance companies get "lavish bonuses".
I certainly think they make plans thinking it will help. Whether or not their plans are any good, especially in regard to supreme complexity, is my point. I have serious reservations.
Coz profiler for multi-threaded software is now in Debian
I "invented" a dispatcher library back then for that. Marking and matching callbacks with strings and looping through in the proc [ was very proud with it :-) ]
Such as? Jewellery is inherently not valuable!
As others have said, these companies probably have experience (and love!) with building native apps. Now if they haven't built anything serious with the latest non-native solutions, then their opinion will be just that: an opinion, but not expert advice. Also worth noting that their advice (go native!) can't be wrong technically. The native app will never be worse than the non-native one (given, of course, that the same level of effort and knowledge goes into them). If they don't do non-native apps, then they either take extra risks and efforts (which will very probably eat up any theoretical savings).

I would say that you should find a company that does hybrid apps as well and ask them too. Or, instead of a company, you could look for an expert for advice and have him help you make a decision and pick a subcontractor based on your detailed requirements.

Speaking about the technology: both PhoneGap and RN allows you to implement parts in native. React Native is called that, because it renders the UI using native components. (With PhoneGap you're running in webkit and thus your UI is html.)

Here's my 2 cents on hybrid apps: I have build one using PhoneGap over 5(!) years ago. Well, almost 6 now. The MVP for my first startup. It was pretty simple, but looked nice, worked well on low end android smartphones (of the day!) and had everyone wondering how I was able to build all that (app, backend and a component running on a Shiva Plug) by myself. In hindsight, one of the mistakes I made was that I gave in when we got funded and agreed to have the app reimplemented in native for both platforms (ios+android). This cost us quite some money and time and it turned out that the users didn't really use our app anyway.

One of the strengths of having a cross platform app is that you can do experiments with it a lot cheaper and quicker, for you don't have to implement everything twice. Especially, in your case where you have in house web devs, but no mobile devs.

I have just met one of my former employees from the above mentioned startup of mine. He now works for an agency as a mobile developer. Back then he only did iOS, now he does Android as well. He showed me one of their newest apps for a big sports brand. They did that in RN. It looked pretty neat. It used OpenGL for the graphics on at least one screen (that was implemented in native). It was something that I would have said not to implement in JS, but the guy told me that it was a pretty successful project for them. The agency he works for only has 2-3 native mobile devs and a lot of web devs. I think he was the only mobile dev on this project with 6-7 web devs doing most of the code in JS. Of course, RN is fresh technology and can cause surprises.

Another thing to consider, if an app is barely more than the mobile version of a website, then going 100% native might not make a lot of sense. Also, until you have enough mobile users, you might want to try something simple. Maybe even just a progressive web app.
Demos? Tutorials? Cutting and pasting stuff for videos?
Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) open sourced
The code I’m still ashamed of
FYI, You have Texas listed as a country. Cool idea!
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Shame there's nothing listed in China/Korea/Japan etc
My macbook was stolen years ago, but I remember it doing this exact thing. I never really looked it up or thought about it until now. It is a totally weird feeling for sure.
Ahh, it's the BBC.

I think we have reached a point in journalism where it has now become important to identify who is reporting it as well. At this rate we will need a simple content bias/color code plugin for different sites.

As an Indian, I have found that the BBC has been overly pessimistic about India especially on the web. Their story selections, headlines, and the voices listed as sound bites in the stories support the "downplay theme" for India.
I sometimes run into an interesting variation of this kind of problem. I often work with a Microsoft Surface tablet laying in front of my MacBook Pro, with my arms stretched over the tablet to type at times.

If the Surface is plugged in (no ground pin) and the MacBook Pro is also plugged in (ground pin), and my arms touch both at the same time, I can feel a tingling that quickly becomes unpleasant. Unplugging one or the other seems to be a work around.
AFAIK, it's not regulated at all - certainly nowhere in the US that I've lived.

But... I don't call myself a materials engineer, which probably has some sort of licensing or regulation, no?
http://www.radionz.co.nz/assets/news/18382/eight_col_xlarge_...

That's the yellow sticker that buildings in Wellington get if they're unsafe but still usable.
Heh, I always thought of Win16 as the Windows 3.x API. It never occurred to me that the "same" API was used for Windows 2.x and even 1.x. Makes sense though...

Really cool to see that Windows 1.0 application run on Windows 10!
Fair enough :) I meant on television. I guess Fox News. And maybe I'm in the online echo chamber. It's really hard to tell.
That's when we built pricepain.com in 2013 ... The article definitly inspired several efforts to allow market forces to operate by facilitating price transparency.
Oh I was just saying that the Verso is probably closer to simplest. It's more utilitarian than Smart and costs less (in the US at least).
> > From reading this, just show it to her. It says people can't spot the difference.

> Lying is a great way to start a relationship.

It sounded to me like the advice was "show her the fake diamond, so that she can see that it's visually indistinguishable from a real one" rather than "present her the fake diamond as a real one".
The title software engineer is not a claim to be an engineer, anymore than software architect is a claim to be an architect.