skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually had a discussion with my doctor on this very subject. He was complaining that he could not actually advertise prices as it is apparently considered price fixing if doctors do that (or so he says). He also told me he would be stupid not to bill the highest possible price he could for things because he doesn't know exactly what the insurance companies will accept and he could be leaving money on the table otherwise. So don't try to distinguish between specialists and GP's, they all do it.
Forget the valley, I think eksith is under the influence. If that ain't stoner talk, I don't know what is...
My understanding is that (at least right now) most Quantum Computers are equivalent to ASICs; they are custom-designed to solve specific problems, or problem domains.
It used to be understood that in principle intelligence agencies would generally respect the law of friendly nations, and quietly and discretely brake the law in case national security was at stake.

It is and always will be a gray area.

But wherever that grey area ends, the mass violations of the civil rights of millions of citizens of friendly nations is so far in the black I'm constantly surprised people even bring up the question.

This isn't even about where the unwritten boundaries of intelligence gathering are. Those have been well and truly crossed when you start violating the civil rights of millions of innocents.

The grey area the NSA has crossed into is the one marked "hostile acts of aggression".
I second that, just WOW. Someone wasn't satisfied with removing semicolons and curly braces and fixed the ENTIRE language instead. WOW!!
Previous extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982624
Stephen Hawking appears to disagree with garysweaver:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Created_the_Integers

Not that Hawking is intrinsically more qualified.
HN is not a typical audience.
I thought it was line noise. After all, how does a bot have initials?
just switch over to macs
I did'nt plan to mention creative cloud. It was free with CS6. I didn't follow the CC update.
I've also tried Colemak on my Android and iOS devices ... it's only useful for attaching physical keyboards -- at least when on a phone. A tablet might prove different, and I'd confirm with my Surface Pro, except I like its QWERTY touch keyboard better than the Colemak layout which isn't as touch-optimized in on-screen styling. I wish Windows 8.1 had Colemak built in. Apple's had it built-in since Lion.
In real english:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/edward-snowden-acc...
It does seem to have got worse in the last few years - not that I go to a GP often (maybe once every 3 or 4 years) but I was used to getting an appointment within 1 or 2 days and the last time the only appointement was about a week away.

However, it is worth noting that recent published statistics (for 2011/2012) show that:

"85 per cent could see or speak to a doctor or nurse within two working days compared to 90 per cent in 2009/10."

Note that this is for NHS Scotland - there actually isn't a single NHS for the entire UK.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/05/8250/3

One of the problems with the NHS is that it seems to suffer from having regular waves of (probably very expensive) management re-organisation inflicted on it in efforts to make it "more efficient" - often with non-medical managers being incentivized on performance, so they end up gaming the metrics.

Still, I think the NHS and the concept of "free at the point of delivery" championed by Nye Bevan "In Place of Fear" are still fantastically important to society the UK - though nobody claims it is perfect. Clearly the absolute best level of individual care are to be found elsewhere (probably in the US). However, when I see quotes elsewhere in this thread such as:

"I broke my knee this spring but didn't go to a hospital on my families request because the last time I broke a bone I reset it myself and the hospital still charged $8k."

Those pretty much fill me with horror/fear that anyone has to put up with that - which is precisely the reason the NHS was created.
My somewhat limited knowledge of the world of Facebook advertising (got free $100 credit, ran campaign) would tell me yes, Likes do count as a click.
This seems like the Python of compile-to-JS languages in much the same way CofeeScript is the Ruby. Not a big fan of Python but I can see this becoming popular with Python WebDevs.

I kinda hope this doesn't become a trend though, every web development enviroment spawning its own compile-to-JS language. I feel that there are too many such languages already.
What a big surprise, Germany knew and cooperates.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/edward-snowden-acc...
Well, next time you walk into a stinking hot concrete bunker, say to yourself "I wonder if I know what the word radiation means, hmmm.."
Actually I find that the hardest part about Colemak on the phone is being unable to distinguish the home row from the rest of the keyboard -- and if you can't touch type with fingers, using what's familiar (QWERTY) is easier. Thumb travel time is shorter than finger travel on full-size keyboards, after all.
Freenet is nothing more than a proof of concept really.
I did journalism in high school. It was tough enough to write an article once a month for the monthly paper, so I get where you're coming from.

The news of "Thorium Reactors exist somewhere" is good enough to report on, and happy news indeed. :-)
I'd expect regression to the mean to kick in after a few months and bring the effectiveness down to all the other types of advertising.
NSA Rejecting FOIA Requests by US Citizens
There is a small typo in "The outer this can also be captured _be_ appending".
Well, the interesting thing about this justification for storing metadata is that if you accept it, there's absolutely no reason it shouldn't apply to contents too. If you're allowed to store data indefinitely because only access to the data should be controlled, and you trust politicians and intelligence services not to abuse that power, why not do the same with all data? If you have control over access and the data will only be used in approved ways, why not just store everything and decide later what you can access?

Metadata is just as dangerous as content, and frankly I think the only reason content hasn't been stored is that it is a difficult technical challenge, and they don't yet have the capacity. Indeed, we've seen proof that the UK is already doing this for as much data as they can manage, without the permission of any of the US citizens whose data they collect wholesale in transit and send back to the NSA.

The massive danger here, which Snowden pointed out, is that if you store this information, policies can easily change in future to allow access (as they have done already with metadata), and at that point nothing can be done, because the information is already available, just waiting to be used, and going back decades. By allowing collection, you're trusting not just the current politicians, but every conceivable politician and intelligence agency over the next few decades or centuries, and all the foreign intelligence agencies and politicians that the information is shared with. These policies are of course secret, so we'd have no idea if they have changed or what they have started to use.

You also have an exponential growth of classified information which you have to try to keep protected, even as you expand the number of people managing it into the hundreds of thousands to deal with the ever-increasing technical demands of storing and cataloguing it. That's going to lead to leaks to the public and also to foreign agencies, and if the ambition is to store all signals eventually we'd get to a point where no-one has any privacy as it is impossible to keep a store of that size secret and contained.

The only answer I personally find acceptable and practical is to forbid storage of the information in the first place, restrict spying to clearly defined targets with proper judicial oversight of individual cases, and limit the time it is stored.
Quit school after finding a mentor to go work for cheap. Learn how to do real productive work. Anything that school can teach you, you can teach yourself or learn online. What you really need is real world experience. Get started.
As it was explained to me by the CFO of a major hospital, you are incorrect.

Hospitals would be out of of business if their average revenue per procedure was equal to the Medicare rates per procedure. But that's not to say that hospitals are "losing money" on every Medicare patient, it's much more complicated.

Running a hospital is like running an airline, there are extraordinary fixed costs just to open the doors, regardless if any patients (aka customers) show up. When you have high fixed and low variable cost, if you are operating below capacity then the marginal cost to serve 'just one more patient' is low, and so providing the service at Medicare rates results in net income, all else equal.

Of course the money for the fixed costs eventually has to come from somewhere. Right now, that comes largely from private donations, and rate shifting (higher rates for the privately insured and uninsured).

Simply put it comes down to buying power. No one buys more than Medicare, so it's not surprising that they get the best rates.
Support Automaton?
I'm not sure if you got any feed back on this but I would advise you to check out:

http://codereview.stackexchange.com/

I would personally love to do it but I probably need someone take a second glance at my work too ;)
What are the problems with xubuntu, if i may ask?
It's comprehensive, it's a bag of links to videos broken out into "steps".
No it doesn't. It gives you freedom to do things naturally, but you will only understand how to solve a problem naturally, when you've understood "programming in general" or "Computer Science", without specifics to a programming language.

To take fear away, you can easily create very very complex stuff with a single language feature. Think about QBASIC, one would think that you cannot do anything except some command-line programs with it. See the complete opposite: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033318/black-annex-is-the-be...
I actually like the dual system offered in the UK. I was in London back before 97, it appears things have gotten much better (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-nhs-hospital-...).

Although specialist visits are still lagging behind the US (23 weeks for knee replacements).

Yes, the non medical managers (i.e. those annoying MPH people who make drastic irrational changes to justify their positions), we have the same problem in Canada.
The overhead of insurance companies are minimal. Less than five percent of the overall spend (edit: this is wrong, it is more like 8%, see [1]).

As much as you prefer to think of your uncle as the good guy and faceless insurance companies as the bad guy, a big part of the problem is he makes between 150% and 200% what his European and Canadian counterparts make. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-doc.... Ahmdahls law makes it nearly inevitable that we'll pay doctors less if we want to reduce our overall costs.

1 http://tbd-consulting.typepad.com/healthcare_talent/2010/09/...
I am very jealous of you -- my inability to maintain QWERTY after I switched to Colemak was what forced me to grudgingly switch back.

I just couldn't do it; after I became acclimated to Colemak, my QWERTY was just destroyed. I had to think about where the keys were in QWERTY, and I realized I don't even really know, because typing is a doing-without-thinking activity. So I ended up having to look, which is extremely inefficient and finally I abandoned Colemak. (I couldn't avoid QWERTY because part of my job these days entails showing people how to do things on their own computers, which aren't using Colemak.)

The same thing happened when I learned Japanese; I used to be conversant in Spanish, and after I got to roughly the same level in Japanese (from living in Japan) one day I noticed that the Spanish wasn't there anymore -- I would have to think about what I wanted to say in my native English and convert it to Spanish.

Seems like a way different thing, but it felt the same, because it was like an unconscious activity being supplanted by another, and thus becoming something I had to think about. Which broke it.

It made me sad though, because now typing QWERTY feels idiotic. Kludgey and stupid. Colemak didn't make me a significantly faster typist (maybe it would have had I done it for more than 9 months) but it was way more comfortable.
In New Zealand there is often a 2-3% charge if paying by credit card.
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I don't do drugs (except coffee). It's 3:43AM. I tried sleeping for the last 3 hours. Phone rang twice in that time and I'm tired.
This.

Germany has compulsory health care insurance, Britain has the NHS, New Zealand has a largely free public health care system (with ACC for accident care and private health insurance for those that can afford a slightly higher level of care).

These are all "socialized" schemes of one variety or another, but they all work. You'd get funny looks framing a discussion about health care in those sorts of terms in most of those countries - and the stories shared here sound perverse to anyone in a western democracy outside of the US.
They are not a front for US Bancorp. They're a front for Bancorp Bank (http://www.thebancorp.com/), which is in fact a completely different and unrelated small bank.
Tried a downhill curve and I got yahoo.com http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:IwiF_9hYU...
A related concept is Belief in Belief:

Suppose someone claims to have a dragon in their garage, but as soon as you go to look, they say, "It's an invisible dragon!" The remarkable thing is that they know in advance exactly which experimental results they shall have to excuse, indicating that some part of their mind knows what's really going on. And yet they may honestly believe they believe there's a dragon in the garage. They may perhaps believe it is virtuous to believe there is a dragon in the garage, and believe themselves virtuous. Even though they anticipate as if there is no dragon.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/
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Article also states that the Brazilians are the most monitored nation in Latin America. Given that other countries in Latin America has showed far less "cooperative" with the US in the past, this took me by surprise. Maybe it's also oil related since the discovery of a humongous pre-salt layer[1] might be of interest to US?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-salt_layer
Do note that to do expedient bitcoin transactions you need to offer a tip for accepting your transaction on some mining node to start getting confirmations quickly. If you don't offer a tip it can take upwards of an hour for some idle miner to pick your transaction up and start confirming it.
Yes but try getting an appointment with a doctor in a reasonable time under NHS.

You can usually get an appointment with your GP within days, sometimes the next day (depends on your local GP). In an emergency you can call them and get an appointment straight away. It's never been a problem when I needed to see a UK doctor.

The GP can decide with you if you need to see a specialist and refer you (the vast majority of people don't).
$2000 is utterly ridiculous for a stress test. I used to work as a neurology tech, mostly dealing with epilepsy. Our tests themselves could invoke seizures, and we frequently saw seizures anyway, which can be life threatening if not handled. We were a private department in a hospital - as techs, we knew enough first aid to keep the person alive and call for the crash cart.

$2000 might sound reasonable if every single patient required emergency attention, but in truth, far from it. Medical tests aren't meant to bring you to the brink of death, and are generally designed to keep you safe. It's not even worth pretending that $2k 'might' be worth it; it's just not. As for covering for insurance non-payment, isn't that chicken-and-egg? When a test costs ten times what it should? That would suggest that for each test that someone pays for, there are nine patients effectively getting it for free.
When I visited Logitech US headquarters in 2001 Guerrino de Luca mentioned Doug Engelbart having office space for his endeavours as a 'thank you' for paving the way for their initial product.
It should appear here soon: https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim
Interesting, I would have said CoffeeScript was more pythonic than this. It certainly doesn't remind me of Ruby, and to the extent that it's a different syntax for JavaScript than a different language, scoping is different but in practice you don't notice things that are very different in Python.
I'm curious - as a long-time Ubuntu user who is totally resisting any effort to switch to Unity - how does one 'learn' the menu functions available for a new app with the HUD? I don't know anything about it, but is it possible still to see all the menus/submenus with the HUD somehow, or does one have to poke with the app to see the menus? As a naive outsider looking at Unity, I'm not sure I find the appeal of the HUD to be applicable .. maybe as an experienced user you could bridge this gap for me?
Just like in medicine, if its not strong enough to kill, its not strong enough to cure either.
While this is an interesting effort, I can't help but be squeamish about the sheer volume of JS that gets emitted (due to type checking) for what seem like small amounts of input.
Now this one really looks like a nice language!
Yes I think too #2 It's working here http://jsbin.com/epexom/1/ did you passed it, or I am doing some thing wrong
Aren't the successors to Winny (Share and Perfect Dark) like this? I remember one of these programs that I tried out in the past had these hash files that were seeded to others and I had no idea what files I was holding.
I think the reason they cost less is because they are the only type of Facebook ads that are shown on mobile. I have a web app which doesn't work very well on phones and the only way to prevent my ads from being shown there is to disable News Feed ads completely.
I've encountered a similar bug before.

>>> arrays = [[]] * 5
>>> print arrays
... [[], [], [], [], []]
>>> arrays[0].append(1)
>>> print arrays
... [[1], [1], [1], [1], [1]]
Link to the paper from the Journal of Philosophy

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~tgendler/documents/aliefbeliefjphi...
Ask HN:Whats the difference between unicode technologies and TTF?
I thought TTF also used unicode behind the scene but there are converters to convert TTF to unicode fonts. Whats actually the truth behind these font technologies?
Of course, one thing about the NHS in the UK, as with state provided education, you can opt out of using it but you can't opt out of paying for it!
The ZFS sources are licensed in a way that makes it impossible to merge them into the Linux kernel. You could run ZFS as a user space daemon communicating with the kernel over the FUSE interface but it's never going to be part of the kernel itself.
You're assuming the cost is $200. In Canada it can be up to 6 months (from my own experience) to get a stress test booking. In the states you can do it the next week. That gets a significant premium. Compare it to buying something on eBay from Hong Kong and waiting 5-8 weeks vs paying 4x and getting it right this second from Best Buy. At the end of the day you're going to get what you need either way but it's how long you're willing to wait.

$2000 is only for uninsured patients, and as has been demonstrated numerous times results in you getting shafted when it comes to pricing. A better problem to attack is reducing the amount of stress tests given, as they're often completely unnecessary. Ontario has recently decided to stop paying doctors who give unnecessary stress tests, resulting in ~5000 fewer tests given every year.
I have no opinion on which way round the Jobs statement should be, but judging by profit margins, Bezos seems to play a game which is more: I lose, you win, maybe sometime later, I'll win, maybe. He is nigh on impossible to predict and bottom lines don't seem to motivate him at all.
His lawyer confirms the news on his blog: http://danblog.cocolog-nifty.com/index/2013/07/post-9e47.htm...
"Kaneko also had his home searched and had the source code of Winny confiscated by the Kyoto Police."

That's disgusting.
I wish Douglas Adams was still alive to see this
Yes was about to say that, Google is a big example of a company that uses, researches, and develops AI tech. And they do use AI for search...
Sounds to me like you have a particular and isolated use case. You describe a web developers problem, rather than normal use case.

Reflowing to the window, as you drag a corner, seems computationally expensive and a waste of time IMHO. It can occasionally have it's uses. I've always thought the default should be resize and reflow on resize release.

If people really care about responsive design and window resizing then they would probably happily forgo tabs and instead use windows. I'd rather this, but the window manager needs to be competent. (I'm not sure how much lighter tabs are compared with windows - system use wise ?)

In Xfce I'm happy to have the browser not draw the window as I move it. Just outline the window.

You can resize and reflow under Gnome3. (Alt+F8 is the keyboard shortcut.) Can you really not resize windows under Unity?
That's brilliant. Not in terms of some AI working out what a silver haired old grandmother meant but in terms of talking to clients - they could imagine talking to a computer and I am just providing that feedback.

Daily or weekly, feedback nice and quick
For whoever downvoted me: this typo breaks the whole example so it's not irrelevant.
I think it's closer to "the Scala of compile-t-JS languages" :) ...last time I checked Python didn't have macros and syntax for currying, function composition, piping etc. and its TIMTOWTDI philosophy seems closer to Ruby.

Honestly, the macros section scared me out, especially the "there are five types of macro syntaxes" (...this is as far away from the pythonic way of doing things as one can get) but this seems the most promising compile-to-Js language I've seen.
Science, Society and Control
According to https://twitter.com/BofA_Help# -

"Bank of America ‏@BofA_Help 26 May
In observance with the Memorial holiday, our Social Media Team will be off Monday, May 27, 2013 and returning on Tuesday, May 28, 2013."

Good to know the machine gets to take a break from its hard work now and then.
Freudian slip?
I don't know what Supreme Court you've been watching, but it's not the modern US Supreme Court, which has made in unmistakably clear that the only time they'll apply it is when there is no colorable argument that the cops didn't know they were engaged in a fourth amendment violation. There is no effective exclusionary rule in the US anymore, it might as well not even exist.
Need to control people coming off a plane and check they enter the country correctly no?
Check out http://repaper.org/ and Pervasive Displays products. No connection with me whatsoever.
Whoa, this actually looks really good. terse, robust and safety first, whilst still packed with some high-level features.
out of curiosity,do you have an example of useful answers that are closed? I've found a lot of interesting answers that are closed, but not really "useful" in the SO sense: something that answers a specific question.