skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many factors contributing to this actually.

1. Doctors overprescribe because they are afraid of mistakenly underprescribing (we are a litigious country after all). This end up costing patients more tests/procedures, and cost doctors malpractice insurance premiums.
2. Procedures are billed differently per insurance policy. There are millions of variations of anthem PPO, and what they cover and how much they pay differs.

3. You, as the policy beneficiary, only care about your out of pocket cost. You don't really care about the price unless 1) you pay some percent of the money (reference pricing), 2) you are below your deductible.

So you are right, price transparency alone is not enough, but it is indeed a big step. If you knew in advance the price of thing, you probably wouldn't pay 400$ for a bag of saline solution [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/health/exploring-salines-s...
Background playback is a problem for YouTube because they pay for music licensing through ad revenue. I'm sure advertisers wouldn't be happy with people not seeing the ad they are paying for. With YouTube Red they have another revenue stream to pay for the music licensing. That's my theory, anyway.
I think there's something to what you're saying here, but there's a slight technical correction I'd make. Human concepts are not finite; they are definitely infinite. However, just because something is infinite doesn't mean it covers everything--e.g. the real numbers are fundamentally more encompassing than the integers. So, human concepts are infinite, but that doesn't mean they cover everything.
What's the point of making that statement? 'Cotton production requires a fraction of the number of employees needed to accomplish the same tasks 150 years ago.'

The bottom line is this: It's an advanced economy sector industry creating jobs in the US, where none existed before. Not in spite of, but because it's a highly automated factory, it can be built in the US. The more "great American" companies that build advanced factories, the better for the US economy.

Frankly, I'm most impressed that this project seems to be on schedule. Gives me a little encouragement that we can execute on mega projects like this.
Given that the median salary for a physician (not specialist) is $180K, I'm not sure what you think people think they make if they think it's a "lot more" than that.
> I, as a nobody, won't be read. So I need to gather followers. I do so in the traditional way of commenting, liking, recommending, doing all kinds of community stuff. But again, this can be gamed. This is not impact, but merely hours put into the social game.

While this may be true for most blogs, I curiously found myself in a different situation, having spent almost no time trying to game the social system on my blog (only setting up auto-posts of new content on facebook/twitter, very seldom manual tweet to promote archived content). Somehow I got up to today, with 1-2k daily hits for derelict content, and enough name recognition to get job offers and occasionally run into fans in real life.
FTC Issues Public Challenge to Improve IoT Patching
Macy's lays off over 4,000 employees
Fun thought experiment.

An alien race landed on earth and demands to play a game of Go. We only get to play one game with them. If they win, our planet is destroyed.

Who would you trust to play for the human race if this scenario happened tomorrow? Lee Sedol or AlphaGo? Remember that we do not completely understand how AlphaGo reasons, it is still a black box to us.
Welp, guess I was wrong.
California's assembly passed a law requiring hospitals to charge Medicare's rates to self-pay patients. Schwarzenegger vetoed it.
Set up an alias for ps via .bat which then closes the cmd window - <Win+R> cmd <Enter> ps
exactly this. happened to my wife as well.

As a healthy person, my lesson learned is do not ask doctor a question, unless you have legitimate reason.
The horrible syntax of Powershell isn't something I can look past.
Shame, too, as it was the Dropbox feature I used the most. I hate having to link people to the clunky, slow-to-load viewer interface that Dropbox presents when you make a share link. I also don't want comments! (which always takes up an entire sidebar and has to be manually closed)
Recursion-joy, a set of recursion problems in JavaScript
Sorry didn't read to the end of your comment :)
I use conemu at work. It's not as awful as some alternatives. I would recommend it, but I can't say that it's a good experience. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here... do you run vim in conemu? For me, it's slow when redrawing lines of text while paging and sometimes renders artifacts in the pane, especially when I vertically split vim.

For a command line interface, I find it to be fairly unstable, too.
Learning about recursion was hard. Doing this helped me better understand it. PRs, critics, welcomed!
he's just mentioning that the fact that doctors are not the ones billing you could cost you double or more.
Wonder how many more times this can get declared before the PR value works as a net loss.
Seems to me a full-body language has got to be much more expressive than text on a screen. Probably text-to-signing will be just as flat as with text-to-speech, but there's more room there for higher bandwidth than text.
just leave it off your resume
same for me. HSA with seed + incentive (i think i also guess where you work :)). I think some institutions like PAMF might be doing this more than others, at least that's my observation. i swore for not going there unless it's a medical emergency.
Post cites ‘discussions’ aimed at preventing recurrence of Vermont utility story
Travis Kalanick's ultimate hacking guide to CES (2008)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/technology-resear...
The media, especially the tech media, is not as difficult to manipulate as you think. I think its likely those stories were engineered and sensationalized, built up from less credible sources to more credible, each medium citing the previous.
I would like to address this from a slightly different perspective. Energy is the great enabler. With sufficiently cheap energy this could be viable, possibly even for staple crops. In addition, cheaper energy would make available many other processes which are currently cost-prohibitive and greatly assist in raising the standard of living of every human on the planet.

Too much attention is given to classifying energy sources as "renewable" or "green", rather than the less restrictive criteria of sustainability and cost.

As an example, fission power with a closed fuel cycle, using either uranium or thorium and possibly incorporating seawater extraction could accomodate all of humanity's energy demands for hundreds of millenia at current consumption rates. Nuclear power is already fairly cheap, but I do not think it overly optimistic to expect that economies of scale and automation could make it much cheaper. Yet the United States still refuses to even reprocess spent fuel, and one of the most promising projects -- the Integral Fast Reactor -- was cancelled in 1992 by the Clinton presidency when it was almost complete.
You know Apple already offers that, right? I don't want to sound like an Apple shill so I will avoid naming the feature; apple is big enough that if they can't get the word out it's not my problem!
Part 2 is here, with plenty of food for thought:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n03/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-t...

> If we find this astonishing, we are assuming that these features should be the Selectors: that reality should be as simple and unarbitrary as it could be. That assumption has, I believe, great plausibility. But, just as the simplest cosmic possibility is that nothing ever exists, the simplest explanatory possibility is that there is no Selector. So we should not expect simplicity at both the factual and explanatory levels. If there is no Selector, we should not expect that there would also be no Universe. That would be an extreme coincidence.
Because mining is "exporting", miners get breaks on power and loans. After those, it's probably not a net loss.
Can't download it.

What's the problem? Machines with 32G RAM are commonplace, you can probably just fit it all into memory. The important bits at least.
IBM predicts 5 life-changing innovations in the next 5 years
Gotcha, thanks for getting back to me :)
So I don't own a Surface Book but most of the folks I know who have one felt like it had stabilized a while ago. It still look like 4-6 months depending on the issues you faced but most of them love it now.

I currently own a Surface Pro 4. I love it. I had some issues up front and Windows is still Windows but it's gotten better and so far I love it. I'll admit it's impossible to beat a MBP's trackpad.

But as with everything I've seen folks with basically every opinion on the Surface line. So your mileage may vary.
That's quite absurd. Especially since it was a routine place you were going. You might try calling your insurance (if you havent) and talk them into reducing the bill: you just didn't know and your wife sticked with where she has been going to in the past. If you can, if your healthcare is through your employer, try writing to your benefits team as well.

PS: My prayers are goes for your wife. I hope she beats the cancer.
I have no doubt it's true, I just wonder what percentage of MS employees, e.g. in the Seattle region, this applies to.
.NET Core WebSockets – Cross-Platform WebSockets From DMZ to API - Service Zone
> We believe people who write and share ideas should be rewarded on their ability to enlighten and inform

So they are going to start charging for reader access[1] but they don't yet know how. Is there any other interpretation?

I am sad they did not explore a restrained, regulated advertising model. As much of a dirty word it is, it's not in practice as disliked as "paywall". Daring Fireball does good ads. Even Google (at least in its earlier days) had restrained approach to text-only, short, clearly separated ads that people were ok with.

[1] Note: as I read it the quote specifically precludes a paywall-free approach such as charging writers for premium features a la other hosting platforms (sans paywall, at least). They want writers to receive compensation and they don't want ads.
> I only read one or two solid (technical) arguments against systemd. And no, no one of them is found in the regular systemd-hate sites.

There's an invisible pink unicorn who knows the winners of every horse race, but only I can see and hear her. Of course, I'm not going to tell you the winners; that's my secret!

Did you get onto the systemd stuff late? I got in midway along and found a few things that were iffy. One of the definite problems was the core developers' disdain for other people's use cases - even Torvalds said he was ambivalent about systemd itself, but the developers were pretty user-hostile and that was a problem.

> Here you go, all your old logs in the place you expect them.

Cool. In the same vein, do we have centralised logging in systemd yet? Or do we still have to run another syslog tool to ship them? Last I looked half a year ago, the consensus was still "ship them through rsyslog/syslog-ng", so you still have to run your old syslog in parallel. Only the IPU knows why they would make a new journaling system for a primarily-server OS, and keep kicking the "centralisation" can down the road.

Yes, the anti-syslog commentary went too far, but there were a lot of problems with it, especially before it had been battle-hardened. But whether or not you do or don't like systemd, you'd be crazy to say that it fits in with that unix principle I mentioned above.
Games like go and chess are necessarily solveable by definition, right? If you mean solveable in our lifetimes, by current technology, that's something else entirely, and much less likely.

Beating human players in go is like finding a good heuristic for an NP-complete problem. Solving 19*19 go is like proving P!=NP, i.e. we don't even have tools that can approach the problem.
250$ LIDAR is on the horizon http://driverless.wonderhowto.com/news/quanergys-new-250-sol...
It isn't surprising at all the FBI interviewed him. For example, page 352 of his file talks about his association with <redacted> who I would suspect was Klaus Fuchs[1] who gave the soviets information that let them build their own atomic bomb[2]. Feynman was also in frequent communication with the Soviet Embassy and was planning a trip to the Soviet Union.

The FBI can be over the top, but I imagine that's probably worth having a conversation about.

Edit: the letter (from Bell?) starts on page 110 of the file... It's pretty extreme!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs#Value_of_Fuchs.27s...
I find Dropbox by far the most straightforward and convenient of the cloud storage providers (DB, Box, iCloud, OneDrive, Google in order of exponentially increasing frustration level). But at the end of the day it's just a feature. I assume they haven't yet gone public because they have been tap dancing hoping to find a way to break out of the feature ghetto.

If there were an easy way to attach to S3, iot devices, etc (credentials management is a pain) they could probably go out on the strength of that.
Google Playstore is blocked, as well as all other Google domains. Your Android phone feels like a useless brick - you cannot even connect to a WiFi, as it tries to connect to a Google domain to check if it should show up a input WiFi password page served from 1.1.1.1 (iOS does the sae, but Apple.com works fine). Anyway, iOS works fine, as do Android without Google services preloaded. Bing.com is available, but Baidu is way better.
Fixes a bug introduced between 1998 and 2002 (between the last 3.x and first 4.x). Someone somewhere presumably has written a sed script working around the bug for 15 years!
that's still a hassle, though. there is a point, but it probably works better with individual practices than large hospitals.
Uh, what? There is nothing binding about the estimate (unless you're in the auto repair industry), so you cannot "legitimately refuse to pay for it" unless they explain "how those are unforeseen factors".

Typically, indeed, you'll find wording to that exact effect. "This is only an estimate. Actual costs may differ."
The 40,000 years probably refers to "behaviorally-modern humans", which according to one theory appeared suddenly 50,000 - 60,000 years ago, and according to another theory developed slowly starting 2 million years ago and ended 50,000 years ago. The 50,000 year mark is generally accepted as the latest time when speech and language were developed, though that could have in fact happened earlier.
DB: So, control theory is model-based and concerned with worst case. Machine learning is data based and concerned with average case. Is there a middle ground?

BR: I think there is! And I think there's an exciting opportunity here to understand how to combine robust control and reinforcement learning. Being able to build systems from data alone simplifies the engineering process, and has had several recent promising results. Guaranteeing that these systems won't behave catastrophically will enable us to actually deploy machine learning systems in a variety of applications with major impacts on our lives. It might enable safe autonomous vehicles that can navigate complex terrains. Or could assist us in diagnostics and treatments in health care. There are a lot of exciting possibilities, and that's why I'm excited about how to find a bridge between these two viewpoints.

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/machine-learning-in-the-wild
I agree that all warnings should be generally be turned on and snuffed out (Though there are a few innocuous warnings that I turn off sometimes), however I wouldn't recommend the usage of -Werror to force that unless it's only enabled for dev builds. Warnings are generally impossible to fully predict: different compilers can give different warnings - from warnings enabled by default, warnings changed between versions, and warnings that differ between compilers. And of course, there's no wrong way for the compiler to do it because what to warn about is subjective in the first place.

That can become really annoying for an end user looking to just compile and run your software, not debug why it fails to build because their setup outputs a warning somewhere that may not even be an error. And turning off -Werror tends to then require delving into Makefiles (or whatever other build system they chose to use), and at that point most people are probably just not going to bother and call it broken.

Again, I'm not saying you shouldn't attempt to snuff out and find every warning that you can, but you shouldn't have your default build rely on compiling with no warnings. There's just too many variables uncounted for to expect your software to compile without warnings in every possible configuration.

I also agree 100% with running test suites through valgrind - I do that as well and it's a very good way to guard against memory leaks being introduced (Of course, good structure and design techniques are always the best defense, but there's nothing wrong with a good check that things are doing good).
Try https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle

(not affiliated, it just does this very well)
(assuming mylist is a standard python list) it does prevent races inside mylist.append. It does make mylist.append safe.

When I wrote "append from two threads .. as expected" I meant "two items will be added, which one first is unspecified", and the GIL certainly takes care of that.

I agree it does not protect you from your bad threaded code - but then, nothing short of STM does (and even STM doesn't guarantee starvation in the general sense - nothing can).
> "It's not about objects and classes, it's all about messages"

Often cited, but somewhat meaningless without the context in which Kay originally made that statement.

One should instead consider that object-orientation is "… the insight that everything we can describe can be represented by the recursive composition of a single kind of behavioral building block that hides its combination of state and process inside itself and can be dealt with only through the exchange of messages." - Alan Kay

It is primarily an approach to representing complex problems and systems in code. It is an alternative to modular programming (procedures and subroutines) organized using functional decomposition (structured programming), or an information or data-flow modeling approach. It is not primarily about organizing code.
10 Enterprise Startups That Are Set to Rock 2017
Really nice summary of undefined behavior. Just realized this is posted by Chris Lattner himself.
Amazon Cloud drive is $60/year for unlimited space.
Not OP, but he's not saying Elon doesn't deserve credit, he's just saying he doesn't deserve all the credit. The quote makes it sounds like Elon himself build everything alone, rather than being a successful leader, as well innovator.
Assuming you're referring to the discussion that followed your vouch, I know people who talk like that comment in person, and their tone of voice and body language makes it clear that they're reasonable and genuine people just with a different vocabulary. But it's impossible to tell online, with only text.
I am insured. You can opt to be billed by the provider, and submit the claim yourself. If you're unsure how this works, read the contract you have with your insurer, or call them on the phone. They may also be able to give you advice on negotiating for lower bills - after all, that lowers their cost as well.

I have a high deductible, so usually wind up paying the entire bill out of pocket. There's no reason to go through the insurer for that.
They are one and the same, no? http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-and-nvidia.html
I'd expect to see that in time. If you analyze the whole program to find all the fields of an object and verify the absence of code which dynamically adds a field, you can then make it a struct of "CObject" like entries. Then, try type inference on the fields. Some will clearly be integers, booleans, floats, or strings. Those can be represented with type-specific representations.

If you can identify the built-in types, that's most of the potential win; you get to do hardware arithmetic. If you represent integers as 64 bits and check for overflow, you probably don't need bignum promotion outside of crypto code.
good thing is those are the things you can shop around -easier-. when you are in a hospital getting care, you have very little idea about how much it's going to cost you.
The value that Dropbox provides isn't the sharing, nor the protocol - it's the failure-free merging algorithm (I intentionally said "merging" not "syncing"). The magic is what happens locally - not on the network.
I hope they try micropayments for content. Paying authors 1 cent per read, taken from the readers account, for example.

I've been waiting for someone to do a really good job of that, since the good 'ol days of Gopher.

These guys have a big enough audience to make a genuine attempt at it.
This is a claim often stated, but rarely actually demonstrated - ways in which Medicare doesn't cover costs, that is.
> you probably wouldn't pay 400$ for a bag of saline solution

Hey, this is a great example: I might very well pay $400 for a bag of saline solution even if I knew the price in advance, because I don't care about the price of the bag. I care about the all-in cost of my treatment. If that total cost happens to include a $400 bag, I don't really care.

The "$30 Asprin" narrative sometimes misses the big picture of healthcare costs. The price of an apsrin or bag of saline solution is inflated to cover the enormous fixed costs of running a hospital with an ER. Could the ER charge $4 per bag or $0.25 per asprin? Of course, but if they lose their per-unit margin on the saline and asprin, they're going to jack up the price of some other CPT code because they have to cover their fixed costs somewhere.
I don't think its blind/ignorant to think that way for some things.

For things that we are tossing away when we are done with them, as long as we mark where all our dumps are, the future generations should be fine as when they run out of an element, they will be able to mine our dumps. Its not like we are destroying the elements to build things out of them.

We could be nice and somewhat sort/record the trash in our dumps so future generations know where to dig when they need something and be able to get it in reasonable concentrations.
You mean unlike rupees? :)
As someone who's interested in taking the Udacity course, would your recommend it? Do you think the course prepares you enough find a Self-Driving developer job? Would you learn enough to compete/work along side people who got their Masters/PhD in Machine Learning? Appreciate your input.
I remember accompanying a friend and having her arrive at a hospital for an extremely expensive, previously planned plastic surgery procedure and being confronted with unexpected, unannounced costs of several thousand dollars.

It was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life.
Forking a process on Windows is really slow, making most opensource toolchains sluggish on Windows.

The UNIX philosophy is that everything is a file, so you can read and write from files and pass data around with convenient tools... that mindset is also missing in Windows.

Command lines were not foreseen as a preferred way of interacting with the system in Windows until recently. PowerShell tried to fill some gaps, and many tools integrate with it... but it's not the same. It has a long way to go.
The whole point of the new generation of touchscreens that wrap around to tablet format if wanted is that they let you use android apps with a touchscreen. If you don't want a touchscreen, buy one of the many existing chromebooks that don't have touchscreens. I have the 2015 pixel and it's awesome, and almost every day i use the touchscreen with a few android apps.
Snapchat makes no sense to me so I choose to believe this. Theranos 2: The Snappening coming to a theater near you!