skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a little bit simplistic.

(https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance)

(https://www.gov.uk/working-tax-credit/overview)

You pay national insurance if you earn over £149 per week. (Which is less than your £8,000!!) You pay 12% on anything between £149 and £797, and then 2% on anything over £797.

That sounds like a lot. English NI isn't just for health care, it's for some benefits and pensions too.

And people are eligible for Working Tax credits, which cuts that number down a bit.

You get a reduction in national insurance if you opt out of the pension and opt in to a recognised scheme.
How big was the slice? Were you trying to plot with bokeh or matplotlib?
Except that farmers are also addicted to the hormones and other supplements that cause animals to grow larger and quicker, which in turn requires antibiotics to deal with the subsequent infections. Modern agriculture is on a downward spiral of alternating new practices with needing to mitigate health effects.

This American Life had a great TV episode on modern pig farming that I highly recommend watching on this subject. I believe it's this episode titled Pandora's Box:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-31gON1Ius
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GMail is just some text and links too. Why does it get a free pass, but twitter doesn't?
Disney Launches a New Photo and Video Sharing App Called “Story”
>>upstart disruptive competitors

I downvoted you exactly for this reason: you seem to be under the delusion that Arcimoto is (or will be) a Tesla competitor.
I happen to know quite a few American kids who moved to countries around the world and unsurprisingly, none of them were diagnosed with anything. I have also known Poles who moved to America and other countries and have never considered them more intense than other people. Maybe your experience says more about you than the world in general.
I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but I am saying if you're wrong, it's because history tends to treat assassinated persons overly well (provided they were in good standing in the first place).
I wonder, INAL but if he says something like that publicly then it's not insider trading to act on it, I would think anyway.
It really liked "correct horse battery staple", but it did not like "hunter2" at all.
Without quantifying the risks involved with your trading strategies, it is impossible to say whether you are beating the risk-adjusted returns of an index fund. Additionally, I am pretty sure index funds, even without risk adjustments, have been proven to be better investments in the long term than any actively managed strategy. And this holds regardless of the experience of the investors. There are always going to be a few exceptions to the rule, but most of the people getting rich in wall street are doing so because they are taking a cut of other peoples money (management fees), not because they are genius investors.

Also, with actively managed strategies, it only takes one or two bad bets to wipe out years of gains, and due to natural biases, individual investors tend to under-report/weight losses and over-report/weight the gains. As such, we always tend to hear how other investors are making a killing on a certain stock or trade, but we rarely hear from the losers, which distorts our perceptions of risk and returns (so far, I have seen a handful of people talk about their Tesla stock holdings on this thread, but I have yet to see a single person talk about haw bad they are getting cleaned out because they shorted the stock).
Also worth noting that the mass of each star involved in a figure-8 would have to be pretty much identical.
To be fair, you'd be surprised by some of the stuff that's in the original version.
I am a long-time user of Netvibes and I'm surprised how little I hear the name as a Google Reader replacement given Netvibes' maturity and features.
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The point of financial compensation isn't really to compensate the victim (or their family), it's to push the cost of the externality created back onto the provider, giving an incentive to act sensibly.
I suppose, but its not needing oil changes alone is a big win for convenience. Tesla also will come to you for all service (and leave a loaner), so if it turns out to need some time in the shop you should not have to waste more time than it takes to make a phone call.
> It doesn't "cover" anything

Yes, it does "cover" other stuff, and gaps in your NI payments can leave you not getting that other stuff. That's why you're allowed to top up your NI payments.

EDIT: Also, while it's true about health insurance (if you go private you have to pay both) it's not true for pensions. You get a reduced rate of NI if you opt out of the national pension scheme and opt in to a recognised provider.
What caught my eye was the implication that one can already be served via email. It appears that, yes, federal courts have allowed parties to be served via email in at least a handful of cases dating back to at least 2010, e.g. Snyder v. Energy Inc:

http://www.serve-now.com/articles/50/eservice
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That's cool, as long as the professor isn't a scumbag. A lot of my friends have been stuck with some dude who requires students to buy new editions of his book each year (he makes just enough changes to get away with it).
You're making a few incorrect assumptions here. First of all, I am insured and most of the bill will be paid by Humana (after hours and hours of painful phone calls which nobody is paying me to waste my time on).

Secondly, I find it very typical that you've ignored the insane and mind blowing amount. Too many healthcare discussions are focused on "who" should be paying, instead of asking "why so much"?

There is no way in hell they should be charging $250 for a "recovery kit" containing a can of apple juice, 5 crackers and 4 pills of ibuprofen. My Humana policy is STAGGERINGLY expensive.

And finally, I paid more taxes (state+fed) here in California this year than most EU residents did. In my view, I already paid for my healthcare, they're just not delivering it to me, spending my money somewhere else.
Death isn't preventable, you can only delay it. Should the people pay for someone's heart surgery if their kidneys are on track to fail in a few months anyway?
I love the idea and am interested in signing up... but the design for your page leaves much to be desired.

Dark green on lime green is not a good choice, I'd suggest moving toward the colors and style of your blog / logo

Just my 2cents
Yeah. I was one of the co-founders/CEO for ~4 1/2 years or so. My other co-founders have since moved the company from NYC to Chicago. They're two awesome guys and doing great things.
I think your explanation is excellent, however I disagree on one point:

"I believe Mr. Greenspan is both sincere and passionate about what he believes but what he asserts is really a case to be made to the legislative policy-makers, not to the courts."

The courts are the place where any man should/can make a difference in the country. For example, I can bring forth a lawsuit to fix something I think is wrong and if my claim is justified the justice system can over rule a governor, state house/senate, or if it makes it federal the President. Also I am pretty sure you can not sue a policy maker so this may be his only option.
I'm in SF for a month and stumbled upon this web site that seems interesting to find co-founders and like minded entrepreneurs to exchange ideas and maybe some early feedback about my upcoming launch startup. I tried to sign up but dropped in the middle and received the follow email:

Hey,
I saw that you started to apply for FounderDating yesterday but haven’t finished it yet. Just wanted to reach out and see if there is anything I can help with - I’m on the community team? Happy to answer questions or if you’re set highly recommend taking 3 minutes to finish it up
Finish it up and submit here >>
Here to help,
Kristen

I responded:

Hi Kristen,
I don't have a LinkedIn account. This is the reason that I haven't finished.

The answer surprised me. No workaround.

Hi:
We do require a LinkedIn account, it's the easiest way for applicants to save time and pull in past experience and education. Would love to see your application,
Kristen

Why on earth a company rely so tightly in another company like that. Well, the post gave me a clue.
Premature Optimization is the Root of All Hair Loss
An amusing tale of graph algorithms and what happens when you forget to profile.
Here's a quick and dirty visualization of the distributions for each kind of care across lots of different hospitals: https://www.statwing.com/open/datasets/c5fc084c00d24cf221c17...

Other visualizations today:

NYTimes -- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/08/business/how-m...

Washington Post (low on the page) -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/o...
I'm a huge Tesla fan, but you are definitely in an echo chamber out in SV. Tesla has a huge tech/geek appeal. I know plenty of non-tech rich people from other places who would still much rather have their Mercedes or Bentley.
Is this Amazing? QNX had a demo of their OS with their windows environment, browser and more goodies in a 1.44 floppy disk.

I also created a Linux distribution with the Squeak smalltalk ported to SVGA lib: http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/ and remember SqueakNOS: http://squeaknos.blogspot.com

A full browser in 1.44 mb is a good target.
>Hospitals generally won't deny life-saving treatment. But they would deny anything less.

That's right, they will let you get sick enough to need intervention, and if you can't pay, they'll try in the meantime to find a gov't program to foot the bill.
I'm a recruiter, but I hate LinkedIn. In some ways, that's a gross exaggeration because LinkedIn does one thing very, very well: it standardizes people's work experience and puts it all in one place. Once you get used to reading LinkedIn profiles you can get the context you need about a person very, very quickly. This is great.

The rest of it sucks. In particular, LinkedIn Recruiter (the module that lets you see pretty much anyone, no matter how many degrees of separation exist between you and them and lets you send some number of InMails per month) is a giant spam factory. Its design encourages impersonal spams by making it super easy to send exactly the same InMail to large volumes of people. If I'm a recruiter, I can search for everyone who attended MIT and now works at, say, Oracle very easily, and then do the moral equivalent of throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Ugh.
What?!!! Just so I get this straight. In order to short the stock you have to pay an annual interest rate of 46% of the stock value? I realize most shorts are probably only in it for short term, but that is still pretty insane.
Ask HN: Stripe or Braintree for payment gateway?
Any good/bad experience with either?

I am tending towards stripe but however as I do not have experience on stripe, I would like to know your experience.

Braintreepayments also have the same fee structure as stripe, so overhead is the same.

I would probably pick over reviews and feedback.

Another solution is paypal, but I heard that paypal as business is not as good. anyone can concur?

Thank you for your feedback.
Ya, I got my info from Holman. My info's old.
I'm not familiar with the system, but I find it extremely unlikely if >600,000 doctors are able to organise to form a watertight gate without any help from regulation. Surely they control licensing or something?
This is a good introduction to ruby's method lookup, even if it isn't fully accurate. The author notes that he hasn't read the ruby source code, and his explanation is "just a model you can use to understand things."

While mostly accurate, his description of the module hierachy as a tree leads to a wrong understanding of how ruby's method lookup actually works. If ruby did use a tree, then including module B in module A after including module A in class C would result B being one of C's ancestors, which isn't the case. Ruby's method lookup uses a linked list (not a tree) using iclasses for modules (a pseudo-copy of the module, which is why later includes have no effect). However, a description of that may be too in-depth for an introduction.
> What people are miffed about is that he has the money to fund it himself and be even more independant

but, as he said on the interview, e is putting a lot of his money on it (and pre-sale money too).

And as he said on reddit[1][2], he has less money than you think he has.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1d02a2/help_zach_bra...
[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1d02a2/help_zach_bra...
I got so sick of meaningless skill endorsements that I decided to delete all the skills from my profile. I posted an update that I did this, and one of my former coworkers replied, "Now I want to endorse you for honesty."

And yet I am still getting empty endorsements.
>The only difference between Kennedy's speech and the Mars speech would be that Kennedy's was used to win the cold war, and the mars speech would be used to fix internal economic strife.

With all due respect, I am continually surprised by STEM folk who make this Mars argument. Kennedy-Moon Landing was one data point. That's not to say "we need more data" or something stupid like that, rather realize that in predicting data point #2 will be just as successful in every way, shape, and form as was data point #1, you are extrapolating a general trend from the single most unique event in human history.

It's impossible to get just as excited about Mars as everyone was about the Moon. (Yes, yes, a second green planet would be cool; the concept of terraforming is news to no one.) By the time anyone sets foot on Mars, it will have been longer between the Moon and Mars than it was between the Wright Brothers and the Moon. That's your context for how impressed the public is capable of being.
The biggest problem that good developers have when it comes to recruiting is that they hate recruiters, and the best way to guarantee that you get spammed by every recruiter in a thousand-mile radius is to tell something like LinkedIn that you're looking. Mighty Spring solves this problem by providing candidates with the ability to check out relevant jobs and indicate interest _completely anonymously_. No alerting recruiters. No alerting your boss.

Disclaimer: I'm the front-end guy for Mighty Spring :)
Why the Dow Closed at an All-Time High, Again
I used to play with something similar back in the 80s. Wish I could remember what it was!
California's money transmission business statute is quite broad:

2030. (a) A person shall not engage in the business of money transmission in this state, or advertise, solicit, or hold itself out as providing money transmission in this state, unless the person is licensed or exempt from licensure under this division or is an agent of a person licensed or exempt from licensure under this division.

. . .

(m) "Monetary value" means a medium of exchange, whether or not redeemable in money.

(n) "Money" means a medium of exchange that is authorized or adopted by the United States or a foreign government. The term includes a monetary unit of account established by an intergovernmental organization or by agreement between two or more governments.

(o) "Money transmission" means any of the following:
(1) Selling or issuing payment instruments.
(2) Selling or issuing stored value.
(3) Receiving money for transmission.

. . .

(v) "Stored value" means monetary value representing a claim
against the issuer that is stored on an electronic or digital medium and evidenced by an electronic or digital record, and that is intended and accepted for use as a means of redemption for money or monetary value or payment for goods or services. The term does not include a credit card voucher, letter of credit, or any stored value that is only redeemable by the issuer for goods or services provided by the issuer or its affiliate, except to the extent required by applicable law to be redeemable in cash for its cash value.

-------

This appears broad enough to include Facebook Credits, bitcoins, etc.
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True, but if tax regime had a significant impact on migration, it should have an incremental impact at all scales, offset by the expense / difficulty of actually migrating.

If one lives in California and earns enough to be in the top bracket (>$1mm/year), they could save a marginal 10% by relocating to Nevada. It's only a four hour drive to Tahoe, so you would expect to see a fair portion of people doing so. However, there is almost no evidence that this actually occurs.

Expatriation is just migration on a larger scale. The expense and complexity are obviously higher, but the basic incentives are identical. I have no doubt that at some very-high net worth, it makes sense to renounce and move abroad, but is it worth wasting energy on the few people a year who will do so?
"The reason services sometimes instead opt to encrypt instead of hash is for support reasons."

I've seen _very_ few good reasons for encrypting passwords instead of hashing them - and that's certainly not one of them. Sure, "support" might need access credentials to my account - but it needs to be _their_ access credentials, not mine. Sure, you can build the infrastructure required to securely manage encrypted passwords and the decryption key storage - but you can almost certainly build an alternative system where support never need _my_ password instead.
How would this work if you have all email notifications, and actually all notifications from facebook disabled? Or going to a non-existant account?

It seems that they would need some kind of proof of delivery.
How do we let you know we are hackernews people?
I guess it's a California thing. You have to believe in global warming (In the mid-west we have had 20 degrees below normal now for 3 months and snow of 14 inches in May). My practical side says the Tesla is nice but if fighting CO2 is your aim you could buy a $20K Honda accord and convert it to run on ammonia ( nearest practical gas to hydrogen). Ammonia is already piped all over the midwest and in contrast to grid power is almost all made from domestic natural gas. And with a loan of $450 million like Musk got I could build a home ammonia generator that takes in grid power to generate hydrogen and using nitrogen from the air. The small ammonia reactor is the only thing that needs to be developed (the hydrogen generator and nitrogen from air products are already off the shelf).
Ok, I'll say it. I clicked on this because of the "I learned to code..." part. Always feels good to see someone take the bull by the horn and tame it. But you apparently have two years of CS undergrad courses under your belt, in C++.

Congrats on your site (looks good) but your title is (intentionally?) misleading since you apparently have about three years of programming experience and JavaScript wasn't your first language.
Fucking dropbox or airbnb shirt
Go will likely eventually have a GC that will not be that terrible. However, right now it's a simple parallel mark & sweep. If you allocate more than a 1000 objects, and do any allocation during simulation, there will be very noticeable GC pauses. The current Go GC is not anywhere near the capability of C# or Java GC, and would not be suitable for minecraft-level games.

> Overall I think (read guess) that unless you are doing some sort of physics simulation, typical game logic requires relatively little cpu power and for the graphics there is hardware acceleration doing the heavy lifting.

Well, it of course depends on the game. AAA games spend all the CPU budget allocated to them.
>My biggest gripe with LinkedIn is that recently, I made the fatal mistake of letting it look at my Gmail contacts. Getting suggestions for contacts who are already using LinkedIn was the intention but they invited anyone who had ever mailed me!

I sold a guy a couch on Craigslist in 2005 or 2006, and he must've uploaded his Gmail contacts to LinkedIn not too long afterward. I only know this because for the last six years or so, the "People You May Know" feature on LinkedIn has kept trying to get me to add him as an e-friend.
I don't understand. I have /boot, /home and sometimes /srv in a different partition. I don't know of any other way to accomplish that without using putting mount points on root, unless you mean additional, non-FHS mount points...
They aren't. There is no 1:1 thread construct in JavaScript for sharing memory between threads. Web workers seem like a solution, but it's incorrect to think that is what's going on here. You could use message passing with web workers, but emscripten currently won't turn a semaphore into web worker code. The Unreal Engine 3 had to support older hardware, single core boxes, which is what the demo is compiled as.
This is a well-studied topic, of course. The primary economic value is tourism/novelty. There are not large amounts of helium-3, like on the Moon, but there is ice. If you can get there (SpaceX in particular is working on that, for $500,000 a ticket), you could potentially live in a spacious, bomb shelter-like structure with relative comfort, and even venture outside (with a spacesuit) if you felt up for it. Mars could become a retirement locale for the sufficiently-successfully, not unlike of Florida but without the gators.

It is not particularly likely, even with reusable rockets, that ore would be worth the price of shipping back to Earth in bulk. More efficient to use it for cheaper spacecraft (launch from Mars is less demanding on fuel) or Mars building structures directly, to house more residents.
> You're making a few incorrect assumptions here.

> "at this very moment I am sitting on $41K in medical bills"

Uh-Uh. I think you're playing very fast and loose with the language here. I doubt anyone would read that as "my insurance company is settling a bill for $41k for me". Especially when your anecdote does nothing more than confirm what is mentioned in the article: That healthcare in CA is stupidly expensive.
This would be really onerous for small projects that are barely making ends meet. They already have enough trouble budgeting as is.
The common criticism is: Why buy space exploration when we have problems here on earth?

People who make this claim, may not realize that space exploration could be a net win on some of these problems quite easily.

Education for instance. Take $200/year for 10 years from every student in the US. In exchange they get a textbook each year detailing some aspect of the mission to mars.

82million students x $200 * 10 = $164B

Printing the textbook and shipping 82million copies costs what? maybe $2B per year? $144B leftover to cover the actual mission.

Ask yourself if our average academic achievement level would be higher or lower than if we left that money in the educational system?
The number of one-year-old-plus postings here recently kind of puzzles me. They're often quite interesting, but isn't this Hacker News? Are we really living in such boring times for tech that there's really nothing worth talking about happening now?
SolarCity says treasury came up short, sues USG
I read this a few days ago on Reddit. The first thing I thought about was the Catatumbo lightning storm. There is constant lightning every single day or so in Venezuela. Then I reread the wiki page and there is a mention of a high uranium concentration in the area so it might be a source of gamma rays, but I really doubt it is sufficient to generate that much lightning, or such a phenomenon would be much more common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning
I find it interesting that one HN story can lead a huge corporation to take such drastic action. We don't even know if any of that is true!
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for future reference, the 'reply' link is hidden for a while in deeper threads, basically to prevent people from fighting too much, too quickly :) if you click the 'link' link, you can still reply.
FWIW, Julian Assange doesn't use email, and he says encrypted email is possibly even worse.
http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html...