skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from France and moved to the US over five years ago. I have been altering between working for an employer and taking time off to work on my projects. Within the first 2 years, I realized how cumbersome it was to switch healthcare and be covered between jobs, so I signed up for a private healthcare at once. I chose to have a low general coverage but a good one for accidents, I pay $20-40 for a doctor visit, nothing for annual dental check ups. No vision or drugs coverage (what's the point, for expensive drugs, the same drugs from the same labs are still cheaper in Mexico than a good insurance copay, and I have 20/20 vision). My insurance has been $90 per month for the first two years and recently went up to about $110 per month. When working for an employer, they would sometimes pay some extra cash when denying their coverage, if they don't, just add their insurance but keep the private one. My understanding is that the PPACA will make the cost of those single payer insurances go up a bit.
No, it only (along with a society of trigger happy idiots and borderline sociopaths doing the owning) vastly increased the chances murder will happen.
Nothing. Which is why I use a fake email in my commits.
If you like autocompletion then yes, it's very good. At one point I had issues with startup time that I was pretty sure had been caused by it, but it's highly likely it had more to do with Clang than YCM (I can't remember the outcome fully, since I ended up moving to Emacs shortly after).
I've never understood this argument. Unless the marginal rate is actually 100% how does higher taxation cause business owners to want less money? This strikes me as employee (i.e. dollars for hours) thinking. If you had to work more hours to earn more than I could kind of see how a higher marginal rate would discourage you from doing that but the owner of a $5million/year business doesn't work 10 times more hours than the owner of a $500,000/year business.
>The small key size was later discovered to be right around the actual security level the cipher provides (larger key sizes would not have improved security by much).

Citation?
Exactly how many repetitions do police get with TASERs, then?
Ah, those headaches. I vomited, struggled to see and couldn't talk or move properly. If someone had told me they were about to kill me I'd have vomited a thank you to them.
I get migraines occasionally, but coffee removal seems a trigger.
Which is why you shouldn't put a real email address in commits [1].

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-...
I've had no hard drive failures in over a decade, but my first SSD (a Crucial M4) failed in about a year. I'm back to reliable hard drives.
Like in every other place of the Western world, where gun ownership is illegal (or very resticted), but murders by criminals are still way lower than anywhere in the US?

I thought hackers were for science and understood numbers...
OOC, how were your first times using paredit ?
Three huge problems with K-Cups
Nature doesn't do duels and doesn't do tests between groups. Those just happen -- but it's not like nature or evolution arranges them to weed out the "lesser" group as your comment implies.
That sounds interesting. Can you explain more about the bubble angle?
Where do you get ones that you like? Do you check expiration or something like it so as to get fresher ones? I've only ever found them awful. We have a machine at work that I avoid, but I'd experiment if I had hope.
The Billion Dollar Misconception
No, I agree with the GP. There's a lot of people who buy guns in order to feel powerful and fantasize endlessly about having a justification for using it. Even if they never shoot anyone they tend to approach any and all conflicts in zero-sum terms. Also, they're incredibly tedious to talk to at parties.
If stuff doesn't break often enough, your skills might get a bit rusty.
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Generative FM synth with Web Audio API
was this just for yourself

Might be NYC. I can tell you individual plans in NY run $1,500/month.
These timings are all remarkably random, even with 10k repetitions.
It sounds like you are calling us gun owners trigger happy idiots and borderline sociopaths.
You're free to use our API. There's some shitty "docs" here: https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/50
This is the sort of thing I can flag, right?

An absurdly inflammatory statement that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand?
Well the main draw of an MBA program is the network. The information itself isn't really that hard to come by (The Personal MBA is pretty good.)

So, honestly, if you can't do a top MBA, or even a MBA in person period, don't bother. You'd be better off reading a bunch of books and networking at a ton of local events.
> it adds 50% to dev time

Just to be clear, do you mean that writing in C++ and doing manual memory management doubles dev time, or makes it 1.5 times as long as it would be in a garbage collected language?

Also, where does most of that extra dev time go? Being careful while coding to make sure you're managing memory right, or debugging when problems come up?
At least in Finland entrepreneurs are taxed less than many full-time employees. Corporations are taxed at a flat percentage (about 28% of the profits), while income taxes are progressive and up to 50%. In fact, your argument doesn't make much sense.

High taxation doesn't logically imply that it's necessarily unrewarding to become an entrepreneur but rewarding to be a full-time employe. You can have high taxes for entrepreneurs and low taxes for employees, or high taxes for both, of low taxes for both, or high taxes for employees and low taxes for entrepreuners.

A lot of high-earning individuals are actually using the lower tax rate of corporations to lower their tax rate. If you look at a graph of tax rate versus income, it slowly increases, but after about 60k/year it becomes possible to lower the tax rate using tax palnning.

1. http://liljat.fi/2011/04/isojen-puolueiden-aanet-menevat-kan...
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Perhaps you missed this when it was posted the other day: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-c...
No discussion of repaint and reflow? You can't leave a discussion of those out when talking about the cost of DOM manipulation.

You absolutely can touch the DOM, but should do so through and interface that manages or eliminates repaint and reflow.
> you'll find out that it reduces blood flow to the brain by 20%

... if you're a preterm infant
Not even that. Even a modicum of self-perpetuation would have seen Snowden run into a brick wall of technological access controls.
You imply that entrepreneurs do it primarily to get rich. That may be true for some, but it's not universally true. Many of us want to do interesting work to create something meaningful, while maintaining some control over our own lives. The way the US healthcare system is set up, leaving a big employer is incredibly hard after the age of 30-35. (I've done it myself.)

It's also not obvious that Nordic countries (e.g. Finland) have less entrepreneurship than the US does. If they do (I couldn't find hard data), it's as likely to be for cultural reasons as economic ones.

Scandinavia has produced a disproportionate number of artists and athletes - another kind of "entrepreneur." No doubt access to healthcare made it easier for them to pursue their passion.
Because it's quicker. You trade the mental effort of remembering to dose down over a longer period against physical discomfort for a day or so.

Personally I don't find cold turkey too bad. The second day after I stop I'll have a headachey, nauseous afternoon (which is almost entirely handled with paracetamol as long as I stay hydrated), but after that it's more a matter of habit.
i second this. CSS may be crap, but switching from frontend-development to swing-stuff makes me wanna hang myself after a few minutes. (And i worked with awt/swing/swt long before i touched CSS.)
But it seems to me that one of HTTP's prime benefits is its ubiquity. And it's ubiquity is due entirely to its use by browsers.
> If you get an NSL, shut down your business and leave the country.

This sentence (and the fact it is so hard to argue with) is one of the most chilling things I've read this year. Great work! (I guess?)
A strategy of 'escaping' assumes that the partner system does the right thing with its data. This is not always the case.

For instance, it may be perfectly fine in my system to have a user named '<script>alert("ha!")</script>'. Are you sure that's okay in your PHP-based web forum? Really sure? Every place they've ever shown a username to the user, it's well-escaped?

And even if that's true today, what about the day when someone decides to change the web forum software to something else? What about the day when someone turns on a feature that copies certain forum threads to an internal support system, also provided by a third party?
The only thing that matters in most cases is that it's being done over 60FPS. Use Chrome Dev Tools and to monitor the framerate.
The problem is more multifaceted than just "email is broken". One fundamental problem currently is webmail. People are accustomed to that but providing secure comms over web is currently tricky if not impossible. So even if we had a new fancy email standard, it wouldn't help if anyone cant't access it securely because current web standards are not up to it.

Another problem would be key management. I find it difficult to believe that we could build any sort of secure system without some keys, and those keys need managing. I'd love to see widespread adaptation of HSMs, but to accomplish that it would need support from the hardware all the way to the browser (or what ever client software). Even something like TPM would be nice if actually adopted (and made trustable).

Then relating to key management is the issue of trust. How do we verify the keys? The current CA system definitely seems bust, so we need something different no matter what's the email standard.
This reminds me of how the Occupy movement was handled by the authorities.
What's the justification for the activists bit? Surely you didn't mean to say they were created for stuff like COINTELPRO?

Also, who above the age of two doesn't have the "potential" to harm citizens?
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"I came here because I wanted to create a better life"

I would have thought Australia was at least as free and as prosperous as the US plus better healthcare.

Are you sre you didn't just make the mistake a lot of holidaymakers do? That is, viewing your vacation destination through rose coloured glasses?
You can use queues when creating a large number of elements. Use requestAnimationFrame and each frame pop some elements off the queue to render them. This will help prevent the page from locking up during render events.
Recently I woke up no more able to hear anything from my left ear.

My hearing has always been higher than most people's.

Long story short, as part of the cure, the otolaryngologist prohibited me to even smell caffeinated coffee for like forever.

I instantly switched to decaffeinated coffee.
The one I drink has half the caffeine it must have to be legally said to be decaffeinated.

I didn't experience a single effect of caffeine deprivation. Not a single time.

All in all, I don't think caffeine is a drug like others.
I think is a drug to someone, and it isn't to someone else.
The order of the ring of integers modulo n is (p-1)(q-1)

You mean, the order of the multiplicative group. The order of the ring of integers modulo n is always n, regardless of n.
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What's life without a little addiction ? ;)

Coffee is small dosages is not bad for you, many studies say that in fact it's healthy in a long term.

In my case, I drink my morning black coffee, and one espresso after lunch and another after dinner. It fixes my daily "addiction" and I don't see it interfering in my life like an actual drug would, say cigars/alcohol/etc..
On a purely practical level, using tables for layout makes it much harder to implement a responsive design where elements are arranged differently at smaller screen sizes.
The only thing you have to know about reliability is "always have backups". I bought 5 SSDs and used them as OS drives on laptops and desktops. No SSD actually failed, but they had "glitches" - 3 of them, of different brands and on different PCs and OSes, lost data for no apparent reason - nothing in the SMART logs and tests. Twice the OS had to be restored from backups. The good news is that after the restore (on the same device) everything was fine and I continued using them.
Bollocks.

I've been arrested by the police before and spent 4 hours in a jail cell simply because I was driving in an old red car with another passenger. We were even driving in the wrong direction and had food in the car that we'd just bought.

They were all sweetness and light until they turned up at my mate's house 30 minutes after 'chatting' to us and tossed it. Turned out nothing had even been stolen in the attempted burglary.

You just don't know when it's suddenly going to go from a friendly chat to something incredibly distressing and you losing your freedom.

They are not your friends and they will be fishing for anything they can use. Don't give them anything and you can't accidentally incriminate yourself.
How is Chocolatey? Does it feel Unixy enough for someone moving from Unix to Windows?
Calculators are not computers, and no one who understands what a computer is would suggest that one would somehow prevent a student from learning. We're talking about basic computer skills here: mousing, menus, command line, and some introductory coding. Those aren't nice-to-haves; they're necessities for elementary school students.

the students were playing games and browsing the web instead of paying attention in class

Sure, understood, but that's a red herring here. I'm not suggesting we outfit a whole classroom of second graders with laptops so they can play Angry Birds. I'm suggesting that children need computer skills.
When product management rules are broken – A day in the life of a startup
Documents, in the real world, are full of layout that has been difficult to replicate in CSS. And to counter your point more directly CGI and the concept of web applications existed before CSS 1.0, so there was already need for application-style layouts when CSS was being designed.

Flexbox isn't the answer either. I had high hopes for it and I'm in the middle of redesigning a web application UI using Flexbox for layout, and I still can't do some basic things like have an overflow:auto content area that expands to fill the space between a fixed left-hand nav panel, a variable-height fixed header, and a fixed footer. I'm still stuck with a bunch of javascript and a window.resize event handler to measure some heights and adjust the sizes of my containers. Maybe the upcoming CSS grids will work, but it'll be another couple of years before support is wide enough for me to use them.

EDIT: I also wanted to say that I've learned xaml in the past few years, and that's absolutely not the direction I'd want CSS to go.
You're probably very right.

Unlike what GP posted, the DSM isn't the bible of psychology. In Basic Psychology in college, I learned that the DSM only exists to help insurance companies classify and bill the practices of psychologists.
Yep, i am drinking mostly Nespresso decaf for the same reason, they almost taste like the real deal and let me avoid too much caffeine.
Centering content of unknown dimensions (and since the user is ultimately in control of font size this happens often) vertically is surpringly difficult to do if you want to support legacy browsers. It's a common pain point. There are others, but this one is particularly vexing (esp. to newcomers to CSS) because it seems, at first glance, like it should be easy.
Why is it not okay to use tables for styling purposes? Why is it okay to use multiple nested divs, but not the table/tr/td tags? Are there any practical reasons, besides the goal of making the markup more 'semantic'? Are there any screen readers that can't handle table tags? Or do some crawlers choke on tables?

I keep hearing this dogma, don't use tables for layout, but nobody has ever explained to me why it is a problem in practice.
What Happens When You Defy a Secret Government Order?
Can someone paste the code somewhere else please? The linked website is broken. And yes, I have Javascript enabled. But it's probably using localStorage (with no graceful degradation), which I won't allow. Is this becoming a thing? Either you give up your privacy, or you can't surf the web anymore?
I was at 3600 with many lives but the game froze :/.
>But to say that a canary I set up a decade ago is contemptuous of a court filing made a month ago is ridiculous.

No it's not: You show contempt for the idea they could demand you silently turn over information. It's seething out of your posts here on HN even.

I don't think it's right they can do this, but I do think it's quite clearly preemptively raising a middle finger to the whole thing; it is "I cross my fingers behind my back so my swears don't count" type of stuff that judges don't accept and toss you in jail for.

You don't get to outthink and out maneuver this crap: You have to beat it in the system.
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Ugh, did your hearing recover ?
Yep, dm-cache essentially does what Intel Smart Response does except it's done in the OS and not the BIOS.
Did you try Illy coffee?
It's believed to be among the best coffees in the world.
The best, if you ask me.
When I was looking (a few years ago, in California) I had trouble finding HSA plans that included prescription-drug coverage (even with a very high deductible) for less than ~$400-500/mo. There were plans cheaper than that with no drug coverage (starting around $200), but that leaves you on the hook for unlimited liability if you end up needing an expensive prescription (and some can be very expensive). I was looking for something where I self-insure the first $10k in an HSA, and then the plan covers hospitalization+drugs past that. And those exist, but not at the lowest end.
Apple’s evolving view of “pro”
5 things I wish I knew when I released my first iPhone app
I have data here on the weight of cats trapped on Kerguelen island since 1999, and I'm no statistician but I see no trend at all (data should also exist on the feral rabbits and mice, but I don't think I have it).
(As a side note, that posting is from 2010.)

As an alternative to writing the code yourself, there's itertools.permutations(). The Python itertools module documentation also gives a pure Python implementation of that function.

itertools.permutations() does not give the same output as in the linked-to page because it returns tuples rather than strings. That is:

>>> list(itertools.permutations("abc"))
[('a', 'b', 'c'), ('a', 'c', 'b'), ('b', 'a', 'c'),
('b', 'c', 'a'), ('c', 'a', 'b'), ('c', 'b', 'a')]

instead of "abc", "acb", "bac", etc. It can also work on any indexable data type instead of just on strings.

As for timings, I tested permutations("a" * 10)

0.53 seconds for itertools.permutations (in C)
17. seconds for the version on jeremy-boyd.com (in Python)
25. seconds for the itertools documentation version #1 (Python)
??? seconds for the itertools documentation version #2 (Python)

I actually gave up on the last one. It computed "a" * 7 in 0.5 seconds, "a" * 8 in 12 seconds and "a" * 9 in 320.
"Secret jail time"? Do your loved ones get to know where you are? Why is that a thing?
Those Mac Pros are going to be expensive
Presumably you draw some conclusions ever; I'm just saying you shouldn't use reasoning like above in getting there when you do.
There is anything new here ?
Lots of good advice, but I'll disagree with the bit about insisting on formal documents instead of e-mail - might work for some people but if you're not one of those people, you might end up getting paralyzed by the task of writing formal documents for everything. If e-mail is what works for you, use it. Bill Gates used to give a lot of guidance by e-mail and Linus Torvalds still does.
thanks -- and to whoever sorted this out: thank you as well.
I have only used nightcode a little but it is a wonderful idea. And works for clojure stuff.
I'm in pretty much the same situation, and it's absurd and also should be obvious.
There are indeed times when subdued appeasement and "friendly banter" as negotiation tactic may be a good/best course of action.

FBI knocking on your door wouldn't be one of them though. At least for me, but to each his own.

manish_gill's linked video is an amazing example of the information/power asymmetry working against you in this game. By the time you realize you're in an "uncomfortable place", it's likely too late.
It did, fortunately. Thanks for asking :)

It was a mini-stroke to a tiny blood vessel in the internal ear, that's why no more caffeine...

Now, when I get the rare glass (250ml) of coke like once per month with pizza, I also get some minutes of pain to the ears and feel very very stupid XD
Obvious: There is more food per individual.

Why? Increased productivity of farming. Have you ever seen a modern farm? They are just as impressive as any modern sky scraper or any other engineering accomplishment, probably more so for logical reasons. Once you throw in the logistical side, even more. The technology being used for traveling salesman problem is fascinating and cutting edge.

In fact, it's well known that there is plenty of food for everyone on Earth, but the logistics aren't quite up to snuff.. The result is lots of wasted food. Logistics is not a popular science for career-minded scientists to get into, because the costs need to stay low, thus they aren't making a lot of money. But they are well funded and working with the same type of stuff you'd see in the Oil Industry. They're supporting an entire society with their contributions. This is part of the reason I hate Monsanto so much, but that topic is for another thread.

Humans get all the food they need, so they stop forging, same for our pets, so they stop hunting. So do the rats, so they stop competing. Etc, etc, cascading down to many species.
> The British NHS discovered that by not feeding hospitalized patients they could realize tremendous savings in food, shortened length of hospital stay, followup costs, etc.

That's a lie. Try checking your facts next time:

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/nhs_malnutrition_death-28806

Oh, and by the way, the NHS costs us less than US public healthcare costs. Meanwhile, I can get zero deduction, all additions, money for any nights spent in an NHS hospital, private health insurance for $150 a month. How much does yours cost?
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-...
Any references to support any of your claims?
No, it's the opposite of racist. I am saying that it is such an acomplishment to be voted president of the US as an African American and that it will inspire other African Americans irrespective of how he actually performs.

On a side note: You should't accuse people of racism or other terrible character traits unless you are sure about it.
Vertically centering dialog boxes in a window is a minor pet peeve of mine. Boxes should be slightly above center.

If I recall correctly, the original Mac UI guidelines specified that the midpoint of the box should be 1/3 the distance from the top.
[thanks for asking this. i had always wondered how those physicists felt / could have done what they did. and now i read your question and understand them much better.]
That's just putting salt on wounds :(
blink wont have any: http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/04/30/blink-and-the-end-o...
Awesome. Thanks again!
I went the other direction, from the US to Australia, and I've been watching from afar as the remnants of the America I grew up taking for granted are being systematically and increasingly quickly stripped away.

It's pretty heartbreaking.