skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With employer based insurance and lack of price transparency there is almost nothing the patient can do to reduce costs. You can’t get any upfront pricing, it’s hard to evaluate whether a test is needed, you can’t change insurance.

You are giving the patient responsibility for something they have almost no chance to understand.
We are 10x engineers – The real way to spot them
All I know is that in 2013 I was able to get insurance in the private market to cover myself. It was ~$80 a month and the deductible was $2000.

Now, there is only one company left in my state that will even offer plans in the private market. The closest plan to what I used to have has gone up ~6x in price and the deductible has tripled.

The prices started going up immediately after the ACA came into being I think the cause and effect are pretty clear.
It's more to figure out how many couriers are in a given cell at a given time, and track that data over time so it can be forecasted.

Then we can say if you need a package collecting at address X, there are usually Y available couriers within Z distance. Combine that with a road mapping/traffic API and you're done.
Where are these lists?
Have We Hit Peak Podcast?
Putting so little value in other people life is a mental illness. Its not a question of perception.

Considering your intellectual / material property over someone life is being a sociopath.
Does this take into account timezones?
I'm a forgetful person, so I commit very often but with label "tmp", and later I squash them all into 1 proper commit before pushing. I'm sure I'm not alone, so commit time can't be used as barometer.
Certificate Flooding, SKS and GnuPG Issues, and the Sequoia PGP-in-Rust Project
Pillars emerging brands are building their companies on
Knowing something about Amazon, some team is going to miss a few nights of sleep.
"Companies are not human beings"

I beg to differ...

Corporate personhood is the legal notion that a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons (physical humans).
> Explain to my why you value life over principles in a universe that neither designates value to either

That's quite the post-modernist psychopathic take on this, brushing away the value of life and claiming killing others is merely a "different world view".

Edit: I'm getting down voted for calling out the OP? Never more have I realized I do not belong here. Have a good one guys, I've had enough. Right and wrong are real. Good and evil are real. I don't feel comfortable in the company of people that disagree.
> Possibly even information relating to customers, or technical detail that can be exploited?

Yeah for sure.

Sometimes you need customer information to do your job (e.g. to repro a bug that only one person has seen). Facebook does a good job of making this available easily and quickly people who need it, while auditing and firing anybody who abuses the privilege to access data that is not strictly needed.

Regarding technical issues, you want as many people as possible to know about it so that it gets fixed quickly, other people know how to avoid the same mistake, and you build a culture of not keeping your own mistakes to yourself.
1. Give employees a statement showing how much the employer paid along with their full year comp and other benefits
2. Detach health insurance from employers
3. Create price transparency for services
Not the GP, but I block all scripts by default with NoScript, then selectively enable them, starting with the first-party scripts. I've learned to identify likely tracking domains and have memorized several of the more widespread ones, so over time this technique has proven effective.
I looked him up and I was still somewhat surprised by his knowledge because Wikipedia doesn't say anything about him having a development background. I suppose part of being in intelligence is being able to quickly learn information about your targets and identify risk factors. He does well!
No, the equivalent is you walking into a store to buy DVDs, and the store manager of a nearby store keeping a record of what sells well, and what you show interest in, etc. to drive decisions about what to stock next.
I can't agree more. I also went the self employed route just after ACA went into effect and the level of stress this entire process causes every year is mind boggling. To add insult to injury, my premiums are increasing at astonishing rates - orders of magnitude more than a typical standard of living salary increase.
Good.

He should go to jail too.
It's definitely worth repeating the warning that, while very useful, Strict-Transport-Security should be deployed with special care!

While the author's example of `max-age=3600` means there's only an hour of potential problems, enabling Strict-Transport-Security has the potential to prevent people from accessing your site if for whatever reason you are no longer able to serve HTTPS traffic.

Considering another common setting is to enable HSTS for a year, its worth enabling only deliberately and with some thought.
I'd not touch Netflix shares with a barge pole.

They're a great tech company but their original content, on the whole, doesn't do it for me to keep the subscription any more. I think I'll be subscribing again in the winter and watching everything at once then cancelling again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...

Out of the 22 drama shows on that list that are still on-going I'm definitely interested in 4 of them and probably will watch 2 others. That would probably take 2 weekends and the weeknights to watch all of it.
Yes? I'm a USian living in the UK, so I've got 2 "active" credit cards and 2 "active" bank accounts. When I get my monthly statement, I take 2-3 minutes to skim through the transactions. That's 10-15 minutes per month. Given that a bogus transaction could be in the thousands, I think that's a sensible precaution. In addition to catching any unexpected transactions, it gives me a quick overview of how much I've spent this month and on what, so I can maybe factor that in to how much I spend in the next month.

And it's a heck of a lot less time than I spend on HackerNews. :-D
One-up the competition with your lead magnet by making it bigger and better. ...
Add content upgrades to your blog posts. ...
3. Make some of your content gated. ...
Host webinars. ...
Host a giveaway. ...
Create a quiz and require that participants enter their email address before they can download their results.

https://www.gangboard.com/app-programming-scripting/react-js...
Ask HN: What and where do CTOs read?
I'm curious which blogs, online publications, digital magazines, etc do CTOs read daily/weekly to stay up-to-date and learn new things. (apart from HN)
Moving the CPU on the other side of the PCB would allow the use of a larger and more efficient heatsink, with no need for noisy fans, save maybe for heavy overclocking. Not to mention metal enclosures or panels which would easily become themselves heatsinks once the board is screwed on them using the right spacers and decent thermal paste.
Noise aside, fans have moving parts which can break, especially cheap ones (just about all those used in consumer IT), and that makes them a weak spot; that's why I would avoid them whenever possible until really necessary.
California replacing 200 polluting diesel school buses with all-electric buses
>Once I started playing, I couldn't stop until I had done all the things. And when I was done with that, I never picked it, or Minecraft, back up again.

With a friend I played Minecraft for years. Every time we met I would bring my xbox360 controller and we would dig, build, whatever, for hours and days on end.

One week, we decided to go for the nether dragon, at the time newly added to the game. We spent hours farming items, going to hell and losing stuff there, but we went on, arrived on the nether world, spent ten minutes finding out how to deal with the dragon and we killed it. Then we looked at each other and said "oh, now we have finished Minecraft".

We never played it again.
I would personally prefer project based/code based assessments any day. Algo based tests are indeed pointless and glad other people also see the point.
This maybe a way to pick up a cheap bus and convert it into a camper.
A Shirley Manson poster at least?
It’ll be interesting to see if other streaming services also lose subscribers. Might be an early sign of recession as consumers cut costs.
Now that sounds like a made up story
But I mean you would use this as your client to make queries, in place of apollo client right?
Health insurance should be decoupled from employment. Its tax advantaged treatment causes distortions in the costs and coverage offered. I’d rather see people get more of their compensation in cash rather than a health insurance benefit. It would especially help poorer workers who would have more flexibility and choice.
Sure, if the servers are compromised, they are compromised. So you prefer more complexity in your auth; so that something that should not happen, can happen? Simplicity is important.
The syntax of mathematics hasn't grown very well in my opinion. It is clear for people already into the relations described, but often lacks context for anybody else. Code doesn't suffer from this, since any context must be explicitly defined. Absolutely nobody without a significant bag of premises can read e=mc² (yeah, yeah physics...) and understands the correlation between mass and energy. It is just not happening. And for 99% percent this context is much more important and the actual relations are often trivial.

Additionally, I would clearly recommend learning math in English, since there are a lot of synergies that can be really, really helpful in the jargon of computer science. Even if it is just the little nudge that allows you to connect problems.

Furthermore you can unlearn a tool if you don't use it. I learned frequency dissection in school. Forgot about it 2 weeks later. Only as I started to implement my own shitty jpeg-compression is ehrn I really started to use it as a tool. Had to relearn it of course. Turns out there are many applications for general image recognition. Great. Now the math got useful and is indeed needed.

There are some "purely" mathematical tools like adding zeros, multiplicating by 1 or logic that allows for further transformations. But I would argue that it doesn't as much help to solve a problem as it helps to verify the solution.

But some thousand years ago someone must have made the decision to make mathematical notations specifically unreadable when expressed with ascii symbols. Really don't like that guy.
Avoid Git merge in a topic branch if you want to keep your history linear
Why not use Firefox as a base?
Oh yeah, I totally get that with Nim's * (export symbol), just can't get past my 20 years ago c++ pointer syntax brain wiring, even though I've barely touched it since. Always needs a double-take, which spoils reading flow.
It totally is a question of perception and philosophy. Death is literally a part of life. We all die. The value of life is what you make of it. The fact that this arsonist got roasted himself shows his perspective on the idea of "precious bodies" in general. He was wronged, palgiarized, steamrolled by an idomitable corporation and had no recourse. Je expressed in through corporeal action. You may disagree with the morality of his actions but your assessment of mental illness is just a way to end any discussion about what life is worth when it comes to being traded for political action, injustice, change, etc.

We all live for something. Everyone chooses what to live and die for unless circumstance chooses for them.
Sure we do. Neanderthals look to have been far more sophisticated than previously thought, for example.
Fascinating, thank you for the link to the paper.

They group these styles as: opportunistic versus systematic approach to programming. Paraphrasing below..

Opportunistic programmers develop solutions in an exploratory fashion, work in a more intuitive manner and seem to deliberately risk errors. They often try solutions without double-checking in the documentation whether the solutions were correct. They work in a highly task-driven manner; often do not take time to get a general overview of the API before starting; they start with example code from the documentation which they then modify and extend.

Systematic developers write code defensively and try to get a deeper understanding of a technology before using it. These developers took time to explore the API and to prepare the development environment before starting. Interestingly, they seemed to use a similar process to solve each task. Before starting a task, they would form hypotheses about the possible approach and (if necessary) clarify terms they did not fully understand.
Dev: who should I handover to?

Mgr: Sandy

Dev: Sandy is leaving the week after I do

Mgr: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it
On the other hand the sculptor has considered the type of clay, the quantity, the tools she'd need to use to carve away those bits, and understands enough about what she wants to create to know what bits to carve away first.

Programming may not be (all) math, but it's not art, either.
What benefits are there to checked exceptions over Rust's `Result` type?
It's unlikely he'll pay the fine or be brought to justice if they can't find him, but more importantly it will certainly give other such people pause when they think they can do this sort of thing with impunity.
Just because of one case people are not going to lock everything and everywhere, especially not in Japan which is way more safer than the US.
There's excellent Plex servers for <$10/month, which give access to tens of thousands of shows and movies, with the guarantee that anything remotely popular is part of that offering. Versus the more legal option of paying hundreds of dollars a month to access content spread between 5-10 different apps, with stupid limitations such as "no offline viewing" or "check in home every n days", not to mention the incompatibilities due to DRM etc.

Piracy is definitely more convenient nowadays.
That's not true. If you read the SlickDeals forum thread, most people expected Amazon to cancel all these orders. But it looks like they just didn't. And neither did they ask the buyers to return the items.
It literally is a different world view. You only have to look at the Middle East.
I actually don't want to automatically cancel free trials. I wouldn't sign up for one if there wasn't a reasonable chance I'd be interested in keeping the service.

Anyway, I find this easy and effective (free too, if you already own a phone):

When I sign up, I tell my phone to remind me to review on such-and-such a date (or "in 29 days" or whatever).
Is the anti-vaxxers movement to blame for the rise of Measles?
I’m pretty sure everyone expects them to cancel these orders. The reason this is getting so much attention is because they actually honored the price, at least for some customers. Nobody forced them to do that.
Aren't most devices configured to adjust automatically these days?
Medical offices will bill anybody who might pay like the insurance you had 3 years ago...
U.S. tech giants collaborate with Chinese surveillance company
It is a matter of perspective, but I think the more accurate view is that personal travel is what keeps the trains (or the planes) running and business travel makes the profit. You need the "bulk" for flexibility, frequency and maintenance. That is why there are plenty of low cost airlines, but almost no business class only ones.

Differential pricing in itself becomes problem when it comes to something were the value is partly external. Countries that want to maximize utility will have to reconcile with the idea that some of the value won't be captured by the train company. Most countries don't charge different rates for roads, but try to make the best roads and then collect taxes.
This article reminds me of something I'm wondering about for too long now.

What is the meaning of the below terms (possibly in various contexts).

- abstraction

- indirection

- encapsulation

- information hiding

How do these relate to and differ from each other?

I feel these get conflated a lot. Would be nice to tell them apart.
I was able to find one for some hospital procedures on their website recently. It was not helpful. It was both incomplete and inscrutable.
Event Streams and Workflow Engines – Kafka and Zeebe
Yes, this is what I would expect. Much like a with statement.
4th paragraph.
I think it depends. In the context of a complex mathematical formula, where you have many intermediate results with very abstract meanings, I think it's more clear to use a single character name than to try to be descriptive with something like: `productOfLuminanceAndDotProductOfSurfaceNormalAndLightDirectionDividedByScatteringConstant`.

I think there are a lot of advantages to abiding by styling conventions and using linters to set a baseline, but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Qualcomm Is Fined Again by European Regulators for Antitrust Behavior
“C++Now and CppCon, the View from Inside”,Robin Kuzmin
I think it's clear what they meant was not actually 'the most complex shape' but the regular polygon with the most sides that can tessellate.
ublock has an option to disable webrtc ip leak without disabling webrtc entirely.
Testing Twitter.com: achieving reliable test results at scale
Trains are quite expensive in Europe, especially in comparison to much lower European incomes.
Most likely it's just complaining of old grumpy ice cream man in dying trade, I don't think there is any significant impact of Brexit in that area yet.
This must be a big part of it. Another is the kinds of computing environments that the majority of users, developers, and even CS researchers live and work inside of. For there to be truly new UIs the question of "what is symbolic representation in the medium of computing" (that is beyond written text) needs to be taken seriously, and that's just not going to happen when everything is Unix
There are rumors going about the arsonist jammed/ignited the fire escapes closed before the attack
How do I express my models of programs on paper that doesn't easily translate into math? I understand that the part of programs there you have a formula on beforehand (e.g., convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit) is easily expressed in a mathematical formula before implementing it. However, how should I express I/O?

Often when I have a problem that isn't easily expressed in mathematical notation (albeit to my limited knowledge of math), I usually got a good idea of how I could express it in code.

When I write pseudo code it often feels like I already have the code in my mind before I describe in plain English. That feels like a waste of time. So pseudo code doesn't feel like a great tool to express models of my programs.
Use mail filter rules to discard all messages from that list unless subject matches the thread you care about.

I used to use procmail to pick out any incoming replies to particular posts and send them on to another mailbox so they wouldn't be lost in the noise.
> and then show that a particular sorting program is indeed an implementation of Quicksort.

I wasn't aware that TLA+ made this part possible. How do you map from TLA+ to C++ (for example) with certainty?
I was wondering the same thing and also how one's habits change over time. I wonder would something like the Linux Kernel repository have sufficient history to show this?
And none of the other orgy participants understand this. And OP may not fully understand it either.
TL;DR put it where you want it and plug it into a 3-phase outlet.*

*which slightly more complicated in Europe.
This is terrible. There's been an uptick in attacks of this nature.

Clearly its time for some common sense gasoline control.

They should limit the size of gasoline containers. Why would anyone need more than a 1 gallon container?

They should also make all the gasoline container spouts pour slowly, that way this can't happen again. It will give victims a chance to get away or tackle the lunatic.
Adventures Building a Self-Driving RC Car
I've heard Peter Schiff blame "crony communism" on a radio show. I'll see if I can find a link after work. But it is true that the term is used as a scapegoat.

It's not like you haven't heard the term before, so I'm not sure why you're asking for links.
And perhaps they commit first thing in the morning, after a nightly test succeeded (or perhaps they simply forget to commit at night).

Another useful graph would be commit volume versus time (where volume is e.g. number of lines modified)
It wouldn't even out - you never commit before writing code, so any measurement based on commit times will be consistently biased to later times.
Do we know if the (apparently Texan) organizer of that fundraiser is affiliated with the victims in any way, or is credible, or might that be a scam?
I'm not talking about price lists for procedures, I'm talking about price lists for deductibles and premiums on health insurance plans.

Visit healthcare.gov and navigate to your state marketplace. They typically provide a detailed price comparison based on several adjustable factors (expected income, expected visits, number of medications, etc).

If readily available and detailed price comparison tools haven't stopped health insurance deductibles from tripling in the past year[1], why should we expect price comparison tools at the point of healthcare service to reduce costs?

[1]https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-health-insurance-...
Intel announces deep, multi-year partnership with SAP
> If you want to make a game just for the passion of it, if you want to have a healthy relationship with gamers, you are literally not allowed to monetize. You have to give it away fully for free.

You are literally allowed to do it. It does mean more effort to preserve the desired healthy relationships.

I don't think free games actually tend to result in perfectly healthy relationships either; but monetisation just provides a single point of failure for such dynamics.
Whoa, suddenly racist. The vast, vast majority of people in the middle east value life just as much as anyone.
I wonder if the "you can keep your private health insurance if you want it" is a dogwhistle for "we won't blow a hole in your stock portfolio."

The only people I know who like their health insurance are union members, government employees, and people on Medicare or medicaid.
I think in certain situations the walrus operator will probably be useful. But it definitely makes code less legible, which makes me cautious. The only useful use case I have found so far is list comprehensions where some function evaluation could be reduced to only one execution with the walrus operator.
Having just spent time overnight dealing with customer pain I can assure that we do care about customer happiness and talk about it every day.
I need to buy an ergodox ez with minor customizations- is there a way to get that (in exchange for money)?
I remember when they used to also say "secret agents." Then after Snowden that disclaimer went away.
A Look Inside the Secretive World of Guantanamo Bay
I also don't think that LabView screenshot is from 1986. Looks like version 7-ish or 8-ish to me (mid to late 2000s).
I didn't say technical issues, I said detail e.g architecture. Not all architectural issues are bugs that can be fixed if known.

In any case, building a "culture of not keeping your own mistakes to yourself" won't help when a bug is discovered by someone who intends to exploit it. 0-days borne from internal disclosures are not a "culture" problem.
I don't think it's an issue of access pool. The NSA is notoriously segmented for instance and still have experienced leaks.
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> However, how should I express I/O?

First thing that comes to mind is category theory, especially monads. Haskell's I/O monad for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(functional_programming)...