skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical billing in the US is a nightmare. Even if an insurance looks very good on paper, the entire health industry finds ways to screw the patients. Claims are rejected that should've been covered and it requires endless forms and phone calls (and the phone calls always have long wait times) to correct the issue. It's all a big mess.
We're talking about several orders of magnitude here.

Is a web page that loads in fifty seconds 'correct' or is it wrong? Is a video format that can only decode 2 frames per second correct, or wrong?

Often, timeliness is an unstated part of the requirements, in which case an academically pleasing solution that isn't practical doesn't fulfill the requirements.
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Will non-Berkeley students be able to participate in the discussions on Piazza?

If not, for those interested in following this course online, we might want to start a slack channel study group around this to help each other out. PM if interested.
OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates that references a suite of open protocols including Atom, Activity Streams, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, Webfinger,

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

Activity Streams is new, but the rest of these were all Google Buzz protocols. https://sites.google.com/a/going-buzz.com/tech/developers/un...

As weird a twist of history as it was that GNU so readily adopted the Google Buzz protocol stack, it's far more bizarre how completely undocumented and unmentionable this legacy is.

It's a pity that Salmon is an awful practically SOAP-like opaque envelope, because I rather like everything else here. But stuffing really good content inside a base64 envelope is really not ok with me and my expectation that casually working with a format shouldn't make me want to claw my eyes out.
I think that CoffeeScript may have been a victim of its own success, now that ES6 is here and seems to have included many of its best features (e.g. arrow functions). We can also consider CoffeeScript to be the one to prove that "compile-to-JS" languages could succeed, so in that sense it sparked the modern surge of such languages (and, obliquely, perhaps helped justify WASM as well).
My wife had a even more annoying case of this in SF. They actually set a trial date, she went, sat on court for hours and then when the trial came up it turned out that the cop who had given her the ticket hadn't shown up and she got to get home and get the money from the ticket back. Then it took the city about a year to pay the money back. Just imagine we had taken a year to pay the ticket...
> The people already earning a living are the ones paying for it. You'd be taking their own money from them only to give it back, less overhead.

The way means-tested welfare works is that there is e.g. a 20% tax and then people are given some benefits but the benefits are taken away very quickly, e.g. you lose 70 cents in benefits for every dollar of income. It means that low income people are effectively paying a 70% marginal tax rate while the rich pay 20%, which means there is a much lower incentive for the poor to make some more money. Especially when making more money can also cost more in expenses like transportation and child care, which can eat more than the part the government didn't take.

The way a universal basic income works is that there is a somewhat higher nominal tax rate, e.g. 30%, but everyone gets the benefits unconditionally (and in cash, so less bureaucracy), so everyone has the same marginal tax rate. Which reduces the disincentive to work of means-tested welfare.

You can still have any effective tax rate you like at a given income level, by choosing the amount of the basic income and the nominal tax rate.
Chuck, I'm not sure who you talked to in 2006 at Google, you should know we basically done done it already :)
It was being done then, in fact. It made it well past the discussion page, and was already being implemented.

We spent a lot of time building up a case law, pushing to open Pacer (meeting with the federal judiciary and offering to just pay the revenue they make), etc.

Scholar has pretty up to date legal data since then, from OCR'ing federal reporters to parsing it, to what have you.

In fact, ask Carl. We worked really closely with him and have helped fund him for years, both directly, and through public.resource.org (https://yeswescan.org/index.court.html - 9F is Anurag, who started/ran Google Scholar, 22F is the group I ran)

A lot of states have exclusive contracts with westlaw or nexis or what have you, so it's non-trivial.

The target was also to try to have data for the kind of situation you mention, not to try to replace the dedicate legal resources that exist.

Anyway, again, not sure why you think Google didn't do it.
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One thing I haven't necessarily seen raised is that including subdomains on HSTS headers would also affect internal websites on the same domain.

I'd argue that it's a good reason/way to get all internal sites upgraded to HTTPS but it might not be feasible for a large organization. So something to consider.
Stanford's cs231n had a subreddit: reddit.com/r/cs231n. Something similar might be nicer for organization in addition to chat.
The majority of capital income flows not to the super-rich, but rather to the pensions of the upper-middle-class.

Also, most income earned by the top 1% of income earners is employment income; many professionals (doctors / dentists / engineers / lawyers / accountants) fall into that top 1% of incomes. The working-age individuals whose income is primarily from capital are generally in the top 0.1%.
That is an exceptionally positive review of Australia's economic position.

By contrast can I point out that Australia has a high basic cost of living, colossal levels of private debt, an epidemic of obesity, an ongoing productivity crisis that was only temporarily masked by a resources boom, and a demographic inversion just around the corner that is likely to a) overwhelm the healthcare system and b) elect ever more conservative governments that will stifle immigration at exactly the time it is most needed.
"Very few strings attached"

Have you ever actually dealt with Centrelink?
EDIT

Sorry. My mistake
Can't PM you, but willing to get one going.
"Corporations don't have the ability to fund pensions any longer."

They don't have the willingness. They could fund them if they wanted to. Maybe some super generous pension plans would have to be cut back.

Just look at a lot of execs. They get life-long pensions.
Perhaps I'm completely cynical at this point, but I think recently I have seen altruism used in the sense of "please contribute large amounts of free work to this project I'm heavily invested in."

That said, kindness, in the sense of, willing to make an attempt to understand, and take into account others views / opinions / needs, definitely makes for nicer people to be around.
For sure. Oddly enough, a lot of people in the traditional/advertising backgrounds do get how to use the mediums effectively, or even how to measure and optimize within them, but when it comes to the technical aspects of setting them up, they are clueless, and don't grok the minutiae.

I wouldn't call myself a Marketing Engineer by any means. I am learning how to be a better coder, but, despite the buzzwordiness of the title, I feel like Marketing Technologist is a better descriptor (for me at least).
Ask HN: Algorithms of decision making?
Does anyone have a thought process for making a decision that has served them well? A way to choose between options and opportunities?

Or really any ideas or concepts that might help in the decision-making process.
I wrote a couple of months ago about using make with .net (the focus is on make):

http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-...

The problem is that I still need VS for debugging, which means build via msbuild. I've heard .net comes with a cmd line debugger (that's compatible with gdb even), though I've never used it.
> How exactly does this translate into 25-30x annual expenses (assuming safe withdrawal rate of 3-4%) ?

It doesn't, as far as I can tell. Any rule of thumb that answers the question "How much should I save?" but doesn't take into account how much you spend right now, is useless.
Basic income is not free money, it's redistribution so that every people can live humane life.
How about we just directly provide a safety net. The government can buy rent/food/medical if the market is cheaper or do it on it's own if not. (Force the market to compete with 'government inefficiency').
The thing is that there's nothing actually special about SpiderOak as a service. Since the data is encrypted end to end, the only special thing is the client and as you've pointed out, there's is terrible.

On that note, once I gave up on SpiderOak I went looking for alternatives and they actually exist:

- Syncany: https://www.syncany.org/ - Java based, works on Windows and *NIX, uses S3, Dropbox, Flickr, FTP, Openstack Swift, SFTP and WebDAV as backends.

- Rclone: http://rclone.org - Go based, works on everything Go supports, uses Google Drive, S3, Swift, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon Drive, OneDrive, hubiC, Backblaze B2 and Yandex.Disk.

Syncany at least supports limited file versioning but not as granular as you seem to be after. The upside is that unlike SpiderOak, Syncany is open source and you can contribute features you want. If you're only after backup, there's also Borg which might work for you: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/.
Planck temperature
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>Since it's designed to study the disincentives to work, by the end of the study it's likely to include many employed people.

On the other hand, people realize that UBI may go away any day.

What will be when canceling UBI has as much chance as canceling Minimum wage?
I think the inflation argument is that distributing more dollars would mean more buying power overall, increasing demand, and therefore cost of living increases.

That only makes sense when supply is inelastic, which is not a valid assumption, imo. I can imagine certain things, though, like housing, might be more successful as extracting additional rent from across the board income bumps.
That was a company selling Hackintoshes. In the many years since, Hackintoshes have remained a thing and I'm unaware of any individuals that have faced criminal or civil penalties.
The trial aims to discourage people's fears "of losing out something", he said, adding that the selected persons would continue to receive the 560 euros even after receiving a job.

So if you get a job, you'll still be receiving the 560 euros. That actually will make recipients go get a job.
Maybe this is dumb, but when I wrote this I also took it to mean the "transitive closure" of different fields of your data. So if you had a object "a" with fields "b" and "c", you'd consider "a" and "a.b" and "a.c".

There's also an interesting relation here between reaching some state "S" and having some field "s_reached". I haven't been able to fully understand that relationship, though.
Though it's probably over engineered for this trivial problem, would you, as someone not familiar to Akka or Pipes&Filters want to waste your mental bandwidth on a really complex problem, or get a familiarization with the concepts first?
I for one would love this idea even if it means we can only give a fraction of what we give now. My rationale is that if everyone gets the same amount regardless of income or race or whatever then the phony dogwhistlers (which is all that Reagan ever was) would have less of a stranglehold on the people. I think it would bring people together and it would encourage compassion.
Money comes from value and value comes from somewhere. If you receive a redistribution, you've not created value but you've received it. That's "free money".

And remember friends, TANSTAAFL.
I'm not sure there are many nations in a better position. Could you provide some examples of countries that are?
That doesn't change the fact that lack of sleep is a stressor. I was replying to your statement:

> "I don't think they are differentiating between stress, that this study discusses, from lack of sleep, which also affects memory."
> Those chosen will receive 560 euros every month, with no reporting requirements on how they spend it. The amount will be deducted from any benefits they already receive.

It looks like they're doing it in a way that doesn't cost anything - its just a reshuffling of the current benefits.
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Why would distributing money per se cause inflation?

So-called "helicopter money" is very good at inducing inflation, because it shifts the equilibrium between "holding money" and "buying stuff". This is the principle behind quantitative easing. But basic income isn't simply a matter of distributing money; the money also has to come from somewhere, and raising taxes (or cutting spending elsewhere) in order to fund BI has a disinflationary effect.

That said, the inflationary and disinflationary effects are likely to not apply equally across all goods; if you raise income taxes in order to fund a basic income system, you'll likely see increased inflation on low-end goods (since the people who purchase them have more money to spend) and decreased inflation on high-end goods (since the people who purchase those have less money to spend).
Yeah I agree, once a metric itself becomes the goal then you end up with some unmaintainable tests just to hit a block. I guess I would prefer to see un-hit blocks eliminated, not obtuse tests written to try and hit them. But like you said, I can see how if test coverage is the only end goal, you could end up with some pretty useless tests just to hit some random block.
Having been taught programming at university with command line tools (Ocaml, then C with GGC on Linux) I've naturally gone the same way when self-learning C# on Windows: notepad + Powershell + csc.exe I found somewhere within .net framework installation folders. I sticked with it for simple programs and started using Visual Studio 2008 only when learning GUI programming.

So I always find strange all the C# tutorials and books starting straight out with Visual Studio: this software is often updated with major visual changes thus rendering screenshots obsolete and there is a lot of visual complexity involved especially for beginners in both C# and programming. On the other hand the CLI interface is pretty stable, simple to use for small programs with few references -- and it's actually force one to understand what a referenced dll is -- and involve less magic.
You missed the point—when airlines introduce Basic Economy fares, they don't drop the price, they instead drop services. So at best, you're paying the same for poorer service, otherwise you're paying more for the same service. Either way, the cost of those services is going up.
1. $587 a month in many cities in the US will barely rent a room.

Even in St. Louis (https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-st-louis-rent-tre... ), average monthly rent for a one bedroom apartment is $1000 a month. In LA, it's over 2000 a month, in NY it's 2700, in Detroit it's at 1000.

SNAP (Food stamps) give about $255 a month. That means that out of UBI, about $300 is left over for rent.

2. If everyone in the US gets $587 a month, that's 1.5 trillion a year.

The current US federal budget is 3.8 trillion.

That's about a quarter of current US federal budget, and we still have to give an actual livable stipend to the truly poor (SNAP, section 8, medicare), some kind of defense, leave some for state/city tax, federal infrastructure programs (freeways/trains).
I imagine some people could have roommates with either real jobs, or the same source of income, would help reduce costs. Others could live with their families and save their money for when they need it most. But I guess if you're by yourself that would kind of not be enough, but if you can still get that welfare check plus a part time job, it may just be enough.
There are plenty of free lunches, they're called externalities, free rider problems, etc., etc.

For a maxim held by so many who flirt with economics, it's strange that so much of the field is explicitly about determining where the free lunches are.
The way to deal with their unfairness is to refuse to work for them (unless you're in SF!)
I've taken a rather non-traditional view that 'soul' is what people in the past used refer to as the 'program' that runs in our brain. So being copied by a hypothetical teleporter is no obstacle here.

Besides, quantum teleportation notwithstanding, I'm not sure QM allows the reproduction of everything at once, which should be required to duplicate the entire pattern.
Rent is also value that one didn't create. A way to fund basic income that particularly appeals to me is a land value tax, because resources that no one created (land, oil, etc.) don't rightfully belong to anyone and the benefits from those resources should be shared.
You can use oxygen gas for pressurization of oxygen tanks, but it introduces a new set of problems, since you've got to get a stable pressure of oxygen gas inside a container with a huge volume of sub-cooled liquid oxygen, and you have to have a high-pressure tank in there anyways to pre-load pressurized oxygen gas, so that you can get it into the tank fast enough. Also it means you've got reactive oxygen gas all around, so you have to redesign things for that.

However, this kind of oxygen-gas pressurization is exactly what's planned for SpaceX's next-generation oxygen-methane rockets.
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The article offered only one anecdote of a previous lowest fare price becoming the basic-economy fare price. Meanwhile, it presents as its main thesis that most people will spend more to not get basic economy, which is demonstrably false.
And I suspect that if people didn't lose the $250 per week if they get a job, more people would get jobs, even if it were just casual or occasional work... Losing the benefit when employed is a massive disincentive.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=qubR_3RZ7wA
I can have both because there is no relationship between profitability and competitive prices. Profitability doesn't imply competitive prices and competitive prices don't imply profitability.

That Uber happens to be profitable and offer competitive prices doesn't imply anything for their prices in the future.
That only makes sense when supply is inelastic, which is not a valid assumption, imo.

No, it makes sense whenever supply is not perfectly elastic. And time scales matter -- most supplies are inelastic over the short term but elastic over the long term, so "helicopter money" will tend to produce a short-term spike in prices due to more money chasing a limited supply, which then levels off at different rates depending on the goods as the supply catches up.
Good initiative since 1% have 99% wealth http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35339475
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The HN headline ("Free money for all") is a bit misleading. The article states that the basic income will only be given to 2000 randomly selected unemployed people.
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I use LinqPad[1] as my C#/F# scratchpad. Works wonderfully well and I can't imagine living without the magic ".Dump()" feature.

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Recounting the Rationals: Twice (2008) [pdf]
If you want to ignore the part where that money was taken from someone else, then sure it's free money.

Redistribution covers both sides of the transaction rather succinctly.