skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not about the role of government and the individual. This is about healthcare, something fundamental that every human being needs. For which it cannot be predicted when one needs it, and where need can vary greatly through (in by far most cases) no fault of people themselves (an unpredictable unelastic good).

Such matters - often literally of life and death - are not something that ever could be trumped by philosophies about 'roles'.

Yes the market works well in most other spheres, yes economic freedoms are important, but no, economic freedoms (or justice) do not trump human life and death, where avoidable (in a civilized society). Economic freedom is just one of the many things people need for happyness. Health and healthcare are another, that is at least as important. And thus the value of economic freedom needs to be balanced out against healthcare.

The government just is the mediator. Taxing one sphere of life (economic activity) to ensure justice and security in another that fares better if guided by other principles than profit extracted from individual patients.

(individual GPs do profit in the UK system. They, for example, get a bonus if they can make a patient stop smoking, etc. ...speaking of preventative healthcare. They just have less incentive to exploit individual patients (by having them come back later with lung cancer for example) and then charge them to their limit)
"With regards to privacy I always ask the converse question; Why would you not choose privacy?"

Well in general if you want to attract business or benefit from something you have created you don't want privacy.

Now for example I don't want to attract business from HN (for domain registration) so I choose to be private and not offer my contact info other than a gmail account. So I've made a conscious choice to not mix this.

In other cases and in other places though (like a directory or list of registrars) I do the opposite (want to be listed and have customers come to me).

Another case is at our business location we don't have a sign because we don't want people dropping in from the neighborhood (would waste time) and we have customers in maybe 100 countries around the world so that local business isn't important. Also I don't carry a business card I'm not interested in the local business registering with us then it could end up being a time waster. Of course if I was a local attorney I would. All depends on the situation.
I don't think I can give your comment enough upvotes. Sometimes people just don't like the simple answer.....
I'm still using Unity on two of my laptops. (They're both Thinkpads, which are very popular for Linux users.) Unity definitely still has performance and stability problems, as well as significant UI glitches.

I don't think I've had more than a week of uptime out of either laptop, and I think the median is something like 2 days. That was not the case with earlier versions of Ubuntu on the same hardware.

I like the ideas behind Unity, but the execution has been terrible. It's pretty obvious they're focused on arbitrary schedules over a solid user experience.
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The CPU can change power states in 10s of microseconds. If your core is constantly bouncing between C states expect it to add a couple hundred microseconds of latency. And if you have a modern linux kernel try disabling the intel_idle driver. intel_idle will disregard bios settings and very aggressively set the C state. This kills applications that high rps/low latency. I'd love to hear someone try and justify that behavior.
Are you completely against patents, or just against some?

The people who produced this have obviously spent a significant amount of time working out how to make this possible. I haven't seen their patents, but I doubt they're as generic as "A device which extrudes plastic in 3D space". Have you read the patents they've submitted and actually found prior art for the exact aspects of the design they've patented?

Patents are designed for this kind of thing. They allow these guys to sell the results of their work without getting ripped off straight away by someone who spent none of the money doing R&D and so just has to cover their costs.
SSD write fear is kinda nuts, IMO. It's a device subject to wear, tear, and catastrophic failure -- just like HDDs. Keep backups (three for important data; a cloud copy is only one copy), enjoy the performance, and don't sweat it. If you aren't keeping backups, then go ahead and cower under the sheets at night.
Ah. I see. Sorry about the misunderstanding; it wasn't offensive, just interesting.
Good point. Though I then raise you one 2002 Nissan Pathfinder V6 with a broken thermostat housing. You basically disassemble the uppder part of the engine (minus the heads) to change a stupid little part.
You can have my native SDKs when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

I don't care what you say - I will find a market that I can develop native apps for or I will quit being a developer. That is how much I think HTML/CSS/JS suck for front-end development.

The only thing the web's got going for it is the zero-deployment. Everything else about the web (for apps) is stone-age compared to native platforms.

"I can’t help feeling that we might be better just starting over with a totally new spec."

Agree, 100%. I don't want to use a document platform as an application platform. HTML is fine for documents. Let's have something new for apps please. I don't want to type "5 divs" to have a simple 3-column grid layout. I want to type "grid columns=3".
Who do you think appoints those people? It's all about politics, either directly or indirectly.
Ironic given Google's alleged tardiness in responding to security problems.
What's wrong with locating frequently used stuff on a RAM disk?
+1000 for this.

I used Hal Higdon's programs, Novice 1 for my first marathon, Intermediate 1 for my second, Advanced 1 for my third. Followed them almost exactly.

3:40 for my first marathon, down to 3:10 for a Boston qualifier on my third; I'm extremely pleased with those results.

If you're still excited after 3 marathons, then I would tell you to jump over to letsrun.com and look for advice there.
How can it be unrealistic? Every other modern industrialized nation does it.
I understand the frustration, but "It is time to come clean. What happened to our money?" sounds very accusatory – as if you've already made your mind up that you've been duped, which is unlikely to be the case.

Fair play for posting on HN, but Coinbase is a great company and Brian's a top guy – I think it's better to give him the benefit of the doubt. I've been humbled in the past by jumping to conclusions or venting too early.

This is at worst a technical issue combined with a minor customer support mishap (i.e. not being available when needed).
IE10 came out around the same time as Firefox 16 didn't it?
"which audience you are catering to through domain registration information"

Sorry meant to answer this below. I have cases where I have to find domains for people that others own. If you have privacy it makes it harder for me to make you an offer on your domain and contact you.
Great example of why Google's driver-less cars will be so successful, overall safer and why we should engineer our systems to remove as much complexity as possible for the users.
The video is so Apple-y that it bothers me (speaking really slowly like we are retards).
They solved that problem with stands, I think on the same day they thought up tablets.
I must say, this looks pretty slick. Wonder how well the multitasking stuff will hold up in practice?

Here's hoping some clever bods will get this working on a HP Touchpad, would love to resurrect my touchpad from it's dusty grave. Can't imagine there would be much problem given that it's had no problems running Android. Bring it on!

Does anybody know if this will give access to bash etc? Could I develop on this with a bluetooth keyboard?

EDIT: full desktop with mouse and keyboard! Should have finished watching the video before commenting. I'm interested in this thin client for windows also - is this standard in the regular Ubuntu distros?
Two GTX570's in SLI - I'm surprised all the newfangled overlays and postprocessed effects ran so well, though the real surprise is that the CPU-side simulation didn't eat my computer for lunch. SimCity 4 for mid-sized cities and above still kills a i7.
Sorry, 25,000 requests per day
Fine, if you want to be nit-picky about the necessity of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, you're more than welcome. But either way, it's abundantly clear that the 9/11 attacks precipitated both of those wars. There is simply no way the neoconservatives could have convinced Congress of the need to invade Afghanistan or Iraq without the 9/11 attacks. Pearl Harbor may have forced our hand more clearly, so to speak, but both attacks were deep provocations.
You can separate out the intent of the attacks if you want to be precise--Japan's to establish military domination in the Pacific, and Al Qaeda's simply to wreak havoc, or what have you--but in broader terms each represented a physical challenge to the United States' influence over particular spheres. And besides, the point that's trying to be made here is exactly that: There may not be any more "Pearl Harbors," if you want to define Pearl Harbor as a military attack by a sovereign nation. But if you want to define "Pearl Harbors" as serious, potentially dangerous attacks against the US, they are more likely these days to be of a terroristic or digital nature.
You're missing the forest through the trees, my friend.
I worked at a financial place that had people randomly roam around looking for 'open' desktops - people who'd left their computer unlocked. The random people would open MS Word and leave a big message on their screen that they'd been 'caught'. It was lighthearted but made the point, and people who routinely left their systems open were eventually dealt with more harshly.

My 'idea of the month' was to turn down the auto-lock time from 10 minutes down to 1 or 2. Wouldn't eliminate it, but generally, people at their desk were using their computer anyway, so it wasn't a big deal, and if you were called away and forgot, the auto-lock would kick in pretty quickly.
Why the future isn't here yet
FullContact's Powder Day Policy: Let my People Go Skiing
> With a modern, 256-color terminal like iTerm2 or Gnome Terminal, it will even look like gVim

Uh, I use xterm...

It's obsolete, I know, but it's still the fastest.
Madness, I say. Graphical editors are so much nicer than this.
Increasing Development Speed by Decreasing Cycle Time
Just a point, that some students were there to ensure no one breaks the boycott, and if someone did, these would come in too. So, enforcing the other's decisions and changing your own after see their decision is not exactly Prisoner's Dilemma.
Nice mobilization, and nice reactio from the professor too, though.
Strictly speaking, it's not "prisoner's dilemma" if the students can talk to each other and agree on a plan. In a real prisoner's dilemma, the participants have to guess at the motivations and actions of other participants -- this is part of the game's definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma

Quote: "Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of speaking to or exchanging messages with the other."
Heres why this is awesome:

- The name Unity finally makes perfect sense
- Phone can expand into a tablet can expand into a desktop
- larger form factor can run smaller form factor apps
- app switcher is slick
- Canonical finally learned how to use all the bull shit
motivational words that apple uses to inspire people
- OS level tie ins to social services
- Still open source

I'm excited to use it, and I'm excited to help. Personally I think this could be a big win for user rights and an awesome mobile OS.
Many of the comments here seem to be variations of, "I don't like editorials." I don't either, but their main point and recommendation seems pretty uncontroversial:

> Colleges need to improve online courses before they deploy them widely. Moreover, schools with high numbers of students needing remedial education should consider requiring at least some students to demonstrate success in traditional classes before allowing them to take online courses.

They mention some studies (that I haven't read because I'm at work; I'm sure they're not bulletproof) that are broadly consistent with that recommendation. It would be great to have a truly randomized experiment, but that's unlikely to happen (although one could approximate a randomized experiment w/out too many ethical implications. For all I know the studies do that, but I don't know).

But, as someone who almost never attended lectures as an undergrad, all of the same arguments about online lectures can be made (and I have made) about learning directly from the textbooks. Most people seem to find that difficult, so I wouldn't be totally shocked to learn that there is a tangible benefit to actually being in the same room as the instructor and asking for clarification at the moment of confusion.

Disclaimer: I teach at a university. For the 250 student intro lecture I teach, I would be unsurprised if it could be taught just as well online, but I would want decent data on it before making up my mind. For the small classes I teach, I'd be surprised.
The challenges were different, such as not having the professor breathing down your neck to get assignments in, and having to self motivate to get things done.

I'm not sure what you're inferring here. Assigments were given a due date. That's it. No breathing on anyone's necks.

...and are you saying that students at traditional univeristies do not have to be self-motivated?

EDIT: Re-reading, this could be interpreted as sounding harsh, but I certainly don't mean for it to be so.
If money went missing from your wallet, you wouldn't be a little upset? Coinbase can regain my trust when their customer service actually replies to my support ticket and resolves their issue. Until then, money is gone, trust is gone.
Building Backbone.js apps with Backlift part 1: Views and Templates
I used to commute an hour each way, but we moved and I'm now back to 25 minutes door to door. There's nothing better than getting time back in your day.

When I was commuting I witnessed on at least two occasions people exercising in traffic. Literally one hand on the wheel, one hand holding a small weight. The bike sounds much safer, but I definitely agree that exercise is key to feeling energized.
>only a small number of its employees' Macintosh computers were breached, but "there was no evidence that any data left Apple."

Looks like Apple is worried more about leaks of their unreleased products. I would be more worried about data entering Apple, whether any websites were injected with malware or, in a much more unlikely scenario, malicious code being in injected into OS code or apps.
I have nothing against Unity. Sure, it had it's issues when it started, but the LTS version is quite solid.

Running a laptop from an Ubuntu OEM (System 76) with high end CPU (I7) and SSD I can't complain about performance or compatibility issues at all (though I'm only on a dual 1080p config).

Steam also works quite OK. Though most of the time I'm in a terminal with vim, so I don't care much about most Unity features. It looks nicer than the dated GNOME 2 / 3 / KDE stuff though (personal taste).

Also, I really got used to Ubuntu One file sync and music store and indicators.
Does it involve dropping the engine?

I can barely see the plugs on my non-turbo 911SC.

I imagine that the plugs for a turbo are buried under some gnarly manifolds.
The Chinese nuclear arsenal was built to deter the Soviet Union. That is why it consists primarily of medium-range missiles. The Russian population is concentrated in European Russia, which is easily within range of a medium-range nuclear deterrent based in Western China.

This deterrent is ineffective against the United States. The medium-range missiles cannot even hit Seattle, much less Miami. The entire Chinese ICBM force consists of 20 missiles with non-MIRVed 5-megaton thermonuclear warheads.

Thus, in terms of nuclear weaponry, the United States outguns China by about 2000-to-20. This is why their plans assume defeat in a nuclear exchange -- because it is a virtual certainty.
Anyone who is a throat cancer sufferer who has only recently quit smoking has paid quite a bit of tax, at least in the UK.
Well why cross-compile to Emscripten, when you can cross-compile directly for arm,e.t.c (thus leveraging diractly unix/desktop heritage)
oh okay, thank you for answering :)
Do you mind providing links to your books? Thanks.
Apple comments on hacker attack
w.r.t. the windows thin client, does this also mean it's going to mandate x86 processor?
Apple HQ also targeted by hackers, will release tool to protect customers
With some cheap ramps, you could get rid of the stops altogether. Have the catapult run cross traffic up to the proper speed, and then jump over the other street and land safely(?) on the other side.

I've long thought that the third dimension was woefully underused in smoothing the flow of traffic through intersections.
Not only that, but as Dean Baker never tires of pointing out, if the US only spent as much as other rich countries do on health care (countries that get better health outcomes), it would have huge budget surpluses rather than deficits.
The Myth of Perfect Markup
But I bet those people would love to get their hands on a game that helps them simulate their decisions.
Except for the fact that the receiver is getting a letter in the mail from someone they've never met informing them that they are owed money. Pretty much screams scam, even though it isn't in this instance.
Sorry if I gave that impression! What I meant to refer to was that you can insert them somewhere in a loop and then disable it once the loops ran a few times rather than having to press continue (potentially) several hundred times.
Thank you very much for your thorough answer! Great thoughts and advice!
Does this mean you also can't exchange cities? What sort of foolish design decision is that?
Looks like the "Write Once, Run Anywhere" Java mantra is true for malware too. Pretty much any run-of-the-mill Windows PC, Mac or Linux machine is vulnerable to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere
It's work, but it's unlikely to have any benefit.
I'm on the same page. I love the design of the phone, but the software is lacking and buggy, and the totally missing mod community ruins it.

I was an advocate when I first bought it but I've bitten the bullet and bought a Nexus 4. I'd rather have better working software than 4G.
So hopefully heroku will soon be able to support Web Sockets instead of only xhr-polling

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-routing#websocket...

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-socket-io-with-n...
Can I become a developer from scratch at the age of 26?
First off I am based in London England ( UK )

Basically I was the typical kid during school up until about the age of 14 when I lost interest academically. My grades suffered and I limped through until I got out of secondary school barely getting qualifications as nothing interested me. I went through several college courses BTEC in IT and lost interest in those pretty quickly as the pace of academic study just doesn't seem to suit me.

I tried my hand at a few professional courses afterwards starting with A+ and MCSE & Cisco's CCNA and again I was getting involved but the teaching always seemed to be the stumbling block and I'd lose interest.

I bounced around for a few years and then finally made the choice to go back to University about 2 years ago. I started off well and obviously my interest in Intro to Programming & Fruther Programming Modules kept me entertained and I got really nice grades 93% and 97% respectively.

However once those parts of my Computer Science course finished the other 6 modules served 0 interest for me and I dropped out shortly after.

So as you can see limited practical experience little to no formal education.

What I do have is an insatiable passion for Computing in general, I grew up addicted to Hardware and followed it relentlessly then got really into Web Dev when I was 16 and then Networking which is what lead me to Cisco and I really enjoyed coding at University.

So for someone who's terrible at going the Academic route have I missed the boat on me becoming a developer or am I just not going into things as I should just become self taught?

I've been to Google Campus in London there are a ton of startups and the prevailing tend it seemed was the need for Javascript developers. I'm sure I could pick up Javascript quickly enough as well as relearn HTML & CSS

Question is, Can I realistically expect to find work with nothing but being self taught & making a GitHub account to show my work ?
Maybe (I cannot say a thing about TouchWiz).

Do you get reasonable fast upgrades for old (like, month old) phones though, if Android moves forward? Do you get updates at all? Does it (the 'improved' ROM) include unremovable crapware?

Even if all answers to the questions above are positive (as in, the 'right' answer): Do you buy a phone for the software improvements on top of a widely available platform?

I buy decent hardware (sturdy, well made, slick) & support for improvements to the software that this manufacturer didn't even create in the first place. So far, only Nexus devices seem to fit the bill.
TouchWiz is horrid.

Also, even if it some day would become decent it would still be inferior just because it's tied to one manufacturer.
I believe most right thinking people in this world are terrified of the military power of the USA. Even I, being a US citizen, am starting to become very concerned with our military weapons and their usage as they seem far more likely to be turned on us then our enemies. Call me a nut job if you want but we are all just a proclamation away from being "domestic terrorists".