skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The worst conforming ACA plans are essentially the catastrophic insurance that people think they are clamoring for

Just an anecdote, but I have not found this to be the case at all, and I'd figure I'd offer an example of one such "clamorer who thinks he wants catastrophic plans" to balance the discussion.

Prior to ACA I was on a "catastrophic" plan (despite being able to afford something much more comprehensive). I think the "catastrophic" term is kind of dumb, and I'd instead call it "actually-insurance, not a prepaid health subscription".

The premium was around $95/month and I spent maybe another ~$1k/year on medications and office visits. I was totally satisfied with this health coverage and never felt I had to limit my access to health care because of my plan.

As soon as ACA rolled around I tried to find the most similar plan I could (mine was discontinued despite promises to the contrary).

1) I couldn't get as high a deductible, so I was forced to pay for risk-reduction I didn't want. In an absolutely life-threatening 1%-of-insurees catastrophe, my family can absorb say $25k/year out of pocket so I see no reason to insure against that financial risk.

2) The first year my premium was $180, then $220, then $260. I did not save any money on medications or office visits (if anything it got more expensive, but that may also just be a general trend in US health costs).

So post-ACA my insurance premium cost has nearly tripled, and the product I considered satisfactory before is simply not available on the market.

In summary: people can rationally prefer pre-ACA catastrophic plans, and post-ACA such options are not available.
If the intent was to provoke a hostile reaction, then I would tend to agree, but I think it was a good-faith attempt to make enjoyable music that was not immediately successful, but which had a silver lining for the apparently dejected composer.

If you go to a concert of new works, I think you have a obligation to not interfere with the rest of the audience's attempt to appreciate it, even if you do not.

It seems that the objectors' rejection of the work was not shared by the whole audience, or even a majority.
If you're really interested in the question, there is a field of research called scientometrics and that is dedicated, among other things, to study this kind of question.
so does this work? am i getting redirected back to that page when i click the link because they're checking my user agent? i don't have tf installed on this machine in order to check but does getting the model through the tf api work?
I don't know what's the matter with me, but I love this.
Google has pushed speed in virtually everything they've done since day one. Asynchronous, deferred scripts. Always outrageously fast loads. Simple, lightweight ads. They even built a browser to try to push speed.

I despise ads, but blaming Google for the situation that we're in is seriously missing the mark.

Google wants the web to succeed, for their own selfish reasons. They don't want it to become a wasteland of zombie scripts, cryptomining, pop-overs, and abuse (which tends to be even worse on mobile, as an aside, abusers knowing that mobile users often have fewer tools). They have been pushing pro-web policies since the early days. AMP, as cynical as people can be about it, is one of those.
I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at. Both Amazon and Walmart have problematic side effects on society. The general trend over this period has been more consolidation of corporate market power and rising income inequality.

The idea that these problems don't just fix themselves is certainly supported, rather than undercut, by these observed realities.
You neglect the costs of submission, revision, resubmisssion etc. which are borne by the authors. Even if we assume that all involved are pure of heart and no one is deliberately delaying publication of their rivals’ work submission to publication in economics is on the order of two years. This is insane so the actual intellectual conversation has moved to working papers with final publication being in a journal being as much for archival and career progression metrics as anything else. I believe the situation in much of computer science is similar, with conference papers serving as the workaround for the fact that pre publication peer review is unbearably slow, not working papers.

Peer review happens anyway, but faster, and in public, without the insanity of revise and resubmit.

Journals are not where the action is in Economics or Computer Science. It works for them. Why not for everybody?
This is a very nice wiki. I am implementing an ML dialect myself, and studying the implementation of MLkit, MosML, and Mlton has been very enlightening. I work with the maintainers of the former two, but my compiler has ended up being more like Mlton in its design.
Data point: I just moved and Amazon sent me a $20 off cleaning offer, which I used to clean out my old rental this past weekend. They did a nice job (I think, haven't gotten my deposit back yet). I was talking to the cleaner and she said she used to work through HomeAdvisor exclusively but has put HA on hold because Amazon takes less commission and keeps her just as busy.

The price was OK with $20 off, I know you can do better if you search out the right service, but I imagine that you can already ask Alexa to schedule a house cleaning, so the integration & convenience would have to be pretty compelling for me to make it a regular thing.
Just like Airbnb is a hotel business, Uber is a taxi business (meaning a ride-for-hire business and nothing else) having a car rental business is having a car rental business regardless of whether the cars are “shared” or whether there is an app involved.

And just like Uber has to follow any regulations surrounding rides for hire (regarding taxes, insurance, accessibility, right to deny service, ...), so must this company with regulations surrounding car rental.

I don’t see how making sure startups don’t get away with some loophole is a “legislative war”. It’s no different from cities where Hotels say AirBnb should pay hotel taxes and have hotel level fire security.

If the regulations surrounding the established market is too rigid then address that. But don’t “revolutionize” markets by using some loophole and an app.
The Rust team doesn't share this opinion, FWIW. We care about binary size and being able to do things like this to make your code as small as possible.
We have small projects, such as Collegium Academicum in Heidelberg. If you want to start one yourself, the Mietshäuser Syndikat will help you with organisation and financing.

https://collegiumacademicum.de/ (German)

https://www.syndikat.org/en/
Dear Microsoft,

If you’re not using the PC, can we have it back?

—
General Purpose Computing
Unrelated to the autopilot stuff - this junction seems like an absolute menace to me. The lines are confusing and that crash barrier seems purpose designed to kill people. I've only driven a bit on US roads but I don't remember seeing junctions as bad as this. Is this common or an outlier?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM
I think you're right and this is an important point. We tend to be pretty parochial in our views, very influenced by our ideas about what is wrong with our local markets.

There are scarce-few examples of things gone right. That's why Tokyo is relevant. That said, Tokyo has experienced relatively little population growth, Japan has experienced none and Japan hasn't had asset inflation and/or big economic growth for a long time. One example is good, but I'd prefer to have several. Preferably one or two in real growth cities.

You are right though. We have plenty of dense-but-still-expensive examples proving that density alone does not guarantee much.
Honestly, there probably wasn't. It's not hard to 'solve' homelessness if you can forcibly send the homeless to work-camps or institutionalize them. Done and done.
Optimising compilers and compilers for high-level languages tend to have many passes. Mlton is both.
I can't wait to see how Houston's style holds up in the playoffs -- defenses will be less forgiving and 3 point shots are high variance. Their offensive rating took a clear dip in the playoffs last year and I suspect the same could happen this year, which would suggest their offensive style is not ideal.
Windows 10 is really difficult for businesses entrenched in Windows to deal with.

The work that you need to do in order to unwind from legacy Windows stuff like fat apps, IE-optimized websites, and legacy Office-based workflows makes it pretty easy to move to an iPad to Google, etc. The only thing that Microsoft has going for them is that every other vendor is also fucking up client computing in different ways.
Probably they are worried about hydrazine like product, that have a lot of nitrogen. I'm still not 100% convinced it can survive a crash like this, but I read the same warning before many times, so I'd prefer to be safe.

For example read: http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-debris/falling-sate...
Not being near a crosswalk actually means in most places that you are allowed to cross there. You will obviously have to yield for other traffic but pedestrians crossing the road are an expected thing, wherever you drive. The vehicle braking or not braking would be one input into deciding whether the driver was under the influence and could shift liability from the pedestrian to the driver to some extent.

In lots of places a sobriety/drug test is mandatory after an accident with severe injuries or fatalities.

And if the driver were to be found not to have braked at all - or even to accelerate - the driver could very well lose their license. Even when you have the right of way you still have to behave like a responsible driver would.

If inspecting the full digital record by the police is not feasible then I would argue self driving cars have no business being on the road at all. After all, we require normal drivers to be witnesses to accidents as well, and we expect them to cooperate in tests to determine whether or not they were able to control their vehicle, especially in fatal accidents.

In this case one of the participants is dead and the other one is silicon so the only evidence taken is the same as if all participants had died and that's not true, at least one of them had a lot of evidence to give, and given the novel nature of the incident there was a very good reason to actually evaluate that evidence.

Being 'automated' should not be an automatic get-out-of-jail card with respect to your liability and your proven ability to control a vehicle, at least the same standards that apply to regular drivers should apply to automation.
'"You know, I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib. And not at all aligned with the truth," said Zuckerberg.'

Let's go a few layers deeper and we'll arguably be able to reveal what "care about you" means, and that Mark's startment is also glib; caring about your users so far as you main growth at "any cost" is different than caring about their individual well-being - and I'm curious how Mark dealt with the employee who made that statement that they can't do any wrong when it comes to growth.

Fully managing an ecosystem, the environment of workers, management, guiding the vision - taking the backseat to what's happening, and even if being blissfully ignorant, isn't caring.
Imho the GDR was just another extension of the Soviet Union, sovereign in theory only. Otherwise the "Iron Curtain" wouldn't have gone up where it did, splitting Germany in half.

Of course, the GDR also saw its fair share of cronyism with all of its injustices, like they exist everywhere, but the Plattenbauten are still held in high regard by many East-Germans.

Maybe the Soviet approach wasn't actually that catastrophic it just didn't scale that well when applied to the more populated and bigger eastern bloc states compared to the GDR? GDR wasn't that big, so not that much need to force people to move around.
Indeed, I am a bit puzzled by the recent articles claiming Japan is housing heaven. There are a few things to keep in mind w.r.t. housing in Japan, and especially in Tokyo:

1. Buying houses is still very expensive. One of the reason it is "affordable" is because mortgages are low.

2. Housing is not a capital asset in Japan, but effectively a consumable good. As soon as you buy a house, the value get depreciated. I don't know the current numbers, but 10 years ago, the value of a house depreciated to nothing in 15 years.

3. This is one of the main reason why Japanese save so much, which has consequences on the economy.

4. The housing quality is terrible. Unless you can afford living in condos/high rise buildings/custom made houses, sound/heat isolation is non existent, amenities are not that great either. This is mostly caused by land high price: when you buy a house, 80+% of the cost is the land. Which explains 2. and 3.

IOW, I would not put too much on the cultural difference: there are fundamental reasons why buildings are not valued, which is linked to the exorbitant cost of land in cities, especially in Tokyo, because of the paucity of land in Japan. Japan has 130 millions people living in 250000 km2, 80% of which is not usable for housing. There are also a lot of regulations on the land itself: https://www.nri.com/global/opinion/papers/2008/pdf/np2008137...
> we're not trying to minimise how hard it is to start a business like this

Yet the post is still titled "How We're Building One Y Combinator Startup a Day" instead of "How We're Building One WebApp Prototype a Day"

Your service is really nice but the current title sounds really clickbait.
First off, I want to say, Tesla looks bad in this case. But at what point can we start blaming the cities and states for not properly marking roads. That crash suppressor was already compressed before the accident, so did some human do the same as the Tesla?
Interesting! What's the lifecycle?
Quantum mechanics has no bearing on the macro scale that classical physics inhabit in our current models. We currently have not synthesized the two models into a singular theory.

Classical physics is deterministic. I thought this was common knowledge...
Lots of languages are as close as C to processor instructions, unless you are thinking of targeting PDP-11 systems.
I'm not asking that.

I often see the fact that people of color are overrepresented in the prison system presented as an example of their marginalization. If overrepresentation in prison is an example of marginalization, then it seems contradictory to say that overrepresentation of men in prison is not a first-rate issue because they are not marginalized.
So "get out before the bubble pops" applies all the way up to cosmic scales?
As someone not familiar with autopilot or the programming required to "self-drive" it appears rather confusing to the car, that the left most solid-white line in the right-most non-exit lane is throwing this off. It's as if it follows it entirely.
The medical profession is like a bunch of garage mechanics that are working on the most complicated, convoluted, and fussy car ever with no manual. They are still reverse engineering our bodies. They are still discovering organs in the human body. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/health/new-organ-intersti...)
A few weeks ago, I decided to brush up my coding skills and learned Vue.js. In the process, I built a CMS for the Jekyll sites we're hosting on GitHub.

2 things that I think make it special:

- Multilingual: it supports multilingual websites and has a (rudimentary but efficient) translation flow.
- Widget: it offers a small widget that exposes the CMS main features (editing, duplicating and creating content) right in your site.
Definitely. I don't think there's a one size fits all solution to hiring. Hopefully my suggestions will be helpful to those feeling swamped by applications, but it's certainly not the gospel.

At the moment we get few enough applicants that I'm fortunate enough to be able to talk to all of them. What has surprised me is that a relatively high proportion simply don't respond to that invitation. The numbers aren't yet anywhere near high enough to feel confident here, but it does seem - at least superficially - like there might be a correlation with weaker applications here.
The salary is for one month or one year?
I've heard that GPS is only accurate from about 3-5 meter radius. I think this was also in the same thread talking about the government improving it though.
Or the implicit third party of the state, more specifically the legislative and judicial branches.

I think the bottom line is that contract law is an AI-hard problem-- meaning it takes a "real intelligence" to negotiate and enforce contracts. Simple logical rule sets implemented in code are too dumb.
I'll be interested to see how this bifurcation of the Windows team plays out. Windows 10 has been a mixed bag - some nice new features but also a lot of half baked buggy stuff. The evergreen nature of Windows 10 feels like the right move, but I'm worried they're going to let the OS stagnate. There's already a lot of low hanging fruit they could clean up with an update, but haven't.

I'm not a huge fan of using my tablet or phone for things. I almost always prefer using a "real" operating system. I know that puts me in the minority to an extent, but I'm not the only one. The problem is, neither major desktop OS is moving in a direction I like. I guess I'm just getting old and cranky.
As a long time developer on the Microsoft stack (approaching 20 years now?), it seems to me like this makes Microsoft and it's services less relevant and more easily replaceable in the long run. It's clear Azure and the related services are very lucrative, but I feel this is because of the prevalent use of Windows, not in spite of it.
I think this is a good example of the difference in complexity grades of both langauges/frameworks. That spring boot example is indeed pretty simple (for java), but to understand it, here's what I'm pretty sure has to happen:

1. Set up your spring boot project properly

2. Set up all the XML that supports your beans properly

3. Know how and when to use @Component

4. Know that OncePerRequestFilter exists, and/or to extend it, which method to override

5. Know to call filterChain properly

Most of these are trivial with some IDE support and maybe a templating school, and probably not even an issue after your second week with Spring boot (or spring in general), and it's an improvement over what life used to be like but compare this with the general jist of how to do it in JS:

1. set up expressjs properly (usually a two-liner). It won't have things like @Cachable that spring boot provides to you out of the gate, but it generally has enough to get you up and serving requests.

2. Know what req/res are (the fact that calling res.send(...) sends stuff and .ends as well is arguably nontrivial) and how to use next

3. Know what a function is.

the code snippet I'm thinking of is:

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
// your code
next();
})

It is "pretty much" the same, but how much work it is really depends on who you ask -- you can get up to speed with a simply built expressjs app in tens of minutes (many express apps follow a very simple setup pattern), but I've never seen that happen in a spring boot app for an absolutely fresh developer, even worse if the codebase is transitioning from spring to spring boot or has some other hacks in it.

Spring Boot is marvelously simple one of it's best parts (it almost makes me want to use Java for a greenfield project), but there's so much noise in that code -- it should just be a function -- IMO all started with the decision in 1.1 (??) to choose Runnable over lambdas. Most of the complexity I'm ribbing Java over is just due to how you write the langage -- java on it's simplest day just can't be as simple as some of the stuff that came after it, since they had the benefit of hindsight.
Most of the stuff imported into the US from China is made by US companies for US customers, seeking better margins, is it fair to say that the stock market has something to do with the current sate of affairs and less of country X trying to prey on country Y ?
GPS by itself isn't accurate enough to determine what lane you're in.

Even WAAS GPS [1] (used by autopilots for airplanes) is specified to be accurate only up to 25 ft, although the measured accuracy is usually around 3 ft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
Tokyo has an increasing population due to increasing urbanization, and yet as the article claims, housing demand has remained relatively stable. We can have increasing urbanization in the west too without the crazy housing prices.

Further one reason people want to live in just a few cities is because people don't want to be treated like outsiders. I know I'll probably be downvoted for saying this, but I grew up in Virginia but moved to California shortly after college. There's far less overt racism here than back home. I've also been to many rust belt cities, and can say I'm fairly certain those places are about the same as the U.S. South. For me at least, the subjective experience of racism is a reason why there are only a handful of US cities I'd live in.
Sure,

Which lock down version of Apple or Google systems do you prefer?

-- Microsoft
I wrote a similar post on the same large NCAA dataset, focusing more on positional heat map data visualizations: http://minimaxir.com/2018/03/basketball-shots/

There's a lot of interesting conclusions that can be found from play-by-play time series data (the NCAA dataset also on BigQuery has data since 2009). Here's a quick new visualization of the Distribution of Basketball Home Team Points at Each Minute of NCAA Games, by Season: https://i.imgur.com/8Ar0J2W.png
Amazon seems to do a mostly reasonable job of customer service, especially given their scale. However, I'd argue that's something quite different from managing an army of low-wage contract workers. Yes, they have their warehouses and there's even Mechanical Turk (though you don't really hear much about that these days) but those seem different and much more constrained that people providing personal services of various sorts. That's generally proven to be a hard type of thing to deliver at scale.
> If you’re not using the PC, can we have it back?

Sure, install Linux and feel free.
What's your point? Of course the user gets superior performance - you tap a link and it 'loads' instantly.
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Having a commercial pickup/dropoff of cars occur where people stop to pick up grandma is certainly something airports can’t allow while at the same time charging the rental car companies big money to operate from the airport.

While very hard to address, it shouldn’t be harder to address than it is to address the problem of unlicensed taxis at airport arrival. And if the example from the article involved the person renting the car having to meet the renter at a McDonalds parking 5km from the airport, it wouldn’t sound as attractive.
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