skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price gouging is an aspect of capitalism. Demand goes up, price goes up. Without market interference, this should force demand down.

Health care can't be forced down by price (at least, life saving health care), so you either have to stop providing care to those that need it but can't pay, or pass along the costs to others.
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And I was pleasantly surprised to find that (this time) I hadn't noticed until reading the comments.

If we live in a world where one group of people is the norm and other groups need special distinction to identify them ("he" is a generic hypothetical person, but "she" means the person has to be female) then we have to undergo social change to bring us to center. This is likely to be uncomfortable.
I'm in the US. I just recently switched to a high-deductible plan last year with an HSA account. My deductible is $5000 and my monthly premium is $98 (for an individual plan -- self employed here). I have and plan to always contribute the maximum amount to my HSA each year. My plan covers 2 checkup visits a year, and everything else I pay out of pocket up until I hit my deductible.

I really think this is the way insurance should be. I have a strong incentive not to needlessly get every possible test done or seek medical care that I don't need. I check my bills very carefully. I already located urgent care clinics that I can go to when I don't really need to visit the ER. I won't go to the doctor for a runny nose. It makes consumers care about costs.

I'm far from an expert on US healthcare and I'd love to get other peoples' more informed views on this. Could we put everyone on high deductible plans? If people can't afford their premiums or deductibles then perhaps there could be government assistance to pay those things based on their income. What would the pitfalls be in such a system?
Video.js v3.0 - Complete rebuild w/ lightweight flash player and CDN.
WordPress speaks out against SOPA / PIPA
Sadly, here in Brazil when I tell someone that I need a nap in the afternoon to be really productive almost everyone says "You are lazy" or something like that. I have worked in a single company that I had some time to take a 15-20 minutes nap in the afternoon and the boost in my productivity was simply outstanding.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619721
This is the first article I've seen which mentions something that should be fairly obvious to interviewers — expecting people to code on whiteboards is a common mistake. As an interviewer, I totally cringe when I imagine filtering out good people this way.

(I say that as someone who enjoys interview puzzles, and have always succeeded at them. But that pleasure's probably pathological. For many people, it's a nerve-wracking ritual which pointlessly damages self-esteem. As a gatekeeper, my job is to help them succeed at my silly little games. Assist them in reaching their limits.)

A lot of the mind is in one's hands, as many emacs users might tell you. That intelligence can disappear in the alien environment of the whiteboard, for those unused to it. Many bright people maybe can't even afford a decent whiteboard, and haven't worked in an environment which uses them.

There's a huge amount of good tips for good people to get past the gatekeepers — and negotiate good terms. If you can not just beat the interview, but kill it, you'll often have a more powerful bargaining position.
WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN brute force vulnerability
Party naps are the best. I like taking them if I'm putting in a long coding day. Only downside sometimes I fall asleep for 90 minutes lol.
I actually saw this in my email this morning, wanted it, but can't afford it right now. I'm just in the idea phase right now, but would still appreciate a free pass.
This is what "fair use" is; it's a (legal) harmonization of the first amendment and the original Constitution. As far as the legal system is concerned, it settled this matter hundreds of years ago. I doubt you'll convince anyone to reopen the matter, and this isn't the avenue we should take anyhow. If you're going to go strict Constitutionalist, the word to be focusing on is limited. Is it a limited time when Congress retroactively extends the copyrights every time the expiration dates approach? Unfortunately, Lessig tried this last time and failed, though the ruling was such that the next time it comes up it might do better.
Show HN: UnitJS, Server-side Javascript CGI application (like PHP)
Multiple hits meaning more surgeries per period that the savings can be refilled. Like, say, if you get into a major accident requiring multiple surgeries, or get a condition that requires multiple surgeries or extensive treatment. People can get seriously ill, not just "average" sick.
1. Took a while to get used to but if you don't like pointers then yeah I understand.

2. In iOS (especially before the iPhone 4) memory management is one of the things that allows it to be as smooth as it. Adding GC overhead will eat up precious resources. On desktop this is usually masked by the absurd amounts of RAM most modern machines have.

3. Message-passing is one of the best things about Objective-C. You no longer have to perform null checks because if you structure you code correctly it will continue gracefully. The dynamic nature of Objective-C is what I love most about it.

4. I love the verbose syntax but that is a personal thing I guess. I love structuring my code and selector names so that everything almost reads like a paragraph of text.

I think we have to agree to disagree about Eclipse. I've been using it since University and I much prefer Xcode to Eclipse. To me Eclipse is the slow behemoth eating up my system memory.

I can understand the variable inspector. The GUI in Xcode is throwaway but once I got used to gdb I've grown to like it.

Xcode 4 crashed like crazy. It looks like they've finally stabilized it but I can't deny that the first 4 months after Xcode 4 was migraine inducing.
Where was this guide in 1993?

So many bot wars.. could have been avoided.

It's nice to see it though in IRC terms, though. The point about being able to post, and then wait for an answer is important. Sometimes we want a quick answer and can't get it on IRC. Each channel has it's own activity level and culture and it's important to know how different channels work.
Here's the "experts" talking about the announcement ...

seqnanswers thread : http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16709

Just how good this piece of equipment is unknown. Regardless, the race to the $1K genome may be in the final lap.

Illumina is their main competitor. Looks like ILMN stock took a hit but recovered quickly : http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=ILMN+Basic+Chart&t=5d , so I guess the market is unconvinced.
Bonfire chat extension makes Twitter feel a little more like Facebook
Yes, I'm sure all those Chinese employees are pining for the days when "don't eat" was the only option.
For what it's worth, I've been writing JavaScript for longer than I've been writing Ruby, and have contributed rather extensively to JavaScript libraries over a number of years.
I'm using it for nearly a year now.
Its really nice if the app can wake you up while you are in light sleep but sometimes you are just not in that phase during the 30min period the app tries to wake you in.

So worst case is that you wake up the same way you would with a normal alarm clock, but on the other days its pretty neat.

But the 30% battery charge I lose overnight is sometimes a hassle because my phone is either near the 30% right before I want to go to bed or I know that I have no time to charge it in the morning... and I refuse to charge the phone while its laying next to me :)
The Twitter Bot Network Invades Social Media
Kinect for Windows available February 1
Daleks: I wrote a robot puzzle game in HTML and JS
I disagree. Experts are known to perform quite badly when they are distracted by stress. In the case of job interview, doing anything out of the ordinary (such as writing on a white board) can cause stress. This diminishes the capacity of your working memory due to increased attention focused on stressors.
Cut the Rope for IE9
Now you can play the popular hit for free in your HTML5-powered browser.
Dangerous, most definitely. Though a lot of the danger come from the oft needed requirement to put in 18 hour days during the busy times of year. You are almost guaranteed to stupid mistakes with no sleep.

Uncomfortable, I'm not sure. I never cared much for tending to animals myself, but operating equipment is quite enjoyable to me. I look forward to each spring to get back on the land.
Respectfully, what is the benefit to recording your notes and ideas on paper, and using paper at interviews, instead of using txt files in the dropbox folder of the always-connected smartphone in your pocket?
Regarding ARC: it's handled purely at compile time and works fine with iOS 4 (modulo weak references).

ARC is supported in Xcode 4.2 for Mac OS X v10.6 and v10.7 (64-bit applications) and for iOS 4 and iOS 5. Weak references are not supported in Mac OS X v10.6 and iOS 4.

See Apple's docs for more information: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Objecti...
I don't understand why Raspberry Pi doesn't have to pay VAT on the assembled imported items? Is it because they are a charity?

EDIT: added 'assembled'. Does anyone have a link to the IR rules about this?
Engineers at MIT Discover a Way to Instantaneously Stop Bleeding
I'm not just talking about China. It really doesn't matter which country the factories are in. The poor will always get exploited. Be it child labour in India or Indonesia, or closing of GM Flint Michigan.

Exploitation of the poor is at the root of capitalism if you think about it from a basic level. It's all about making profit, and for that you need cheap labour provided by the poor, globalization provides an abundance of poor people to be exploited. Don't like the working hours here? Hey we got queues of peasants lined up outside to replace you. Get back to work.
Dear google: (1) Stop trying to make the default google search personalized. By default that's not what I want or expect. (2) I don't have so many friends that I need to "search" through what they've done. Quit trying to keep us glued to our computers and focus on giving us solutions that get us off the computer faster.

PS- you're being creepy again
How Barnes & Noble Can Take a Bite Out of Amazon
Stephen Wolfram on Creating the "Data Web" (.data Domain)
Consider this: in defense of WP, you're suggesting that the OP work around broken ACLs by installing a theme which allows users to circumvent the security model.
The way that this post describes porting and existing interface from server-side/ajax rendering to client-side rendering is particularly interesting -- I imagine that there aren't many apps that have made that jump after first being built around server-side templates.

The speed benefits that Diaspora is seeing from distributing their HTML rendering is probably only the first step. There are so many more interesting interactions you can accomplish once your data is being modeled in the browser.
Hello everyone,

I'm Kevinjohn Gallagher, the author of the post.

While I really appreciate all the comments, quite a few folks here have made presumptions that are really wide of the mark.

I love WordPress. I use it for my personal site, and thats not going to change. WordPress is very good at what it does, and Im in no way down on it for that; its just that the needs of my small company is now very different that the options WordPress gives us. There's no real drama there.

What has driven this decision though, is that sites that could/should/have-already been running nicely on WordPress have really been let down by a number of changes in the 3 releases in the last year. We deal with a lot of smaller government and charity websites - which don't pay well - and they simply can't handle the AdminUI changing every 16 weeks. To us techies thats a long time, to your average "Joe Public", thats quite a lot. Given that most of these people have really strict usage requirements (colour blind, no use of mouse, etc) the new WordPress 3.3 AdminUI is shockingly inaccessible.

So much of the change involved in the WordPress product is horribly unmanaged. And thats ok, it's free software. For our small company, this doesn't work for us anymore, so we move on. I wrote the post on my personal website, simply as a marker, to give myself closure more than anything. I'm not really sure how or why thats offended so many of you, but I'm more than happy to talk it through over e-mail ;)

Thanks,
Kevinjohn
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We're a 5 person company, with 2-4 freelancers as needed. We're definitely not some $750k a website agency as someone mentioned. Heck thats more than double our turnover for the year!
I'm a big fan of siestas. I even put my pyjamas on to nap.
Everything's converging towards CLispScript: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2908
I got a long iphone cable from dealextreme and it comes onto my bed just fine to charge. Not sure if you had a different reservation :)
This has been very helpful for me, learning Backbone.js: http://ricostacruz.com/backbone-patterns/
Lisp does not have an attitude.
The "disco nap".
Luis von Ahn: The man who wants to translate the Web
Thanks for the post. If you're interested in the primary elections, check out our maps, powered by python-elections: http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-gop-results-map-ne...

And of course, I'll answer any questions you've got.
Fixed in the original post. Thanks for letting me know about the typo!
Interestingly, there are places where even Ruby doesn't follow Tennent's Correspondence Principle: the next and break keywords. They always act on the innermost block.
Run Android apps on Windows 8 using BlackStacks
Freelancer.com jobs move away from Google App Engine, towards Data Entry
Two tricks, both of which depend on your situation

CAR:

I used to go to my car and take a nap. Kick the seat back, eye cover, maybe ear plugs and put the alarm on vibrate and in my shirt pocket.

Depending on someones situation and their proximity to their vehicle, if they drive.. It could be good.

YOGA MAT:

Everyone likes being hip and yogic. Buy a yoga mat. By tying yoga mats to napping it seems all so, much, more okay.

It's easy to lie on the floor, once you learn to nap on the floor you'll have the most refreshing naps ever.
It's interesting to note the immediate difference between a short nap (less than 45 mins) and one longer. I've never heard the pre nap coffee suggestions! I take naps frequently and hate when I over sleep or wake up from one longer than an hour and a half due to the groggy/grumpy side effects.

Really interesting and insightful piece!
What happens to your body when you're asleep
Getting customer approval is often the hardest part. Back in 2002 I started working with Python and Zope. It was easy to hire and train people in Python and Zope (you can pick up Python in an afternoon and work from there), but it was mindbogglingly hard to convince customers the data not being in a relational database was, actually, an advantage.
Are we going to transfer hypertext? No? Then use data://google.com and define a protocol for GET PUT POST AND DELETE data over the wire using standard data formats(how about INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE?).

The index page will give you all the discoverability and from there you can go to google.com/employees or bestbuy.com/products etc showing whatever data is public (or private provided oauth mechanisms) and what can be created,modified and deleted according to roles and security levels.

This has been tried before but the well was poisoned when they dropped SOAP in it.
Why Apple won't give cash to shareholders, and why maybe they should
Sir, you have missed the point.

You need the CAPABILITY to be able to edit posts to be able to mark comments as spam. Many of my clients want to be able to delegate SPAM marking, but not have that person be able to edit any content on the website.

WordPress has hardcoded these two CAPABILITIES together for the last 13 releases.
Infer.NET: A .NET Library for Machine Learning
Hit alt-space (?) or click in the top left corner to open the system menu (?).

It has menu items for copy and paste; 'Properties' allows one to enable a more useful way of copy/paste (QuickEdit mode, IIRC).

It isn't enabled by default in case people want to run DOS apps with mouse support. Someone should start a pool for people predicitng when this default will be changed.
Not correct. This is one of the things I dislike about the constitution and why when someone tells me I should go into law, I say that I would hate it. When the constitution says "freedom of speech", it has nothing to do with speech. What it is interpreted as is "freedom to express one's opinions". To be sure, this is better than freedom of speech. Speech is something that you do with your mouth. Freedom of speech does not explicitly protect your freedom to write stuff down, much less freedom to transmit information across a wire. It is only about speech.

I wish the constitution actually said "freedom to express one's opinion". The problem with the way it is now is that the supreme court could easily take away our freedom of expression. Right now, they interpret freedom of speech to be freedom of expression but in the future they may change their minds and decide that "freedom of speech" really means "freedom to cook waffles".

There really isn't that much correlation between what the law says and what we actually get out of it.

But back to the main point, "freedom to express one's opinions" may not be limited by copyright monopoly. Copyright is over a particular way to express a particular set of opinions or facts, not over the opinions or facts themselves, so copyright doesn't apply.
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X Prize offers $10M competiton to build Star Trek-like medical tricorder
Lots of conflicting thoughts here.

It seems pretty clear that the workers think that their working conditions are unjust. Further, they apparently would be OK with those conditions if they got more money.

That suggests they don't consider them inhumane, (not justified regardless of pay) rather they are economically unjust.

The truth of whether or not they are economically unjust (in a market driven economy, which China isn't really) is that if they quit there will be no one else to fill those roles (economic scarcity created by a price imbalance). However if there are people who will fill those roles at the prices offered, then they will simply be out of a job.

It is always true in market controlled transactions that the buyer thinks they are paying too much for a good and the seller thinks they are paying too little. It's the fulcrum that creates the equilibrium point for the price of a good or service.

So in a dispassionate economic way one can say the employees are working to maximize their own economic value. If by periodically pulling stunts like this gets them more pay then they are doing their part to improve their economic station at the expense of the company. The company of course may try to use that to increase the price they charge to assemble such devices, and perhaps give some of that increase to their working staff.

Saying that their other option is to 'starve' seems improbable in a country that is based on the communist teachings of Mao and Marx. One might presume (but I don't know since I don't live there) that there are state jobs available. I could certainly understand it if those state jobs were less desirable. But what I do know is that nothing, and I really do mean nothing, is the same regarding working in China as it is in any western (non-communist / non-totalitarian) country. The best one can hope for looking in from the outside are shadows of those things that are creating them.
Good point. But that's the most inspiring approach I can remember ever seeing in such a book. If only all of my technical books were written with such a mindset.
Now that you mention it, none that I'd rely on. My initial claim was made based on a cursory glance at the results page for "where is the galaxy nexus made?"

Digging a little deeper, it seems some people have Nexii with "Made in China" on the back, whereas some say "Made in Korea". I suspect even the Korean phones are only assembled there.
> I'll admit that the base pay wasn't great, though most compensation was bonus based, and the work load was chaotic (very busy one day, nothing for four days), but here's a timeline and I'll let you judge:

What you're describing does kind of sound like some type of a dead-end job. Little pay, fucked up hours, chaotic environment.

> He joined us in August... We launched in November... He started shopping for another job in January... He quit in February...

Sounds like he stuck it out for as long as he could. Two months with no pay will do that.

> I don't mean to drag all this out into the public, but, this op-ed is the definition of adding insult to injury.

All this over one line that names no-one...?

"NOT long ago, I was stuck in a dead-end job near Greenwich, Conn."

I'll assume there is more to this story.
Might also want to check out my company's bones framework: https://github.com/developmentseed/bones

Expressjs + Backbone, with plugins, multi-process servers, settings management, etc. It's used by large applications like our hosting service: http://tiles.mapbox.com/
Isn't "assert(line != NULL && longest != NULL && "memory error");" a bug in Zed's example code?
Perhaps cause and effect are reversed. Measuring young people, many whom are college students shows they stop learning when they leave college - not surprising.
Linus Torvalds is using a Macbook Air
C# and Java are very close. I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers - LoC, performance and time-to-develop - were very similar to the Java ones. The article states the Lisp code is significantly smaller and development was much faster. I don't see how C# could approach Lisp even adjusting for the fact it's Peter Norvig writing it.
"I love WordPress. With it, I have felt a genuine affinity for a product the likes of which is matched only by my Commodore64."

Who's hating?
The pricepoint is simply revoultionary. I intend to make a few amateur home automation gadgets with this.
What took a little while to click with me, and really hit it home for me once it did, is how simple ProcessWire's approach to content and data actually is. Its primary admin UI looks like it's for editing a straightforward site hierarchy, and it certainly can be, but the key is that its "pages" don't have to be web pages. A combination of some simple PHP and some quick setup in the admin lets you build all sorts of things.

At its core, ProcessWire just gives you an extensible, hierarchical (and relational when you need it) model to build upon, and then gives you a really slick jQuery-style syntax by which to access it. You build templates in PHP, but the selector syntax is so easy to work with, it brings to mind WordPress theming.

One of its founding principles is that it is markup-agnostic. I'm using it right now for an XML source that feeds a site (and possibly later a mobile site, an app, or anything), with the XML being a ProcessWire template.
> A simple compiler that sometimes requires a type annotation.

It is easy to show that that will not solve the problem. If your language is Turing-complete, then you can embed (say) a Lisp interpreter and arbitrary Lisp code within it. The only way your compiler can be complete and correct for your language is for it to be complete and correct for this embedded Lisp. This is a fundamental result. There is no way around it.
I guess someone should tell TechCrunch, BoingBoing, GigaOM and the rest of the large sites on WordPress to stop using WordPress, because it's not a CMS, or so we're being told.

What people don't seem to get that WordPress has been morphing from "just" a blogging platform to a CMS ever since 3.0 shipped. It'll just be a matter of time before most of the legacy stuff is gone and we'll have a CMS that can do blogging instead of the other way around.