skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the articles? Even if it's in the world's most convenient location, this can be outweighed by high prices, slow (non-automated) swapping, and large inconveniences from forcing people to schedule ahead.

> They must make an appointment in advance to get their pack swapped, and they will pay a fee said to be roughly equivalent to the cost of a full tank of gasoline--perhaps $50?

> And the swapping process isn't fully automated, unlike the one supposedly presented by Musk 21 months ago.

> The company never released details on how that system worked, or answered questions on how the battery's liquid-cooling system could be disconnected and reconnected, and any lost coolant replaced, within a 90-second swap.

> But the slow pace of the single swap station differs markedly from the fast-growing Supercharger network, where any Tesla owner can drive up, charge for 20 to 40 minutes, and drive away with a battery recharged to about 80 percent of capacity.

So maybe you save 20 minutes on net, but it costs $50 and you have to sign up a week in advance. Why would anyone use it?
Right, good point. That has saved me a few times from accidentally sending an incomplete email - luckily not anything worse :)
I think there might be some cause and effect there... how often do you look at a screen in bright light?
AI research, like medical research, can't grow in the shadow. I think an open approach is essential for progress. The next best idea might come from a Phd in China or anywhere else, not just Google and FB.
Wrong. The main problem with the US system is the outrageous level of corruption and greed being displayed by the Health Industrial Complex of pharma, hospitals, service providers, device makers, and insurance companies. All of them together infiltrate the government and collude to fix prices and line their pockets at the expense of the taxpayer, and at the human cost of literally hundreds of thousands, of not millions of lives.

In advanced Western countries, you see many different configurations for functioning health care systems. Some do insurance based models, others do single payer, others are hybrids. The issue is not about choosing which configuration of system, it is about rooting out the disgusting level of corruption that exists currently in the system.

The ACA did nothing to tackle this underlying issue.
I think the point most of the people that Sam referred to where basically saying that they would like others to subsidize their health insurance. That's what insurance is. We all put money into a bucket and some people will use it and some not so much and others a lot. The people who use it a lot want to pay the same amount as those who are healthy and have the healthy subsidize their health issues. That is what is currently going on and why prices have gone through the roof. All those "unisurables" are on the same insurances as healthy but now the bucket of money needs to be much larger to cover the cost of the "unisurables".

If this is how the government wants to do it, don't call it insurance. Just call it socialized medicine, because I am definitely not getting what I paid for.
This is mostly an ad for Founderkit (the title is clickbaity and does not match the content, in my opinion), which was discussed throughly yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13376901
I was not quite precise saying it is self-reported; it was measured through a 10 item questionnaire that is self reported. Still, it's not watertight (as is often the case in psychology research). I'm just encouraging you to consider that your view may be flawed or incomplete, that's all.
Eh, I'd take a mass produced object over a hand made version any day. Even more important if reliability is an issue.

Ferraris are nice and all, but a boring old camery will get you where you need to go for hundreds of thousands of miles.

It makes a lot of sense to me to just use what hospitals and data centers and military bases use. Also, if one breaks, you can probably use it for parts for the rest.
The thing I think that would make this interesting is how the strategy changes as players are knocked out.
Allowing insurance to be sold across state lines only creates a short-term arbitrage opportunity. In practice rates are just going to meet at the middle - states with lower premiums will see rates go up and states with higher premiums will see go lower.
We're not going to have all that in five years.
I don't think Ricochet uses blockchain technology.
The N-state of every leisure activity is as low physical effort as possible.

As someone whose leisure activities have in the past included Muay Thai and Spanish knife duelling (with blunted knives and fencing armour; I'm not crazy) I would disagree with this assessment. None of those activities naturally tend toward low physical effort in their participants. :)

And personally, I seek out high-physical-intensity not low-physical-intensity VR games, and have done so consistently for a couple of years now. The comments on this post alone show I'm far from alone on that.

Personally, my money's still on VR being a gateway drug to exercise rather than devolving into seated activities. There are two main reasons for that: 1) It only takes one really good Doom-level breakout exercise game to get a lot of people moving, and 2) humans are wired to find exercise fun. Endorphins are wonderful things.
Altman acts like buying insurance was impossible when self employed pre-ACA. Give me a break.

I shopped online and bought a sensible plan just like anything else. There were tons of choices and plenty of competition.

This whole notion that we'll all be doomed without it is utter rubbish. The entire Healthcare system is broken, starting from our agricultural subsidies to our ridiculous prescription drug prices (which many pharma-lobbied Democrats just voted to keep high) to the artificially low supply of doctors (you don't need 12 years of school to prescribe penicillin).

ACA is just 2000 pages of nonsense on top of all of that. We can do better at all facets.
Nice description there. Google may not be pleased by this and be under pressure to revoke their access, but eventually they will make it clear that this shit doesn't fly. Nice workaround.
> Democrats don't just come out and admit that they want a wealth redistribution program that they can use to show voters how compassionate they are with other people's money.

I want a wealth distribution program that means that thanks to a genetic condition I had no role in acquiring (if you're "doing a good job taking care of yourself" and never get cancer or some other nasty expensive disease, why don't you count your fucking blessings that you're healthy instead of bitching about having to subsidize others) means that I don't get a death sentence if I ever am sick enough to lose my job for long enough to lose coverage and get fucked over in the future on preexisting condition exclusions. Or fucked over due to lifetime benefit caps.

And I want one that protects other people in similar situations too.

So maybe not everyone's motivations are as cynical as you make them out to be.
That is similar to coal miners unions providing jobs for life. That is, it's only a job for life if the business model it relies on continues flourishing. Higher education looks like a more stable employer than software engineering, but I definitely wouldn't be confident in saying that it will look like it does today, 50 years from now.
Pay more attention to reality and you will notice that it does way more than current VR gadgets offer.
I very much like the German station which keeps stepping up on top of the packed snow. Buildings as really very slow vehicles seems a particularly successful way to build in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty.
The fact my nation is as wealthy as it is but it does not want to invest in the health of its people is insanity to me. Health insurance is essentially a bet that someone's health cost will be less than their monthly premium. Why would my country not take on that bet? It seems like something that would be way more effective if it was orchestrated on a national level. (ノಥ,_｣ಥ)ノ彡┻━┻
A Conversation with Brendan Eich
Yes. Even the best VR headsets still have incredibly low pixel density. According to Michael Abrash, "the per-degree pixel density of a 1k by 1k, 110-degree VR display is... actually lower pixel density than the original Quake running at 320x200."[0]

And when you call the graphics "terrible" do you mean they actually look bad to you from inside a VR headset, or just looking at the screenshot on some other device?

Because what looks amazing in a traditional game can look cartoony and fake within VR, and incredibly simple things can look startlingly real.

[0] https://youtu.be/G-2dQoeqVVo?t=14m30s
Updated title, thanks for that
I am wondering whether this is because you are in a weird transitory situation from a six figure income to a start up income. I just played around with Covered California. With 68K income and household of 4, I got plans as low as $282 per month. But if I increase my income to 120K, the cheapest plan was $750 per month. Can you use a projected income, instead of last year's income ? Also, I think when you file taxes in 2018, your should be able to get the tax credits back.
I find these conversations extremely frustrating because you refuse to define your terms or provide evidence for your conspiracy theories after being asked again and again, and instead you keep trying to derail the argument and move the goalposts.

So once again, please define what you mean by "not allowed to speak", and list the names of scientists who were not allowed to speak, by that definition.
If you give it reward signals that take into account human values, it naturally wants to become better at that. It's not enslaving anything. Humans are also guided by reward signals in their development.
StumpWM is manually tiled, ish. It's based around splitting panes into smaller panes (rather than the fully-manual approach used by, say, subtlewm), but it's separate from the process of opening a program, so by default new windows will stack on top of one another until you split and/or move them yourself.
The Distrust of Darwin
How to use Node.js on an old-school Mainframe -- hard hat required
It's not a mandate, it's a tax incentive. I'm not forced to buy a house, but if I choose not to have a mortgage, then I forgo the federal tax benefits. If you accept that the mortgage deduction is within the scope of the government's powers, then I am not really sure I see the difference. Am I missing something?

As an aside, I agree that Medicare expansion would have been a better policy. Good luck getting that through congress, though.
What I really like about your post is the reminder that virtual/cyber interactions are meaningful and supportive of the human condition for people whose ability to interact may be limited by age, geography, health, etc.
If the content is engaging enough, and you go in with a receptive mindset, you shouldn't notice things like screen-door, etc. These are hallmarks of a developer or technologist / tester mindset.

I find Valve's the Lab demos to be very, very good. If you're looking for pixels, then the experience isn't fun enough.
I don't know, that first iPhone was pretty special. Just having a fantastic web browser (mobile Safari) was a game changer. The gap feels bigger with VR, to me.
_Friday the 13th_, no less.
'Superbug' resistant to all antibiotics killed Nevada woman
I think everyone will need a bit more context around what you do know prior to answering the question. Front-end development has somewhat quieted down from the crazy pace of the past few years -- or maybe I just settled into a stack and have given up, who knows!

But a lot of the major players (e.g, Webpack/React/Angular[!2]/TypeScript/etc) have all been around for more than a year, so context is important.
Reminds me of "The Realm of Rough Telepathy"[1]; a spoof of ICANN history by presenting the organization in the guise of an order of mages with secret rituals and cabbalistic rites, which fit surprisingly well with real proceedings and RFC reviews, etc.

[1]http://grimoire.computer/
ACA puts a cap on the profit margins of insurers. It does not put a cap on the total profit of insurers. Mandatory minimum medical loss ratios (MLR) actually could have the opposite of the desired effect. To maintain $X in profits that they enjoyed before the minimum MLR, an insurance company would just need to increase total premiums and benefits. This means that they're less incentivized to reduce benefits/premiums, since their profits rise when both rise. It also more strongly encourages mergers of insurance companies, reducing competition.
NASA's Supercomputers Reveal the Incredible Turbulence Produced by a Drone
well ifconfig (net-tools) actually is not pre-installed for fedora > 19 or 20, basically because not everybody uses them and ip addr gives a more simple output for (most users)
Teefax: Reviving Teletext with Raspberry Pi
It's a daydream of mine to work in Antarctica for a season. I don't really know how it works and I doubt it's something I could do, I'm not a scientist. Seems like it would be an awesome experience though.
I think the template signature is "Make <SOMETHING> great again". So this tagline (Make your macbook pro, again) sounds more as a reference of "Hello, again" than Trump.
Microsoft tries to soothe regulators and critics with new privacy controls
As they did every year, pre- and post-ACA.
Oh good, let's see you present to me evidence that the inflation rate of health care in the US is below that of the inflation rate of the country as a whole. Can you do that? Because that's my point.

No, because the cost increases were not due to the affordable care act, they were due to Medicare Part D. The goal of the ACA was to reduce the number of people without insurance. Controlling pharmaceutical costs is outside of the scope and for that you can blame the law that specifically forbids the government from controlling pharmaceutical costs.
> [link to NY Exchange, 50k cap for subsidies]

Great, so he's making more than $50k/year, I'd hope that to be the case if he was able to make it through college and get a J.D.

> [ownership of a company & employee status]

I'm not disputing that, though I suppose if he really wanted to he could form a C Corporation and give or sell a small percentage of the shares to someone else to make it possible for him to become an employee. He's an attorney, he'd have a far better idea of the legal issues surrounding that kind of thing than I would. It seems logical to me (though possibly not in NY law) that if by law he's not an employee that it then follows that he is also not an employer since there are no employees.

I don't see how any of the above is actually relevant. All it really means to me is that he'd be purchasing coverage in the "Individuals & Families" portion of the exchange. I've never lived in NY, but in my experience with the Illinois/Federal exchange I don't think I've never been asked whether I was an employer, only whether I was an employee of a company that provided health insurance (or was required to provide health insurance by virtue of being >50 people).

And quite frankly if he's paying more than twice my annual mortgage amount just in property taxes, my sympathy over his premium increasing from $175 to $450 is very limited.

Admittedly, I'd be perfectly happy to see a return to Kennedy-era tax rates for incomes over $4 million/year and I'd be ecstatic to have those rates apply to me (because it'd mean I was making at least that much in annual income, but my needs and wants are simple and easily met with less than $100,000/month of income), so maybe I'm not the kind of person likely to be incredibly sympathetic here.
From the News, he says: "For those of you suggesting I should make an assembly language version of this: I'd love to" and goes on to say how he won't have time...

At the very least he might want to look into the TASC compiler, which was/is a Microsoft Applesoft compiler that makes BASIC programs run 2-20x faster than w/the on-the-fly interpreter.

http://everything2.com/title/Microsoft+Applesoft+Compiler and of course documentation and everything else is around if you google for it.

If I remember right, it's really easy to use and results in a binary executable that just flies...
My daily usage level has dropped, but mostly it is due to the lack of new interesting software. When you read this thread, or /r/Vive or anywhere else, it's always the same story: people talking enthusiastically about games that came out months ago. The same ones, over and over. Space Pirate Trainer. Holopoint. H3VR. Job Simulator.

I'm really bored of those.
$460 a month is a fantastic rate.

Between my employer and myself, we pay $1806 a month for my family of 3. My employer has 3000 employees, so it isn't a weird situation with poor purchasing power.

Insurance is expensive.
You are correct: resistant bacteria is not new. Resistance to /all/ antibiotics is.

The problem is that this was resistance can spread to even relatively unrelated bacteria via horizontal gene transfer. This means that it is not unreasonable to expect an increasing number of such fatalities.

The reason people are worried is that this literally puts us back to where we were 80 years ago, in which a cut could actually kill you. Obviously we've come a lot further in understand how contamination occurs, and how infections spread so i suspect that it won't be as bad overall (reduced amputation, faster correct response) but it won't be smooth sailing as usual.
There was a different commenter, possibly in a different HN thread, who was explaining that as an Egyptian resident he thought the government was blocking things like Whatsapp and Signal to protect one of the non government employers in Egypt, the telecommunications industry, which makes money from charging for phone calls and sms messages.
> The games I like the best works better without VR. Sim racing games could be one exception, but are, for the moment, better with a triple monitor setup. Games like Pillars of Eternity have no need for VR, IMO.

This is a very valid criticism. The current limitations of VR require developers to design different kinds of games. I found Valve's The Lab to be excellent. It's frustrating as a designer, because you may not be able to make the game you want, for VR.
> Seems like there is a consensus among economists who do research on gun violence, and they agree that guns make people safer.[1]

This is a very "American" focused survey both in content and in responses. I'd be wary that you're oversimplifying. I wouldn't label the survey response to Question 3 "consensus" either.

>> Of the valid email addresses, 43 were Americans, 4 were Canadians, 2 were Australians, and one was Swedish.

>> Yet, while researchers from both the United States and Canada have extremely similar views that private gun ownership makes people safer, the few researchers from Australia and Sweden are much more supportive of gun control.

Aaand this is why I hesitate to suddenly generalize the American solution to other parts of the world. I'd like to see the opinions of a statistically significant number of non-american economists before coming up with non-american answers.

> I picked this example because I suspect it's an issue you will be extremely reluctant to change your mind on.

My mind hasn't changed here - but my views already align roughly with the "consensus" you've pointed out - although with the additional, gigantic caveat, that these views apply to gun policy in America, where among other things, I believe there's no possibility of putting the genie back in the bottle with regards to widespread firearms availability.

I feel it would be jumping the gun to try and apply the same approach to violence and crime in, say, Japan - based on only the above survey.
Imagine people saying this about Doom when it was released. The graphics don't look photo-realistic, you can see the individual pixels, you can't look up and down, man I don't think this 3D gaming thing is going to catch on.

Everything you mention are very (very) simple technical limitations on what are basically proof-of-concept devices. If you think we don't have the technical capability to put higher-resolution screens in there, or to make better graphics, or to extend the FOV... the only problem right now is cost. The reason for these limitations is cost. They're solving the hard problems before tackling the easy ones because we already know how to solve the easy problems. Solving easy problems doesn't get you hundreds of millions of dollars worth of startup investment. And screen resolution is definitively an "easy" problem to solve.

The YC post didn't say "VR is perfect today", it said "VR is going to get a lot better". You have to be able to see into the future and determine what problems are solvable and what problems may never be solved. All of the problems you see with current VR are ones that are easily solvable (except maybe immersion, but you'd have to actually define what that actually means).
app.net never had the audience. Network effect is a real b##ch to overcome.
This. Yes.

"but why add unnecessarily ignorant asides"
Let's not be naive, it will be like virus vs anti-virus. Some bad people will try to make dangerous AI, at some point. The balance will be held by applying AI against AI.
One consideration might be which Lisp you're using. SBCL is known for its speed compared to other CL implementations, for example, so using it (especially now that it's the one recommended Lisp to use with StumpWM) might help considerably.

I personally don't notice any significant performance issues, even on old single-core 32-bit hardware.
That kind of precision isn't necessary for tracking position accurately for VR/AR though, Hololens' current system is pretty damn good and I'm sure internally it's improved a bunch as they roll out their own VR headsets too.
Without knowing too much about either editor, how does this compare / differ with Yi (http://yi-editor.github.io/)?
> Why do you think that VR requires Linux support to succeed?

Virtual Reality systems need to support Linux because they need to be built around Free Software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...

It is essential that we as computer programmers work towards making virtual reality systems respect people's freedom.

This is a problem of basic ethics and morality. You can say "I don't care" all you want and buy into the proprietary systems, that just means you are literally paying money to build out the surveillance police state infrastructure.
Do you get fined for not buying a house??

Because you do get fined for not buying health insurance.

We can argue the semantics of the word 'mandate' all day, but your analogy is upside down.
Researchers aren't commodities.
Reinventing American Health Care (https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-American-Health-Care-Outr...) is a great read on the history of health care in America and how we arrived at the ACA. It also highlights known issues that the author somewhat over optimistically expected congress to try and address.
I've found audiobooks (and podcasts) to be great for lighter reading, but I tend to drift in and out. That's not a great system for something more scaffolded like a textbook where you have to thoroughly understand each part in order to build the next piece on top
Going to SteamDevDays 2016 convinced me that this is a viable strategy, as long as you keep your scope small and costs low.

... and then I got side-tracked by machine learning and finance...