skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people do, of course, believe that the TSA has literally never caught a weapon. Some people also believe that the TSA is secretly protecting us from the lizard-men from Mars. It is fairly easy (even here) to find someone on most any side of a debate who's arguing from deranged criteria.

We can argue about what qualifies as 'standard' - although I don't think any of us have access to much in the way of quantification regarding arguments for and against the TSA. Proof to the contrary would be a pleasant surprise.

I hope it suffices to say that most people who are concerned about the TSA are concerned about rates of detection and perceived effectiveness of techniques versus cost. Even if not everyone would be so wordy.
Sounds like a great idea! I wish you strength for the integration part, I do the same thing in the travel industry, the hidden complexity of these systems is absolutely incredible. People complain about win32, but this stuff is one step further. Most of it is still compatible with systems from the early 70s.. Welcome to the wonderful world of TTY, EDIFACT, TPF and all the rest :-)
I think some people tend to take pg's startup ideas too seriously. I mean, I've heard talks by him in which he explicitly says not to take these too seriously. They are examples and only examples. So right now, for example, it's pretty obvious security is a big thing. It doesn't (shouldn't?) take pg to tell you that. All you have to do is read the news.

Find a big problem (it just happens that dating is one) and fix it. Don't plan on getting in YC (or any other incubator) or being successful simply because you picked something off one of pg's lists. I'd say the most important qualities of an entrepreneur is to be in tune with these problems without getting any sort of external guidance. It's not a good thing when someone comes on HN and posts a post-mortem about their YC experience beginning by citing an RFS or one of pg's "idea" essays. Personally, I think that some RFSs from 2009 (http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html) are downright silly -- 5 and 3 in particular. Moral of the story: find something you're passionate about -- a problem, a niche, etc. -- and build something to fix it. If it happens to fit into one of the RFSs or pg's ideas, oh well, good for you I guess.
Looks nice and I would definitely like to see support for other languages, like perl.

But, what if I want to run my own infrastructure?
Why don't gc languages have optional memory management - include free(), so there's less work for the gc?
I see that while RCU doesn't rely on GC, it does rely on safepoints (or a specific kind of safepoint - a task switch). A little unrelated, but internally, the JVM makes use of safepoints, not only for GC but for other purposes as well (I think JIT-ing and maybe other things). There are some "phase changes" that can only occur when all, or some, threads are at a safepoint. JVM data structure gurus like Doug Lea sometimes structure their code with that knowledge. For example, if I'm not mistaken (and I may very well be mistaken on this point), there's a safepoint at every back jump, and this somehow makes Doug use a while loop and a do-while loop for different occasions.
> people get worked up when you tell them the Constitution is being trampled

And some people get worked up when you lie right to their face and claim that something is Unconstitutional when the Constitution doesn't touch it at all. :)
Not in every jurisdiction. PA for example is no-fault. The idea is that while you shouldn't be driving so close behind, you also should slam on the breaks. Both are equally reckless.
Who are you to say what is right and what is wrong? Furthermore, who are you to judge another, especially individuals based on such limited examples of their business?

Name calling doesn't solve problems. Childish bickering doesn't get results.
I'd look at good old supply and demand before reaching for "over-regulating is distorting the market." Demand for Lasik and cosmetic surgery is much more elastic because they're not life-saving or otherwise necessary procedures. Meanwhile, supply is relatively higher because they're relatively cheap procedures to provide. They can be done in outpatient centers instead of hospitals, usually don't require general anesthesia, etc.
> though if you do it, have at least the freakin decency and humanity to call an ambulance before running from the scene

Due to the non-anonymous nature of current telephones, this is impossible.
This is part of what I mean by "I can see both sides." I don't approve of an automobile drivers acting aggressively and dangerously toward a bicyclist, but I also don't think it's reasonable for bicyclists to significantly impact the flow of traffic (and even just letting 5 cars pile up before moving over is a major impediment to traffic). In short, I really don't think that roads with significant automobile traffic should be shared with bicyclists (well-designed bicycle-only lanes are fine).
Mint is now owned by Intuit. Are the original founders still with the project? If not, I'd be surprised to see them take such a precient direction.
Well the law is implementend in an annoying fashion. For functional cookies there is no requirement to ask permisson.
But many websites choose to block all content asking to permit them to place additional cookies for benefits, i.e. tracking cookies.

Like the author said:

Cookies are, as the EU commision correctly noted,
fundamentally flawed, because they store potentially
sensitive information on whatever computer the user
happens to use, and as a result of various abuses and
incompetences, EU felt compelled to legislate a "notice
and announce" policy for HTTP-cookies.
I don't know what their point was, but mine would be this: those 20-30 people a week shouldn't be allowed to keep their guns. I support their right to ownership and carry, but they really should lose that right (or at least that firearm and a substantial sum of money) if they're so careless as to forget that they have a lethal device stuffed in a bag that they've just packed for a flight. That kind of stupidity and negligence gives careful gun owners a bad name.

Ownership of a firearm requires a certain level of responsibility. A concealed carry permit increases that quotient of responsibility substantially. In my mind, forgetting where you put your gun is basically inexcusable. There may well be the odd, vanishingly unlikely circumstance where one could plausibly excuse unintentionally carrying a firearm through airport security, but I can't think of it.

My bet is that most of these idiots knew they had their guns with them but thought they'd try it on anyway, reasoning that if they went home to drop it off, they'd miss their flight.
There's more to everything than a "fair price". People who want to explain why Microecon 101 doesn't hold in the medical arena really should take care to not accidentally explain too much and end up proving that Microecon 101 never holds, which is demonstrably false.

(And yes, there's more to the world than Microecon 101, just as there's more to physics than Newtonian mechanics or thermodynamics, but I still get to assume that glorious theories that somehow fail to conform to such basics are probably in error.)
Pricing transparency, for whatever reason, does not exist as a rule in the medical industry. The "charge masters", are a joke that the hospitals themselves admit are useless as indicators of actual prices paid unless you're out of pocket, and then you get to pay them. Even then, the charge masters, as useless as they are, are still kept well hidden from all but the most inquisitive.

I hope you're right about the government not hindering medical pricing transparency. Now we need to get them to mandate it.
The use of SunSpider to argue that CPU-bound JavaScript performance has not improved since 2010 is simply wrong. What SunSpider does is not at all representative of what CPU-bound JavaScript in a modern web app does. V8 and SpiderMonkey have significantly improved performance on real app code since 2010, despite the unchanged SunSpider scores. I say this as a developer on a large and heavily CPU-bound JavaScript app.

The dismissal of asm.js is wrong too, for many reasons. Browsers don't need to support it explicitly necessarily. GC pauses are eliminated regardless of browser support, and most JavaScript optimizations will help asm.js too. The elimination of GC is not the only benefit, or even the main one really (the main benefit is the elimination of polymorphism, improving JIT performance and allowing AOT compilation). The assertion that it's not "really" JavaScript is irrelevant to the question of whether it can speed up web apps or not.

All that said, I really appreciate the article and the discussion it's sparked.
Possible interpretations of "If we clean language though, rid other overhead":

* We should|could|would|must|might|ought to|need to get rid of other overhead.

* You should|could|would|must|ought to|might get rid of other overhead.

* Those guys over there should|etc. get rid of other overhead.

* I can't type "ride". What does "...ride other overhead" mean? I dunno, but people write incoherent things all the time.

IOW, what you think of as "overhead" probably isn't, especially with natural language.
On the morality of suicide and free will [rant]
Oh man I want this to be the new norm so bad. The American health care system really needs to be shaken up. Republican dissent in Congress blocked that when Obama was championing it; perhaps the Republican's stated goal of a free market is going to be what affects the change. Where are the free market republicans supporting these practices? Why are they so upset about people coming to work in America but not the fact that hospitals are able to use the insurance system to gouge consumers?

The cited $30,000 surgery costing a fifth of that at the centre makes it well worth the effort to fly from out of state to get your operation on. The old system of charging whatever you can get away with because the patient doesn't have options needs to die a horrible death.
Looking at the Arduino code, this would be a cool way to visualize data from a temperature sensor project which I was working on.

I notice it will require an always-on connection in order to transmit data back to your servers. Do you have any plans for making something slightly more modular which could deal with devices that can't always "phone home"? Or maybe that's on us makers -- we need to store the data to SD or something, then build routines that send data when connected.

Either way, using Plotly means your project has to have either an Ethernet shield or a Wifi module.
There's a very large amount of medicaid/medicare practice (and 'obamacare' practice) that was written by insurance and hospital lobbyists with a financial incentive to perpetuate the status quo, if not outright extend regulatory capture and stymie any actual market competition.

Given that something as simple as allowing Medicare to negotiate with care providers and suppliers as any other insurer is massively controversial, I think you would be amazed just how controversial seemingly-straightforward reforms actually are. Particularly those things that would increase competition and thus threaten the status quo.
Quite the opposite. It's better to get a straight answer than to be left hanging on a maybe.

You ever been in an airport where they have a delay, and every hour they tell you it will be another hour?

Can't they just say 6 hours from the start?
I suppose that "far-fetched" isn't the right word to use, rather that it's absurd that that many people per week forget that they have a potentially loaded gun in their bag and are carrying it into a high-security area where they know they should specifically not have guns.

If we assume that those people don't have any malintent, then they're just careless. And if they are that careless, they should get their firearms confiscated from them and they should be fined.
It would have been great if Uber could have provided rides for free, discounted, or even at regular rates, but at the end of the day they're still a business. They have a responsibility to their employees and their investors to make a profit, and adjusting their rates to match demand is a reasonable way to do that.

Or you could act entitled and call them assholes.
So you really think we'd be here today if instead of HTML, CSS , Javascript, JSON, XML we had a web based on bytecode formats?

The web is made by people, not computers. Open an ubiquitous text-editor and you can start working on something right away. If you have to download a dozen different compilers and IDEs to do that, it's definitely not the same.
Some other techniques off the top of my head:

-- offer a "price match guarantee" against any procedures versus in-network hospitals

-- offer a discount for low-risk patients (non-diabetic non-obese) who need to have surgery done

-- do "bundle deals" with local hotels and/or attractions like they do with plane flights, so if you are travelling to the hospital you would have something for the family to do

-- free 1-month nurse concierge where you can call a hotline to followup after any procedure (would be great for baby deliveries)

-- discount on 3-months of physical training, along with a bundle deal at a local gym

-- offer a "retainer" that would lockin a price of any procedure for 5 years. Good for those who are family planning or have a low-priority surgery

It just seems like there's a market for something-that-doesn't-suck in healthcare.
I've tried it, and yes – it's sluggish.
This looks really neat. I produce a lot of plots in my day to day work (mainly in MATLAB) so I'm excited to see if there's an opportunity to use Plotly.

Can you point me to some examples of how you've brought Plotly into your workflow? Do you generally send data via the API and style it manually, or do you do all the styling in code? How easy is it to grab plots from Plotly to be included in e.g. a PDF?
So hypothetically, you wouldn't object (on "rights" grounds) if there were a non-interstate that was labeled no-bikes when there were plenty of alternate routes to everywhere serviced by that thoroughfare. Sounds reasonable to me.
There should also be a 'Don't be an economically illiterate douchebag' rule which is seldom followed.
Does your current hospital show you these statistics?
How, in an argument arguing for (or against) something based on the harm it can cause, is the "degree of hurt" "pointless". That makes even less sense than the original point I was responding to.

Clearly this is an issue of religion. If so, then just declare your side, sharpen your pitchfork and be done with it. But arguing as this thread does, that riding on the sidewalk for safety is "equally unsafe" needs to be done with evidence. It's certainly not true that the collisions are independently more dangerous. Maybe you could argue that there would be more of them or something.
Neither Lasik nor cosmetic surgeries tend to be major issues of life and death, nor do they tend to occur in emergency situations where an informed decision may not be possible.

Free markets and transparent pricing that work require that there not be major information asymmetries between supplier and purchaser. If I'm in the hospital with an emergency or critical condition, I probably don't have the option of fully researching or understanding my options.
You mean onion routing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
That's what insurance is for. Catastrophic situations. Or perhaps there's a way to pre-purchase emergency care at a discount. Or you set your emergency provider ahead of time based on price. I don't know. There must be creative ways to solve this problem rather than being all fatalist about it.
Really? It should just be a simple css hover effect.
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i agree and disagreee. i think unions were a good idea, but yes, were given too much power. I don't think anyone can doubt that. I actually also agree with you that they don't benefit anyone in a company anymore. we have more regulations and restrictions than we ever did in (someone said this decade) the 1920s and that pretty much makes the unions benefits moot. I've worked in union and non union shops for the auto industry (detroit) and I think that the non union shops ran better, and were better to their employees. I know this is just my experience but i talked to many people that i worked with and they agreed. When your boss has to confirm with the union rep before he can make a change, that's a problem. when you can't fire an incompetent employee because he's union, is wrong. HOWEVER... dangerous jobs should be avoided regardless. there are jobs out there that will be dangerous regardless of regulations, but can be minimized. I don't think it's callous. i think the concept of everyone getting their hands held through the job market is the problem. "you don't want to work hard, no problem, here's your union card." is a concept that i've witnessed and if that fails, there's always unemployment. i'd prefer people felt some sort of drive to improve their living or working conditions. too much coddling. now i'm just ranting. ;)
Really HN? I would make the case that price gouging occurs when your customers are in a dire situation due to no fault of their own, and other options are limited. While this make make a cheap buck, in the long run, fostering good relationships with your customers is even more valuable. That's reason enough not to, even without a moral argument, which I think is also clear.
My condolences to Mr Vidal's family & friends.
Be a quitter
That's cool. Does your company set up this server version or is this something that you manage yourself? I've been using RStudio in my desktop, what do you like about using it in your browser?
I may be completely ignorant as I'm not an authority on the subject, but I think it's the difference between the radioactive materials being exploded/vaporized vs shot into the atmosphere (without being vaporized/broken down) and distributed in the general area.

With the the A-bombs, the radiation that people suffered wasn't from the radioactive materials in the weapon itself, but the radiation from such a huge explosion.

With Chernobyl, the radioactive materials were sent into the air and settled around the vicinity, making many parts of it still very radioactive to this day.
Global survey: Majority feel corruption has worsened
"Political parties fared worse in the United States, where the 1,000 respondents surveyed gave them a corruption score of 4.1 of 5.0"

That was a bit surprising for me considering there seems to be little or no corruption in the US, when it comes to daily services for the common man.
Actually, a 'fair price' would be reflective of all of these factors. If a hospital/health provider feels that it excels in these areas, then they could just as well publish these quantifiable measures along with their prices. Then it's up to the consumer to decide how valuable these factors are to them. However, there's no reason to assume that the hospital that's charging 1/4 what others are charging is demonstrably inferior in any of these ways just because of the price.
Victims of Corporate Inexactitudes. Chain Effects by Jason M.
Except I suppose that if you scale rapidly, that Firebase would be able to handle the load.
That's pretty much the point. The safety required makes writing a complex, life critical system like this and getting it certified pretty much impossible with our current software methodologies.

There's been quite a few software bugs in certified aviation software. One in the control system for ABS brakes caused a runway overrun, another in the Airbus fly by wire system caused an in flight upset with multiple head and spinal injuries.
The older, HTTP/1.X compatible versions maybe. What happens after the web upgrades to 2.0? How long until compatible tools make it to default installs? Even now, OSX doesn't ship with wget.
interesting, but how much is this different from ipython notebooks?
I didn't argue not having pilots in the cockpit. I'm arguing against pilots being in manual control of the plane when landing when the plane is capable of landing itself. If it isn't, fine, have a pilot take over, but that shouldn't be the case 99% of the time.
anecdotally, i can't even remember the last time i saw a bicyclist stop at a stop sign.

even the guys in their $10k road bikes and full outfits, who ostensibly take bicyclig VERY seriously, just blow through stop signs like they weren't even there. sometimes even stop LIGHTS if it's a t-stop.

especially when they're riding in their large groups. and sometimes they even ride on the wrong side of the road (LOL)

i live in santa monica, maybe it's especially bad here.
As it turns out, the protocol for actually transferring the files is utterly irrelevant compared to the protocol for getting updates, keeping various local stores synchronized, retaining versions, managing conflicts, handling client-side bugs and surprises, etc.
Here's an index that is based on GitHub/StackOverflow instead of random search strings.

http://langpop.corger.nl/

(Fun fact: according to Google, there are ten times as many "C developer" than "C programming". TIOBE is somewhere between FUD and trash, stop using it.)
Not sure if you've seen it, but RFS #7 was about Facebook's instant personalization service. ycombinator.com/rfs7.html
There's a reason that stores don't charge you extra for batteries, flashlights and water before a storm: you will be pissed off, and not come back.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Mungergouging.h...
Excepting of course, the millions of intersections and driveways. You know, besides those.
Adding to your comment:

There's a lot that cannot be quantified as well.

For example, some doctors I trust more than others because I think their diagnostic skills, empathy, listening skills and ability to absorb case knowledge are superior to the generalized level of their peers' abilities in the same area.

However, I wouldn't want someone to make an Excel spreadsheet with every patient's assessment of his/her doctor in the same way, since I think most patient's judgment skills will be on a similar standardized level that is below what I would need.

It's sort of like martial arts fighters. We can measure number of wins/losses at tournaments, but we can't assess how well they'd do when approaching an unknown situation with assailants who do not play by the rules.
Their pricing site should drop all the ".00" cents figures... it seems unnecessary and subconsciously makes the numbers look bigger than they are.
Autoland is often used (mandatory in very low visibility) but requires 2 humans to monitor in case of equipment failure. To develop autoland with sufficient redundancies to require no monitoring, and install accompanying ground equipment at every commercially used airfield is way more expensive than training humans to land aircraft.
Airframe loss is an insurable risk at market price.

Presently, the numbers favour accepting human error.
How do you know? If you judge just by warrant success rate, you should realize that a judge can informally reject a warrant multiple times, and only when it's finally satisfactory to the judge does it end up counting as being 'formally proposed'. Justice Kollar-Kotelly described part of the process in a WaPo story, IIRC.
Because the majority of roads nowadays in use were built in 1830... /sarcasm

Here, even 70 years ago, several roads were just a dusty path through fields and many of them didn't exist yet. When they were actually built as a road, it was done for cars, buses, trucks and it was done from steep consumption taxes on gas and later from country-wide toll imposed on cars.

Of course, YMMV in your country. But I really think that you didn't have asphalt-paved 10 m wide roads 180 years ago.