skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are talking about ER rooms here: people who need ER services are not in a position to do any sort of shopping around.

Yup. In 2006, I was in a serious bicycle accident in San Francisco w/ some head trauma. SF General was the only hospital in the area with a (Level 1?) ER that treats head trauma. I also had two broken arms. Even though I was in shock, I remember very clearly asking everyone involved in getting me from the accident site to the ER if SF General accepts Blue Cross, my insurance carrier. I was more concerned with facing a giant bill than my own health. Eventually someone said they do take Blue Cross, and I stopped worrying.

Later I came to find out that SF General bills Blue Cross, but they do not have a contract with Blue Cross. 100% of my treatment was out of network. Then I got a bill for about 50,000 USD. Between that, trying to pay for physical therapy, and a disruption to ability to earn a living at the job that paid for my healthcare, I struggled for a long time after the accident.
Considering one of Blackbox's primary functions is Kickstarter fulfillment, maybe they're working together?
I read GP the other way around - by mimicking some of the behavior of cash (inability to mark as stolen), Bitcoin runs into some problem (combating fraud).
Although the Android ecosystem is probably the biggest OS deployment on devices right now, Google has done a pretty impressive job maintaining its overall safety. The primary mechanism they use is what they call GMS (Google Mobile Services), built on top of AOSP.

GMS includes the Google Play Store, which they reported this year had 2B monthly active users. The most notable AOSP derivatives that do not run GMS are Amazon's Fire OS and whatever Chinese companies are doing. Whenever you see somebody trying to implement "Android without Google", they are (misguidedly) replacing GMS.

Anyway, GMS on the device auto-updates and works with cloud services to detect and act on malware the user may have installed. This year Google branded this "Google Play Protect". Because GMS doesn't require firmware, kernel, or platform updates to work, Google is able to police the ecosystem effectively.

Also, because all apps are signed by the developer and Google controls the Play Store, its also able to work with developer community to mitigate libraries / sdks that are harmful. The overall end result is harmful apps are only on 0.05% of devices that only install apps from the Play Store (the most common scenario, and the default).
Apple’s widened ban on templated apps wiping small businesses from the App Store
An Open Letter to Companies Who Use Open Source
We have many staff with MBP + dual external displays and it's always been the least reliable aspect of the platform. From reading between the lines in the unusually arcane history of support docs on the topic, I've surmised their stance can be summed up as "it might work!" Which of course runs counter to the Apple It Just Works ideal, so they can never come out and admit as such. They've gone to great lengths to squeeze impressive performance out of their stingy graphics hardware choices at the OS level, but there's not much you can do to massage the numbers when adding up pixels, I guess.
I always have every member of the exec team attend a sales call per quarter. Yep, even the CFO. Amazing the impact it has on the staff meetings, much less the decisions made.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good book or an audio/video course on sales for beginners? I'd like to learn this skill in 2018...
Not doing business with mixers: wow, what an interesting way to stir up trouble! Someone should create a service to distinguish "legit" from "tainted" Bitcoin. Let's see if Gresham's law applies so 1 bitcoin is no longer 1 bitcoin. What would the other exchanges do if one of them started trading these separately?
No, Scott Alexander, the focus on men’s assaults isn't “a hit job” on men
Show HN: A command-line interface to take a ride
Could the community as a whole black list a bitcoin address so they could at least not spend the money they stole? Are you able to track the history of who was a previous owner of the bitcoin?

Seems like a major issue. If these hacks keep happening thieves are going to own more bitcoin they the rest of the community.
Do you think RoR is a good choice when all you really want is a service with a REST API?

I prototyped something in a couple of days with Python and Flask and it made a good enough impression that we are thinking about fully developing the idea. I'm open to just about any tech and am thinking about continuing with Flask (and Flask-restful), using Go, or Ruby on Rails. I have almost no experience with any of these and that's part of the reason they appeal to me.
I'm seeing some interesting POV's on thread (and some road rage issues) but I'm genuinely curious: if the speed limit plays no part in the equation... Let's say I'm traveling ~85 in the left most lane while passing cars in the center lane traveling ~60(posted max speed). Car behind me approaches going 200. Should I be expected to slow down to 60 and force a merge to center lane in order to yeild to the girl going 200 behind me, even while we're both using the lane as a passing lane, she's just passing at a quicker rate? Or can I keep using the passing lane until ample room is available to merge gracefully? At what point if any should someone's blatant disregard for some traffic laws(max speed in this case) lead me to anticipate they won't be following other traffic laws or conventional behaviors, and modify my behavior when interacting with this vehicle?
Gasoline is also affordable because individual needs tend to be fairly low and consistent.

Imagine what the gasoline market would look like if from time to time a person had to buy 100,000 gallons of gasoline or they would die.
Not the parent, but I like String Theory [1], which is about non-superstar pro tennis, and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again [2], which is about a vacation on a cruise ship.

The second one looks a lot like snarky "I'm the only cool person here" journalism, but IMO that sort of (typically bad) journalism exists in large part because Wallace could do it really well.

Oops, I misread your comment as "what", not whom. For whom, I dig George Saunders. Here's a piece he wrote about a visit to the mysterious "Buddha boy" a while back [3]. Saunders to me is pretty much Wallace's spiritual successor as far as style and tone goes.

[1] http://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david-...

[2] https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...

[3] http://reprints.longform.org/the-incredible-buddha-boy
Yep! Hit the docs website and click "Get started": https://www.netlifycms.org/
If you are able to add detection for VPN then this is something my company would happily pay for.
OT: And you did a good job of it too. I have a WP7 device that I use for the work emails and while it is strictly a Lync/Calendar/Exchange email device, it is still snappy and responsive even after all of these years.
The Sibelius Monument
Self-employed people are in the same demographic as other individuals without any access to group insurance, such as those working lower-end, lower-paying jobs. As a matter of sheer statistics, a larger proportion of this population ends up sicker and incurs greater medical expenses.

Something similar to what your grandmother had or other unions is a PEO, or professional employer organization. It's a collection of small businesses (usually) that band together to get access to services otherwise only available to larger groups. It's a little interesting because technically you become an employee of the PEO as well as your own company, and there are certainly costs associated with it, but it's in the same vein as union dues, for example. Just not as clear cut and not required.
FWIW this is a known security bug at Apple. I filed a bug about similar behavior where you can see the desktop briefly without logging in. Apple marked it as a duplicate. https://imgur.com/YxXtU2y

Here are the steps to reproduce:

- Start Mac

- Login

- Turn on Screen Lock: System Preferences > Security > General > Check "Require Password" and Select 5 Seconds.

- Turn on Hot Corner Sleep Display: System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners > Select upper left > Put Display to Sleep > Ok

- Attach external monitor

- Activate hot corner by dragging mouse to upper left corner of screen

- Wait 6 seconds

- Click the mouse to trigger waking the screen

- See brief flash of the desktop without logging in!
I don't understand from your comment whether you are aware that Rails 5.1 introduced generators to automatically add Vue, React and Angular (and Elm subsequently)? It sets everything up neatly and allows you to selectively incorporate reactive components where they're needed in your application, without having to go all the way to separating front and backend completely.

https://medium.com/statuscode/introducing-webpacker-7136d66c...
Right, this is why we have multiple copy-pasteable examples in different languages. To make it as straight forward and quick as possible to get started.
That would require appending to the consensus rules, which is effectively a hard fork.
EMTALA is also a huge welfare cliff. Let's say Antius and Grasshoppedon both work at McDonald's. In accordance with the wisdom of the prophets, Antius saves 20% of his paycheck every month (somehow) eventually accruing... oh, say, $9001 in savings, or way more than the average US household. Grasshoppedon spends all his money, because that's how the fable goes. One day they're both injured in a workplace accident and rack up a $25000 medical bill. Antius's savings are wiped out, he goes bankrupt, no credit for seven years, etc; Grasshoppedon meets exactly the same fate as Antius, i.e., Antius's fiscal prudence amounts to diddly-squat.

And then economists wonder why the savings rate is so low.
Really? I signed up a few weeks ago to check it out, I had to upload the front and back of my driver's license.
Your link is at least quasi-religious.

https://www.libertyhealthshare.org/do-i-qualify

Our members:...Worship regularly with others
"Please invest responsibly"

Pretty similar to the warnings lottery agencies and alcohol makers put on their products.

I wonder if it's intentional? Kind of a wink-wink thing where just like lotteries and alcohol the unsaid next line is, "but it'll be more fun if you don't..."
Please consider using a sane date format.

https://xkcd.com/1179/
€ 799.00, more than a month salary for many people that I know.

Multiple month salaries in many 2nd and 3rd tier countries around the world.

Security as a privilege only for the rich people is not a solution.
Sounds like it was written by a 12 year old
I’ve built rails api only applications for a long time and I find it to be a great experience. Now, to be fair, I pick it because I know Rails very well. But it’s worth taking a look at for sure.
The online apps concentration of revenue gets even more extreme if you look at whales as a fraction of downloads rather than spending customers. Most popular games only have a small number of people who pay anything...ever. I'd be willing to bet money that most of Zynga's revenue comes from the top 1% of downloads.
And he'll by fine again next week. There are a lot of people who bought at $5000 a few weeks ago only to panic sell at 2900, and here we are less than a month later quibbling over the difference between 19k and 15k. Either switch your charts to LOG or zoom out until you feel better.
I worked with HR a bit. The people were the sweetest I've worked with, but the forms they had me make were full of legalese, and their procedures were algorithmic, military executions.

My theory is they are battle-scarred by a few bad apples, who crop up here and there, now and then. These employees were high maintenance, imperiled the company, even sued. As the article said, "a good part of Human Resources time is spent managing various forms of drama."

I'm not saying that if you ever sued your employer you were wrong. Since employers are people, and employees are people, both are equally capable of corruption. What I'm saying is, if everyone acted in good faith, maybe we wouldn't need HR. But the same could be said about many things in life.
Maddening? That sounds perfectly peaceful to me! It sounds like everyone just wants to get where they're going, safely. Why do you feel so driven (!) to go so fast?

Given the choice between what you describe---an orderly set of traffic at near the speed limit---or a free-for-all in which inevitably an aggressive lane-changer clips someone at 85mph spreading blood and metal all over the highway and stopping traffic for miles? Maybe I should move to Oregon :P
I'm not sure what you're trying to correct here. Are you thinking I used "inflation" to describe an increase in Bitcoin's price? I wasn't: Bitcoin's price spiked overall yesterday, but there was also a point where the price dropped by 20% in 20 minutes, and that's what I'm referring to.
The stock market has been proven to be rigged!

The only winning move is not to play.

Put your money in an FDIC insured monkey-market or savings account with no attached fees and a decent interest rate.
Does 5.2 add anything on top of 5.1? The core team added the webpacker gem back in February this year but I haven't checked out yet what they're planning with 5.2.
That's my point though, if it's obvious then it's not risky but by your own admitting it is risky and therefore non obvious.
Windows handles this nicely with User Account Control (UAC) and Secure Desktop mode.

Many of OSX's problems come from trying to shoehorn security on top of operating system concepts that were developed in 1969.
>One thing we don't make is good managers of Americans - cynicism and laconic humour does not come across well with American employees.

So how does cynicism come across to Americans? As a New Yorker by birth/upbringing/family, I often wonder if this is part of the gap between my family and "Americans".
Yeah. I signed up this morning and bought a few ETH.
Ummm stocks, bonds, cash, real estate?

Yes Bitcoin just like all other assets before that went parabolic will not end good.

Storing your life savings in Bitcoin right now is a suicidal idea.
CDS are traded in standard contracts and it would require a lot committee-ish type work to get things changed along with the fact that I'm not even sure how you would define this type of trade in a clear way. Really doesn't happen overnight [0]

As far as the issuer goes, issuers get a reputation for fucking over creditors and that makes it hard for them to tap markets in the future (except in these yield hungry days..). People really don't forget about this kind of stuff.

[0] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/08/24/new-isda-2014-cre...
I'm pretty ignorant of your field, so it's hard to say. As an example of my ignorance, I'm honestly surprised you could even find 40 places in a small city to apply for an uncertified Stem Lab Coach job.

In terms of resumes and job search, though, software development is completely unlike every other field. I don't think anybody's advice here on "here's how my resume of 15 years of c++ is arranged" is going to help you at all. It's a completely different world.

People complain about ageism in tech, but I suspect programming is actually one of the least ageist fields out there due to its underlying meritocratic nature.
I guess I should use this time to shamelessly plug one of my side projects, farch: https://github.com/shawndellysse/farch

It's an attempt to bring the functional system paradigm to Arch linux, giving you the "my system is a function of my configuration" approach combined with not having to relearn how to administer a linux system like GuixSD and NixOS require.
The folks at http://getipintel.net/ can give you some decent information about wether an IP looks spammy or not.

> Given an IP address, the system will return a probabilistic value (between a value of 0 and 1) of how likely the IP is a VPN / proxy / hosting / bad IP. A value of 1 means that IP is explicitly banned (a web host, VPN, or TOR node) by our dynamic lists.

We've been using it for a while and are pretty happy.
Tezos allows for blockchain consensus rule/s to evolve over time, which is a pretty cool idea, though the project seems to be struggling with management problems after having raised hundreds of millions in USD.
I use 2.5%+ version. Goodrx doesn't always have coupons.

https://www.goodrx.com/diclofenac-sodium?form=tube-of-gel&do...
Getting your CV done? I'd say do it yourself. E.g. if you know LaTeX there are a lot of templates to get you started on ShareLaTeX for example.

Having just done my CV, I couldn't imagine paying someone for it - it's deeply linked to my personality and my own experiences.
If you're using ERs for what they should be used for, then yeah, you're in shock, or bleeding out, or in mortal peril.

Many people do not use them correctly; I can't blame them sometimes, when that's the only option around, but there's a whole host of issues people drift into ERs for that ought to be solved by an aspirin and a night's sleep, or an urgent care clinic. In the past five years, there's been a huge explosion of Convenient MDs and the like springing up everywhere; honestly, if you just had a nurse practitioner or PA assigned or on-call at Rite-Aids or CVSs to write scripts for no-brainer prescription medications, you'd solve half the healthcare problems people deal with.
I can't imagine the courage and luck that it took to do this.
Maybe they were hacked, maybe the owners stole it, you'll never know. And no one really knows the wallet of the mined coins so they can't really be traced outside of the company.
as far as I know www.shiftnrg.org is building something along those lines... decentralised hosting on IPFS + custom DNS...
Have you actually bought bitcoin? When I signed up I needed to upload a picture of me holding my state ID to buy and sell.
I think I just got ADHD
No, I think she is saying that if 20% of the software we develop is important lets stop working on the 80% that isn't and instead work 1 day per week on the important stuff and get paid the same amount. In theory this makes sense, but I think it is a massive oversimplification.
The potato's role in the global dominance of white people
Idea: yelp for hospitals. With list all prices and fees.

Not that this will solve the problem but it's better than finding out you owe $3k a week later.
Deposit/withdrawal limits can be increased if you ask them (if you are a high net worth individual.)
Why is Bitcoin’s price so high?
Zynga have more or less admitted this in the past IIRC. No idea if this still exists, but they had at one point setup a ridiculous bank transfer payment program for the largest whales who were bulk buying in game purchases at the tens of thousands of dollars level - minimum $500 transaction to participate.

> http://gawker.com/5634379/the-secret-dealer-for-farmville-ad...
Yeah, I wasn't super clear about my scenario. I have a "all skills" resume and I pare that down for each job.
A crazy song made by an engineer
Depends on the situation. My comment was over time. I've hired in recessions where there were many people looking. I've hired in good times where few people were looking. Right now my industry is going through hard times, so if somebody finds a new job I probably will not be allowed to hire a replacement.

I'm hiring for an established team. The team can teach you what you need to know so long as you are "smart and get things done" (Joel on Software) If there is only one or two people experience matters more because there are not experts to help you learn what you need to know. Even on my team we can teach you, but if we don't have to that is better yet. If my team suddenly needed to write Java - none of us know Java and so probably would limit our search to Java experts - someone to teach us.

There are also cases where there is a shortage of people willing to work for less than the market wage.

There are cases where one city has a lot of jobs, but the next city a few hundred miles away doesn't. In theory people can move to a new city but that has enough personal implications that people often will not.
Don't read 100 resumes. Read until you get one that you think looks good.

From that, figure out your true grading criteria. What made you discard others? What sparked your interest? Write these things down.

For example, I recently got to the following criteria:

* more than 2 years in related jobs

* worked with Linux, rather than tossing it in as a keyword

* worked in a process-driven environment

* evidence of having written programs or scripts

and then a bunch of things that looked like minor positives.

Then you can hand the whole pile to a junior and ask them to reject anyone who doesn't have all the real requirements, and write down the number of minor positives on the rest. Sort by that number.

Now you have a handful of resumes, and hopefully a better understanding of what the position really is.
Is very insightful to read those comments. So many people who, faced with socialized medicine, screamed "DEATH PANELS!"...

See premiums rising and all of a sudden, "We need to consider letting this person die a noble death."

It's like a paradigm shifting, without a clutch.
And it's looking good, too. Thank you.
I'm not sure. Unlike the impression I might have given, I'm actually someone that puts a lot of stock in nuance and dislike simplifications that turn away from the truth.

But when you are communicating, it is common sense to make sure the important points come across, then only dive into the details. Unfortunately that is not always something you are incentivized to do in academic research, where fumigation is the norm.

I'd also point out that one can be terse and uninformative as well - point in case: most public Git repositories out there.

I enjoy reading, and will often read long pieces -- albeit I would wish they were terser, because often they could be, with no loss of precision.

I have also never met anyone that, even though they like to read like I do, would take pleasure in reading something that drones unnecessarily. When communicating, that is -- plenty of people enjoy the mini-novels put out by Slate, the New Yorker, ... (and me too, sometimes).

I have taken to the habit to summarizing the things I read on my blog. These summaries are of course less informative than the source, but the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher.
Better idea: single payer healthcare
make no mistake:
ipfs _by_itself_ is no more "anonymous" than torrenting or other types of file sharing ftp/sftp/ssh/http/whatever...

because they can always get your ip address.

You will need to use some other method if you want anonymity.
Google itself uses the fragment meta tag scheme in Google Groups (DejaNews) so users can access certain newsgroups without Javascript. Will this be deprecated too?
I bought a few ETH this morning. I linked a bank account, is that the difference?
My favourite was watching someone perform an MRI with injected contrast - imaging being timed for specific points after injection.

They are just tidying up parameters for a bit of post constrast injection imaging.
They hit enter to accept a parameter change just as a notification appeared to trigger the next scan. Basically it missed the key imaging phase and the scan had to be repeated a day later once the injected contrast had been cleared out of the patient’s system.
Imaging equipment vendors seem to make custom UI in places where it is unneeded (software buttons which trigger on touch down, not touch up for critical functionality?! Why?) but in places where it would be safer to make something custom they don’t.
Cash is guaranteed to depreciate at least 2% per year. Real estate is incredibly expensive and only supported by the cheap debt that has flooded our economy. Bonds are just barely above 0%... they have no place to go but down unless you think negative rates are possible. Stocks are incredibly expensive using every metric available. The rules of bitcoin are well understood and no one can manipulate them. I’ll take my chances, thanks.