skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People’s Calls
>Hospitals insist on determining the charge at the point of billing.

Can I start a restaurant and make people pay at the point of billing? Like an upscale restaurant with no prices on the menu and then charge people differently based on what they clothes are wearing...

"Surprise! Your burger was $800 but we will work with you on a payment plan."

Someone behind you in the billing line says, "Oh, you should have signed up for Acme's Burger Protection Racket and paid $150 a month and that way you would only have to pay $1k deductible and then you'd only have to pay 20% co-insurance for most means at this Fatso's joint there after."

I don't know how I feel about this whole thing. I certainly don't have all the answers and things we do to make healthcare better could actually end up making it worse. :(
Until 2010, I ran a forum on SQLite with 600 users/day + around 1000 posts/day on a single OpenBSD machine with 2gb RAM and 7200RPM HDD. We moved to Postgres when we passed 1600 posts/day.

There was some minor slowdown noticeable around 6AM - 10AM, but besides that, we never had major issues. The bottleneck was usually the network, not the DB.

Edit: Anyone interested in playing with SQLite should give the SQLite Manager plugin for FF a try : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage...

(I'm not affiliated with the developer, I just like the tool)
LATO!
I am currently working with an in-house language that does only whole program analysis. If you have to be restricted to one or the other, you want separate compilation---the compiler times are just so horrible otherwise. (Optional whole program analysis compilation is fine, though.)
SQLite isn't a replacement for postgresql (or vice versa). SQLite is a replacement for fopen.

Among its many advantages in that situation: a database is contained in a single file with minimal overhead, the source is shipped as one .c file and encouraged to be statically linked, and the code size is relatively small (compared to something like postgresql).
>'"To google": English, meaning "to co-read with your personal security agent shadow. To add to your digital dossier."'

Can't we have one thread that doesn't get into this?
This is in the UK, but is vaguely applicaple to the situation you describe, so take with a pinch of salt. A friend of mine had an accident about two months back and is unable to work. Despite having been certified as such by at least two psychiatrists and a whole host of other NHS staff, disability benefits don't kick in for six months due to the nature of his new found disability. I guess you're up shit creek if you don't have six months worth of savings in place.
Azul C4 requires a kernel module or a specialized kernel to support all the MMU tricks that it relies on to achieve maximum performance. I don't think it's really an appropriate choice for general purpose GC in a language that's designed to be easy to deploy.

Java HotSpot's collector makes the most sense IMHO: stop the world compacting in the young generation, mostly concurrent in the tenured generation. It achieves better throughput than Azul C4 too, according to the C4 paper.
Yes, privacy decisions should be made by third parties and end users can take it or leave it.

My point was that the assertion that this OS is somehow superior to android or iOS in terms of freedom or privacy is completely unfounded.
So you have no private data and don't believe others should either, good for you.
If you write all your own apps, nothing.
I didn't say it was the NSA or even for nefarious reasons. Just that it was swapped.
I hope they try again maybe not as high as 32million but like 18million maybe next year but really I would like the phone to be manufactured not just a limited run
This is awesome. Thank you. Any chance of seeing this in the NY area/East Coast?
Why would you want to use PostgreSQL in the contexts that SQLite is used?

SQLite is fantastic when you need a data store for mobile or embedded use, you'd like ad-hoc queries over your data with the option of adding indexes to speed up frequently used ones, you want transactional update to the data, and multi-user access is not a problem.

It's basically a much better replacement for the hash table on a disk approach of DBM libraries.

PostgreSQL would just be total overkill for this kind of scenario.
Violin Files for IPO; $110mm in Losses, $74mm in Revenue in Last Fiscal Year
As a designer, this is why computers don't have our jorbs yet. Algorithmic color generation is really really hard. (Trust me, I've researched and developed tools for it quite a bit, using everything from golden ratio to exotic classifiers). Nothing reliably beats the creative human when it comes to color aesthetics.
Giant leap for Pi-powered teddy bear
How to improve mobile website speed
Github down (again)
Some years back I walked into such an environment. Oh, and no receptionist.

The interior was essentially warehouse space furnished with ranks of Costco plastic tables as desks, aligned flush, ten abreast.

Waited to be acknowledged and sat through the interview but very nearly walked straight out.

Oh, and the security profile of the place was abysmal (they feature in one of those horror stories you hear online).

My feedback to the recruiter: thanks, that's now my benchmark for worst prospect ever.
Github.com is down
Link: https://github.com/

Status Page is not (currently) reflecting this: https://status.github.com/
The lesson learned is to build things you love but others don't yet understand. Thats the key to emerging markets
Monopoly on means of survival is effective slavery. People in early agricultural societies didn't exactly have many choices.
Update: https://status.github.com/messages just popped up with a message stating they are investigating connection issues.
SQLite is database for clients and relatively small application specific databases. Postgres is database for servers.

Your Firefox browser and Skype client come with SQLite.
When I click this link I just see a picture with no text. Is this brilliant open source twitter replacement limited to zero characters instead of 140?
It gets worse.

The hospital is required to take Medicare, and Medicare tends to be unwilling to pay the true cost, which has to be made up elsewhere. After that you're stuck with different people paying different amounts for the same operation.
in 50 years, someone link to that thread and point out "the inventor of cold fusion replied 'thanks linus' on the linux creation thread"
There was a story recently about this happening to a woman (a soldier who was only momentarily earning 90k/yr for hazard pay) recently with about the same result. Retarded law, retarded idea - child custody as a meal ticket. Although if this case is just about alimony, that's even worse.

Anyway, the particulars of this person's struggle don't matter. The default marriage contract is stupid and it seems you can get into bad situations that might not even be possible with a non-marriage contract; don't go into a marriage blind.
I haven't tried SQL Lite, I always used Firebird SQL embedded.
SO AMAZING! http://i1.minus.com/iib6CqQKFb2Cu.PNG
FastCompany server seems to have f'ed up.
Here is the Kickstarter link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1904431672/trsst-a-distr...
It is dead for me too.
Kickstarter is now accepting Canadian projects
Yeah, apparently several of Stephenson's earlier books drew from Jaynes' work, although Snow Crash is the only one of them I've read.
"When you run with dogs, you pick up fleas."
I agree! Apologies if I was confusing on that point. Though I do suspect the states should license more MDs and provide more ability for PAs & NPs to practice without direct supervision.

I do very much believe more consumer choice for non-urgent care would be helpful, i.e. lab choice, hospital choice, a menu of drug options (ratings, side effects, out of pocket cost). This is controversial for a number of reasons, but after considerable, I believe this would have significant positive impact on the overall efficiency of healthcare.
The OS is still great in many aspects. It's very light and fast, even most Linux distros feel bloated nowadays.
This seems like splitting hairs.
Most Qt applications are made for Qt4, it will take a while before they are adapted to Qt5, as far as I understand.
The related article on the new planner is great reading too: https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner-ng.html
looks like AWS EC2 and RDS is down as well
When a brand label is reduced to "this is what we put on products our buyer/sourcer has obtained at the lowest cost", you no longer have a design element at work. Increasingly, brands don't designate manufacturer, but middleman (yes, there are exceptions, but they're increasingly, well, exceptional).

Some very high-end custom-designer fashions might be excluded, but if you're buying off-the-rack (or mail-order/online) clothing manufactured in mass, you're buying a commodity, in the sense of a largely undifferentiated item. The label is the _only_ item of distinction (and not even that when you're getting grey-market goods).

Incidentally, look up "commodity" in your dictionary, it doesn't mean what you think it does.
I wonder when people will realize that Twitter is not the enemy. I do believe in decentralized social networking, but some software package you throw on your web server doesn't seem like the solution. We need a new Internet protocol.

Even so, I wish this team luck and hope it to gain traction.
It's a pretty nice little DB for a lot of things.

If you just want to play with it a bit, there's a Firefox extension available : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manage...

It's not very powerful, but you can play around with different schemas. You can even export to different formats and edit manually if you like.
Alaska doesn't have the best track record for people that want to be alone but aren't really prepared with basic survival skills i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless
Mass-produced clothing is the direct opposite of a commodity.

Check your dictionary.
Official racial identification in America is based on self-identification. The data from these maps came from people filling out a form saying what race they are. On modern census forms, people are allowed to choose multiple races, and the same holds for ethnic origin.

Some of the comments here seem to suggest that these maps come from measuring craniums and all that.

Fortunately that's one horror that didn't survive the boat trip across the ocean.
Do any browsers offer that option from the GUI? It seems unlikely to be common. It also seems like an easy fix for browser developers to allow you to exclude from that rule any video that has no audio track.
"working" does not make a site good. I understand that the site requires client-side less to "work". I simply wanted to point out that this "working" is painfully slow and miserable for the user. By my own definition, this does not "work".

Edit: Just noticed this was the OP I was replying to...

If you want to make the site exemplary, then make it fast. Use all manner of web optimizations for the example, to show what's truly possible. It's not just about design, it's about experience.
Ask HN: Communication for oldies?
Here is an email I recently received from my aging father and the frustration that old people have with ever changing UIs. I thought it might make an interesting Ask HN. Here is his email slightly edited:

>

The other day we were discussing with Susie how challenging it is to keep up the ever changing GUI with things like MSOutlook, Mobile phones, even landline handsets, ....

Even for early adopters like Claude [OP's late grandfather] with his Amstrad, there comes a time when oldies give up on going to the latest way to interact with Technology. Susie said that there should be a way that Oldies can retain the interfaces that they are using “at the point when they will give up on the next change”.

All this begs the question: can a buck be made out of selling types of interface devices that will retain a connection between old interfaces and the latest that the younger ones are using?
Firefox 23 doesn't ship with JavaScript "always on".

It's on by default, as it always has been. And the option to turn it off was removed from the main options dialog. This is for sensible reasons -- many users turn it off either accidentally, or without understanding what it means ("this must be that insecure Java thing I keep hearing about") which breaks many websites.

But the 0.01% of people who like to browse without JS enabled can still do so via about:config -- look for "javascript.enabled". Or they can use an add-on. Or they can wait a version or two (I'm not sure the exact timeline) whereupon you'll be able to disable it via the developer tools UI.
Hm - Just the EC2 and RDS dashboard? I discovered the issue when doing a deployment on an EC2 instance.
Their whitepaper can be found here:

http://www.trsst.com/paper/
I can top that.

A good friend's AOL email account was compromised. They'd been AOL customers (paid) for years, though when the email service went free, they discontinued payment and got broadband service from another provider.

AOL insisted that they give the credit card number that had been associated with the account. A card which hadn't been used and hadn't existed for years. Needless to say, it wasn't available.

For all I know, that email account is still active and valid, though hopefully no critical information is being sent to it.

Again: figuring out how to identify your true customer (or user) is hard.
So are you saying that if being black is correlated with a lower rate of loan payback, that is a fair indicator for raising their interest rate? It's not clear to me where you think the line should be drawn, if at all, given a strong correlation.
Once you get down to the raw statistics they are shocking and very little known. The orthodox explanation for the disparity (white racism) doesn't fit the data and existing policy is to ignore and excuse the social problems rather than trying to fix them.
Happy to have a nanny state take care of this bother for me
Can someone explain this system? I see the word decentralized thrown around, but the Kickstarter seems based around them building a server and hosting this. What is decentralized about them controlling the user ids? Basically: What am I missing here?
I start planning my work for the next few hours, scratching down notes / sketching out an algorithm / design a screen / update my todo list . Although I have never had to wait more than 5 minutes for tests to run.
> There's no objective measure by which you can conclude Ruby (as an example) is "more readable" than PHP.

Of course there is. You could, for example, survey developers who had experience with both and ask them. If you wanted to be more scientific, you could randomly select a group of freshman computer students, randomly assign half to a ruby group and half to a php group. Teach the ruby group ruby for year 1 and php for year 2, and vice versa for the php group. Then survey everyone. The point is you are trying to make this into an amorphous philosophical issue, when in fact it's a practical question that does have an answer.

This is not scientific, but it is a personal observation: Most (not all, but most) of the developers I've met who make the arguments you are making and defend php as "just as good as any other language" and dismiss its detractors as hipster bandwagon followers don't actually have that much experience working with a language like python or ruby. It's rare to find people with lots of experience in both php and ruby/python who prefer php. Again, that's not "proof," but it's what I've observed personally.
we are there already
I can help you with both. This will lead to no lawsuits. The legal counsel at any company of which PG is a director will not have to worry. In the remote chance someone believes this is an issue, PG would only need to abstain from a matter involving a person with a foreign accent. Again, this will never have to happen, but it is an easily solved matter.
History says no. He was never able to build a great business with the fashionable blouses he designed. He never was able to scale his refrigerator company beyond the customer discovery phase and sold the patent to Electrolux... Google these if you think I am joking.
Meanwhile, a couple years ago I was flying in through Toronto, and had been re-booked (from United to Air Canada) because of a delay. Which meant my bag arrived on a different flight than I did; the customs and security folks were all as nice as could be when I explained the problem, gave me no hassles about it, and got me through the process of claiming the bag and getting it through immigration pretty quickly once it arrived.
jedberg - you speak of automation, did you use anything (or is there anything in use currently) that handles auto scaling for EC2? puppet/chef/ansible etc? Or was this all done by hand?
> The default marriage contract is stupid and it seems you can get into bad situations that might not even be possible with a non-marriage contract; don't go into a marriage blind.

In a handful of states it may be possible to accidentally find yourself in a common law marriage. Common law marriage requires that both parties want to be married, but that can become a "he said, she said" issue in a courtroom.

Thankfully I believe this is a relatively rare issue and as I said earlier, only a few states support the concept at all anymore.
Actually, if your goal is to set up a discussion forum, then you can get away with "ignoring" the code behind Discourse (except for some YAML config files)
Sigh. There are so many people doing this. I couldn't access the main article but read the Kickstarter page. From what I understand this is a plea for funding for (basic) components that are already built by other teams, but with an extra layer of encryption and a copy-cat UI.

Why not just focus on encrypting content on an existing decentralized network project like pump.io or GNU social? Or any other open network? Build on some momentum that is already there rather than debug message transport for life?
Heh, sorry about my reply. I was just speaking from being on the end of having a parent who went through the process. I seem to remember it taking on the order of more than a year. Good news is it is retroactive from when you apply though. This was over 20 years ago, things might have changed since.
I saw nothing but a picture of an RSS icon, and thought that was the joke: you can "follow" people by subscribing to their RSS feeds, and RSS already exists.
In a similar vein, actor Dave Foley's divorce: (nsfw language) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC-2lj6HNg

video tldr: He on a show in the 90s and making $1 mil+, the show was canceled and he was without a job but stuck with the child support and alimony of $17700 a month, which can't be adjusted down per the law. He hasn't been able to keep up and doesn't can't go to Canada to see his kids for fear of being arrested immediately.
That can work for me, but the nature and quality of the noise matters a great deal.

I'm increasingly finding that even voices on radio (typically PBS/BBC type broadcasts) are distracting and/or annoying. I've been listening to classical radio, though the station I tune to most frequently has the annoying habit of adding some "light" (mostly pretty condescendingly stupid, IMO) chatter to their morning program. I generally switch away during that period.

I noticed one announcer who would begin breaks with a question (again, light/trivia), just before a pitch would begin. I found that tremendously annoying once I clued in to it, and again, switched away from her programming.

In an office, the problem with conversations is that, well, they're work related, which is to say, the consequences of conversations may affect you.

Cafe / public discussions are rarely of this nature. You can tune them out because they have no impact on you. One downside of finding a regular cafe is getting to know enough people that they do start to matter -- at which point your lack of social significance to what they say goes away.

Increasingly I find I vastly prefer a quiet and non-distracting environment. Diametrically opposite of open-plan offices.
Yes. Read every clause of any insurance contract, and realise that the other party will fight to the word level to defend their default position of not paying out. Those clauses are very well thought out, and not by the buyer.

In my own circumstances I've found many insurance contracts to be worthless in practice.
"Old" as in "it didn't age well".

In order to age well, a programming language must not target one specific purpose. PHP is what we would call a template language these days - it was designed, from the start, to spit out HTML. A powerful templating language at that, but it lacks in comparison to most other stacks in that it doesn't have a general purpose language to complement the templating one.
your blog doesn't have a clickable link to the KA homepage.
I don't like rhetoric either. I think it is good to consider the facts, and for me generally the situation/environment/problem as much as possible.

I like to consider the problem, before I recommend a solution generally ( I don't mean to accuse you of pushing a solution, I think you are offering help which is always appreciated ), but I think a lot of people are used to having had the choice already made ( and indeed, in some circumstances it is!).

One thing I always try to remember about mysql, as it is is less than intuitive to me, at least that there is no way I am aware of to alter or restrict this behavior directly, is that in mysql the client is allowed to alter the sql-mode ( I do think I have used proxies to filter out this behavior as a sort of guardian, but that was not an ideal fix by any means ), generally if you don't have control of your clients ( or also hopefully some good layers in front ) in the RDBMS world you are already sunk, but this has been more as a guard against accidental breakage for instance.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/faqs-sql-modes.html

This can make it unsuitable for certain situations ( where you may not have control of the client ).

One thing that I think is both a strength, and a weakness ( again depending upon the situation ) is that mysql is very flexible and can be deployed in so many different configurations.

Generally I think it is best for people to carefully consider their situation and needs ( and be prepared to change when the situation does!).

I really enjoy working with Postgresql as well, and have long respected the code produced by that project.

In summary, I'd say there are many great databases ( both relational and otherwise!) which can be a real asset to solving problems. The best thing I think is to learn directly and continually :)
That Einstein quote really sounds apocryphal
Mapping Arms Data – the trade in small arms and their ammunition, 1992-2011
The name is absolutely horrible. And they shouldn't just re-use the RSS logo, even at this stage.
Internet of things: baby monitor
I'm here to declare my love for sqlite, a database that doesn't asks me to choose a root password (wtf, everybody hate passwords) and an application user password (double wtf), doesn't open a socket (being it unix on TCP), doesn't install a daemon somewhere in the system, doesn't need to be root to start, doesn't asks me to create a new dba user in my system, doesn't require me to be understand how the root daemon starter hands over the control to the dba user when something goes wrong at startup, and generally doesn't bother me with stuff that has really nothing to do with storing and querying data.

I don't run this in production only because I would have a hard time convincing everybody to do it or by cargo-culting my fears (depending on the project). But one day I will.