skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A side effect of the crazy insurance system.

It's a charge for the extra nurse, but the level of specificity required for billing doesn't allow for a normal line item like that.

You would think, for example, that "contact with nonvenomous marine animal" was already crazy specific, and didn't need further breakdown, right? Nope. http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/W50-W64/W56-/...
Why did you have seven kids? Not a ding against you; I'm just curious. (I personally do not like kids and, at this stage of my life, would never do this.)
Excellent points.

Unfortunately, those people that only treat programming as a way to pay the bills - with a six figure salary - which would be the vast majority of professional programmers working today, do not want to understand _why_ they are writing code. The commoditization of software engineering that companies like Google [1] enthusiastically support and promote is also directly responsible for the obliteration of the entire field.

In a world where geniuses like Alan Kay are almost unheard of and
Tim Berners-Lee ends up receiving the Turing award (next: Stroustrup/Rob Pike) there really isn't a lot of hope for languages like Common Lisp to proliferate. They're simply too meta and require a lot more from you than just settling for whatever makes one feel good about him/herself in an immediate-rewards sense.

[1] http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
The US Workforce Participation figures have some explanations - more old folks retired, students studying longer and the like rather just tech change. https://qz.com/286213/the-chart-obama-haters-love-most-and-t...
On the other hand, forced public schools provide three very important advantages:

1) kids don't fall into religious sect schools as easily as in the US, e.g. the Amish - thereby the state ensures that kids have an experience outside a tightly controlled environment, as well as exposure to stuff like sex ed (which is apparently neither compulsory nor scientifically accurate in some US places).

2) it protects children from abuse going unnoticed (again, religious sects come to my mind, but also "ordinary" home abuse). Simply said, if a teacher notices that a student comes to class every other day looking badly beaten or complains being sexually abused at home, the teacher can inform police. In a homeschooling environment, this protection cannot be provided at all, because parents can literally prevent anybody else from ever seeing the kid.

3) it ensures at least some form of quality of teaching. In Germany there are some exceptions to the mandatory public school system, and these have been fraught with scandals ranging from fake degrees of the teachers to outright corporeal punishments of pupils instead of providing an alternative to public schools (and mostly been shut down).

That said, our public school system is not perfect either - it's not inclusive to students with disabilities, the curriculums are biased towards economical, not societal, needs, it does not provide students with adequate time, place and resources for actual free play, and it selects pupils into the three different high-school tracks way too early. But it's way better than the alternative, whose downsides appear regularly in HN submissions and comments.
With all due respect to "TheShadowBrokers" et al., you were warned. You were warned that Donald Trump was a sociopath, a con artist, a man with no moral core, and deeply entrenched in the very system of globalist oligarchy you thought he would tear down.

Caveat Emptor.
Depending on where you live in the world, a lot of infectious diseases can spread by either wounds on the foot or vectors invading through the sole of the foot.
They probably would have died of CO2 poisoning, since the air filters were only available in limited quantity.
I remember really enjoying "Photopia", but that was more novel than game. It actually had a big affect on me much like a good book does.

I'm absolutely terrible at real, game-like IF with puzzles etc. Not sure what mindset you need to solve them.
Ask HN: How does your company think about and organize its goals?
For example, are you using goals cascade, OKRs, etc?

If you're using a tool to support this, which one? If not, is it a painpoint?

How does priority get determined?
Not quite the same, but my dad did an alcohol study once where the blinding was achieved by giving the test group a strong vodka-and-orange, and the control group a glass of orange juice into which had been poured a small amount of vodka over the back of a spoon, so that it floated on top. Both drinks therefore smelled strongly of alcohol.

It's trickier with substances where the dose is undetectably tiny, but it seems there's certainly value in making people feel "trippy" so that they think they've had the active substance.
But maybe if we let people write midlayers, in time those would converge to the best midlayer design, then they would coalesce to a single library since the midlayer is not the product and open sourcing your dependecies is good business, and finally it can enter upstream.
> Neither databases nor the construction industry are leveraged 10x+.

Leverage is not the sole determinant of risk. Wildcatters are far riskier than someone who is 10x leveraged and holds 2 year notes.

> Neither provides fundamental utility to other sections of the economy through lending activity, which can result in liquidity events at otherwise perfectly solvent firms.

You picked the method of harm that is unique to finance. I could just easily claim that bankers will not build faulty levees or cause untold harm to the planet.

> Neither can drive prices in other sectors through speculation in financial instruments or through financial reporting and reporting downgrades.

It's not obvious to me that this is a method of harm. If oil is underpriced in the US and overpriced in Europe then buying one and selling the other will cause a shift in prices. Arguably this is a benefit because now everyone is paying/receiving fairer prices.

Regardless, bankers are neither traders nor research analysts so I'm not sure how relevant this is.
Where are you from?

The gender of objects depend a lot of the language you speak (and culture). For example in Spanish the Sun is male and the Moon is female, but in German the Sun is female and the Moon is male.
Yep, I also built a chrome extension to manage bookmarks ...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmarks%2B%2B/li...
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What happens is well specified, see [1] and more specifically [2].

I don't understand where packages even enter the picture though. Symbols/packages and method dispatch are entirely separate concepts that are hardly related. You certainly won't get any weird errors from one in relation to the other. Furthermore, same-named symbols in different packages are just different symbols. The fact that their name is the same is irrelevant.

[1]: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/07_ff....

[2]: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/07_ffa...
> you can call it a dark pattern.

Exactly. Putting a button that advances the process in the lower left hand corner is Wrong in every UI convention... ever? Seriously, I've used a lot of historical and exotic operating systems and tool kits, and I'm not aware of anybody ever making something like that acceptable behavior.
Embrace.... extend.... extinguish.

Be very careful when an OS vendor makes a move like this.
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Because animals in general (both male and female) start acting very violently when there's a child that starts secreting pheromones and looking like an adult. For monkeys in particular it's the beginning of fights between females that determine their future social status.
Just curious: did Facebook change the license? AFAIK they can revoke permission to use from 3rd parties. Am I mistaken? If not, isn't this a huge risk for startups?
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It was originally supposed to be (and built as) a web app, but it's only being used inside a corporate network (yay requirements). So that defeats the original purpose. Might as well make a desktop app.
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How to make useful things at home
I don't know if it's moral or "squigged out". The former I have no patience for, the latter... I'm human too, and I like spiders, but they repulse me. Sometimes we don't make a ton of sense, but when you don't agree to rent out your home as a brothel, you shouldn't have to worry about it being used as one.

As to wear and tear... it's a brothel... and not in a movie; you might be surprised at the turnover.

Edit: I realize that "have no patience for" sounds pretty snotty... I've been a little sleep deprived lately and it isn't bringing out the best in me, sorry.

Edit 2: I also realize that the issue of the brothel, totally aside from the homeowner's feelings, might represent a property value issue, in the same way as a previous murder. It doesn't have to sensible for it to hit him in the pocket; obviously sex work doesn't leave some kind of "spiritual residue" anymore than violent death, but people are often irrational.
> The first iPod even.

I was specifically talking about that device. Taking later years into account the situation may of course be somewhat different.
I'd be happy to invest without expecting any return on my investment. I've done so a couple of times with other companies in the past and for the most part I'm perfectly ok with the outcome.

Just like you would donate money to a charity you might decide to buy some stock in a company at IPO because you simply want to support their cause. It's also one of the reasons I bought an Ubuntu phone, I played around with it for a bit and ended up not using it because I'm too easily distracted.

If you're always looking for a return on every investment then you would have to decide against a lot of groups looking for money that need a shot in the arm in order to achieve their dreams, even if those dreams ultimately fail the road to that failed dream may yield useful spin-offs.

Investing is not all that black-and-white, and it is in general very hard to impossible to know which investments will yield a future return and which do not.

Investors that buy stock have fairly little say in the direction of the company until they achieve major interests, as such you're essentially along for the ride and if anything ever comes of it that is at the discretion of the majority interests in the company.

And once you have a majority interest you essentially own the company rather than that you are just an investor you are now at the helm.

Even VCs, who are arguably always looking for a profitable exit have no way to force such an exit other than to find a suitable partner and to activate what is known as a 'drag along' clause in the shareholder agreement (assuming that such an entry is present).

If they can't or that clause isn't there they are simply captive and will have to accept whatever dividend payments (or none) are issued by the company if the company ever turns a profit.

Canonical is a company that I think deserves a lot of praise and support for what they've done, even if it isn't the financial success that they might have hoped to achieve.

Obviously, given the fact that their product has been powering my desktop ever since I dropped 'Knoppix' makes me biased.
Never the less the button is still there and easy to see if you bother to look. You could argue that the left side is better to place it as most cultures read left to right
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Not that its very relevant to your point, but quebec does have some measure of control over immigration.
I would take opinions on here from developers with a big grain of salt. I read people saying things like Spotify and Atom are "unusable" and slow because they're written in JavaScript when they have plenty of happy users.

A few 100MB of RAM or disk space extra is a nonexistent issue as well to typical users. I know some developers get very offended at a program using a bit more RAM or CPU than it should be but developer efficiency is more important most of the time so it's a completely rational trade-off. Some of these apps wouldn't exist at all if everyone insisted on native everywhere.

It's all just my opinion as well, but approaches like Electron are very efficient at creating good cross platform apps. Developing and maintaining several native apps is a huge resource drain when most users aren't going to care.
I'm aware HST has a relatively small diameter (2.4m), but how much of its resolving power (for lack of a better phrase) can be attributed to it being above the atmosphere? I've also heard that modern adaptive optics systems do a good job of mitigating atmospheric effects (turbulence?) for ground based telescopes -- I wonder if a ground-based "Hubble deep field" image could be generated?
I really enjoy my 15 inch MacBook Pro (late 2016) despite not having dedicated fn keys and a few other issues. With the 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports I have attached a Razer Core with a GTX 1070 and can use my HTC Vive different places with little effort. Took a bit of hacking to get running however. Make sure you bump the fans, it seems apple wanted these things to fail quickly with normal unmodified temps of 80-90c... Mine runs at about 70c with the fans maxed doing VR.
Why are women making less compared to males in tech? Are they not as capable?
Yes I still do, at this moment I have 3413 bookmarks across different folders, coding, work, recipes, Gaming, etc.

I am currently running Bookmark Checker (chrome extension) and did set the parameters to "error connect" and at this very moment it is reporting : "Bookmark check status: Total bookmarks : 2238 of 3413 error connect: 2117"

so many dead links :(

I did not know about pinboard and I am really tempted to give it a try so I can do a full html archive without the fear of losing again 2000+ bookmarks in 5 years from now.
Yes, many problems are the same as leetcode problems. The purpose of this repo is just learning.
I can't read the whole article, but does it (or DOL documents) include details like amount of experience and job function?

I've heard that much (not all) of the aggregate gap (i.e., on the national level) goes away after controlling for those variables.

Curious if that applies here, and if so, to what degree.

Edit: consider recent headlines promoting outrage at Marissa Mayer's successor earning double her salary because he's a man. Turns out he's a veteran executive with 20 years of C-level experience. Mayer didn't have that. It may be an extreme example, but it's a good reminder to be cautious about pay gap assertions.
Lazarus is a cross-platform IDE for native desktop applications on Windows, Mac and Linux. It produces fast, low-memory, single executable files for easy installation and deployment. Your app can use native OS controls - you won't be gluing together different libraries from different languages like you do with some scripting languages (with all the bloated size and performance issues that entails).

Why isn't it more popular? Because it's written in FreePascal: a modern, object-oriented version of Pascal. A lot of readers will stop right here and never this give project another glance, the thought of using Pascal as simply too outdated or embarrassing.

If you do give it a try, you'll discover one of the best and most overlooked options for native desktop app development. Any downsides? A major one in my view: poor and patchy documentation (which will be a barrier and block for many).

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Random advice from the internet.

0. I am a registered architect in a US state. If you really want to be an architect in the US, finish the registration process. The process sucks for a lot of people. The end result is as valuable or as worthless as an architect license. But that is the only way to become one.

1. I won't recommend the architecture business. Some people thrive, some don't. It's a commodity industry but the only way to do the things architects can do if that's what a person really wants to do.

I will say that success in building an architecture business is going to correlate with the same ability to build a team that success in building a startup does...i.e. it will be much harder to do it by yourself than with 'cofounders'.

2. 3d visualization is a commodity business. I get emails from companies around the world every day. They look pretty much like the emails that I have been receiving since the 1990's.

I know people who make a living doing it. They have business relationships that allow them to do it. They have been at it for years. The best one's have all the skills that it takes to build a business and above average talent.

The nature of architecture is that architects rarely have money for visualization services because clients can find an architect who will provide it 'for free' within the base fee. When an architect gets a client to pay, they will try to keep the work in house to increase revenue and reduce management requirements. A medium size firm probably has the talent to produce 3d work. The only time they will outsource is if they are swamped.

That means developing many many clients to maintain a reasonable backlog. Again that's basic business just like architecture or anything else.

3. Working on a startup is going to be hard if you don't have a social network that connects to people with similar interests.

That's not to say it cannot be done. The best way to meet people after getting out of school is to get a job interacting with a lot of coworkers.

I'm not sure that's advice, but that's the landscape I see. If it boils down to one thing, there are much better markets than selling to architects.

Good luck.
Non-paywalled but not identical version: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-w...
The Post JavaScript Apocalypse by Douglas Crockford
I was under the impression that the finance sector has shrunk since the crisis. Lending rates seem to be pretty much the same.
I had played various Infocom games as a kid, simply amazing. Then recently "discovered" that there is this exciting corner of the Multiverse know as Interactive Fiction, which has been flourishing quite well for a long time. Just finished "Beautiful Dreamer" by Woodson, enjoyed that very much.
For many parents, those "errands" are often focused on providing shelter and sustenance for the kids. Get the kids to daycare or school, get to first job, pick up the kids, get to the grocery, cook food, put the kids to bed, maybe work a second or side job.

Sure, some errands are optional, but many are directly related to the daily grind of keeping the roof, food, and heat provided for.
What if you don't even know what your "market" is or your "value" ie. what you're selling?

edit: haha Dunning-Krueger effect, been a while since I used/looked at that "word"

You don't floss? Gross haha. Can't say all the time but inevitably there's crap in between your teeth. Oh well to each his own. I guess it depends where you are/if floss is common thing to have.

Why did you separate A K A? Is that how it's written, time to Google.
Flexible authentication and authorization system for Rails
Just a bit of FUD on the LGPL license and the like.
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Billing in the US is insane.

I know we're pretty adjusted to not knowing how much going to the doctor is going to take out of our wallet, but that's ridiculous considering how important to us that is just about everywhere else (e-commerce, Bank fees, phone bills).

Can't find the reference, but I read that general practitioners barely even know how much they're going to be reimbursed for care. It takes their staff an average of three back and forths with the insurance company to settle on the "appropriate" coding and billing for anything of a "moderate complexity" visit or above.

Shameless plug mode:

My employer (Rally Health) has a provider search and cost transparency tool you can access if you have a UHC health plan at https://connect.werally.com . It has uses information about your plan to estimate cost for procedures and even multi-stage treatments.

To be fair this doesn't really solve the problem of unnecessary complexity behind the scenes of healthcare which are actually responsible for driving up costs, but it does help consumers in the current state of things.
I used Scapbook forever, but started recently using:

https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook/wiki/Features
I can't wait to see Googles response. I have no idea why they would even open themselves up to this criticism when they could easily align the salaries.
These days we can explore new (to us) places without putting human lives at risk. That wasn't an option until merely a few decades ago.
Qubes is vulnerable to the published exploit, a patch will be issued and Qubes 4 will use HVM not PV.
it's about a mil for a child born today if you account for inflation. imagine having a million dollar baby. Imagine how luxurious your life can be without a child.

https://www.todaysparent.com/family/million-dollar-babies/

"Ward pegs the all-in cost of raising a child to 18 in the U.S. at around $700,000, or closer to $900,000 to age 22, which is a more realistic picture for today’s families."
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I didn't pay, personally.
503 Service Unavailable on that source.

Is this the first time this link has been found? I was under the assumption that most (< 90%) men go grey or bald eventually.
They did respond, they denied any pay gap.
It's an odd situation. The government isn't giving out any numbers, but they are saying things like:

"The government’s analysis at this point indicates that discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry."

Pretty strong language when you aren't yet willing to back it up. Google's replies are equally strong in the other direction:

"Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay across genders and we have found no gender pay gap."

Saying there's no gender pay gap at all is pretty bold as well.
JavaFX looks pretty good right now... especially if you use Kotlin and TornadoFX with it.
Same thing. Born in Texas in the late 70s. I never wore shoes as a kid or teenager. I mean, I'd wear them to school and stuff, but when we were playing around outside there were no shoes.
Seems to be down ATM. Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
.NET and WPF is a great choice for desktop applications. I have been creating desktop applications with WPF for the better part of a year, I find it very nice.
Waldorf schools understand this!
Until the government releases their methodology it is hard to know how factual this assessment is.

Google has done a lot of work internally to even up the gap and claims that they have achieved parity.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...

Either party could squelch the un-informed debate by releasing the data and the methods used to arrive at their conclusions.
I strongly suspect this is a DoL methodology problem. Can we really believe that the same company that puts huge effort into retaining women through its maternity policies (5 months maternity leave with full pay [paternity is 7 weeks] and a $500 stipend for takeout meals after a baby's born, among other things) has a conspiracy reaching the highest levels to short change women, such that its legal department refuses to comply with court orders to hand over data in order to hide its crimes?
> Neither databases nor the construction industry are leveraged 10x+.

Maybe banking shouldn't be either?
Google basically claims they have internal programs and have reached pay parity globally. The DoL says that's not true based on the data they've viewed. There seems to be a lot of lawyer scaremongering on both sides, I'd wait for this case to progress more before choosing a side.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...