skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the medical system. It's just reality. I live with it. I'm okay with it. I'd just rather not these disparities be magnified and exacerbated by universalizing something which shouldn't be.

>That's not a consequence of being non-white so much as it is a consequence of your doctor being uninformed, which impacts people of all races.

But it impacts minorities in the most general sense (i.e. not just color of skin) more than non-minorities. For fundamental reasons, studies are less statistically reliable, for starters.

I should remind you also that my father is being cared for under a universal system (the VA) I think that the unversality of it does play into the way that the doctors are informed.
I find it sad that this article leaves out the (admittedly unpublished) research on the 10x phenomena, which is described in Peopleware. They consistently found 10x differences between experienced programmers on the same task, with the same tools.

I find that particular research important for three reasons.

1. The 10 fold difference was consistently demonstrated many times.

2. Their research was conducted with professional programmers, in their workplace.

3. They were able to estimate the impact of a number of different factors, and they found that the single biggest impacts were workplace factors. (Ambient noise, dedicated office space, availability of white boards, etc.)

Admittedly they are unable to tease out why the connection exists between the workplace and productivity. Do productive programmers choose good workplaces? Or do good workplaces make programmers more productive? Probably a bit of both.

BUT if you're an employer, go read that book. Then consider your office plan. It is a lot easier to pay for a good workplace for an effective small team than to pay for a less effective larger team. Office space is probably not where you want to scrimp.
"the top face of the highest block that can be placed is at Y-coordinate 256." -http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Altitude

I'm pretty sure what you're thinking about did happen: the height limit used to be 128 and when Notch added some code, it made for a (relatively) big improvement to 256.
All of these rules usually drive me crazy. I'm a private pilot and I'll take up friends and coworkers for fun all the time. The most common question before we take off is "Do I need to turn off my phone?" which I usually reply with "I leave mine on for backup GPS". I do understand the need to stow away items to prevent injuries if anything were to suddenly happen during takeoff and landing, but telling people to turn off their devices because, and I've heard this before, "they will interfere with the navigation systems" is just false.
What do you mean client code? If you mean their GUI, that that's because it is written in python. It's pre compiled to run faster.
It sounds like you have a very smart programmer who is a little antisocial and very bored.

His value to you depends on how you structure his environment to make doing a good job more fun to him than torturing his co-workers.

There's a degree to which putting exceptional people with people who just do the job can cause both to resent the other.
We tried Circle but even though their FAQ states to contact them if your tests require more than 1GB RAM, they can't actually do anything to give you more RAM, even if you're willing to pay.

Back to Jenkins we went...
This is currently downmodded because people don't like the implication. And they shouldn't, because it quickly forces someone into either a) agreeing with the law or b) saying that SQL injections must be, ipso facto, legal.

Including ones like:

1 AND ("1" = SUBSTRING(select social_security_number from employees where employee_name = 'Angela Smith', 1, 1))

You can use variations on this to...

a) Ask our librarian for a series of about 50 books and hear whether or not she has them in stock.

b) Read Angela Smith's Social Security number right out of the database.

There apparently exist a lot of people on HN who would prefer to think that, despite my near-magical ability to correctly divine the SSN of any employee (or any other piece of data in the DB) with a SQL injection attack, the fact that I'm just looking at a book listing page in a totally authorized fashion means I must not be doing anything wrong.
You do realize saying "in socialized medicine" is as vague as saying "in every other country in the world" don't you?

There are 193 members states in the UN, of those 192 have a health care system that I would bet nearly 100% of americans would call "socialized medicine" in a poll. That includes countries like Sweden with completely state controlled top of the line healthcare, also England with state regulated prices for the private sector and also a top 5 in any reasonable metric health care system, or Panama/Argentina/Brazil with a mixed public and private not-top-of-the-line-but-reasonably-working system that includes very cheap private health insurance. It also includes Cuba, that has a very dfferent system than lets say Russia or Chile.

Your remark is as vague and irrelevant as saying "the only difference between HN readers and the rest of the world is that the former usually make vague and irrelevant remarks based on their personal beleifs".
Ask HN: Something similar to sshuttle?
I'm looking for a quick app/script that creates a VPN similar to sshuttle. Unfortunately sshuttle hasn't been updated in a year and it creates kernel panics at the most in-opportune times (as if kernel panics are ever opportune).

Something quick and easy just like sshuttle would be perfect.
Currently it is legal for a company to truthfully state that it has not received any NSLs. Therefore, we can assume any company that won't outright claim such a denial to have received at least one.
Did you check out the author of what you read and what agenda they may have had? Plus the term "some surgeries" is pretty vague, indicative of hand-waving.

But consider the alternative - without insurance or money your waiting time for surgery is...forever.

All health service is rationed. Our system simply doesn't ration it to those needing it most, instead rationing it to those with the most money. You can see the effects of our system with all the new "designer hospitals" they're building these days. By focusing on the affluent we're pricing health care out of reach of those of modest means. There are reasons health care costs in the United States have been rising several times more than the rate of inflation for the past 30 years. And none of those reasons paint a good portrait of our health care system.
How, exactly, is one supposed to cite unpublished research?
What does "response rate" mean? The percentage of times you gave the asked for information to whomever it was that asked for it?

If so, how do you decide when to decline requests?

How often do you get a request, decline it, then get another request against the same user or account?
It's a hello world: http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....

And I digress. Every growing C programmer pass into a stage where he wants to push that Seasoned professional code into the least amount of lines possible. Even if nobody can read the lines.
Again i'll have to insist you are missing the point. Not my point, although I am advocating it; but the point of universal healthcare is to enable everyone access to the same level of healthcare for free. (Or, paid for by the taxpayers if you insist).

The principle is not about ensuring that someone with a specific amino acid substitution receives a specific drug, because this is an example of the specific medical management of a specific patient. If you are going to continue to insist that your dad was treated inappropriately, and I have no reason to be able to assume one way or the other from my current position on the other side of the planet without a through examination of your father and his medical results, then what you are complaining about is not universal healthcare per se but in fact poor care by the treating physician. Which could happen under any system, anywhere.
War, Not Agriculture, Spawned Complex Societies
I checked my inbox. Every email from LinkedIn is 'member@linkedin.com' or some variation. It was kind of hard to believe the rest after that.
> Whenever possible (and it’s almost always possible), have someone do a day or two of work with you before you hire her; you can do this at night or on the weekends.

Fuck off.
Relax guys and gals. This show, much like most everything you see on TV and in the movies, is a caricature. It is not reality.

The formula is simple: Turn your brain down to "slow" and have a good time. Don't take any of it seriously. It's not real. It's television.

Some of the writing is hilariously funny. I have worked with people that exhibited some of these characteristics (not all). Some were great engineers but had the social skills of a brick. Most are nothing like these characters. They have varied interests and really full and active personal and family lives outside of work.
Gantt charts for Asana
iOS 7 is Yucky. Why Isn't Anyone Saying So?
No LTE means no enterprise clients like me.
The lack of privacy in public spaces is such because it's unreasonable to have an expectation of privacy. Until we're all cyborgs and have our vision automatically filtered, it's unreasonable to expect that you will remain unseen when walking through a public park.

It's only unreasonable if you say it is. Different cultures have made different decisions with regard to what's socially acceptable to notice about others' behavior in public. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that you will remain unfollowed when walking through a public park, and ubiquitous surveillance is much closer to following everybody than noticing everybody.

If you plant a camera and watch everyone, then it becomes a lot more OK. (Still arguably not, but you'd get far fewer "unhappy reactions".)

I'd argue this is only because people aren't cognizant of the fact that planting a camera to watch everyone is the same as planting people to follow everyone. People's instincts haven't caught up with the reality that is presented by ubiquitous surveillance, so IMO the right way in this case to decide whether surveillance is acceptable is by analogizing to the closest available cultural and instinctive concept that is still fully functional.
ITweakiOS shuts down
Autism diagnoses are up 78% in 10 years. We're dramatically overdiagnosing it
Come on dude lets not get picky this is beautiful.
Can I be the first non-US citizen to say that universal health care is, by definition barbaric?

Adjective
Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.
Primitive; unsophisticated.

I fail to see how, when a group decide to take from the minority, it could be seen as anything else than barbaric.

It saddens me to see one of the last first world country coming closer to the universal health care trap. Sure, the US medical fees are insanely overpriced, but you don't solve a problem like this just by hiding the costs in a social program.
If you don't love someone, change them.

Great lesson of love here.
Sweet. I wonder how it will compare to XBMC. I'm looking to buy/build a media center PC within the month and been checking out operating systems for it. This is now a contender.
I upvoted immediately after your first two sentences, and wished I could do it again at the end of your post. Well done.

I've been trying to think of a proper analogy to changing your user agent. Wearing a fake mustache and requesting information from someone publicly giving information to only mustachioed persons?

You: Can I borrow the book identified by ISBN 1234?
Librarian: We restrict access to that book to only people who will read it with our page turning machine.
You: Can I borrow the book identified by ISBN 1234? I am using your page turning machine now.
Librarian: Sure, here you go.
Hold out with a handful of servers until Google bought you.
I'm not clear on to what extent the mandatory coverage requires young people to pay more than the expected cost of their cohort, or if it simply requires them to carry their own expected cost so that the older insured people (or, perhaps, simply the taxpaying citizenry) don't have to pay health care costs of the younger uninsured generation.

The author of the article also says, "Young people are typically healthy. On average, they incur very low medical costs each year. In any social insurance system, most of them will end up paying in more than they get out during their early years"

It's not just the early years, it's all years. The way insurance works is that most people pay in more than they ever get out. You're insured so that in the unhappy event that you end up with a huge, abnormal, way above average expense, insurance will cover it. This is possible because, on average, most people pay in more than they ever get out. This fact in itself is not anything specific to insuring the youngest and healthiest people. The value of insurance is not measured by how much you "get out". It's measured by how much coverage you had, regardless of whether you used it.

I hope to never use my health insurance, or to use it (i.e., "get out of it") as little as possible. So far I've done great at that. Does not "getting out" what I've paid make me think I've been paying without getting value? Hardly. And my belief in that value is not conditioned on my expecting to get payments out of it in the future, any more than my belief in the value of my auto insurance is. I hope also to never get any money out of my auto insurance policy, this year or in any future years, yet it will still be worth every penny I pay.
can you define for me what you mean by "the same level of healthcare"?

>universal healthcare ... poor care by the treating physician

These issues are entangled. I should let you know, that despite being in the US, my father is effectively being treated by a "universal healthcare" system - the VA.
There's a harder change, too: give up on an Apple-style 30%-cut closed marketplace.

App revenue is a small slice of profits even for Apple, and for the third-place player it's more important to attract devs than control their store.
It is fair and equal under the law because the government is offering what it can to whom it can. If there is no treatment for person A, there's no requirement -- legal, moral, or ethical -- that one be given.

The "null solution" is absurd. It simply provides that the rich get treatment and the poor do not. That would be "fair and equal" only to a barbarian.
Hmm, can't replicate under the same conditions. Do you have any chrome extensions installed that the site might be interacting badly with?
Surface 2: Repeat Or Redemption?
Absense of proof is not proof of absense.
It's often said that the age of enlightenment started when Europe switched from drinking beer during the day to coffee.

(Beer was often drunk because it was safer than the untreated water supplies in cities)
Why aren't the UC schools mapped?
Yes, including sales, support and integration. Nothing much is needed afterwards, but it's still doesn't scale.
Yeah. The government should only look out for spoiled rich white people. There are no other people in NYC, right? Also, New York City is just that little island with the tall buildings, right?
I believe it. Competition.
Congrats and thanks for sharing details about your business. I'm currently building a subscription based medical training video streaming site. May I also ask for details about the technical aspects? Do you use a media streaming service like Wistia? How do you protect your videos from unauthorized access? Do you serve different formats to different devices?

Thanks in advance for answers.
You failed to mention the context of that government incentive - World War II. And the incentive you're referring to was put in place by the War Labor Board in 1942, during FDR's presidency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Labor_Board
I prefer the beer theory.

Settling down and growing things doesn't seem like a military tactic that pays off in the short term. Quite the opposite actually... that is probably a great way to get slaughtered. However it does make sense if your objective is to get wasted.
This is currently downmodded because people don't like the implication. And they shouldn't, because it quickly forces someone into either a) agreeing with the law or b) saying that SQL injections must be, ipso facto, legal.

You're drawing a false dichotomy based on premises that nobody in this thread has actually raised. It's entirely reasonable to a) disagree with the law, b) believe that SQL injections can be illegal based on some other rationale, and c) disagree with others on the appropriate penalty for SQL injections.
The argument is that if you wear gloves you miss out on the early signs of alarm from the bees, and therefore they are more likely to swarm and get aggressive towards bystandards. Without gloves you get a better sense of the alarm state and can avoid problems. It's generally easier to manage alarm state without gloves.

I got my first hive a few years ago, and I am noticing that there are fewer recommendations of working without gloves in urban environments today. I don't know why this is the case. Also I am used to a large yard/small town environment (lots of pedestrians, folks doing yard work, etc), and there are plenty of other environments where I would expect this to be less of an issue (for example a rooftop hive on the third storey is going to provide a lot less exposure in this regard). So demographics and hive placement may have something to do with it.
US Government asked Linus Torvalds to insert Backdoor into Linux
>It simply provides that the rich get treatment and the poor do not

You're projecting. If you were rich, would you help pay for the healthcare of the poor? Because I'm very much poor, and I give two hours a week towards helping feed people who are sick.
That's changing soon! We're switching hardware to allow this. I expect that will be available in the next month. Let me know if you're interested in beta testing.
Could you reasonably investigate this by creating a model for one time period, and then applying it to another time period?

Alternatively, train it with one region (say Europe) and then test a second region which is mostly isolated (Americas, if we know enough, or Japan / SE Asia).
Welcome to the United Snakes

Land of the thief home of the slave

Grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and proud

...

The Cold Continent latch key child

Ran away one day and started acting foul

King of where the wild things are daddy's proud

cos the Roman Empire done passed it down

Imported and tortured a work force

and never healed the wounds or shook the curse off

Now the grown up Goliath nation

Holdin' open auditions for the part of David

...

Only approved questions get answered

Now stand your ass up for that national anthem

- Brother Ali, Uncle Sam Goddamn

... I usually never listen to rap, but if you think the US is screwed up, you have to listen to this: it's gold! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ
Any number of reasons:

1. Not speaking $LANGUAGE. Even if courses are taught in English, that makes living there difficult
2. Most people in your field in the US having heard of $UNIVERSITY. How many people in the US are familiar with NTU? Most of the Taiwanese working in the US did graduate level work at a US institution.
3. Having to live a giant ocean away from friends/family, etc.

There's a fairly compelling argument that much of the benefit of college is social, not educational. Studying in another country would negate a lot of that. Don't get me wrong, Taiwan (and I'm sure many other places) is great, but I think you're dramatically underestimating how easy it is for most people to decide to go spend 4 years on the other side of the world.
Would be nice if Gmail's "Spam" button actually blocked future emails from that same person indefinitely!

Sometimes they get around filters by sending from different emails, that's really annoying. I should probably quit Gmail and go back to Cerberus which has awesome filtering!
you'd think that with the end of the war, the incentive would have been removed.
"roughtly the size of Belgium or Massachusetts".
Off topic, I think its nice to see a pretty girl in the industry. Just saying.
We only really have one branch "master". We encourage the engineers to push small changes, behind config flags if necessary, all the time so there is never any huge merge conflicts, etc. This also means you don't push your code to master until you are up in our push queue.

We've also had Jenkins set up for a long time now, we just used LXC to drastically improve our performance and scalability.

Here is an old blog post explaining some of how it all works: http://codeascraft.com/2011/04/20/divide-and-concur/
That was my first thought too.

But it publishes, I guess.
Strange. I thought the reason for shutting off your phone was so you were more likely to pay attention to wtf is going on. You know, for safety procedures etc.
This maps extraordinarily closely with what we've seen at Thinkful (http://www.thinkful.com/) with both our hiring as a team and with the students we've helped get hired.

Our biggest breakthrough actually came last month when we started simply hiring our students. Three of our last five hires have come from people taking one of our classes.

It's a phenomenal way to get the voice of the user into our user experience, and each has proven a great cultural fit.

We're not sure it'll work for every position, but perhaps when Thinkful starts offering CTO-classes!
Recently some one published a paper with their findings after reverse engineering their client code and in that it said that the code is obfuscated.
"are committed to giving notice to users when their accounts are identified in a law enforcement request. "

does this mean that the account holder will personally be told by Dropbox, or that we're being told by being shown this data?
No, it is because lying about your user-agent is not explicitly trying to make an HTTP server perform an action it is not supposed to perform and is therefore not in the same category as SQL injections. HTTP servers are not supposed to use user-agent as authentication.
I wonder how accommodating Logan is in Boston. Or JFK for that matter. Flying internationally via JFK (in my completely subjective assessment) is actually less painful than flying between destinations in the U.S. Flying locally can be a nightmare and a half for most able-bodied folks.
I have trouble with this notion because aboriginal tribes have a history of fighting amongst each other. Perhaps the rise of civilization brought on what the authors consider was war?

I also don't understand what predict 65% accuracy means? If we are taking about overlap between two binary variables, this is abysmally low.
> I’ve done plenty of business with friends. In fact, the
> majority of my business has been with friends or
> acquaintances. Some of those friends even stopped using
> me when I raised rates over the years and they’re still
> my friends. I’m having drinks with one of them tonight,
> in fact.

I'm happy that doing business with your friends worked out in this case, but in general I'd tend to stay away from it. Nothing can ruin a great friendship like money.
Yeah, it's getting a lot of attention lately. Solr is still more performant for non-volatile data. Elasticsearch fits better in the context of a web application, so for entreprise-level searching systems, solr is still king imo.
More applicably, imagine there is no door, not even hinges where a door should be; just an opening to the basement.

But you get arrested for walking down there anyway. Then the police tell you you're under arrest because "The owner didn't intend for you to go there."