skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real way to solve this problem is to get the patients motivated and involved in their own care and treatment decisions.
In a free market, driven by true choice, patients have the responsibility of learning more independently about their diagnosis, treatment options, and their physician. By doing research, a patient may be driven to get a second or third opinion when faced with a diagnosis like cancer.
By utilizing healthcare savings accounts (HSA) and high deductible low premium insurance plans, patients are driven to find the best doctor with the lowest prices.
This is how the invisible hand works, choice and competition on each side of the market. The result- A decrease in price and an increase in quality.
wow lol, didn't expect that.
There is a reasonable argument that an adult ought to be able to deal with the pain, also an argument that adults are responsible for their own financial predicaments. I chose a child because I didn't want to go down those routes. Also because every ER visit I've been involved with has been a children's sports issue.
Trust but Terrify
Rather sad!
IMO, most people hold the described political view of being leftie in social and rightie in economic questions. To me the biggest challenge/question is how we can escape the current "local optimum" we are in in which you have to effectively choose between social and economic values (at least in the US).

It seems highly unlikely that we will see the emergence of a third party, so I wonder when either the Democrats or Republicans realize the potential of being a true centralist majority party. I tend to think that Democrats are better positioned, but thought that in the 2012 Elections, the Republicans had a great shot with Huntsman.
How about 5 family members in the same household within a couple of hours?
I am actually interested in hearing what your alternatives are. Opponents of ACA have been extremely tight lipped and/or vague about alternatives which generally suggests that they do not have any.

And just because a website rollout didn't go as planned does not mean that the program is fairing poorly. There have already been a number of key changes that have had a positive impact (a ton of my friends were able to maintain health coverage throughout the recession thanks to the age limit increase (26) for dependents). It's not perfect, but doing nothing was not an option simply because it would be a least a decade or more before the issue could have been addressed again.
Great, now craigslist is going to be filled with a couple real rooms for rent, the usual spam, and a bunch of "hacker" spam.
Yes: from the internal rather than the external threat (bad guy employee).

As tptacek mentions, breaching perimeter security from external is "game-over" in most cases.
I'm getting crazy random unread-mails badges on both dovecot imap servers and gmailimap...
iOS is growing, but the other parts of the respective markets are growing faster and are already larger.

Also, saying iOS device revenues are growing is like saying Freenode userbase and activity is growing... It may be true, but it is not indicative of the market, it just says that some more people are doing it than before.
> Please don't tell me that developing client apps on Windows was so much worse then doing it on Linux.

- Many Windows-only concepts (registry) hold key configuration data.

- Lack of a proper command line environment (somewhat covered by Cygwin, but not ideal). PowerShell is interesting, but, again, is very alien to non-Windows tools.

- No select-middle-click copy/paste (it's an incredible time-saver).

- Limited number of available languages and tools and the difficulty of integrating them (you have to add every install directory to PATH - unless you are running Cygwin).

- Case-insensitive filesystem (and some subtle bugs that it allows).

- It's almost impossible to open a tempfile and delete it while you still have the file handle.

- No package management (you can't just "yum install" what you need)

- No package management (you have to bundle every dependency with your installer)

It's not bullshit. Unless you are developing for Windows only, developing under Windows is quite painful.
I can imagine an unethical candidate reposting a duplicate job (or several copies) and then replying "sorry, no thanks" to the competition.

This introduces an interesting dynamic: how can you verify that a post you're replying to is genuine?
Well that ended abruptly.
If you look carefully enough, we're all actually NSA sockpuppets.
In case your wondering, a slam dunk like that sounds like this: http://youtu.be/nNSf4KshCUI?t=2m27s
Great concept. Not sure it will work but should be interesting to see how it plays out!
Every actor I search for right now returns a "Not Found" message.
Modeling Data Streams Using Sparse Distributed Representations
The economist is further left than throwback traditionalist movements like Islamism or the US Evangelical Right, on the rightward side of the consensus liberal-democratic center, certainly right of socialist movements. It uses a sort of high-handed pseudo-objective tone but is actually highly political and opinionated.
http://www.google.com/humans.txt
http://facebook.com/humans.txt
> Who is talking about all medical expenditures? I am talking only about emergency room visits.

I said "my point is that [those situations] don't make up the majority of situations in healthcare" and you said "And I think that you are wrong, particularly when you consider this based on dollars billed by emergency rooms". I don't get the point of looking at a percentage of emergency-related dollars billed in emergency room visits. My point is that if less than ten percent of all medical expenditures are related to the type of emergencies where (to quote OP) you are "bleeding out in the middle of a street or who are delirious from fever [and] won't be acting with price sensitivity.", then that type of situation is not a primary driver of medical costs in the US, nor is it the most important factor to consider when deciding how our medical system should be run. A huge portion of health care expenditures are of the type where a person would act on price.
Was considering of doing a similar thing for accepting candidates for my house. My plan was to take all the responses, strip all references to locations, and then randomly send them to every listing in every other major metropolitan area. The one that got the most callbacks I would then callback. In the end, my roommates read through all the responses and I didn't have to do any work.
Do you have 5 minutes?
You can train cats to like this too. I knew a guy who would take his cat out for walks like a dog. It loved the attention and seemed quite happy wandering around looking at new things.
We saw this in action at the last Oakland Mayor's election. Now, if we can just set aside the qualities of Jean Quan (the mayor elected), it was interesting to see that the person who got the most first-place votes actually did not win. He was the "establishment" candidate, and both political parties were pretty pissed that the election had turned out unexpectedly.[1]

People may say that her election is a mark against IRV or RCV; but that's not the point! There will always be cases where someone incompetent gets elected. But the interesting thing in her case was that the groups who control the elections behind the scenes (PSUs, lobbyists, parties) were completely thrown off. Her election showed that it is possible for someone who is not beholden to the existing power structures to have a shot at election.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Quan#2010_Oakland_mayoral_...
Isn't it still a valid icon to indicate saving though? Is there another better representation of saving?
Henry David Thoreau on product marketing
So much of modern hiring seems like C. S. Lewis's comments about searching for your keys under the street lamp. There's a talent shortage, since everyone in the light has been hired. There's massive under underemployment, since everyone in the shadows can't get hired.

There's a few dozen billions to be made by the person that fixes the problem. I wish I could comprehend the scale of the problem - it'd be nice to be that person.
Nope, that's not how it works. Some other issue will be found and used to retroactively justify the vitriol. It wasn't misplaced, just mistimed.
I'll tell you what's going on. It's a nightmare to hire someone. All the reporting requirements, all the paperwork involved, all the taxes and insurance requirements.

I certainly don't want to actually hire anyone unless I absolutely have to, and even then I will get "independent contractors" or use temps if i can first.
Anyone having luck talking to people through XMPP Audio/Video with an opensource client?

It's ironic that Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, AOL, Google et al. use XMPP in one or the other proprietary form.

It's opensource, many awesome clients are available and yet people still choose possibly backdoored and definitely monitored and text-mined closed-source solutions. I don't understand why the usage of the open solutions is so low. Can someone explain?
The Unexpected Compensation Trends Of Post-Series A Startup Founder/CEOs
I always wondered if that was because the British media are full of students of English, while the US is stuck with students of journalism (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity). The latter seems to correlate with a delusion of grandeur.
When you have two sides, there is a 'left' and a 'right'; one can capture the middle, but it will still occupy its side. Unless either party significantly expands (25%-75%), or a large third party captures one far end of the spectrum, neither Democratic or Republican can legitimately claim to occupy the center.
Source-based distributions have their advantages but for me the biggest disadvantage is the wasting of my time.
Progressive enhancement is a real thing and as the browsers start to implement native support for the rest of Web Cryptography API the situation will only improve. We have to start somewhere.
So why use their service then? Stand up your own database and use that.
You mean... If you make yourself sound like a somewhat normal and interesting person people will want to live with you? I don't understand how this was a breakthrough for you.
Google Hangout HD mode is a wider view. If you ratchet down the quality, one notch down from HD (the original view) is a narrower view.
i have a problem with people also, i have something like a thread running trying to analysing everything the other person is saying but not in a normal way, i just don't feel comfort, it like a threat i should defend by thinking very quickly, anyone else have this problem?
Excellent illustration of the fact that anyone who claims to be neither left nor right wing, is actually right wing.
I really like the idea of a "radical centre" even though it could mean almost anything.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this bad for performance?
We are looking into cancer research and general cell research from a software engineering perspective. It is very early stages but we have a cooperation with one of the major research teams at Karolinska Institutet.

With we, I mean http://www.muchdifferent.com, a non-profit that make 70% of our business by providing network tools for the video games industry. But we do all kind of stuff and most of it is not public yet. Anyway, when we started this "company" four years ago, it was centered around the same spirit you mentioned; taking talent seriously and solving really hard problems. We still believe in these things but we are a little bit exhausted. Venturing into cancer research has been refreshing and by recruiting the help of like-minded capable people, we hope to improve and be able to inspire our surrounding.
>What the OP was trying to point out was that free market economics can break down in certain situations, and health care is a prime example.

And my point was that such situations account for a very small percentage of situations in health care. Most situations and most medical care expenditures aren't of the type claimed by OP. In other words, it's really not a prime example and many of the highest costs are things that people could decide on. For example, the UK will probably not offer treatments that cost more than about $50,000/quality-adjusted year. It would be possible to offer insurance in the US for substantially less if insurance companies could sell a policy that would stick to that, and many people would take probably buy them (many people choose not to even buy insurance currently).
So this is why our app broke yesterday. We've spent the last 24 hours wondering how our AWS key was removed. Thankfully I was able to learn about this via HN. Still waiting on a note from MongoHQ. And when we went to file an issue with AWS there was no Premium Support option.
Thats a pretty sweet way to utilize startup strategies you have learned on the job to benefit you personally.
Great looking service and landing page, if you ever want to swap notes on WebRTC hit me up - we've been using it in production for 6 months now!
Guess not. Care to explain? Or is the whole joke just a "Ha! Nice try, NSA! jkjk"?
Impulsivity predicts much of criminality. The research says that "Have you ever gone to jail?" is a fairly sensitive test for ADHD. Low IQ also predicts criminality, but impulsivity also predicts dramatically lower IQ, so the arrow of causality is unknown. The people being convicted by the codebreaker are probably quite neurologically different than the average person.
Didn't know about Activate, I normally use Squerly or Slick. Thanks
Compensation Trends Of Post-Series A Startup Founder/CEOs
This made me think... Is that a misfeature or bug in the compression algorithm? Why wouldn't the video codec adapt appropriately? If lower res causes a more even and smooth image, why shouldn't it scale down?
200 for a POST, 204 for a GET.
You can call Mossadeq a lot of things, but democrat is not one of them. He was perfectly happy to cook Majlis elections in his favor.
Let me propose to you a similar claim, presented from a different angle: you are not automatically entitled to any revenue for something you created and published on the Internet. Even though you slapped ads on your site, that doesn't mean users must interacts with those ads in a way that will prove you with revenue.

The one way to ensure that anyone who uses your site will provide you with revenue is to make them pay for it. There's nothing inherently wrong with that: it has its pros and cons, like every other business model.

What I'm trying to get across to you is the idea that the morality of ads and ads blocking isn't as simple and clear-cut as you obviously like to think. Calling people who use ad blockers leeches won't solve whatever concrete problem made you post such a bitter comment.

Here's a question for you: is it okay for me to go to your site and then, after the content is rendered, use Evernote Clearly (or some other readability tool) to re-render that content without any ads?

If not, why? Is it because Clearly is another program and you drew an arbitrary line at using software instead of, say, covering parts of screen with paper?

On the other hand, if you answered "yes" to the question about using a readability tool, then would it be "okay" if I used some tool that behaves just as if the ads were being rendered, but it doesn't render them? I'm guessing "no", because that starts to sound unethical. So how about a separate extension that auto-activates a readability tool after the page is rendered?

In other words, where do you draw the line? Or better yet, can you draw the line as clearly as you thought and enjoy your moral high ground? Or should you try to be more flexible and realize that you can't really have it all and there are always trade-offs in every approach you might take?

Maybe it just boils down to a realization that "all complex ecosystems have parasites" [1] and it's not necessarily a bad thing.

[1]: http://craphound.com/complexecosystems.txt
Assuming that browsers have implemented Web Crypto, how do you know you're using it and not an evil polyfill?
Nokia phone lost underwater for 3 months, still works
Most party-based political systems seem to stabilize in the form two parties. Which ideas these parties support is often pretty random and is often not self-consistent.
The Economist has held its editorial stance for over a century. Your language thus suggests that the print magazine was on its last stand even in the late 19th century.
IoT framework appears first on Rasbperry Pi
That's great idea! Standardizing on an interface that can be implemented by standard phones as well means there'd probably be much better and more widespread support.

I suppose they could even support the "small secondary screen" interface on phones without a physical secondary screen, by simply displaying its contents inside the lock screen.

I used to have a foldable phone with a small secondary screen like that as well; it really was nice, and would be even better if it didn't need a button-press to activate (e-ink or whatever), as turning on the screen is always about 80% of the effort when I just want to see the time... [they can't make the button too easy to press after all, to avoid accidental activations...]
I'm sitting in a chemistry lab right now, and this is pretty sorely lacking in anything that would make it remotely useful to a small academic lab, much less a larger corporate lab. The experimental write-up section is a joke, especially if you're going to make people pay for it. The fact that grams and milliliters are the only options when inputting a chemical tells me you have no idea what you're doing, and the idea that chemists are going to log in and enter the amount they took out of a bottle every time they weigh something out is ludicrous.
Who can guarantee objectivity? No one. That doesn't mean it is not possible to pursue it or even gain a good measure of it. Do you really believe it makes the Economist look partisan to support Democrats since 2004? What about before that?

From 1996 - 2012 it was Dole, Bush, Kerry, Obama, Obama.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/11/us...

Isn't it possible to support certain ideals no matter which party they come from? The fact that their proposals do not always align with specific interest groups supports a claim of impartiality.
We used UberX everytime.
It should be working again in a minute or two, sorry for the inconvenience.
A better version: http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/29/a-look-back-at-apples-2013-ac...
Yea, we're on it :) https://github.com/driftyco/ionicons/issues/7
Saving being a distinct step is fading away.
Da truth, but expect to be hellbanned any minute now.
That should be in there. working on it, thanks.
I don't think so. With their track record it would take a devout optimist not to think "oh, Mail is bugging out again." At least that's my impression from maintaining dozens of servers with many thousands of customers running this client.
It really is, I've been fighting with it all day to get it to move mails from one folder to another. They reappear in the original folder immediately. It's driving me crazy.
This is pretty much the best short description of The Economist's editorial policy I've seen, though I don't think like you do that it has a pretense of objective tone. For one, literally the entire article you just discussed openly regards The Economist's editorial stance (i.e. bias).
The Economist paints itself as classically liberal, but this is something of a farce. They criticized Mises, sometimes called the last knight of liberalism, for his liberalism. And they have been consistently pro-war for the last decade. What is classically liberal about that? Not to mention they favour all kinds of economic interventionism - boosting demand by "stimulus" for instance, is one of their go-to suggestions for an economy in depression. Classical liberals of the 19th century would recoil in horror at the Economist's current "classical liberalism"
That Twitter popup every time you select some text is incredibly annoying, I wish they'd disable it.

I like to select paragraphs of text due to the higher contrast but here it's impossible since the 3rd click will actually try and select whatever box the Twitter button is placed in.
Sorry, employment data is classified for national security reasons.
There isn't a standard for RESTful APIs, which makes it hard to provide concrete standard for RESTful API docs.
I have a 2010 Prius, and according to the manual, this is precisely what happens if you push the power button while moving.
As far as I know, the "On" button is electronic rather than physical. The gearshift is also just sending instructions to a computer: it doesn't even stay in position after you've used it. And I honestly don't know how the break pedal works: it somehow swaps over from magnetic regenerative breaking to traditional friction brakes at some point, but I'm not sure to what degree that's electronic vs. mechanical.

All of these functions are electronic on the Prius (and indeed on every hybrid car that I know of that's on the roads). The balance between regenerative and regular friction braking in particular requires quite a bit of computer code and calibration to get right.
Hi moxie! First off, I agree with what you said. But I had a question about your observation.

Don't the same problems apply to any autoupdating system (including smartphones, tablets and computers)?

I've posted once before asking that Chrome and Firefox implement certificate pinning APIs for extensions/addons so that MITM SSL attacks can be detected. Maybe they'll see it now. :)
Here's a link for the lazy:
https://safesource.forbes.com/
I'd be wary of using this. There's no mention of their data retention policy.
Oh yeah. Not only is journalistic objectivity utterly nonexistent but the pretense thereof is angering and ultimately damaging to the quality and value of media.
> IMO, most people hold the described political view of being leftie in social and rightie in economic questions.

I think that, to the extent the economic half of that is true, its only on the very high level, where almost everyone holds what is generally held out as the economically conservative view of "government should expend resources only on those things which are essential government functions".

What distinguishes people rather radically is what they see as essential functions of government.

> To me the biggest challenge/question is how we can escape the current "local optimum" we are in in which you have to effectively choose between social and economic values (at least in the US).

Its not really all that difficult: having an electoral system that produces more proportional representation results in more than two viable parties and more than one main axis of political variation. This is well demonstrated among developed democracies.

> so I wonder when either the Democrats or Republicans realize the potential of being a true centralist majority party.

There is no advantage to that if you have actual policy preferences that are not centralist.

And there's a big disadvantage to it if political views tend to be bimodally distributed rather than normally distributed.
That quote appeared as a translation on an Iranian news site. Given that the Iranian government controls the media in Iran, it was reasonable to take the translation at face value.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070927213903/http://www.iribnew...

Furthermore, Ahmidinajad has made other antagonistic remarks towards Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel

Israel is a "cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut". - Ayatollah Khamenei

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/90...

Clearly not a propaganda conspiracy. But maybe it makes you feel better thinking that it is?