skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all we need is to spend more time and work at communicate and staying in touch with each other, then that seems a very acceptable trade. Not only do we get more time by not commuting to work, but we also cut out the environmental effect of driving a car which in those days seems a rather major bonus. Just last year saw quite a few political drives to get people to change their diet in order to get a much smaller benefit than eliminating commuting would have.
I want to be clear that I'm not saying Aetna should have left unprofitable markets; I think, for instance, that it would be reasonable to require that any insurer wishing to offer group coverage in a state also offer individual market coverage.

But the claim Aetna is making is that, at least in some of the markets it abandoned, it was making a net loss on insurance contracts.
SD lawmakers declare state of ’emergency’ to force repeal of ethics law
> Am I misreading this, or are they forgoing profit purely out of spite?

Not spite: it's sacrificing short-term profit to help create a political context in which they expect more favorable general policy -- the entire idea was that if the Democratic administration wouldn't give them favorable anti-trustanalysis treatment, they'd do what they could to make the ACA look like a failure, knowing it would be a major election issue. Presumably, they expected a Republic administration to be friendlier, either for ideological reasons, or gratitude, or because Aetna successfully flexing it's political muscles would have proven that they must be deferred to (or a mix of all three.)
Hi Marianne! I'm with The New Stack (not the writer of this article), and was wondering about the video myself. Interesting to see you address that there's definitely no public facing version, as it seems a lot of the commenters here would love to see it. I can only imagine the bureaucrat complexity involved.
Funk Song Hating on U.S. President (Funny)
Alcohol: Anxiety disorders

Marijuana: OCD

Caffeine: ADHD
> The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Sounds very scientific. Except when change happens.
Sorry, I was talking to the larger context:

GP: you also have punitive fines - that's why that lady got $2M or so for the coffee burning her at McDonald's.

OP: "crazy lady gets insane punitive windfall for being too stupid to know that hot coffee is hot" was a PR effort

Me/article: They also awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages. One juror said, "It was our way of saying, 'Hey, open your eyes. People are getting burned'."

It sounded like the general idea with the "crazy lady gets insane punitive windfall" was "No, it wasn't punitive fines and it was for legitimate medical bills".

That's not the case, the jury specifically wanted to award punitive damages. The money was not for medical bills.
wow thats an amazing chart to extrapolate from!
I still use GV daily, but only for voice -- it's basically my craigslist number.

But it gets 4-5 spam calls a day. This varies greatly, and I block them regularly, but I wish I could just push a button and have it blocked while screening the call. My GV number is rather public, considered a business number, and is therefore on every spam list in the US.

I've been tempted to port the number over to my VOIP provider, but I don't really trust their SMS integration any more than Google's. And no call screening.
"Boo on Obama for not even bothering to try for Universal Healthcare..."

How old were you when the ACA was passed? I ask not to be snarky, but to see if you remember the huge fight that erupted over the whole thing. Go back and read some of the coverage of the time, and ask yourself if you really think that he would have had the political capital to push the public option through.
I agree decomposing and testing go hand-in-hand, but it wasn't even apparent to me decomposition is the way to go. I guess I didn't know it is possible to design solutions to problems while breaking them down. Btw, I discovered (He hee) testing of modules independently very shortly after I found out about decomposing.
>Not necessarily. Sony's early readers had automatic reflowing of text if you chose a larger font size. It worked really well for fiction or any other type of text without pictures/diagrams.

My first ereader was Sony's PRS-350. It had automatic reflowing, but it did a poor job on many PDF's. It did not take care of line breaks - so if I increased the font size, each line was 1.5 lines long (i.e. the original PDF's line would be 1.5 lines on the ereader - it would still respect the line break).

I haven't tried the conversions in recent versions of Calibre. I did try it for PDFs over 5 years ago, and the results were less than satisfactory. I pretty much decided not to use small ereaders for PDFs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economi...

I fully expect ASEAN countries will move forward with this now.
sorry as its an old story I had difficulties finding a site that still had it
"Aetna could then claim that the merger would not reduce competition between insurance providers."

But the merger did reduce competition, because of Aetna's withdrawal to (they thought) enable that very merger. "We'll just kill your chickens before we let our chicken hound run free. See? Our hound won't kill your chickens."

"The cynicism ... the cynicism ..."
That's correct - it runs an xhyve VM on macOS
Yep, replacing the rowhouses in Richmond & Sunset with 5-story walkups would probably triple the housing supply by itself.
I remember early on in my programming education having subroutines pounded into my head. I learned them grudgingly, because nothing that I'd written so far was complex enough to need them. It was always simpler to just write my <100 line program without any functions/subroutines.

Things got more complex. Named subroutines started seeming logical to encapsulate certain behaviors. Eventually, it became natural to think "I wish this part of the program were separated out and implemented elsewhere, so that I could treat it as a solved problem." That's about the point where a divide-and-conquer approach started occurring to me, at least in a limited context. That context expanded over time.
Did anyone had a problem installing in on El Captain? I manage to do it with --user flag but the pipenv command doesn't exist.
They're often virtualized but don't underestimate mainframe persistence.

At my last job as a consultant someone made https://github.com/manheim/antimony for testing IBM TN5250 mainframe screens in Ruby - it's like Selenium but even more brittle. :>
Ok, so Breitbart has a seat now. Who else?
I'm also on Fi (migrated from Voice) and just ignored Allo/Duo/messenger etc. Has there been any official word that plain Hangouts will be changing?
> Actually, you also have punitive fines

All fines are punitive. (The case you are thinking of involved punitive damages, which are not fines.)
The Nokia 8110 is the one used in the Matrix. The later model, the 7110, was spring loaded. I still have mine. The spring broke, which is a bit frustrating. At the time it was a really nice phone though.

http://neuro.me.uk/bitsnbobs/matrixphone/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7110
I think it is not just about China. If you look at the unholy nexus of TPP, TISA and TTIP, the major economies excluded are Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa.

As an Indian, I feel frustrated that the world doesn't think that the economic advancement of India and South Africa are undesirable. Seriously?
Or just MJ for everything
Cigarettes are very harmful and addictive.

Nicotine is only somewhat addictive and even less harmful.
Opening iMessage to other platforms would cannibalize iOS sales. I hear soo many people say they'd try Android, but they can't lose iMessage
Powerful nations want bilateral agreements, because it's the strong negotiating with the weak.

And this is why "hard Brexit" is such a risky endeavor for the UK.

The EU is much larger and more experienced in trade deals. From day one Britain will be negotiating from a position of weakness. Once negotiations begin, Britain has a hard 2-year deadline... And to make it worse, they don't have people with experience in bilateral trade agreements because the EU has been in charge of those for 40 years.

The British press is trying to spin this inherently weak position into a matter of EU countries looking to punish Britain, or other such nonsense.
Although the answer to this question is mostly unknowable, I think that, as an inquiry, it represents a far more compelling approach to mental health than the current system, for at least two reasons:

1) The current approach completely disregards the data point of, "which psychoactives have worked for you (and presumably, those similarly situated to you) in the past?" This seems so absolutely reckless it's amazing it continues.

2) The current approach regards some portion of the population as "normal," and attempts to treat the rest. By looking instead at diet (ie, "self-medicating") as a spectrum, along which a great many healthy approaches lie, we respect and leverage the underlying psychological diversity of the population.
I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that those people are medicating the condition with nicotine. It is incredibly useful (anecdotally at least) in dealing with stress which is probably higher in people with mental issues.
Include markdown files into other markdown files with C style syntax
It might just be me, but a neighborhood of 5-story apartment buildings isn't less nice to live in than one of 2-story rowhouses.
> Even if this was true, which the article states it is not,

Not really:

"As for Aetna’s claimed rationale for withdrawing from all but four states, Bates accepted that the company could credibly call it a “business decision,” since the overall exchange business was losing money;"

Again, both can be true...
Yes, features have been removed that don't fit the repositioning of Hangouts as an enterprise messaging app, and bigger changes based on that repositioning have been signalled as coming soon.
Which is how it should be. Why a trade deal whose members are mostly Asian countries, excluded the largest economy in that area, and who in fact being the biggest trade partners of those countries? China should be in the center of such deal, not being excluded from it.
Can't Google just penalize slower-than-necessary pages in their search results?
You are asking the right question. And Uber will never share answers to such questions :)

Even if 90% of Uber drivers drive <10 hr a week, its quite possible that more than 90% of the total ride time is be drivers who drive ~24 hrs a day.

In India, most Uber drivers I spoke to had a common thread. They buy new car, slog day and night to pay off the monthly payments, which means sleep for 3-4 hrs, work for 12 - 14 hrs.

Sleeping they do, wherever they'd find a safe place to park the car, and sign out of the Uber app. Basically no life of their own, until they pay off the car.

For many, lured by Uber's scheme of 'leasing to buy' cars scheme, once they have had the car for a month, its difficult to get out of that scheme because of loss aversion, and hope of independence after slogging for 3 to 4 years.
I don't think it's really a useful thing to think about. Are there good writers, or just qualified writers who luck into writing the right stuff at the right time? You can apply that logic to almost anything.
Better to under-promise and over-deliver.
"Nicotine harms everyone. Net harm to a schizophrenic may be negative, but they are still harmed."

This is also true of chemotherapy and many of the tricyclics.
I don't know, does this kind of thing usually work? I don't really know anything about this, but it just seems sort of obvious that Aetna is in a much weaker position than the US government and can't possibly strongarm them that easily. But I guess if the prospect of making the ACA look like a failure is part of the leverage then it makes more sense.
> If it's option 3, then that's great. But if that's the case, why did Uber originally lower fares?

Subsidize with investor money to try to drive competitors out of business?
Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
Obama preferred liberal news organizations, and that was OK because he still answered questions he didn't like from the right.

Trump goes beyond preferences... he only wants favorable questions from organizations that will cover him favorably.
Believe in Jesus Christ, and you will know the truth; the truth will set you free.
>The only "new evidence" that would sway Clinton's opinion on the TPP were poll numbers.

Sounds like direct democracy to me! She's following the will of the people!
I've heard of these accounting shenanigens. If you are ever faced with a contract where you get "residuals"/net-profit, how do you protect yourself?
Tangential self experimentation anecdote:

I was intrigued by reports that nicotine can improve cognition in otherwise healthy people so I read through as many studies/articles I could find online. After deciding that I'd done enough research I took the plunge and began self experimenting with 2mg gum. I took it daily throughout the day at regular-ish intervals for around 2-3 months.

The affects I experienced were as follows:

* it had a positive impact on my focus

* it provided a boost to my wakefulness if I had a bad night's sleep

* my brain felt like it would "tighten up" while I was taking it

* my body felt like it was experiencing higher blood pressure

Short term I was happy with the results.

I am a fit and healthy, non-smoking, cognitively normal (afaik) middle aged male.

After almost 3 months of taking nicotine gum I developed a cyst in one of my retinas brought on by "high pressure damage to the blood vessels".

When I measured my blood pressure, my base pressure had increased by ~10% (as compared to pre-experiment, measured over several days). The real problem would happen if I was under stress, my BP would spike to dangerous levels when it never had done before. I also felt that I would get stressed more easily.

My blood pressure took a few weeks to drop back to normal. I didn't have any withdrawal symptoms save for the sensation of chewing gum.

I won't be repeating this experiment.

Sharing this story in case you're considering long term usage, whether for medical or experimental purposes.

Medical literature seems to support this experience (although supposedly the effect is smaller in women, sorry couldn't find the source for this particular point):

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12356338

edit: spelling
There's no reason the US should have any leverage over China. This isn't the 1800s.
Looks interesing ! Isn't this some kind of event sourcing or am I missing something ?
The effect on the underlying conditions are relatively small - otherwise we would have noticed that nicotine is a cure for schizophrenia.

So the addicted will get slightly improvements from their drug. Some of them enough to reduce their chance of a clinical diagnosis.

Most people won't be close enough to (the very blurry) line to swap between diagnosed and subclinical.
Nicotine is the addictive agent in cigarettes, but not much of the harm.
If you look at something like TISA, the Indian government itself declined to join the negotiations, it's not like they were excluded or anything.
It is constitutional to join treaties that otherwise undermine the constitution, the nation's autonomy, sovereignty in general.

Negotiating any treaty behind closed doors, let alone seeing encroachments on discretionary rights like intellectual property in the various leaks, should be met with skepticism and determent.
> If you're used to mountains, oceans, et c you might find the landscapes and outdoor activities

Couldn't disagree more, there are thousands of lakes in the midwest. Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan are huge forests with countless natural lakes for hunting, hiking, fishing, camping, ATV, etc. Plus there are the great lakes which are basically like an ocean.

If you like outdoor activities, hike, or get a canoe or a boat and you'll never be bored in summer. In winter, get a snowmobile or get into cross country skiing and you'll never be bored.

> It is cheap though, and some of the cities have decent (and improving) culture, considering how inexpensive they are.

This is true and very important. You can still easily live "the American dream" (easily own a house, newer cars, have a family, go on vacations, shop, save) on an average middle class income in the midwest and the south. Living comparable in western coastal states of CA/OR/WA would require easily 2.5x-6x or more the income for the same results.
It looks like about 1/3 of smoking-related deaths are due more to the nicotine than the smoke: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

That's much higher than I'd assumed, and bad news for those who want to claim that e-cigarettes are essentially safe.

EDIT: DanBC points out below[1] that it's wrong to assume the cardiovascular disease is caused primarily by nicotine, which is how I came to think it was about 1/3. So I retract this interpretation, but leave it up for posterity :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467235
I might have read a bunch of books and articles about work, but the biggest lessons I've learned are from Bukowski.

The Post Office and Factotum are two of my favorite books. Here are a few quotes from Factotum that I really liked:

~~

“Look,” I said, “these books aren’t worth reading let alone arguing about.”

“All right,” one of the women said, “we know you think you’re too good for this job.”

“Too good?”

“Yes, your attitude. You think we didn’t notice it?”

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

~~

“You knew we were going to let you go?”

“Bosses are never hard to fathom.”

“Chinaski, you haven’t been pulling your weight for a month and you know it.”

“A guy busts his damned ass and you don’t appreciate it.”

“You haven’t been busting your ass, Chinaski.”

I stared down at my shoes for some time. I didn’t know what to say. Then I looked at him. “I’ve given you my time. It’s all I’ve got to give—it’s all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.”

“Remember you begged for this job. You said your job was your second home.”

“…my time so that you can live in your big house on the hill and have all the things that go with it. If anybody has lost anything on this deal, on this arrangement…I’ve been the loser. Do you understand?”

“All right, Chinaski.”

“All right?”

“Yes. Just go.”

~~

It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

~~~

I always started a job with the feeling that I’d soon quit or be fired, and this gave me a relaxed manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

~~~

Here are the one I liked from Women: http://www.p1x3l.com/story/171/bukovsky-women
hey this got me curious on your life because it sounds like my dreamlife! ^^ do you have a website or anything?
The principles applied in the paper aren't limited to Accumulo.
Is the White House press briefing not televised/streamed already? Or is this just for the question asking aspect of it?
annnnnd its gone!
For men, the vaccine is only approved for adults up to the age of 26. My primary physician claimed it's assumed that anyone above that age already has one or more strains of HPV.

I don't know if you can pay for it out of pocket if you're too old. I'd assume you would also want to be tested first, instead of just randomly getting vaccines, but apparently there's no HPV test for men; the approved tests are all for women.
I find that reasoning odd - you wouldn't take a break from your routine even if it's just once a year?
I'm not sure the article did well answering the headline. I now know that there is a mainframe (emulator it seems from additional research) that returns API responses very quickly (1-6ms) TO a Java app... which apparently is inefficient as the page render takes 6-10 seconds.

Interesting problems not terribly well described in the post, would love to read more.
> This is what Bill excels at.

Bill signed NAFTA, not to mention moved the Democratic Party to the right on many economic issues. He just looked cool doing it.
Rural Colorado's Opioid Connections Might Hold Clues to Better Treatment
I, too, possess an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, but I opted for the smaller 9.7" one. It was a mistake, the bigger one would have been better, but I love it anyway. for note-taking. It's a godsend to be able to shuffle text around, resize it, undo my errors etc. I wrote something on paper lately and automatically searched for the undo button when I made a mistake and was frustrated when I realized I have to use my eraser.

Anyway, which app are you using for your notes? I'm using OneNote ATM. I can't describe what's missing, I'm just not feeling 100% satisfied.
I was able to open full site just fine. There was a CIO.com banner at the top of the page. Tap on it and it took me to their non-AMP homepage.
Their phone line support seems to be high quality though, other participants are more intelligible than Skype for business.
My understanding is that the association between marijuana use and anxiety is way way higher than between alcohol and anxiety
I am not the author of this library, but I've found it to be incredibly useful putting together documentation for GitHub/GitLab repos. If you're working with JavaScript, this library combines really nicely with jsdoc-to-markdown [1] to completely automate API documentation in the README.md (see [2] for an example).

[1] https://github.com/jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown

[2] https://github.com/sparkeditor/piece-table
Add: Here is an example of values-first, since it's missing from this discussion of mostly systems vs. goals. It comes from Leo Babauta at zenhabits.net, and he refers to values as intentions:

Focus on intentions rather than goals. As you might know, I experimented with giving up goals after being very focused on goals for years. It was liberating, and it turns out, you don’t just do nothing if you don’t have a goal. You get up and focus on what you care about. Read more here. Instead, I’ve found it useful to focus less on the destination (goal) and instead focus on what your intention for each activity is. If you’re going to write something … instead of worrying about what the book will be like when you’re done, focus on why you want to write in the first place. If you are doing something out of love or to help others , for example, then you are freed from it needing to turn out a certain way (a goal) and instead can let it turn out however it turns out. I’ve found this way of working and living to be freeing and less prone to anxiety or procrastination.
I didn't say they couldn't show ads, but basic ads aren't the only way that these places monetize. Trackers, 'you might also like' panels, etc all feed in to the overall monetization strategy. A couple of amp-approved ads on an amp-page don't necessarily make up for all that...
Of course, "when people have kids" is frequently the point where many people living in just about any city in the country (or at least a denser part of an urban core) pick up and move to the suburbs however reluctantly. For reasons of better public schools, more space, lower crime, etc.
My first thought was that they were trying to get around those pesky fact checking media and serve "The Message" directly to the masses.