skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't address your speculative claims on how lower-income folks think about health care, but to give a concrete example of a positive preventive outcome:

- A 55 year-old woman making $30,000 a year purchases insurance through the Exchange. She pays:

-- $2,512 for the year's premiums ($209 per month)

- She receives a preventive breast exam (no cost) that is positive for breast cancer.

- She receives comprehensive treatment costing $60,000.

- Because she is at 261% of the federal poverty level, she stops paying out of pocket at the maximum of $2,975.

- Her total costs paid for the year are $5,487.

($2,975 in cost-sharing [2] + $2,512 in premiums)

[1] http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/#state=ca&zip=...

[2] Note: the out-of-pocket will be somewhat higher because of the OOP maximum is in 2010 dollars.
In a kind of odd confirmation of the article, I don't like the automated/self-checkout because I suck at scanning and bagging groceries.

I remember seeing a commercial for something one time where somebody just pushed a cart full of groceries through a portal-thing, and it automatically found all of the items and their prices, by RFID or something, found his credit card in his wallet the same way, and auto-charged it for all of the groceries. If they had that, I'd do it.
> Also, even if you apply for the subsidy, you'll be paying full price for an expensive plan in the meantime.

This isn't true. The subsidy is estimated and applied when you sign up for a plan, and your premiums are adjusted to account for the estimated subsidy:

https://www.healthcare.gov/will-i-qualify-to-save-on-monthly...
If you don't mind a link to Kotaku, there are some interesting impressions on there, particularly this bit:

> "This sounds weird, but it's almost like rolling two weighted trackballs that are too large to actually fit into the controller," Lambe said as he tried to explain what it's like to have one's thumbs on those two trackpads. "For camera controls, slide one thumb to the right, and you'll feel this ticking, like you're turning a physical control. Flick your thumb quickly, and this imaginary physical thing reacts like something with weight to it—the 'trackball' continues to roll for a bit, eventually coming to a rest. And since it's all controlled through the software, the same trackpad then becomes more like a mouse or a laptop trackpad when you're navigating through menus."

http://kotaku.com/valves-controller-has-been-tested-here-are...
You know best - but don't overlook the possibility of in-person training for groups. It's halfway between an event and a training course.

I just spent a couple weeks with 7 other people learning about Cisco Routers from a single instructor - Total cost was $7300 each - so, $50K for a two-week class.

There's really good money in in-person class training.
A Peek Inside SF Startup Offices
Here's my proposal, very simplistic and based on the inconsolata font (which is licensed under an Open Font license). Original artwork is SVG. http://imgur.com/SVOZTC6
People say they are willing to pay but more often than not they look not to pay. Same as airlne tickets. Everyone complains the service and quality is terrible yet everyone is always looking for the cheapest price. It's the real consumer behavior drives the markets rather than our idealized behaviors ;)
Burnaby office still exists with 2k employees. Not technically Vancouver, but Vancouver for all intents and purposes.
RegEx101.com now offers a debugger
There are people who really need those $500 (think - 3rd world countries where this is a luxurious sum on money) and who will enter because they are desperate. Then he makes a face, flips a finger and says it wasn't good enough. Does it not stink to you even one bit?

Of course contestants realize that they aren't likely to win, but if he's doing the right thing by setting up a mud wrestling match? I personally think he's not, so I do give a fuck.
I just got the Nexus 7 LTE (2013), and I can already feel the dust collecting on my retina iPad, and to a lesser degree, my iPhone 4.

For me, the extra responsiveness makes all the difference. It feels like any extra battery life I'm gaining with the iPad is spent waiting for it to do things.

This is my first Android device, in a home full of Apple products.
Maybe it's like a lottery where 1 member a month gets a kidnapping. The idea is super weird to me though.
Yeah... photoshopping a UI onto a picture of a smartphone tells me exactly nothing useful about the product. Opening it up a bit would be a good idea.

Also he's generating a few Symfony exceptions he might want to take a look at - this should probably fail to the homepage for instance http://www.cribzy.com/comment/new
Thanks for the clarification.

Unfortunately, under pre-Obamacare Medicaid rules, in most states you have to have dependents, be pregnant, or be disabled to qualify for Medicaid:

"Prior to the ACA, states could not receive federal Medicaid matching funds to cover non-disabled adults
without dependent children...

[O]verall, Medicaid coverage for low-income adults remains very limited. As of January 2013, only nine states, including DC, provide full Medicaid coverage to low-income adults,
and enrollment is closed in two of these states(Figure 4, Table 3). Sixteen states solely provide more
limited coverage to adults, and enrollment is closed in seven of these states."

[1] http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/79... (page 2)
The package has a warning that it can cause gum disease and tooth loss. It's not as bad as smoking in my opinion.
This is just a calculator. A real individual health insurance application would probably also ask for weight, which is the other important statistical indicator that you're likely to be expensive to insure. Most of the other dangerous, life-threatening activities you're thinking of are more likely to simply kill you than to require an insurance company to spend 10 years paying 150x the costs of a typical policyholder.

I'd assume what "counts" is any tobacco use. If you smoke when you go out a couple nights a week, you're a smoker.
Source, Dustin Moskovitz: 1-3 were accounts used to test registration. Evidently it only took Mark 3 tries to clear the bugs. Link: http://qr.ae/NMpX6 (Does not require login)
Yikes, a nightmare from an accounting perspective. Unfortunately there are many ways to get around expense proportion limits.
The number that came up is the cheapest health insurance ever, man. Who could possibly complain about that. It is like 5% of my income unless something went wrong in the calculation.
What kind of idiot would answer yes, to questions like "Do you use Tobacco?" or "Do you use marijuana?" when applying for health care?
Why wouldn't they be advancing it? It might not be academically rigorous in some cases (in some cases it is) but every single project is doing something unique and pushing the sphere of known solutions to problems further out. Very few of the projects even want to be nix clones and are exploring areas that aren't explored by the nixes because they are too big and static now experiment (for good reason! it isn't a fault).
Even for learning deeply creative skills, having a good scaffold of the vocabulary, concepts, and atomic pieces of knowledge is very important to construct high-level connections later on. Often, the relationship between fact-base memorization and high-level synthesis is a complex balance, but learning any skill or discipline is going to involve a fairly large amount of gruntwork in terms of just memorizing vocabulary and basic facts.
They put RFID in one way underground ticket now. The time it is cheap enough to include everywhere is coming fast.

However, I'm not quite sure that will be enough for shops to automate. The problem for shop is that an automated system most likely cause of failure is to miss items. That added to the likely need to remove some security features to simplify automation and the already existing shoplifting problem means shop owner will be more interested in more clever (read more obnoxious) self checkout system than automated ones.
I forgot about HaikuOS too - I love what those guys are doing. Can't remember if they wrote the kernel from scratch too?
I really think that the 'free money' is part of the $2000+ per month withheld from my paychecks. It's hardly free. It's very easy to spend other people's money. I'm willing to bet not a single person reading this voluntarily sent the government and extra payment last year. The interesting thing is that the majority of economic growth has been in republican states,, specifically Texas. and
North Dakota. So perhaps the poor are worse off, but at least there are more jobs that can provide the opportunity for them to not remain poor. This article compares Texas and California economically: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/3071...
Food out of a box isn't thinking creatively enough. There is already a prototype wok robot capable of producing 600 different dishes.

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-04/students-inven...
When is one thing equal to some other thing?
Collaborating Across Cultures
Walter Isaacson on Bill Gates at Harvard
As an employer I like these a lot. Kind of. The problem with these kinds of course is knowing if they are any good. EdX is a joint Harvard and MIT site. That gives them credibility.

Udacity is a for profit venture by former Prof's from Stanford. That has less credibility in my eyes.

Then you get things like Lynda which have no credibility in my eyes.
According to the calculator, I'll be paying about the same as what I'm paying now with COBRA.
Also, a note - I have no idea what your site is about from reading the front page, that might be a red flag... It seems like simply a picasa clone, essentially something to store picture albums, but that's it? How would I know it's targeted towards real estate?
So FB allows to GET 1.2B profile images without getting blocked? If so, is using that data legal? If so, how can I get my hands on it :).
I may be old and set in my ways, but I am glad they don't work on mobile. I want you to be focused when you are taking a class, not trying to fill the minutes in line, or do so while sitting in the cube at a call center.
Furatto V2 Released - Mobile First CSS Framework
My estimate was 3 times what I'm paying now, for my own non-subsidized plan.
Police shut down chess games on Market Street
Each Ripple server does validate all the data completely and cannot be tricked. Ripple uses consensus to establish transaction ordering.

Ripple does have only a small number of server nodes today, but that should be growing over time. A node cannot freely set balances. Each node signs each ledger and any change to a ledger entry (such as a balance) must be accompanied by a signed transaction justifying that change or other nodes will reject it.

Nodes are in fact called "validators" and they validate each ledger to ensure that any changes are justified by transactions. They sign these ledgers every few seconds.

As for the peering needing to be centrally controlled, I assume you're referring to each node's set of validators. While that does need to be sanely managed, it doesn't need to be centrally controlled. A number of organizations can publish lists of validators they believe to be reliable. The algorithm is very tolerant of things like minimal overlap or bad apples. Every honest node wants to agree with every other honest node, and dishonesty is impossible to hide, so the problem is not that difficult.

(I'm one of the architects of the Ripple network.)
Actually, starting in 2014, the only criteria that can be taken into account* to charge you a different premium are:

- Age

- Individual vs. family

- Location (area)

- Tobacco usage

* This is in the individual and small group markets; does not apply to large group purchasers.

Source: http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/80... (page 5)
Hell, I want to get one to use with my PC.
Still okay? Sure, if you like frameworks with no future at all, hacked together architecture, legacy PHP 4 code nested so deep there should be a total rewrite to remove all of it and a community which is as kindergarten as it gets.
SurfacePad review: Slimmest, Sexiest, Slickest iPhone 5S/5C case out there
This is the version 2 of Furatto, first release was about 2 months ago, it just got better, faster and stronger!
Something I've been wondering: I've got a pretty fair amount of savings. Suppose I go on sabbatical for a year to do a startup, spruce up my github, whatever. For the sake of argument say I don't have COBRA.

Everything I've read talks about income, not net worth. If I'm not making income, am I stuck with Medicaid, even though I have a decent net worth? Or if I do a little consulting and make $20K, do I get subsidies on the exchange, even though I really don't need them?
Agreed. Having said that, I think something like this would work:

For clicking and targeting, you have the touch screen. Dota 2 is a 5vs5 player game. Controller can display all your enemies on the touch screen, just as you'd normally see their profile pictures at the top of your screen. You can click on their profile pictures to target them when they're visible on the map etc. As for the movement, I think movement could be much better with a game controller. You probably can not click on a map and wait for your hero to go to the spot you've clicked on, but you can direct him there with one of the touchpads.

I think another big problem would be using the shops. In the current style of the game, I don't think it'd be possible to use the shops with a controller because there are just too many items. Having said that, if Valve really wants people to play Dota 2 with a game controller, I'm sure they can implement some changes. Currently in game items are seperated in categories. They can use that wheel chat idea with the shop and let players browse through the items. I'm just brainstorming. It can be done. 2 different UI implementations for 2 different platforms, but one game.

I'm not saying these changes or even playing Dota 2 with a game controller would be ideal, but I think it's doable to make the game controller friendly. But there's no way in hell I'm going to give up on my mouse and keyboard for Dota 2 and most of the games that I play (apart from the sports games).
That is the relevant question. (What does Post-PC mean?)

Looking back at the PC 'revolution' we see that initially computers were in the office and not so much at home. And if they were at home there was only 1 and generally shared.

But what PC's did was create a place you could deliver an application (the PC provided input/output/storage) for the marginal cost of the software bits (which is quite small). So a tremendous number of companies sprang up to deliver those applications since the rate of return is quite high.

As PC's migrated home, they did so primarily as an application vehicle and less so as a tool. This is markedly different than most of the readership of this site (which uses computers as tools) but it is far and away the largest use for computers in the home and individually owned computers.

The programability came at a price however, it made compatibility challenging (bad mojo to have your app not work on your customers machine) and it enabled a threat to undesired programming (viruses, worms, etc) running on it.

For the biggest chunk of the market, the customer's ideal device has no programmability capability outside an application's need for configuration, no way for any application to interfere with another application, and rock solid compatibility. Sort of the 'game console' equivalent of information appliance.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all gunning for that space (and apparently so is Valve :-). Apple's approach is an appliance OS (iOS) and a developer OS (MacOS), Google's approach is an appliance OS (ChromeOS) and developer tools (Chrome, AppEngine, Etc.), Microsoft has the developer OS (Windows) with what might be called the third attempt at an appliance version (Windows RT) (previously Windows CE and Windows Embedded).

If these efforts mature the way their respective owners would like, the bulk of the "computers" out there will be information/data appliances running their appliance environment. Computers will go back to something nerds, scientists. and engineers use and "regular" people ignore.
I don't mean to sound dense, but who isn't using some kind of build system these days with their JavaScript? "Extra Tooling" really is quite trivial given the general de-facto standards that are now in place.

As far as the ambiguities and inconsistencies go, that I can understand.
That description kind of fits both classic Ripple and the new Ripple, but it does fit classic Ripple better. The new Ripple does fully support social/community credit. But it's targeted more, at least for the near future, at acting as a payment system.
Awesome suggestions! Adding them to our backlog as we speak. If it's not too much trouble, could you cross post them to http://starthq.uservoice.com so others can vote and comment. Also that way you'll get notified when we roll the updates out.

We are already using localStorage. Opted out of using AppCache after having it on for a while due to Firefox having a buggy implementation which made it impossible to invalidate the cache at times.

The last point is worrying, since it works for me. This may indeed be a regressioon caused by the Chrome update. Will investigate and be in touch.
I've heard good things about those slide-out keyboards that basically convert your touch-oriented phone into an incredibly huge version of the slider-keyboard phones.
Sarcasm aside, obviously employers will tend to act in their own interests. It is unrealistic to expect them to voluntarily take on losses.
Not at all. There are lots of inchoate property rights. For example, the right to cut through someone's land. You don't own the land, so the property right is inchoate. Or consider the right to buy or sell another right (an option). Also inchoate, but a property right nonetheless. Indeed, these days, your bank account is an inchoate property right. Just the right to a particular configuration of bits.

The problem with software patents is not that they grant exclusive use of a particular configuration of bits. That's no different than your Paypal account. Rather, its that its hard to define the scope of the right and easy for people to accidentally and unintentionally infringe.
Python for Finance: pandas and QSTK libraries
That attitude assumes that the quantitative change in abilities that computerized surveillance brings about never turns into a qualitative change.

I believe that is totally possible though. Surveillance used to be limited by manpower, and look how well it worked. Before today, the amount of information the NSA's computers were sifting was only conceivable as the omniscience of God.
sorry for my English I just mean about these pdf - saw but not see any seriously. I mean that PHP is very seriously but I want some features of Erlang. I love PHP and programming with it but I need pattern matching and long running processes.

Tuples need because they more simple for understand and matching then lists and strings. Tuples can simple converts to lists and back. Tuples more effective with memory.

Only one class can implement tuples now its SplFixedArray. But there bugg when you call createFromArray in own custom class derived from SplFixedArray. Also with small count uts slow.

Try test Erlang and see his power. I hope you think will too, that PHP needs with Erlang features.
Then an easier law that even republicans would have supported is to have the government subsidize HDHPs and be done with it. Instead they needed 1200+ pages that the lawmakers didn't even read. Government wasn't after protecting the 'uninsured'-- they wanted to control an industry that makes up 5% of GDP.
We want to open this up. Let's talk. Drop us a line via the feedback dialog in the dropdown menu when you sign up.
Exactly. Opening up the air, so to speak.
For those using org-drill in Emacs, I have a write-up of my own card/directory layout and custom elisp to provide a navigation prompt to select which "category" you want to train: http://ixmat.us/articles/2012-12-01_usable-org-drill.html
Ethical people, and people who don't want to be bankrupted after paying for health insurance when that insurance doesn't pay out after discovering you lied on the application.
Government doesn't create jobs. Every job they 'create' is paid for by someone else's 'job.' Basic economics. Government creating jobs is as mythological as Al Gore inventing the Internet.
Yes -- subsidies are tied to income, not assets (specifically, modified adjusted gross income [MAGI]).

There are reasonable arguments around the equity of this, but, as you describe, it actually opens a big door for wishing to try a more entrepreneurial venture -- especially for those with health conditions.
Thanks for the kind words. Anything that you feel we're missing?
For what it's worth, I do know what 'tar' means -- I mostly use Linux (GNU/Linux if you're being pedantic), so the snap part was what I was asking about.
1.2B Facebook profile pictures on a single page
Yeah, you and 3 other guys.

That's not enough.
She was probably already getting her breast exam free if she was earning less than $50k a year.

http://www.komencanaz.org/understanding-breast-cancer/about-...

She would have gotten the treatment anyway. Filed bankruptcy and as a renter lost nothing, except her next car costs 5% more because her interest rate is higher.
> It may not be running a world class kernel like Linux (it uses QNX)

QnX is in many ways lightyears ahead of Linux. What do you mean with 'world class kernel'?
Gets By: Interviews About Mental Illness In Tech
I read Kate Losse's book in preparation for reading this one.

The general schema of her book is she became obsessed with Facebook while just a user. So she applied when she saw a job ad for Facebook (on Facebook). Started out in customer service (later renamed to something else because customers are people who pay for a service). The engineers and the engineering floor was the place to be. She managed to make it to their domain through a clever side project of her own. Facebook started to grow up once Sheryl Sandberg came in. She made it all the way to the inner sanctum (ghost writing for MZ).

It really is a quick read. The parallels that I will be looking for - does DE's character protagonist start to reject the 'cult' culture gradually over time - all the while jumping and up the ranks.

The supporting details of the story are what matter: Since FBers all had inside knowledge of FB and couldn't manage to slip up and spill projects under development in casual social encounters, they started close-circling their social lives until they just basically hung out night-and-day with other fellow FB employees. And there was a nice passage where she described an ephemeral experience and how it could not be FB'd. Also, a widely reported FB anecdote - female employees had to wear shirts with MZ's face on it and male employees had to wear sandals on MZ's birthay (she called in sick - it was too much). All FB company events were professionally photographed - not an accident they looked good (so as to project the best FB brand - smiles, we're all having young young fun fun fun)... There was a pivotal moment with a co-worker where they did not go forward (romantically, in the moment) because of what would all their co-workers say when it was FB'd... The summer pool house was her idea - and she ruled that domain pool-side with her fellow non-geeks.

I have a lot of respect for what Eggers has done with 826 Valencia, The Writing Center. If he has co-opted Kate's personal story (including some details, like above - even if slightly refactored), I will be sad.

http://826valencia.org