skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I see it the point was to make it less unaffordable. Certainly "less painful" would be desirable, but as long as people can get the coverage (open enrollment is several months long, so a few days of downtime is bad, but nonfatal from a service perspective) and care gets reimbursed (still unknown, but I don't think it uses this particular infrastructure) I think you have to view the system implementation as a success.

Again, BCBS et. al. have been inflicting terrible web experiences on their users for quite some time now.
Own3D.tv was a competitor in the sense that they provided the same service Twitch does.

Twitch has "contracts" with a lot popular streamers.

> building partnerships, and building brand recognition. Advertising isn't the end game

Those two terms are exactly the same as advertising though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

ETA: oh snap! Didn't realize that someone else posted this link above as a reply to a different comment. Oh well, you can never have too much rubber duck debugging!
What I understood (not an American citizen) is that your money (tax payer) has run off (actually it's a quite of a negative balance).

So no, you won't get any money back. You probably should pay your due bills.
Looking at mine...

I prefer Safari over all other browsers, due to speed and better UI, although it loses on security to Chrome. Firefox, meanwhile, didn't have Retina display support until half a year after that MacBook Pro was released, still doesn't have disappearing scrollbars, and has no smooth zoom, and I have many other sorts of complaints about it.

iTunes, despite all the various crappiness, doesn't have much good competition and usually works well. Playing music off an NFS server is not a normal use case.

Preview is a brilliant PDF reader.

I use Gmail chat, but if I weren't using a Mavericks beta with broken Messages.app, I would also be using that for iMessage. FaceTime also works well.

Mail.app is pretty great; it has some flaws, but is better than most of the competition not named Gmail.

Terminal is a great terminal app (you'd think this wouldn't be hard to achieve, and I think iTerm is roughly on par now, but the latter used to be quite terrible).

edit: oh, and QuickTime Player is nice; might not support all the codecs of other players, but the seeking/frame stepping is nice and smooth, compared to VLC which can't step backwards at all.

YMMV, but I think the suite of default Mac apps is not bad at all.
It was never "impossible before". Just two months ago when writing about Model S's safety rating, they stated that it was unlikely to remain the case forever that a Tesla car has never caught fire or caused an occupant fatality.

They've always published First Responder fact sheets for their cars which talk about how firefighters should handle a battery on fire.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/downloads/201...
The rent differential can be explained by nothing more than the natural dynamics of the situation. Want to live in a big city? Probably really want to live in NYC or SanFran, right? Whereas if you want to live "in the burbs", you can go pretty much anywhere. And if you want acreage, you have even more options (assuming you can telecommute).
Useless editorializing fluff that's been spot on the whole time about Ultrabooks being doomed thanks to Intel jacking up their price to be higher than Air's.
Ultrabooks are a rousing success.

Because of them, the laptop market is dominated by off-brand MBAs, just like it was dominated by off-brand PowerBooks between 1992-2012. Since the MBA really is the Right Thing in heavy-duty mobile computing, the ultrabook is bound to continue to succeed, maybe not under that name.
peterwwillis makes 3 claims: 1) docker does not allow standardized, portable deployment of applications 2) docker is a "fancy wrapper" over lxc and adds no substantial value, 3) anyone who disagrees with this is spreading "lies" and "hyperbolic marketing claims" which will cause the readers of hacker news to form an incorrect and uninformed opinion.

I addressed points 1 and 2 by linking to this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17989306/what-does-docker.... It lists half a dozen ways that I believe docker is different from lxc. The first item in the list is "portable deployment across machines".

I then called him out on point 3 because I consider it unfair and harmful. First it insults the intelligence of the hacker news readers ("they eat the marketing up, but I don't!"). Second it introduces FUD as an substitute for facts. Shouting "marketing hype!" in hacker news is the equivalent of shouting "anti-american!" in Congress. How many people will come away from this thread thinking "huh I wonder if docker is marketing hype after all?" simply because peterwwillis claimed it? Talk about a marketing hyperbole.
And got an opportunity to double down.
It's already transcoded live and re-streamed. That isn't technologically different. Finding European football is trivial whereas some other rightsholders have cracked down on streaming sites and people posting their screencast urls in forums effectively removing it from the visible web (Swedish ice hockey is one such example). Games are expensive ($20-30) and unlike movies it's often ok to watch in a low quality stream that is easy to distribute with modest hw/bandwidth.
It looks like Windows 8 's metro interface is a basic tiling WM. It isn't very featured, but it can show multiple apps at the same time, and will automatically split the screen between them (without overlap).
the site was literally unusable for several days.

Why are we still surprised when a website gets crippled by a big launch? This happens again and again and again, and people are surprised every time!
The page is as much about marketing (maybe more) as it is about safety or the incident. Especially, after the stock dropped, can you blame them?

That said, I'm not really sure why this is such big news. Accident happened due to debris on the road. No one was hurt. The car was severely damaged, but got the owner to safety.

AND THEN a small fire happened...

Then I read things like this: http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20130928/5-killed-1-in...

Let's consider this for a second - Tesla Model S had a no-injury accident and made national news. 5 kids burned alive in a Sentra, and this barely stayed on local news for 3 days.

Tesla Model S is a phenomenal vehicle with an excellent, if short-ish, track record. It really annoys me that reporters go out of their way for sensationalist articles, when there are far worse tragedies to cover.
you're mistaking Continuing Resolution (Congress giving President(Exec Branch) weekly(or whatever) allowance - current drama) for Debt Ceiling (the source of the money for the Continuing Resolutions - next show coming in a couple of weeks)
But very hard to calculate. If we had a solid source of information on this, I could add it.
> Lysander Spooner is not a mainstream American political philosopher

Immaterial. He's been an large influence on American political life[1], alive and dead.

> I'm also going to...duck, and run away.

I always appreciate this response from people with an attachment to the government/State than the more common approach which is to call people names. Many thanks.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner#American_Lette...
No doubt. I've used Arch and awesome for a few months now and it's remarkable. The increase in efficiency and usability is made most apparent when I need to use OS X again.

I only started using dmenu yesterday and I've already written a few scripts I've found very handy: passphrase autotyping[0] and music playing[1] to name two.

[0] https://github.com/devlinzed/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/dmenu-...

[1] https://github.com/devlinzed/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/dmenu-...
This book is highly recommended by Aaron Levie from Box too. Fantastic book.
Fair point. I think detecting and booting some fraction of those streams would have a deterrent effect on the rest, but who knows for sure unless it gets tried?

And yes, I'm assuming that robust-enough watermarking methodology is possible. I don't think it has to be bulletproof, I just think it has to be good enough to enable cancelling enough stream consumer accounts to deter casual mirror-ers. DRM isn't bulletproof either; watermarking is preferable for users because it doesn't require that the stream producer take control over your machine.
I'm very much not convinced by the idea that banks have technology at their core with a mere wrapping of business functions around it. Having worked for a bank for many years, I'd say it's exactly the other way round.

Management of capital, liquidity, risk, etc. are the true core banking elements.
Shucks. I haven't upgraded yet to 13.04. Should I skip it on by for 13.10 when it comes out? If not, what voodoo did you do?
They do for anything that requires money and beyond. That's why banks etc. try hard to persuade people they have high security standards.
YouTube isn't a contender, but they could very well be if they wanted it. They're most poised. YouTube just needs to implement some of the gamer-specific features that Twitch has. Namely subscription revenue and broadcaster customization.

Most Twitch broadcasters are already using YouTube heavily as part of their income, just not for streaming. They upload highlights or other videos on their YouTube partnered channel.
More space, less crime, parking, cheaper rent or mortgage, cleaner air, quieter, more green spaces, and typically only a 20-30 minute drive from the city if you actually want to go to something big-metro-specific, like the opera/museum/theater/etc.
That should be the main point of his argument, instead of speculative statistics.
xmonad => terminator => tmux => vim

tiling inception
i3wm is the most difficult to get used to, from what I've seen. As always, more configuration (in this case of window layout) makes for steeper learning curves.
49-page NSA research paper on how to crack Tor
That's not real money, much of that was overvalued Facebook stock.
I feel bad for the contractors and government workers that are on this project. Talk about a high-profile website. And I bet the amount of customer and user feedback is astronomical. I don't know the exact schedule but it seemed aggressive for such a mission-critical app. Something so monumental usually takes years to create and test because there are so many use cases, differing opinions, etc.

That being said, I think the comparisons to Apple are off. They should take it on the chin. We messed up, and we'll fix it. End of story. Not "yeah but.. apple".
Pretty awesome, like a real time slideshare?
This isn't necessarily twitch's fault. I know there were issues with AT&T in my area related to twitch and AT&T refused to help alleviate the issue until they got a ton of complaints. It seems similar to the struggles netflix sees with some ISPs
It takes some work, but Wikipedia is good at aggregating info like this. Lots of links and info about underlying platform and so forth. Like the 2010 model had this 3.0 engine, but the 2011 has a different 3.0 engine that's more reliable.
Fewer Blue Leapers, for one. ;)
Start watching a YouTube video. Pause it. Come back hours later. Hit play. It'll play a few more seconds and then fail to continue. I'd call that a major Google product with a major failure, though our definitions for major may differ.

Google Chrome for iOS crashes on a regular basis. It also fails to start YouTube videos a lot. Again, I consider those major products with major failures.

Gchat-in-Gmail has issues on a regular basis.

Also, non-major Google products have plenty of bugs. Google Groups digest emails have been broken forever. Once in a while one randomly trickles into my inbox, and I think for a second it may be fixed. Nope, still borked. Despite quite a bit of effort, I've never managed to communicate with any actual human Googler about it.

I've often had to authenticate twice, for unknown reasons, while getting into Gmail from Chrome, when trying to get in via their Gmail app icon.

I like plenty of Google products and services, and use them daily, but they seem to have their fair share of bugs.
Ruby? Perl? Python?
Exactly. reveal.js does a great job with the online presentation and GoInstant adds the collaboration to it.
Sinatra dressed for interactive ruby - a sinatra shell
By your "hole in one" argument, Tesla is "doubtful" to keep up their pace of one fire per 100 million miles. In other words, their "true" fire rate is actually less than one per 100 million.
>Choose a username that is 6-74 characters long and must contain a lowercase or capital letter, a number, or one of these symbols _.@/-."

Requiring entropy in the username? What? I can understand the password, but what site requires you to put a symbol in your username?
It is legal to import prescription-only medicine into the UK, providing it does not have a higher level of scheduling too.
Thanks! We've got several templates for each event, with all the right variables in place -- it should be dead-simple to get going :)
> This point is completely removed from politics and CEOs

No, it's not. I happened to see the biggest investment banks' technology departments from the inside (i.e. I worked on very core technologies), and this statements is just simply false. Yes, there's a lot of software development going on, but it's quite a slow-moving animal. They _used to have_ a lot of cutting-edge stuff, but nowadays most of these are superceded by better engineered implementations available to the public. And this is a big struggle for them, the more they've invested in proprietary IT decades ago, the more money they made with it around the late 90's, and the more difficult it is now to move towards industry standards.
I agree...The kind of driver who can buy a Tesla is likely the kind of driver who has acquired enough education and comfortable wealth to be a competent driver (on the average). Moreover, there's survivor bias here: If you've made it far enough in life to buy a Tesla, you're probably a person with pretty decent habits.

And finally, if you've bought an expensive car like the Tesla, you may be more likely to drive it more carefully than the average person does their Honda Accord.

I don't think Musk is any more dishonest than any other CEO, and he's probably more honest, by far, on average. However, it kind of pains me to see how easy it is for him to sway the hacker crowd with data-interpretations that would be questionable by any standard. If this is among the strongest empirical evidence he can provide, then I think we should maintain some skepticism.
That could benefit from the <abbreviation> tag.
>Apple got into maps because Google maps product for iOS was shitty and that was being held against the iPhone.

Wait, really? Was this an actual thing, for anyone? Because I _never_ was disappointed by any Google Maps related product on the iPhone. Serious question here.
...but you can be sure that it's going to be posted every time MongoDB comes up. Somehow, people will vote it up as if it's still funny or adds something to the discussion.
I think that you and I use the word "want" in very different ways.
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> you're mistaking Continuing Resolution (current drama) for Debt Ceiling (next show coming in a couple of weeks)

They aren't separate issues. Part of the current drama is that:
1) A sizable portion of the Republican congressional delegation is demanding separate votes on, first, a CR that would be linked to various policy demands and, second, a debt ceiling increase (to which, presumably, additional policy demands would be attached), while
2) The White House and a sizable portion of the Democratic congressional delegation are calling for a single "clean" (independent of extraneous policy changes) vote on continuing funding and a debt-ceiling increase.
Thanks! We actually do mean a contact who is interested and primed. There are two stages: first researching leads, and the second reaching out to them to schedule contacts. The $2000 plan incorporates both pieces.
i'm not sure how feasible it is, but a nice app to cache the current state of the top 30 posts and the discussions below them would be great for an android app. that way you could do offline reading on an airplane or other non-network/data-constrained area.
Just like the Titanic!
Thanks! If anyone is interested in my data, there's a CSV & JSON in the github and the shared Google Doc is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsyXWqYXia4PdGl...

Looks pretty similar to yours, mostly... Mine is less-complete at the moment but also tries to break some agencies down by sub-agency (eg. IRS-specific stats within the Dept. of Treasury). If anyone would like to contribute, let me know and I'll make you an editor on that doc (my email is in my HN profile or on that github project).
Reasons why you shouldn't try a tiling window manager:

Well, mostly if you use tools that have a "view portal" or depend heavily on pop-out style toolboxes. The WM is constantly resizing your windows, which makes it a chore to keep everything adjusted, and pop-out style toolboxes are pretty much best at on-top usage by nature, rather than tiled.

I use CAD software on a regular basis, and while I managed to make a tiling WM work for me for maybe 6 months, returning to a floating WM was a relief. If you work directly with text all day, I bet they are great, but for me...
9 museums that want your legacy tech
Whatever. What did people expect? I'm dumbfounded people think the ACA was somehow going to make buying insurance "easier." What planet are people living on?
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Yeah the pricing has always been around that range for most high-end phones. I remember lusting after some European only Nokia's that were $800.
Some kinds of data can be independently verified after torture, or you can use different techniques, nominally by different organizations (good cop, bad cop) to authenticate information.
I thought about this possibility, but having 3 flywheels increases the weight, which decreases the maximum angular momentum / weight that could be applied around a given axis. This is, I believe, the relevant quantity if you want to know how far a cube could jump in a different direction.

If the flywheel could rotate on two axes (and spin on the third, presumably), you would still have full control on which direction you apply forces.
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I like the rule.

I'd suggest to try also with a step in between. Something like: try for 15 minutes, if you still can't find the solution, go for a quick break, like getting a coffee, and if the solution still doesn't magically appear, ask someone.

I lost count of how many times I solved a problem while getting up to get coffee, after trying hard to find the answer for a few minutes. I can't be the only one.
>"Non-essential" services have been suspended, while "essential" are still operational.

I see quite a few departments on this list of suspended or partially suspended services which I wouldn't consider "non-essential": http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/politics/government-s..., such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Department of Labor, CDC, EPA, EEOC, FDIC and most of the USDA.
Partially, they are still collecting money just fine.
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there are a lot of companies doing this in Asia. Lots of them are printing money. Majority of them are involved in production in one way or another though.
> I agree this isn't as big of a deal as the stockmarket may imply

I firmly believe that what's happening on the stockmarket and the fire are merely a coincidence, there isn't a causal relation between them. Tesla stock has been due to correct back for a while, and a downgrade came in as well (unrelated to the fire).

Edit: first rule of the HN club: only positive things about Tesla, otherwise you are going to be voted down. Neutral opinion is considered negative. :)
>> I'm a full blown Mac convert and I'll be honest, the iPhone was what caused it.

This will be Apple's saving grace. They're already entrenched several generations deep. For every kid getting an i-pod touch or i-pod nano today, in a few years, it's such a seamless jump to an iphone. Nothing to learn, no additional software to learn, no new interfaces to spend time getting familiar with. It's the same device, just with more functionality.

For me this is the most brilliant thing Apple has achieved. Being able to move a consumer from platform to platform with ZERO new investment on the users part? Genius.
OK, great, where can I buy a spray-can's worth?

Now, as facetious as that may sound, I'm quite serious. I've been watching Nano Solar and their promise of $1/watt solar energy for years, and I have yet to see it in practice. I'd honestly love to be able to drop $50 on solar cells and know that I can produce 50 watts of power (at peak), but since Nano Solar is only selling to industry, the end consumer is left in the (coal) dust until this stuff catches on.

I guess ultimately, I'll be watching this company now, too. Maybe I can become Walter White, and start "cooking" solar cells at home based on their article.
Why, no, I don't really need to get an SSN, but thank you for asking! I guess it's not really essential to me and my family... [1]

Seriously, though, why are people popping up like mushrooms saying how it would be much better to get rid of stuff the government currently does, without proposing to actually replace it with something? I recommend reading Yegge's "Have you ever legalized marijuana?" [2]

[1]: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/shutdown/

[2]: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
Enrollment doesn't end until March 31st, 2014. Everyone that wants or needs to use the exchange has 6 months to do so for this year's plans.
London is peculiar compared to Silicon Valley or Silicon Allee(Berlin), in that it is the hub for Finance, Retail and Media,Politics and Advertising and it is also the political capital in the UK. Talent is expensive here and scarce. Compare this to Berlin, which doesn't have the banking industry to compete with, makes it a much better startup hub than London and it also has a thriving startup community and plenty of talented hard-working programmers. There isn't enough money to go around here (in London), the VC firms here are terribly myopic and often don't understand the technology (this is probably true of all VC firms). A lot of the talent is tied up in Canary Wharf and the Square Mile. My experience with startup culture in London is not as optimistic as the article paints, seems half-arsed. But that's been my experience. I'd be interested to know if others have had a different experience.

I work near London's Silicon Roundabout and like the article said, there is no money. Growth is the biggest hurdle and there is little financial support. Many of the VC firms, I hate to say it, don't understand the technology well enough.

There isn't enough talent to go around either, since it is mostly tied up in the banking and retail sector.
Most of the money here is going towardsand I find this a bit surprising. The sense of community that I'd expect from a startup hub isn't there and most of the talent are tied up in the banking and retail sector. It all feels a bit underground.
Slide #7 is my friend's museum in a tiny little South Texas town (Wharton). I was surprised to see it on CW. Anyway, if you have some interesting stuff taking up space in your garage, send it to one of these museums. If you miss the old junk that you've thrown away, go visit one of these museums.
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I'd imagine there were a relatively small number of well-rated suppliers servicing the majority of trade, and fewer still producers. If DPR was in fact taking a ~10% cut, those suppliers would have stood to make considerable sums of money given the profit margins involved.
"If the Devil didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him."