skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My quick fix question was entirely googlable.
I'm one of those people. Allow me to respond.

I have seen people ruined with medical bills.

There are many reasons why the system is dysfunctional, and I'm aware of nearly all of them.

Did you know that a round of cancer treatment in the US can cost over $500,000, and even if you are fully insured with a good policy you can have a 20% copay required, meaning that with insurance you still personally have to pay $100,000 or more? That sort of thing is what is bankrupting people and is why most medical bankruptcies involved people who were fully insured.

That's assuming your insurance policy wasn't subject to "recission", which is legal retroactive cancellation of the policy as soon as you have any condition like cancer that would cost a lot to treat.

We have a for-profit medical industry, and a for-profit insurance industry and both are motivated to increase profits, and reducing care is often a way to do it. Even non-profit hospitals will price gouge. Non-profit status does not mean that the executives working there aren't paid large salaries, it doesn't mean that things are delivered at cost, or with minimal mark up.

The "reform" is mandating people buy insurance from for-profit insurance companies, with no cost controls. Thus we end up with policies that can cost a family $20,000 a year in premiums, while still having large co-pays that can bankrupt you. The parts of the law that would have provided socialized care for the poor were gutted by the Supreme Court review, and by the executive office rule directives interpreting the law.

The answer to the problem is single-payer. The reform system is a further bailout for industry and is already driving up costs and reducing the number of insured.

Your posts presents those of us who support a reasonable working solution of single-payer as a position of hypocrisy, inconsistency, and/or ignorance, because we don't accept a non-working solution that retains and increases out of control costs and profits for industry.

Not supporting a specific, bad solution does not mean one does not see there is a serious problem and reform is necessary.
Site seems to be down right now. Here's a link to the report from reddit: http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf
Most people installed Ubuntu because they could do it on their PC without buying anything. Can I do the same with a semi-old tablet?
FTA: "...including the fact that once I'd built East Didsbury, the strip of shops in Northenden stopped making as much money as they once were, and some were even beginning to close down as my time ran out. Walk along Northenden high street, and you'll know that feeling."

This is interesting. Urban planners out there, do these types of simulations occur before an area is zoned?
Introduction to Javascript and basic concepts
All of that can be done much more efficiently without the mouse:

- scrolling with a mouse wheel

:h scroll.txt

- selecting/resizing a split window

:h window-resize
:h window-move-cursor

- jumping to a specific place in the code

/foo<CR>

or the myriad of cool things in

:h motion.txt

- making a selection

v{motion}
>>What part of Paleo is a fad exactly?

The fact that it is fundamentally inaccurate with no basis in reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet#Opposing_views
When my wife gave birth in Europe the 11 hour procedure, which apart from the traditional medical stuff, included massage and acupunture for relaxation, involved a handful of nurses, 3 midwives, 2 doctors, an anesthesiologist etc. After the birth our little family stayed in the 300 square foot private room at the hospital for two days. We never saw any papers except the booklets the hospital gave us about having an infant. It was great and it was free.

Two years later my wife's sister gave birth in a top notch Manhattan hospital and my wife was there for support. Man, the stories she tells about how every part of the procedure was initiated with waivers being signed and questions asked about insurance to her sister who was squirming in pain and was several hours into labour. And how the impatient doctors tried to upsell her sister to a C-section... After that her sister shared a tiny room for a night with some other woman and was then sent home. Luckily, most of the 40,000 dollar bill was covered by her insurance.
I won't purchase another HTC after they screwed thunderbolt owners by delivering ICS 6+ months late.
Right, I want some of the vim features, mainly plugins. I don't enable vi compatibility, it isn't even remotely vi compatible and it just breaks stuff. I want syntastic, that's the primary motivation for trying to get vim working. I just want it to be helpful instead of irritating. No plugins are messing with tab, I am just trying to get it to work using a normal mapping.
A good point to take away is the concept of "free running sleep". Going to sleep only when you are tired and waking up only naturally. The author says this is a way to feel refreshed every day waking up.
Why should major vendors take this more seriously than consumers? It's not like they can buy the product either. If I were Google or Apple, I'd be a lot more worried about a cool Kickstarter than a vaporous brochure site. Three kids with passion trying to get funding are worth more to me than a dozen graphic artists at Canonical with no idea how electricity works. I'm happy for them to prove me wrong, but this is what, the third or fourth thing they've "announced" with absolutely no idea how they're going to produce? Saying "I don't know how to build this, but I intend to" is a lot better than "If you call me with hardware, I'd love to art direct you." Why would anybody capable of manufacturing a device bother calling them rather than just making a shitty Android device on their own?
Here are the highlights the author has extracted from his study http://tldr.io/tldrs/5123bba2793151711c00001b/good-sleep-goo...
That's hardly good advice for a novice though. I agree somewhat for that a lot of people, they just need to get out the door and run, but there are too many people out there that think they need to run as much as possible. And that's how injuries happen. I know way too many people that have gone and done too much too soon on little training because they're not following good, practiced advice.
A gram of Splenda might be 10 times as sweet, and occupy 10 times as much volume, as a gram of brown sugar.
Certain situations where uploading isnt ideal (on mobile, file is in an old email, etc)
How to create presentations in the browser with reveal.js
Google's Security Measures Have Reduced Account Hijackings By 99.7% Since 2011
Ask HN: In 5 month I'll have no job. What would you do?
My job "ends" in five months, and I don't think I'll have a job for a year (a common problem in my country), so I just wanted to ask HN: What would you do in my case? What advice can you give?

Thanks for any comment.

PS: I'm an outsource programmer in a banking corporation.
Most people would rather be bankrupt than be dead.

I agree that a civilized society should help everyone, but don't agree that the USA is a civilized society. There is definitely an attitude that poor people don't "deserve" stuff. That's been an American notion since the first settlers arrived and won't change anytime in the near future.
Cutting calories is the only way to lose weight. Cutting carbs typically means people end up eating less calories, because protein is more satiating.

"Eating the same diet, just a lot less carbs"

If you're eating less carbs, that's 4 calories less for every grab of carbs you've cut out. If previously you were eating around 200g of carbs everyday (probably on the low end, honestly) you've now removed around 800 calories from your diet.

You're still cutting calories.
If only NSFW had appeared in the URL of a few things I've clicked at work.
I'm not seeing the most important info in a product announcement. Is it available yet, and if not, when will it be available? How much will it cost?

I don't understand the mindset behind launching a device that you aren't selling. By the time it's actually on the market, your faster moving competitors (Apple, Samsung, etc) have already matched your improvements. You also get a huge amount of buzz when first unveiling a product, and you need to capitalize on that by letting people give you money for it. Microsoft fails at this every single time, and it looks like HTC is joining them?

This is coming from someone who saw this phone and decided 'ok, sold, where do I buy one?' - and could not find any of this out. Terrible marketing failure. By tomorrow I will have forgotten completely, and I'll probably end up just getting a Samsung.
Here's an issue at hand: I hear a lot of people complaining at various conferences I attend that they are the best at their job at work, and put in overtime and extra effort, but can't seem to get promoted. They're not getting promoted, obviously, because they're the best. Their company cannot afford to have them leave their current position.

The other side to that, though, is not that they necessarily want to be promoted, they just want more compensation and/or new challenges. A maximum wage for a job isn't acceptable if it's going to drive your best employee out of your office. If you can't promote someone who deserves it, compensate based on skill, not job title. And if Joe is your go-to guy who is a wizard at Java but is bored, try delegating some of his easier work elsewhere (is it really critical to have it tomorrow?) and encourage him to come up with some solutions on his own, to problems he's facing at work.

"Never promote your best person" is a good idea, and certainly it looks like the numbers back it up. But if they want or deserve a promotion, look at the reason why they want or deserve a promotion, and give them more of that.
Not like magnetic is necessarily immune. WD greens used to have astoundingly bad spin down logic. I killed a bunch of them with default Linux settings and near idle servers in about that time frame.
I wrote a Safari extension a couple years ago when the number of Bitcoin stories on the home page was reaching epidemic levels. There's a link on there to a similar extension for Chrome. You should be able to hack either one to ignore specific domains pretty easily.

https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/NoBitcoin
His was one of the first (if not the first?) computerized SRS (spaced repetition systems) out there (flash cards methods existed, such as the Lietner box system). It's non-free though. There are several more modern alternatives out there. Most people I know (who are into SRS programs) use Anki: www.ankisrs.net

You can even download pre-made decks from within the app (it's something like File->download->shared deck) that other people have made available for all kinds of topics (heavy emphasis on foreign languages).
"and probably lure OEM vendors to their booth at MWC"

This is the whole problem, isn't it? When Google wants to make a device, they call up Asus or whomever and have it made. When Apple wants to make a device, they hire folks to do it, and those folks call the manufacturers for the parts. Why does Canonical expect the OEM to call them first on the basis of pretty mockups?
How Obama's content distribution network overwhelms traditional media
Here is the first of 3 videos explaining the simulation engine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0qURl_JJY
I'm sure they mean `map fg <c-z>` in Vim so that `fg` from Vim lines up with `fg` from shell and you can repeat the same stroke to easily "toggle" Vim.
> Most people would rather be bankrupt than be dead.

True, but what if it's something less serious? Some people would rather be ill than bankrupt. And then what if it gets worse, and then it's too late? People shouldn't have to make that choice, especially because most people--not being doctors--are going to make bad decisions about when something is serious enough to get checked out.
Indeed. iTerm2 has replaced tmux for me for local development.
UX Weekly
This is how you healthcare
Sequoia Seed Fund
Bluecherry releases its cross platform video surveillance client open source
Turbines are not fuel efficient for vehicles that are stationary as they idle at 20k rpm. Also the exhaust is highly polluting.
Missing bitcoins on Coinbase
It has been two days now since I have seen my bitcoins. This isn't because of a delayed confirmation, or someone hacked my account. My ledger displays perfectly that I should have bitcoins in my account. But I don't. I've tried to contact Coinbase by email and their twitter account and have received no response.

So here I am, knowing they are a ycombinator backed company, posting here, to find out what the heck is going on? I perused twitter to see if maybe other people are having this same problem.

Looks like I am not alone!

"@brian_armstrong @coinbase Still no response on my support request. I'm still missing 9.6 BTC. Can you tell me what's going on?"
https://twitter.com/thomrburg/status/303870208102248448

"@coinbase Day 3 of missing BTC. Imagine if your bank suddenly took your cash from your account."
https://twitter.com/aginanon/status/303653952162000897

"Balance says 0 when I should have around 80btc?! Heard @coinbase was having some issues but that they had been resolved.. whats the dealio?"
https://twitter.com/jacobparrish/status/303642200707854336

"@jacobparrish @coinbase I'm still having the same problem too! Really nerve-racking."
https://twitter.com/nsillik/status/303650076549591040

It is time to come clean. What happened to our money? Why haven't you responded to anyone in 48 hours about this?
You seem to be conflating Vim and Terminal.

Vim is just one of the many things you can run in a terminal, and just one of the many things you can do with a terminal.
Show HN: HolePicker - Ruby security tool for checking Gemfiles
The problem with a lot of small to medium sized towns is that the people in charge of making zoning decisions are just local good ol' boys (or girls) who got voted in office because people knew who they were. They are in no way qualified to make these kinds of decisions.

And so you get what you get.
What Social Network Will you Still be Using in 5 Years?
Diamonds Valued at $50M Stolen in Brazen Heist at Brussels Airport
Rails and concurrent request handling
I tried then, and I've tried in the years since, but I simply cannot understand where they're coming from. How anyone can support a healthcare system in this day & age that can, and does, bankrupt or refuse to treat people.. I just can't understand it.

I find it curious and odd that you can't understand another philosophy on the role of government and the individual.
While I completely agree, I think it is important to point out that SLC is still used pretty widely in Enterprise-grade SSDs. Standard configuration on these drives is 100% over-provisioning, so lifespan is likely 20+ years.
They should if he leaves them an inheritance.
> Interactive Map of Every Meteorite Impact Since 2,300 B.C.

Not every impact, only those that were witnessed and recorded. The majority of meteorites fall into the oceans, most of them with no witnesses.
Why does it seem like a step in the right direction, specifically?
Right, but there's no other front line of entry to anywhere else in the hospital. If a person walked to a hospital and demanded to see a brain surgeon they would be turned away even if they had health insurance.

A major issue with the american health care system is there is a severe shortage of front line care outside of the ER. This is a side effect of the way doctors are compensated. There is no financial incentive to be a GP, so there aren't enough GPs.
I created vim-seek exactly for this reason, it's like f but takes always two characters, way faster than easymotion within the line (though I still use easymotion for longer distances) http://github.com/goldfeld/vim-seek
Yes, this has been a bit of annoyance for me too.
I've always wondered what these theoretical numbers, which has been quoted since long before consumers could ever afford an SSD, should tell you... They should not, in any way, make you trust your SSD. They are beyond useless. Also, this article assumes no write amplification and assumes perfect wear level algorithms. He/She even throws in usb-thumb drives in the mix, so, how do you know if your thumb drive has a perfect (TM) wear level algorithm? What about that flash card? Would you recommend storing swap and log files on that too? Sigh.

Compared to this article the advice of not ever storing swap/log files on a flash drive would be sound advice.

But yes, you are probably not going to hit the limits of your consumer drive SSD. But whether you are going to or not you will not, under any circumstances, be able to find out by making some numbers up. If anyone knows it is the manufacturer, and you can bet you won't get access to that data.
Thanks for pointer to http://www.skimhn.com/. It feels like gasp of fresh air. Sifting through list of highly diverse material, which Hacker News is, is a real cognitive load (citation need, I know). Now, this is elegant.
Apparently those were his terms.
My view:

The important thing is the headline. Make that blue. Make the domain grey or black and a smaller size (like on HN).
How Different Cultures Saw 'Life of Pi'
Levitt (Freakonomics) on Reddit IAmA
nohup master race.

Just kidding, tmux for life.
Both numbers are totally wrong. Because both should be closer to a quarter million, and not 200. Even one gram of sugar already has over 4000 calories.

But besides that, and this is probably your question:
you only need a tiny amount of artificial sweetener, to get the same sweetness that you would get with sugar. For example Aspartam is about 200x as sweet as sugar, but it contains a very similar amount of energy. Sugar has ca. 16.8 kJ/g and Aspartam more like 17 kJ/g.
The problem with the TANSTAAFL argument in this case is that the NHS is far cheaper than the American alternative. It is also far superior at providing preventative care than the American alternative.
An interactive music video inspired by Photoshop
Interesting but MixPanel does this out of the box, no?
The "step back in time" feature is sort of gimmicky, but does mean you can rewind even Curses terminal applications. Rarely actually useful, but it has saved me a huge amount of hassle a few times.
This is an indictment of the U.S. legal system, not the U.S. healthcare system.
Python has a memory model. It's just too bad that so much of the python ecosystem relies on bindings to C libraries, so you go to resize an image and then you get a segfault that brings down your whole program (real example).
crickets

I had fun writing it, FWIW.
Show HN: Lstn.io - A simple, powerful service for sharing music recommendations
Some of you might have had bad experiences with Unity. I had some too, when it launched. But as it stands now it's integrated in my workflow and it's much faster/easier than anything I've experienced so far with Windows 7.

I think for a lot of people that don't do much on a computer, Unity/Ubuntu makes way more sense than it's iOS and Win counterpart. It's cleaner, there is less "clutter" on the screen.

Even from a tweaker/hacker perspective, when you are not working/coding and just want to relax and watch some content, Unity does the job pretty well.

I prefer their vision of the post-PC era than what Win/iOS propose. At least it's an open platform and it integrates fluidly in your activity flow.
How power settings can affect application latency
Sometimes the lack of an answer IS the answer. He won't say "yes", ever, to such a question - but the fact that he didn't say "no" immediately and unequivocally means his answer is "yes".

Insofar as any justification via "invasion or insurrection" clauses may apply, war must be declared - and, in the issue at hand, it hasn't.

Given the recent propensity for this administration to paint "tea party" types as some form of "terrorist", some of us are rather concerned.
That's an interesting idea. Directly I'd still say no, they shouldn't, but indirectly via an inheritance tax I'm OK with as I'm OK with inheritance tax in general.
The US needs a new spectrum policy
> one glaring flaw: you have to hold it.

That could also be said to be a flaw in books, but that's an interface that had some staying power. And most people probably use a tablet, like a book, setting on a surface or propped up on something.
What about AAMRAM-ski and Raptor-ski? (I just like the sound.)
You're right, this is quite good!

I might consider buying this... The screen upgrade is $80 b.t.w. (not that big of a difference.)

A lot of my work involves compiling AOSP code, which takes way too long (and AOSP's one shot makefile doesn't work for me for some reason); so even a faster processor would def make a difference in my productivity when building locally on my laptop...

> But an ultrabook, it's not.

It is indeed quite thick, and not per-se that visually appealing (they could do with some better design). I do want to check though, if there are any vents on the underside/bottom of the laptop. Some laptop designers stupidly put vents on the bottom breaking the very designation of "laptop" :-|
Me too. I had the chance to play the beta last weekend and even with reduced functionality the game was quite a lot of fun.

I rarely if ever play games and I'm certain this will be a terrible time suck.
9/11 pushed the US into a war with Iraq and Afghanistan, created the climate in which things like the Patriot Act flourished and turned the US from a clear supporter of human rights into a nation whose use or non use of torture is a question of semantics. [1]

In addition my perception from outside of the US is, that since 9/11 US popular culture uses terrorists as villains in a similar manner as Nazis or Russian spies before that. (Atop of that, I have a hard time remembering a movie in which the torture of an SS member is depicted as a necessary evil.)

So I am not arguing that the twelve years 9/11 did change the world in a similar magnitude as WWII did, I am arguing that the cultural significance of 9/11 is similar to the cultural significance of Pearl Harbour. Especially considering that the US would have been drawn into WWII anyhow, while at least the Afghanistan war is a direct consequence of 9/11.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Classification_i....
Apple releases iOS 6.1.2 to fix Microsoft Exchange calendar bug
I think the author's point was that his father wouldn't have bothered to fill out the paperwork required by Medicare so the fact that the NHS is automatic allowed his father to have coverage.
One reason is that it represents the first acknowledgement that health care is something that every man, woman and child should have.

That's not to say there aren't horrible things about Obamacare (i.e. terrible business model) but yes, it's a start.
No it removes the incentives to buy there -- the idea that SR is safe -- kills the customer base and so the sellers will leave.
The HN title? It appears somebody changed it.
There's an IFTTT recipe for this, which lets you use your own email address: https://ifttt.com/recipes/39
> "They just get it later, via the ED, after prevention goes un-performed. That's abominable enough, and that's what we should talk about"

You two aren't disagreeing.

You say we should talk about the epidemic of people unable to afford primary care, pushing treatment later and later, eventually into the ER where they may not even be able to be saved - and even if they do, suffer long-term health effects due to the delay in treatment.

And he's saying that this is because the system does refuse to treat people - especially at the primary care level.

These two topics seem to line up just fine.
Anyone have info about the beta program? Simcity 2000 was my favorite game on my 486. 3000 and classic were flops... this looks really really good.

As for the article, really interesting. Sounds like proof of the power of SimCity's engine. Would be more interesting to see him fix his issue.
StackOverflow is not a discussion site. It's a QnA site, and people who have had their question / answer removed or downvoted would vouch for that,