skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, keep in mind that money is not wealth. This "global elite" is not hoarding food, fuel or other basic necessities, they only have the money. New money can be printed, old money can be destroyed, new currencies can be created. The only real wealth is goods and services created/rendered by working people, and this "global elite" doesn't really have a strong grip on that.
I'm not sure if I should be amazed at the sheer level of apathy these guys portray or angered.
This is a fascinating data problem. I noticed a lot of the price distributions are non-normally distributed (specifically with a strong positive skew for the least consistently priced procedures). You guys should have fun with this.

Who will be the primary users of this information? It seems that insurers already are aware of chargemaster prices and ignore them since they're going to be bargained away.

Employers seem not to care to dig into how much their insurers are paying (employers just care what premium they'll have to pay).

Finally, it seems like consumers can't really use this data since they're pretty much locked into their plans anyways and will go wherever is most convenient.

Now given changing consumer behavior, I could see consumers maybe using this so they have to pay less of a deductible, I could also see insurers working with consumers to steer them to the best prices - saving both the insurer and the consumer money. However, this will require overcoming consumer attachments to preferred providers (a challenge for older adults, not so much so for younger ones who often don't have a relationship with a doctor). It can be how surprising how quickly people can overcome sentimental attachments when their money is on the line though, so who knows.
I think that Google has a Search app on Windows Phone. If the platform does not have the numbers, then why make the Search app? When Search app is released, why not release Youtube and other apps?
>>Question 1: Because people want more than they need. This is practically an axiom.

Is it? There are several hundred million Buddhists who might disagree with you.

>>We aren't unique in this regard either. My cat needs air, water, and food. My cat wants attention, affection, and canned wet food.

Your cat wants attention, affection and canned wet food because as a pet it has gotten used to those things. There are a billion felines out there that are quite happy with living alone and marking their territory and hunting for and munching on raw meat.

>>You don't need much more than a pile of sticks to sleep under, food, and water, but I bet even you would agree this is not satisfying.

It depends. I love to go cross-country backpacking and the only things I bring with me are the bare essentials: tent, sleeping bag, food and water, clothing and some emergency supplies.

>>Question 2: I wasn't socially conditioned to want the fan that keeps me cool when it is hot. I wasn't socially conditioned to enjoy beer. I wasn't socially conditioned to like literature. Sure, some people are working for things they have no real use or desire for, but IMO there are plenty of things that improve life beyond the truest basic needs, that are worth continuing to strive for. Amusement, art, intellectual pursuits, athleticism, etc...

Your argument is shifting away from what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that you do not have to work 40+ hours a week for any of those things. You only have to do it because our capitalistic society is engineered that way.

Think about it like this: the productivity of the average worker has increased tremendously over the last century. Yet, instead of reducing work hours to account for the fact that we can produce the same amount of goods and services in less time, we have opted to work the same number of hours (or even longer in some cases) to produce more than society needs.

Even if everyone worked 20 hours a week, you could still enjoy your beer and athleticism and art and intellectual pursuits. In fact, you would have more time for them!
That's the point of this article. The experiment routes around the lack of good spatial resolution in the data. It's like a much more sophisticated, much less easy to game polygraph.
Requiring someone to play by the rules to use the data isn't being not open. The data is accessible, and you can use it, provided you follow the rules. And there really only seems to be one rule that Microsoft keeps breaking (and even admitting to breaking), which is using an HTML5 video tag to wrap the video in.

If Microsoft can't put a simple web frame in their own application and have only an iframe, video tag, or whatever it is that Google wants to display the video, Microsoft has a problem.

The data is open, and free for anyone to use, provided they follow the rules. Microsoft doesn't want to follow one simple rule. One. Simple. Rule.
Can I just say that I love Charles Bukowski? If you've never read him go buy his books now. There's so much humanity in there. Some will think he's a downer or depressing, but I think he's genius. His life reminds me of this quote by Hokusai:

When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75 I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am 80 you will see real progress. At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist. At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before.

Never stop learning, folks.
But that's human nature, we're designed to always keep climbing up and striving for more.

It is not healthy to constantly compare yourself with people who are worse off. Sure, it induces a sense of gratitude to know that you have clean drinking water and no threat of being killed by a warlord today (unlike many people in Africa, for instance), however if we settled for that, there would never be any incentive to improve our situation further. Imagine what would've happened if every inventor and scientist in the history of mankind had that attitude.

Also, not everyone on this board lives in Silicon Valley and works for a startup that spoils him stupid with catered lunches, scheduled massages and a 150K/yr salary. A lot of us are just normal middle class people living in economies that aren't that prosperous and the prospect of losing a job can really threaten our financial security. Also, if you work for a shit company that takes advantage of that, you can be in for a pretty miserable experience. So get off your high horse already.
I wouldn't call it Swiftian irony, but I was trying to expose how the USG has to spy on Americans if it wants to end or prevent terrorism through surveillance.

To play with the idea of Swiftian irony, destroying the privacy of non-Americans to protect America from threats real or presumed may work... in the same way selling the children of the poor for meat would solve certain problems.
I didn't read all the comments, but that one's no better. Point the first: the second sentence. Point the second: why isn't she dating the guy she's talking to, the stud, the one she's getting along with so well? Why not even address that? A whole bunch of Fundamental Attribution Errors dressed up in blinders.
While 2500 may seem like a large number, it's actually a very tiny error rate given the millions of gigs of data obtained from server mirroring and phone tracking.
Mongo got a lot better about reusing disk space in v2.2, if you are deleting from a collection. Still no compression or document field name optimizations though.
this is disgusting and potentially very harmful to everybody

there should be a place where you can check if anybody is ripping off your site/design to steal email addresses/accounts from your users
No, because it's old.
This is great stuff, congrats on launching.

Instead of simply generating a fixed sound for each event, have you considered synthesizing a continuous multi-track score? Like a baseline piece of orchestra music being modulated by the events. Or something like Brian Eno's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music

Also, perhaps consider streams of data other than discrete events: perhaps continuous metrics like CPU utilization, or stack traces from profiles, or percentiles of latency, or ...
Wow. Never thought Bukowski would make it on HN, let alone this high.
Disney joins hand with Touch Press to give us amazing experience in iPad
Desktop client disk space is large enough to have a VM for many sites. In the future, if it increases enough to have a VM for every web application _and_ work offline you have the selling point that the app can work during infrastructure failures. People will buy that. Sandbox the networking so it only can call your site and you have solved some of the security problems mentioned. Trouble is, large amount $$$ is behind tablets and their ilk. So you have to work on this for another 10 years when desktops come back. That will happen when Moore's law returns into existence. Light-based computing or analog-fusion-digital computing comes on the scene. What you have is a homomorphism to just a desktop application. The browser has grown to be a glorified dumb terminal that can display rich interfaces, and so the lines are blurred enough to confuse anyone trying to handle the client/server distinction. Best bet is to turn it into a platform that enterprises can use to solve their existing problems. Niche play. Great work, BTW.
>Numerous economists have made the point that a large trade surplus can be a sign of economic weakness

Exports are real costs, imports are real benefits. A trade surplus can help you keep net government spending low, but there's nothing positive about that in and of itself.

This is a good read about the real problems, lack of aggregate demand. Everytime government spending gets high enough to lift GDP, they pull the rug out from under the economy by raising taxes. A process they're looking to continue.

http://www.inginvestment.com/idc/groups/commentary/documents...

> Ordinarily, a decline in working-age population — and, thus, a decline in the
supply of workers — would tighten the labor market and cause the unemployment rate
to fall; in Japan’s case, however, the gradual rise in the unemployment rate and tepid job growth is occurring in spite of these demographic shifts, reflecting economic stagnation and weakness in aggregate demand.
And after they stopped breaking Google's ToS, they decided to re-release the application that was breaking the ToS, and decided to cry foul on Google, for not liking that they re-released the old app.
175 Varick, as stated in their footer, is the SoHo West building for WeWorkLabs, my old incubator.

That's just messed up, I'm going to send this to some of the guys still there and see what's happening.
McDonalds claims that the Big Mac cost 49 cents at introduction. [1]

Also, imports have helped to keep inflation low. The Big Mac cannot be imported. Thus, you would expect it to show a higher rate of increase than overall prices.

Source:

[1] http://www.mcdepk.com/piratesofthecaribbean/mediadocs/big_ma...
Now updated with authentication and topic creation.
gc.disable() introduces an unavoidable memory leak in my program. I also can't control the memory usage of the libraries I link against.
Kyle Bass advocates shorting Japanese debt. A trade colloquially known as the 'Widowmaker'.
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I love this and know what I'll be doing all day tomorrow at work!
Capitalism doesn't really have much to do with it. I'm all for something like a basic income to help even out inequality and give people a safety net to fall back on, but that's still pretty much capitalism.
I'm confused... This is assuming a procedure in facility A by Doctor B is a commodity and is no different than the same procedure in Facility C by Doctor D.
Am I missing something?
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Just wanted to show off my latest creation called TitanPass (www.titanpass.com). It's free and allows you to securely store and access all of your website login credentials in one place.

Some cool features:

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In addition to what was said, ZeroMQ can be used from lots of language through bindings. I haven't seen yet way to use Go written code as library (shared or static) to another language/runtime.

"C" gets you there, if you keep clean "C" interface, and don't let exceptions escape if you have been somehow using C++ internally.

I've had no problem using zeromq directly through the luajit ffi bindings for example.
Call it whatever you want, you're still not free.
> Private sector financial assets as a percentage of GDP have ballooned to over 200%.

Doesn't sound so bad when you phrase it that way.
From what I've read, the hunter-gatherers still on Earth have to work about 2 hours each day. For everything.

Of course they don't have all the fancy toys. Or the worries and medications. Running away from an existence you've never really been given time to understand. Bukowski's right about how it empties you out. But unless you're lucky as him, few options have been left you. The land's all owned, and the "hunting" is long-gone.

In the end, only the market is free. Until the day you drop it and turn away.
Every Yahoo workplace is wall-to-wall purple and yellow. Think about what it's like to work there!
No, Raleigh NC.
I've added Mixpanel to our list of proposed integrations. We'll get round to all of them in time. That feeling of being in touch with your applications and servers that you experienced at Dropbox is _exactly_ what we're aiming at. I'll pass on the hipsters with boomboxes, though. ;)

We're collecting integration ideas over here:

http://choir.uservoice.com/forums/217059-general/category/70...

If there's anything else on your wishlist, just chuck it in tnere.
Robots help sushi-go-round turn high-tech
Is Voyager 1 still in our solar system?
If you lose your job in a crisis, you also won't be able to pay your rent and you'll move/sublet your apartment. Losing your job pretty much screws you however you decide to live.
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Quite interesting, specially with the limitations of the file:// protocol
Specializing a STL container to void-star is a far cry from what you get with the STL templates. You lose type safety (casts everywhere) and give up the nice value semantics of C/C++ (no vector<some_struct>).

Side note: red-black trees are actually pretty terrible on modern hardware for the same reason linked lists are, b-trees are usually a better alternative.
> Additionally, while he rants at C++ for some of its behavior, he doesn't really address what he'd do in C.

He already started working on "C" re-implementation of ZeroMQ with different API and zeromq wrapper on top of it (so it could be used as zeromq replacement).

https://github.com/250bpm/nanomsg
I'm not saying the await syntax isn't useful or a better way to implement that problem. The title and opening of the article is comparing callbacks with gotos. It would be logical if he titled the article "C# Await syntax trumps callbacks when multiple callbacks need to be synchronised".

Any syntax can be used to create spaghetti code. Callbacks only become spaghetti like when nested / chained / abused. I've written hundreds of API methods using callbacks that I believe are very clean. I've recently written a large API which makes async service calls that follows this pattern :

void GetInvoiceHistory(int? customerId, Action<List<InvoiceItem>> callback, Action<string, Exception> exceptionCallback);

The consumer of this API does not need await, there is no need to nest callbacks, there is no need for try/catch and it is very clean to work with. So IMHO, stating that callbacks are this generation's gotos is a pile of shit.
How about we just give up on "ending terrorism"? Two attacks by foreigners in 250 years of history is ABSOLUTELY NOT WORTH the bullshit we're being put through as a country. This shouldn't really even be up for debate.
I took "work" to mean purpose, which applies in either case.

The problem comes when people limit themselves to a singular purpose and spend the rest of their time being consumers. The don't learn and grow and so end up in this rut for the duration. You're left with aging, atrophied, one-dimensional automatons who don't know anything else besides the grind and T.V. to relax in the evening. Rinse, repeat. When they retire they have no idea what to do with themselves and the thought of figuring it out probably makes them anxious so they stick to what they know.

Speaking of which, I gotta go. TMZ is on soon...
I use SMS frequently for banking and Twitter. I could easily afford a data plan or smartphone, but they would have little value to me.
Spoofing with a client is easily done. In Firefox you can use TamperData.
Good point.

Yeah it seems big defense is building for two opponents. Strategic opponents -- basically anyone who has nukes and is not an friend.

Then there is a need to build for guerrilla warfare, roadside bombs, urban combat, target assassinations.

Recently the later seem to matter more. But big and high tech projects will get funding and will do so. Now the system is broken and often the only reason these projects get funded is because there is some defense contractor extending its hand waiting for the next $200M to keep profits up and people employed.

Now it would be interesting to research how to combat or counteract drones? What can someone in a poor country oppressed by a more powerful enemy with drones do to defend against them. Can they be detected easily?
Lincoln agreed as well. He did not endorse wage labor for similar reasons outlined by enraged_camel. That man was no dummy concerning slavery.

Lincoln advocated 'free labor' as the moral and honest form of labor. Which took as a given that labor is greater than capital. Its proceeds should benefit completely its worker and his family not siphoned by the few who have capital.

Industrialization has made the workplace of the farm or workshop obsolete but I believe the principle could be maintained if workplaces were employee owned and managed democratically rather than authoritatively.
Or it would have been ZeroMQ.js
Look, I don't have enough experience to be sure on this kind of thing, but it seems like RethinkDB is being developed at a blistering pace. Docker is another one like that. Both impress me, both on their vision and rate of improvement. It makes me happy to know that there are successful projects like this out there.
For something a little more recent, take a look at
http://sonification.de/handbook/ and http://sonification.de in general
Yes but that definition makes the word so useless to include the vast majority of people that have ever lived through all of history.

It also an attempt to bring a lot of connotations which simply aren't true. People don't use the word because they want to explain something the reader doesn't already know, they want to make the connotations that come with the word.
Was he "wrong" or was he lying?

It's possible that he was misinformed by his advisers and indeed did not actually know. But I am not optimistic about that notion.
Of course some people do know Javascript inside out, but how many?
>computers(pc/phones/tables) are getting cheaper and faster so why are we using and depending of obscure clouds that much?]

Because the infrastructure to support high availability is expensive and most efficient at scale. Proper backup, disaster recovery, redundant HVAC, redundant power, waterless fire suppression, real access control (not the $15 Kwikset lock on your front door), server-class hardware which is built to last for years rather than fly off the Best Buy shelves and get abandoned as far as updates within months like most Android phones. All of these things are expensive and difficult and necessary to support the model of computing currently in place.

I'm excited about renaissance of protocols like BitTorrent which are tolerant of failures of individual nodes, but you can't just take current client-server computing, move the server to your shitty residential ADSL connection, and call it a day. "Trying to do something" in this manner is actively harmful because people are going to lose data.

We need entirely different (not necessarily new) protocols and paradigms to have a truly decentralized Internet, and they aren't exactly mature yet.
Fully agreed.

Further, let's assume that you were an every-man (as we all are) and had the ability to type anything into a magical console that spat out private details about US citizens. That would be an "unreasonable search and seizure", so you wouldn't do it, right? It's logged! How many of your fellow citizens would not do that search? But the NSA doesn't just hire anyone, so you have to assume the folks aren't exactly like your fellow citizens and they know they're being logged. But is your guess "0"? I've seen people delete ("sudo rm -rf /some-important-dir") critical bits of infrastructure when they knew logs were in place, so my guess is most certainly not zero.

Note: I know some 3-letter-agency folks and they are very tight-lipped, so I don't want to suggest 3-letter-agency folks are not entirely trustworthy. But the NSA appears to have an incredible honey-pot and it't hard to imagine that no NSA analyst would have a taste.

Note^2: the NSA should have internal honey-pots to catch analysts browsing their (girl|boy)friends and such, but I'd not be surprised to hear that they don't...
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Come on, human nature? Designed to keep striving? I've heard this referenced as "keeping up with the Joneses" when it's about matching consumption to your neighbors'.

I never thought "keeping up with the Joneses" is part of my human nature. Or even my culture.

The 'societal overlords' from previous posts you have now ascribed to human nature (??) are really 'society', perhaps influenced by some ultra-elite cadre, sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses
A more comprehensive article can be found here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130815-oling...
Yes, absolutely. My initial idea was to synthesise all the audio ourselves, using a native desktop client and libpd. Then I realised that we could test 95% of the idea using web audio and pre-compiled sound snippets. And here we are.

Continuous data is one of the very next things we are implementing, partly because a sufficiently dense discrete set of events becomes a frequency, partly to cater for measurements like load. We plan to indicate magnitude with pitch and volume, but there are some complexities in the API and representation that we're working through first.
How much savings did you have? I'm considering doing the same at some point, though my quick glance at index funds makes it seem like I'd get basically nothing. What sort of budget does this afford you?