skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of people outside the US is big, but the financial value of secondary-to-national-insurance medical care is tiny, and the rules are really simple and transparent (often, it's a single vertically integrated secondary provider -- like BUPA in the UK -- billing for vertically integrated health providers like Kaiser in the US is also fairly simple). I only know the US and UK rules in detail, but the UK is actually simpler than even most US single-payer systems (e.g. DOD TriCare duty) in terms of recordkeeping. (this is largely a good thing for non-US countries!)

I'd be pretty comfortable building a health insurance eligibility service which only covered California. Covering the entire US market is well over 50% of the value in that market.

The unknown are places like China and Africa which have much more limited health care markets today, but which are rapidly evolving. It's reasonable to think they might adopt other systems than what they're using now (largely government-direct or charity or cash private doctors). Maybe the big US companies will be successful in promoting a damaging product (US-style health insurance) to other countries, like we did with cigarettes, but I sincerely hope not.

Stripe, on the other hand, absolutely must expand into other countries, or else the "Stripe of Europe" or "Stripe of China" might someday be able to challenge Stripe.com over who is the "Stripe of the USA". And Stripe is still tiny compared to the market even just in the US.
"Yet at the same time, you don't have the fear that someone will randomly start shooting people."

That the violence is not random does not make it any less violent. That the violence is more directed in a specific vector may contribute to one's feelings of relative safety so long as one is not identified as "the other."
> The one mentioned in this article for example, looked like a basic Flash game.

Binding of Isaac is a flash game, and is anything but basic (one of the best games of 2011, for all its technical issues).
Assuming the 1original footage was shot in 48 FPS, each frame should have had roughly /48 seconds exposure time. You shouldn't have noticed the lack motion blur if this was the case.

However from accounts here, it seems the CGI didn't have the appropriate amount of motion blur to make it look natural.
Yeah, we're working on it. Testing it on our phones now, seems to be working pretty well.
"An armed society is a polite society" is a nonsense aphorism. Look to the trouble spots in Africa for examples.
It's a made-up distinction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less
Ask HN:Can someone please get this running, as an archaeological exhibit?
Worlds first webserver:

https://github.com/NotTheRealTimBL/WWWDaemon/blob/master/old/V0.0/tcp_daemon.c

Can we get a NeXTSTEP box running in a vm?

http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Floppy_Images/

I can't :( Maybe someone smarter is up for it as a xmas challenge? :)
I read it that way at first too. But if you read a little further, the article centers on providing evidence for the model. Specifically he shows evidence that a a state with higher G has linearly higher D (which is exactly what the model states).
What if the causality runs the other way, and more violent social environments inspire gun ownership?

Are there other confounding variables that we aren't allowed to think about?

Also, fewer.
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The other side: More Guns, Less Crime - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Guns,_Less_Crime
>Yet at the same time, you don't have the fear that someone will randomly start shooting people.

But if "an armed society is a polite society", you do presumably have to worry about someone shooting you if you're rude to them?

I think rudeness is to be discouraged in general, but I'm not sure it's an acceptable justification for gun violence.
As InclinedPlane said, Enums are more DRY and less error-prone. Even if you have to parse a String to an Enum, you only have to do it in one place (in the Enum definition), and then you only work with known objects. Also, if you want to refactor/auto replace, with an Enum object you are sure the value is correctly replaced everywhere (as the IDE knows to handle Enum), but if you want to replace a String you have to check all the occurrences of the string by hand, because some of them may be used for other purposes.
I don't think management is going to be automated per se, it is just going to continue to be a declining amount of employment, which it has been for a while, as communication gets more efficient. But also arguably the large firm is inefficient, as it is run on more dictatorial rather than market lines. Also outputs like code are creating a whole way of measuring output thats more useful than most office environments. Telecommuting in the form of outsourcing to low wage countries is efficient enough to work for many cases too. So these things might happen sooner than anyone expects.
If you feel uncomfortable with the word, see it as they called the film the "pirated version", with fake legs, parrots, and a eye-patch.

Its just a word meaning "80-90% of the population that know how the internet works". Any connotation to ships has been lost to the ages.
Clojure too classifies as "popular" I guess.

But I forgot this was HN: the place where people are allergic to homoiconicity ; )
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It was not just that they sold his game without paying him (I understand there's more than enough reason to believe this was a regrettable mistake), it's that they claim that he declined to sell his games when in reality they declined to accept them. That makes him look like he's somewhy opposed to Ubuntu, and it is rather bad PR for him. I understand that he tried to get them to stop doing that, and chose to reply to what he saw as PR attack with bad PR instead of legal action (which probably would have made him look even worse). I don't think it was a very level headed decision, but I don't think what he's doing is wrong.
False dichotomy... Either use a broken mobile site with half the content, or a full site that barely loads.
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Checkout Yeoman it utilizes Grunt and it helps to get started with Grunt. (Also made by top JS guys Paul Irish/Addy Osmani)
An assault weapons ban will do little for the murder rate in the US. The US has 17k murders annually, 13k of those are committed with firearms, and 11k of those are committed with handguns. Only 2k out of 13k are committed with longarms (which aren't just assault weapons) - this assault weapons debate is a waste of hot air for both sides, and isn't going to have a meaningful affect on either the real issues or the security theatre.
Tiny Terminal: Maker Builds a Working Raspberry Pi Laptop
https://github.com/NotTheRealTimBL/WWWDaemon/blob/master/old...

http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Flo...
Your Smartphone Will Be Nearly Human in 5 Years
Well it's way less advanced and less standardized than org-mode but apparently it uses DropBox to automagically sync with your shiny smartphone/tablet.

Pretty sure there are solutions out there to add this functionality to org-mode that said ; )
OPTION C
Investor 1 who will give you $100 in exchange for $100 stock
Investor 1 is a good person who cares about your startup and helps with his/her experience.
"Revelation?"

No, it's pretty much duh.

However, it does need saying every once in a while because there are many who deny this obvious connection, and in the US at least they seem to control much of the discourse.
So.. sorta like the cheeky seagull that nabs crisps?
Will YCombinator Go Global?
"No price is too high" is always an incorrect statement, at least in the context of investing.
Also "fear of being shot for saying something someone might not like" != politeness.

First amendment, second amendment: go at it!
There are segments of investors that are investing other people's money OPM and have responsibilities to the other people. There are investors that are investing their own money and do not have to be fiscally responsible for OPM. In simpler words, if I invest in a company I like with my own money then I don't have to explain it to anyone. If I invest the money of wealthy people then I may need to explain my choices to people with lawyers.

This can be a difference between Angels and VC. Take my comment with a grain of salt, since I have always been self-funded.
"Think about it. With too high of a cap or valuation, what incentive does an investor have to go to work on your behalf in the short term when the real return on their investment requires several orders of magnitude of growth, which has a very low likelihood of happening ever?"

It seems to me that if the angel investors in question are really able and willing to do productive work, you could get a similar result by simply paying them additional equity as an incentive after allowing the market to set the company valuation in the natural way. In other words, same as you would for any other early stage employee. No need to artificially interfere with the valuation and set it low to attract them.
And then when the evidence does not match up, he fudges with one of his parameters, V, to "explain" it.
"Lott examines the effects of the Brady law." "The third edition of the book is the first study to examine Stand Your Ground and Castle Doctrine laws." "Lott spends some time discussing gun ownership rates and crime rates in other countries, such as the United Kingdom."

What an informative and illustrative article explaining the other side.
Really great stuff! Appreciate what 2pp is doing...

They also do an excellent job at filming the progress of the DFA (Double Fine Adventure)
Styling? Look at the source, HN is full of

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We get our data from mostly the same sources, so this should almost never happen. (There are also lots of times we have better rates than Kayak, e.g. on Amtrak and Airbnb, which they don't have.) Next time you see this, could you email contact@hipmunk.com?
GitLab seems to be getting better and better, every month.

To anyone who is using this, how would you compare 4.0 to the current GitHub, in terms of UI/Features?

I'm thinking of moving from a third party host to GitLab. What should I be aware of?
It's easy enough to imagine some sort of economics-like practice that manages to aim for equitable allocation of abundant resources among impractical wants.
You are leaving out the importance of libraries and coupling of systems that were initially written independently. This is the same mistake that many Lisps have made, assuming that just because the technology is "superior", people will flock to it and eagerly rewrite all their code (starting with their dependencies).
Actually it occurs every time somebody writes something long like this: xt=urn:btih:41b2fd2403eba5a1dc23743fb08a15f968acc1b5&dn=Minecraft%3A+The+Story+of+Mojang&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

It's unlikely it will be fixed though.
Two year old bug in Android
Thats very limiting. A lot of applications need arrays (and maybe complex numbers) eg for numerical applications. And it is hard to manage without some sort of int64 type nowadays.

And also say you want performance, then using getters and setters sucks compared to direct struct access, as every access needs a non inlineable function call.
A few months ago there was a discussion about the problems with the licenses in the Racket Users mailing list:

(first mail) http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-April/051303...

(most relevant mail) http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-April/051319...

They use the LGPL license. The idea is that you can make closed source programs that link to the Racket system as a library, but you must provide a version that is linkable to newer versions of Racket. But in Racket the macro expansions are a fundamental part so the more strict interpretation means almost that you must provide the original source code in plain text.

I don't know enough about licenses, perhaps this is only FUD. And my impression is that the intensions of the Racket creators is that closed source programs in Racket are allowed, but this looks like a gray area.

And the GPL license is more restrictive, but C/C++ has many less macros/templates than Racket.
That was the only humble bundle I didn't buy. I do not agree with your conclusion at all.
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The title of this article is on pitch to me. PG's comment does not come across as a "calling out." It comes across as a general conclusion based upon his experience and data.

On the other hand Zacharias's blog describes observing and responding to feelings that there was a disconnect between the funding features available to his YC class and his entrepreneurial gut.

As a "pre-cofounder" (I love the term) he was in a position to take a different course. He also enjoyed the advantage of friendships with potential investors.

I can't help but see what he describes as extending some of the fundamental YC processes beyond the point where YC kicks the baby birds out of the nest. YC works because of the trust founders place in the partners. It works because founders don't worry about the investor screwing them over, and it works because founders can spend more energy building rather than negotiating terms.

This appears to be what Zacharias did. He was careful about who he sold his company to and conscientious about the price of shares which are likely to be worthless.

It was a personal strategy - right for Zacharias. PG is right that it is poor as a general strategy for YC companies.
After reading this, I remain unconvinced that legislation like "limits on magazine capacity and regulation of ammunition sales" will make Alaskans desire gun ownership, and shoot each other, at rates more like New Jerseyans.
Well, sure. But all grammatical distinctions are contrived. It's still the standard way to distinguish between countable / non-countable objects.
This is a very sad commentary on humanity.
And Canonical did it because they desperately needed the money, or just because they are plain evil?
Dropbox does not sync well. I always end up with tons of files like "Person As copy of file x at date y". It only works if you are "working" alone with a folder and if you only use one device at a time.

The problem is that this is the only way to handle sync safely unless you want to manually merge as in a SCM. This is why every attempt at syncing since the dawn of IT has always sucked.
I had this argument about 4 years ago with a young colleague who said I was out of date, and I am not a developer. Brett Tabke of Webmasterworld.com has been arguing for years that lightweight matters. It used to matter for dialup in the USA, now with widespread broadband it is less important to those people. Now it is important for mobile users and global users on dialup or slow connections. In a few years it will matter to the people that got their first android phone in some country with poor infrastructure.

Even personally it matters to me :) since I live in a 50 year old house that has slow DSL (YouTube buffers constantly) and I live in the center of Tucson, AZ.

I recall Google doing a study that increasing the speed of browsing increases the use of the internet. Page weight will always matter to someone.
Could have been nice, if they supported other types of matching. e.g. contains or regex. The vast majority of the time when I want to switch on a String I'm parsing a URL in a session filter into several categories or something like that.
I talked to two investors total who cared about valuation.

One is a smaller angel, but a pretty good guy. We stopped before getting to the actual terms (since we decided not to do a big raise at the time, but rather to do low burn and launch first), but he has a reputation for being cheap about valuation to the extent that it kept him out of some deals.

The second was IMO the best investor I've talked to to date. his super angel fund wasn't valuation sensitive except that they had a thing against uncapped notes, having done precisely one before and gotten fucked on it. We were trying to defer any talk of valuation by using terms copied from the START note. I kind of regret not just naming a number right then (really, anything in a 2x range would have been adequate), since this investor essentially no longer exists.
Nice appeal to authority. This nonsense coming from an _Apple designer_ only makes it worse.
Sucks being "the other." (Side note: Almost shot with AR at Israeli checkpoint.)
I think that any funny clauses in the contracts should be abolished and the worker/employer relations should only be regulated by law.

This makes me pro-regulation and anti-market, but unfortunately I see exactly zero ways in which market can make contracts better. What are you expected to do in this situation - quit?
I don't experience any "crashes" (i.e., periods of being unusually tired) related to Modafinal. Honestly, I can't really think of any side effects.
It doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as malaria or dengue. It does seem to disproportionately affect children, but doing something like spraying border areas with low population density would probably still be a win.

I think in the US we could afford to just use malathion.

Draining Florida would best be accomplished by just declaring it an exclusion zone from human habitation :) (Florida basically terrifies me more than any other state in the US, even California)
The primary function of a legal department is to provide advice that prevents legally actionable mistakes.

This advice does not have to be sane, or efficient, or indeed have any consideration towards the interests of the company other than "prevents legally actionable mistakes". A few days ago HN saw an article about setting goals and perverse incentives. This is a simple example.

Hypothetically, someone was reviewing the Sony USA employment contract and saw that there were, perhaps, non-video-game related developments which might be valuable. Then they asked the legal department "Please supply contract terms that give us as much as possible." And after an hour or two of research, they did.

The surprising thing to me is that they tried to change language for existing employees out of cycle. If they did it during a regular review cycle, even fewer people would have noticed.
That's very interesting, does it work well? There's a git-annex assistant, apparently, that works like Dropbox.
Except that in both Australia and the UK the gun murder rates were already incredibly low before their respective gun bans. Their bans didn't actually lead to less violence than before their bans; in fact, violence actually increased post-ban.
the 1st point is the most important, because the "armed society" has a chilling effect on freedom of speech and creates new levels of social inequality. The NYT had a great opinion piece detailing these concerns: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/the-freedom-...

also it's not clear why, with your own experience seeing a successful gun-controlled, and then a successful non-gun-controlled, country, you want to pick the second. I'd pick the first - the successful gun control model is much more common than the successful non-gun-control model. Perhaps the approach needs to fit the society ?
That means that Dropbox syncs as well as it's possible for a program to sync, though, doesn't it?
The Flash VM is open-source and Mozilla using it. It's not the whole flash player but at least something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_%28software%29
Clay[1] doesn't get as much attention as it deserves. The authors seem well-versed in programming language theory, but they also understand the practical needs of a systems language. What you end up with is a language that's sufficiently low-level to be a C replacement, but it offers a plethora of mechanisms for abstraction.

Of all the new languages billed as "systems languages", Clay is the only one that excites me.

It can also "quack like a duck" (to put it in TFA terms).

[1] http://claylabs.com/clay/
No, that's wrong. The distinction is between continuous and discrete, not quantitative and qualitative.
I guess his Scala and Go skills are a bit rusty. ;-)
I'm opinionated on this since I'm running GitLab.com where you can use GitLab as a service.

GitHub has more features than GitLab. GitLab does have all the essentials to work as a team including merge requests and CI integration. Personally I think the GitLab interface is a bit less cluttered.

A list of things that are still missing from GitLab can be found on http://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general

The highest votes items there (namespacing) just got added in GitLab 4.0

And the lead author Dmitriy had added many improvements each months for the last few months. Also the number of good pull requests is steadily increasing https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pulls?direction=desc...

If you want to run your own server you need to understand basic Unix systems operations. If you are comfortable with the installation guide than you should be fine https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install...
I thought piracy is cool now? Oh wait, it's only cool when the underdog does it. Nevermind.
This is a bullshit article. Why are we trying to minimize "gun deaths?" What the article doesn't mention is that most of those are suicides that would just do it another way if they were less readily available.

Violent crime in the UK is 4x what it is in the US yet there are less gun deaths because of the strict gun control. Who gives a shit if guns are involved or not?
Gun control advocates cite statistics of the kind "how many deaths are caused by guns" as justification for more gun control. Frankly, whatever the statistic is, it is too high. But that is not the point.

But in order to successfully make an argument along the lines of "more gun control will save lives", they must also cite statistics of the kind "how many lives are saved by guns". Obviously, if guns cause the death of 12000 people yearly and save the lives of 100000 people yearly, gun control is a bad idea. On the other hand, if they only save the lives of 100 people yearly, it might be a good idea after all. I have yet to see a single article on the internet citing such a number. Why is it so hard to find such a statistic?

The number of lives saved by guns (not counting police and military guns) is quite impossible to count. One might succeed in counting the number of cases where guns are used in self-defense, even though these cases usually go unnoticed. But how do you count the number of cases where the would-be perpetrator chooses not to commit the crime on account of a gun being present in defense of the would-be victim? Or doesn't even start to think about the crime?

This is a classic case of Bastiat's "that which is not seen". Because the statistic cannot be calculated, people do not take it into account. But they should if they want to make an effective argument for more gun control based on statistics.

Because the relevant statistics cannot be calculated, statistics should not be used in policy debates such as the one about gun control. Rather, let us reason about the unseen consequences of the actions of individuals as well as of the government. Without involving emotional arguments from either side.
I'm keeping a close eye on kotlin.
the theory is that decreasing access to large magazines and/or 100-round drums would decrease the mass-murder rate. Considering we're talking about mentally unstable suspects, a little bit of resistance to being able to get a large magazine might mean they can't fire off 30-100 rounds without reloading when they go off on their spree.