skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In California, for an individual, the ACA is minimally 3 times as much, for substantially less coverage.

Pre-ACA, we paid $400 a month for $2000 deductible PPO plan. We now pay $1200 a month for $12,000 deductible PPO, and had to switch doctors.

Go check the numbers for a bronze plan (for 3) for yourself: http://www.coveredca.com/

It is ridiculous is to say a good solution to pre-existing conditions and "do-not-cover-lists" is raising rates and deductibles 3x. It is grossly wasteful, inefficient, expensive solution.
> space counselor

Does anyone have a "space counselor" how is not their manager? I've always taken my "space counselor" issues to my direct manager.
I use mine without anything playing about 70% of the time I have them on.

They can block out ambient/office noise pretty well and can help concentration.
And the page isn't loading now... 2 for 2!
I wouldn't come to that same conclusion based on a few things, but the biggest one was his behaviors around reddit: https://www.fastcompany.com/3048521/fast-feed/ellen-pao-part...
I think there's more to open plan offices than fashion. They are cheaper - you can pack a lot more people into the same place.

If they're all juniors that's great. As you start hiring more seniors do you give each of them an office? That changes office culture because now everyone wants an office to feel important. Having worked in a few places hat went from 5-6 staff to more than a 100, I've seen how difficult these transitions can be.

I agree that senior staff tend to be more productive in their own offices with fewer distractions, though.
Supposedly it's more complicated than that for wallets made with old clients.
every framework we use -- library, language, runtime, operating system, hardware -- makes decisions that constrain what we can express.

languages like haskell, lisp, or ruby may make it easy to create new control structures that blend well with the existing syntax, but new control structures don't help if it's still annoying to write, say, very long lines of free-form text -- a problem that xml handles more gracefully than lisp. syntax makes a difference.

i think it's unlikely we'll win a several-orders-of-magnitude decrease in complexity by confining ourselves to the syntax decisions of one language.
Sure, but everyone is naive at some point. You can't expect one person to make ZERO mistakes. There is a huge amount of steps involved from conception to implementation. I've done many, and still forget things.
I think the issue is not to invalidate your specific experience, but to highlight that your experience is pretty atypical and further that your experience should not be the norm. For every person like yourself that had a great experience in this mode, there are 500 people who are having a very BAD experience.

It's fantastic that it worked for you and your team, in that time and space, however, the combination of factors that created that were unique and not easily repeatable. So, in absence of a formula to replicate that, we should instead be working to normalize a baseline that is conducive/comfortable for most folks.
Companies that sell access to live video have two primary concerns:

1) overall user experience including seemless play and video quality

2) customer support burden

During a huge scale live event you can't afford to have more than a very small fraction of the users experiencing technical problems.
Ok, I am so glad that we're not training AI to "win" at GTA V. That is not an android I want to meet on the street :-)

The transitive property of teaching an AI to drive given a world simulation, makes me wonder if you can train a network to recognize speech by feeding War and Peace through a text to speech program and then sending the audio data generated into an RNN. Where is the ground truth in such a system which you can calibrate your results by?
Yes I think it is a value judgement, hence it's just a silly theory that lives in my head. :)
Literally the first point of the article:

Part 1: How We Fucked Up

1. No website overload protection
Lgameframework – Game development framework for Lua
I like the solution from Microsoft for this problem in their new Munich building: They have seperatr spaces for intense work without any distraction, areas like the most common open offices and areas for group work and meetings.
Each area is its own floor and your are free to move between the areas.
Anyone working in an open office knows about the noise, distractions, interruption, attention fragmentation and unnerving lack of privacy.

Unfortunately, the office layout is determined by budget numbers related to office layout only (not including "cost of lost productivity"), and by people who more often than not do have their own offices.
DOB: 2012-09-09
Age: 5
Language: Russian
Religion: Muslim 10-15%
Income: $18466 USD

Hmmm
sysadmin - that title is becoming rare. Would you expect the same competancy from a devops, or a site reliability engineer?
( Not trolling, real question; as a sysadmin myself I do see that priorities differ in many cases when a dev or a manager wants to see a service running and you have until yesterday. )
Top 10 Developers?

Don't know any of them. I must not be in the right inner-circles (I'm guessing web development judging by this list). That reminds me, do we still consider Carmack a top developer?
Exactly. Where do you put your 10 junior developers in an office like that and still be profitable?
Ditto. ...makes me question the whole thing.
What year, how many people, and what provider? We insured California employees and I have some idea of how much we paid to do it.

For instance: are you comparing individual market PPO premiums from 2009 to 2016 ACA individual market PPOs? That 2009 PPO didn't have guaranteed-issue, meaning that your insurer got to cherry pick you out of the population. Your number is a more accurate comparison if it's from the small group marketplace (where we had to buy insurance from), because small group coverage had guaranteed issue.

Also worth mentioning: California premiums had double digit growth in 2009 and 2010, both prior to ACA.
Yet another JVM language. YAJVML
How to Center Position Text Over an Image with a Color Overlay Using CSS3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13375784
Doesn't that effectively amount to manual memory management? What particular languages are you referring to?
Peer-to-peer only ever made sense for popular stuff that people won't pay for. By definition there is little business opportunity in markets where people don't want to pay.
Your comment is unnecessarily combative, so i'm not going to further explain myself. The issue with your line of reasoning is that your analogy doesn't hold up. An engineering team building a product is not a rat race.
Until I looked at the actual data, I didn't realize this was synthetic either. The developer might want to make that clear in the header text. "Virtual Database" doesn't make this clear. I think "virtual database synthesizing the entire human population" might make it clearer.

That said. This is very impressive and has my imagination tingling with ways to apply it.
Very interesting concept.

Can someone download the entire data set in JSON format, even for a small fee?
Godaddy has issued at least 8850 SSL certificates without validating anything
Very well put, thanks.

Explicit promises have very nice, composable behaviors that I'm exploiting all the time, and that have no equivalent in the Lua coroutine world.

And once you have propagated them around, I think the ergonomics are just fine; I've taken some pretty hairy callback logic that no one could fully understand without careful study and turned it into async/await code that pretty much anyone could follow.

I think the implicitness of "this could suspend" does frequently cause serious problems; in Lua this shows up as the dreaded "Attempt to yield across a metamethod C call boundary" [1] bug. Talk about cognitive load! If you're calling C from Lua, and that C code then calls back into Lua, and the latter function yields, you get this error. So you have to be very careful about what is allowed to yield -- and since any function in Lua, at any point in the call stack, can yield, it's easy to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8459459/lua-coroutine-err...
> Israel has no interest in Gaza

The two bombardments by Israel over the last few years and the fact that Gaza is still a prison city (in the 21st century!) makes me think otherwise.

> they just want them to stop trying to attack

And the best way to do that is to carpet bomb the city every few years and deny it aid after doing so. I'm certain that the many children who lost their entire families will love Israel forever.

> If you need evidence for that, then note that even during the worst conflicts Israel kept full communication (Cell and Internet) active in Gaza, which is opposite of what is normally done (cutting communication of the opponent).

What a generous gesture!
Hi,

It's just to say that it is a library made for people that work with Go. This is not to especially mention that it is written using Go language ;)
It's not a civil and substantive comment. Inflammatory, no-information posts aren't what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Curious why you think Cannery Row is such an important novel?
>Graphics, physics and voice actors sell.

This is hardly arguable, but personally, after some time playing I begin to recognize animation/sound/timing (i.e. behavioral) patterns of non-plot entities and that ruins the entire experience. That's what retains me on the storyline and prevents free exploration -- there is nothing really interesting besides nice graphics. I think there is a room to evolve from [hundreds of] programmed random encounters to purely independent world.

Actually, I'm fine with GTA3/GTASA-like graphics, like I was with roguelikes and physical book-and-dice quests, so idk how that applies to wide public.

ps. Another conclusion, it may appear too frustrating. We probably play games to win and achieve. If there is no end, no goal and no perfect winning strategy, that understanding alone may cause depression, like IRL.
It's technically possible to run everything on one Windows machine (using VNC loopback mode), however we expect most people to run ML on Linux / Mac so that is the best supported configuration. Before Universe, I ran a modified version of Caffe in Windows along with the game on a GTX 980 and there were more than enough GPU resources for that. Running ML / ROS / other self-driving software in Linux is much more ideal though.
How did the SE sell?
I had the opportunity to have lunch with a lead pollster at the Cook Political Report - I asked him whether he thought redistricting reform could decrease partisanship. He pointed to the Senate as a reason that partisanship still continues. The one thing that he said would make the biggest political impact might actual be open primary (top two vote getters move on to the general, regardless of party) - which would moderate folks. I'm still a believer in gerrymandering reform, but the tendrils of self-segregation run deep and gerrymandering reform is just one weapon against the hydra of partisanship.
Yes, they can. Minimum wage doesn't apply to the federal government to start with, and even if it did Congress could include an exception as part of any legislation that would otherwise violate it.
It isn't just the noise that is distracting though, visual stimuli can be more distracting than noise; at least they are for me. I guess we could solve this problem via headphones and VR goggles with views isolated views of your desktop, but if you're going to go to that extreme, why not just work remotely or in a closed office?
Once again, a tool recommendation site that doesn't do anything different or unique than what's been done or what's out there now. This is just like BestVendor.com (site was sold a few years ago, but more of an acquihire).

There are tons of these types of review sites.
http://www.stacklist.com/
https://startupresources.io/
https://stackshare.io/

And they're all pretty much the same. They're mostly just a list of tools, sorted by popularity or recommendations.

I'm sorry, but this is just not that useful for me. It still requires a ton of time to look through and research the tools. Sure, it's useful just to help start your research, but it ends there.

I've researched this space in-depth and have a solution that's different, but way more useful. I'm just too busy working on other stuff to tackle it right now.

---------------

To give you guys an idea of what I'm thinking, here is a tool comparison that is much more useful to me.

https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/five-app-prototyping-t...

It's ONE guy that researched 5 competing prototyping tools with a specific task in mind. He lists the pros and cons of each, and goes into some detail on each one and how they performed with his particular task.

I wouldn't be copying this exact format, but the takeaway here is that it's ONE person that has researched ALL or most of the tools within a particular category, and had an actual task to accomplish, so they have a much better idea of what each does, its strengths and weaknesses. The problem with founderkit and similar sites is that the reviewers have not researched all the tools within a category, so they're only giving you their viewpoint on one tool.

If anyone is interested in my idea, let me know. I may devote some resources to it if I find the right people.
Especially the part about people with no actual knowledge of a stock making guidance regarding its future, and people who want to manipulate the price of a stock incentivizing people who know nothing about a stock.
This rejection is symbolic of a large problem emerging in the tech talent pool, similar to the "not-an-MBA" that we've seen ruin the management culture.

Large companies where you can learn a ton, and work with smart and motivated people, are filtering based on not entirely relevant CS trivia. They still have many viable candidates as anyone coming out of a university has four years where their job is explicitly to learn this stuff.

The stuff ends up being so esoteric, that rarely will these trainees actually be able to use this knowledge for their own programs (i'm open to counterexamples here). But the reward of going to work for say Google is so immense - both monetarily and in experience and connections, that students accept the cost of learning the wrong stuff for the future benefit, the job where you "actually start learning valuable knowledge"

The next level up in a career is looking for engineers with a proven history of being able to scale. Guess who that is: last year's hires, who got brought into an already working system.

This is the pattern we see in management of Fortune-500's and prestige banks. This has created a culture where you have to buy your way in the door with years of what a lot of people who actually do it, will admit is largely B.S. Again, this is not irrational though, because there is often a dramatic drop-off in quality of opportunities if you don't buy into the game.

So since everyone else is convinced (perhaps rightly so) that the real value doesn't come until you've been in an elite position, the effect is to erode all value in acquiring knowledge, skills and experience, in anything that doesn't neatly fit the filtering game.
>>> What’s interesting, though, is that even experienced meditators can see the value of a quick meditation in the middle of their day, like during their lunch break or right before an important phone call.

Yeah! I think that's a great aim. Cultivating a mindset of constant mindfulness is key. As an "experienced meditator," though, I have trouble seeing the value in using this app to do that. IMO there's little need for technology beyond a simple notification to remind you to bring your awareness back to the present, not unlike a bell during meditation. But, I think this is a case where I'm just not in the target demographic since quick guided meditations aren't part of my practice. I'm sure there are folks out there who also qualify as "experienced meditators" and who would find a 5 minute guided meditation valuable.

On further reflection, another thing I might be reacting to is the language surrounding meditation vs. mindfulness. These two things are really just different flavors of the same thing, but to me "meditating" means something much more specific -- i.e., a formal sit. We can meditate at any time, but when I hear "meditate" I think of sitting in a particular way and focusing long enough to at least quiet my mind. Since this _always_ takes longer than 5 minutes, I find the idea of "5 minute meditation" difficult to understand. But, "take 5 minutes to bring awareness back to the present moment" makes lots of sense to me. I think it might be an issue of semantics, and if your positioning is confusing to me it might be confusing to others as well. Just a thought!
I think my biggest issue with all of these things is they tend to only serve YC companies and not the multitude of other independent hackers out there outside of that pipeline. I've just stopped sharing stuff like this because it hurts the entire ecosystem long term. shrug
Okay cool. I did try doing something similar before, by taking what appeared to be the private key out of the wallet.dat file and importing it elsewhere, and it showed my balance, but it wouldn't let me transfer the coins without 'proof of work'. I read online and I was lead to believe that I needed something more than just the private key for original mined coins in order to transfer them.

And I won't be rich, unfortunately. I only left it on for only a week and mined a single block, back when you could actually do so from your home computer. If only I had left it on for a couple of months back then I would be rich, though. This will only help me dig out of debt and maybe make a downpayment on a house.
They're apparently the top 10 contributors to Stackshare.io.
It's all fun and games until the Second Amendment is used to protect the ownership of armed drones that can be used to assassinate anyone anonymously simply by scratching the serial numbers off.
Use the 'web' link on top of this page.
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Hmm, interesting. I wonder if it's because they fit in the ear, rather than sitting outside like more traditional headphones. This would allow them to cancel noise at higher frequencies since the driver-to-eardrum distance is smaller.

Have you used other, more traditional can-type NC headphones? Can you compare?
have you considered hosting on geocities?
But most programs written are internal corporate apps at SMBs, and async/await isn't needed at that scale.
Agreed, I know that noise-cancelling headphones are a solution to noisy offices for some people, but for me at least it's almost as distracting to have something (anything) strapped to my head for hours on end. And yeah, no one should have to do that in the first place.

There is a huge overlap in my experience between people who like open offices because it's easy for them to socialize and ask questions, and people who like to pester their busy coworkers with questions they could have figured out themselves. Also people who get bored easily and like to pester coworkers because they need a break from whatever they've been working on for the last 15 minutes.

Basically whenever I hear someone say, "I love open offices because when I don't know how to do something, my coworkers are right there to help me", I can't help but think, "yeah, I bet you do, and I bet your coworkers are ready to claw their eyes out when you come around asking something because you couldn't be bothered to read a man page". Every time someone touts coworker accessibility for questions as a critical reason to have open offices, I can't help but wonder what the ratio is between the time they spend asking other people questions and the time they spend answering other people's questions, because it always sounds like it's pretty huge.
I didn't throw away Lua because I couldn't persist coroutines. That's just why I didn't use Lua coroutines the way the article recommends; I had plenty of of other reasons to abandon Lua. [1]

[1] https://realmensch.org/2016/05/28/goodbye-lua/
Does anyone in the world try to build technological singularity?
The "True AI", implemented solution that "thinks" and acts creatively.
I've found that you can grease the wheels a lot by explaining to management that using the localization features of the language means that stories don't get held up by arguments about terminology. That's been sufficient to get them to agree to localization on three products, two of which almost immediately got surprise customers (or new owners) for our "always english only" application that suddenly wanted it in 3 languages in 3 months. :/

But for now, if I use this technique in the code, and you business guys want to start calling files 'assets', or clients 'customers' (or vice versa), then you guys can go fight it out in a room and just tell me what you want afterward.
This blog, StrongTowns.org, consistently has some of the highest-quality, focused content that I've seen in a long time. I'd encourage donating if you also got something out of it.
Ask HN: How do you get into 'create' mode?
What habits do you have to get done what you want to do?

I often feel stressed out about not getting enough done, which in turn blocks me even more from working/studying. I'm studying CS at university level (bachelor).
Look at the data then - ACA plans are going up 22% in just this year. And that doesn't account for the skyrocketing deductibles that effectively make the plans worthless except for catastrophic illness. It may have bailed out a some people with pre-existing conditions, but in totality, it isn't a money saver, it is crushing people that have to buy individual plans, and that's not an anecdote, it is clear from the data on the cost of plans.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/health-care-premiums-rising-oba...
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361378
Meh, Tripod or Angelfire is where it's at.
But on the plus side:

* no MITM attack
* no TLS cert errors
* no "do I need to hard-refresh? what's the key for that?"
* no question if network access is working or not
* one reliable clear action to get access

See the various comments about work-arounds for work-arounds. Random plain-http intercept-check sites because some captive portals try to make iOS not pop up the mini sandboxed captive portal browser. The endless confusion.

This stuff would be a lot simpler if people weren't always trying to make it needlessly "easy" and fucking it up even more every time.
Ah, I seem to have glossed over what you actually wrote and apprehended it as "operational expenditures" vs. "capital expenditures" (ie. OpEx vs. CapEx). My apologies.
Rockstar's policy is that you're free to mod the single-player game, but any modding whatsoever of the online game is forbidden, no matter how miniscule. They detect it and it's a potential ban.

That said, they don't publish anything about modding and don't have an official API available. Everything has been done third-party.

The modding has caused real problems in the online play - player in godmode, handing out in-game money, etc. No matter the efforts of R*, they seem to be unable to eradicate it for good. The group of players I previously played the game with, including myself, have all become extremely disenchanted with the game by the online modders.
Few simple rules for good coding
Yes, yes, and yes. I was not trying to shift the blame to the consumer. Information asymmetry is why we need strong consumer financial regulations.
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Maybe you are unaware, but the term "rat race" is a colloquial expression that is used to describe the type of situation that many office workers are in:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rat%20race

That isn't what I was talking about but it was an interesting choice of words :)