skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I had back surgery, there were all these therapists coming in the moment I got out of surgery trying to get their 1 minute in. It was throughly ridiculous. One of them was attempting to do physical therapy and pulled on my leg a little and put me into so much pain I went into shock. She probably got her $600 bucks.

I am with Kaiser now and it is the most BS free medical experience I have ever had. To fix healthcare without single payer the government should just make a law that medical insurance can only be offered by hospital chains and the doctors and specialists cannot bill insurance separately, but must be paid by the hospitals. This is how Kaiser works.
That way the hospitals can pay a fair market rate to doctors and not have them demanding a surprise emergency room rate from distressed patients.
Yeah, that mess does a lot to harm the credibility of a company that is pretty much selling credibility.

I'd be much more keen to support a new Snopes-like service that has a similar commitment without all the baggage. We need reality checking and sanity testing today more than ever.
How do you figure that "besides for housing, cost of living does not need to be particularly higher in SV than elsewhere"? While housing is undeniably the most wildly out-of-control expense in Silicon Valley, the rest of the essentials of life ain't cheap either.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835878

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837260
> 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.

If anything, the billing abuse is a much, much larger problem than lack of insurance. At least, that has generally been true since the ACA/"Obamacare" changes passed.
How long does the cracking process take? I remember WEP only taking 10 minutes using aircrack-ng in BackTrace... I imagine this takes substantially longer.
Construct 3 - Game editor in the browser:

https://www.construct.net

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984951

Subscribers increasing slowly but steadily. ShowHN didn't lead to any direct sales as far as our reporting shows but doing a "ShowHN" is something of an internal milestone for us and the comments have been interesting a good motivational boost. Hopefully have more to Show HN in the future!
In most of my D&D games it might be considered chaotic good depending on the debt collector.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835878

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837260
Notepad needs support for unix style line endings to be able to function as a basic text editor. As it stands I always install notepad++.
From that article:

>It may have been technically accurate that Macs don’t get gummed up with PC viruses, but the implication that Apple is virus-free is certainly misleading.

But that "implication" is an assumed implication that I haven't seen play out in my non-tech friends. I always thought that stories like those were just drummed up by anti-virus vendors to make sure that people continue buying their wares.
I will post this here at the risk of being the most down voted comment of all time but here we go: Read the bible, get to know Jesus. Not a religion or religious path, Jesus the man and the God. Pray and ask Him who you really are in your own eyes and in His eyes. Then, simply Love others as yourself and Him above all else. I personally took this journey many years ago when I was going through a very dark time. I was very unhappy with it all, despite having a good job, a great wife, an amazing daughter, family support and all. I lived religion for many years previous to that and tried to be a good man, going to church and following the do/don't routine. Not until I searched for a relationship with Jesus and asked him to show me who I really am, was I able to live a fulfilling life of purpose. If you feel like it we can talk more in depth about all this and I can tell you my story. DM me on twitter and we'll connect @djbelieny
Introducing Soft U2F, a Software U2F Authenticator for macOS
The article never mentions what hours they get, just their hourly rate. It's not fair to say they're making good money.
> They are objecting to wealth transfer, I doubt making it more effective matters to them.

There are some "well-meaning" people who support shutting down all government entitlement programs. They will never admit to it but they see it as competition to religious "charity" and that more people would "find" {{ $deity }} if they had nowhere else to turn.

There is no I can to say to these "well-meaning" people.
I had a few i think. One for example ascii.li which front paged twice. It's just a stupid content site so traffic died again but for a week or more I got thousands of users and plenty backlinks.
Well, I suppose that's a relative judgement. I agree it is more widely used in the MS-related world.

In my thinking, "taking off" would have been if the rest of the ecosystem had embraced it. OData is shared as an open standard (http://www.odata.org), but there is something about it where I still haven't seen the broader ecosystem embrace it (although certainly many have adopted some of the style of OData REST endpoints). That said, compared to where it was when it first came out, OData is still getting a lot of attention. I think opening up the tech is what kept it alive, to be honest.

Just for kicks, I did a Google trends comparing OData nd GraphQL, kind of interesting:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=odata,graphql
Wrong.

Legal marriage by definition is JUST that. It is a Civil partnership aka. business agreement.

If it's not JUST that for them, then why would they sign JUST that?
Don't believe the American Heart Assn – saturated fats aren't likely to kill you
Usually these are 20% projects that googlers are allowed to make the MVP of the project. Those same people that created it will support it on their own time.
Do you remember to carry your dongle with you everywhere you go?

Do you carry a spare dongle in your pocket?
With a large party (6+), it becomes difficult for the wait staff to track the orders. And it takes longer to get the bills at the end. Some places won't do more than 2-3 bills also.
No doubt. I think it is a fascinating part of the Internet when the line between people, relationships, and the "product" is so fuzzy. Groklaw being another good example.
> I would say single payer, or a single regulatory arbiter of procedure and drug prices (within a multi payer context).

As someone who works for a medical billing agency either would make my life easier, having to juggle dozens of insurance contracts and rates stinks. France does the latter, insurance companies and the state plan negotiate and a single group - at the best this could make a good stepping stone to single payer in the US.
awesome!
thanks a lot!
Show HN: LivesArchived.com – Store and exhibit important works forever
It's written by a Google employee, and therefore Google owns all rights to it. However, in all other respects it's just an open source project written and supported in the authors' free time.
> managing changes to the policy and having a reporting endpoint that gives you insights into what is being violated is still difficult.

Is this targeting management at companies with multiple products? As a developer I just use Django Middleware to add this line to all our responses and call it a day:

response['Content-Security-Policy'] = "default-src 'none'"

(Well, we still sanitize all our inputs and have the headers to block XSS reflection, but there's still not much complexity.)
You may also try Krita - I think it's pretty well done.
DIRECTV in production with Node.js in less than 1.5 yrs.  how they did it
Thank you!

Google Webmaster tools has made an effort to help fight XSS vulnerabilities by providing some educational tools to devs (among other things). It's not a solution in the same realm as ours, for example they don't collect any violations and show you detailed reports on where something bad happened.

I don't see Google as a threat to us at all. We actually sat down with them at their SF office last week to work closely together on how they can quickly provide a better Content Security Policy feature set to their cloud customers.
Do you not have some max out of pocket for the year? Mine is 4000$, or 6000$ out of network.
He's pointing out the absurdity of various incentives that exist, not defending them.
Agreed. This happened to me when I was in college but was working a nice internship. Group lunch with coworkers: I ate a cheap burger with water and ended up helping pay for their salmon and fancy drinks. Did not appreciate it, and would have rather not gone.
I'll be there and looking for it :D
> ignoring that it costs £2200 per person

So... less than 1/3rd of what the US pays on a per capita basis? I'd be cool with that...
A Designer’s Handbook to Not Wasting Anyone’s Time
its for images on the internet - are you sure it's not a good match?

Joke aside, Pik is also Spades in German. Since its a compression library and it looks like Jan Wassenberg
works at the the Zurich office, it might also be some food, in line with the other work they have been doing: brotli, butteraugli, brunsli, guetzli
The perils of identity
You want the truth?
"You can't handle the truth!"
For what it's worth, a lot of people like myself consider Snopes a source of leftist propo, not truth.

I only mention that because propo outlets often run in to control & finance problems. Look at NYT.
File Manager app done with Go which can be used as middleware or standalone
Interesting, thanks, I did not know this. I somehow thought it was based on other criteria(academic, hardware vendors, large internet companies etc.
Fakespot now supports detecting fake reviews on App Store apps
I think it goes to the other poster's point: "You won't get users until you have something that /does something/"

The RPi was ready to roll out of the gate - they had a working Linux distro from the get-go that actually worked. They also provided really simple instructions on how to get said Linux distro onto a SD card. You can boot the RPi and have it be useful within a matter of minutes.

Openmoko simply never got near enough to working where the community felt like picking it up and running with it.

I don't think Openmoko was premature - it was incomplete. You're not going to get much participation from the community if doing anything useful on your platform first involves fixing/finishing the platform.
I agree with dungle6, whose comment is now dead. I say screw them and don't pay. Ignore collections for a few years and don't be a wuss about your credit score. Problem solved.
Really? That's odd, because that's at least half the staff where I live for all of those types of positions.
You probably shouldn't install any antivirus on Windows either. They're so full of holes that they probably increase the likelyhood that you get a virus.
Except it's not anonymous, in fact it's LESS anonymous than cash, by a significant margin.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity
Oh... (NSFW) https://www.google.com/search?q=pik+meaning+dutch
I've been using Phenomic https://phenomic.io for my personal site https://www.aizatto.com
I'm unfamiliar with how the US stats get collected - is that 90% of "everyone who had prostate cancer" survives 5+ years; or is that "everyone who had prostate cancer and private medical insurance"? If so then that is rather shocking.

Prostate cancer may be something of an outlier given the hesitation people have in discussing it. This is something that has only really recently been attempted to be addressed in the UK. Campaigns fronted by comics like Bill Bailey have tried to make it normal to talk about. The British as a society are still so reserved that I imagine thousands die of preventable cancers and diseases simply out of embarrassment.

Edit - I've just had a look at Cancer Research's figures[1], [2] and, using data from 2010/11 - prostate cancer had a UK survival rate of ~84% or so - i.e. nearly the same as the US.

[1] http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s...

[2] http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s...
Har, "with no figuration" is a good substitute for old "literally". Thanks.

I only frightens me figuratively, but that may be because I don't plan on moving there.
That is great feedback! Some of this was on our "immediately post-launch" todo list. Expect us to implement everything you just mentioned over the coming days.
They didn't get to be in the fortune 100 by handing out benefits to their resources. Resources are there to benefit the company; not the other way around.
Changing lives in Uganda
That book is superlative! We taught from it at Urbana-Champaign even 20 years ago in grad school..it's still fantastic.
America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century, Part 1
It was a mistake. I sometimes think about "upgrading" (downgrading) to a two year old iPhone 6s to get a headphone jack again but it is not available in 256gb.
Counterpoint: Vaccination's (non-existent) links with autism. The inflammation of that debate comes from those who wish to obfuscate an easy answer with a haze of deceit.
Any citations for Snopes running "leftist propo"? I've seen that accusation leveled a few times in this thread and I'm yet to see anyone provide a concrete example.
A Guide to Intermittent Fasting
I agree, there will be both central and decentralized namespaces; I do love the idea of decentralized, but I am realistic about the limitations. CocaCola can ether buy the keys (or have a court requisition them from something.. )
Now, this relies on the keys that registered this domain still existing!

No court in the world can force a deleted key to be transferred to CocaCola.
Likewise any cryptocurrency cannot be forceably stolen by the threat of state violence -- the math does not permit it.

So either, cocacola has to have cocacola1.eth (lol), or they have to institute a court ordered hard fork to recover the keys.

Both seem undesirable!
I'm not sure what your point is? I was saying this was a perfect example, it's far from the only one.
I'm so glad I saw this.

I got a camera recently and have been debating whether or not to get Adobe's photographer package. Currently I just use Lightroom mobile.

Now I'm thinking I'll probably go with this. It looks really good!
And most of them are conscious, in control of their capacities, and may be willing to trade off some time for cheaper treatment. They can't get a quoted price, either.

According to the article, ~50% of hospital admissions today go through the ER.
Thanks for the comment! About what is it, I already answered in another comment but I guess landing page needs more info.

It mostly gives finance products pricing capabilities, not trading algorithms like quantopian.

I thought a google sheets addon would be a good way to show what it does, and actually a real good application for it. There already exists an excel wrap for it (http://quantlib.org/quantlibxl/ much much better than this though) but you need Microsoft Excel :)
It's sad but true that we are getting to a point where all we have are standard rants about these topics, but can't find the solution. I'm guilty of the same too.

Stalemate.

We need to go through Kurt Lewin's change model process -
"unfreezing, change, and refreezing" and find something better. It's like, we need agile healthcare or something - fail fast and iterate faster... without costing people their lives or their savings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Lewin#Change_process
GopherCon 2017 Recap – How does GopherCon keep getting even better each year?
The Psychology of Productivity: How to Work Better, Longer, Faster
The domain is yp.to

DNS is hard.
Thanks house9-2. I briefly tried Dragon like six years ago and didn't have a very good experience with it—though I imagine it's improved since then. Probably the bigger issue for me though is that I just don't personally like speaking as an interface to coding. SmartNav looks cool. IIRC I looked into it way back when but it was prohibitively expensive for me, though I might be thinking of something else.

I'm mostly just using mouse/keyboard now, but I have learned some things about how to do it. Partly it's about not freaking out about things—seems like the added tension makes it a lot worse. That has been much more difficult than I can describe briefly here, but it was important at least in my case. Additionally, having some mindfulness about how I was feeling physically at the computer and letting that direct break-taking has been very useful. Same with various stretching/yoga things I do regularly. I spent a lot of time learning/practicing meditation in order to getter better, unadulterated feedback about physical problems (and to help stay relaxed while computing). It's interesting how oblivious we can be to discomforts from posture etc., and how automatic correcting them can be once you just tune in.

Anyway, I'm still not fully recovered either, but computing is a much more pleasant thing these days than it has been for many years.
I want to second this, as a former Airbnb employee -- it really did make a visible difference in enthusiasm, sense of community, and just overall work satisfaction.
KKR to buy WebMD for $2.8 bn
>I don't know how often you use other languages, but JavaScript is the only platform where I have to run my code through a chain of slow, third-party transformers just to use simple language features like constants with confidence.

That's because it's also the only platform that supports running your code in 4+ different top-class browser engines, in different browsers by different vendors and reaching 5+ billion people. And it's only needed for that.

For running your scripts like you'd do with Python, just use the latest node version, and skip Babel.
Medicare is not a single payer system (which is why I get confused when sibgle-payer advocates say they want “Medicsre for All”); it's more like “Obamacare with an public option for some services”; the prescription drug program (Part D) is private plans with public subsidy, and Medicare Advantage (Part C) is private plans for public subsidy as well. Parts A and B are public plans for core inpatient and outpatient services, but theres been a big push to Advantage plans (including as a vehicle to handle Medicare/Medicaid “dual eligibles”.)
honestly win-win in 2017 would be to securely orchestrate pesonal cal,dns,mail,notes,drive on one of the container hosting platform for reasonable cost.

while doable. cost is still far more common shared hosting or accepting a mail on google.
It is when you know you can't persuade them you have a good-enough reason to need it, so instead you don't even try.
Theoretically they should move to a place with a cheaper cost of living.

Theoretically the entire company could do that.
I don't understand what you are saying about employee/employer. In a gig economy, you can be your own boss. And without all those unnecessary layers of management, you could potentially keep more of the money for yourself than having a company take it. Someone with in-demand skills and a good reputation is going to have stable work both in a gig economy or as an employee, anyway.
And yet the UK life expectancy is 81.2 vs 79.3 in the US. For men in the two nations, the gap is even bigger - 79.4 vs 76.9.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Where do I go to donate to not save Snopes?
Unlikely. Even if Google were to go hard into the video space (unlikely but not impossible), they still wouldn't benefit from throttling/capping. It would just give users a reason to go back to their original providers. Furthermore we've already seen the governmental backlash when facebook tried similar in developing nations.

*I should clarify when I say "the video space" I mean original AAA content like Netflix is doing. I could be underestimating them but that's a LONG way from their market sweet spot.
Why Does the Neocortex Have Layers and Columns, Learning the World's 3D Structure
No, I don't think the GP is. But it's a rather predominant factor!
Apropos of little, I generally find that a topic being hotly debated is an indicator of low quality of questions being asked about it moreso than the difficulty of the answer.

To use MartinCron’s example. “What is the shape of the earth?” is a high quality question as opposed to “What’s past the horizon?” “What keeps the sky and ground separated?” or “If I’m standing on the ground, what is the ground standing on?”
Not Kotdog: Using Computer Vision to Detect Hot Dogs in Kotlin
The question is why only a handful of people are able to write correct contracts. The answer is that Ethereum/Solidity didn't create a high-level smart contract language, they created a low-level procedural programming language with some smart contract abstractions. This type of language is already known to pose many difficulties.

If they had started with something like Nick Szabo's smart contract language, which is declarative, temporal and reactive, this would make smart contracts more intuitive and easier to get right. This sort of programming language has been empirically verified to be easier for most people to grasp.
Not many, even though I had the opportunity to do so multiple times, I chose (and still choose) not to work those kind of times.

> I genuinely cannot understand your argument in favour of 60 hour weeks.

This phrase implies that you are comparing mandatory 40-hours to mandatory 60-hours, which is not the line of argumentation.

The line of questioning is that people should be forced to never work 60 hours. It is a proposal of restriction, with the argument that the lives of workers would be better if so. And I argue that is not true.
TrailOfBits on the Darpa Cyber Grand Challenge
DC Metro Pro: Node.js and Socket.IO for Realtime Data
Shifting costs from the hospitals and insurance to the patients, plain and simple.

This is merely the tip of the iceberg for what for-profit healthcare is developing into. You cannot have sound medical decisions being made when money is so deeply intertwined in the process.
> Buying food in the bay area isn't expensive.

Yeah, I found that to be pretty much true. Of course there are plenty more options (organic/natural/raw) if you WANT to spend more, but no intrinsic cost increase.

But there are a lot of marginal cost increases in the Bay vs other places. Car insurance is more expensive. Gas is more expensive. Simple one-offs (like oil changes) are more expensive. You're more likely to eat out because of the brutal commute times. Etc.
I agree with you. But what do you expect from a system that allows you to create real-estate out of thin air?
> Krita is an alternative to MS Paint in the same way that operating a railway network is an alternative to driving a bicycle

I think that is too harsh. Although Krita can do more than Paint the user-experience is pretty well done and it also works for basic tasks providing useful defaults.
Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
Submitted a Show HN two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14822897

Not even one upvote though. Do any of these posts get on the homepage organically?

LE: 2nd (and last) try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14841172
That is more-or-less exactly what anti-gentrification activists are trying to accomplish: push tech out, reduce the average wage, rent goes down.
That's a great defense of your misstatement about what it takes to become an electrician.

Of course regulation often goes wrong. I'm pretty sure that isn't a reason to do away with it altogether, it is merely a reason to find ways to do it better.
Zero hours contracts are not the same as self employed.

It is perfectly possible to have non self-employed employees on zero hours contracts, with holiday pay, sick pay, pension and maternity.

However, its more expensive, because you have to pay more NI and pro-rata holiday pay.