skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In contrast, to America working for a good employer:

1. Schedule with GP. Say I am in pain. Get in within 2 days.

2. Get a referral to Physical Therapy. Asked if I have any preference where to go. My doctor knows my network and gave me a number of choices that were within network (a number of which were within walking range of where I lived).

3. Call PT office. Schedule an appointment. They apologize that their next opening is a week away. Gladly accept.

Physical Therapy is interesting in that it is semi-free market and rather competitive, so it tends to work a bit better than some other scenarios.
There was a blog post that got traction anyway.

But why is that relevant? I (and assume most people) are capable of assuming different modes of writing, including modes devoid of opinion; or with opinion carefully noted as such.
It's also water.
Your best bet is to keep an eye on what Halium Project[+] choose as its reference phones.

[+] https://halium.org/
How is getting divorced to maximize tax avoidance or get government services even remotely fraud? Is there a statute on that?

You can obviously avoid marriage in the first place, in order to maximize services or avoid taxes.
Why would you buy a phone without an earphone jack? Knock on wood that's something I'd never agree to do :-)
It's not just the emergency room. When you go to any doctor they make you sign a blank check before they will see you.
OP here.
It knows more than 500 species, results range from terrible to ok, but I will work on improving that, and add more information about each mushroom (like species that look alike but are not edible).
Nobody should use it to know if a mushroom is safe to eat anyway, probably I'll add even more warnings as it may not be obvious enough.
I was wondering the same thing. Thought the thread got deleted or something.
Honestly that just sounds way too complicated... I do it all in my head.
I pay almost $50k/year in rent for my family of four well outside of any city center. We live in a very modest apartment/townhome. That's right: my annual rent is just about the same as the median gross income for a household in this country.

It is absurd, but I can easily see a family struggling to live on ~$65k take-home.
Just watched the video, really cool.

Sorry about your wrists, I also suffer from RSI issues; recently I have started using voicecode which has allowed me to use voice for about 80% of my coding/computer use instead of typing/mousing. You might want to check it out?

It does have a large learning curve, is not cheap (Dragon + voicecode) and currently runs on Mac only (windows/linux in the pipeline), I am using that in conjunction with SmartNav for mousing.

- http://voicecode.io/
Alternatively, it could also indicate that there are ulterior (financial, legal, etc) motives to obscuring the objective truth of the topic.
> All of the people who oppose residential development near work sites are to blame. Period.

Are you saying that is the only thing that is keeping the bay area's cost of living high?
Begins? Wasn’t Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent connections ten years ago more like the “beginning”?
Elon Musk’s Mars rocket may be about to lose half of its engines
Foreign homebuyers: Up in California, up even more nationwide
No. If they both declared the children as dependents, THAT would be fraud. But choosing not to be married is perfectly legal. It's called a divorce, is legal in all 50 states, and in California doesn't even require a reason. I'm not sure you actually thought about what you typed.
This works without Office, I just tried it.
You should check out Standup, it makes it easy to track what everyone in your team has been working on:

https://getstandup.com/
Aren't the public premiums only a % of income up to a certain cap? So it's not like super high income people would pay an outrageously huge amount to use the public system, they would just potentially pay somewhat more than they would if they got private insurance.
Great! I launched ReadMe 2.5 years ago as a Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422408), then did a Product Hunt launch (https://blog.readme.io/product-hunter-becomes-the-hunted/), and got into YC a few weeks later. Having a good launch was something we could point VCs to.

We got some awesome customers (including some big names) from our HN launch, and it kickstarted out growth. If I remember correctly, we finished out the week at about $4k MRR... nothing compared to now, but at the time it felt awesome to be making money.

We've come a long way since then, but our Show HN was a great way to kick things off!
Yeah, this happened at Microsoft. Back in the day there wasn't such a clear line between contractors and FTEs. The lawsuit did a lot of damage in both directions. It's not clear who benefitted other than the attorneys.

Also, if you make these roles direct employees, then you can get into an awkward position wrt 401K contributions, if the delta between your highest and lowest payed employees is too great. My understanding is that this is why Amazon caps salary at 160/185k
Can someone knowledgeable on the subject comment on whether the "Obamacare movement" has been up front in acknowledging this aspect of the problem with health care in the US?

My perception is that the problem is typically framed as a lack of insurance problem for financially challenged people, but the "abuse" on the billing side to me seems like at least as big of a problem. And if this is being conveniently ignored, it feeds my conspiracy thinking that the Democrats are actually largely indistinguishable from Republicans - they may wear a different mask, but their actions are only slightly different, in this case altering who is getting robbed.
Thanks for mentioning this example. Every time I see complaints of how FB (or any big company) should not be using contractors, I'm at a loss to think of companies that employ this kind of support staff. I think most of the companies I've worked have generally outsourced cafeteria and janitorial work, albeit these companies were in much more affordable metros.
What's really important is that we design the system so that incumbent wealth can maintain their position by controlling the market through government regulation (licensing).
How to start a startup from home?
I hear what you are saying but I know people who have 6 figure medical debt despite being insured. This happens.
How much do I have to pay to keep them from trying to be an online news outlet in addition to doing their core mission?
Just as much as people want to solve the halting problem.
One thing that may be helpful is a smaller client like Apollo-link (https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-link) that can grow to fit your client needs.

The basic http link includes middleware for passing auth to the server.

I hope that helps!
Cell data service can't support the throughput required (due to limits of physics rather than lack of smartness or money from the telcoms).
>and then we're coming for notepad.

If they ever do that, Metapad will still be there to help. Though I'm mainly a vi/vim/gvim user, I use metapad sometimes for quick edits. It's very lightweight, but still supports some more features than notepad. It has some neat features. The developer has stopped working on it, but I think a) he released the source code (C or C++ using the Win32 API) and b) the download is still there on his site.

Search for metapad or metapad download.
The call for donations suggests that, among other things, they will help pay legal fees.
-Legally- married. There's usually a difference between legal recognition and personal recognition. Though I agree (as does the OP) that even having a situation where that might be an advantageous distinction is messed up.
> So, I asked them to tell me what the maximum they might bill would be. And, they kicked me out of the office.

Sounds like dental care in Canada.
I guess I'm just not the target, but anyway... I think the website could communicate whatever it is you are doing better.

What pain point does your API solve? Who is your target audience? Can you show us a simple example (or a few)?

Is it closed-source? How are you planning to monetize it? This is a very important issue for any api-as-a-service project which yours seems to be. If you don't have any strategy, then I will not bet my business on you sticking around...
Well, if the theory is that the benefits are for single parents rather than those who are benefiting from the pooled resources of a marriage, in principle, then, at the very least, such a benefit claim could be said to go against the spirit in which the benefits are offered.

That said, given the absurdity of the situation and the fact that the rules severely punish them for being married, I wouldn't fault them in the slightest for doing exactly that.
Given modern safety standards in vehicles, I don't think fatalities are a good measure of how good humans are at driving.

It's news when a self-driving car runs a red light, but pretty normal for humans.
This Image Is Why Self-Driving Cars Come Loaded with Many Types of Sensors
> On the other hand, patient satisfaction correlates with increased rates of hospitalization, higher expenses, and increased mortality. You'd want to dig a little deeper than patient satisfaction before drawing any conclusions regarding medicare vs. medicare advantage, I would think.

I didn't in my previous comment, because we were talking about the overall public perception, which may or may not be connected to the tangible metrics that we actually want a healthcare system to focus on.

As it turns out, though, Medicare Advantage also consistently outperforms Original Medicare on medical outcomes, and it comes in under-budget for identical coverage. Medicaid options vary much more (and they're different in every state, because Medicaid is administered at the state level), but the equivalent private plans for Medicaid coverage also typically perform much better than the public ones.

Hacker News readers aren't generally in the demographic for Medicare[0], but for anyone who is: there's really no reason to use Original Medicare. Every jurisdiction should have Medicare Advantage plans that cost you the same amount as Original Medicare does, and your experience (and overall care) will be vastly improved.

[0] people over the age of 65, or people of any age who are on dialysis for more than two years, etc.
How Internet Trolls Became Terrorists
The insurance mandate is a principal component of the ACA. In the US you have to have health insurance or you pay a fine, and there are subsidies to help people pay for insurance. To further lower the number of uninsured in the US would involve increasing the penalties for not having insurance, paired with further expansion of subsidies or Medicaid. Honestly sounds like that area of the Swiss healthcare system is pretty similar to what the ACA provides.
They're living in their parents garage. With the single biggest cost of living(housing) removed, I'm curious how they can't afford life at 80k/yr. Besides for housing, cost of living does not need to be particularly higher in SV than elsewhere.

Either that, or the parents are charging them market rate to live in the garage, which is probably illegal anyway...
Eh whatever, the way they act is neutering the left for years to come and they don't even see it. It's pretty funny to watch at this point. Don't worry 2018 will be great!!! Referendum!!!
Sure, you're right, but I'm really only asking about the legal issues. The call for donations implies that the other owner has some control over the site content, and must clearly have control over the ad revenue. It doesn't seem like this particular organization has any chance of running for decades with this particular legal issue hanging over it's head, does it?

To address your point, it would be nice if the call for donations was clear about whether this is intended to be a permanent change in Snopes' funding model, and whether the new goal is to be an org that runs on donations for decades.
fwiw I see the same congestion-related throughput pattern on my copper cableco connection (fast.com reports much lower numbers in the evening and on the weekend vs early in the morning on a weekday). Typically I can still get full speed from my own servers though, implying the congestion is specific to the peering between my ISP and Netflix CDN nodes.
I can't imagine the messy divorce is unrelated to her wanting to pass on some of the responsibilities.
Collecting basic usage data is not disrespecting the user.
Wow, there is some really funny shit going on in your head behind that pink goggles of yours?
We are trying to deal with that for several years now, still a lot of work to be done.
And no - that's not just thinking. Some of those government guys became so insolent that their shady schemes are basically open to public.
Opening the Lid on Criminal Sentencing Software
I tried to get a doctor to tell me how much they would bill me for an office visit (not ER) and they kicked me out of the office. It was literally, sign this document agreeing to pay any charge we decide to bill or we will not see you. This was a doctor that I went to only because they were recommended by my insurance company as being in network.

They also didn't understand why anyone would even ask the question. They kept saying, "for patients that can't afford to pay we usually work out a payment plan." They didn't understand that I could afford anything and that was the problem. I can write a seven figure check which is why I'm careful not to open myself up to that kind of liability.
Changing things so all taxpayers are getting robbed rather than just the individual being treated seems like a sub-optimal solution.
doesn't say how much are they paying for the two car garage, even at lower rents how much lower they must be, to be cheaper then what they are paying now, so that they increase their standard of living.
What is this? I think it needs a more clear and accessible demo; I don't know what it is, and I don't want to install a google sheets add-on to find out.

How does this compare to tools like Quantopian's? Is it targeting a less sophisticated user, hence the Google Sheets?
Right up until Bob insists he's a woman and then a fact is hatespeech?
Donate to Snopes? LOL! They are incredibly biased and unreliable.
Hundreds of companies expose PII, private emails through Google Groups error
Wholeheartedly agree with all these points
I used a Makefile for managing a large number of SSL certificates, private keys and trust stores. This was for an app that needed certs for IIS, Java, Apache and they all expect certificates to be presented in different formats.

Using a Makefile allowed someone to quickly drop in new keys/certs and have all of the output formats built in a single command. Converting and packaging a single certificate requires one or more intermediate commands and Makefile is setup to directly handle this type of workflow.
This is very true, but, what saddens me the most is that rather than attempt to fix it (for all of society), the failings are used as an excuse to push further privatisation.

It feels to me that we in the West are going ever faster backwards over fairness in issues like education, health and housing. I'm lucky to be well off & healthy enough to not (yet) be affected by a poor performing NHS but I wish we, as a country, would pull together on this - from top to bottom. Unfortunately, I just don't see it happening anytime soon, we seem to be increasingly more divided - religiously, economically, politically - than ever before.

Society feels increasingly like a "Mad Max" movie in operation. This is only going to end badly for everyone. There is way too much "me me me" from all levels. I find it emotionally exhausting to think about.

I don't begrudge anyone who has the means to get private health care from doing so (my girlfriend and many friends do) - so please don't think I am saying nobody should - I just wish there was a more proactive and pragmatic desire to fix the root issues. Of course, I realise I am living in cloud cuckoo land on that.

I should add that I can certainly empathise and can agree with your comment about chronic pain. My father is suffering from sciatica and it has been over a year to get an operation scheduled. This will involve him travelling from Northern Ireland to the Midlands because there is an even longer (multi year) wait to be seen in NI.
Note: if using Metapad, might want to tweak the default options a bit before using it for anything important. E.g. I seem to remember that ESC exits the file you are editing, maybe without warning. Other than a minor thing or two like that, it's a neat tiny text editor, though - IMO.
Dubious, pricey stem cell therapies pass as clinical trials on gov’t website
GraphQL needs a good server side library. But for e.g. C# I've found only libraries that can't be called stable. With stability I also mean who is developing and maintaining the code? If it's just one person effort it can't be called stable. I have understood it's much better in Java side, so perhaps if you can start your backend with Java/kotlin/Scala you are good to go.
IBM and University of Alberta use AI to predict schizophrenia with 74% accuracy
Developer Preview 4 now available, official Android O coming soon
As someone new to the Mac ecosystem, is it standard practice to run an antivirus as it is on Windows?

I have used various Linux systems as my daily web browsing machine for years without feeling the need to install any third-party antivirus.
Small suggestion: your docs could use a little work. The language switching is broken, and the history state is broken, so when you click around the docs, you quickly end up with 20+ entries in your history.

Also, the site could definitely use more copy: how do CSPs work? How does the app work in general? Right now the only real details are in the documentation.

Also also, what information ends up back on your servers? Is any user data relayed through an API?

It's a very cool idea, just non-obvious at first glance what exactly it does :)
The spectrum is highly limited, irrelevant of (re)allocation.

In layman terms, better allocating the air around you will not create more air.
- "Ok, google!"

- 3 seconds later... bhleep!

- "Define irri"beepbeep

- looks at screen . o O (hmm some kind of timeout.. let's push that mic button on the screen)

- presses button bleep!

- "Define irrit"bleebeep! Screen turns white

- 6 seconds later 'irrit' google search results.

Yeah... I'm gonna save myself the blood pressure increase and pass on this marvellous opportunity.
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Those in the lower echelon of society are unfortunately too stupid not to support powerful groups that have the opposite of their best interests in mind. Ie not many rural poor or lower class support single payer -- the support mostly comes from middle and upper middle class.
Depends on the country, I guess. Come visit Ukraine - there is almost nothing hidden regarding those agendas here.
One question, tho - if they are so incompetent and mismanaged, how come they're your government?
Housing costs are exaggerated in San Francisco by orders of magnitude more than every other component of cost of living.
The best book on understanding what style means: Clear and Simple as the Truth. Every other book just has confusing "this is The Correct Way", which is wrong, it all depends.

Once you understand style, either try for style they mostly talk about in that book (classical style), or if you want practical style then Revising Prose or Style: Toward Clarity and Grace are good.
I would say it is accurate. I doubt most users really think it through, and Apple went out of their way to enforce the idea that Macs don't get viruses in their advertising campaigns around 2010 to 2012.

Most users just don't think about it much, and the only exposure they got was ads telling them the thing doesn't get viruses, which Apple finally stopped doing in 2012 after have a very uncomfortable year... https://www.wired.com/2012/06/mac_viruses/

If you're here talking on HN, then yes, you probably fall into the category of folks who properly understand that uncommon != impossible. I sincerely doubt the vast majority of users make that jump.
Note that jwz redirects traffic coming from HN to an imgur photo of a testicle.

To view this article, right click and choose "Open link in incognito window" or click https://anon.to/?https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
Parent just asked for an example and I remembered that.

People who feel strongly enough about something to write legitimately leaning fluff pieces are not the personality type that I expect to be able to assume writing modes devoid of opinion, personally. I know very few people who aren't considered moderate/independent who I believe could pull that off.

These are the same people who've been proven to disbelieve factual information when it contradicts their world view.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1284908...

That is the type of person that I would not trust in a "fact checker" position, especially one in which their version of events will be cited by others as "fact".
>Your browser's code trust the code on the server hosting the SSL cert and authority server. So, it's just code involved here.

Yes, but "there" is only a small part of the full story. When I make a payment over SSL I don't make an immutable, untraceable and irreversible transaction. In order to be able to receive the payment the other party has to register with a bank and other legal entities etc... Putting money to an ethereum contract is closer to sending cash in an envelope to some PO box in a foreign country. Good luck getting it back if something goes wrong.

>Hopefully after said compassionate human had their lunch break.

Humans make mistakes, humans are unreliable. That's why we have a bunch of checks and balances in any decent justice systems to avoid miscarriages of justice. They're still possible, doesn't mean that the right solution is to get rid of it altogether.

>Again, you could also sue someone for tricking you into a bad ethereum contract and it would not hold in court either. Not sure what your point is here.

So code isn't law, law is law? I think my point is perfectly clear, you just keep moving the goalpost. My point is that those "smart" contracts are great for thieves but of dubious values

Regardless, do you think those people whose wallet was compromised because of the faulty contract will manage to get their money back? Who are they suing, the thieves? The wallet company who wrote the faulty contract? How you do get the money back? Can you freeze the account? Reverse the transactions? Blacklist the coins? The whole cryptocurrency system is designed to make those things impractical, if not downright impossible.

Again, great for thieves and black market sellers but if I just want to buy a laptop on amazon why would I ever bother with this? What's the use case?
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It's not unfair if he is paying for them.
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"This is not an official Google product."

Can anyone explain this to me? It is posted under the Google organization. Are they just not actively supporting it?
Well the progressives including President Obama pushed for single payer (or a public option) which would eliminate abuse on the billing side, at least to the insured.
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Similarly, decades of propaganda in Canada has convinced far beyond half our electorate that the Canadian system is the best in the world even though you actually do have to wait several months for treatment if your issue is not "urgent", the definition of urgent being unknown.
For people who understand neural networks, this is HUGE! I have been dreaming for a custom chip for neural networks for 5 years! If they pull it off and deliver a product launch in a year or two, then they would smoke the competition again.