skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I think even if you are in favor of socialized health care, you really ought to be against the PPAFA. It's not "socialized health care", the glorious ideal you have in your head where everybody takes care of everybody and it's all smiles everywhere. It's an ungodly abomination of a thousand pages of hastily thrown together legislation with a bajillion moving parts, dozens of newly created agencies, what is basically gibberish in terms of who is paying for what driven more by what voters needed to hear than any resemblance to reality, and then after all of that, was brutally beaten by the legislative process until it could barely assemble a coalition to drag it across the finish line in a horrifically compromised state.

Trying to explain why this is a good idea and trying to explain why socialized health care is a good idea are two things that should not be done at the same time. If you think it's bizarre how many people aren't buying into the whole nothing-but-smiles theme now, wait until after a few years of experience with this turd.

The whole "Oh, the monstrous heartless conservatives just want to throw granny over the cliff so they can save a buck" is just a propaganda smokescreen put up so you don't look too much at the actual product you're pitching beyond the catchphrase level. Personally I feel some people are being pretty careless about what will actually happen to real people while they are moving abstract political footballs labelled "socialized healthcare" around without caring what's behind the abstraction. I know the abstract progress may feel good today, but the reality isn't going to stay behind the abstraction boundary.
Another proof that we don't have a democracy, or anything near it.
Im interested how people feel about hacking the ER. I personally have never had to do it but I know quite a few people who will give fake names and social security numbers to avoid such situations. Obviously this makes it more expensive for everyone else and one could argue the Affordable Care Act is a way to fix this security whole as much as anything. Morally if you're stuck between lying to a doctor and losing your child's college fund what is the best choice really?
I worked as a Rails dev at the DNC in 2010-2011. I pushed for open-sourcing our fully-featured voter reg. Rails app back then, but didn't find much support for the idea. The political world is pretty wary of "giving code away" because the opposition will use it, etc. So, progress?

We were allowed to open-source some infrastructure code back then: https://github.com/dnclabs

Hopefully they'll continue working on this tool and make it something worth using and contributing to. I've tried to convince several political orgs. I worked for in the past to do this, but so far none have bitten.
The previous submission of this story

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4450392

appears to have gone dead. As I recall, ColinWright posted it the last time.

AFTER EDIT: A question came up below my comment. How good stuff gets to the front page of HN is by active users of HN who have read the guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

visiting the new page and upvoting the best submissions that they find on the new page. Note that by the site founder's submission history

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg

and by his writing career,

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

it would appear that articles about education policy are within the broad topic scope of Hacker News, as long as they otherwise meet the site guidelines and are original articles from reliable sources. The article under discussion here is plainly about education policy; whether or not it comes from a reliable source is a matter on which reasonable minds might differ.
Honestly, we find it's much easier to spread the load between many switches, and have enough capacity that one switch failure is a non-event.
Switches are expensive, it's true. After a certain point it does become less expensive and complex to just add more servers and switches.
There's a strong advantage to keeping things as simple as possible. Bonding isn't really complicated, but how many not-complicated things can you add before things become complicated? :-)
Why is it that you can't go to a medical facility and tell the intake nurse or admin person you're not agreeing to any procedure that's not covered by your insurance. Wouldn't that put the onus back on them? Anything not covered instantly becomes a freebie or a lawsuit?

Why do hospitals and clinic get away with this crap when auto mechanics and plumbers can't?
It's fascinating that I heard about homebrewers doing this kind of thing around a decade ago (although I believe they were keeping the hard drives un-submerged rather than sealing them up) yet this is only now being considered "cutting edge" as a commercial option.
I considered the syndication possibility. If that's the case, BranchOut may excuse themselves with a bit of "Well technically, it was in the Wall Street Journal..." However, I think that sort of excuse doesn't do much for one's integrity in these circles. It might do as much for their image as saying "The five stars are just a divider for the text" might.
How does an article with 5 points get near the top of the front page? Because nothing upvoted has been posted recently tonight?
Laptop + touchscreen = teh stupid. It's a pain (literally, in your shoulder or arm) to keep reaching out to touch the screen. Your going to get fingerprints all over your screen. Otherwise, it looks like they are slavishly copying Macbooks. And you're running Windows. Yech.
I used Apache Fop (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) to convert XML to PDF at a previous job. It was extremely painstaking work. On the other hand, it gives you a lot of fine-grained control over the appearance of your PDF.
In short, go to things. Lots. I've talked about this a bit here: http://bit.ly/MbQOkf

If there are no things, start hosting.
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Physicians Assistants are very similar and get more males than nursing professions.
I suggest that we take a look at the submissions of pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg

and of some of the other veteran, high-karma participants, e.g.,

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tptacek

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=patio11

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=raganwald

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=grellas

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davidw

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mechanical_fish

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jerf

(this listing is NOT exhaustive) and consider what the union of the topics that these experienced users find interesting is. Anything in that union of sets of interests, I think, may as well be considered fair game for HN if it otherwise meets the site guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

and comes from an original source that is a reliable source. That's my friendly suggestion for the broader education of the geeks.
(more than 300% perf Vs FireFox ;) )

That line reflects people's bad perception about browsers (It's obviously wrong). Only thing that doesn't work using chrome is the music on the home page, speed is the same on both browsers.
Now they don't but you could phase out inhumane meats the same way that California deals with legislation that regulates the number of cars on the road that need to be electric car.

Just set figures of the percent of meat that needs to be humanely raised reaching 100% in like 10 years. The industry can correct that quickly.
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It's been 2 years....I don't think it's going to happen.
Freenet perhaps?
probably as perseverance.
100% of Jeff's posts are must reads. You'll agree with some, disagree with others, but all of them make you think. Worth twice the $0 cost!!!
This would be more interesting if it were not made about race.
Interesting that your first thought is how to suppress the article.
Reminds me of a Bioshock Casemod from a few years ago[0]. From what the creator said, it doesn't even sound that expensive.

0: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dmrpv/bioshock_miner...
The only uncomfortable thing about this essay is the us versus them mentality, especially coming from someone so young. Yes, the education system in the US is pretty bad. Yes, like any profession, there are shitty teachers. You're not getting a packet of boring papers because of your skin color, because surprise, we're all getting them. The race card here is disgusting and I have a really hard time believing these ideas weren't planted in her head.
They're mostly used to avoid the overhead of a function call. The inline keyword is a recent addition.

I saw some examples in the klib code where macros are used to generate boilerplate code, generating functions.
"we just initiated a group policy 13 months after our doors opened"

Doors opened means started development or launched? If after you started development, how long were you in development?

"Regardless, I don't see the need to 'scratch your entrepreneurial itch' as a valid reason to stick you neighbor with your medical bills."

What if you change your statement to:

-->I don't see the need to 'educate children' as a valid reason to stick your neighbor with your school bills.

-->I don't see the need to 'protect your life' as a valid reason to stick your neighbor with your police bills.

The reason the government provides these services is because it is in the common interest.

I'm sure if you think a little while you can come up with some reasons why having universal health care might be in our collective best interest.
I know at least a dozen people who want to buy a Reddit/HN clone written in PHP, integrated with Wordpress/Buddypress, mostly to use for niche community sites they have.
Yeah, it changes the game when you need to fill out a pre-existing PDF form with user-supplied data (as opposed to free form PDF generation). In my experience, you pretty much have to use a Java library (such as iText) for this. So for a Rails app, that means JRuby, queue to a Java daemon processor, or something along those lines.

Though I see they're using the prawn gem to do it here: https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/blob/master/...

Last time I checked, prawn wasn't quite powerful enough for this use case. I'll have to revisit that approach.
Where do you live? In the two major US cities where I've lived, I consistently find that wireless networks are passworded, don't work, or just show a paywall.

In 2005 I could find random apartment-dwellers with open wifi, but things have changed. Even cafes use passwords to make sure you bought something there.
I second this. I was in Bushwick when I lived in NYC. I saw 1-bedrooms going for 1200. I moved to the UES after that, and found that the Manhattan tax really isn't worth it.
Do you have an SSD?

Eclipse is constantly recompiling your code, so turn off Build Automatically to get a more Sublime but less useful experience.
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I'm going to save this and show it to my daughter (2 1/2 now) when the time is right.
Yes, we like hacker news to be on the front page.
Kids have a really easy time seeing things that are self-evident. I do think that much of her anger gets displaced at those who she can see; when the reality is that the schools are being manipulated as pawns in a much larger game.
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Has the author not seen the iPad accessories which are a full keyboard and stand? Functionally the same thing.
That is, oddly enough, basically the model for the current guaranteed-issue reform (scheduled to become operational in January 2014), despite the fact that the governor who passed it doesn't want to take any credit for it.
People are acting like this is surprising news. I guess people don't actually understand how BitTorrent works, which is troubling. When you connect to a peer on BT, you have to be told its IP address (or that of a proxy, and most users obviously aren't using them) in order to connect to it. You can easily then run a reverse IP lookup on that address and usually find out the ISP.

Matching that to the initial seeder should be pretty trivial so long as you get to the torrent quickly enough after it was first seeded so you can see who the only person with 100% is. Even if you can't get to it before there are a handful of seeders, you should be able to narrow it down by looking for the common IP among several torrents.
This is going to become less and less common, if only because routers/modems distributed by ISP's typically are passworded by default now. In Germany (where I'm staying) it's almost impossible to find an open wifi network anywhere, despite having 20 to choose from at any point in town.

I'm pretty scared for anonymity on the internet in the next decade. Even with just email, you can take total precautions on your own end: host your own mail server, always use SSL, and so on, but if your emails aren't PGP encrypted (and let's face it, PGP is too hard to comprehend for mere mortals, which is who you'll be communicating with most of the time), there's always going to be a copy of your communications on the recipient's mail server: Google, Hotmail, etc.

Never before in history has a complete and total record of all of your mail ever sent in your entire life been available for government snooping. But that's the reality today--all the government has to do is ask your email provider--or one of your contact's email providers--nicely.
> And now, presumably, $COMPANY will come out with its own version of a $SERVICE app for $PLATFORM focused on sharing to $SOCIALPLATFORM, and advertising, and all the unnecessary crap that my sister doesn’t really want.

That's a bit of a straw man, though. We don't even know what they'll come out yet, but we're just assuming it'll be much worse?

I've only used the Android app and I really don't see what's wrong with it - why would it be worse than the Android app?
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I'll nitpick right back at you: since JavaScript is not compiled in the software sense, I could only mean compile in the sense of "produce (something, esp. a list, report, or book) by assembling information collected from other sources: the local authority must compile a list of taxpayers."

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As far as I can tell (some reading, some 2nd-hand stories) Canadian healthcare is not a good model at all. It may be better than the US, but that's faint praise. I'd look to the French, Swiss, or Scandinavian systems for better models.
Oh dear god no! This isn't a vulnerability, this is Microsoft being extremely naive in the field of human interface. Using that touch screen for 5 minutes and your arm is dead. Sounds like some horrible tech nightmare.
Ask OP: Why SHOULD it be open source?

1. Asking "Why isn't it this" without a "this is why it should be this" is such an easy argument it must always be ignored

2. Hacker News is a Y Combinator entity. If it were to be open source, it would be open source to YC people only I can only assume.
As far as I know, black-majority schools with black teachers (vs. white teachers) don't do any better. Even the ones with more funding than the white-majority schools.

Big classes are also everywhere, just like multiple-choice questions.

The notion that students in black-majority schools don't do well because of "white racism", and not because of the constant blame game those schools play that never allows anyone but the whites to take the blame is ridiculous.

An interesting video I came across ("Look In The Mirror") a while ago --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S9PM5Xo0i4
When you're stressed your blood's glucose levels get depleted which weakens your ability for self-control. Once you give in, especially when you are tired and exhausted, it's easier to go all "fuck this, imma eat all I can for now and eat better later on!". Of course, eating increases the glucose level of your blood and afterwards you feel kind of bad about it and the whole idea of giving in starts to feel stupid - "I could've sticked to my promise", "It was just stupid, I should have been stronger".

There's also the fact that habitual snacking and eating "just a bit... ...all the time" grows 1) a mental habit to the act of eating 2) physical dependency to the act of having glucose levels high 3) mental and physical dependency on the good experience(smell and taste).

I used to be a person who ate once a day(lunch), and perhaps ate a fruit(banana or an apple) a few times a week to supplement. Back then I really pitied people who couldn't control their weight. To me it was outright laughable that someone simply could not refuse the sweets, pastries, soft drinks, ... because for me they were never even an option I considered. These days though, while I am not obese(although I've gained a lot of weigh which I know I should get rid of) I've realized that I've became a habitual eater. I eat constantly, all the time. Small snacks, soft drinks, whatever. All the time. Every 15-30-45 minutes I check the fridge. And I can't help it. It's not hunger. It's not the taste itself. It's the act of eating. Act of having something down my throat. While I can resist it on irregular basis every now and then, I can't cancel the actual act of habit just like this. And man, this is horrible. Now I know how it is to not being able to "just refuse it and that's it". Luckily, I consume lots more than average person(physical work, hobbies, conscious effort) so I can control my weight at least. But I am hooked on eating. Habitual eater, no way to deny it.
Google Spreadsheets? For sharing a mail merge file, it is great, for thorough data analysis and charting, useless. OpenOffice is better.
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After 15min ER due to a strained wrist the bill was $4100 dollars. We demanded detailed itemized bills and send letters to the doctor (billed separately) and the hospital. The doctor dropped his bill from ridiculous $900 dollars (for saying everything was alright and taking 5 mins to open a tiff file on his computer) to $200 after our complaint. His bill and the hospital had up-coded our visit and tried to hide the costs of their ill-managed hospital by billing a piece of cloth (made in Guatemala) with $500, the price of an iPad.
On what planet is it dead?

Gnome is still the default GUI on a lot of operating systems. In fact, I'm quite fond of Gnome Shell on one of my laptops.

What bothers m most is what I perceive as a need to follow Microsoft. I fear things like the lock screen thing will prove confusing for many users.
This practice is still common in China. If you walk early in the morning you can often see groups of employees in uniform singing or dancing.
See previous discussions of this issue, which are easily revealed by Google if the fitting keywords are used in the search:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494421

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=711613

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4285617/how-do-i-install-...
I don't really support the outcome (I want real socialized healthcare), but as far as I can tell PPACA is at least better than the status quo. It seems like it'll make it possible to buy individual health insurance, which will actually cover healthcare, and won't be jacked up when you get sick. That's at least one improvement over the current system, which is completely broken unless you're in a quasi-socialized health-coverage pool, like those provided by large corporations' group plans.
Mint/Cinnamon provides Gnome2, which is more like Gnome than OS X is.
nice system! sounds like it has a market principle built into it...
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They can, I agree. The more I think, the race card probably is coming from the autobiography (duh!). Not having read it myself, I can't speak to any overarching racial tone (or lack thereof), but I can see how it would be easy to cherry pick personally relevant portions. Especially true for a child whose world view is probably rather unworldly.

Edit: Really the only story here is how the school handled it. It seems very he said, she said though...
Yeah. This should be awesome.
twice the $0 also means $0 too.