skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds weird - I thought there's COBRA and HIPAA explicitly provides plans for people with uninterrupted (for more than 63 days) coverage, regardless of medical history, e.g.:
http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/dmhc_consumer/hp/hp_hipaacp.aspx

But of course, not knowing your specific situation (and not being a lawyer) I don't know what happened, but it seems like whoever denied your coverage may have violated the law.
It's for CSS. That's why it's all just impressionistic graphs instead of numbers and equations; "impression" is exactly what these will be used for.
Take a look at http://count.ly/ and http://www.localytics.com/
Do you value your sleep so lightly? An extra 3 minutes is an extra 3 minutes. Imagine getting that extra 3 minutes of snooze - I'd say that's highly valuable time for lots of folks.

I sometimes unintentionally skip brushing because I have to participate in the bedtime procedure for our 3 kids which can get a bit involved. I'd love to make brushing as fast as flossing - I'd do it more often.
I agree, this device looks neat but I fear it would be very difficult for me to use. I could probably get use to it eventually, but it would almost certainly have me throwing the first few times and just gagging long after that.
This rocks reminds me of NVAlt for mac which I use for note taking locally.
While data is not the plural of anecdote, I've found the same things with friends who have taken MooCs or previously have followed along MIT OCW -- for some it has worked out very well, for others they fell prey to procrastination and taking easier routes.

I've also noticed similar things in community colleges: I attended a community college and then transferred to a university; this saved me a great deal of money. My community college (De Anza) has been known as a "federal school" for UC Berkeley and UCLA, yet very few of my classmates took that route. I wondered why, but came to the same conclusion: unless you're strongly motivated and self-disciplined, it's too easy to fall through the cracks in a community college (no requirement to graduate by a certain date, no financial pressure, no residential learning, no exam study sessions, etc...). To me the desire to study upper division math/physics/EE/CS is what drove me; was already used to working independently and learning from textbooks. On the other hand, those who have always studied in groups, who didn't have quite a clear educational or career goals in mind tended, or who were not used to having clearly spelled out requirements ("you complete these classes in four years with this GPA, otherwise you can't get in" vs. "these sets of universities demand these classes and usually accept students these with these GPAs") would languish, either dropping out without transferring, transferring only after 4+ (3 years was very common), or doing poorly once they've transferred.

As is think MOOCs and any other high-autonomy self-structured educational programs are of great benefit[1] to autodidacts with great motivation and self-discipline. However, nothing says they can't be combined with traditional teaching environment. As an example, consider the case of Calculus -- it's the foundation of all modern mathematics; you have to get it to study all even slightly quantitative disciplines from Computer Science to Political Science. Yet, we entrust its teaching to high-school AP (or IB for rest of the English speaking courses) teaches or graduate TAs. With MooCs we could have these classes taught by professors distinguished for their teaching ability, but conducted with the structure of a regular high-school/lower-division college environment.

... or take the case of a machine learning, a specialized and quickly evolving discipline. A small university might only have a single professor who specialized in it, but she may not have the resources to teach the class (or teach enough sections of the class). She would, however, likely have the resources to organize an experience around a MOOCs and assist the MOOC students.
I wonder if they combine this with the new "90% of admins will be replaced by magic" credo to create an actual internal infrastructure meltdown.

All it takes is somebody with some say in the matter to decide that it would all work out if they just "hurried up" with the admin automation part.
There is a reason I chose the word "evidence" and not the word "proof". Yes, it is evidence. No, it is not proof.

Further note that possession of a password ("something you know") is also merely evidence, not proof. Also, "something you have" is not proof either; having a token is merely evidence, not proof. We have no method of proof. If that is the standard you are looking for, then I have some bad news: It is impossible to meet that standard. If we did have a direct method of proof-of-identity, we would not have to talk about evidence. We would simply use the proof.

Yes, it is possible to fool even a three-factor authentication system, with enough work. That's why its important to understand that security is not about absolutes; it's about raising the cost of penetrating the security above the value of the thing being protected. Which is also why fingerprint protection is just fine for rather a lot of iPhone users; what's the payback for cracking a fingerprint scanner, just to get access to a metaphorical Grandma's phone? If you are concerned that the value of what is on your phone exceeds the costs of penetrating the fingerprint scanner, then use more authentication. It's about costs & benefits, not absolutes.

Would someone care to explain how the observation that fingerprints are indeed a form of auth, but usernames are not (often they are fully, intentionally public information!) is false, and therefore the entire premise of the post's title is incorrect, with something other than the downvote button? I'd really like to hear the explanation of how that's not true.
> I find the position that cryptozooligists never "abandon any discredited evidence" to be unfair.

Science isn't about what's fair, it's about what the evidence tells us. The fact that, in spite of no evidence whatsoever, Bigfoot stories, books and TV shows have escalated tremendously over the past 20 years, supports the claim you're objecting to.

> There are likely to be more reasonable cryptozooloigists that disregard discredited evidence, and would happily admit to hoaxes in this area.

Those aren't cryptozoologists, at least not gainfully employed ones. It's sort of like psychologists who know talk therapy is a waste of time -- they may still be psychologists, but they're not making a living at psychology.

> You do need to use smear tactics if you want to create outrage.

The article didn't need to use smear tactics, and it didn't use smear tactics -- it used evidence.
The fact that people all over describe similar things indicates that people have a predisposition to see human-like shapes. Therefore, people seeing human-like shapes is very poor evidence - whereas if the claims were more geographically (or environmentally) localized it would be comparatively likely to be telling us about features of that space (like existence of a creature) rather than features of humans.

Of course, memes cluster as well, so it's not really clean-cut...
Hmm. I haven't heard anything about that. How would they even know?
Is Washington DC in the Northeast? Basically folks I have hung out with who are in that nominally urban region defined by New York, Boston, and DC are certainly more aware of appearances than folks in the Portland/San Francisco/San Jose region.

I'm careful not to assign 'caring' or 'not caring' because it is that the attribute of caring is more evenly distributed, its more about awareness for me.
I don't think it is that risky to do once or twice maybe, but I don't think the risk substantially decreases through repetition. It is sabotage of civil services as an allowed political tactic, which is pretty unstable. All you need is bad timing.
Not to mention - if the problem you're trying to address is the admin area / interface, and not the codebase, then a plugin is all you need.
How a man used the power of his mind to make his tumor disappear
Ask HN: How does "shutting down" a gov website save money?
Alot of US government sites are directing to a status page today, such as data.dov or nasa.gov. Obviously the hardware and such is still in place, ready to be re-enabled. I fail to see where they would be saving money by taking this action.

Is there any way that this is actually saving money? Maybe on bandwidth? Electric usages?
Depth Sensing Cameras Head To Mobile Devices
Traffic causing HealthCare.gov problems
Please allow me to unify the two theories, because both seem correct.

The free flow merge theory applies only in open areas with maybe temporary blocks that flow is unrestricted in any other way.

The no-merge theory applies on situations with traffic lights (and/or other special flow control such as a policeman or toll booths etc) where you suppose there are cut-off points that allow a specific number of vehicles per second.
Most of us can't really affect it by voting, though. This current shutdown is precipitated by a hyper-partisan group of legislators who think "compromise" is a dirty word who are generally elected from districts full of like-minded people.

We are being hijacked by a relatively small minority. If the House properly represented the people, it would have a majority that would pass the Senate bill. If the House had its current makeup but could actually vote on the Senate bill, rather than only voting on bills approved by a majority of the majority party, the Senate bill would pass. Instead, because the rules conspire to make it so that you have to please at least half of the legislators from a party that got a minority of the vote, we get jerked around by people who mostly do not represent us, both in terms of sharing our values, and in the more direct term of being someone we voted for or against.

This is not a consequence of representative democracy, it is a failure of it.
Why I am working on Artificial General Intelligence
They used to be, and still can be -- if you have a bad investor who wants to play hardball (hint: don't play that game). It doesn't take much to run up $10k in legal fees if you have a problematic negotiation.

That said, there are a lot of resources out there now (convertible note generators, "standardized" series AA paperwork, etc.) that can lower this cost substantially if you try. Wilson Sonsini has a note term sheet generator [1], and there are probably others.

Also, keep in mind that many reputable, startup-savvy lawyers will work on a deferred fee for this kind of thing. You can also negotiate prices for simple contract reviews.

[1] http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Display.aspx?SectionName=practice/t...
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As people continuously switch to the "new thing" in social media, forums and message boards are always there, and far more active than most people give credit
Low cost, low power x86 (2004)
Until you hit a compiler bug. I'll never forget a certain PIC C compiler that would only ever take the first case in a switch statement, and how long it took me to believe that my code was actually fine but that the compiler wasn't.
Yup, I used Evernote for a year and got pretty frustrated. Bullet points would work 99% of the time, but something, usually a copy 'n' paste, would mess them up and I'd have to spend 15 minutes getting everything back to normal. Maddening.
BlackBerry Messenger could have saved BlackBerry
Nice. Looks like some datapoints failed to get mapped and defaulted to West Africa though. Also this looks like it could be a good fit for web-gl globe? http://code.google.com/p/webgl-globe/
Sry for the default FB scope, just sign up via mail & password.
You got it! The same Catch-22 applies to many other products like social media (facebook), online auctions (ebay) and the email protocol.
The part about http://aem1k.com/world/ begins approximately 18 minutes in.
Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media
Because signing a budget six months ahead of time would require compromise and forward thinking, both things that the current Congress lacks.

A lot of legislators are basically forbidden to compromise, either due to their principles, or because they will lose their next election if they do because they come from a district full of extremists. Or, generally, both. (The one tends to cause the other, of course.)

If you can't compromise, it doesn't matter when you start talking. You'll never work out a deal until you're forced to.
I'd rather not talk about politics here.

Edit: Wait, so I can't even avoid a topic without being down voted? Thanks guys.

What I mean by that, since I can't reply below, is that I don't want to get partisan. I don't want to assign blame. I'd rather talk about the structure and how it could be improved. Politics and government can be talked about separately.
It still annoys me, so I created a filter and it fills up that label now. No more inbox annoyance atleast.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476120
>>> Those people are currently chained to a BigCorp due to the need for group-plan health coverage, and are hopeful that PPACA will change that.

Didn't HIPAA Title I already change that?

http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/dmhc_consumer/hp/hp_hipaacp.aspx
If you qualify for a conversion plan, you cannot be denied insurance because of your medical history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...

Is there some issue with this I am missing?
Two notes:

Re: the non-tangibles - As a consultant, you get to make your own intangibles. If you can't extract some sort of benefit - extra time to work on your own side project, more flexible hours than a regular employee, etc. - that can compete with an office pizza party and free t-shirts, then you should probably look into becoming an employee again. Freedom and self-direction are the biggest intangible out there.

Re: working more hours and getting paid less of them - this is true, but it's also an excellent argument for freeing yourself from the notion of hourly billing. Bill on a daily, weekly or per-project basis if you want to avoid this pitfall.

Other than that your points were pretty spot-on. Consulting ain't easy, and filling a pipeline full of consulting clients is hard (though I still think it's worth it.)
Got it, in that case it's because we generally spend some time before responding. You should hear from us soon :-)
I've tried it and I really like it! However, I don't have internet while in class, so the online requirement is a bit of a dealbreaker.
A transportation subsidy might be local (maybe - interstates are national, not local), but farm subsidies end up being distributed nationally since they basically just mean that certain types of food are cheaper than they otherwise might be. So you can't count farm subsidies as "consumers of federal funds".

I'm not sure how the conclusion follows from the premises. Farm subsidies do consume federal funds. Where do you think the funding for the massive pork-barrel farm bills comes from? Moreover, those dollars aren't necessarily passed on to consumers. In theory, the market for farm products is a perfectly competitive market and any subsidy to the market would result in cheaper prices for everyone. In practice, well, Cargill exists. Large agribusinesses are quite capable of taking subsidy rents and stashing them away as profit rather than using them to compete on prices if their market is more like a cartel and less like a perfectly competitive free market.
Was about to say that i usually seem to start at 4.
I faced a issue because of which I am not able to stop the monitoring now.

And its very unreliable. So it spams me despite all my efforts to remove it.

I finally made a new filter and archive all notifications.
I don't know about open source in general, but GPL'd software is in conflict with the Apple license. If you yourself are the copyright holder, then I (not being a lawyer) would imagine you would be free to license your software under both the GPL and Apple's iOS license, but you couldn't take someone else's GPL'd software and publish it on iOS, without their permission.

Which is one of the points of the GPL, so no big surprise.
Jekyll is not exactly obscure though.
Creator of curatedhnhiring.com here. This is good stuff. I'm going to hand enter all the locations for October tonight, but you can compare your auto-generated September data against https://github.com/perspectivezoom/curated-hn-hiring/blob/gh.... Also, I don't know if you care about accommodating this, but a lot of HN Who's Hiring posts list multiple locations.
> That sounds more like a verificationist idea of science than a Popperian falsification process.

Actually, it's an informal statement of the null hypothesis:

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

In the null hypothesis, supposedly the basis for all experimental science, you start with the assumption that there is no effect, and let the evidence force you to a different conclusion. In other words, you assume nothing out of the ordinary and take no position on the subject of study.

> Wouldn't it be a much better criticism to say that the cryptozoologists are not scientific because they do not make falsifiable predictions?

Yes, it would, but that's not a very popular definition of science these days. If it were, psychiatrists and psychologists would be immediately excluded -- they make plenty of predictions, but the predictions don't work out.
We know it's racism this time because they keep accidentally telling the truth. Reflexive use of existing talking points is not tied to motivation behind opposition.

By the way, you also don't get to accuse me of being inconsistent when you're the one engaging in debates on HN that you argue shouldn't be here. You're a hypocrite, the most disgusting, loathsome of sub-humans.
The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research
I believe that the reason that many government sites have gone dark is because most of them have a large amount of dynamic content that relies on some amount of human oversight which cannot be provided currently. Switching to a static page is much easier and cheaper than providing warnings/removing links to content that will not work during the shutdown.
The salaries of the people working there.
WeWork - New York City - Ruby Developer

Who we are:
WeWork empowers entrepreneurs and small businesses to succeed by providing beautiful workspace, a collaborative community, accessible services and benefits.

We're a three year old company that is currently in three US cities and will be in 6 cities in the coming months. We're looking to create a digital experience that enhances the physical WeWork environment and create a parallel digital business.

Our environment:
We work in an open space, collaborate on solving interesting problems. We tackle problems ranging from how we bill and invoice our members, to developing a social network for our members, to developing custom mobile applications for our members, to near-field and touch prototypes to space specific applications that measure how much beer is left in the keg (of which we have on every floor of every WeWork building. yes, we're that type of company).

Culture:
Quarterly events (skiing, halloween party, summer camp). See here to get a vibe about our culture & events: http://vimeo.com/48023398

The team:
Working with a team of developers who led initiatives at various web scale companies in rapid lean environment where ideas discussed one week are in front of our users in a few weeks.

What you'll do:
Be part of a team that is constantly experimenting with the latest touch, near field, mobile, and general "Internet of Things" technologies in our drive to make the WeWork environment feel alive.

What you'll be using:
Macbook Pros, as many monitors as you want, whatever tools you want centered around GitHub, Heroku, Ruby, Rails, Javascript and some Node.

Key Technical Attributes:
- 1yr+ of Ruby on Rails development experience
- 1yr+ of Ruby experience
- Know more than 2 programming languages
- Computer Science degree
- Full stack development expertise. Rails, Ruby, ORM, Database (any), HTML5, JS and 3rd party API integration
- Mobile development experience (iOS, Android, PhoneGap or other)
- Has developed and integrated with 3rd party RESTful web services
- has developed complex algorithms
- Has done systems integration
- Self Starter. Takes initiative and ownership
- Quality centric. It's all about the little things

We’re looking for people with a:
- Great team / culture fit
- Awesome problem solving ability
- Has Raw intelligence
- Gone through CS fundamentals
- Have initiative / enthusiasm / passion
- Can teach / explain well
- Can handle ambiguity
- Have a solid past performance / demonstrable skills

Reach us at careers@wework.com
Tetris as a QR code
age-ism is for the "over 40" folks in the Valley except when the next rule applies

transhumanism is for the folks who've made the money, and age doesn't matter for transhumans

and Silicon Valley’s Cognitive Dissonance is how it looks for the folks outside of the Valley to whom the above mentioned distinction blurs away due to the distance (in mental and real space).
To respond to your note about browsing.

Typically books are arranged alphabetically and thematically.
Some times, shelf placement is a variable in marketing.

When you take shelf placement as marketing to it's logical extreme, you end up with something like Amazon -- where you've optimized for conversions rather than overall user experience. As any Sales / Marketing person can tell you, best experience != most conversions.

People are indecisive when confronted with many choices.

I could see browsing as a great ideal for subscription services though. Amazon and most e-commerce is a bad comparison though, as browsing is generally bad for transactional businesses (due to reasons above). This is yet another reason why traditional book stores are at a disadvantage.
I understand, but I'm not making the assumption. I'm talking about roads I drive everyday that are clearly on timers and I've even got good estimates on how long the cycles last.
I hope we get something as good-looking as that proposal they had for the redesign of the Python website (which looked absolutely amazing I thought).
http://whisper.sh/w/MzkwNDkwMTY=
I love the page. I was kind of hoping the transition to the function page used the easing that I selected, though.
Fingerprints are passwords, they just aren't good ones. Just like "password" is a password and not a good one. Your phone number is your username.
Adjectives can be very useful. Let's take delightful.

Imagine one is writing a ’50 Shades’-style S&M story.

He ran through the previous night's activities. There was the brutal whipping, followed by a caning. He was forced to drink the urine of a dog, and then she stretched his arms out in agonising pain.

"That sounds brutal," Melanie said with her eyelids agape. She had never understood the appeal of kinky sex.

"No, it was delightful really," he said with a big, perverse grin on his face.

Lewis' suggested rule against adjectives in writing is fine, but sometimes they are very useful for contrast or in dialogue.

The adjectives you use can build up the character of a person, and can form part of their personal idiolect.

Lewis' advice is fine and good, but one ought not to extrapolate from a rule against applying adjectives lazily in place of actual description to a rule against using adjectives at all.