skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Weren't pre-existing condition exclusions only relevant if the condition was diagnosed when the person was uninsured and only when that person was buying an individual policy (so you could still get coverage through an employer group policy)?

I can't speak for anyone other than my Floridian self but my hypercholesterol diagnosis was while insured on a group policy and became a pre-existing excludable condition when I set up shop on my own and bought an individual policy.

> so you could still get coverage through an employer group policy

There was no employer to offer me group coverage. It was my way or the highway.

> Also, even if the condition was diagnosed while the person was uninsured, what would happen if they subsequently spent a long period of time insured under a group policy? When the person went back to the individual market, they'd have a long paper trail of being insured from the group policy. Would a new individual insurer really be able to figure out that, years ago, the person was uninsured years ago when they were diagnosed?

I hear you, but really all it takes is a question on the insurance application to find out the info. If I'm asked I answer honestly not only because it's a felony to do otherwise but because false answers on insurance policy questionairres is an easy win for the insurance company that wants to avoid claim payment. If I were to lie though it wouldn't be a walk in the park but finding out the adverse info is definitely do-able and so long as preexisting conditions can be excluded there's a tremendous monetary incentive to find this stuff out. They can tap into the place that tracks health issues for life insurance companies (the Medical Info Bureau) to find out even more or simply write all of my physicians and ask them directly.

My wife is in the same boat. She has a thyroid issue and her policy came with an exclusion for everything associated with hyperthyroid. This is pretty much the entire book of morbid cardiovascular conditions.

At this point I'm job locked: If I leave (or am laid off) the individual market will exclude the hell out of both of us.
CircleCI's free plan is way too generous. I was on it for a couple years without ever needing to upgrade to paid. I later ended up switching to Codeship, whose free plan was quickly exhausted and now I'm a paying customer of Codeship.

If you want free CI, CircleCI is the place to be.
But it doesn't work, right? Just look at "Project Birmingham"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/secret-ca...
It's a choice to become happy. It sadly won't happen by itself and if you do nothing to become happy, you'll most likely never be.

The path to become happy isn't instant though, it's much more complex than flipping a light switch, it's definitely harder for some than others (and possibly even impossible for some sadly), but for sure, you need to decide to become happy if you ever want to be.
Just seeing that boot screen brings back memories. I must have installed XENIX more than a hundred times during my 6 years at SCO. It's too bad that Microsoft bribed them out of existence - we had developed a full office suite when Microsoft realized that we would be a real competitor. So Bill essentially guaranteed us a monopoly in exchange for killing the office suite. (Modern monopolies are "effective monopolies", created by product differentiation. So killing selective features in Windows can allow a competitor to create an "effective monopoly" over a market segment. Since the legal definition of monopoly is so antiquated, as consumers we are surrounded by effective monopolies which should be illegal - but aren't.)
JS or anything that compiles well to JS has a backend advantage that can be hard to beat for an early stage startup and that is reducing the amount of context switching you have to do in changing between languages (especially if your code is isomorphic).

At least, that is how I find it, my productivity shoots up when I don't have to be moving between two imperative languages that most likely share a lot of their syntactical DNA with C but each have their own fun little differences.
Relatedly, I'm increasingly surprised how many people still think they need a transpiler for ES2015-ES2018. Browser adoption for them has been much faster than the once problematic ES3 to ES5 upgrade.

Especially for those that use the common suggestion for Babel of "last 2 versions of major browsers" presets, the amount of transpiled code has gotten extremely small, and increasingly so.

For example:

Arrow functions: https://caniuse.com/#feat=arrow-functions

ES2015 classes: https://caniuse.com/#feat=es6-class

Async/await: https://caniuse.com/#feat=async-functions

ES2015 modules: https://caniuse.com/#feat=es6-module

«There are some coding styles that are popular in esnext that just aren’t practical in es5 because they would be too verbose and not “read” very well.»

I like to check my code after downleveling in Typescript to ES5 from time to time. There isn't anything in ES2015-ES2018 that downlevels to "unreadable" in Typescript. The "worst" you get is async/await transpiles to ES2015 generators of promises (function*) which then transpiles to ES5 switch/case state machines, but even with all of that downlevel work I think you'd be surprised at how readable it stays.
I have owned multiple cables, a 4-port wall charger, a car charger, and a bluetooth speaker, and I have not had a single issue with any of them.

In fact, the Anker car charger I got was specifically to replace a cheapo-brand one that kept disconnecting at the slightest of bumps or being aligned a certain way in the cigarette lighter port. The Anker one works consistently and does not lose connection for me at all.

I guess you could call me a "brand loyalist" but they've given me no reason not to be at this point. That's not to say I disbelieve others' experiences that aren't so great, but compared to much of their competition at their price points, their quality stands out IMHO
Manhattan judge blocks NYC law regulating Airbnb activity
Hackers beware: Bootstrap sampling may be harmful
It's definitely possible to have tactile feedback by drawing on a connected prop whiteboard that translates into the VR whiteboard.
Not at first.

Maybe in 50 years when we are all flying to Mars.

VR can't do smell, touch, gravity/acceleration, body position and most importantly laziness.

After a hard day I don't want to be walking around in VR, to the couch for me.

But if I have to walk, AR won't hurt.

Even the software alone, a VR world multi-billions (GTA 5 is tiny compared to a VR world) with $10,000s in hardware per person for one offs. AR - 99% is done for you.
I think you underestimate HN's international readership.
Hey Joe, I'm one of the founders of Open Collective (opencollective.com) Happy to help if you have any questions on how to implement or if we can help out somehow.
Unfortunately JSON.stringify makes no guarantees about the order of keys in an Object, so that can break in subtle ways.
The first distributed search engine is online
Response above does not really give an answer as to where. And I could have sort of have believed South London except that I was under the impression that AK-47s are not very prevalent there. :) I was thinking Yugoslavia, some conflict corner of Africa or such things. But could see Detroit too...

edit: found your answer.
If you force anyone to pay for it, it's no longer FOSS.

This isn't just a technicality, either, it will literally become something different with a whole different set of incentives involved for everyone in the ecosystem.

I am making no comment on whether this would be a positive or negative thing. Rather saying that you have to be careful about messing with established, organic systems with top down planning and tweaks through regulations, no matter how smart or well-intentioned you think you're being.

One observation is that when there's money involved, some things which otherwise are extremely simple become extremely complicated. Like, for example: ownership, collaboration, contributions, credit, etc - the implications of these all change drastically when there is money on the table and it changes the entire dynamic of everything in the system top to bottom. What comes out of those changes may not be what you want or expect.
Perhaps start with https://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/ for a concrete example.
Re: copyright, “We have shortchanged a generation,” - Brewster Kahle Internet Archive founder

A powerful statement! I love the Internet Archive. It gives me hope for humanity.
Oh, OK, I misunderstood.
Mueller's been pretty good about getting evidence put into public record via the court system.
Well, we did it to ourselves. I hope I'm living elsewhere when the reckoning comes.
I know of at least one startup that will be closed in the next few months despite the Chinese investor trying to put 30 million in it every which way. They are up to suitcases filled with cash right now. Everything is fine on the US side, it's the Chinese capital controls that's killing them.
Southern Africa (although not South Africa). Just before the end of apartheid, everyone was gearing up for a fight and everyone was pretty angry. Two men talked the region off a precipice, Nelson Mandela, literally a prince of peace (he was a prince). And secondly Desmond Tutu. And maybe the humanity of young men like those we encountered, who could just as well shot us. It happened elsewhere and at other times.
What feature did you find lacking?
What does this mean?

(Not all of us know a whole lot about how crypto works or why this is good or bad and what it means for our investments)
Vulkan Memory Allocator 2.2
Hanes has been around since ~1900 in some form or another. Meundies is like 7-8 years old I believe.
Etcher [0] is a flashing tool, mostly for USBs and SD cards. It's supposed to make the process of placing an image onto those devices easier, and with less chance of corruption.

[0] https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Criminal libel laws are at the discretion of law enforcement and prosecutors. Anybody can bring a civil suit for libel.

Only 23 states have criminal defamation laws. The problems with defamation being criminal is what the article is about.
My wife and I are in our early 50s, and we have one teenage son. Her parents are dead, and mine are in their mid 70s, though my parents had no hand in raising me, my dad's parents did. They are both long passed.

> my opinion in this matter is somewhat informed.

Good deal...and so is mine.

> > The job of a parent is to put themselves out of a job.

> Are you a parent? You're never out of a job :).

Context matters. You and the person you're replying to are talking about different things, and if you didn't realize that, I'd be fairly surprised, given your experience.

The person you're replying to is talking (roughly) about getting their children on their feet and self supporting. You're talking about other kinds of support.
That sounds annoying to deal with, I'm sorry this happens. I'm not sure what the best next step is.
As a white guy, I mourn that people of color feel that making comments like this requires courage. It shouldn't require courage at all, for anybody, regardless of color or race or religion or gender or anything. I mourn that people like you have to be more careful in interactions with police or other authorities. It just stinks.
Perhaps also luck, but I’ve managed to have a spidy sense for when things are going the wrong way, and got out / moved on before it got that bad.
Do you got the impression they were out to get you, or were you caught in cross fire, or was it more of a "get the fuck away" kind of shooting? Just curious on someone who was there to live it. I just viewed it through the lens of MacGyver episodes from a great distance. :-)
I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure I fully agree. If you quit a position where you get paid full time to work on Rust because of reasons having to do with your working relationship, maybe MoCo doesn't control the project, but it clearly has an important influence.
You don't need the mirror to point straight back to eliminate any overlap where something could actually exist though. Especially if you have some situational awareness—a thing can't just materialize right on your bumper; it would have to get there from somewhere, and you should certainly notice if a motorcycle approaches and begins tailgating a few inches off the rear corner of your car. (Any further than that, and you will see them in your mirrors if aligned properly.) For lower speeds where there might be something smaller like a pedestrian in that spot, you can still see straight back in the side mirror with a small movement of your head.

So basically, at high speed, when it's most critical, you get more visual coverage with less motion of your head. At low speed you still have full coverage, with some head motion.
This used to be the joke with solar power too. After decades of being 10 years away it became "5 years away but we're subsidizing it now" and just like that, it started scaling out to viability.
I have also experienced this phenomenon. Finding some brilliant hack used in a randos personal project to work around a bug or deficiency in a popular library.

Finding a library with no documentation then Searching GitHub to see personal projects where the owner has already reverse engineered and integrated.

I always admired Github for incentivizing public repositories to promote collaboration and open source. Would hate to see that fade away.
They will probably be the same since the limit on weight is the road not the truck. The only question is what difference in cargo capacity there will be.
Amazing, this blockchain technology really just keeps on giving. I have to say, it's quite entertaining to watch. It's pretty much a car crash happening in slow motion at this point. At least it provides something else to nerd joke about by the watercooler that isn't brexit for once.
And if you live in a rural area where a car is required, you won't be able to get to the store to use those food stamps, or pay to have it delivered. There's also the issue of shelter being more important than food in most climates.

The effect would be the same.
CircleCI actually has a minutes-per-month limit on the free plan these days too.
Imagine a world where everyone who accused a public servant of being corrupt, or covering things up was arrested. Every politician would be in jail after each campaign season.
Anythink Libraries: Visual Merchandising Guidelines (2013) [pdf]
Thanks for that - I've been tinkering with a Looking Glass over the last few evenings, and had found the relationship between it and VR to be awkward to articulate.
I don't know about the house itself, but I grew up in a town with a minimum lot size of 1 acre.
Also assumes that your need to pee/charge coincides with your proximity to a rapid charging station. I don't even know where one is close to me. There are a few in my state, but none within 50 miles of anywhere I normally go. It's not like gas stations where there's one at almost every single interstate exit.

Also assumes there is not a wait. At 30min/charge, I could easily see a crowded charging station requiring a 60-120 minute wait.
> The ability to travel, reside, work anywhere I desire in the EU as a right that I can rely on instead of having to ask for permission

This was a founding principle of the EU and has been weakened recently as I'm sure you know. Also, in most countries you have to register and are only allowed to stay 6 months without work. Marrying people from other countries in Europe is not a problem and not an achievement of the EU.

> Last but not least: 75 years of peace in Europe. Making the arch enemies of France and Germany friends.

Here you lost me completely. This kind of revisionism is a real issue for the remain people. It was mostly EU countries who bombed Belgrade in 1999(!). 75 years of peace in Europe is a myth (there were plenty of other conflicts, including the current one in Ukraine!) and where it was peaceful it had nothing to do with the EU. The EU was formed in 1992, for heaven's sake.

I'm sorry for being brutally honest, but "75 years of peace in Europe" is one of these typical pro-EU talking points always brought up by badly informed people who embarrass themselves with it.
This is ridiculously stupid.

First, your ipmi interface shouldn't be on the internet.

Second, of course these will identify as Linux - you wouldn't run Windows in your ipmi server.

Third, encrypt your bootloader with a passphrase?! Good luck with that, and dealing with each software and hardware issue getting you out of bed.

Here's a better idea - put your ipmi interface behind a hardware VPN on its own blank and sleep soundly.

This is awful advice from an awful website.
Great considerations. Also what chaperone proteins are necessary for folding
I've been using BitBucket for years because it allowed me to do a free private account. Since then I've set 3 companies up with their own accounts there - the monthly spend isn't huge with any of them but that's money that would have been going to Microsoft had GitHub had a free starter option.
You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)
Well put. I personally would opt out of having a kid if I knew they were going to end up outside of the top 20%. I just don't want that life for them and I'm not sure I can guarantee that they end up in the top percentiles.

> The wealth gap in this country is squeezing all the joy out of life for every penny its worth.

Every capitalist society needs a periodical wealth tax, otherwise the natural accumulation of wealth results in such a gap.
Ask HN: Is anyone using Google Cloud Platform for a non-trivial project?
I've been meaning to deploy a personal project on GCP, but I'm starting to have second thoughts. I knew from the start that there would be some missing features, less choice etc., but I always thought they'd somehow make up for it with enthusiasm and being the 'cool' cloud provider.

Now I am not so sure anymore. For example, link [1]. It's a feature request opened more than 3 years ago for a basic feature: redirecting HTTP to HTTPS in their load balancers. Not only has this not been implemented, but it seems like nobody from GCP is even acknowledging it, despite being the top voted feature request on the website.

Does anyone have any experiences with GCP (good or bad)?

[1] https://googlecloudplatform.uservoice.com/forums/302616-load-balancing/suggestions/31951531-allow-http-to-redirect-to-https-automatically
Yes, I have. I also have a math PhD, have written scads of scientific and numerical software, and have written articles on floating-point math. So now that we have enough of our personal accolades out of the way, let's focus on facts regarding calculations:

How did you use ints to compute compounded interest on loans? I asked that above, and you avoided it. I ask again.

For example, suppose you have a mortgage where you lent $100K at 5% annual, compounded 12 times a year, for 30 years, and you need basic values regarding this loan.

Often in such calculations you need to compute 100K*(1+0.05/12)^360. How do you do that with integers? Naively you need (1+(1/20)/12)^360, which as a reduced fraction each of the numerator and denominator have over 2800 binary digits. Do you really do this with integers?

Now put that in a mortgage trading or pricing system where it needs to do millions/billions of those per second.

Doing this as double gives enough precision to make the difference between computed and infinitely precise negligible (approx. 10^-17 error).

It's easy to make examples where doing incremental calculations, rounding to pennies and storing, results in long term error. In these cases I don't see how do to it with integers without massive overhead.

And this is a trivial, common example. Doing stuff like hedge fund stuff, or anything using numerical integration to make models for pricing, would be astounding hardly to do with integer only math.

What finance software did you write? A simple ledger works fine as integers. Anything more complex will hit performance and scaling issues soon after the basics.
What does GaN change?
I'd argue a video call is worse for facial nuances. The nature of having both camera and screen is the person you're teleconferencing is never actually looking at you.

Modern VR headsets already have eye tracking, it's not too out of the picture to imagine some rudimentary face tracking to capture the rest of the foundations of expression. In my experience the sense of "thereness" is much greater in a VR room than a teleconferencing session; but it's difficult to compare since VR presupposes better audio conditions.
Git Tools – Interactive Staging
Key quote: "As the gap between rich and poor increases, the cost of screwing up increases. The fear is they’ll end up on the other side of the divide."

In 1970, failure was a job on the assembly line at Ford in Detroit. Until 1974, the auto companies didn't require a high school diploma. Union job, good pay. Now it's homelessness and drug addiction.
Tie into the grid and get paid from your utility.
Your assertion can only make sense if the same economic factors and reasoning that govern a private individual's pay also govern a large multinational organization's revenue.
The same reason why New York and Hong Kong are the other two financial centres - a high concentration of banks heads are there. Not to mention stability.... Banks love stability.

London is on par with New York at the moment, but Brexit has literally killed that. London will not stop being a financial centre and it's going to be the biggest financial hub in Europe for a long time... But globally, it's now on the level of Tokyo or Singapore.

PS: I used to work in Braclays HQ, the one in Canary Wharf.
I've known a few policemen here in the USA - and every one of them was corrupt. So in this case the law may not make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etcher_(software)

`dd` usually works fine if you're comfortable with the command line.
> It's also only by joining a successful startup early that you can get remarkably steep career trajectories, like Jeff Dean, Marissa Mayer or Chris Cox.

The number of people with these sort of "career trajectories" is vanishingly small. This reminds me of what Phil Greenspan wrote (2006?), mocking the college student's career evaluation process:

"I can't decide if I want to be a scientist like James Watson, a musician like Britney Spears, or an actor like Harrison Ford."
If you asked people before the age of cars how to improve transportation, they'd ask for a faster horse.

That being said, I am skeptical of the claim that VR will be orders of magnitude more popular than AR, simply because humans instinctually do not like to have their vision occluded.
Things I find exciting about Red:

* Small

* Lisp like

* Cross compiler "done right" [1]

* Red/System is a cool concept (a language dialect for low-level/systems programming).

Things I find discouraging:

* Bus factor = 2 (IMHO) [2]

* Apparently, it took it 8 years to get simple (in words of author) G.C. [3]

* Docs and example code are not great, lack of existing apps (chicken & egg problem).

1: https://github.com/red/red/blob/master/usage.txt#L68-L81

2: https://github.com/red/red/graphs/contributors

3: https://github.com/red/red/tree/v0.6.4
Those are very tame accusations to level against civil servants. They may be totally false, but far worse is regularly stated by people every day. Arresting people for unjustified accusations against the police is obscene, the potential for abuse is way too high.
Mining pools reported it at least 15hours ago https://twitter.com/pool2miners/status/1082157492875022337