skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no selection bias here (other than the obvious, blogs using disqus), since they are using aggregate data. They make the false claim that pseudonyms contribute more though which does not follow from their data. They should show comments per user per login source data to make such a conclusion. Their current data only hint that using a disqus account is easier than facebook or anonymous.

I don't think there's such "comment racism" in disqus. I 'd argue most disqus users barely notice they are using disqus.
The other solution is to change society, the first part of which is to identify the problem and make it public, which is what this article is part of.
Smart stuff.
Back when I had a Palm Pilot, the screen would shatter if I left it in my pocket and sat down. I wonder how well these phones would hold up.
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the sad part of this is that Google used to be about being 'open', i.e. open standards and federated services. I like the notion of my indexer containing both public and acld data, but it's very Microsoftish that all the ACLd data has to exist within a proprietary repository owned by the indexer.
What would truly be innovative would be a solution that supports crawling of private information on the web including those sites that aren't part of Google.
From an exploratory point of view I would suggest:

* Haskell (functional programming, purity)

* Prolog (logic programming)

* Erlang (actor based concurrency)
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If you're working solo this is a much better approach, particularly if you don't have a real graphic designer on board.
Would you care to inform us of what those differences are, by any chance?
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On the help, they say: "On any given search, you can toggle to hide personal results", which is ambiguous.
Node.js and npm made a pretty vicious, backwards compatibility breaking change in its symbol loading algorithm in the move from 0.3 to 0.4. It was a weird and frustrating blip for those who were programming for node before that. What they now do with dependency management is pretty genius, since 0.4. Dependencies are installed locally to the package that depends on it, not globally on your system, and can be fulfilled recursively. Say you depend on Package B.1 and A.2, B.1 can simultaneously depend on A.1 and everything works out fine. It's perhaps the most interesting approach to the dependency problem I've seen (and, unfortunately, a system that couldn't be replicated in PHP without really shaking the foundation). (edits)
This article only scratches the surface of how messed up our health care system is. I'd be shocked if either hospital system was able to figure out how much money the writer's son actually cost the hospital... the organizations I've worked for take at least a year to calculate cost (if they ever successfully do it), making (as CWuestefeld said) many of their other calculations come largely from guesses. Sometimes that guess is as simple as "just multiply what Medicare pays by 3, and then charge the insurance company for that amount."

To compound this problem further, I've worked on federal grant applications that ask what the "cost of care" is. Since the hospital has no means of calculating this, I've been told to just sum the charges for each patient. As the writer experienced, the charges can often be a full order of magnitude greater than the cost. You can imagine how yucky this gets.

Someday I would like to walk in to a Best Buy, pick up a Playstation 3, and then inform the cashier that I will only be paying $20 for it. I wonder how well that would go over...
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As an rdio user, this is great! If you manage to make one for the desktop App, throw it on the Market and I'll gladly pay for it. There are plenty of times when I'm across the room and want to change tracks without having to get up and go back to my laptop, something like this would definitely come in handy.

Nice work!
It sounds to me like the author is trying to write php like he would use javascript.

existing php projects won't soon benefit from language features and new frameworks without significant rewrites, and their absence make php less attractive for the style of development he seems to favor.

Why not just use javascript?
The countries in the EU all have pretty different ways of paying for health care. In the UK if you went to a NHS hospital (which you would do if it was an emergency) you would pay nothing - there would never be any charges for the hospital treatment and drugs administered in a hospital aren't charged.

NB: Note that NHS is based on treatment being "free at the point of delivery" - everyone knows that it's not "free" and we pay for it through NI and other taxes and people who can't (or even won't) still get the same treatment.
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I think only Caucasians enjoy the benefit of being a privileged group wherever they go.
I remember using CPAN for the first time and thinking it was magical. Like how they tell me the iPad is magical. Then a few years later using PEAR I suddenly felt the complete opposite.

I won't claim to know what the best alternative would look like, but I'd definitely take npm over PEAR any day.
Its hard for me to imagine they'd want to do that at all. The average non-techie only knows about Google because it means "internet search engine." Any complication of this will only bring confusion.

You have to wonder how Bing will respond. Not because they must, but because it's inevitable that they will replicate any major Google Search features...
Something must be tightening up somewhere, though. Just before my daughter went through an outpatient surgical procedure, the hospital (which was acting as the surgical facility only here) called my wife. They noticed we had a high-deductible plan. Would we be willing to prepay part of the O/R costs now?

I talked to the hospital at length to try and understand this change in procedure. Apparently the number of patients with high-deductible plans is growing, and people don't realize what that means. When you visit the E/R and your plan has a $5000 deductible, that's what you're gonna pay. People freak out. People refuse to pay. The hospital starts calling to make sure people understand their obligations. It seems the people they use to rely on for cashflow are disappearing.
That's what I thought!
As far as I know in EU public insurance is mandatory, so you would never pay such ammount.
Freedom? Which parts of Asia were you in? Certainly not the PRC.
I don't doubt it's gotten better, but it's a bit of a case of 'once bitten twice shy' with me. I may come back at some point, but I've no pressing need atm to be playing with node.
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"The rates that insurance companies pay are negotiated based on what they believe a hospital’s true costs are. But then those rates are jacked up an average of 30% to 50% to make up for money that hospitals lose in treating patients who don’t have private insurance — which is the majority of them. So to make up the difference, they overcharge patients who are insured. This practice is called cost-shifting."

I think this article makes a pretty good argument for Universal Healthcare
A quick google search for his username will pull up his website and you can find his app there.

Great job on the app, and congrats on the success!
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I like this idea- People can benefit from rating other people's food, and in the process act as a free source of labor to subsidize their own use of the app.

The only question is, do we really know anymore what "healthy" is? If I eat a cheese omelet, some may consider that a healthy "paleo diet" food item or a cholesterol-ridden fat bomb, depending on who you ask.
> there should be no reason not to have your new modern programming language support tail calls

There's many valid reasons not to support TCO. The first one that comes to mind: it makes generating stack traces more difficult.

Another reason: the JVM doesn't natively support TCO. This means to implement it you'll either need to use a trampoline (e.g. Erjang) or convert recursion to iteration (e.g. Clojure)

The latter isn't too difficult, but when tail recursion merely provides an alternate syntax for iteration, and mutual tail recall recursion isn't supported, is there really as much of a point if your language is something like Ruby and already provides multiple means of iteration?
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int? is syntactic sugar for Nullable<int>, which didn't seem worth getting into :-)
Interesting - I usually stay quiet; sitting in the background as my husband takes a lot of crap from the community he works so hard for. However at the risk of upsetting him, as well as starting a flame war let me tell you as his wife who can barely work 15hrs to take care of our infant who has special needs and who has to sacrifice quite a bit of time for him to do what he loves (the Python community is his mistress), and on the behalf of two little girls who also have to sacrifice time spent with daddy - there is no monetary payment, there is no commission, there is no sense of a monetary compensation for what he does.

Quite frankly, our family could really use the extra money and I have actually argued with him on this - embarrassing fact: at the moment because I don't make a full time income, we have gotten back to living paycheck to paycheck and barely. He works his butt off doing these things because the "personal profit" you so want him to disclose - is personal, he is doing it with a ton of hope that at the end the whole community will profit from it. Anywhere from funding other conferences, helping people via financial aide, helping smaller groups via grants… this money you think he is getting – is going to everyone BUT him.

Plain and simple, my husband is a fanatic and crazy – he does this because that is what he does… all he wants is for people to have a community that supports one another… all I want is for one day accusations like this to go away, and instead for him to wake one morning and see a thank you on “xyz” site, for what he is and has been doing.

P.S. Get some cojones and don’t hide behind a parachute account to ask questions, a few things come to mind when I see acts like this – a. you are embarrassed by it so you can’t show your face; b. you are a passive aggressive and are afraid of being called out by your name; c. you are still very young and do not understand how to handle things as an adult. Life is short; be you, don’t hide behind subterfuge.
No, US is the anomaly, since other countries in Europe have better/cheaper offers both for mobile and fixed connections (dsl,cable,fiber). I agree with the poster above, the US mobile and broadband offers are a joke and for that reason I also use a cheap prepaid and make most of my calls through voip.

Initially coming from Europe, I started with a ISDN line at 128kbit/s about 14 years ago and 9k6 mobile connection through a cheap gsm phone with internal modem (it accepted AT commands and I built a simple adapter to connect to my laptop).

Later on I migrated to cable at roughly twice the speed and for the past ten years had increase in speed and same or price reductions due to competition (3g, dsl, fiber).

Now for the same monthly payments I have here in the US, over there I have 3 times the bandwidth over cable, and this service also allows me to purchase a cheap USB dongle to use the same subscriber account for 3G mobile data access.

Not only that, the increase in speed has been mostly non-existent for the years I've been in the US, although living in a large and densely populated city...
People use architecture all the time.

I think what's lost in this is the fact that architecture, once constructed, is fixed in space and barring any unforeseen disaster, is necessarily used on a daily basis by a group of people. It is often prohibitively expensive to raze a structure and start anew, is that a constraint we have in web design?

Architecture fosters an ongoing relationship that evolves over time: shock turns to acceptance, cleverness becomes irritation, etc. The relationship between the thing and its consumers is no different between architecture, the abandoned ipod or even the humble webpage, but we adjust our expectations differently based on how quickly we can replace them.

Fadell's point in the article, i think, is that we shouldn't expect all consumer products to be disposable, which is why i think he uses architecture as his foil.

I think it's unfair to say that web design as thing doesn't fit into the environment or that it doesn't have lasting beauty, but it certainly doesn't generate the sort of physical artifacts that people romanticize in any of the other graphic arts. You can yank a poster off a bulletin board and hang it on your wall, but you can't very well do the same with a website. Let's be honest, that page might not even be there tomorrow.

Finally, are zines timeless? Newspapers? Posters? Movie advertisements? Craigslist? By what metric do we assign that label? Why? Are they really timeless? Don't they all echo the hopes and fears of their times?
The real identity thing also helps build the fuel that keeps the social engines running: gossip.
Is this an older article or something recent? A 1999 paper is referenced but the article itself does not seem to have a date.
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Might this be a trojan horse? This feels like what Facebook does... they announce a feature which raises public concerns about privacy, then they play it down a bit on the first release and then proceed to push it as originally planned on a subsequent iteration.
The author mentions Dojo at the end of the article in passing, which is a great all inclusive framework for large client side apps. But yest I think the author is missing a few things. The first and most glaring is complaining about jQuery lacking OO, jQuery's philosophy is intentionally functional. It sometimes makes it difficult to extend or add onto jQuery but that is not jQuery's bag, they are more of an API that you use in your own app, they are not really a architectural pattern that you follow to build an app. If you are adding onto the jQuery object to build your app, you are probably doing it wrong. For a toolkit that gives a developer an architectural framework, they should look at Dojo or roll their own buy utilizing Backbone, Require, various other libs and jQuery.
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How far does this 'de-personalization' go? Do they still factor in user agent, screen size, geography etc.? I would guess that even an anonymized Google search is still fairly 'personal'.
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jQuery is a JavaScript framework intended to make developers lives easier when writing JavaScript by simplifying a lot of mundane tasks which are usually riddled with cross-browser compatibility ‘hacks’. This results in more development time and decreases overall productivity. jQuery wont write code for you but it will do a lot of the work and, with the myriad of available plug-ins, will simplify the process for you.
My wife recently had some tests done. Hospital's receptionist forgot to add insurance information to wife's profile, so accordingly to hospital's records she was uninsured.

Month later we receive bill for ~$1,400. After quick googling we find that if she would go to any local hospital and pay up front with cash, it would cost her maximum ~$400. Obviously, she went back to hospital to find out what's wrong with them (hospital owned by insurance company, so it is very wrong). There they found they did not record her insurance info, excused and said they will send corrected bill.

Month later we received her new, corrected bill. $74.68

You guys in USA have something very-very-very wrong with health care industry =)
I agree, and "thin" really isn't much of a differentiator anymore. I wouldn't have looked twice at my friend's Droid Razr if he hadn't insisted on showing me its profile.

It's possible that with 2 pound laptops and 5 oz phones, we already have almost ideal form factors given the constraints of normal usage. At this point, making a lighter phone is like making a lighter pencil or book - more novel than desirable.
I’m referring to leakage in the other direction. Think of a lightbox library as a layer over JavaScript’s API. When working with a library you can either use the configuration options provided or just go back down a layer. The space spanned by the configuration options is inevitably smaller than the full space of possibilities you have when working at the JavaScript level, so it’s likely that you have to go back down to JavaScript anyway. That’s why I prefer working with libraries with less friction between the layers over those that try to anticipate a use case but are useless as soon as you need something different. As phzbOx mentioned the Django authentication system is another example.
Ask HN: Startups who work from home, how do you handle mailing addresses?
So I signed up for mailchimp and I noticed they need a physical mailing address, which gets appended to the email of your newsletter. I live in an apartment and I would hate to put my real address on any site let alone a newsletter.

I'm thinking of getting a PO Box but in the event I move, I'll have to change those. Does anyone have experience with virtual mailing services?
Well, if you read my post last week, you know I'd be the last person to let them off easily, but now that they've put this opt-out control in, they can't well take it way. That would be suicide.
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

"If you turn off personal results and stay signed in to your Google Account, you won't see results personalized based on your Google+ circles (or suggested connections), Google products, or your search history.

If you turn off personal results and sign out of your Google Account, you may still see personalized results and results based on the context of your search."
For this item:

"PHP needs a modern package manager"

Is Packagist (http://packagist.org/) going to fill this need?

If not, what is missing? Bigger community? Easier integration? Time?
Here's to hoping they make the social signal (being plussed by your friends) a more important part of ranking a website in the search results. It could really help the non-content sites (read: web apps) that would otherwise have a hard time ranking highly.
Unfortunately, "haters gonna hate" doesn't offer much comfort when you are the target of the attacks. I hope you know that we all appreciate what you both do - and what you both give up.
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Good thoughts from my friend re: productivity.
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"Allow functions to be imported like classes"

I'm a micro-php sympathizer, but I'm wondering if the pendulum isn't swinging a little too far in the other direction here. Import libraries function by function? Are there really no libraries that are small and address your needs with a minimum of cruft? If we don't want to import a simple router class, maybe the solution is to trim down the class, not break it up into discrete functions to be imported one by one. What would a more-than-small application look like like this? I fear it'd look crazy; but I'm just speculating.

Anyway, if you really want to import functions it's not like it's impossible.

echo "<?php function myFunk(){ echo 'hi'; }" > lib/myFunk.php

Then `require 'lib/myFunk.php';` I'm sure there are more graceful ways in other languages but this works. (EDIT: Namespaces notwithstanding ;)
It's definitely bloody on the bleeding edge :)

Here's a link to the node_modules loading algorithm since v0.4, if you haven't checked it out, it's worth the quick read: http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/modules.html#loading_from_...

This module loading algorithm is what opens the door for npm to install nested dependencies in recursive node_modules subdirectories.
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The problem is that PHP is going through growing pains a 15+ year old language should have fixed years ago, but didn't.

Now there's too much atrocious code out there that would break with updates to PHP. I firmly believe PHP.next has to declare it's going to break everything, take all that we've learned now, and build a great web language that is easy to use.
I don't think PEAR caught on as well because PHP has been largely associated with cheap hosting services that didn't really give you access to a console that would let you use PEAR to it's full extent. Then you have to add in the fact that PHP doesn't really have a solid package management philosophy in the first place.
Which problem?

Previous problem: Women are prejudiced against because they are not men

<< begin 40-year positive discrimination campaign >>

New problem: Women are treated with kid gloves in any "men's forum" they deign to enter

I say again, which problem? Identify away because I am not seeing anything other than the natural outcome of a deliberate policy.
The best argument for private healthcare is that it creates competition which drives prices down.
If you are being charged random amounts of money for the same stuff based on seemingly arbitrary factors then that would suggest this is not happening as it should.
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I know there are many that are grateful for what he does, and the support he gets from us, his family - however the negative hurts a heck of a lot more and create deeper wounds. However I can't sit at the sidelines this time, and as I told jnoller, usually this stuff happens on lists or sites I am not on.. well this time it is on HN and my filter between my brain and fingers and keyboard is turned off for the moment.
It would be suicide to do it now. What about in some months, when everybody has forgot about the debate and most of the users are constantly logged on google+ and use the feature as their standard search? Again, Facebook does it all the time and manages to pull it off on a regular basis.
Very interesting. How has this not gotten more attention? On first glance this is pretty much exactly what I was describing would be valuable. Are you the author?