skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's intentionally missing the social contract that its in direct exchange for health care, which all people need.

(edited to add: There's already a social contract that refusal to provide emergency room care to everyone means criminal prosecution of the hospital/docs involved... its unfair they're not allowed to collect money at gunpoint, but it would be much fairer if they were allowed to do so.)

I oppose mcdonalds because at the point of a gun a policeman will demand I pay them. Sounds awful, especially if I omit the fact I already ate the burger and I'm gonna need to eat another in the near future and the analogy breaks down even further in that McD would need a local geographic licensed monopoly on all food sales such that everyone living in the area must buy burgers from them.
ARM Secret Decoder Ring (explains some oddities about the ARM architecture)
Worked now finally.
I think it's more a matter of the applicant recognizing that his criticisms were in a spirit of helping and responding with gratitude for the additional help. The difference between a two line rejection and a 3 paragraph well-thought critique is a good amount of time.

If it isn't clear to me why I didn't obtain a position I ask for clarification (and reconsideration), usually the response I get is fairly good.

As to pbiggar, I think he's shown a great deal more care and consideration to his applicants than most do, and I for one appreciate that (even if we've never corresponded).
I failed to make the point of my question clear enough. Nickpotier critiqued the results without offering up any numbers. I wanted to see what he thought the numbers should have been for each example given.
Good for the Twil' homies. Congrats guys. More distro is good distro.
The term "ADD" was officially dropped from the DSM in 1994 in favor of ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_disorder
As the FSF says, SecureBoot is not the problem; only implementations that don't let the user override it.
Agreed. My wife is a huge gardener and I often get roped into helping her with a variety of tasks. Bed building, tilling, planting, weeding, watering, all of it!

It's a very nice compliment to sitting my ass in an office chair 6 hours a day.
nc is ancient but flexible. want encryption? pipe in openssl's command line to encrypt a stream. i'm pleased to see it so widely deployed.

for fun, find the original hobbit nc source code and read the comments. the complaints in there about writing a portable utility and dealing with platforms' weirdness and brokenness.
Can anyone help my friend find employment?
Hey,

Just a quick back story, my best mate got cheated on and has moved out from his girlfriends house and in to mine for a month or two, he was a full time dad to his baby boy but I want to find him a job, we've put in a whole bunch of applications but I figured I would leverage every option I had to help him out.

If anyone is looking to hire an apprentice or junior who is a hobbyist PHP programmer in the north of England, email me at shanea93@hotmail.co.uk or him at hercson@hotmail.com.

A little about him:

He is 19 years old and has a full set of GCSE's

He is self taught in PHP, HTML and CSS thought hasn't yet reached the stage where he is self-capable of producing websites, he understands the logic behind it and can read and debug code

He is a very quick learner and has skills with Photoshop and Fireworks, and could most likely splice PSD's for designs pretty well

He is pretty damn enthusiastic

He is really reliable and a genuinely nice guy who's just down on his luck

If a recruiter or employer helps us out I'll more than happily give you 20 hours of my development time in return! :)
Just some anecdotal data from my wife's pregnancy & delivery process and the costs/charges are just from her 2 days of hospital stay for her normal/vaginal delivery without any complications.

- The hospital (NJ if it matters) billed the insurance company $30,000. She was there for usual 48 hours. The insurance company has a thing called "Amount Allowed" which knocked it down to $5880. Then our share of co-insurance came to about 20% of that = $920.

- For baby, separate hospital bill of $8779. amount allowed = $2,232, our share = $566

- The Anesthesia consultant billed separately for $3000, amount allowed = $1100 and our share = $220

- OBGYN billed $4200, amount allowed = $2800, our share = $560

- Newborn clinic charge = $375, allowed = $375, our share = $289 (deductible not reached)

- Neonatology for baby - $590, allowed = $100, our share = $100 (deductible not reached)

So here is total just for Labor/delivery/baby which was 100% normal without any complications.

- total bill = $52,824

- Allowed by insurance = $12,487

- Our responsibility to pay = $2655

I get chills just to imagine if we did not have insurance.
The only reason I can see to use Matlab is that you have invested heavily in it in the past. If not, I'd always use python instead. I claim it's not less "tuned for numerics" (with numpy) than Matlab. If you really need a Matlab like IDE, you should either give Spyder² [1] (I don't use it myself, but I know some Matlab-switchers that are quite happy with it) or IPython notebook a try.

In my oppinion, the only thing Matlab has going for it are commercial extensions and (often exclusive) hardware support (and I don't mean computers).

[1] http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
On second thought, it's probably good if you guys don't respond to comments, duh.
If you haven't seen Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister, you really should. 30 years on and still great political satire.
I used to have that view, but from what I've read more recently, the cost of doctors' visits is basically negligible in the overall U.S. healthcare picture. Almost all the money is going into major medical expenses: hospital visits, surgery, end-of-life care, nursing-home care, and chronic conditions with expensive medication. So either doubling or halving the number of times people go to the doctor for colds, by changing incentives on that front, just doesn't seem like it'll move the needle on healthcare costs.

If anything, some of the actuaries seem to think people aren't going to the doctor enough: my dad's corporate health insurance plan recently changed their policies to incentivize going to the doctor more often, by giving you a discount for various kinds of visits: you get a discount if you have an annual physical, and another discount if you have less-frequent major workups / lab tests done.
OK, so I picked the 2-clause FreeBSD license for brevity; hope this helps.
That's because you bought a x86 machine. On ARM, you have no such option: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/01/window...
The problem isn't just the relationship that Microsoft has with OSS, but with developers in general. As developer in their "ecosystem" for years, I've come to the conclusion that the majority of the Redmond management is totally out of touch with the third party developers. Crap like Windows 8, "flat" interfaces, abandonment of APIs, NIH, reinventing the wheel, ignoring requests and feedback, etc, doesn't make it better.
It appears most states in the U.S do not require hospitals and medical providers to list their prices

This and the tax breaks given to companies sponsoring health insurance plans that create a nearly immovable useless middle man are the root of all evil in the American healthcare industry.
PHP/Rails web developer here using OSX:

I like to keep ST full screen with the file browser hidden (Cmd + K + B) with just the code being displayed. When I need to find a file in the project I simply use the file finder (Cmd + P), or if I can't recall the file name or need to create new files I open back the file browser (Again using Cmd + K + B).

I don't really take full advantage of ST plugins, sometimes use Emmet and have BracketHighlighter installed.

Theme wise I use the Tomorrow-Night-Eighties colour scheme, Soda Dark theme along with Menlo 12 font.

I also keep chrome open full screen again in another window and swipe across to that when I need to view changes (Gets automatically updated when made using the LiveReload app).
They provided their parents with some happiness and peace of mind. Maybe.
This isn't about you or me or any other tech-savvy person. It's about the non-technical person, and about evangelizing the use of free-as-in-freedom operating systems to them.

It used to be easy to dual-boot, but now that it's a seven-step operation to switch operating systems, that's effectively a monkey-wrench thrown into the widespread adoption of Linux.
We have no idea what for--the article just gives a quote from Rosenblatt: "The startup has heard nothing more from Brown directly. But Rosenblatt says the same Brown lawyer started “harassing Betaspring” on March 18 with e-mails and phone calls to the accelerator’s partners and office manager; Rosenblatt says his interpretation was that the university was “preparing to serve us” with a lawsuit."
Try the link in the comments from Geekbri.
joke's on them, i only know how to solve the puzzle using chrome
Trapped By The Web — Take the Kelberman Challenge
You can find more information on this blog post http://jpadilla.com/post/46758813866/kippt-as-an-rss-reader and on github.com/jpadilla/feedleap
While I get the point of the article, I have to say that nearly every time I run split-testing or multivariate testing I am surprised at the results. Honestly, at this point I'm somewhat convinced that sites that are uglier convert better.

So while I agree that a lot of things we can overcomplicate, it's not safe to say "Just go with your intuition." It doesn't have to be as cut and dry as "once users get 10 friends they keep coming back," but don't use that as an excuse to not look at your data.
You may want to skip the chocolate poptarts and have a better diet. I know that my focus improves when I eat more choline (eggs), omega 3s (walnuts, fish oil), whole vegetables, etc.
Indian Government Hackathon
I'm not sure about Brown, but at my school we had student IDs which could also act as credit cards for "school money". Meal plans would come with a set amount of school money and you could load more on the card. This money could then be used at places around campus as well as local restaurants and grocery stores that would accept the card. Certain services (such as delivery.com which was popular in the area) also accepted school cards. So my guess is that the student IDs were simply the number associated with the credit card for using special school money.
When your "innovation" consists of leveraging someone else's product, it's generally bad form (even if not illegal per se, unless it amounts to trademark infringement) to make it seem like you have an association with them when you don't.

I know there were recent discussions about copyrights with the Aereo decision, but come on: this company submits an order for delivery to you. THEY ARE LISTING WHAT YOU MIGHT GET. I can assure you that the manager of the shop isn't complaining about the increased business. In fact, I can't even see why there is a complaint. Perhaps this is a loss leading sandwich?

Delivering Jo's sandwiches is not Crunchbutton's core business, which is charging a premium to deliver above average food with below average hassle. If the university really wants to swing their IP around, all they will succeed in doing is making another local food business more successful. (Come to think of it, they're probably preemptively attacking Crunchbutton over something frivolous to protect their high rent on campus food service real estate.)
Question: can the stammer be fixed, or at least improved? If so I'd make that priority #1. (Sorry but I know nothing about stammers beyond what I find from a cursory Google search and my memory of The King's Speech.)

People here will tell you the world's a meritocracy and that if you're good enough employers will hire you anyway. That's bullshit. I wish it were true but you know by now it isn't. People act first and rationalize later. They'll think of all sorts of reasons why they shouldn't hire you due to your stammer. "He'll be hard to communicate with." "He's a bad culture fit." Etc. They might all be wrong, and maybe it's their loss because they're passing up on a great employee, but you'll be consistently undervalued the rest of your life due to that. You shouldn't be, but you will. Don't let your perception of how the world should be prevent you from seeing how it actually is.

Perhaps you've tried to fix the stammer, or perhaps it's unfixable. Or perhaps you just haven't devoted enough effort to it. If it's the latter I'd highly recommend doing that. I know it's unfair. You're a web developer, not a public speaker, and as long as you can communicate well with your team it really shouldn't be a factor in a job interview. But the world is unfair and it is what it is. Your options are to keep trying to do something you know isn't working, or adapt to the situation.

(If it can't be fixed I'd try to find a clever way to mitigate it. Lie and tell people you're a mute for a bit and see if they are more receptive. You'll have to do some experimentation. I wouldn't do this until I'd exhausted every avenue of fixing it though.)

Regardless, don't fall back on "my code should be able to win these battles". It should but it won't, and the longer you spend beating your head against that wall the more frustrated you'll become.
"a software platform company"? Who's that then? Nebula's first (and as far as I am aware, only) commercial offering is... a hardware appliance!
Show HN: iPad Photography Portfolio App
Hey guys,

So we're a photography studio and we finally released our first ever app for the iPad. Would love your feedback.

We're photographers first and developers second so any help would be awesome! This is our first ever app.
If you're open to the idea of targeting HTML5, either for the web or embedded in an app, I'd recommend http://www.sencha.com/products/gxt/. This is built on top of GWT, which is basically a Java->JS compiler and which has its own widget library. You can try GWT's own widgets, but I found them very limiting and frustrating.
hospital visits, surgery, end-of-life care, nursing-home care, and chronic conditions with expensive medication

Any list of major costs in the medical system that doesn't include legal expenses is highly suspect.
A little bit of devil's advocate versus your last point, how many of those makers refuse to do business in the U.S.?

That is, if there is some structural pricing advantage in the U.S., what is stopping those companies from benefiting from it?
Hi pattle - I know exactly what/how you're feeling - I stutter as well, and am currently interviewing.

The biggest problem of stuttering during interviews is not the stuttering itself, but rather the break in the train of thought while brainstorming answers to interview questions.

First off - phone interviews are a nightmare for me - and I almost always fail to make an impression - because of the several ticks I produce while trying not to stammer.

I used to think I would do better at face-to-face interviews, since I can at least write on the whiteboard. Every piece of interview advice I've read says that one should keep speaking while thinking during an interview, and not just be silent and think - which is how I work best, because my brain is freed from the burden of speaking correctly.

When I 'speak while thinking of solutions', my brain automatically starts focusing on being careful about not stammering, and that really hurts my ability to focus on solving the questions - which are quite difficult in the first place.

One solution that's partially helped: I know that many stutterers are much better off when saying something semi-rehearsed, whether it be a phrase like, "So the brute force solution is _____ " or whatever. My brain goes into mechanical mode while saying this phrase, giving it more time to actually think.

I've never revealed to interviewers that I have a stutter (even though they would probably suspect that by the end of the interview), but I guess you should consider what edw519 says in the top comment.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions.
Quantopian’s algorithmic trading platform now accepts outside data sets
It's about microsoft insisting that the only pre-loaded encryption key is theirs, to the exclusion of all other encryption keys. It's this exclusionary practice that's the problem, not the implementation per se.
> The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/age.html

It may seem that "rock star ninja developers" are a young person's game and to some extent it is. Many people find that their life priorities change as they age. Many younger developers may value making a name for themselves and devote a lot of time outside of 40 hours a week to coding and upping their game. So even if younger developers may have less on the job experience, they may be far more active in the development community than career developers. Those factors may be just as or even more important to some companies than tenure. Other companies may place more value in stability and tenure than having a bunch of rock stars. As you age and your life priorities shift (such as having kids with lots of extracurricular activities that you want to focus on), the type of position that suits you best may change.

To grossly oversimplify, startups will gravitate towards rock stars - cheaper and and flashier with a lot of drive, while enterprises will go for reliable, tenured developers who consistently get the job done even if they are just average. I've seen no shortage of middle ages .net and Java developers. Might not be the sexiest languages, but they are very popular with enterprises. Any company should be interested in a developer that is an accomplished learner and stable developer. But if your priorities in life don't include spending a significant amount of non-work hours diving into the hot language/technology du jour, you won't be able to compete with younger developers who can.

So yes, there is a job market for average middle-aged developers, it's the same job market for all developers. But if you're suited to an enterprise position you'll have a hard time finding one that lives on the bleeding edge of technology of which you might be wanting to get into.
there is also this app with some kind of african name i cant remember , i've seen that on techcrunch but i cant find it again , if anyone knows ;)
This looks fantastic. Anyone know how well something like this deprecates? My dream is to have a mobile site that is all Backbone-y on iPhone/Android but falls back to server-based rendering when loaded through a Blackberry or similar.
Hey, I'm the person in question, more than happy to answer any questions regarding myself or my abilities.
Sounds like you have ADHD and a gifted mind. I'd be wary of attributing the positive effects of the latter to the former.
This is my diet as well. I find my mind is clearer, especially on a whole vegetables diet. Digestion of red meats, sugar and carbs makes my concentration tank.
Julia looks a bit like Lua.
I don't think these solutions are simple. I personally consider the highly technical solutions far more simple, since there are scientific properties like falsifiability, lower bounds etc. that you can use to analyze these kinds of problems.

On the other hand for the problems written about in the article there are no such methods known. Thus they are far more complicated. The only property that enables us to apply them in our world is that our society brainwashes people into common sense (which is far, far away from good solutions; common sense only delivers solutions that barely work).

So I still believe (more than ever) that hard problems require hard solutions. But I define "hard solutions" differently than the article.
If you’ve been working on iOS you already have it installed http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org
Yes, amusing that the author uses the word without apparently understanding its origin and nuances.
Congrats!! Would be great to know how this was made possible. Did Google approach Twilio, or did Twilio approach Google, or is there a third party services partner program that any developer can follow
Interesting- Commenting system on Corgi looks awesome.
Yes. But, IMO, you're going to find it in more 'mature' verticals; places where reliability and commitment are valued and lived out daily. IMO, that's going to be in the embedded space or in a larger company that quite possibly doesn't 'sell software'.
Oh I agree with you. I was just reiterating what my doctors have told me. And my medication has helped me in ways I could have only dreamed of. I am married and have been with my wife for six years, whereas before my wife (and medication) I could only maintain a relationship for 6 months max. I took 8 years to complete a 4 year degree, only because my 1.5 years were medicated. I still have bad credit because I never seemed to be able to pay bills on time, but as of today, I am debt free (including 8 years of student loans).

I'm not under the impression that medication is the only way to treat this condition, but without it, I would be homeless, bankrupt, and alone.
Due to the limit on the amount of bitcoins that can ever exist, for them to move a really large amount of wealth around the world they will have to be heavily subdivided, making each whole bitcoin necessarily worth a lot more than $100. Do the maths, it rapidly becomes obvious.
Finland's 100,000 year nuclear repo
Learning to Write a Compiler
You may be arguing China and India in reverse. Everybody is a hacker there because even those in charge of the systems (e.g. police) are hacking so it becomes a matter of survival.
That's great, but telecom is still agaist GAE ToS:

"4.3 Restrictions. Customer will not, and will not allow third parties under its control to: (f) use the Service to operate or enable any telecommunications service or in connection with any Application that allows End Users to place calls to or to receive calls from any public switched telephone network;"

Source: https://developers.google.com/appengine/terms

A question was asked about this a few months back and a GAE PM basically said use it at your own risk. Here's the thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/c8u71g5Cc...

Hopefully, this is a signal that they want to sort this out...
Depending on which estimate you believe, legal expenses (including direct and indirect) account for about 1-3% of overall US healthcare costs. Not nothing, but not in the range of what we're spending on, say, end-of-life hospital care (10-20%).
2. https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/django-nonr...