skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm seeing indications that people who used to have what they thought were high quality, Cadillac plans are now having to pay much more for much less, e.g. this domain expert

My point is that aside from anecdotal evidence like this, are there any hard numbers about the number of people who had individual market Cadillac plans that will be replaced by more expensive, but lower quality plans? I bet that there are very few people (by percentage) who bought Cadillac plans on the individual market. I have a Cadillac plan which would cost $2000+/mo on the individual market if it were even offered (it has $0 deductible and $5 copays). I only have it because my wife is a Kaiser nurse. There is no way that there are large numbers of people buying these plans on the individual market, and if they are, they could afford it even if it increased to $3300.
Or how about a sort of dead-man's switch? Is that tampering? Everything you did was put into place before you got into trouble. Can you be charged with "pre-tampering" of evidence? Or how about "not untampering" of evidence?
Maybe http://1871.com/
Berlin is much cheaper than most of western europe or germany because of the long term economic effects of being part of east germany. A more apt comparison then would be frankfurt vs seattle or detroit vs berlin. Also expatistan just uses the expensive part of town
Oops, moved the Kudosbot reply to a comment and orphaned you! Sorry.
At least Amazon doesn't lose your servers.

http://www.informationweek.com/server-54-where-are-you/65055...
Ask HN: why was my front page submission suddenly removed?
I made a submission and within 20 minutes it was raising to almost 10th spot on the front page. Then suddenly it disappeared. Was I violating any guidelines?

this was the submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6649009
I wish Google would let me buy more than 20,000 songs. I haven't looked at my total count, but it's way over that, and there's no way I can see to buy more, even if I wanted to.
i want to know this as well!
I think the blue card is only for some restricted occupations (in tech, science, mathematics, etc.) and has a minimum salary requirement (of about 46k euros/year). Which shouldn't be a problem for the HN demographic.
Not quite, but everyone and his brother will be able to start issuing NFC 'cards' that work with existing contactless terminals. Think PayPal, Square, your favourite loyalty programmes etc etc.

And there's no need to negotiate/buy access to secure elements, or get involved with TSMs etc -- as long as the issuer looks after its own security.

This is going to blow NFC wide open :)
Ask HN: Are you using AngelList for recruiting?
I'm curious who out there is using AngelList for recruiting and what your experience has been like.

How are you managing candidates and the process after you've been connected via AngelList? Sticking with emails back and forth? Moving to another system?

We've posted some jobs and have received a flood of candidates and it's a bit overwhelming really to manage it all.

How are y'all solving this?
Skype has been progressively getting worse and worse with each recent release anyway. I had to have my mom figure out Google Hangout recently to video chat with her grandson as Skype has become totally unusable for video on my devices. With every release, more stuff that used to work starts failing.
They vary dramatically in quality (similar to high schools) and they are typically two-year colleges. For training mid-skill workers, they do a decent job. It is hard to really compare them to four-year colleges because they have open enrollment (anyone can go regardless of previous grades).

They also provide an affordable way of transitioning to a four-year college for the highly motivated and in some states, top-ranking high school students can enroll in community college to earn an associates degree their high school pays for putting them on an accelerated path.
It's still an extremely bad idea to have overly common key prefixes on S3 since it prevents balancing key distribution across their clusters.
So when the 6 liters is not enough to flush away the culprit then people going to flush 2 times, flushing away 12 liters instead of maybe 8 or 10.

Yeah, real improvement there...
You are not entitled to argue with everyone in every situation because you feel like you've got a clever point to make.

There's a time and a place for a discussion. That does seem to be hard for some people to understand. Yes, we all agree that some rules are stupid, but being a smart ass when 300 people are about to take off in a large commercial airliner full of fuel isn't one of those times.
Better idea: Buy a laptop when you get here, or have it shipped to you, and load it by downloading from the VPN. Upload your data before you return, and then Wipe/Destroy/Donate before crossing borders.
In retrospect of placing an order, I'm somewhat let down by lack of removable battery, if only that it's the only way I know for sure the device is OFF and not offering up my location for data mining by advertisers and spy agencies.
Coast to Coast in under 29 hours: new fastest drive record
"But ultimately, I feel, there is no satisfying answer to this question outside of religions."

*in regards to the "What is our purpose" question.

This has always been why I've been guilty of treating religious folk like special needs children on occasion. I don't think that religion's answer for that question is any more satisfying than ignorance. It feels like a huge life shortcut that doesn't help with the problem. Any time the answer is "Because God", it just means that the buck stops there, and no more thought occurs. How are we ever going to answer any of these important questions if we never devote time to thinking about them?
Why It's Scary To Be A Mobile App
Your argument is the kind of comment I can imagine being said by an army sergeant. "Only the strongest survive the training". followed by: "Wearing a skirt is asking for rape."
Michael Bernstein had a great talk on Distributed Systems Archaeology at RICON West yesterday. Video coming soon, but here are the notes:

https://speakerdeck.com/mrb/distributed-systems-archaeology
I think developers don't really need specs. If developers and PM sit in the same room they can do an iterative work and just implement the app without a spec. It saves time and you get into the details together with the PM.
However if you are working in a distributed environment, then I totally agree with you.
I looked it up, and it was 2048 x 1536, which is retina at 20", according to isthisretina.com.
I'm sure some will keep unofficial track, especially if the co-worker's absence impacts them - or they perceive that it does

Funny you mention that...I had a coworker who used to write funny emails to the team when he was sick. While searching my inbox to show one to my wife, I saw that there were 22 of them in a 2 year period (we only officially got 3 sick days per year). After that, I kept an unofficial tally.
It may not be a single-issue sort of thing. McGinn has not exactly been popular across a wide cross section of the local electorate, as anyone who has spent five minutes walking (or more likely ducking and running) through downtown Seattle can attest.

Comcast may be trying to kill the fiber project, or they may have some other reason for opposing McGinn.
Thanks for the link. That's really a shame considering they titled the post "Android for all" and made a big deal out of Kit Kat's small memory foot print. Memory has been pretty tight on my Galaxy Nexus, those optimizations would have been nice. I guess I'll have to wait for the modding community to get it working.
I use protopage.com and the same source. It's been staying up to date for me.
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So i placed an order for a 32GB version and then a 16gb became available. Now im unable to cancel the 32GB order and I get this error message:

"There Was a Problem
We are unable to cancel your order at this time. If your order is being prepared for delivery, you will receive an email shortly if you haven’t already. For further assistance, please visit the Google Play Help Center."

The orders are not shipped until Nov. 8, so this has got to be some sort of software glitch, but Im unable to find any info on how to contact support other than a link to cancel the order(that produced the original error)

Any advice?
CamFind Hits 1M Downloads And Releases Brand Recognition API
Can Silicon Valley save the Obamacare site?
Why would a new OS lower the price of the phones? Its the hardware that is expensive. In addition, in case of Nexus smartphones, it looks more like Google subsidised them, lowering the price.
There has never been an S3 limit. Some of our customers have millions of objects in a single bucket.

When you do something like this you need to make sure that you have a good distribution of keys across the name space, and you need to think twice before you decide to write code to list the entire bucket. In most use cases at this scale, metadata and indexing are handled by something other than S3.
No more than any other country.
You can install it from Play. It's straightforward.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Solar Energy for Data Center Equipment
Solar energy has become more competitive over the past few years as an electricity source.It is also becoming a cost-effective and eco-friendly way for companies nationwide to add supplemental power for data center equipment.
If you're within 100 miles of the border and being questioned pursuant to a border crossing.
If you'd like to donate to the mayor who is fighting for gigabit fiber for Seattle (and thus cancel out a portion of Comcast's donations), you can do so here: https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contribution.as...
A few expensive mistakes to avoid when you're buying AWS Reserved Instances
Not sure I agree 100% about them just following the money. Isn't there just as much earning potential now as there ever was for "America's best and brightest" on Wall Street? Maybe more accurately stated as them following prestige and social capital, since Wall Street has become decidedly less popular in public opinion since the mortgage meltdown.

Or maybe they feel more fulfilled in working for companies that "make" something, rather than just finding ways to turn some rich guy's money into more money.
> "The tricks to beat and spam Google, Whalen said, no longer work as well."

> It's gotten more sophisticated and therefore is more difficult

sounds like you agree
I know some people think that way, and racialize everything.

I admit that I just don't get this point of view. I really don’t. I aim, and generally succeed, at being as color blind as possible.

To me a person with a clean car and nice clothes is a person with a clean car and tidy clothes. I don't get surprised when that person turns out to be a black female or a white man.

Same thing with a person at the opposite end of the spectrum - i.e. a nasty car and dirty clothes. While one could stereotype blacks in this situation (“ghetto”), or whites (“hillbilly”), why would you do that?
How does it compare to http://nvd3.org/ ? Ember Charts seem to have much fewer chart types available, what are your further development plans?
From what are you ducking and running?
Can someone explain why Motorola Mobility wouldn't take over manufacturing Nexus devices?
Since I am not flying the plane, how could I possibly cause you to "lose your ass in an accident" because my attention is on Angry Birds? The emergency maneuvers performed by airline passengers require prompt obedience but not lightning reflexes. There'll be plenty of time to put down the Angry Birds.
Likely for the smart case you see linked on the bottom of the page - likely when a magnet is brought near it goes to sleep, and wakes when it's moved away.
I downvoted this comment because found the parent's comment more natural/conversational, and I believe you improved neither the sentence construction nor the comment thread.
"Android for most"
Facebook Mobile Domination
> Essentially N900 was the embodiment of the dreams of what Nokia could have been if it weren't for EVIL Elop and MS ruining everything, and that is why the device has small cult following.

Ok, I'll buy everything in that statement except for "Evil" Elop. Elop is not the cause. He is a symptom, partly of Microsoft's colonial attitude towards companies like Nokia (which is somewhat evil), and the complete ineptness of the Nokia board who a) approved Elop as CEO and b) got Nokia in such bad financial situation that they were forced to do (a) in order to accept Microsoft's cash infusion (which is pure ineptness and desperation).

Yes, Nokia's rank and file got shafted. But their leadership likely pulled nice bonuses for selling off their comrades and company.

Blame leadership when they sell you out.
Comcast has other serious challengers here in Seattle as well between CascadeLink (terrible website, but top notch service) and CondoInternet, if you can get either of those, you'll never look at Comcast again (between $30-60/month for 30/100mbit)
hipsters?
For those who think that possibility of using the speakers to transmit data from the air gap machine is too far fetched step back and look at ShopKick, they have been doing this for several years using iPhones and speakers mounted on the ceiling of stores.

http://teleautomaton.com/post/1478772622/ultrasound-whispers...
I'm just gonna leave this right here:

if ('en' === 'en') {
$('#desktop-nav .middle').append('<a class="liteac-login topnav myprofile" href="/marketplace/auth/global/en_US/myProfile#landingPage">My Profile</a>');
$('.mobile-nav-right').append('<a class="mobile-right-bottom liteac-login" href="/marketplace/auth/global/en_US/myProfile#landingPage">My Profile</a>');
} else {
$('#desktop-nav .middle').append('<a class="liteac-login topnav myprofile" href="/marketplace/auth/global/es_MX/myProfile#landingPage">My Profile</a>');
$('.mobile-nav-right').append('<a class="mobile-right-bottom liteac-login" href="/marketplace/auth/global/es_MX/myProfile#landingPage">My Profile</a>');
}
How to start JIT-ting
It was their homepage alternative. If you were logged-in to Google and had set that as your default, you could set it up with widgets containing blog feeds, clocks, games, weather, etc. It was a handy way to aggregate just the info you want in a single place, and was very customizable.

It was also called "iGoogle" as the widgets were very similar to those you'd find in a Macintosh desktop, but for various reasons they renamed it Google Personalized Homepage.

Here are a few screenshots:

* http://www.chrisabraham.com/GooglePersonalizedHomePageT.gif

* http://tgiftutorials.pbworks.com/f/1182451979/iGoogle2.jpg

* http://alwaysaskwhy.com/jameselee/blog/images/SCREENSHOT-Goo...

... as you can see in the last screenshot, they even offered the ability to group widgets into tabs.

More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle
I used to do side projects to earn extra income, but it became difficult to predict, and kind of a pain in the ass with invoicing, overdue clients, bug fixes, scheduling headaches (evenings and weekends working for mostly 9-5 companies), fatigue, family life, vacation time, etc.

The work dried up, partly "naturally", but also partly because I wasn't pursuing new work. I've been in a somewhat dead-state for almost a year, and have recently stumbled on two ideas that I've made my "passion projects". Neither idea has a (directly foreseeable) method of making money, but both ideas are near and dear to me.

I work on these ideas when I'm not too tired in the evening, or can find a stretch of time to concentrate on the weekends. So far it's hit or miss, but I'm progressing. One idea challenges me mentally, and has a near-epic scale result at the end of it's very long yellow-brick-road, it's a vision that in addition to all of my coding effort will take 10-20 years to come to fruition.

The other idea is effectively a CRUD system for a specific market demographic that's not being serviced the way I think it should be.

So far, neither is ticking, but give me time, and they will. :)
Show HN: mobile game similar to Set. Launched by two engineers
Hey HN! We're a couple of devs who've been working on this minimalist async multiplayer game. It works on iOS and Android on a variety of screen sizes. You can also play against friends in offline mode (and matches sync when you are online).

One of the cool things is ~80+% of it is written in Javascript (Coffeescript, actually). No HTML5 / CSS / iFrame, though. It's still very responsive and quick. Made development a LOT nicer - particularly because using an interpreted language meant we could hot compile; we threw together a node server to send JS to the device simulator.

Would love to hear what you guys think!
Just because this particular item isn't necessarily dangerous doesn't mean that it cannot potentially lead to a dangerous way of thinking.
One may as well ask why every time a judge issues a ruling, geeks everywhere shout "I know more about the law than you do, dumb judge!"
Compared to the 1GB in the iPhone? How much RAM were you expecting?
"The best and the brightest" has been a backhanded complement for quite some time now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest
Bah. Typical online store crap. Why the hell can't they do real pre-orders instead of running out of inventory. You'd think that Google would have heard of kickstarter by now and actually figured out why that sales model rocks.
Luxembourg? Switzerland?
Flights are unpleasant enough for me that try to find some mindless entertainment to make the time go faster. I'm too tall to comfortably use a computer in my seat (especially when the ass-hat in front of me inevitably reclines). I don't know when unapplied thinking dropped from my list of entertainment options...

I have a trip coming up next week, seems like it might be a good opportunity to try to do something a bit more useful.

Thanks for your original comment and the sidebar conversation that led me to realize it'd be a Good Thing to get back to it!
It's not about making clever points, it's about establishing and enforcing rules that make sense. It's about balancing safety and freedom in such a way that one doesn't get to trample the other for no reason. And some would argue that takeoff would be one of the best times to ensure that the rules you're following are well-supported. Call it "being a smartass" if you like, I call it "not being a dumbass".
How the NSA’s MUSCULAR tapped Google’s and Yahoo’s private networks
The "unlimited" data on that plan is only 500MB of HSPA speeds. The 30-dollar T-mobile plan only starts throttling after 5 GB of data.
I have 2.

Beautiful picture but it's 28hz @ 4k. This causes a "lag" between the mouse and cursor that is completely unbearable for me (not a gamer, I'm talking just web browsing / email / coding), and I've pretty much stopped hooking them up. Try adjusting your display settings to sub-30hz to see what it feels like.
Yes. But. The "owning a house" + "can't afford buying a new one when I want / need it" thing is the real point in my case :)
What's it got that the Nexus 4 doesn't have? I'm pretty happy with my 4, which I just got a few months ago. I suppose I'll wait for the 6. After that they're going to have to think of a new name because there's already a Nexus 7...
I'm assuming he means the Pike/Pine alley and Pioneer square, sadly famous for aggressive panhandling, unruly 'youth', and shootings. I live in and work in downtown (haven't driven in months) and it's def. getting a little more 'rough' by the month. Especially Westlake area.

(http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021614421_downtowncr...)
Interesting that the 24 inch is now 1920x1080 rather than 1920x1200 I guess I will be skipping the 24 inch.
The css and fonts are completely busted for me. FF24 on OSX.
I feel obliged to mention that I have an i8k and it's still working beautifully.
Another thing that's missing is whether the backlight is based on PWM(meaning flashing at some frequency) and what's it's PWM frequency, Because it causes some people headaches.
Are you joking? Or are you not in touch with what constitutes "expensive" for most Americans? My recent coach-class round trip from Kentucky to Washington state and back cost $500. That's expensive. I looked into business class for the same trip, and it was about twice as expensive. Didn't even bother looking at first.
Same at Brazil.
I think this is our 3rd or 4th attempt at making a charting library, but the first one we are actually happy with. Good APIs for charts are surprisingly hard to get right. It was actually one of our interns (https://github.com/raykyri) who did most of the work on rewriting charts. Open source libraries are a really great match for intern projects.
I have had the 50 inch version for about six weeks. For programming and office work, I love it. It's basically the same as having 4 24" 1080p monitors put together- just without the bezels.
I was worried that the 30hz refresh rate would really bother me, but it's not really noticeable. I'm not sure I'd want to play games on it though.
The funny thing is that I got their "sales" email 2 hours after they sold out of the last phone on Play.
Oh, don't worry -- I ordered it... It just won't work on Telecom New Zealand's new 4G network without support for LTE bands 3 and 7. This support is missing from the North American version.

It will work just fine on their 3G service, but I'd like to get one with LTE support.

Funny story, I waited on hold for a little over an hour. Sounds like the guy can swap it out but then their phone system hung up on me. Here's hoping Google has mystical callback powers!
The 2nd monitor is mentioned because of the new mini bezel. They still have 1920x1200 resolution monitors but they aren't new nor do they have the mini bezel. I'm running three of them.
Cool idea. If you attached a wristwatch to the outside face, I think that'd help it take off.
Transactional analytics: A non-relativistic alternative to real-time
The Blue Card requires that you have a job contract or very concrete job offer with a minimum salary, and will more or less be tied to that job: If you lose your job, they apparently can give you some time to find a new one, but you may get kicked out if you fail in that endeavor. Also, if you want to change jobs away from the one that originally got you the Blue Card, you'll have to get formal approval. (Edit: this would probably apply to a regular work permit, as well. I'm German, so I never had this problem. Still, you can apparently even apply to get a work permit as a freelancer, which would then make life much easier for you if you don't want to tie yourself to a Blue Card job for that long.)

Other than that, there seems to be no catch - the Blue Card is meant to attract highly skilled workers, so once that hurdle is cleared (>> minimum salary, university education, easier for certain high-in-demand sectors), the EU countries seem pretty happy to have Blue Card holders stay - as they should be.
No JSF or plain JavaEE?
You're deflecting. This discussion is about your response to my post. If you were referring to the original comment without regarding what I was saying, then you should have replied to the original comment and not mine.
My three year old Nexus One has more storage with it's 32GB SD card plus it's 512MB internal storage.

In fact, I don't think any of the Nexus phone has had more storage than the Nexus One was capable of.

Google is doing evil by "strongly encouraging by use of brute force" users to store their data in the Cloud/NSA, where governments and private parties can then inspect that data and figure out what a good/bad citizen you are and then take action based on your political beliefs, sexual preferences, religious beliefs, and race/gender, as they have repeatedly done in the past and continue to do today.

Fortunately, there are a few phones with still support SD cards (SGS4), but I can imagine Google strong-arming them into discontinuing this support.
pretty sure it's ireland for tax purposes.