skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's conflicting information out there. eHealthInsurance asks if this is for 2014 (or now), giving this reason for the question:

> With the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), plans in 2014 may be different from those offered now. You can no longer be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, but you may incur higher premiums and find more limited offerings. Many insurance companies are allowing you to purchase plans now that can automatically be extended through 2014, meaning you will be able to keep your plan (and doctor) without worrying about the tax penalty in 2014.

According to HealthCare.gov, any plans instated after March 23, 2010 will need to change to comply with the new laws when you have to renew your plan in 2014. At least I think that's how it's working. See https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-my-current-individual-pla...

Even more confusing is when I may or may not enroll for health insurance, inside or outside of the government marketplace. It looks like if you don't renew your plan within 30 days, you're not allowed to enroll anywhere (and I bet they'll even fine you for it! How nice!)
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> The point of many Agile practices is to increase communication. How can you best capture the ease of walking 2 cubes over to have a chat with your coworker? If everyone's remote you don't have as good a natural indication of how busy or available everyone is. If you build something to provide that indication, the boss can monitor it and it will stop working right.

I saw a tool the other week (I think from here) that shows you live webcam views of all your co-workers in a grid like fashion. Clicking on one of them starts a video conversation straight away. If they are busy or AFK it just shows a static profile picture. Regarding the boss monitoring it, I think in that case you need to find a better boss.

EDIT: I think this is actually better than going over and straight up talking to someone. What if they are deep in the zone and don't want to be disturbed?
One issue here is that there is no way to give out unique username/password pairs to each service.

If apple uses this, and google follows, and facebook, twitter, linkedin, my paypal and CoolAppForYorFone(TM) and everything else, then if CoolAppForYourFone(TM) scans my fingerprints, then they have access to everything on all other accounts which use this info.

Once it becomes common, then on street corners, salespeople will ask your opinion on things, "Hi! We're doing a survey this week for Vodaphone - just a quick question - do you think people with android phones or iPhones have sex more often?" and ask you to give a fingerprint to sign it. And most people will.

Or "Hi! We're giving away 20 euros free credit today at PhonesForYou! Just place your finger on the scanner here, and tell us your phone number and we'll send it through!"

We're already trackable enough, why make it easier for scammers with scanners?
Please don't delude yourself into thinking this is any safer against the typical kind of smartphone theft.

Thieves will offload the phone to someone using software explicitly designed to wipe electronics to be resold.

Whether they are wiping an iphone that happens to have touch ID or not is only relevent towards the resale price once it's wiped.

Clearly Apple marketing works, as it's somehow convinced a member of (I'd hope) a more technical audience that their electronics are somehow safer against thieves.
Brevity is good for some things.

A long description full of descriptive adjectives is absolutely critical for certain types of writing that require you to literally paint a picture of scenery, emotion, and dialogue.

Know what you're writing.
Did you turn off overcommitting ? also which distro and cpu architecture are you using ?
David and Goliath
If you don't think those of sound mind are responsible for their own actions,

Pretty big assumption here, don't you think? Poverty can drive a person crazy, and when national economic policies proscribe mandatory unemployment so that oligarchs will stop crying about wage prices, bad things can be seen as being designed into the system. There are no rational actors, just self-interested ones.
I guess that's how it would need to be. So, it's not perfectly neat. But I would probably be able to purchase COBRA to hold me off until 2014.

Still, individuals making more than roughly $45k (at current numbers) don't qualify for any subsidization. So purchasing through the government marketplace seems to be a moot point.
Here's a link to the university of chicago's econ major requirements.

http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/economics/#pro...

Looks fairly rigorous. Can't say for sure, but it does appear that while you are encouraged to take the most rigorous calc sequence (typically required of math, hard science, engineering majors), econ majors are allowed to take an easier calculus track. That's pretty typical of econ undergraduate degrees - many universities do provide a slower, easier calculus track for certain majors (typically life science majors or social science majors).

I have no idea what track Nate Silver took, and of course I can't speak to the "self-labeled" engineer. I'd agree that an econ from a reputable school has some mathematical rigor, but not quite at the level required of a typical math, hard science, or engineering major.

Either way, I would agree with you that it is silly to say Nate Silver doesn't have a math background - clearly he does.
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If you're going to make this point, I like the story of the Oxford literature professor (probably a reader or don or some other weird title, but professor in US terms) who walked into class on his first day and said:

"Omit. Needless. Words."

And then:

"Omit. Needless. Words."

And then:

"Omit. Needless. Words."

And then walked out. End of first lecture.
I don't get it. It seems like a very basic version of evernote posting everything that I write somewhere else.
I am not comfortable with my text going to other unknown places.
Just setup a sample python web app --> http://162.243.30.160

This is a game changer. Very easy to use, and nicer than using Heroku since you don't have to deal with all the marketplace gouging. Great step forward for Docker.
Identification via fingerprints is fine, it's the authorization to do something that can be problematic. So, unlocking your phone, not too bad, accessing your bank records, not so good.

If the fingerprint is the identification that is used to then trigger decryption of securely stored data, it's a lot less secure of a mechanism than a fingerprint AND a password.

There was a good recent discussion that fingerprints also do not enjoy the same protection as passwords, as the fingerprint is not a "content of your mind". Here's the wired article on this: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/the-unexpected-result-o...

It was also discussed at length on HN, but I can't find the thread.
"Once your fingerprint is compromised how do you change it?"

This is the central question for all biometrics for me and I believe one of the hardest problems to solve. There are many people who believe they are solving this by using ever more intricate biometric identifiers, thus increasing the bar to reproduce them beyond what they believe currently feasible. But I'm yet to see that central question addressed.

What happens when you lose control of a biometric key?
That would be pretty cool. I can't imagine that nobody else has thought of this idea before, though...

What really scares me, though, is when we get to the point of not just being able to read thoughts, but being able to write them. How would you ever know that your memories and emotions have not been tampered with? As far as you know, you've always loved your corporate overlords, and would never do anything to work against them...
Like how the sun is the center of the universe and burn all the heretics?
Flagging due to him pointing to an obviously fake story to support his position.
11% of page build failure is really high. I suppose this has a lot to do with timeout?
There was a period around FF14 where FF was performing terribly for me, and Chrome was acceptably fast as ever. That was what made me switch for a while.
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I switched to Firefox from Chrome a couple of months ago, and liked it so far. The UI is fine, and the speed is also fine. But the MacOS+Firefox+Gmail bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341886) drives me nuts. Can't jump to the start or the end of line while editing the message (OK, it is possible with emacs shortcuts instead of standard Mac shortcuts). Can't select text from the current position to start/end of line with keyboard (emacs shortcuts don't help). I haven't appreciated how much I used these shortcuts for email editing before switching to Firefox. And the bug is open since 2006.
Thanks for the feedback, @ search bit of reasoning:

"Making lists, remembering good ideas or writing drafts mostly includes a lot of research. So you normally sit there with a ton of tabs open, copy and paste things etc. What if those tabs, that are normally lost, can be pinned right next to your notes? Or you can look up and replace a word with a synonym with a single click."

In short (especially with the Chrome plugin) it's saving (re)search next to your note instead of tabs that vanish.

9 bucks: Thought about it rather binary, either you'd pay nothing (you can a lot with the free plan) or you see a ton value/don't care that much.

+1 on the cryptic buddy'ing status responses.
Uh, no. Of course it's doesn't prevent theft. (Though the new 'wipe the phone in 10 tries' thing may deter it, separate from TouchID, I'm not sure.)

The point is that with TouchID (as opposed to no passcode) the thief will not be able to send porn to my mom or read my text messages before they wipe the phone.
Link references a satire site. Disappointed to see it's still got legs.
Is REMOTE possible from Europe?
I'm not sure I agree. How exactly is anyone (other than the government) supposed to be able to get all these fingerprints? Are you suggesting people are just going to go around and start dusting for prints anywhere they can or what? Maybe fingerprint phishing? (That doesn't even make sense unless we start transmitting actual fingerprint data to servers instead of mostly using it to protect password managers client-side.) The reason identity thieves can get their hands on social security numbers and passwords is because people have to share that information deliberately a lot more often. If you breach the right database, maybe you'll score the jackpot and get the financial details of a few million people, but what database can you breach to get peoples' fingerprints in a format that allows you to create fake fingers to bypass biometrics? Who's going to be keeping high-res copies of fingerprints around, let alone in enough quantity where it might actually pose a risk to a decent proportion of the population?
Interestingly, this optimization is already unnecessary if you are using the common technique of setting the CSS background-image on an element rather than using IMG src - on Chrome, Firefox and even Internet Explorer memory usage will be stable on a grid of images that way and, as a bonus, you trivially get cross-browser scaling and centering for vertically scaling thumbnails to be the same size.
Ask HN: new TLDs?
Not much discussion on HN on the new TLD's which are coming very soon. Your views?
Nope. If it's not a hardware lock, it will be bypassed.
Search by image and new Chrome for Android gestures
Looking forward to using S3-style object storage with Apache CloudStack.
When you spend mere xx,xxx.xxx on economy class, you get what you pay for. Sorry guys.

The title could have been worse. I believe I saw 50/50 being thrown around a lot for the chances of this launch succeeding.

Worse yet, the title could be "SpaceX plans to launch its first rocket into low Earth orbit sometime next century" like we are seeing with other commercial space companies (cough Blue Origin.)
The tutorial that helped me figure out how to use dynamic JSON data was the one on Path Transitions: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/path/
POS tagger & chunker has nothing to do with search being semantic. Here's the definition of semantic search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search

As I said, i think it's a good idea. I just think you should do some due diligence when using buzz words like "ridiculously fast" or "semantic search". A lot of people are allergic to buzzwords
The diff is a truncation. The actual error rate is 0.5ms on average. By using a round instead of truncation, we can reduce the error to 0.25ms on average.
It is, but the Agile Manifesto isn't, on the face of it, remote-worker friendly.

6. Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers

7. Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location)

So, I can see why people think there's a need to work out how to do remote working in an Agile manner or to find a viable alternative.
Frankly I just ignore the bullshit-scented links and don't even bother getting spooked; usually if it's real, it will show up again in a less-suspicious place, and I'll pay attention to it then.

It may be an imperfect filter, but just you can't waste your time giving credence to an article on "www.gunsgunsguns.com" about why civilians need automatic weapons, or every other crackpot link.
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> You can see on the right side how his "cars per second" is _exactly the same_ than on the left side.

Yes, but there are way more cars on the left side. That is the difference. Occupancy (density) determines speed when flow rate is fixed, and that graphic is actually a perfect illustration of this. You can't make the cars on the left travel at 80mph because it would not allow for a safe following distance.

One thing that is the same on both sides is that if you're the nth car back from the merge, it's going to take 2n seconds for you to get to the merge. Yes, the important thing is how many miles you can cover in that time, but this way of thinking places an upper limit on how many miles that can be, based on the occupancy of the road.

Also, pretty sure the advice at the end was tongue-in-cheek ;)
What I've found that works rather good is having your own internal IRC server, so you can have as many rooms as you need. Everywhere I've worked has tended to have rooms per group/project with the needed overlap. It's also easy to pop someone a PM to join your channel if you need their thoughts. There's also usually a "watercooler" room for that non-work interaction that helps build team camaraderie. Some places have also had bots that display all new commits in the channels, as well as having other custom functionality. I'm not sure if they still do, but Facebook used to have IRC bots that managed deployments.
> Why are there only 3 points in each graph when there are five items in JSONdata? I can't figure it out.

Well this was a sneaky bug: There's an extra space at the end of the date in JSONData's last 2 elements(in the example and in the real code). This is why the last two were generating garbage value.

Wordpress is a real pain to work with when using code and it seems I introduced a bug when copying code over. It's going to be fixed shortly. As for the </code></pre>. Typo, my bad.

Regarding the CSS, I believe all the graphs behave the same way. Could you verify? I also can be reached @pothibo on twitter for further discussion ;)

I really appreciate your feedback.

(Edit: Gave the reason why the graph was only representing 3 data point instead of 5)
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"1 weird trick for successful space flight"
ICANN: rights protection mechanism published for new gTLDs
In this case, I have doubts they have improved on anything. Where did you get the impression anyone is against the idea of finding better solutions in general?
I've been telling them for years, they need Git-backed issues.
Draftin, iA etc are good when you know what you want to write, but we kept 'quickdump' textfiles on our desktops and the occasional mail to ourselves.

The thinking is really in the details, fast in terms of as few clicks and taps as possible. Having to click 3 times to open the last google doc or similar just to paste in an idea or copy something over didn't cut it for us.
You could use a filter for "adult" content. The top result for the (non-pornographic) film list I pasted in was something about "Milf Porn Movies".
Not essential to the main thesis of the article, but still: "But let's just say you're okay with Apple sharing your fingerprints with the NSA, as I've already told you, they're not private at all."

Ok, they are not private but I'd still not willingly put them on anything controlled by an US corporation. Govt sending their agents to collect my fingerprints from glasses? Not feasible, too costly. Agency asking Apple to fetch the fingerprints willingly provided by the population "just in case"? Maybe not today and not tomorrow but in a few years? I wouldn't bet on them not doing it. And once there you're just one false positive away from some serious shit happening to you.
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Sorry but no new H1-Bs. TN (Canadians) are okay. No remote.
I'm at work, and I wanted to try the challenge, but BingItOn redirects me to Bing.

Maybe it's not available outside the U.S.?

Bing's results are way less relevant to me than Google's, but Google does have the advantage of a lot more personal data, and a specific subdomain for my country (.uy) which often returns more relevant queries (OTOH for programming I often have to force the U.S. website).

That's the reason I don't use DuckDuckGo either, the results are vastly inferior for my use case (even though I want to like it).
An iPhone that is wiped, even in DFU mode, requires the Apple ID and password immediately after it is booted for the first time.

Basically, a stolen iPhone is only worth the sum of its parts so they can be used to repair other phones.
Here is a blogpost we (https://commando.io) wrote on shipping nginx access logs using LogStash and ElasticSearch

https://medium.com/devops-programming/b01bd0876e82
One important aspect of tooth brushing is gum stimulation, which is harder to measure than plaque removal.
This article is missing its own point. Username+password combinations are nothing but an identification means. Fingerprints solve the same purpose.

The issue this article should be trying to shed light on is one of inadequate fingerprint scanners, not that fingerprints themselves are compromised. Make a scanner that requires epidermal prints, and go from there.