skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to know a lot about the US health insurance market. What percentage of US health spending is driven by this sort of emergency care?

Or is this all theoretical hot wind?
I haven't used it yet, but the reason I plan to use Titan on my next project is because it is the only distributed graph database out there AFAIK.
Leveling up as a student-entrepreneur
My experience as a student-entrepreneur going to school full-time and then taking the plunge and leaving school (only temporarily, I think) to work full-time.
Great cup design
This great cup design is awesome and really made me want to have one like this.
People are naturally risk adverse. Government subsidized flood insurance incentivises people into living in locations they wouldn't otherwise live. The free market is telling people not to live there because it's prohibitively costly. Government puts people's life in danger by manipulating the cost of living in dangerous places. It forces society to fit the bill for the endless cycle of destruction then reconstruction.

Besides the fact government interference in the insurance market does more harm than good to those it intends to protect, the wealthy are the ones that most benefit from government flood insurance. The vast majority of people that live in places where insurance is unavailable or too expensive are those wealthy enough to build a house on a hurricane prone beach. (Think too of the fire/earthquake prone hills of glorious sunny California)

What you're really asking for is those of average means to subsidies second beach houses for the rich. Not only is your argument faulty it's immoral.

We're all better off taking care of ourselves than being taken care of by morons. The government solution to a problem is inevitably worse that the problem itself.
I use emacs and intellij a lot. Let's compare them based on ruby, which they both "support". Out of the box RubyMine (intellij's ruby IDE) works extremely well, especially if you're doing rails projects. Again, this is out of the box with no work on my part.

Emacs out of the box (install ruby-mode) is not even close to RubyMine. Now, if I spend many hours, and I value my time a great deal, I can get emacs kinda close to the features of intellij.

Frankly, I'd rather pay $60/year than spend many hours trying to get emacs close to as good as RubyMine.
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Calling the "free market" inefficient is the most absurd thing I've heard in at least a week.

"Free Markets" clearly aren't the answer for everything, but they are when efficiency is the primary goal. Laws and regulations aren't there to promote efficiency. They are there, ideally, to promote safety. In my experience, the overlap of safety and efficiency is vanishingly small. Would that it were not.

In every situation, we need some balance of efficiency and safety.

Yes, it's true, when you are having a heart attack, you probably don't want to spend time shopping around. That is exactly what "insurance" is for.

When you have a cold and you go to the doctor, that is a waste of a limited resource (the doctor's time specifically). If you as a consumer had to bear the full brunt of the cost of seeing a doctor for non-catastrophic issues, you'd think twice about going over a cold.

That doctor would then be able to take on more patients because their time wouldn't be wasted on trivial things. This is more efficient.

The flip side, is that the expense of the doctor's office dealing with insurance companies would absolutely be reduced. That's an immediate cost reduction. The demand for arbitrary doctor services would be reduced (by virtue of everyone with a sniffle not immediately heading to the doctor).

Simultaneously, doctor's would be able to reach more patients at a lower cost.

Prices for everyday type treatment would go down.

When you disconnect the scarcity of a resource from its price, you wreak havoc on the system. The way we (in the US) use health insurance, it's more like "prepaid medical services" than what insurance was meant for. The problem is that you have disconnected the scarcity of the doctor's time and service with the price of that service. It artificially inflates demand on that doctor's time, because hell, you've already paid the premium this month, if you don't go see the doctor for a cold, you are wasting money.

And that's true. You have wasted money, but going to the doctor for that cold just wastes their time, so now you've doubled down on waste and inefficiency.
To expand on this point - you can build a site that both uses Angular and has a fallback to plain http methods. Forms can do full posts, links can actually link to things, etc. Angular doesn't preclude you from a progressively enhanced site - its's up to the developers using Angular (or any client-side framework) to build for plain server communication as a priority.

However, "Therefore there is no need for progressive enhancement" is also wrong - there is. That's why they use "title" for tooltips, a textarea for code boxes, etc.
Agree with this entirely. Plus monolithic blocks of crud like visual studio are hideously unreliable I find.
A legit complaint would be the miniaturization making it difficult to work on your own car without a more complete disassembly, engine removal, etc, I rarely hear "too many computers" from actual mechanics or people who used to do self-repairs in the past. I tend to hear these complaints from less-knowledgeable consumers rationalizing why their cars are breaking down.
Very very surprised Tesla isn't here (or higher, maybe I missed it) on the list
Depends what you mean.

If you mean people whose goal it is to help site owners learn how to structure their data intelligently for dissection by machines, people who make companies think very hard about their content, people who encourage high-quality crosslinks and meta tags, and people who generally help sites manage data, then no, SEOs are great. They help users and companies alike.

If you mean the dirtball black hats, then yes, they are a parasite that deserves no mercy and should be eliminated at all costs.
Depends on your situation and how long you plan on living in one place. In the US there are tax advantages to home ownership, my mortgage + property taxes are currently less than what I would pay for rent for a comparable house. Situations differ by individual and region. Some places like San Francisco are seeing rents go through the roof, while some places like Berlin are still very reasonable.
He is saying that people should pay for their actions when they move to a high-risk area. Unfortunately, they cannot properly evaluate the risk because insurance companies cannot create due to competition with the "free" bailouts provided by the government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey seems relevant.
I've heard this argument before, and, while it seems logical enough, has anyone tried to estimate the cost of various procedures under this sort of system? I tend to believe that healthcare would still be too expensive for most people to afford, but I've never been able to find supporting estimates one way or the other.
I thought looking at the 99th (or other) percentile was pretty standard practice?
There's not a lot of meat here. If you really want to dive into the details of the regulations, costs, and incentives of the US health market you can do so elsewhere. But this is just an eloquent expansion upon a particular political talking point. You won't learn much besides raganwald's political leanings.

I buy arguments that health insurance breaks down for the very old and the very sick. But otherwise there is no theoretical reason for believing you can't insure health risk. However, there are seven decades of bad regulation which complicates the matter in the US.
I thought about it some more and now I know why I was irritated by this remark. I just felt this remark was exactly the same thing as some jerks bulling a kid with glasses (or the fat one) in school.

There is that social situation where you're new to the group and don't really know what's expected of you, what you should do. But you'd like to fit in. It's after initial introductions and you know the group's members names, but they're not that happy about you hanging around them. Some of them seem hostile, others just indifferent. So naturally you want to avert their attention and, if possible, show them that you have much in common.

And that's when this unpopular, fat or whatever, kid happens to fall just in front of you. Of course you will be laughing, at the very least, and it's quite possible that you'll be calling the kid an idiot with others. You know, maybe you're not fully accepted into the group yet, but at least you're not him. And you can laugh with your buddies, this matters too.

I find this remark exactly the same kind of thing. I read it as: "ok, so you may use PHP, or maybe Java, that's all cool because hey, at least we're not lispers! We're all one big, happy programming family (except for the lispers, of course, who don't even know what a hash is)!"

I don't like this. I wrote "PHP" because it's a popular target of the same bullying tactic. And Java, too, just in the other circles. I don't like it in these cases either, despite the fact that I don't use either PHP nor Java and frankly I don't think they're great. They may not be, but bullying is a bit below what I want to see in a technical article - or in real life.
One problem I have with this approach is that it requires you to pick a threshold after which the response is "too slow." This number can change a lot over the course of an application lifetime, and would be hard to pick objectively anyways.

Median latency -- perhaps with (the smoothing-effect of) a rolling median -- would be more robust to outliers without having to resort to hardcoding of "too slow" thresholds. It would still require the human to connect the dots (e.g. median latency of >200 is "too slow") but it's an improvement on mere average response time for reasons noted.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for an assassin?
RMS follows the archetype of the mad philosopher in the marketplace. Unpleasant appearance, unpleasant message, spends much of his time taking pot-shots at the respected players... but in the end people eventually figure out he was probably onto something. It is almost certain he will never be universally respected, but we will remember him.

Of course that is a bit of historic revisionism through selection bias, the people with a similar appearance who aren't onto something are soon forgotten, but I think it is becoming clear that RMS will not be playing that role.
Just because one does not agree to financially compensate people for "Acts of God" does not mean they are "perfectly okay with a city of people being left in dire straits".

There is a difference between losing your life and having to empty your savings. Questioning whether or not I am responsible for my fellow man's finances seems fair.
This is an interesting tool, it fails at 16 colors. Which is surprising. (it may be the gamut of my display of course but I would think 16 would be within its abilities). That is probably the most number of distinct colors I've needed in a graph. Works nicely for numbers 10 and below.
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If you care about the underlying algorithms, I'd think it's pretty clear which kind of SEO we're talking about.
I can give plenty of counter examples, but the one that immediately jumps to mind is orgs like Pissed Consumer, who are essentially using subdomains to hijack other companies' Google juice. However, it's also hard for me to suggest that those links are not relevant to queries if you look for something like "_____ reviews"
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Com o nosso motor de busca pode encontrar o melhor preço no aluguer de carros pois fazemos uma pesquisa de entre mais de 550 agências para lhe encontrar o melhor preço. Mas ainda pode encontrar hotéis baratos no destino para onde viajar. Fazemos uma pesquisa e encontramos-lhe um hotel com um preço à sua medida. Entre em http://www.aluguercarros.com.pt e reserve o carro e o hotel para a sua viagem a um preço bom e baixo. Veja como é fácil, rápido e seguro.
> Am i the only one who thinks that SEO is more a plague then it is a real profession?

luckily, no. http://powazek.com/posts/2090
IPTables isn't part of GNU. It was developed by the Netfilter team. Indeed, very few of the networking utilites that are common in Linux distributions are part of the GNU project.
This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.
> Imagine a world where everyone paid for health expenses out of pocket ...

Very good points. The argument can be made that the existence of health insurance is a major factor in the increase in medical costs over the years. After all, it's not Jane Doe who has to pay for the procedure, it's a large, anonymous insurance company. This reduces the motive to shop for the best deal or ask whether a procedure is actually worth it. It reduces the role of personal responsibility.
How about that? http://visualgdb.com/debugging/
This one seems pretty amateur and should have been caught as part of a pull request/code review process.

- @regex = /^(#{Regexp.escape(@prefix)})(.+?)(#{Regexp.escape(@suffix)})$/
+ @regex = /\A(#{Regexp.escape(@prefix)})(.+?)(#{Regexp.escape(@suffix)})\z/

^ and $ only match the first line in ruby, whereas \A and \z match across all lines.
Entitled SEOs tend to be more common than exceptional. While I didn't see anything so hamfisted that it had to be parody, but I can see what you mean.

From the topics on their default page and his other communications, it seems to be sincere.

https://twitter.com/rishil/status/299185628321566720
Shortly followed by two others:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra... (Rails 2.3 and 3.0)

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra... (JSON library)

And in a short followup:

"To be clear, updating Rails doesn't necessarily mean the JSON gem will be updated. Please ensure that you are running JSON version 1.7.7, 1.6.8, or 1.5.5. You can do this by adding the dependency to your Gemfile." -- Aaron Patterson
I'm not so sure; I have to agree with heme. "ui-keypress="{13:'keypressCallback($event)'}" seems a whole lot like the UI is specifying behavior (on key 13, call a function called keypressCallback). This is no different than [pseudocode] "onkeydown='if(e.key==13){ keypressCallback(e) }" with a slightly cleaner syntax, except that you're calling it on an arbitrary this instead of the window. It's just as dirty. The event bindings belong in the js, not the html.
What characteristics make up a quality group?
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Now that you explain it like that, I see it's impossible to provide cost-effective health care for a nation of people with anything except staggering inefficiencies. I don't know why this isn't obvious to me, sitting here in Toronto.

I clearly haven't thought this through.

;-)
I think The Tech Report has my favorite benchmark graphs. They sort the data points by latency so you can intuitively see the distribution of your samples. e.g. http://techreport.com/review/24022/does-the-radeon-hd-7950-s...
SEO Won't be any more dead than health fads (which really started in the late 1800's). As long as Snake Oil exists, people will buy it.

They'll probably take on a different guise now, like calling it "Social Media Promotion" or some other malarkey. Plenty of companies want to be the talk of the town on FB and Twitter.
I wish Reddit implemented a more...un-arbitrary way of calculating upvotes. Gates currently has 6,211 net upvotes, with a total of 11,500 upvotes.

That's already almost half the net upvotes of what Obama got:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...

But Obama's IAMA got 239,221 upvotes total. Which means he got 225K downvotes...which I guess is feasible, but for all we know, that was just an arbitrary result Reddit's strange algorithm of adding downvotes to obscure the upvote count.

I guess it doesn't matter in the end, it just seems that upvotes should be a real reflection of how liked (or polarizing) a thread/discussion was.
There is still a case for consultants who understand how to make websites genuinely more useful and relevant. Then it's win-win. Their motives might be their rankings, traffic and profit, but if it improves the web for Google users, then that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

But the tone of this "article" makes this guy sound like he wears a black hat.
Only because you are using the extremely thin version. There's a thicker version of the font that's perfectly readable as body.
Aw, so sorry to tell you but it doesn't work in the latest version of IE. I'm not even sure if you should bother trying to get it to work but at minimum just put up a message to IE users telling them to use another browser.
Hi, author here.

I am in complete agreement. Unfortunately, a lot of monitoring and APM tools still lead with average response time as one of the toplevel metrics. And a lot of people still make incorrect assumptions based on it.

Although, the percentile on average latency is not great either. I try to make the case for using a metric that counts acceptable experiences vs. their latency value, e.g. the Apdex index or our derived sat score.

Best,
Mike
robots this size aren't that unusual http://www.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt
That was not the case for this particular individual in Toronto.
The unofficial download has been available for a while. It's pretty neat, you can build programmatically.

Here's the best part. On my (slightly tweaked) 512MB Raspberry pi, this runs flawless at fullscreen, way smoother than on my MacBook Pro.

The downside is that (in at least the early version I downloaded) there are no baddies, and nothing significant to mine.
It seems that most people here would like it very much if SEO died a horrible death as quickly as possible. Let me try and paint a (probably somewhat sketchy) picture of why it should exist (I have nothing to do with SEO consulting btw):

1. You have a business.
2. Said business has a website.
3. Said website is bringing in no discernable revenue for your business.
4. Poking around for reasons, you discover that your website ranks really lowly on Google.
5. You have no idea why.
6. You pay an SEO consultant. They take a look at your web site, and your overall web presence, to try and find out what's going wrong.
7. They discover that your markup is terrible, the wrong things are enclosed in header tags, etc. Also, you have little to no visibility outside of your website.
8. They advise some sensible changes to your markup, and force you to start posting things on Google+, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
9. Your ranking improves. As does your revenue.

Which bit of that process is evil and wrong?

Of course, there will always be a shady side to SEO (people taking it too far, etc), but there's a valid reason reason it exists: many people simply do not know enough to get the basic components right. SEO consultants help them do that, and improve revenue as a result.
Neato!

Does the emerging browser camera support allow requesting permission for a single snap (to calibrate distance) as opposed to constant-video?
I still strongly feel that the best way to achieve excellent SEO is through building human-accessible pages. How is your site on a screen reader? If its easy to navigate by braille keyboard or voice output, then it probably is well enough that Google should be able to make sense of it.

Better yet, make it so that your CODE is readable and understandable easily by someone who doesn't have perfect vision.

If you achieve this and create great, relevant content, then Google will snap it up and the customers will appear. No other tricks needed.
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I think it's more like the search engine is the car and Google is the mechanic than the site is the car and the seo guy is the mechanic. The seo guy is more like... a bum on the highway offramp claiming to be a veteran when he's actually a drunk.
I think it would be reasonable to understand the underlying algorithms in order to optimise what white hat SEO to spend effort on. But I accept that this is probably a rare breed.
Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON Gem
Love this, even just for website palettes. Nice work.
I bet they are fairly liberal with their size limits:

http://www.amazon.com/robots.txt
http://aws.amazon.com/robots.txt
http://www.google.com/robots.txt
http://store.apple.com/robots.txt
I'm sure the pi version would be jvm if it could perform fast enough.

Last I heard, they were working with the bukkit team to produce an official api for the jvm version.
Out of curiosity, in what ways is Zurb superior to Bootstrap? I immediately see that they use Sass rather than Less. That's a smart move I appreciate. Anything else? Better licensing, browser support, toolset?

I think it looks great but I'd also like to have a good reason to suggest to a developer whether to use one or the other.
Where do your examples say they're pointers?

They don't, it's inferred in my examples. Like I said, if you need them, you can use whatever sigils you want. They can go in front of the types as usual.

How would you express this using your first syntax?

I wouldn't. That syntax is decidedly inappropriate for vectors that incorporate length into the type.
hi Jabbles,

Author here. The 99 or 95 percentile is a much better metric! We also make the case for the industry standard Apdex or our derived metric, sat score. These are becoming more and more in use by APM tools like us or New Relic.

Unfortunately, many existing tools and people who use them still look at latency aggregates and often make incorrect assumptions.
Maybe you forgot to read the part about the drafts and suggestions.
wow, just realized this is a great way to find information about websites
https://twitter.com/kaepora/statuses/300992047345704960
> Personally, I think it takes years.

Most art does, yeah. So... that only goes to make my point: I'm not skilled in the art, I am focusing on being skilled in other arts. If I wanted skill in that art, I'd hire someone who had skill in the art. Bootstrap serves as a cheap way to "import skill".
I read the book, excellent idea on how to split equity in startups, what happens when one founder loses interest etc.

I think Mike nailed how to divvy up equity, there are still challenges between founders, but this clears a lot of things for them in advance.