skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MR tech here. MR scanners could sure look better for kids. A few observations. If the kids parents are fine and not bothered by the scan (or act like they aren't bothered) the kid usually does fine. If the parents are begging for sedation from the moment they hit the front desk, it goes badly even with sedation (we don't do any GA where I work).
Claustrophobia is a funny thing and females seem to deal with it better than males. Females seem to tell us earlier in the piece and can then be coached though it. Males say nothing then freak out, and flat refuse to come back. I have worked at scanners in very poor areas and very wealthy area. The scanners in poor areas seem to have far fewer claustrophobic patients. The sicker people are, the less claustrophobia seems to stress them out. These observations may only apply in the areas (NZ) where I have worked.
The Medical Loss Ratio part of the law also helps with that. Used to be that plans paid 75% - 80% of their premiums towards care. Now they're mandated to pay 85%, or 80% for individual plans.

The other thing to factor in is that most of the people that are experiencing premium increases are on plans that don't meet the "minimum level of care" as mandated by ACA. Those plans that no longer qualify are often the types of plans that lead to the horror stories of people being kicked off of plans after becoming sick (rescission), lifetime maximum amounts, etc. Insurance companies were saving a lot of money due to those brutal practices. Part of the intent of the ACA was to eradicate those practices, which ultimately protects the people that were subscribed to those plans, and who didn't understand they were at that type of risk.

In other words, if you were subscribing to a crap plan, your premiums were artificially low in the first place. It's kind of a degraded case of the people that are complaining that they can't any longer go insurance-free. The law of the land now is that everyone has to participate, in order to help take care of our sick and injured - so that means that our insurance plans all have to have a basic level of quality.

I would bet that if you restricted your search to the people that originally had plans that met that basic level of quality (which is really not all that high), you would find that their premiums have gone down.

(Obligatory data point: I'm self-employed in washington, have had a Regence BCBS plan for $540, and my monthly premium will go down about $150-$200 / month for similar care.)
Just personal preference I'm guessing. They probably went live US side with Linode, and their DevOps is probably already built around Linode's API/environment, so it was easier to just spin up new gear in Linode EU vs AWS EU.
Yes, Linux is very cool in that respect. I really home Linux continues its long and relentless march.
We're human beings. We're social animals. Popular culture is just as real as nature. Popular culture is a popular way to connect with other people. And for your example of Fox News, while that certainly is toxic to society, the salient element of that toxicity is not the popularity.

The article is about increasing hyper-specialization to the point of extreme isolation.
I just started on #2 with Clojure ande F# experience and it seems really good so far. Now I'm really looking forward to reading it!
> Just want to add another data point, that here in Washington State, a comprehensive plan for my family is going to be around $600 less per month under Obamacare than what I can get right now.

I get your point and I congratulate you. However, please don't be prematurely happy, "because $600 less" is not what will fix you -- the coverage itself will.

Let's hope that when you need that coverage, you won't be treated the same way as ObamaCare website right now is. You see, before you could complain to your health plan, make a big stink out of it, even sue them, because there were private entity. When to GOV takes over, all you can is pray. Go ahead make a big stink that their system is broken, but don't be surprised to get heavily audited, for example.

My point is that I would prefer to pay even $6000 more knowing I will get the quality of coverage I pay for. I would not want to pay less to be hit with bureaucracy, abuse, lack of transparency and fairness the way government will serve me like they did with their website.
Freedom train to Stopwatching.us NSA protest on 10/26
It could be a made up story, but there is a drive through coffee place in Michigan where this happens every so often. they even have a radio station sometimes coordinate it sometimes to see how long a chain they can get going.
In what context would I want less accurate results from my arithmetic expressions? I mean, I have some numbers, I write an expression with them, and then I expect to get the most accurate possible result. Doesn't it make a lot more sense to let users specifically specify that a given expression is to be evaluated only using 32-bit float values, than to make everybody always cast every value in every expression to 64-bit float? I can tell you that having to sprinkle (double) all over your Java code (and then an additional (float) in front) to be sure you're getting the most available precision is pretty tedious.
Show HN: Code pastes in local storage, shared via Web Sockets
I thought it would be great to share code snippets without saving them on a server, so I created http://mem.pe

It allows you to paste code and save it in your browser's local storage. When you share the URL of the pasted code, other people will connect to it via web sockets. For example, this http://mem.pe/#sge/5 you will be pulling from my browser. I'll keep it open for a while.

If you close the web app, your code paste will not be available for anyone to see, until you open the web app again.

This is obviously, not suitable for using at forums and other places where the paste will have to be available for a long time. However, it is great for IRC and chats where you want to send a quick disposable link to a code snippet.

Available on Github at https://github.com/naturalist/mempe

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
But Mossberg at least gets the relevance of new tech... Pogue always seems to get on bandwagons when they are extremely mature.
It does seem that dismal failure is the most likely outcome.

I just read between the lines when I hear "law of the land" and I think there's NO way the administration is going to back down here. It is going to be interesting to see how things go down. Perhaps they'll just hire human agents to take the place of the broken site?
What a helpful, constructive, and non-judgmental comment. Upvoted both nkoren and beloch as examples of why I keep coming back to HN.
Proposed specification: CSS Books & CSS Figures
Sure, I agree we shouldn't neglect the needs of scientific computing. But we need concrete suggestions. It's not our intent to "neglect IEEE 754" (Graydon Hoare was on that committee!)

I haven't seen any concrete reason that eliminating implicit floating point promotion affects scientific code. Just use doubles if you want 64-bit precision. We match the underlying LLVM IR much more closely than C does.
In elementary school, I stood up, put my hand on my heart, and zoned out. I don't remember ever getting called out on that.

Then I started making extemporaneous variations that followed the meter but inverted the meaning.
They pick their hardware though, it's their device. You can't claim it's the drivers.

I still don't really get what they're trying to do with the surface. If I want a tablet, I can buy a nexus 7 for cheap and it's a superior tablet to the surface anyway from things that are important to tablets (battery, apps, ui etc). If I want a laptop, I can go buy a laptop and not pay for all the bells and whistles with a touch screen, odd hardware in the screen, etc.
An Open Source approach to One Time Passwords ( OTP )
Is there a video of these presentations?
And only 15 results for "fatherfucker" - this probably warrants a beefy post on Medium.
I honestly feel it's too late for BBM to enter the market. It would have still been fine if they released the app when they had originally planned. I think they delayed it by over a month and I have no faith in them.
Don't you think every single employee at NYTimes Co knows that?
-A formula such as INDEX or MATCH is shown as a box with an arrow coming in for each parameter of the function. Hovering over the box gives a breakdown of which cell is being looked up for each row.

-None of the content of the spreadsheet is uploaded.

-We're not looking at building the model as a tree right now but it's a cool area to explore.
Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz
Great job Ulrich, the best guide to start in the angular + rails world
It still boggles my mind that people are surprised by this. Mathematically, ...

Its an interesting social phenomenon, that large-scale opaque repricing of a commodity is met with opportunistic ~scalping. This happened accross europe during the conversion to the Euro. US consumers are probably rightly suprised.

Despite the expectations of economists that the euro change
over would have no effect on prices, European consumers perceived the opposite. To shed some light on this puzzle, we develop a model of imperfect information in which cheaper goods experience higher price growth after the changeover. Retailers, aware of consumers’ difficulties in adopting the new currency, use currency changeovers to increase profits by in creasing prices. The lower the price transparency after the changeover, the higher the euro–related inflation. Using data on inflation (Eurostat) and price levels (Economist Intelligence Unit), we show that although the euro changeover did not significantly increase inflation, it nevertheless had distortionary effect on prices. {etc}

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/dziuda/personal/...
My guess is that everything on a .google.com domain requires loads of security testing. This let's them put up a marketing site with out tons of auditing.
I general yes, but not in Motorola case. Google inherited that and could drop that patent aggressive stance from Motorola, but they didn't.
Ask HN: Can I visit your UK startup?
Hi! I'm a Dublin-based developer with a side-project. I'm planning a trip to the UK and would love the opportunity to meet other startups, see how they tick, and maybe trade demos :)

If you're interested my email is in the profile. Or you could just ask me to get in touch.
How My Father Generated $300,000/year of Retirement Income
Well it is Whitehat Security, so the website is not really a negative I would say.

But I agree ;)
Exactly! My mom had to take one recently (she is about 70) and she was sick with worry, had a panic attack inside the machine. The crude, no-nonsense manner in which the technician handled her was the main cause.

The cute pictures, etc. definitely help, at least with kids. But the real improvement would be a 5-min intro to the patient, perhaps a simple video clip, explaining the technology to put them at ease. Just reading his description of the response of the technician to the child's fear, you can see that it could have been handled much better.
not to be mistaken with… The Shield! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286486/
Android's Tips for Beautiful Icon Design Are the Opposite of Google's
By airboat on a thumbdrive that gives you the PO box where you can retrieve the encrypted CD with password to website (the password is "cat" and its already in a hidden field if you view source) that tells you how to call their IT department in Bangladesh who will give you unclear and contradictory instructions on how to use the RSA dongle who's key changes every 3 seconds and is 47 characters long. (RSA stands for Ron, Stan, and Adam the guys who wrote the "Algorithm" that generates the key. Its actually just 3 strings of random gibberish that rotate. (Adam's cat got on the keyboard and they thought it would be a nifty way to get random numbers)) Even if you managed to type all 47 characters in 3 seconds it wouldn't work because the strings don't match what's on the production servers, only "Staging" which isn't really staging, its dev, and dev is staging.
There have been protests, haranguing in the news, even an attempt to defund the NSA's metadata collection program which almost passed. What do you expect, molotov cocktails to be thrown at Congress? It's a big country and most people simply don't care.
Two reasons:

1. I mostly write graphics and browser layout code when I use floating point. I never want 64-bit precision. I want the fastest thing available, and I'm willing to accept some error. It's surprisingly tricky to get C to actually do 32-bit floating point arithmetic, and I suspect we may actually gain a little performance over existing browser engines with Rust here (probably negligible, but hey).

2. Wouldn't you expect these two expressions to be the same (assuming b, c, d are all f32)?

let a: f32 = b + c / d;

and

let tmp = c / d;
let a: f32 = b + tmp;

In Kahan's preferred semantics, they are not the same. This interferes with refactoring, complicates the language, and violates intuition, IMHO. Introducing temporaries without changing the semantics is something programmers should be allowed to do.
I have wondered for some time now if it is legal to develop tools and libraries that are relevant to an upcoming contract, but which are also general purpose and could be used elsewhere.
The compromise trap
Doesn't look like it's live in the Play Store yet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbm
I'm absolutely horrible at math... I think I graduated high school (my only schooling) with the equivalent of just above grade school in math... I can code no problem though. I'm very good at it. Anybody asks me math puzzles I say thanks for your time, but I am done with the interview.
>> Yahoo is getting 12,000 résumés a week from would-be employees.

Are there really 12,000 new applicants per week that would even be remotely qualified? Even if only half of those are technical job applicants, I find that hard to believe. Resume spam from everyone who's unemployed.
By "alone", the author may have meant without reaching out to people with a similar interest in video games at all.

If he did, his point would make sense. If he didn't, he missed an obvious point.
A New Carnivorous Mammal Species is Discovered in the Americas
"All you have to do is call free with every malloc and always keep track of your array size. Geez, people, it's not that hard!"
Which is why I said "articles like this" and not "this article." Your quote is correct. My comment was on the general scope of anti-surveillance writing.
I was on the verge of running them through `diff`
Webdev2.0 - review the latest gadgets
Illinois Court Rules Affiliate Nexus Tax Law Is Unconstitutional
Dat affiliate link ;). Only joking, you deserve it, this is great work.
Arguments in favor of working hard
You mean a trick to use cpp preprocessor to implement template expansion when C++ (or common compilers) didn't have templates?

Did this technique just expand the classes every time they were used (in the header file, just like C++ templates) or generated files for each concrete type parameter which was then just compiled once (like gotgo) ?
I think the key word there is 'every day person', which for most non-technical people means that they trust someone has looked after the problem, and may actually feel safer by paying someone to do so.
> I suppose it would be more reasonable to just compare it to a security firm though.

That's why the analogy is not interesting; the use of "mafia" is silly because it implies there's some criminal element to Google's intensions. For example, here's the opening line of that Wikipedia page:

> A protection racket is a scheme whereby a criminal group provides protection to businesses through violence outside the sanction of the law.

The only word this has in common with what Google is doing is "protection". The analogy captures nothing useful that "hiring a security guard" doesn't. But it also captures a whole universe of other implications that are entirely unwarranted and laughably unfair. It's a terrible analogy.

"You're just like a mafia don in that you also drive a car."

I should disclaim that I don't think the offering is above suspicion and criticism, just that the comparison to a protection racket is absurd.
AnnoTree - The Google Docs for Mobile Application Development
> I was joking about FTP.

Sorry then :)

> There is a difference in magnitude between the present day web session and the typical 1995 one.

I agree with that, just misinterpreted your post as a pile on against HTTP. Certainly HTTP/2.0 and SPDY are necessary to keep up with the complexity of today's pages.
With ACA you're still getting insurance from a private company and you can still sue them if you like.
Ironically, I have a feeling that this is falling off the front page so quickly because most people don't have the time/interest to read through a 6-page PDF.

I'll pick out the paragraph that sticks with me the most:

> Then again, perhaps we will simply adjust and come to accept what
James called “acquired inattention.” E-mails pouring in, cell phones ring-
ing, televisions blaring, podcasts streaming—all this may become back-
ground noise, like the “din of a foundry or factory” that James observed
workers could scarcely avoid at first, but which eventually became just
another part of their daily routine. For the younger generation of multi-
taskers, the great electronic din is an expected part of everyday life. And
given what neuroscience and anecdotal evidence have shown us, this state
of constant intentional self-distraction could well be of profound detri-
ment to individual and cultural well-being. When people do their work
only in the “interstices of their mind-wandering,” with crumbs of atten-
tion rationed out among many competing tasks, their culture may gain in
information, but it will surely weaken in wisdom.

I've recently become very aware of the cognitive load of popup notifications, phone push notifications, etc. I went for a week during which I turned off all of these, and once I turned them on again, I was surprised by how incredibly irritated they made me, not to mention much less productive.

YMMV - I just would like us all to make these decisions consciously for ourselves, rather than passively.
You used the term "gently fire". I was wondering if you could elaborate on how you "gently fire".
I'm calling it a "Series A(mazon)" round
I'd go as far as to say it doesn't get in your way at all except for verbosity, I just wish it were better and could do more. I'd love for the type system to prevent null pointers.

I'm only speaking from Java experience here.
Or worse, not you tell you anything, and in a few years you find out someone's been monitoring all the VPN traffic, INCLUDING YOURS.
Ah took a while, but I can do binary under pressure! Quite fun. :D
Interestingly, omitting infix operator overloading was something the language designers were forced to do for time-to-market reasons, and in hindsight, is one of their biggest regrets. I don't have the source, I think it was in a Josh Bloch interview.
Ray Kurzweil Says Technology Will Be Our Creative Partners
WorkFlowy. Super die-hard fanboy all the way elevenzes. Totally perfect combination of primary hierarchy plus tags and notes and the instantly-responding UI and search that make it pure gold. Good keyboard shortcuts as well.
Maybe you want to try this Angular YouTube interface http://toogl.es/
Evernote. I used to use text files for everything, but I'm a recent evernote convertee, due to their webnotes feature. Its so much easier to have an idea, then attatch web clips of all the images/sites that are associated with it for later on than to describe that in a text file.
So how long have you been working for Google?
Power Quotes on negotiating and inflicting pain: Trent Reznor and Tool
They really needed to make the original launch date to overcome the idea that they're constantly late in shipping. Many have a "believe it when I see it" approach to BlackBerry at this stage, and who would blame them? This is apparently a rolling release, which shows that they're being cautious. You also wonder if this release will drag out for a while, if something goes wrong this time, too.
Yeah I mean all those people who were broadcasting unencrypted information loud and clear to literally any device that receives wi-fi packets in the immediate vicinity, they have no culpability in this whatsoever!
Very interesting. Quick tip: change this submission to one without text linking to the website and update your frontpage with some headline quickly indicating what your service does. This could become big.
We have gone quite far off course but I thought I would summarise our polite disagreements which I doubt we will resolve:

1) How much effort it would be to introduce and support Vorbis over the long term. You seem to believe it is negligible in cost while I believe it is quite achievable if they wanted to do it but VERY far from free to support additional codecs.

2) Terminology. I don't like appropriation of words and think that terminology does matter. I was clear in an early post that I understood that the AAC/AVC/MPEG4 codecs are not free (or Free). I will continue to argue against claims (even implicit) that Open Standards are not open.

3) Innovation. Although I haven't responded to the point I don't see Vorbis as a significant innovation beyond AAC so I don't see Apple as holding back innovation by not supporting it. I don't see much innovation held back by the lack of Free codecs but perhaps you do.

4) "it benefits them to sabotage the industry and to hold back innovation" This is a really strange one to me. As (3) I'm not sure about the innovation. Also the idea that they have a duty to at their own expense (1) take actions that benefit other people seems odd to me. If they were using their own proprietary codec that would be different but I just don't see the duty that they are breaching.

5) My view is that there are advantages to the limited set of codec required to support virtually all devices that may even outweigh the disadvantages of them not being Free. This is probably our core disagreement. Until there is at least a factor of two improvement in coding efficiency it is unlikely to be worth making a leap in codecs. Vorbis, theora, VP8 all came too late (at least with hardware implementations) to win this generation and it is best that an open non-proprietary winner takes all. The presence of the Free codecs (and to an even greater degree VC-1 which at the time was pitched as royalty free) helped ensure reasonable licensing terms for AAC/AVC etc. (unlike MPEG4 part2/H.263) so for almost all use cases the cost of AAC/AVC/MPEG4 is negligible in business scenarios. (Shipping a free Linux distribution or other free player/encoder software is the only case that I can see being troubled but they mostly get around it by not including the codecs while making it easy for the user to obtain them elsewhere.)
It looks really nice, but there might be a problem for someone reading these notes who didn't actually watch startup school. For example in Watsi's section you write "Worst part about being a non-profit: Nobody says NO", that could be a sarcastic comment, or it could be a problem of too much funding, or it could be it's actually meaning that everybody actually says no, but just not to his face. Also, the starting quotes without ending quotes drive me a little crazy, but that's just a personal thing.
Hi Loren,

Gittip has made their application public too- https://gist.github.com/whit537/6723103

(Not my company)
Marmoset conversation
Hey, man....it's been an ISO/IEC standard since 2004.
>off of

Learn English, and then we'll talk.
Cyanogenmod used to provide this in the Gingerbread days, but they removed it somewhere around ICS/JB.

It was rumored that this was under pressure from Google, etc., but I'm not sure if that was ever confirmed.
So a competitor to CloudFlare (https://www.cloudflare.com/)?