skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side of that is that people who don't provide that information are going to be grouped into a pool of relatively high risk people and be forced to pay higher bills. And the incentives line up such that, if you're better than the average non-sharer of personal information, you'll be significantly better off switching to being a sharer, which in turn increases the risk profile of the remaining non-sharers. And the cycle repeats until no one can afford not to share all their information.

And the same cycle will push insurance companies further and further into your personal life. Oh, you play video games a couple hours a week? That's $15 extra/month. Oh, you prefer watching football to watching the Wire? We'll ring you up for $5 extra/month. You're gay, that's $10/month. You married a person with an above average BMI? Well, that puts you into a higher risk profile, you'll see the charge on your next bill. Look, Aetna's new monthly offer: a purely voluntary opportunity for you to lower your insurance bill by up to 30%, just by installing a chip into the base of your skull and video cameras throughout your home, all paid for by the Company!

And the insurance companies that don't do this will face higher costs and lower profitability, eventually pushing them out of the market.
Looks interesting. My main concern with something like this is that my accountant won't be able to work with the file it generates, or will charge me more to do so. My accountant, like most others, speaks Quickbooks.
Really cool. Save doesn't seem to do anything?
> The company says, it has to pay you $5 per hour or they couldn't employ you and it isn't even lying. You say, you can't work for a wage below $10 per hour and your reasons for this are valid, too.

The price of labor just like any other price in the free market economy is determined by supply & demand. So they need you for $5/hour. You know you are worth (i.e. can easily get) the same job for $10/hour. The capitalistic/free market way of this to work out is that you go working for 10usd/hour this way rewarding competent guys who can built cars with profit to pay you your rate and at the same time penalizing incompetent company that can't build cars with profit. At the end this means the incompetent company should go bankrupt and resources it was holding hostage - workers, machinery, real estate, steel that they used, etc, etc. can be bought on cheap via bankruptcy process by competent companies that will put all of that to better use.

That's actually what should happen in 2008 with the banks. The incompetent banks that were lending all this risky money to guys without checking if they can ever repay, should go bankrupt - Citi, GoldMan, you name it. Then via baknruptcy process they would free up a lot of workforce, a lot of bank branches, office space, etc. to be bought by competent banks on the cheap (it's bankruptcy after all) and put it all to better use. 3/4th bank from Ohio - its CEO - knew about the housing bubble in advance. He was cautious. If we allowed the market forces to work he - a competent banker - would be the one who would buy on cheap / take over assets of incompetent morons like Paulson ex-CEO from Goldman. That's how free market economy works. This transition period - when people loose their jobs, etc due to incompetent morons CEOs - is horrible. But the things get reassigned and after some time people find work at competent banks that make sense. Instead, we got Paulson and other incompetent loosers convince the Government that they - incompetent CEOs - should be bailed out by tax-money. They told a few fairies about the end of the world that will happen for sure if they go bankrupt. The same was repeated by politicians and TV talking heads. And here we go - competent banker is taxed to pay to incompetent bankers do they can do the same mistakes all over again. Just one thing - please don't call this motrosity capitalism. It isn't.
I think the Six Hats Method of meeting organization could be applied to thinking which allows for some free form and some structured thinking.

I highly recommend it. It's an old book, but a good one.
I always wondered how old Pinocchio was. In that Disney movie he exhibited this behaviour, so now I know he was the human equivalent of between 4 and 5 years old.
Lowercase is small caps.
Aviate: A new Android Launcher
The new certificate does not offer Forward Secrecy https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=liberty.lavab...

Does this not mean that the NSA could patiently log all the traffic going in and out of the site over the next few days, then get a court order for this new SSL private key, then decrypt the traffic they collected?

I may have misunderstood, but doesn't that make this something of a trojan horse? Many users will login and try to download all their email, and for everyone who does, when the NSA (very likely) get a court order for the new SSL key, they'll have that large amount of private email everyone tried to copy from the site?
I understand what you're saying. My hypothesis is that (some version of) Lisp itself, being a tree, could be interesting to visually edit. All my code, by the way, can be directly accessed from Racket (and vice-versa), so it's definitely not a requirement that the whole program be written graphically. I want to make it a smooth transition from textual to graphical programming.
Oh no, the units! I had to go watch the interview to make sure Musk said it right: $600 per KWh, not the silly $600 KW per hour that is written in the article...
thanks! will definitely take a look at it
This is the exact reason I dropped Calc this semester. My math background already sucks and I fucked up early and fell behind fast. Makes more sense to not fail and learn on my own before trying again.
Presumably the court might interpret that as equivalent to destroying the evidence they're seeking?

Maybe if he destroyed everything apart from the one user account they claim they want access to?
I created an account and entered the promo code. Will the credit in my account expire? I'm asking because I'll only have time to play with DO in a couple of months.

Thanks!
Do you have a rivalry with the Montessori?
Very happy about your input! :)

I think you got a very good point there regarding the impedance mismatch between native and js apis.

Really enjoying the uvbook, this got me sold on the libuv api. After skimming through the source and being happy that libuv is indeed just a very thin wrapper around posix, I just integrated libuv with my project and will base all bindings upon that.

Thank you very much!
I wouldn't trust this. The government could be running the site now. It's happened before.
Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian
At least they signed on the line before the news broke. And hope that it was a cash-only deal, since the value had probably dropped once that went to the wire.
http://www.reddit.com/r/mathgifs
OP did increase their liability. But do we want to track right and wrong down to that level? Do we want to be that uptight and excruciating?
When society's systems get too efficient the potential for tyranny gets get ever higher. Compare efficient colonizers like the English vs sloppy ones like the Spanish. Indigenous groups are far more of a presence in the countries where the latter ruled vs the former. That's not an accident. The weak administrative skills of the Spanish authorities gave enough space for the natives to not be completely boxed in, even though in general they could be more unjust than English colonial governments. Inefficiency is a safety valve, it gives hope when real justice can't be found. The injustice here being not being part of a proper health care risk pool the way the citizens in every other civilized country are.
Glenn Greenwald Leaving Guardian To Create New News Organization
18-foot-long oarfish carcass found off California coast
Some of those developers might be furloughed at the moment... nobody to fix the bug.
You probably won't reasonably run most of these applications in your frontend framework either.

Also, the example was the Twitter frontend. So I respond to Twitter frontend. Don't derail.
Github is a lot bigger than just helping developers now. Rendering CAD files, Visualizing CLU maps. Github isn't working just on improving the developer experience. They're working on improving the entire collaborative process. I love that now they're helping even government be collaborative.

Just because its not focused on code doesn't mean you can dismiss it as "some intern" project.
A few more alternatives:

- http://gandi.net

- http://brightbox.com/

- AWS S3/Cloudfront (for static sites)

- http://wordpress.com
ledger should work wherever there is a unix commandline: http://www.ledger-cli.org/
Do you remember the US and EU antitrust cases against Microsoft?
The country is incredibly beautiful and the Russian people incredibly resourceful considering the living conditions. Another trait of Russians is the importance of status and pride which results that we tend to keep face even though the conditions we live in aren't reflective of the lifestyle we try to portray. I was born in Russia and have lived there for a large portion of my life. While my direct family was relatively well off we've had our fair share of misery in the family. To get back on point, whenever we had visitors my parents would prepare the best meals even though there was a scarcity of food, but being hospitable to guests was more important than the possibility of not having food for the rest of the week. My point is that visiting Russia can be a distorted experience compared to actually 'living' there.
I user appharbor.com . Pretty good provider for .Net.
What was weird about Network Solutions was that they were much more expensive than their competitors, yet much worse than their competitors. I didn't know anyone who used them, and I'm surprised to learn that they still exist.
So what if it's not absolutely new? It's new to the people in their specific context and _appears_ to be producing results, again, in that specific context. Very little of what we do is new, but still has merit when applied in a novel way or a novel context.
The actual article is on Buzzfeed, so it was DOA when I posted it. Here's a tweet + link to it. :)
1000 Responses to Java Is Not Dying
Sometimes tumblr has interesting gifs: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/math-gif
The thing is to stay secure you need to re-encrypt the whole file. Otherwise you will get this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operatio... That's why encfs uses the second mode in the list (chaining).
How to Reverse a String in Place in C?
Fastly Introduces Historical Stats
> If your Yubikey dies, your 1Password vault is toast. This is a bad idea and doesn't really add much to your level of security.

I can't speak for 1Password, but in general you can have more than one yubikey so that doesn't happen. I have a couple of backup keys in case something goes wrong myself.
Developers oriented project management: Take the first task
Nope. It's play-acting. They are learning the question/answer role. You can tell this by the simple fact that a rampaging 3 year old is not listening to the answers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in the unschooling/homeschooling camp, but this isn't evidence of enthusiasm. :)
All with source code:

http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/gallery/animations/

http://www.piprime.fr/developpeur/asymptote/animation-asy_as...

http://www.marris.org/asymptote/animations/index.html
Considering that developers are usually the ones that recommend hosting decisions to their clients (since the clients generally have no clue about who to go with), they just chopped off the main artery of their business with this sale. Kudos to the MT founders, but GoDaddy just overpaid for something that might be a skeleton company within a few months.
On taking a break
The vast majority of them are cases where some code starts getting deopted by v8 and dropping into the low-performance interpreter-equivalent mode in the runtime. There are hundreds of ways to trigger this and the list changes regularly.

In practice when it's big enough to demonstrate with a test case, the reports look like this:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=261468

"It's slower than it used to be, I can't tell why."

Part of the problem is that the profiling tools aren't precise or reliable enough to show you what got slower (in fact, opening them changes performance characteristics dramatically). So I end up having to attach a debugger and launch Chrome with special undocumented v8 flags to get it to dump things like traces of optimization attempts and failures, and then try to figure out what cryptic deoptimization causes like 'check-maps' mean in practice for my code.

There have been a few specific cases where the VM started relying on particular characteristics of objects, and that caused my code to deopt. I remember that at some point it became the case that putting a method named 'apply' or 'call' on any object will cause calls to those methods to become incredibly slow in V8; for some reason at that time X.apply() and X.call() were special-cased to always assume that they were Function.apply or Function.call, so if they weren't the optimizer bailed out. Funnily enough, this also applied to Function.bind() - if you called .bind() on a function, the result would have special .apply() and .call() methods so using the result deoptimized your code. I don't know if they ever fixed that problem. I renamed all my methods to avoid it and removed most uses of Function.bind.
D3.js Mapping Training
I wonder how this will affect Chrome / Firefox share among Mac users. Reading the Mavericks details on Apple's website, they make some claims about Safari's performance that were surprising to me ... But believable if the nitro enhancements are vast.
Record your terminal and share with the world
Show HN: redset, a simple tool for managing distributed work in Python
Really bad analyse done by a person who haven't even bothered to find about basic psychological typing systems like MBTI or The big five.

Personally it seems that he describes TI (Introverted thinking) and then label "flow" as TE (Extraverted thinking) or SE (Sensing Extraverted).

Point being, their exist more then two ways to reason about making decision and living life. To me the author comes about as extremely self-centred and self-importante since he hasn't even bothered to look at the field of his topic.

He totally forgets to take account of feelers, people who make decisions based on how they will feel or how other people will feel after a decision.
Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round
Kenneth Lay didn't do such a great job either.
> Are they wrong? Did you not just increase their liability by 0.001%?

If people with lower risks didn't pay for people with higher risks, there'd be no insurance market.

If you can perfectly predict what's going to happen to someone - and you charge them all exactly what it's going to cost, + your overheads, then there's no reason they should buy insurance rather than putting the money into an investment plan. Actually they'd probably be better off with the investment plan.

Insurance is like gambling, what does the insurance company know that you don't? What do you know that they don't? If they get really good at predicting your health, then being accepted for an insurance scheme would be a really strong argument to do something else with your money.
> Facebook and Twitter already run photos posted on their sites through a Microsoft-developed system called PhotoDNA in order to flag those who match known child pornography images... "Every time you upload a photograph to Facebook or put one on Twitter for that matter you are now ratting out anybody in that frame to any police agency in the world that’s looking for them,"

This was news to me. Jezus, everyone on every photo?
With the increasing popularity of the "aquihire" exit strategy, I'm not surprised that "pitch guidelines" encourage discussing the team so early.
But if that's true then it applies to shareholders and execs as well. Should we change their compensation plans? Yes there will be competition over the profitable projects and that's how it should be. Projects without profit don't exist. If the project doesn't have profit then the company wouldn't allocate budget. If they allocate budget then the project is profitable. It is up to the project leaders to have the fight and justify budgets if it's not that obvious.
Retarget Mobile App Users with Facebook Custom Audiences
Interesting.

One issue I can see is that the service would likely provide tell-tale signs of it being used, either because of implementation flaws or just having a totally fuzzy purchasing pattern is itself a very distinct indicator. Insurance companies could then run risk profiles on people who use that kind of service, and it's possible/likely that users of that service would be unhealthier than average, resulting in higher premiums. Then the most healthy users of the service would face strong incentives to not use it, which further drives up its associated risk.
Destroy the key immediately after the 72 hours?

EDIT: And hope the relevant courts are not running during those 72 hours?
Survata (YC S12) powers surveywalls on publishers like magazines and news sites around the web.

Edit: For disclosure - I'm a Survata co-founder
I assume, since you commented well after spartango, that you read spartango's comment and my reply. To repeat, "I don't dismiss the whole of the article, but I do dismiss its premise event."

Also "My takeaway was that they tried to present some idea as universal", is a takeaway from social science research, not the article.
Why did you use images of the font on your demo page (rather than using it as a web font)?
HostEurope and happy with it.
Nope. http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
Honor and Dishonor
it would be nice if this was hosted on a server

I tried to do something similar but far more basic with

http://domain2ip.net

But something like yours would be nicer.
No tcl is nice. It's expressive and functional. I love not having to use the shift key every two characters for expressions. upvar/uplevel are awesome for creating new language contructs and meta programming.

People ditched it because it wasn't cool, but it got the job done and remains useful and succinct.
Quick and simple implementations of useful applications. Thanks!
Have you tried doing nothing over a long time? I'm not a smart person, and it felt bad. At first its feels great, Sitting down at couch, playing video games, eating and drinking what you want.

Few weeks pass, and you became bored and un-stimulated. You start to crave novelty, and curiosity. You pick up a book, you watch educational videos and so forth. Except its self directed. You become addicted, to some activities because your doing it for internal values, not external pressures. This is how I mastered subjects. This is also the point when a teacher becomes truly useful, because they will working with you to feed YOUR curiosity rather than following a set standard.

Most people do this.
Is this what happens today with car insurance? I don't think that's the case. Insurance companies offer "good driver discounts" all the time. What's the difference?
Show HN: The Pond - My platform-agnostic HTML5 game
Don't Try to Become an Xbox MVP and You Might Get it
Just interviewed an 8-time Xbox MVP who says he's never sought out the award ever and just keeps gaming like he always has and for whatever reason, the folks in Redmond just keep noticing.
This is wonderful. Where do you get your tax codes? Any plans for an API?
I think that part of the value people see in things like NaCL is not having to rely on JIT magic to figure out when to optimize 64 bit math. You get direct control over what is going on. It may be true that in certain edge cases the JIT can actually out-perform clean native code, but people are willing to sacrifice that for direct control over what the machine does.

GC is a related example of a place where VM designers told us not to worry ourselves, but it turns out that GC is inherently hard and you are going to pay for that convenience - either in performance or in memory. See: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow....
In some ways the Greece culture and politics can be compared to Russia's. In most cases they cannot however.

What's interesting about the Olympics example is that the amount is 3 times more than the previous Olympics. And I can assure you that that is not because everything is 3 times more expensive. The majority of this funding ended up in the pockets of corrupt politicians and their business friends, not reinvested in things like infrastructure, providing jobs and uplifting the economy as a whole. This is exactly where the article is spot on and why one of the most important roads in Russia is still an embarrassment of civil engineering.
How to Model Enterprise Cloud Computing Costs
http://intothecontinuum.tumblr.com/ is my favorite
Majority of US fast food workers require public assistance, study finds
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends."

Anton Ego, Ratatouille
Wow, the design looks much worse than I would have expected from LinkedIn.
I know that conflict is the less civilized side of civilization, and that HN generally is opposed to it (as sane people are), but a discussion of societal development would be lacking without an honest consideration of where the civilized components break down.

I would suggest Musashi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings), Clausewitz, Influence of Seapower Upon History (Mahan), and of course Sun Tzu. While some are more specific than others (Musashi is actually about swordsmanship specifically, but conflict generally) they all have insightful things to teach.

For a broader discussion look at Bobbitt's Shield of Achilles. He still has a significant portion on conflict, however it is also a discussion on the interplay of technology, legal development, and conflict.
Philadelphia is a great city for open data/open government. There's a Chief Data Officer and a pretty active Code for America brigade.
My friend and I write a physics/art/geometry/math blog with gifs for illustrations: http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/ - denser posts, but hopefully fun. (Here's also a list of posts, since they're so long that the blog can be hard to browse: http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/tableofcontents )

I also recommend http://blog.matthen.com/ (tons of math gifs with source code) and http://visualizingmath.tumblr.com/ (lots of gifs and other images along these lines).
How terrifying will it be when the government is the sole provider of said insurance with IRS enforcement of its rules? It will be like the NYC BigGulp ban on a ridiculous scale.
Skip 9 but you have 11? Obligatory "this ladder goes to 11." Really, what's the point of removing a wrung on the ladder if you're only going to put it back at a different/higher place. You could have steps 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and then say you've removed 5 different wrungs but have you really?
This method reminds me of Michael Scott's "trick" to remembering names. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfW1G6Me5E
It's a spectrum, not a boolean value. Insurance companies will never get to 100% omniscience, that's silly. Nor will lower-risk people pay so little as to not offer an incentive for insurance to exist. Lower risk is not no risk.

Today the concept I'm talking about already exists in the form of good driver incentives, so the outcome you're predicting is already not how this plays out.