skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance is how you spell the word. Not insurence.

This is a Heritage Foundation plan from the 1990's. The Heritage Foundation is THE conservative think-tank in DC. It is extremely right-wing in its nature, which is why Bob Dole was for it, and Mitt Romney implemented it in Massachussetts. The only think liberal about Obamacare is its name.

As for "my party" I'm not a Democrat, and have voted for numerous conservative candidates. I find the current crop's anti-intellectualism and hatred of science to be repellent, so not so much these days. The fact that you assume that someone is a Democrat because they are correcting your ignorance on a government program's details is telling of your own partisanship.

The government mandates levels of coverage with car insurance. It works out well.

The purpose of mandated levels of coverage is to make sure that short sighted people don't buy a crappy minimum level of insurance, and then when they get something serious have bills that aren't covered. These high, un-covered bills go unpaid and are forced onto the rest of us through higher provider prices.

Sorry that it will take you five minutes longer to buy "insurence". In the meantime I will appreciate not seeing every hospital waiting room being used as a clinic for the uninsured workers of this country.
Philosophy behind Python Requests
Out of curiosity, what is the proportion of non-governmental, large-scale site launches that have gone well?

Seems like I can remember several very public commercial blow-ups.
Interim result (likes / (likes + dislikes)):

Language	% Likes out of of lang voters
C	88%
Python	87%
Scheme	84%
Lua	83%
Lisp	81%
Haskell	80%
Rust	79%
Clojure	78%
Erlang	76%
Go	75%
OCaml	73%
SQL	72%
F#	72%
Assembly	72%
C#	70%
Forth	69%
Smalltalk	69%
Ruby	61%
Scala	61%
JavaScript	61%
D	60%
Other	60%
Shell	56%
R	55%
Ada	51%
Pascal	51%
CoffeeScript	44%
C++	42%
Objective-C	42%
Perl	38%
Delphi	38%
Tcl	36%
Fortran	34%
Java	33%
Groovy	29%
Rexx	26%
PHP	24%
Actionscript	17%
Visual Basic	11%
Cobol	6%
ColdFusion	6%
But too young to know writing code and speccing data structures on paper (and/or napkins...) was quite common before airplane-friendly computers were available? (And for a long time after, really; ubiquitous ownership of laptops is a quite recent thing).
Or pen or paper
Isn't this how any government project works? IT, construction, etc. Sees like the government is terrible at building anything, especially when contractors are used to do the job.

Probably why the government is so big and expense. I can only imagine what that $600+ billion gets us for the military. -_-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...
3 Mind-Blowing Paradigms from Strange Loop
This is helpful, although where are the actual exchanges?
I really hope I never have to have a LACK table in my home again ;) For what they cost they are a great and functional piece of furniture, but once you have like $100 worth of LACK tables, you should really stop.
There was a really nice thing called Engagio but I'm not sure of it's still alive https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/engagio/odlmlfcabm...
Building D3 bar chart in AngularJS
> The problem with your line of thinking is that Climate Change isn't N vs NP.

Neither is say high-speed aerodynamics. We can't predict where a particular air molecule will go in a turbulent flow. We have only approximate closed-form models, and do most work in simulation and by fitting empirical data to simplified approximate equations and tweeking constants until things come out right. Yet airplanes still fly and people don't get on the internet armchair talking about how Boeing's aerodynamicists are wrong.

> This stops being a scientific problem when it becomes a political one. I'm not going to let someone tell me what I can and can't do just because they have a PhD and a model that proclaims doom.

Deniers live in a world where people can tell them what they can and cannot do.[1] Deniers know this, so they attack the scientific conclusions because they know that the public will, quite rationally,[2] tell them what you can and cannot do if they believe there is even a substantial chance that the climate scientists are correct.

[1] That's the quid pro quo isn't it? The public tells big strong guys that they can't go around killing and eating people, and consequently reserves the right to tell other people what they can and cannot do.

[2] It is of course eminently rational to take even very expensive corrective action in the face of a low probability but extremely high cost negative scenario.
The reason is because the entire history of the world can not be used for evidence for an afterlife that exists outside of the world. No knowledge or intuition (from this world) can be applied to something that exists outside of it.

>It's like positing epicycles for the motions of the planets.

The two are not at all related, unless one of us claims the hand of god or some other metaphysical force is moving the planets. Such a claim would not be testable and the same caveats would apply to it, too.

Your intuition could be correct, but how would we verify it? We have no experience with the afterlife. It is impossible to test this knowledge in any way (apart from dying but then communicating the results are the problem).

The only thing we can do is acknowledge the fact that we can not say anything sensible one way or the other.
Half of an Instagram!
I enjoy having my views continually challenged -- but I have begun to draw a line between those with whom I disagree and those who make me angry. I have less time for those who make me angry -- but I say that without judgement. I can't say they're arguments are empty if I refuse to engage them -- the most I can say is that it's not beneficial for me to engage them.

In terms of "people who are unable to engage in reasonable discussion and yet are worth talking to for what they know ... they nitpick at things which should be logically obvious", I would counsel toward assuming good faith on their part, and just not engaging them. If you'd like to benefit from what they know, it's fair that you should try to hear their arguments charitably and even entertain that what you consider "logically obvious" may be more cultural than logical.
I'm a photographer and programmer in NYC. I have been building multicopters and flying them for the past two years. Now I'm starting to amass some more expensive camera equipment, gimbals and transmitters, which leads me to the question of were I can go with this professionally. Currently we hobbyists are legally prohibited from charging for aerial video or even still photography. The technology is getting to the point were when UAVs are setup and used properly are very stable, and the footage is second to none. Here is the best examples I have seen. http://vimeo.com/66036452

The recent NYC drone crash brings the major issues right to the surface; safety. Unfortunately, it's only going to get worse without regulation. I wish that weren't the case. A license that isn't to hard to get should be required within city limits.

All that said the next issue that comes up is privacy. It's too early to know how bad this issue will become. On top of all the technical hurdles to flying, there is no way around the fact that drones are noisy. Most of the time, I am flying a multicopter in public people come over and talk to me about them. After they get over the sheer amusement of watching it fly, one of the first things they want to express is the potential for this thing to violate their privacy. Ironically, the government is actively running an extensive spying program on them, but their fears seem targeted on little Timmy down the street flying out side their window. This is obviously irrational.
Really liking this series, a great read. Would love it if you guys made more of them.
Ditch Windows, Become a Polyglot
According to this, Gates did some of the design, but Marc McDonald, employee #1 at MS, helped with the design, and did the coding in 1977:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original_...

Like a lot of old stories remembered after-the-fact to make a point, it seems that the truth is more complicated.
It's the same issue, though. Everyone will start shit talking like this, I'd guess:

"y do I have to get _offbrand_internet_ when a PS4 works with any? f u micro$oft"
Swifts catch insects in flight, so food isn't a problem. I think there are species which can extract all the water they need from their food, so they may be able to go without drinking.
Those 110 people would seem to own 100% of their own wealth; what makes any of it "Russia's wealth"?
Gershwin: Stack-based, Concatenative Clojure
What are you trying to say? I don't get it.
read the article after you finish reading the headline.
Saudi billionaire Alwaleed won't sell Twitter stake in IPO
Python Tornado Web Server With WebSockets – Part I
Not just the database, at those quantities of connections, the OS itself starts to have problems.

One frequently implemented solution is to kill off old idle connections, but you may be surprised at how many pooling solutions don't deal with killed connections well (or force the handling on the application at the wrong layer of abstraction).
3 Early Fails That Nearly Killed Our Startup
Yeah, this comment is my favorite part of the story. Hilarious to have someone with such direct experience commenting. Assuming they are who they say they are :)
The standard library smells of rot much like Java's(how many timers does one standard library need? The multiple incompatible collections classes, and GUI libraries etc).

Thanks to the rapid language iteration we have neat code features.
Thanks to the rapid language iteration our large, long lived code bases now have language version "sediment layers".

Not about the language in particular but other reasons to dislike it. For some reason there is a big NIMS(Not Invented by MS) in the community. People use MS's shoddy add on libraries because they are from MS (Asp.net webforms, EF). The announce, wait 20 min, and kill cycle for some of MS's libraries.
I do not believe this is true (although I haven't verified it). Xbox live basic level is free. Xbox live gold costs money. I would HOPE you can still use Netflix with Xbox live basic.
Going beyond vulnerability rewards from $500 to $3,133
It's certainly possible to make bearings and whatnot that last for enormous lifetimes. It's all a question of cost.

When your buyer is the ridiculously over-funded US Military, you can afford to charge quite a bit more.
Do you think you could include either a gist with the HTML or just an example of the bar chart on the page. I would like to see what the end result looks like before I go through the minor hassle of building it myself.
The browser formerly known as the world's most popular browser. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp http://gs.statcounter.com/

I'm honestly quite amazed. When Chrome first came out, I remember asking my teammates why we were wasting money on developing a browser, thinking it would never be more than a niche product. Another reason why I'm not Google's CEO, apparently.
notorious != popular
> pen or paper

How did he do it with just paper? Origami? ;-)
Oh for the love of... it IS a top managed language. Probably the best general-purpose language on the market right now. Not the most widely used, of course, but one of the most enjoyable.
I was about to complain about it actually (in grand HN tradition). Constantly looping animation beside articles is one of my biggest pet peeves on websites.

If this was the front page of your app or service's website, then fine.

But I'm trying to read here. I cannot help but notice the colour change in the corner of my eye. It is endlessly distracting. In the end I used chrome dev tools to delete it so I could actually read the damn content.

This is a blog: I came here to read pages of text, not look at pretty lights.
Get better at sales - work with a friend
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I feel like this wouldn't jibe with conservation of energy. Unless the bird can eat in the air somehow.

It just physically couldn't store enough fuel to fly to fix months straight, right?
When Bezos’s lieutenants learned of Wal-Mart’s counterbid, they ratcheted up the pressure, telling the Quidsi founders that “sensei” was such a furious competitor that he would drive diaper prices to zero if they sold to Bentonville.

That's a heavy level of competitiveness!
How Healthcare.gov Went Wrong
You don't have to have economics taking a back seat to recognize that per capita income levels are not the only economic statistic. Most likely at a very localized level the issues of nationalism and ethnicity manifest themselves in the graphs of networks of daily commercial and noncommercial interactions.

Other social sciences have valuable insight into the dynamics of breakups, but I don't think it is accurate to think that economics would only be concerning with difference in per capita income of different regions.
Are Operations Like Flipboard Scams Against Publishers?
I think the grandparent is referencing the fact that Referer headers are not propagated from HTTPS sites to HTTP sites. The rationale was that the HTTPS site might have a secret or otherwise sensitive URL.

This is obviously a tremendously stupid and ineffective design, which is why it fits so well with the rest of browser security design :)
Burning Man/Black Rock Rangers had an orientation you had to attend to get permission to fly your own drone/quadrotor. I'm assuming you also had to agree to their photography policy, which I'm okay with as I don't want pictures of me riding my bicycle naked across the playa showing up on Flickr.
There is a link to the gist in the tl;dr. I'll try and get a demo up in a few.
The bigger problem with "the worst mistake in the history of the human race" is that it ascribes a meaning and purpose to human existence. That is, there can be no mistake if there is no goal. What is the goal or purpose of human existence? There are many answers to that question, some more defensible than others, but there is no "scientific" answer to it.
Nice. To convey the scale better: that's the equivalent of flying twice around the world.
I've been developing on Chromebook for over a year using https://www.neutrondrive.com/

You can store and edit code on Google Drive or connect it to a development server to run your code.
BrainStorming HN: "All the single hackers"
Hi there hackers!

So my brother-in-law, after 10 months without being able to find a job has finally decided to be an entrepeneur. He is going into the "singles" and friendship building business (Real Life (tm) and on-line).

I think it is quite an idea, I believe nowadays couples tend to break and usually, one of them ends up losing friends and may feel a bit lonely.

So here are some questions for any of you that has experience with these kind of business (as a client or as an owner/worker).

- What did/do you like the most?
- What did/do you hate the most?
- What did/do you find helpful?
- What did/do you miss the most?
- What did/do you prefer on-line or real life?
- How much will you pay for a dating/friendship service?
- Other questions?

Please feel free to add so many extra info/experiences as you wish.

Thank you =)
How Tinder Hacked Marketplace Growth (+2 other strategies)
> It's easy to forget how unintuitive setting up static hosting on S3 is (bucket policies, ugh).

Yeah, exactly. There are a lot of services available for this, but precious few really nice ones.

> So I guess your real competition is either (a) GitHub as that becomes more accessible to non-developers or (b) traditional FTP-accessible web servers. There's definitely room for improvement in both.

It'd take a pretty awesome GitHub mac app to really sell me on GitHub's appeal to the general public. Even I find that, since I'm working with an app like Hammer for static sites, it breaks my workflow to have to go into the Terminal and type Git commands.

> (One of your competitors has a really neat feature that magically makes static web forms work -- https://www.bitballoon.com/. This seems like a great feature that really sets a hosting service apart from a FTP-accessible web server. Making a contact form is non-trivial, much more so than using FTP IMO.)

Yes, I've just checked it out. Definitely a useful feature and something we've often considered. Good to have some competition, I guess.
It must mean a lot to them.
I use Bitlbee as a unified messaging platform and it works great for me: http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html

Obviously it's a little neckbeard-ey but once you get it setup, it's awesome to have AIM, FB, Google Chat, HipChat, Campfire (and any other Jabber account) all in one little box.

The only thing it's missing for me is iMessages support.

You can also wire up Twitter with it, but I found it too tricky to parse tweets without avatars / inline images, etc.
Seems like a case for an "accelerator" that only exists insofar as it vouches for otherwise-self-sufficient startups and has access to the portfolio package. Kind of like how CDBaby works/worked as a label on iTMS. (Or kind of like libraries getting subscriptions to scientific journals for the benefits of their patrons.)
tried to but couldn't find the email form. wayyyy too much clutter on that page.
It will also hopefully help more people to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities, rather than selling them on the black market. A pat on the back is nice, but nothing says thank you like cold, hard cash!
I like your humility! If only more HN users could be more humble like this.
Visualising the AngelList Syndicate social network
If he'd kept one foot in the codebase - he might not have made so much money - but his software legacy might have turned out differently.
> Sees like the government is terrible at building anything, especially when contractors are used to do the job.

Strange to contrast that with a tremendously active and efficient era of public works from the 1890s through the 1950s. Just thinking of New York City, I suspect that the total cost of all the bridges, tunnels and highways (adjusted for inflation) might add up to a lot less than the 800 billion USD that disappeared into our recent stimulus bill. What changed?

edit: Apparently the Brooklyn Bridge cost ~15 million USD to originally construct, which now would be somewhere between 300 million to 400 million USD (http://historical.whatitcosts.com/facts-brooklyn-bridge.htm). Even though these are rough figures and inflation over large time horizons isn't a perfect measure, I'm still astounded. The government's totally broken healthcare website cost more to build than the Brooklyn Bridge.
Gates is one of those rare people who is at a time a good developer, good manager and a cunning businessman. I started to appreciate him after watching Triumph of the Nerds documentary series. I literally loled for 5 minutes after watching Gates in an event parodying IBM which was organised by Jobs http://youtu.be/riyAe4BKAng?t=20m1s.
fantastic, really like this series that shows people going beyond the early "i have a technology insight that'll work well" to leading the business.

thank you.
It's comforting to know there's hope :)
Forgot to mention I tried it on half a dozen latest gen phones and even a couple of SIM cards from T-Mobile just to make sure. Even my phone plan was refreshed in the backend to make sure it wasn't some accounting/admin related issue. The radio frequencies probably isn't the problem but it might not be a general issue that appears to 100% of their user base. Just gotta figure out why the hate me :D
This is a huge payout. It's my assumption for such a big payout this security researcher was able to develop or extend upon some of the advanced exploitation techniques we see today.

I think, for such a huge payout, and for what they said they would pay this amount for is a _new_ tactic to defeat Microsoft's DEP[0] ASLR[1] and ROP[2]. All of these defence mechanisms have been broken before, but as I mentioned Mr. Forshaw has probably developed a novel new technique to defeat these checks.

Lastly, and probably least likely, I know academia and MS Research have been working on ways to sandbox applications. It's possible he has developed a way to break out of the sandboxes.

All of this is speculation, I hope soon we will have access to what he was able to accomplish.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASLR
[2] http://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/enhanced-mitigation-experienc...
Lots of ideas, not a lot of products.

Niche? :)
Surprised they didn't mention the all-time fiasco of the FBI's disastrous $170M Virtual Case File project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File
interns are just as important as full time. Any one interested in helping a company to grow is considered important.

I did send n email back and asked to clarify the "you had an interview with us" part nicely.
W3Schools is hardly a good reference for anything, but they even tell you why you shouldn't take these stats and extrapolate/generalize.

>From the statistics below (collected from W3Schools' log-files over a period of ten years), you can read the long term trends of browser usage.

These are the browsers that hit W3Schools, a site for people that need quick reference when making webpages, not across the internet.
Another possible conclusion from your analysis is that a proper architectural separation of concerns (which could allow one to bang out code like he's still on that plane) has not been practiced in Windows, and by the time Bill was offered the opportunity to code something in Windows it was already hopelessly entangled.
The relationship between government and business, the much more short term approach to making money for businesses and individuals, a loss of the concept of "public good" or "common good".
That is correct. Netflix streaming requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription.
My up-votes for you good sir!

Honestly, the ability to share a game with family & friends without ever having to exchange physical media would've been a killer feature.
This one looks more related to www.getinsured.com than the obamacare. I accuse you of the Title is misleading and to get more karma :).
They probably had to also touch on the fact that many of them will be flying FPV (first-person-view) with a headset, so dealing with those if they're recorded as well (most aren't, so probably a non-issue).
So that's why everyone uses NTFS...
WRT to CMS statistics, obviously the government never lies, especially with statistics.

As for what I'm a beneficiary of, since I started making serious money about when FICA taxes were massively raised in the early '80s (with the significant surplus going to the general budget, of course), based on my current health and genetics it will likely be at least three decades before I'm costing the system at net. Much longer than I expect the government to be able to keep all these balls in the air.

As for what I'm arguing for your uninsured family members, it's that Obamacare is not a solution (e.g. more likely to be access to a waiting line than healthcare), not that they shouldn't get insurance. The latter is pure hateful strawman fantasy, but I suppose par for the course of someone who suggests my opposition to Obamacare is born of racism.
It added very little to the value of the story. Clearly Jeff could have found him if he wanted to.
It's the second most used by a few percentage points, and in recent months trends have actually reversed -- Chrome is losing share and Internet Explorer is gaining.

http://www.w3counter.com/trends

(The bump in the Safari line was the inclusion of Mobile Safari in the Safari share statistic)
Ask HN: What is going on today? Top 3 posts on HN are about Microsoft.