skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really varies by state. I went to an online insurance comparison app (I should promote Leaky or SimplyInsured here, but at the time in 2010, I used ehealthinsurance), searched for HDHPs, then picked based on reputation. I picked a Blue Shield provider with no lifetime cap (or a $6mm lifetime cap, I forget).

The only states I know are WA and CA. In WA, I like Regence Blue Shield; plans seem to be in the $100-150/mo range now.

In CA, there are also a lot of HDHPs in the $100-150/mo range. I'd specifically avoid Kaiser as an employer giving coverage, as some people really dislike Kaiser since you must use a Kaiser doctor, hospital, or other facility, but if you're an individual and like a Kaiser doctor, it might be a good choice. Otherwise a lot of people I know use Health Net, Anthem, etc.

I'm not a lawyer nor am I a licensed insurance agent so I'm hesitant to recommend specific plans.

I think these rates are low due to being HDHPs and the "best" patient group; 26-35 year old single male. Those are exactly the people who don't get individual insurance unless they're cautious people who join AAA, change oil on time, buy fire extinguishers, look both ways before crossing the street, etc. (and thus exceptionally good risks), and even then seek to minimize contact with doctors. I suspect the unhealthy ones are particularly likely to take jobs with insurance, or be on medicaid/prison/etc., in that bracket, or are so irresponsible as to have no insurance (because hey, even $120/mo is better spent on beer).

Rates don't seem that much worse for women (which is weird, since I'd assume most women get enough extra covered services covered now by an HSA to destroy the actuarial model for a $100/mo plan). The rates 4x once you add children, though. I tried also plugging in numbers for people born in 1969, 1959, 1950, and rates do go up, but only maybe 4x, too. So the prices are generally within a 10x range per insured, at least for healthy people or in places where there is no medical underwriting, tops, and under ACA, that will converge to 4x (although I'm sure by raising the low end by 50-150% and only lowering the top end by a trivial amount.) I always assumed all insurance was $500+/mo/insured, since that's what the group rates for small businesses seem to be, but that's due to adverse selection and inefficiency I think.

The real problem seems to be if you're unhealthy when looking for insurance, or have children (particularly with high medical costs), or have an acute high-cost event, or are poor enough that $100-200/mo is a hardship (even though I think $100-200/mo for health insurance, whether paid by the individual or the government, is pretty reasonable), or are, worst case, so unhealthy that you're also poor and thus doubly screwed.
These guys are still one of my favorite startups and stories! Definitely a consistent inspiration for me.
I think you would find that there are a subset of people, myself included, that don't find that notion so insane. If you accept the idea that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to allow the citizenry to overthrow their government then having the government restrict what citizens can and cannot purchase is somewhat nonsensical.

Historically speaking, government restriction on firearm ownership is a relatively new thing. "Weapons of war" like ships and artillery were privately owned in this country as recently as the civil war.

Believe it or not, the country didn't degrade into people waging private wars against each other, mass murder, etc...
It's used for a quick fix and no you don't have altitude unless you have enough satellites.
FYI, there is also Pay Pad which works really well IMO.

https://www.pay-pad.com/
Just got it. For some reason it says "Today's Volume" and "This Month's Volume" is much, much higher than reality.
The subject of PHP reminds me of this (possibly untrue) story: a guy is whacking his own manhood with a hammer and someone asks him: "Why are you doing this?", to which he replies "For pleasure". When the other guy continues asking "But when do you feel the pleasure?" the first guy says "When I stop".
yes, that's just part of the problem, and it is a big issue seeing as i have a 24" monitor. The crux of the problem is that there is no way to fully disengage from Metro. Yes, you can get to your old desktop and fine, there is no Start button (not ideal, but not the end of the world). This is fine until you use some of the built-in Windows apps/features that jolt you back into Metro mode. If i can run Windows 8 -exactly- like Windows 7, then there would be no issues. Side note, i actually like the Metro UI, it looks refreshing and interesting. However, it's simply unusable to people that are used to having 3-7 windows open/apps running at any given time. Power users, developers, designers, engineers, etc. ... people that use various apps to "produce" content will struggle with Windows 8. Now, if you're primarily a consumer of content, that's a different story and i can't speak to that on a desktop. Personally, I use my iPad to consume content and that's been a pleasant surprise.
Genuinely curious, not trying to be snarky: why not just read a book then? What additional value do you get out of taking the course?
Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more
Have you ever tested restoring from your daily snapshots? :-) Seems like a good setup, but to be rigorous about it you should probably also schedule a full restore from backup every once in a while to ensure that your backups are actually working correctly.
Tell HN: Charles Ramsay, We should strive to be more like him
Charles Ramsay is the guy who "rescued" Amanda Berry and the other girls being held against their will.

Listening to his interviews does something to me. He can barely put 2 sentences together and I have the most respect for his words.

Honest, real, no sugar coating. Radical honesty.

This makes me think about how I talk to people and sometimes I dont get straight to the point when I should. Time for a change.

I think we all can listen to him and have something to change about how we communicate amongst people. I didn't expect watching a few interviews to bring me to such a realisation.
They make software that schedules and buffers social media posts for pay.
Personally, I use Amazon when I have a clear idea of what I want, but I use Google when I have to make up my mind before that. I don't see Amazon easily fill that need.
Obama's Austin tech trip may include Capital Factory
That's why scalable solutions like CSS & SVG are a great idea for UI elements.

That said right now often you still need raster graphics (e.g. screenshots) and making sure you provide them in a way that takes zoomability and devices with high pixel density in account makes a lot of sense :)

If you go mobile-first you can avoid many of these mindset pitfalls :)
Depending on the query and the optimizer, the resulting plan for IN/NOT IN might be the same as EXISTS/NOT EXISTS. E.g. a left semi join. I know this is true for MSSQL Server, I can't speak for Oracle.
Surprisingly enough this is one thing I really like Facebook for.

I always select "Visible only to me" (and of course never grant messaging rights.) The app can't tell the difference and if I really like it I'll green light it once I see what they actually post on my behalf.

Given that your relationship with your contacts list on LinkedIn is much more fragile I'm really surprised they haven't given this more attention yet.
I agree. I am not a professional programmer. I'm more a technologist with a passing interest in programming. My desktop is Linux and I can basically hack in Bash, Perl and R to achieve certain simple outcomes. One of the things I use R for is to query a MySQL database for statistical analysis. To do this, I write long hand SQL queries. I didn't know there was another way. What is this ORM of which people speak?
My understanding is that it increases the risk of an infection spreading - any agent that survives the slaughter/cooking process could infect a much larger number of animals. See the BSE epidemic we had in the UK a number of years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...
"For e.g." -> just e.g.
I can't say it's more rewarding on the whole, but I didn't want people to think that it is less rewarding.

However, there is also a bit of an effect where someone you care about is not particularly thoughtful, so when they do go out of their way to be kind or help you out, it feels especially good and shows that they really do care about you. If that makes sense..
We should be careful about conflating principle and evidence. That looks like an evidential test to help a court decide whether copying had taken place. If you turn up with what looks like a tweaked copy of Harry Potter claiming you wrote it yourself, no-one's going to believe you -- but if you did somehow manage to prove it on the balance of probabilities (e.g. you've lived your whole life in a sealed metal box and can prove you've never read Harry Potter or something), then you're fine, you've rebutted the evidential presumption.
When 40% of women in the U.S own a firearm it isn't all about being macho. Also only 55% of males own a firearm. The machismo factor is played up in the media and in Hollywood but most free thinking people question such motives and at least attempt to see through propaganda.

Regardless I find your position to be a bit naive and fails to fully realize how governments progress and the impacts they have on their citizenry. Just because a government isn't actively out to get you ATM doesn't mean they don't possess the overwhelming means to do so and that people should have the means to defend themselves against that if such an occasion arises.
I always thought Buffer fell under "Scheduling Apps".
The nice thing about dead people is that they rarely object to how they are used.
The other big problem with buying computer parts on Amazon is that they have a massive gray market supply chain problem that Newegg seems to have been able to avoid.

Put more simply, Amazon's warehouses are filled with knockoff RAM chips, memory cards, and other such hard-to-identify components. Amazon isn't doing this deliberately, but your odds of getting bad RAM, HDD, or flash memory is really quite high.

It's been a while since I worked there - when I was there there was a big problem with inventory mixing. Third party merchants selling on Amazon would routinely ship items to Amazon warehouses to take advantage of Amazon's fulfillment process (this is known as Fulfillment By Amazon), and a huge amount of gray market goods were able to get into warehouses this way. Amazon's own supply chain integrity is, by itself, actually pretty good.

For a long time Amazon allowed these third party-sourced items to mix freely with the legitimate items they purchased themselves, and if you ordered the item (regardless of which merchant you ordered from) you'd be drawing from this shared pool. It was frustrating, and I'm not sure if they've fixed it yet.
Unfortunately, I don't. I have two paid music apps but like yourself, only have good data for lower portions of the charts. Plus it's tough to pick apart iPad vs iPhone sales for universal apps.

If I had to guess, it's probably about half of iPhone, but don't rely on that!
Basta de palavras, é preciso agir - Economia - DN
Alas, you are right. At the time, muskets were the best infantry weapons, and the British soldiers were armed with them, and the colonials got cannons as soon as possible.

I don't think it would be clearly insane.

My assumption is that the US political landscape would look a lot different if the citizens of the United States were indeed allowed to own any weapon they chose and paid for. I don't know if things would be better; they would definitely be different.
Perhaps I should have been more clear. I'm just talking about web pages, basically just information exchange. Twitter being the example here. Browser applications are a different thing, and obviously have to be delivered in javascript. There's nothng wrong with browser applications, but pretending web pages should be built as browser applications is insanity.
Well, yeah, but those two things are connected.

For Europe to not even want to have any war among themselves, for Europe to find the idea of war among themselves to be completely ridiculous and idiotic, it is necessary for Europe to be meaningfully interconnected and interdependent. Treaties have again and again shown to be not up to that task. Bilateral or multilateral treaties of the olden times are mostly political in nature, and anything that is just that can also be reversed through a mere political process.

That interconnection and interdependence has to be created on a deeper and actually meaningful level. The economy is really the obvious choice here, since no political process can even attempt to reverse interdependence of that kind easily.

Plus, it’s sort of obvious. Just as the industrial revolution was hindered by the many tiny kingdoms in what is now Germany (and the huge amount of borders you had to cross and tolls you had to pay if you wanted to ship a product from anywhere in what is now Germany to anywhere else in what is now Germany) – that is, until Germany was unified in 1871 – the many borders in Europe could have hindered Europe globally more had that process towards a common market not existed. It’s the same thing, really, only that I don’t think political integration (beyond creating a common market) has much of a future.
We use a RESTful API here, we just launched today too! Let us know what you think. http://prope.rs
Left to right would definitely help!
the truth is, coding is just a tool. i tend to piss off people around me when I say that. and I will surely piss off a few here, but like you i earn my money with it. and it's great because I can go anywhere and solve these complex things while doing it.

but, the complex part is not the piece of code that someone else has already solved. The complex part is usually something unrelated.
Agreed. Plus, this may be the coolest thing going on at Facebook.
that's the point of a network.

Wrong. The point of the network is to transmit data.

Who cares about that ?

Who cares about most efficiently getting to systems that work?
Grandma, Aunt Tillie, the engineer, his boss that pays his salary, his boss's boss, his boss's boss's investor, and everyone else who matters.

Who cares about p2p? You and a couple of other people who don't matter, don't pay anyone's salary and don't get to decide anything.

You sound like a teenager. Maybe you should try to learn how technology decisions are taken in real life. You could start by getting a job in a technology company, but first here is a reading list for you:

http://soloway.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/46715502/Crossing-Th...

http://archive.org/details/TheInnovatorDilemma

http://it-ebooks.info/book/166/

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
I haven't used Oracle since 8, and the only reference I can find now from those days are a couple AskTom articles [0] [1]. They are quite worth reading, although what they say re performance is not quite what I (mis?)remember.

[0] http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QU...

[1] http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:::::P11_QUEST...
An issue facing firearm enthusiasts is that the most vocal (or at least the ones getting the most press) are in those camps. It's the same problem that faces many other groups, the extremists and zealots are the loudest and the ones people outside the group see. Any reasonable voice gets drowned out.

> The right to bear arms is a right of last resort. Its the right that protects all others and, as such, it is the _most_ essential right.

I'm going to have to disagree with this statement though. The 1st amendments's protections on speech, assembly and the press strikes me as a more important collection oy rights. It's what prevents us from needing to pull out our weapons and go to war against our government. Especially these days, with our technology and ability to disseminate information. I won't make the claim that many of the travesties of the past couldn't be repeated today in the US, but they'll be a lot harder to accomplish. Also, given the relatively short period US presidents and congresspersons stay in office, the voters actually have a chance to accomplish something if they'd show up in greater numbers and vote along something other than party lines.
That only works as long as the command it wraps is living. I could use that approach, but typically I don't just want pulseaudio dead while gedit or something is running, I want it dead until I decide that I want it back. It usually happens this way when I'm debugging an audio issue, so it'd be annoying to have PA constantly cycling that way.
related: Here's an illusion that lets you see true cyan. http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/eclipse-of-mars-illusion....

Your eyes can see the color, but your monitor can't represent it.
I think it is about making money but you are right about connecting with fans. Its an added layer above the funding.
> I personally don't think software has big potential with crowdfunding platforms since crowdfunding success has been inherently hardware-driven.

I'm not sure this is true. I've backed a few game development projects on Kickstarter that ended up far exceeding their campaign goals. Maybe you're making a distinction between games and other types of software (which, indeed, haven't been too successful).
Perhaps they are talking about a shift[1] in focus in how Google makes money from just presenting ads to actually delivering end-to-end shopping/procurement/vending.

I know it is already possible with cost per lead and cost per action but "fulfilled by Amazon" is definitely a threat for Google if it gets too big.

[1] the same thing as Robert Scoble did when he was talking about Google glasses a few weeks ago
I understand what you mean, but the recent push to charge sales tax in the US -- and with huge companies like Amazon actually _supporting_ this -- is a signal that ecommerce has matured. It's the future in the sense of being the new normal for the foreseeable future, as opposed to being a new disruption.
The rape analogy is misplaced because humans, unlike say ducks, do not primarily reproduce through rape.

Also, appeal to nature fallacy is not applicable because I'm not making a "good" versus "bad" conclusion. I'm thinking of "mental illness" in terms of whether it's an evolutionary mal-adaptation, not in moral terms.

And while it is true that loners, outliers, and dropouts often contribute great value to society, it is also true that they also often do great harm to society (the bell curve is a bitch). Moreover, the bulk of collective social value is produced by people following the pack/tribe. What happens to the total productivity of society if everyone acts like the loners, outliers, and dropouts?
I'd have to agree as well. The animation introducing "Reason #8" caught my eye (which is cool), but becoming accustomed to that messaging telling me what a company does, had me thinking this was a "learn to roll sushi" service. Took me a while to shake that as I started scanning through the rest.
Erlang's Joe Armstrong: It was designed for planetary-scale computations
I tried it. Doesn't usually work all that well though, and basically only works on built in .Net types. If you pass in your own object containing only .Net types, it's not smart enough to fill those in with potential test data. Interesting idea, but I found it completely worthless
Quantum Computer Wins Head-To-Head Test
at the moment you can migrate from our storage to your own s3 bucket. we have plans in the works to have a proper data export including all of the metadata associated with your photos and videos. picturelife going out of business is not something that I want to think about, but as a user, data exporting would be a main priority in the case that our service would cease to exist.
- chris, cto of picturelife
No one can guarantee for dead-pixel-proofness, even not on arrival, and so the guarantee covers (in most cases) only 2 or 3+ dead/fixbright pixels.
Sorry, I was unclear. I was talking about Diablo III in my original comment and about it not having an offline mode or a mode where online play could be had on non-Blizard official servers (either dedicated server model or peer-to-peer).
I'm not an Apple fan. I have no Apple products. I have to agree with Apple on this. Hard drives fail. That's just going to happen. We, as customers, should have our files backed-up in the cloud or onto external hard drives. Failed drives can be replaced and they offered to do that for him for a reasonable charge. He has no reason to be upset. His expectations seem out of line with reality.

Just my opinion.
It's not about blindly increasing it, but using "long long" where normally "long" would be used, especially for values that have the possibility of wrapping.

The real impact on memory usage is likely the 8-byte pointers, but if you have a non-trivial amount of memory, it's rarely an issue worth fretting about.

If we cared about pointer sizes, we'd still be writing 16-bit code.
I have a feeling I'm not a customer that matters for Adobe. I'm a programmer who uses Photoshop only a few times a month, sometimes less. I've personally owned every other version since Photoshop 3 paying ~$199 to upgrade every ~4 years or so. I don't mind paying ~$199 every ~4 years for every other version. I do mind paying $240 every year for a subscription.

So, CS5 will be the last version of Photoshop I purchase. I will not subscribe. I will keep using CS5 until I can't and then I'll start looking for alternatives.

If the price comes down so it matches what I was spending before I'll consider the subscription. Or, if the subscription is on a per use basis so if I don't use it for a month or 2 I'm not charged I might consider it but otherwise no thank you.

I'm also leery of subscriptions in that Adobe can basically kill me anytime they want (or anytime they screw up). In other words, I don't like the idea that if their servers go down, if they are hacked, if I'm travelling abroad with a bad internet connection, if they make a mistake, if they just don't like me, whatever, they can stop me from getting work done.

The subscription probably makes sense for pros that use it every day and always upgrade and stay put in one place. It doesn't make sense for me with my usage patterns. (No, PS Elements is not a substitute, nor is gIMP unfortunately).
Indie development in the 1990s: The Game-Maker story
Bat's Tongue A Showpiece Of Feeding Efficiency
I must disagree.

As a coder, your tools are your computer, the compiler and user interface. It takes skill, knowledge and understanding to use these tools effectively.

I own saws, hammers and power tools, but I'm certainly not a carpenter.
It isn't always the software. Having open, controlled, customizable hardware can offer a huge advantage over what you're able to purchase from Cisco/Juniper/etc.

Also, a software switch allows you potentially massively scale the number of ports on a single switch.
I've seen six months work - that's time enough to ramp up somewhat and deliver. In that regard, it's plenty of time to assess the traits that we're looking for in strong developers.
EDIT: to clarify, by "these folks" I mean people who are both mentally ill and anti-authoritarian.
who would rather spend more time maintaining/debugging/optimizing ORM code

But that's kind of the point- with a decent ORM library there isn't really much work to do.

model = MyModel.load(id)

Add a new field to your model? It'll handle it. It might even modify the table for you. With raw SQL you'd have to go and edit your UPDATE and INSERT statements each time. Seems like a lot more maintenance/potential debugging to me.