skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a question that I think about a lot and for most part, have not found an answer that makes logical sense.

Why do insurance companies play such hardball with compensating private practices or medical groups? It would seem like it is in the interest of insurance companies for private practices to flourish given that the same thing done at a hospital costs the insurance companies 3-6 times more money.

Most doctors that I ask this question suggest there is a conspiracy where insurance companies are in bed with hospital. Frankly, I don't buy it. I'm probably missing something and I'd love to hear someone's take who has thought about these issues deeply as you clearly have.
Watch Out for Google Glasses
I haven't tried it yet myself, but supposedly GDB has supported reversible debugging since 2009[0] — any experience with that? Limitations?

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/news/reversible.html
I like how making it so that variable names determine whether or not the compiler generates correct code is labeled an "elegant hack". To borrow his phrasing, this makes me wonder if Joel would recognize an elegant hack if it walked up to him on the Shanghai Maglev and shook his pants leg.
There's (inconclusive) evidence that cell phones or cell phone towers are disrupting bees' lives.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/cellphones-contribute-bee-c...
Shutting down my side project of two years
Is a great memory a requirement for great programming? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/572620/is-a-great-memory-...

Alan Kay: in programming there is a wide-spread 1st order theory that one
shouldn't build one's own tools, languages, and especially
operating systems. This is true—an incredible amount of time
and energy has gone down these ratholes. On the 2nd hand, if you
can build your own tools, languages and operating systems, then
you absolutely should because the leverage that can be obtained
(and often the time not wasted in trying to fix other people's not
quite right tools) can be incredible. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m...
Cliff Moon - Why one second matters
Last I heard IE was closed source ... I'd love to know how he got his hands on the IE code base to make that measurement... All his posturing about - design decisions being a business need of google make me wonder whether this was a M$ sponsored article...
Well there is knowledge with experience and knowledge without experience. Read a lot, well the script-kiddies do that, and that is how they find scripts to use and tricks. That is knowledge without experience. Knowledge with experience is the only thing that one can gain to learn on their own by doing things instead of just reading about them or going to college/university and studying.

We are posting on a web site called 'hacker news' but it is really about startups and technology, not really about hackers. You cannot expect everyone reading to be a real hacker. I assume there are those just starting out, as well as those who have intermediate skills, and then those few who are experts. None others call a hacker, but I guess they consider themselves hackers.

I got over 20 years of experience in the computer industry, I've been called a nerd, geek, hacker by coworkers and managers. But does that make me a hacker? Some of them have been called hackers by other hackers, and I've been called a hacker by other hackers. But does that make me a hacker? Most people here on hacker news do not even know who I am or what I've been doing for 20+ years in the industry. Most if not all of it was private commercial work that others have taken credit for but had nothing to do with it other than they were a manager or owned stock in the companies I worked for. Even on the patents I am not listed as an inventor, instead they put on the names of the people on the board of directors for the company who don't know the difference between a PC and a calculator much less how a programming language works.
It uses less than legal methods for obtaining music and doesn't work on iphone (without jailbreak).
The first query seems awfully slow. I have a six node vertica cluster with a 100 column table with 7Bn rows in it and a similar query takes less than 3 seconds.
In what possible world could process isolation be driven by business needs? For that matter to describe it as being 'antiquated' is rather bizarre. Every modern browser is moving in that direction including IE10 for security and performance reasons.

For that matter, I have no idea what 'infinite history' means, every browser records history and I have no clue how that could possibly impact performance in the slightest.
It's a bad idea to link to jquery.latest in a production site. $.browser is breaking.
We currently get the pricing data via rss feeds, crawling, data dumps and for some cases also crowdsourcing. In the long run, we also hope to establish merchant relationships and get the data directly.

To the original question on crawling - (I had replied to a similar question previously on HN):
"Some great advice here on crawling at scale, which has inspired our crawlers a lot : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4367933
Basically it boils down to three things: 1. If the site is slow,crawl slooowly. 2. If you see non-200 http error codes, stop! 3. Obey robots.txt and speed restrictions."
I say this in "how far have we come" "we've come full circle" and not in any way as disparaging.

As someone who remembers Perl CGI's ability to serve dynamic content as being revolutionary and awesome. It amazes me to hear someone who's only experience is dynamic content and needs http file serving explained to them.
Distributed k-ary System: Algorithms for Distributed Hash Tables
I sat with a newbie programmer the other day. We sat there and made good use of third-party libraries, frameworks and code to get things moving, and concentrate on the core problem at hand.

Now, we had to Google a bit to install the third-party and dependency stuff, and tinker with configuration to get it all ready.

Eventually we delivered the GUI version of 'Hello World', and the newbie programmer had already progressed several steps when he remarked: "So, modern programming is basically building my code on top of other people's code, without really knowing how it all works, if it is really any good, and hoping it all works well enough to make the whole thing work".

Any he was right. Long gone is the time when we understood all the components and code for our entire domain.

And we are often the poorer for it.
Let's ban this term "thread safe" and instead say what we really mean.

But first, let's figure out what we really mean.
Small rise in global temperatures could thaw permafrost
wait. they want to invest in one of the most heavily regulated and friction filled business domains out there and the seed is 100k!?!?!?

this is a joke right, as in this is really the onion under the covers...
Pretty easy:

apt-get install chromium
No, I am not one of them :) Thanks for the reference! I am drawing my inspiration from Bailey, and more recently Ma et al.
They label an image line by line and merge the labels during the blanking period.
If you start merging labels while the image is processed then data might get lost if the merged label occurs after the merge.

The paper that you reference divides the image into regions, so that the merging can start earlier, because labels used in one region are independent of the other regions.
If it starts earlier, it also ends earlier, so that new data can be processed.

In my case, there is no need for such high performance, just a real time requirement of 100fps for 640x480 images, where CCL is used for feature extraction.
The work by Bailey and his group is good enough, and the reference can be done in the future, if there is need for more throughput!

My workflow is a lot different from the one that you describe.
I don't use any soft cores, and write everything in VHDL!
I have used soft cores before, but they were kind of not to my liking.
I miss the short feedback loop (my PC is a Mac and the synthesis tools run in a VM).

After trying out a couple of environments, I ended up using open source tools---GHDL for VHDL->C++ compilation and simulation, and GTKwave for waveform inspection.

Usually, I start with a testbench a testbench that instantiates my empty design under test.
The testbench reads some test image that I draw in photoshop.
It prints some debugging values, and the wave inspection helps to figure out what's going on.

If it works in the simulator, it usually works on the FPGA!
But the biggest advantage is that it takes just some seconds to do all that.

I will give the softcore approach another chance once my deadline is over!
Especially since being stranded in 0F weather without working heat is a really big deal.
This is about as effective as the "war on drugs"
Asbestos mittens, or a derivative, are not unique to the 60. It's pretty much crew served with barrel changes that require the mitten. Most gun teams would carry the barrels in a heat/fire proof case. After you swap out a hot barrel you lay it on the case. It's a bad idea to start a fire next to your ammo.

These barrels get so hot that, with night vision and at night, you can actually catch a glimpse of rounds traveling out the barrel. In retrospect is seems crazy to say that you can 'see' a round. Perhaps the night vision goggles are producing artifacts (not sure now).
Well, it is possible to capture and redirect DNS requests such that they can send you to their "captive-portal" page even if you've changed your DNS settings. On linux for example, something like:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to 10.2.2.1

will send all your DNS requests to 10.2.2.1 no matter what your actual destination IP was. If Comcast did something like this at their level, it wouldn't matter what your router/modem DNS setting was. This is assuming you're destination port is still 53.
Sure, straight from their FAQ[1]:

"Can this system see what sites I visit online?

No. There is no monitoring of any Internet traffic by ISPs. The identification of alleged infringement is done by Content Owners on peer-to-peer networks only. The Copyright Alert System applies only to peer-to-peer networks and not to general Internet use."

There's a lot of misinformation going around, spread by people who probably have good intentions but don't understand that by arguing against a straw man, they're actually making it easier for their opponents to discredit them. There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike this plan, we don't need to be making up fake ones.

[1]: http://www.copyrightinformation.org/resources-faq/copyright-...

Edit: Fixed quoting.
Sure, but the context is often quite suitable for using code as configuration; quite often.
Chromium and Chrome are identical, but Chrome includes non-Google proprietary plugins (Flash and a PDF renderer).
Sure thing. I thought you were a Microsoft insider for some reason, my error.
They mean that each function does relatively little work, so to render a given web page, the number of function calls (and therefore vtable lookups) is higher than in other browsers. This translates to more overheads and slower execution.
Why would ISPs monitor for content they don't own? They have no incentive to kick their own customers off their network for content the ISPs don't own. I'd love to see a source for "everything you've heard".
A car is not a jet aircraft, and comparing the two does absolutely nothing to help electric cars.
That's really smooth. Installed the app after viewing that.

I'd love to see a side-by-sire as well though.
I agree... You can only validate what is presented to you; a hacker won't kindly hand you a piece of code to run after exploited a hole and ask you to verify it.

It also rather circuitous, browsers already verify what they are executing.
Very very cool stuff. I downloaded the app and took this (not the ideal stress test, but the panning is incredibly smooth): http://luma.io/v/CId
Some percentage of online retailers will block their crawler. It's a situation where party A wants party B's data and there is really no reason party B would want party A to have it. It occurs even to small and medium-sized online retailers to try to block pricing crawlers. Yahoo Store devs are irked that you still can't upload a custom robots.txt file to the web root. Forbidding unwanted crawlers from poking around is frequently the reason (applies to stores using the store editor).

Maybe in exchange for the privilege of obtaining pricing data, this service could offer to automatically clean up their product data in exchange. Win-win for everyone.
"[CAS] will use an analysis system called MarkMonitor to identify infringing activity. That system 'uses both trained professionals and automated processes to identify illegal downloading of whole movies, TV shows, and musical recordings, and the system is designed to eliminate false positives.'"

Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/six-strikes-syste...
He is comparing apples to oranges because the readers of NYT are orange buyers. All the NYT article says is that this is an apple... not orange.
Samsung's Heft in Android Worries Google
Totally agreed. Why do I have to lock it myself (even on a high level language like Ruby)? I'm not programming for C!
IBM's Watson supercomputer finally ready for health care debut
Not sure if I'm the idiot mall ninja category here, so I'll point out what I'm trying to do is inject some technical backing into the conversation without much editorial.

I prefer the term "SSDG" or "Space Shuttle Door Gunner", though.
I use it every day, and I think it's great (including the UI). I'm curious to see what, specifically, you find terrible about it, and which bug tracking system you find to be better.
I'm not talking about jet aircraft. I'm talking about Pipers, Cessnas, Aerostars and countless other piston engine aircraft used in general aviation by hundreds of thousands of people.
One week of conversations at Twitter Co. from 2/15/13 to 2/22/13 (Visualization)
Funny, I actually have an idea for their top listing. Funny to see that listed, I mean.
[meteor dev] This is very cool, especially the use of NOTIFY.

I have a different approach on a branch where I drive a Meteor.publish directly by polling postgres, instead of using an intermediate server-side MongoDB collection. Need to package that up and get it out.
I wonder if Elon Musk has ever worked in a service job before, like being a waiter in a restaurant. Try to imagine this exchange:

Customer: "Waiter, there's a fly in my soup."

Waiter: "But that's impossible, I've seen the recipe and fly is not an ingredient."

The biggest thing I've learned from serving customers is to approach complaints and challenges with the humility that hey, they just may be right. It is a mark of inexperience and immaturity to go on the offensive from the perspective of "stupid, bad customer, misunderstanding my product/service again."

(And I know that the reporter is not necessarily a customer, but as a reviewer, he represents their potential buying interests and should be treated as such.)
That's a great point. Thanks for mentioning this.
Hacker News Desktop View (the only legitimate use of iframe)
>all of that crap that Google has started bundling with Chrome (sync, etc.).

Why do people keep bagging on sync? Personally, I'm a fan of not having to reïmport my bookmarks and reënter all of my autosaved passwords every time I reformat or change computers.
It seemed pedantic to act like I couldn't make a leap of imagination. Seriously, can you define the Apple-sphere in any meaningful way? I made a best guess; but wanted to make it clear that all I did was guess; i.e. I don't actually know, for sure, what was being talked about. This is important because my guess probably isn't correct and if it's not correct then my point may or may not be correct.

I might not agree with what was posted but I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt.
I was just shaking my head through the little bit of that that I read.

" My Google Glasses might display the social security number,"

... Is that a feature that google is rolling out? How would that information get into your glasses?

"Public places will have to come up with new policies. "

They already have policies on recording if they're worried about it, and people always have recording devices on their premises (cell phones).

" You can just hear the panic buttons after the first pictures from people cheating in school or filming in the locker room are released on YouTube."

Man, that's going to be so crazy because right now I can't find ANY videos from inside class rooms.

This article had a really good chance to talk about behavioral changes that will take place when you feel like you're constantly being recorded. For instance, I hate the sound of my recorded voice so when someone is around with these, I'll probably be less outspoken. Instead, they went for sensationalist crap like social security numbers, schools and banks.
`k people, I wanna see a coupla-three dev teams getting these patent specs sewn up before Myo flips behind Apple's iwatch wristband wall.

1. Permute & Enumerate Discrete Associative Layer(PEDAL) Group. Enumerate all normative ergo kenesiologic mapping of discrete hapt events onto an associative array we can MTF onto task expectation frequencies.

2. Dynamic Adaptive Nascent Cognitive Evolution(DANCE) Group. Get past the AA(Acknowledgment Annunciator), transparently and simultaneously entrain both user and device handshake onto evolving MTF surfacing situ specific command completion.

3. Comparitive Haptics Integral Nuance Advancement(CHINA) Team. Collide Leap, Myo, Kinect, Oculi; onto mobile, glass, watch.

That's it. Git'er done like yesterday, fellas. Now!

Out!
Goliath is probably Luxottica, who owns a lot of other companies and sells a large share of high end eyewear.

60 Minutes did a piece on them:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7424700n
Hmm, the comparison videos are interesting. The one with IS turned on reminds me somehow of a first person shooter video game while the other video feels more 'real'.

Maybe game developers could introduce more shake into their games to make them feel more real?

Other than that: The tech is great. The videos certainly get a cinematic feeling with that kind of image stabilization.
Well, more generally it says that there is value in having on site meetings.

I think it is fair to say that the OP's measure of his net productivity doesn't match that of his coworkers/employer... else they'd leave him alone when he came in to the office. Now, you can argue whose perceptions are accurate, but in the end the employer's perceptions are kind of all that matters.
You should check out the Serif readability myth:

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability...
And yet if that U.S. Citizen shoots an anti-tank rocket at an Abrams in Afghanistan he can be summarily executed by a Private First Class (to say nothing of a democratically-elected Commander-in-Chief).

There's definitely a discussion to be had about how and where a nation can decide to use military force in the interests of its self-defense, but citizenship has never been a barrier to military action outside of the U.S. in war time. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Milligan

Now certainly the Supreme Court did not envision drone strikes and one-sided warfare outside of the United States when they talk about the laws of military government, but it does go to show that even as far back as 1866 that the law showed a distinction between military operations inside of the U.S. and outside of the U.S.
A view of front page hacker news articles.
>It's never, "Well, there's no hard data on this, but we are just coming out from a multi-millennial period of discrimination against women, so let's assume we have a little further to go."

That's because you have to start with a false premise, and then make a completely arbitrary leap in logic. It seems entirely reasonable to consider the possibility that given the evidence shows equality, that baring evidence to the contrary, things are probably pretty equal.
Chocolate v1.5
Digital image stabilization is a fascinating subject. On one hand, the core idea is simple (average out motion over time in some way then pan and zoom the image to compensate for deviations from the average); on the other, it's not easy to get right since outside of random jitter some camera motion, even rapid, can be what the camera operator wants.

Here's an example of an actual algorithm used for digital IS: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.148....
> The actual phrasing is "antiquated style of process isolation", which leads me to believe that he's not saying that process isolation is inherently antiquated, but that the way Chrome does it is.

That was my assumption too. Chrome's IPC was developed in secret and never made it into WebKit, instead, Apple later developed WebKit2 - in part as a response to Chrome's IPC - that does IPC for WebKit in a different way. It sounded like the author was saying that Google's way, which is older than WebKit2, is inferior.
A fair headline for that NYT review should have been "Like ICE cousins, EVs also affected by the cold". Obviously, a far more boring headline than "Stranded on The Electric Highway".

Everyone knows your gas consumption goes up during winter, so everyone just puts gas in more often. Everyone who lives in colder climates know to plug in the block heater otherwise your car won't be moving anywhere in the morning.

EVs have some great benefits, unfortunately they're not a silver buttlet and you still have to take care of them. You just take care of them in a different way than ICE cars.
>>On a scofflaw's first offense.

If it's a first "offense", how can s/he be a scofflaw? And, shouldn't it be allegation instead of offense? What the hell is wrong with this guy?
He wasn't trying to find a gas station. He was trying to find one of the Tesla superchargers. And as we can see from the video below they are very, very hard to find (that giant structure is NOT the charger).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fO_OHpyYw

Musk deserves all that he gets. He overplayed his position.
Yes, my first steps in learning about something new are to search usin the words I know to find terms, then use those terms to find other terms, and to keep going until I have hit bottom. Then I read the books the people using the most expert terms recommend.
I would think HIPPA is one of the issues here. Federal law says it is a big no no to freely share health info without a raft of signed paperwork, basically.
“I would say that refers more to the valuation of the company. It wasn't as though there were 1,000 cancellations just due to The New York Times article. There were probably a few hundred."

Huh, he's talking about HIS OWN QUOTE about "hundreds of millions lost", he has to GUESS what he himself meant? He doesn't know _exactly_ what he meant when he said they were "affected" "to the tune of tens of millions, to the order of $100 million." He has to hazard a guess "I would say that refers mostly" about his own quote?

I guess he did say "probably" in the first place. Yes, he's just making shit up.

The more he goes, the less trustworthy he seems.
What Language to Use for CodeJam 2013
Some retailers go so far as to invent different names for uncommon brands and use generated SKUs to prevent even the poaching of new manufacturers. Misinformation is used a lot to keep a competitive edge. One of the many challenges this service faces is trying to figure out if mfr A is actually mfr B.
The Chromium build from http://www.freesmug.org/chromium seems to have the PDF viewer as well as the Flash plugin.
Why Hadoop Is the Future of the Database
Forgive me, it has been years since I've read Zinn's A People's History Of America, but as far as I remember Zinn described the early settlers in exactly the same light as OP's link does. Or am I remembering the book wrongly?
"Pull to Refresh" is a poor description for the end user. I literally clicked and pulled down as I would on the iPhone simulator to use pull to refresh.