skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the ACA, I barely managed to purchase an individual policy. As I rolled off of COBRA from my last full-time corporate job, a condition mis-diagnosed for a number of years by a urologist was finally -- at my independent urging of an ultrasound technician and their going "above and beyond" to look further than the prescribed test -- diagnosed as a minor hernia.

A surgeon fit me in the same day for an initial appointment -- working with the fact that my COBRA term was ending. But after an examination, he said he wouldn't operate. The hernia was too mild.

So, per a very well-regarded surgeon, there was nothing to be done.

Nonetheless, my application for an individual policy was rejected.

It was only because I had a long-term personal professional relationship with someone with significant seniority and status in another insurance company having a cooperative agreement with the company in question, that my rejected application received a second review. They'd made two minor mistakes in processing it, and ultimately, at a very high level within the company, they decided to remedy this by writing me the individual policy -- with exclusions for my allergies and for this minor hernia, along with the urologist's prior, incomplete diagnosis.

THIS is how the insurance market was, before the ACA.

Oh, and that employer-provided health insurance? You'd better not have had a gap in coverage in the... I forget, now, two? years prior. Otherwise, any and all pre-existing conditions could be excluded for coverage... for a year, I think, perhaps two, under that employer-provided coverage.

Most of the bitching I hear and read about the ACA, is simply unfounded. Or, it is based on incomplete where not simply wrong information.

For example, the big spike in premiums for marketplace plans, and reduction in participating insurers and plans? That was not the ACA, per se. The law had provision for making insurers whole for the first two or three years (two, I think, and I think it should have instead been five) for losses they experienced. This was to allow time for them to learn what the newly covered population was composed of and to develop actuarial studies of it by which to set more accurate future pricing.

Well, you can pass any law you want. It is a separate law -- the "budget process" -- that ultimately pays for it. And the Republican Congress chose to ignore this provision of ACA law in the budget process, leaving it unfunded and thereby stiffing the insurance companies.

The ACA is a failure because the Republicans wanted it to be a failure and went to great lengths to make it so. Because, to them, politics and power are more important than effective policy and public health.

One other thing: The ACA has saved insurance companies lots of money (compared to estimated costs absent the ACA) in areas outside of the marketplace plans, e.g. in their traditional group coverage. Of course, they don't factor those savings in when complaining about the costs they've borne as a result of the marketplace insurance plans -- said costs, again, having been greatly exacerbated by the Republicans sabotaging the law and stiffing them, in the budget process.
Actually, Ruby failed to kill Python.
More importantly, why would you want to call your "real" numbers sequentially by default? You might prefer hitting all of them simultaneously, which is also trivial as everyone else here has mentioned.

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2009/05/dialing-multiple-numbers...
I agree. Maybe Amazon sold it really well, but as far as I can remember, the response almost universally (including in financial circles) was that this was a great idea since it allowed them to leverage idle resources they needed to build out to handle peak loads (such as during the holiday season).
"my wife comes into the room and wants to talk about our son's baseball game, I put down the text editor and listen to my wife. I do not tell her that I'm currently in flow right now"

But can you listen patiently, if you have been in a flow before?

I can't, even though I too often try to, to be polite, but I think I prefer being honest and stay in the flow, if I want to.

And when I am done, I am free for other persons.

But it takes good balance, true.
Tiny SBC runs Linux on Allwinner V3, costs $6 or $8 with WiFi
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Moving from Wordpress to Hugo
"That is a loss of 25% of its value"

Update as of 11 March 01:44 UTC (4h43m after the SEC decision): BTC fully recovered!

It now stands at $1140, which is the level it was trading at just 2 days ago. From 09 March 00:00 UTC to the SEC decision on 10 March 21:01 UTC it gained +12% due purely to speculation ($1140 to $1280) and basically retraced these 12%:
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg10zig30-minzcz... I am impressed. I thought downward trading pressure would have lasted for days/weeks after the SEC rejection.
I must use my browsers differently from others. I have Chrome and Firefox open on my main work machine here (Ubuntu 14) all day/night. Never have a problem with memory or anything else on either. When I travel I've had both Windows and OSX (two different Macbooks) and Also use Firefox and Chrome, also, never issues with memory. I currently have 12 open tabs in Chrome and 6 in firefox, just random websites, mail, youtube, github... no troubles.

I see people complaining of memory issues in browsers all the time though, what causes these issues, and how is it I never see them?
We are digging our graves with our teeth. But sedentary are also a significant cause.
Assuming your question is serious: Yes, essentially, but you're going to have to temporarily connect some peripherals if you don't intend to pop in a pre-installed image on a drive. And of course, depending on what OS you intend to run on it you might end up with driver hassles, your best bet is likely a reasonably modern linux distro.
FWIW, it's now back at 1137$, about the price level of 2-3 days ago.
While I'd obviously listen to Yev first over me, I was also looking into my options for B2 from Linux today and found rclone that looks nice:

http://rclone.org/b2/
One of the things Labour has done pretty well in the past is to bloat out the government with bureaucracy and paper-pushers so they can point to the total number and say "employment increased" or "the NHS is expanding" while throttling the capability of the organisation to perform its function effectively. Part of the reason the NHS is in the situation it's in now is that the ratio of front-line medical workers to administrators and managers has shifted over time (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/general-election-2010/...). There's also the case of a number of IT projects that have been extremely expensive and/or have failed disastrously, and increases in regulatory burden under Labour.

Headcount is generally not a good metric to measure productivity or effectiveness as it's a number that politicians love to manipulate to for their respective ideologies (social welfare expansion for the left and budget restriction for the right).
All secrets are protected by only one single password, and to make the tool useful, it should be accessible from anywhere and I would use it quite often too, increasing the limit of my master PW being stolen (whatever way, keyloggers, shoulder surfers, cameras...)

True, though your handful of passwords can be stolen in the same way.

With a password manager, you:

- ensure your master password is not transmitted over a network

- ensure you never reuse passwords

- ensure you have long, strong passwords everywhere

- never forget login details and never worry about remembering yet another password

On the other hand,

- you _need_ access your password manager in order to login

- you now have a single point of failure

- cloud-based password managers are very attractive targets for hackers

I don't like these aspects of it.

Still, a password manger is incredibly convenient and I do feel a greater sense of security/confidence when I copy a big old 64 character password to log in. As it is, I use so many different services (gmail, github, slack, aws, steam, dropbox, reddit, etc, etc) and that number is only going to increase. I think a password manager is a practical, scalable solution to both remembering login information and improving my security.
Yeah, that kinda reminds me of expertsexchange.com

Is it electronic-scrap or is it electronics-crap ?
Why the 1930s were a golden age for chocolate (1996)
I've been to the Best Buy in Burbank and asked the greeter if I could get a tour of the dungeon. Apparently they get asked that a lot.
There's also lots of distortion due to the equirectangular projection. When you are at +/- 90 degrees, 1 pixel is being stretched across the entire width. It would look more natural if it was mapped on a sphere. Or if the 2D image dropped off width by cosine of latitude.
I regularly log in to 8 google accounts and have 4-12 tabs open on 3-6 separate windows. Issues come up on occasion that are fixed by closing chrome and reopening.

Not sure exactly but that's my experience at least.
Ruby is commonly used by programmers along with Ruby on Rails for Web Development so it's scope is very limited. Python on the other hand has been widely adopted by the academia and has become pretty much essential to startups in the big data/AI sector, additionally Python can also be used with Django for web development (Instagram's website is built in Django). The pip library is vast and the Django community is on par with the Ruby on Rails community. I dont see any reason to stick with Ruby.
But every page had blinking marquees, crappy color schemes, and frames.
Decidability is not really important for type systems. As long as the type system is sound, you're good. If your compilation is taking too long, I would classify that as a bug.

Thanks for the obvious point that rust isn't agda. However, certainly you can agree that agdas type system is able to capture a strictly greater set of constraints than a typed language without a Turing complete type system
The first Darpa challenges were great, but we don't need these things now free market competition is now doing it's job accelerating the development of AVs as fast as it can possibly be accelerated. There are things like Roborace, but the irony is that anyone capable of making an awesome autonomous race vehicle has much more important things to do.

Google, GM, Ford, Uber- they're at the point where throwing more money at the problem can't help it. Amongst start-ups that have yet to be swallowed up by a big carmaker or tech company, Drive.ai is by far the most exciting.

I mean, if a billion dollars (Cruise, Otto, Argo.ai) is the going rate for a demonstrably talented autonomous driving startup, the Drive.ai is already worth at least that much. They've got the most futuristic approach, and they're moving the fastest.
It’s safe to return to Fukushima, study suggests
They asked for my password during a screen replacement on a MBP so they could "make sure it worked after replacement". Ehh, no.
Yeah, Chuck was definitely web scale.
Same! As soon as I read the title, I did a 'Chuck' search.
Awesome Go
Basic Internet Access. How often will you read the dialog for Chrome before you just go "Screw it, set to Always"?
The terms of use page refers to "CJ Environmental" which when combine with the INC 500 reference of the home page returns this profile:

http://www.inc.com/profile/cj-environmental

From the FAQs, "How does material get processed and refined? All materials are unique and subject to different methods of processing. Newer computers are refurbished and given new homes to maximize ROI for our customers. Scrap product is crushed or shredded before the refining process. All material is processed in accordance with all Federal, State and Local regulations. To learn more about our licensing and compliance measures contact us."
That's a problem with c++ in particular though. Languages like Idris and and even Haskell make working with the type system a joy.
"Not allowed to go looking for illegal stuff"

What law says that?
> 8 google accounts and have 4-12 tabs open on 3-6 separate windows.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you do this? I can't think of a reason to need to be logged into that many Google accounts at one time.
I can't help but think this would get your shoulder dislocated or lats torn.
How much memory is on your machine? I can have 50 tabs open without a problem on my MacBook Pro with an i5 and 16GB of RAM, but on older hardware I can't have more than a handful of tabs without starting to run out of resources.
Uhh, that's just what happens it does not need to make sense.

You can find plenty of examples but that's about it. Ex: You hold a gun in your hand and shoot it, the gun kicks back because momentum is concerved. But, the bullet is a lot more dangerous than the gun because while it has the same momentum it's got a lot more energy. Now, it hits a bullet proof vest. The vest still hits the person wearing the vest but because it obsorbed the energy it feels like a strong punch instead of making a hole in them.
We need to march on washington for control of our privacy again. This and the spying under obama shows democrats and republicans need to be removed quickly.
I am not an expert, but since no one has answered I'll give what I know and hope somebody corrects me if I'm terribly wrong.

Substrate: the thing that's supposed to bind to something normally.
SERT: transporter that pulls serotonin out of synapses back into the neuron that put them there in the first place.
DAT: similar, but for dopamine and to some degree norepinephrine.
Competitive inhibition: inhibition depends on whether the intended substrate for a site is present—the drug and substrate interfere with each other competitively.
Non-competitive inhibition: the drug inhibits the function of a site even if the intended substrate is already bound to it.

As to how any of this explains or refutes claims ibogaine short-circuits withdrawal, I dunno. Feels a bit like trying to explain JavaScript in terms of quantum mechanics. Both these papers are evaluating the drug's interaction with neurons, not the drug's effect or non-effect on addiction.
Do you use an Adblocker? Those make a massive difference. I have uBlock with quite strict settings, and normally I can keep 100+ tabs open without issues. But a single misbehaving site can disrupt that (heck, a long-running tab can load hundreds of MB of ads if nothing stops it), and occasionally parts of the browser just hang. Turn off uBlock and everything goes the hell immediately.
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I mean sure. I for one advocate using non-Turing complete languages for things that don't need it. However, if you're using a Turing complete language, what's wrong if the type system is Turing complete as well.
Don't you think this is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Sandboxing was introduced to provide a more secure environment for users.

Somehow I suspect if Apple had not implemented it, there would be just as many blog posts ranting about how insecure iOS app are and how Apple is not serious about security.
I would agree if Apple's restrictions were at all reasonable or flexible.
Anecdotal evidence but…

I've been a Mac user since almost forever and an iOS user since also almost forever. I never use either store for discovery, largely because I can't imagine any way to do that and get good results. If I open the App Store on iOS and see something neat, I'll check it out. If I open the App Store on macOS, then either I'm going to my 'purchased apps' or 'updates', or I'm following a link from someone's website.

Both stores are terrible places to find apps; I think it was John Gruber who said that the Mac App Store is a warehouse, not a storefront, and I think that's only become more true on macOS. People find good apps on the webs via Google and then click through to the app store.

Getting featured is neat, but beyond that you have to do all the hustle yourself, and if you're doing all the hustle I don't see the point in paying Apple a 30% cut if you can avoid it.
why hadn't you installed fail2ban?
A new bill would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing
Increasingly I'm convinced that if you want to keep a secret for any reason, the only way to do it these days is encrypted on an SSD that will physically self-destruct without regular maintenance of the "kill switch" (also cryptographically secure). It should do this on a regular enough basis that you could withstand the stay in a cell, but long enough that an unexpected weekend in the hospital doesn't wipe out your data.

The thing is that you must have this as your standard practice... you can't just adopt it when the feds kick down your down.
I actually think Silver deserves some of the blame because he set the odds at basically 20-25% that Trump could win.. Many people who would have "held their noses" and voted for Hillary did not, and Trump won.
DaisyDisk handles this pretty well. It pops up a window and you drag your Macintosh HD into the window, and that gives it access to that drive and all files inside of it (as your user only, so it can't backup system files or anything).

That doesn't work for all of your use cases, but it solves some of them (the backup app and file compressor, if you're only backing up your own stuff and not the whole laptop).
In 2008, GINA was virtually unanimous in the House and Senate.

What the hell has happened to this country.
Yeah, but those were brown people. In Trump's America, who cares?
Fulltext: "CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human zygotes using Cas9 protein" Tang et al 2017 https://www.dropbox.com/s/7pbn0ueet0a1r8d/2017-tang.pdf
Sessions asks 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys to resign
This Hard-To-Destroy Drone Goes from Rigid to Flexible When It Crashes
Here's a great article about making the Prolog re-implementation in Rust's type system less ad-hoc and more awesome: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2017/01/26/lowe...

The best days are when Niko posts about his work on Rust. Always interesting and they often exploit the power behind ideas like "It's basically Prolog" instead of apologizing for it. It's exciting and the kind of thinking that makes me remember why I fell in love with programming in the first place.
> This announcement does nothing to hurt the utility of Bitcoin or its application as a medium of exchange

That's what the 1MB blocksize limit is for.
Have we learned that? I don't have any data, but my impression is that granular permission dialogs in iOS (and Android) are considered good things, at least in the tech community.
Thanks for the link, the whole site (logicmatters.net) seems awesome, aka for me worth bookmarking for future study!
Except you need to use macOS to develop iOS apps.
"forced to stop trying to combat their opium epidemic" is a really euphemistic way of saying China banned opium inside their borders, so Britain invades China so Britain can sell opium to China.

It was a national security concern, insofar as smugglers bringing cocaine, heroin, and marijuana into the US via Mexico are a matter of national security for the US.
I actively refuse to participate in all workplace wellness programs now. If it ever became mandatory I would quit. No question.
It was documented in ancient times that Alexandria the Great's tomb was in central Alexandria at a cross-roads, but exactly where is lost to history.
I recommend nice book "Don't just roll the dice" by Neil Davidson.

http://download.red-gate.com/ebooks/DJRTD_eBook.pdf
Just curious, but what are your thoughts on alcohol?
Ask HN: Were you able to get a job lately in the Bay Area?
I'm desperate guys... I've applied at 20 different companies and haven't been able to land a job. This has never happened to me in the past. I'm applying for software engineering positions. I'm a full stack engineer with several years of experience, I worked for some very hot companies out there in the Bay Area.

What is going on right now??? I've always been good at interviewing and I've switched jobs 6 times over the last 10 years. I manage to get through the interviews and answer most of the questions, sometimes ALL the technical questions. I come up super motivated and energetic over the phone and onsite. They keep saying they love my profile and experience and at the end of the whole process I keep getting the same email: "we decided to move with other candidates" or "we don't think you're a perfect fit".
Be sure to wave at the surveillance aerostats[1] in Maryland as you head that way.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/10/28...
Golden rule - always price higher than you think. It's 100x easier to discount pricing than it is to increase pricing.
Gemini.com (interestingly, also owned by Winklevoss)
Node.js killed Ruby IMO.
Yes, you can host your apps on OpenCompute hardware today with Rackspace Cloud OnMetal among other providers. You might find the list of involved companies for the OpenCompute Project a good start. You can also buy or fabricate your own OpenCompute compatible hardware thanks to its open design.
but you can download apps outide the app store and set security as low as you like.

The mac app store caters to the kind of people who dont use apps. Most mac users never install new apps on their mac than those already there.

The reason why being top 10 have no effect on sales in the mac store and have huge effect in the ios store is because people dont browse around installing new apps all the time.

So its really just a menace to everyone including the users who actually use their mac professionally.
My raspberry pi at home has had in the past 3 years less downtime than aws.

Local datacenters in the city had even less.

I'm not sure where AWS is supposed to get that famous reliability from, but it's not in uptime. (I can't comment on storage reliability, because I only write a few terabytes of data a month — but otherwise, there's RAID 5 or other RAID setups to ensure data staying valid)

AWS has its advantages in its immense scalability within of seconds, it has its advantages in convenience.

But its uptime isn't much better than most home connections.

Home statistics:

Power downtime since 2006 is 29 minutes.

Internet downtime since 2006 is 6 hours in 2014, 2 times 30 minutes each in 2016.

This is on a 100/40 DSL line nowadays (the downtimes were, except for one, when switching ISPs), without any universal power supply, battery or generator.

For comparison, this is equivalent to a downtime of 99.99% — the same as AWS advertises, but better than what they delivered in this or the last year.
During the chaos, Gemini (also owned by Winklevoss) had no issues.
IMO you shouldn't try to prove that his code is bad and the feedback is good. Even if his code is perfect and the feedback is bad, he should still respond to the feedback with a justification for his approach. If his way is really better, then he can educate his peers about it.
Huh? Violent turf wars would still be illegal.

We don't police clothing distribution, and lots of people buy clothes, why haven't violent gangs selling clothing just taken over the city? Because they're outcompeted by law-abiding sellers who don't have all the overhead costs of evading the law, who use legal, nonviolent means to wage their turf wars.
I doubt it. Bernie supporters like Susan Sarandon said she prefered Trump to Hillary.
Exactly. Google is a much better "app store"
There's a "Sandbox" column that can be enabled in Activity Monitor. Probably the easiest way short of terminal commands
Really? Let's take a look at the chart for 2006 when AWS was first introduced (as far as I can tell). Does not look like $AMZN stock really did anything positive in 2006. It is hard to find exact dates of when AWS products were released. Anybody know when EC2 went live to the public (full actual date)?

http://imgur.com/a/BIFQH

Sorry for linking to an image, but Google Finance link to this chart did not work. Sigh!

Request for a startup:
Make a finance interface as good as Bloomberg terminals for the web.
I read that with Bill Maher's voice in my head.