skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, most hospitals don't enforce any requirements of "codes" or there are bunch of inter-changeable codes.

If you get a bill from hospital, you can call billing department, ask them if they can try a different code to bill insurance company. And it is possible new code will lower your out of pocket cost. On few occasions I did this, I end up owing nothing out of pocket.
The motive of cheaper employees is self-limiting as long as they're skipping over getting kids good at using and administrating computers and jumping right to programming.

Yes, kids these days are good at installing apps onto their phones. Until they learn how to figure out how to change their wifi ssid and password without a manual (then move onto programming) there is never going to be an explosion in the number of qualified software engineers. Unless "coding" really means "shitting out cookiecutter webapps."
What conference?
> For the majority of people learning to program a computer makes no more sense to them than learning how to make television shows

Why doesn't it make sense for everyone to learn how to make television shows? The three basic areas of active literacy in modern society are writing, coding, and video production. It seems like knowing all three should be a basic requirement for graduating high school.
Everyone might know that, but it's certainly the case that a lot of systems have _claimed_ it where they actually meant "disastrous characteristics under load and/or (partial) failure".
Well, you're right - it's not "new". Rent-a-Center has been around since the 70s, but are completely predatory, offering lease to own options that gauge customers (ie. a $700 sofa will cost the customer $2100 after 2 years of payments, and will repo if they miss a payment)

We consider Feather "kind of new" because renting furniture it's not a habit that most people are used to. In fact, 97% of the US owns and deals with their furniture. So we think of ourselves as new in that sense :)
> It is built on TypeScript and RxJS, which are two 3rd party libraries for types, decorators, and reactive, observable state management.

TypeScript is not a library for types. TypeScript is a programming language.
What is interesting about eLisp is that Emacs provides an environment where there are lots of low hanging reasons to write a little code in eLisp in order to tweek the Emacs editor to do something new...there's never a shortage of small, interesting, and relevant projects/problems at hand to address in eLisp (and the tooling for tackling that class of projects/problems is very good and always at hand).

For exploring Lisps in general, such 'strange loops' around building tools do not seem quite as obvious obvious or natural. Particularly at small scale programs.
Even ignoring insurance, it can be impossible to get an accurate cash price depending upon the physician. And if they can't figure out the cash price, there is no way in hell they will figure out the insured price.

We recently went to a physician who works in an area that regularly isn't covered by insurance. For all procedures, the cash pricing was upfront and understandable.

In comparison, we tried to deal with another physician for a different procedure we knew our insurance didn't cover. Literally days worth of time was spent on the phone to try to figure it out and the day of the procedure we were told the prices were wrong and didn't account for some stuff.
See my response in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14664831

Basically, I'm not intending something different than what you are saying. I just picked a phrasing that can go both ways, unfortunately. :(
Rail and power also already have physical infrastructure and property along which they can setup networks.
Best of luck to you - I'm pulling for every startup trying to make a dent in this space. Give me a shout if you're ever so inclined.
In a for-profit company, there's a group of people at the top who are paid handsomely for cutting costs (i.e. stock-based compensation). This doesn't exist in NGO's, and so for large organizations with lots of cash flow, bloat balloons exponentially (because the default, human loyalty of an employer is to their employees, not their customer)
> . If your SO is strung out all the time, and you have no ability to support yourself, what would you do?

You should work out your issues, remove the things in your life that are causing you harm. (That relationship) Then date later. Moving from one bad relationship to another is a huge redflag.
Only if you're a sucker and pay big bucks to a shitty US carrier.

EU got rid of roaming.

There are carriers in the US that offer flat rates in all supported countries (like Google Fi: 135+ countries at time of writing).

I'm based in the US, I lived in Brazil for several months last year. I stayed with Fi, still paid 10$/gb and 20$/month for unlimited voice/text, kept my number, and immediately had data access.

As a side note, Uber was there, and we used it frequently.
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This, on my 8088 i had to some (gw)basic programming and command line hackery just to get games to load. Then the games required some imagination. Now it's just point, click, and pay $big_corp $ so you can get stuff in the game faster.
How about if the two names of sitting judges are added to the list,one appellate judge and one supreme court judge. I am confident the software will be fixed.
>1. This sounds very useful both as a backup capacity to make calls when your battery died; a smartphone could run in a restricted, super-power-saving mode off that. Could be handy in cities, where there's lots of RF background.

Just make 5% battery the new 0% and whatever super-power-saving mode magic you have to run off that 5%. I think that might make more sense in terms of power envelope than to bother with all this stuff.
I've reverse-engineered most of their minified code, and it's a huge pain. Since they use closure compiler, there's a huge object pool that gets referenced for every single thing. It's supposed to make the source a little smaller, but geez.

Unless I'm misremembering, something that I found interesting was that the cookie wasn't randomized, it was a fingerprint based on a large number of params.
+1

i opened the article and "oh, really?"
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find your own direction by not seeking any direction.
I work in marketing for a specialty P&C MGA and can attest to distribution challenges, at least compared to other industries, but Zenefits could have (and currently does) operate legally, they just chose not to.

Zenefits was allowing unlicensed agents sell insurance and for those in the company that were licensed, they found a browser hack that allowed them to not sit through the training required by the state (I'm assuming California) to be licensed. In the first case, you should know better but there can be gray areas. In the second case, it's 100% clear they knew they shouldn't be doing it, which makes the first case more likely to have been done knowingly and purposefully.

Yes, having to license people is a pain and presents onboarding and scaling issues, but they could have survived if they didn't "need" to grow at such an insane pace.
It's TDD. Just because the whole app wasn't developed with TDD doesn't mean you can't test drive a bug fix.

There's a bug, you write a test, "this bug shouldn't exist", that test currently fails, then you write just enough code to fix the test, then refactor. That's TDD.
No that is just regular testing. TDD is about writing tests first, before other code.
... and this is why friends don't let friends use Segment.
There is, but it's completely controlled by Google now. It's not integrated into an app that can offer multiple chat systems as it could be previously, and they can control exactly how it's used since they control the app.
Cryptographic weakness in Telerik.Web.UI.dll that can be exploited
It's rarely ok to dig into someone's personal history. If they are an oncologist or a biologist and they want you to know, they'll volunteer that info.

It's more productive to ask "Do you have a source to support your claims?" rather than "Why are you speaking?"

HN allows points of view from all people, qualified or not. If their arguments are valid and persuasive, the ideas are usually accepted. If it's mistaken or naive, they're typically rejected. This doesn't happen all the time, and often you have to articulate ideas far more carefully than in the old days, but it works pretty well. And the cornerstone of this system is for anyone to be able to say anything.
What differentiates you from the dozens of other furniture rental services out there? This isn't exactly a new industry. From what I see online, your prices are pretty comparable to Cort's. But as a consumer I'm pretty sure Cort will still be around in 6 months, whereas I'm not so sure about you guys (no offense, I just mean because you're a startup, not because I think you are necessarily worse).

Is there a reason you decided to enter this more conventional, established market?
I'm also curious about this. I'm guessing it's some function on the id that maps it to a partition. What happens when you add more consumers? Is there a way to know which partitions include messageIds that would be put into another partition's ownership by the change and then move anything from one RocksDB instance to the other?
Not everywhere. At a previous employer, I sold ML tools to State Farm. They were very heavy users of SAS and R.
They don't care that it's broken.

The problem affects poor and indigent people, it doesn't affect anyone with wealth or political influence. In fact, fixing it would cost them more, so they would be inclined to leave it.
This is not really related to your post, but you mentioned MGAs, which reminded me of something -

If you are getting into this business and are looking to write in most/all 50 states, one of the more cost-effective ways to acquire the licensing and company structure is to purchase a struggling/defunct carrier or MGA (depending on what your needs are). I didn't say cheap, but it's often cheaper than structuring and licensing yourself from nothing.
When I moved to San Francisco a couple of years ago, I was really surprised by how difficult it was to find a fully furnished apartment. I really did not enjoy those trips to IKEA and putting everything together. In contrast, it seems that most apartments in Chiang Mai are fully furnished. We've moved 3 times so far, and it's always just one car ride with a small collection of personal stuff. It's really nice to never have to worry about furniture.

I don't think I would use this service if I was moving to NYC, I'd just look for a furnished apartment.
Not on T-Mobile...
No, but ownership of a.com heavily implies ownership of (wildcard).a.com (HN is being weird with the asterisk)

Alternatively they could just do a DNS check. If you can configure DNS for a.com, you control *.a.com.
No I'm aware of these terms. I just don't get how they apply to skills acquisition.

How does learning a language as part of a professional skills acquisition represent significant risk when the alternative you're proposing is not learning any new concepts at all?

Your proposed cost model doesn't work when you're not choosing between N options and rather choosing between selection or no selection whatsoever.

You're probably more interested in modeling it as an OSP.
Ah I see. I still can't see how to read the GP the intended way but maybe it's just me.
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TDD is useful if you start from a well defined specification. The better defined, the more useful it is, starting from a big negative utility when you don't know your problem.
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True. Good point. It's still a 3rd party tool available to you no matter what stack you choose.
On the Origin of Circuits (Alan Bellows/Damn Interesting)
Its not hostility... Its how do you think your streets, and roads, and all the other things that created your modern society are paid for. Anti Tax is a sham. You want to just avail of everything free and not chip in for it? Would you rather be nickle and dimed for every single thing?
You also might want to check out guidewire. They're the company that's basically taking over the software side of P&C for carriers.

https://www.guidewire.com/

If you're going to innovate on the software side in P&C you would need to figure out what they're not doing or could not do that would allow you to get ahead of them.
> so you want to live in a world where both countries don't have any power? Sounds Utopian.

Or post-apocalyptic.
> Installed via something other than rpms? Installed from non-official rpm repos?

Software Collections aren't part of the main repositories, they're an optional repository that can be enabled and have different guidelines for updates and new packages than the core repositories do. They're effectively divorced from the normal scrutiny and stability concerns that every package in the core RHEL repos has to go through, newer packages get pushed out faster as a result.

> It sounds like you just need packages built that allow for parallel installs of other versions of the same runtime/etc.

That's precisely what Software Collections do, they go one step further and isolate each runtime and require it be manually enabled for use (rhscl enable python3.5 `command goes here`) - there's no potential for the core system to be affected and you can layer different collections together if needed.
Having written one of those analytics snippets... Hindsight is 20:20. When I wrote it, having a facade class seemed reasonable. Eventually I realized the GA approach would've been better, but at that point we couldn't change it because we were worried it would freak out our customers.
My point is that unless locked down correctly, and depending on the specific market conditions, a service like that could be used by Uber to their advantage. If the Uber app gives you rides from Uber or from other providers when an Uber isn't available, but the other app only does other providers, it's beneficial to use the Uber app instead of the other ones, and Uber can then provide better placement to their own drivers.

It's a common problem between open and closed systems in markets.
I can give Anvil as an example (https://github.com/zserge/anvil). It's a DSL for writing Android view layouts in Java and Kotlin. The DSL looks nicer than linear code of creating views and binding their properties, its look follows the hierarchy of the views, and the way it works results in a very fast rendering mechanism.
And really, they should NOT be paying for 2 routine cleanings, because those costs are both modest and predictable and that's not the point of insurance.

The reason they do pay for the cleanings is that it's probably cheaper than paying for the increased fillings and root canals that they would incur if people skipped the routine cleanings. So they want to incentivize that, even though it's not really the sort of unexpected ruinous expense risk that insurance is really meant to assume.

They could achieve the same goal by providing a discounted premium with proof of routine cleanings, but that's probably more complicated for both them and their customers.
Realistically, where would you suggest finding support to get you out of this situation?

(I'm genuinely hopeful for an answer.)
> Well, first of all, that's not TDD.

It's adopting test driven development during maintenance of an existing system. It's exactly TDD (identify need, write failing test, code to pass test.) TDD is a discipline that can be adopted at any time, not an SDLC that can only sensibly be adopted at the initiation of a project.
"Almost Exactly Once" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but it is actually accurate. We've already discovered better trade-offs haven't we?
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> Guile is good because Emacs is slowly transitioning to using it

Emacs on Guile is nearly a one-man project that has been progressing in fits and starts, and it's not guaranteed that that branch will be adopted as the Emacs mainline. Basically, the Emacs devs are telling the Guile folks that the onus is on them to make something worth integrating into the Emacs core, and so far it's nowhere near that.

But it's important to realize that Emacs on Guile is only about using Guile as the runtime for Emacs Lisp, as multiple languages can compile to Guile bytecode, not just Scheme. Even if Emacs on Guile happened, the user would not program in Scheme, but still in Emacs Lisp.
Answer: nine ways to map 1:1

See slides 20, 21 and 22:
http://images.slideplayer.com/9/2645248/slides/slide_20.jpg
Are most Perl programmers ignorant of the camel book? For the others I might agree. For myself, I learned a little bit of HTML "on the fly" (and had the help of a short web series to teach me a few tags, this was before w3schools, or at least before I knew about it) but a friend who was letting me host and FTP onto a subdomain of his shared server noticed I could trivially get rid of a ton of repetition by using PHP just to include a header, write the unique content, and then a footer. He wrote an example for me to apply and recommended a PHP book and that's how I learned programming. If you're a beginner, a beginner focused book makes a world of difference.

I think the main trouble is that it's hard to know what the good books are for your particular needs, and most people aren't going to want to try exploring some alternatives to find a good one, or maybe haven't been given a good recommendation yet, so they don't bother reading books at all unless really curious or forced to... When you're just messing around or just need to edit relatively simple business logic in whatever language without making a bunch of new stuff, you can get away without understanding most things in enough detail that a book would cover.

Lots of books exist for different needs (references, subject-focused, beginner focused, general tour of the language...), so again it's hard to pick out in advance the one you need right now. Some of the more generic language level ones targeted at professionals still manage to leave out crucial sections like "How do professionals actually develop in this thing, and what alternatives are there? What's the simplest way? How are things deployed to production?"

For Common Lisp in particular the problem is two-fold. People get recommended SICP all the time, which is a good book, but they read as far into it as they can and then assume they know Lisp and wonder what the big deal is when compared to modern dynamic languages that let them loop without recursion or use infix math. But if they then go on to try and learn about Common Lisp, so many references (including Practical Common Lisp) don't show the good stuff for way too long, if ever, but begin by saying it's basically a waste of time without emacs. Now the reader has to learn emacs and like it. It's not a waste, yet books don't always address that. On the other hand if you're tool-agnostic like some Lisp books you might give a similar impression of SICP and leave out some of the cool bits because they can be hard to convey in text. The Debugging Lisp series at http://malisper.me/debugging-lisp-part-1-recompilation/ is my favorite at the moment to show people what makes Lisp different. It's emacs focused but it shows you why you might want to use emacs, or some other editor that can hook into the same underlying commands like 'COMPILE that aren't emacs-specific. The REPL is like a constantly present gdb (and all that implies like the possibility of better viewers than the text terminal, such as emacs) but way better.
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Any chance I could have a private chat about your AirBnb experience? I don't want to hijack this thread but I wanted to ask about your wifi policies.
> You're saying that we should have left medical decisions in the hands of the local purveyors?

Not what I was trying to say; I apologize if I was unclear. Rather, my point was that during times past, in many cases it would have been better if doctors had not applied any treatment to patients. Not because doctors were fools, but simply there wasn't enough rigor around assessing the effectiveness of treatments.

So too do I advise this for the field of economics. Not to say that we shouldn't strive for rigor, but until we have it I recommend the "doctors" (i.e. economists) refrain from applying treatments to their "patients" (i.e. the nation via policy prescriptions).

> Soon we'll be in the era of evidence based economism, and we'll see a huge increase in the effectiveness of it's utilization.

An optimistic view that I do not share. I recommend the talk "Science, Knowledge, and Freedom" by Jim Manzi[0]. In short, observations in the "soft sciences" of psychology, sociology, and economics do not generalize across different times and cultures in the way that observations about physics, chemistry, and biology do.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4c89SJIC-M
I'm glad to see you're still here dredmorbius.

The facts and statistics in history and economics appear to be 'politically incorrect' for every type of political belief system. Liberal, Left, Libertarian, Conservative, doesn't matter, there's some factor out there that hasn't been incorporated. I think the Google people say something like "unless you're God, bring data".
doesn't mean their isn't business model innovation or some kind of niche or not being a carrier.
There was a point where the old empire was advancing on the Foundation only to have their general recalled at the moment of total triumph to prevent the general from taking over power after returning victorious. Also the expansion phase against the barbarian kingdoms wasn't completely bloodless.

But the wars and conquests were never really explicit, more described as a historian would describe it as it would happen in the Roman Empire.
Counter-terrorism was never meant to be Silicon Valley's job
In my experience, Influencers at least have some kind of mass social media following they can use for marketing, Thought Leaders tend to lack even that.
I agree - I think it will crash. But, like real estate or stock market bubble, it will be a correction. Companies will fire people. Wages will go down. There will be pain. Lower wages will allow more people to be hired, with less stress, more work-life balance. Many people will leave the industry because they were just in it for the money. Companies will have larger teams of more passionat people. Those people will collaborate. The innovators will then have more time to innovate. New companies and tech will be created. And, the cycle will continue.
What systemD has turned in to, is FAR out of scope, for what RH probably gave encouragement for. This will boomerang back some day.
He doesn't have to charge ETH or BTC, u he could just as easily charge USD. And why would people make a fuss of he cashed out? The point of an ICO is to fund developement, not to serve as some sort of escrow.