skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between health insurance and other types is that payouts for health insurance are theoretically unbounded (well, until the patient dies).
You're confusing terms that are independent of what's actually being discussed. If it is Internet based, it's Internet service and prioritized with all other Internet traffic. If it's traffic that does not go over the internet, but instead through another infrastructure (such as a public switched telephone network, or a local multi-cast network for TV service) it gets prioritized however is deemed appropriate. Just because you watch it on your TV doesn't make it separate from Internet service.
howard,

I agree with the above comment - I think you'd probably have more luck getting people to sign up for your service if they could try or at least browse parts of it without needing to associate an account with it first.

That way they can get a feel for what it does, what its value is, and why / if they might want to use it without having any cost.

Every user is going to associate some "cost" with the time it takes to associate their account with your service or the potential risks of associating with your service, and giving them a little taste of what your service might do first is a good way to help them overcome their initial objection to the perceived cost.
Swing for the fence
The problem here is that no matter how much you like vim, when you argue against the most important paradigm (defaulting to normal mode) that makes vim so powerful, the people who understand and appreciate this feature will assume that you don't like vim itself. And then you'll get people saying that you're utterly clueless.

Vim is a tool. Let me say that again. VIM IS A TOOL. It's purpose in life is not to be easy to use or to garner the biggest user base. It's purpose in life is to make text editing as efficient as possible. That means that you default to normal mode. Period. If you don't live in normal mode, then you just don't grok vi(m).

I'm not sure what's different about our use cases, but I find the vim defaults to be quite reasonable. I have a .vimrc file, but pretty much consists of syntax highlighting and tabstop settings. And I differ from the mainstream here anyway.
I believe both entities can declare bankruptcy. There have however been rumblings that if a city were to declare bankruptcy the county and/or state can do something to either block it, or block the judge from invalidating the employment(ie pension) contracts.

Hopefully it won't come to that but a few OC/Inland Empire cities are right on the edge.
Insulin + calories make you fat, not just calories. That's why one of the early symptoms of Type I diabetes is uncontrolled weight loss despite increased hunger.

Insulin has a very important role in weight control but is often ignored in favor of the calories in - calories out argument, an argument that ignores important factors in weight control (most notably the influence of diet on satiety and metabolic rate).
I've done canvas coding before. I made a UI for an audio player entirely in canvas. Canvas allows you to manipulate an array of pixels. You could keep a separate array for each layer, maybe you have to coordinate between them, but it seems entirely possible. You could generate an output array as a matrix operation on the arrays of layers or do some other kind of merging logic? The only difference I can see between canvas and a modern gui (other than speed) is that someone else has already written these libraries for the gui so you don't have to.

I still don't see why anyone would say it's impossible and I'm not sure why I'm getting voted down for asking this technical question. If someone thinks I'm wrong they should at least explain it as you did.
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The time has come for us to move for greener pastures yet again. Our species migrated from Friendster to MySpace in 2003 and then to Facebook in 2005. Well, in 2009, Facebook turned to the Dark Side under the influence of Microsoft while locked in an epic war with Google. Many are still in denial and are suffering from Like Syndrome. The future of our species is at stake and Earth is getting hot and bothered about it too. LivGiv exists to restore sanity back to the Web and give power back to the biosphere.
Yes, I should have made that clear. Almost all of my academic career was at large research schools. A number of my fellow grad students instead went on to smaller schools where they are fairly happy teaching more and researching / publishing less. Without very many (or any) grad students to be TAs, they end up covering all the bases on their classes. In smaller departments, they tend to own all their classes year after year rather than rotating.

The classes are also smaller, which helps tremendously. At one point, I actually took a differential equations class at a junior college. We had 5 students. It was a great setting in an unexpected place.
Sorry. Believe me, I know how good I've got it, and I was reminded again this past week while on holidays at my father's cabin. It is in a valley, so below the line of sight required for mobile phone access. It was like a return to the early 90s, when one had to go to the University for Internet access and didn't have it at home. How did we live?

Thankfully, the iPad was loaded up with Kindle books beforehand, so the week wasn't a total disaster.
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California has a lot of issues and potential. I just don't feel this article really convinces me that they have selected the important ones.

The cost of the prison system may be a significant burden and the article did not address that.

The failure of electricity privatization is another issue that was not mentioned.

Are the pensions for bureaucrats the main costs or is it actually cops and teachers pensions that are more significant?

Living in another first world country that has just lost its textiles industry to third world competition, I hardly see this loss of indicative of anything, except being in the way of globalization and cheap labour from China.

Showing income tax alone seems one sided. What about property and sales taxes? Are these lower than other states?

If you already believe all this stuff, sure you may be right, but for an open minded critical thinker I found it unconvincing.
A similar sort of thing is already possible using the NOLOH PHP Framework (http://www.noloh.com) using its Listener Control. Using a quick example similar to the post you can simply do something like: http://noloh.diffpaste.com/#/691/. Furthermore, you can specify the various options, whether it's stream, short-poll, or long-polling.

A video demonstrating it from this past March's Confoo web conference can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/phpframework#p/c/C102458C2FFD8ACF/7/8...

We're also planning to add a more direct syntax in the future so that you can easily set properties of objects directly to a changing data source without having to handle the assignment in a controlled callback, which we initially mandate due to taking the cautious route, thus allowing you to handle for data and security issues.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH
Yes.

The point was that if food is cheap, and other stuff is provided, perhaps you don't have to pay your engineers $150K/year. If you can centralize all the education, housing and healthcare you can provide it cheaper for each person. Well of course , the system was broken and eventually fell appart.

But I was just highlighting that just because those particular engineers didn't make the equivalent dollar amount / year that US engineers made doesn't mean they had a proportionally lower standard of living, that is all.
Those taxes didn't just exist back then, they were higher 3-4 years ago when unemployment was at 5%.
Göteborg is a great city, there are several VCs, good engineers due their universities and an Entrepreneurship culture
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It's been two weeks since this was published: http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:BT-CO-20100729-7038...

I think it's realistic to imagine Afghans have died in the past two weeks as a result of the leak.
loads of soy protein

Or watercress, spinach, sprouts, seeds, nuts, brown rice, protein powders made with the above, and many other foods.
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I can't even picture voluntary 1200kcal days, period. You're going to feel like hell if you're an average male denizen of Hacker News. Even a lot of women would feel bad on that caloric restriction.
When I see that, I figure you're making an association with Facebook (or twitter, or whatever) on purpose. You're targeting the same audience as those who use that other service, and as such will likely add or alter features based on what that target audience wants.

I don't use Facebook much, nor twitter all that much either, and don't see myself as part of (real or imagined) those demographics. So I'm skeptical that your service is for me, or will follow my interests.

I also wonder if your service will be posting updates or tweets on my behalf ("I just joined a service that tweets things without my wanting them to!") or if at some point they'll be an unwelcome exchange of info among applications.

While I'm sure some people see the option to use an existing ID system as a real convenience, I see it as a potential pathway to privacy invasion.
This is an excellent article, thanks for posting the link.
It's kind of funny and part of the validation - an interested customer/user posted it to HN before we were even ready to announce it. I was on a call and all of a sudden the live stats counter goes apeshit and the referral traffic is from HN. The user said: "Sorry if this wasn't meant to be posted yet, but I'm so excited by it, I had to share it"
From a cursory reading, this isn't particularly new, even on the web. Essentially what he's done is implement bindings/key value observing, but with a new syntax instead of the one we already know (i.e., javascript). On the desktop Cocoa has done this very well, and on the web Cappuccino and SproutCore have copied the cocoa approach. There are also more lightweight libraries that provide binding support without a heavy framework.
I'm not a big fan of the potshots he takes at New Urbanism and Smart Growth. He seems to not have much of a grasp on the changing demographics of urban versus suburban populations, or the impetus behind higher density construction in urban centers.

For example, this sentence is complete nonsense:

Instead, they favor policies, such as “smart growth”
and an insistence on “renewable” energy sources, that
would make the area look like a gated community—a green
one, naturally.

Gated communities are typically residential subdivisions. "Smart Growth" planning focuses on mixed-use development and walkable (to buy groceries, shop, work from professional offices, etc) neighborhoods.
ya. i was thinking in terms of clicks. one click, and you have an account. I didn't expect the idea of using facebook itself a big mental wall. But the immediate plan is

1) make a screen cast
2) link to my own account as an example page
3) some sort of alternate login
"What went so wrong? The answer lies in a change in the nature of progressive politics in California. During the second half of the twentieth century, the state shifted from an older progressivism, which emphasized infrastructure investment and business growth, to a newer version, which views the private sector much the way the Huns viewed a city—as something to be sacked and plundered."

Pure gold.

I would add another factor: since the 1970s, the old progressivism which actually believed in progress has been replaced by things like green ideology. The latter is a form of puritanical suffering-and-atonement religious fundamentalism. I think it's properly classified as a species of religious conservatism, and doesn't even belong on the left.

Note that I'm referring to the quasi-religious ideology... cleaning up the environment and building more renewable energy systems is great. The ideology has nothing to do with that. Greenpeace has as much to do with saving the planet as "Focus on the Family" has to do with helping actual families. Both are just fundamentalist cults using their respective issues for publicity.
And I'll bet every single one of these bootstrapped entrepreneurs stretched the truth a little to get customers, coverage or funding. Or maybe they spammed a little to get ranked in Google, or maybe they scraped another website for info.
As someone who does and has worked on enterprise-grade software, and someone who now helps client teams facilitate development, both in-person, remote on-shore, and remote off-shore, I can confidently state: it all comes down to communication, and a lack of communication not only dooms telecommuting, but it's a strong indicator of longer term failure in the parent company.

If ideas, thoughts and facts cannot be clearly captured and/or communicated in a facile fashion, any complex project is risking higher failure rates. In-person buffering is a crutch at best.
No, that's complete nonsense. The coercion was far greater than having your health insurance tied to your job. It included inability to travel, participate in the political process, no significant right to dissent, the constant risk of losing one's livelihood (and 'perks) for purely political reasons, severe restrictions on the ownership of private property, etc, etc, etc. Did Soviet engineers and scientists enjoy a fairly reasonable standard of living? Many did. But the comparison to the US and health care is ludicrous on its face.
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Single-payer systems are the cheapest way to provide healthcare for a society. However, they necessarily fund the healthcare industry at a lower level than people would on their own. Some of these savings come from actual improvements in efficiency and the elimination of marketing costs, but the rest comes from the government using its monopsony power to drive down prices. Some see this as a feature, but I see it as a bug. It results in less investment going towards improvements in the field, which I think is undesirable. I think the healthcare bill that was passed was a good way of avoiding disrupting the healthcare market while still providing healthcare for everyone.
Yes, the author of this post clearly has no idea about enterprise/government security policies -- they exist for security and for contractual compliance. He used the example of Manning in Iraq (who was allegedly inside a SCIF, but consciously violated security policy, whether or not you think what he did was right) -- the purpose of all of that is to make sure your honest and trustworthy employees aren't accidentally compromising sensitive information, and to protect from outsiders. You don't body cavity search your own cleared engineers because that is not generally the threat, and it's highly invasive.

There is information protected against willful disclosure by trusted individuals, and that information is kept inside a hardware security module and/or is never accessible to individuals. e.g. nuclear weapons have a "no lone zone" around them, such that if any person (even the commander of the base) is in that space alone, he is presumed to be doing something evil, and is supposed to be stopped (using lethal force if necessary) on sight.

That level of security just isn't warranted for most things, but "work on material in a secure room, and the information doesn't leave the room except by defined channels" is a pretty good level of security. DoD has a lot of security vulnerabilities, but security would not be improved by allowing telecommuting!
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Discussions like that can happen on IRC. @mattm is correct, you're taking the whole team for a few hours (or maybe days) saved, you're on the raw end of the deal. There's nothing saying that type of conversation requires high-bandwidth communication. It's often more efficient to have one programmer waiting on a response in IRC rather than interrupting the entire group.

You're optimizing for the 5% instead of the 95%. I think this is a case of a survivor bias---you remember all of the times having people in the same space saved time and forget all the ideas that went nowhere and interruptions that pulled someone out of the groove.
California cannot declare bankruptcy: http://www.slate.com/id/2246915
It's really interesting to see the differences between Computer Science departments due to where they came from. The two big places I've seen them grow out of Electrical Engineering and Math, but they've also come out of things like some weird informatics or library science. I'm sure there are some other odd departments out there with interesting histories.
Göteborg was way much cheaper than London both rent and food.
Plus it is a small city, great internet and lot of people wanting to do new things
I'd rather be not fair to 10 people, than waste 6 months chasing an idea that doesn't work.

Except the dry test won't tell you anything. Cart abandonment rate means that the numbers you get don't mean anything. Your actual sales maybe 10 times less.

If you are bootstrapping then yes...I do mean never. Well there are probably a few exceptions...but that's just pure luck.
Sally will have a job...the article essentially provides that because of health care and other burdens, Sally will not have a job.
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The RIAA's goal is to scare people away from sharing. The goal is not to make money from lawsuits.
The difference is the realtime synchronization across all clients. Fun comes with a complete network stack, ensuring that the state you're viewing is always up to date. Does that make sense? I actually do think that's a new value proposition.
Do few repeats (around 9-15, do them until you can't do it anymore) but with more weight. Add more weight everyday you go to the gym. Worked for me.
It is, because all of the little bumps before you form the outer rim of the circle.
thanks everyone for taking the time to comment. I think the main lessons are:

1) provide independent login
2) explain better what facebook connect is used for
3) provide more information upfront what the service is like, some people can decide if they want it.
4) an example page

i am glad i got early feedback :) thank you all so much
I hate open plan offices especially when they're shared across multiple work groups, functional areas (e.g. devs sharing with phone ad sales!), or even worse, companies.

I think the happy medium is some flexibility among telecommuting, private offices, group work areas (taking over a conference room, or something less formal), and informal mixing areas. There is no single office environment which is best for all tasks.

I'm at my most productive by telecommuting from home one day a week, and daily from 0600 to 1000 (not always on the main company project); then working in the office, meeting with clients outside, etc. from 1000 to 1800, and then whatever team building, client events, etc. from 1800 to 0000.
These are all great ideas.

I'd love to do a more detailed walkthrough through your service later tonight and try to give you some pointers. I'm going to be relocating to a new city for work (LA) and your service would actually be very helpful for me.

You can DM me on Twitter (@Aaronontheweb) with an email address I can send you some more detailed user experience feedback if you're interested.
Property and sales tax in CA are both very high(varies by county but most are up there). The LA county sales tax is 9.75%!
You are right that CA has a lot of potential. The double whammy of decreased revenues from the recession impacted construction industry coupled with the soaring cost of entitlements over the last half decade are probably the two major factors in the states current situation. They are not the ONLY ones, but they are the most signifigant.
thanks for the brain dump :) ya, you are different from the assumptions i am making. lesson learned
In the case of contaminated water, couldn't the insurance company seek sane recourse from the polluters? Usually in cases where contaminated water is a factor in the health of a community, the contamination and perpetrator is known.

As for power lines.. well, there haven't really been any conclusive studies in this area. But you get the point.

Same-environment shouldn't be a factor, as long as the reasons the environment might impact health are/can be known.

I'd argue that nobody should be living somewhere that might have health risks involved (e.g., underground oil spills, toxic ash, a radioactive waste storage facility a block away from the elementary school .... in other words, williamsburg/greenpoint brooklyn).
This is re: turning $1k into 10k in 6 months.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1481191

Would already be at ~ 3k currently. Event (FDA Panel) is yet to take place: if approved, this will 10x
Spoken like someone who has never had a parent have a health emergency and then get a bill for $200k for the hospital's services. Go free market! Yay capitalism! Every man, woman and child for themselves! Especially those little old ladies. If they can't afford to pay for a health service to save their life, that's just too bad. But thankfully every old woman is rich, or has rich children.
Well there you go. Even if we could it probably would not be a good idea (except in the hearts of our states Ron Swansons).
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Seems like a cool idea.

However, I'd recommend doing some more brainstorming on the name (provided this is the brand you've settled on, and not just the dev site).

I know all too well that it's tough to find a good domain these days...but I think you can do better. I find that the average user's mind will have a hard time following ONE changed spelling convention. And you have two (the double-m & the double-p.)

Jummp.in? Cool. Jumpp.in? Sure. Jummpp.in? A little too cumbersome to explain to my friends when we're hanging out (& have any chance of them remembering it).
Good point. Although you can access parts of the hardware like accelerated transitions, GPS, accelerometer etc.
Effectiveness of group brainstorming was disproven years ago.
Is there a transcript anywhere?
Congrats on your success, even if you do get a few critical responses on your food choices. I had a lot of post-college weight to lose (45 pounds) and did it with cardio and not overeating. My diet stayed mostly the same, much to my wife's chagrin, but I got through all the weight in 9-10 months and it hasn't been back since (a few years now). Keep up the good work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein

None of which are nearly as good as eggs for building tissue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCAAS
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there are different levels of being unethical.

1. where you stretch the rules a little, break the whole "please respect our TOS" thing. Might include spamming a few blogs to get backlinks. Might include posting on HN with 2 accounts. Might include creating a back story to make your startup a lot more interesting. "No really...we wanted to save the world...we didn't even think about the money"

2. white collar crime...telling investors that you have 50,000 users...when in reality you only have 5,000

3. killing people.

If you want to get a bootstrapped startup off the ground...somewhere in the early days...you'll have to break #1.

Frankly I feel like the whole make them fill out an order form to see how many actually want to buy, falls under 0 or .5. Yes it's a dick move...but that's the only way you'll get real market research, instead of getting 100 people to say "yes I'd buy it"...only to find out a year later that when the time comes to pulling out their credit card all of them say "no thanks"
California is a leading edge example of what happens when an increasing % of the population are either directly (state workers, people on welfare long term) employed by the government or don't pay any taxes have disproportionate representation in politics.