skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense, but again the ACA has provisions with massive fines ($50k+ per instance) for overbilling and a well-funded team of auditors to look for transgressions.

If anyone is interested, go read the O'Reily book
"Hacking Healthcare" to learn about how brainfucked
the system is.

Thanks for the rec, it's been in my Kindle queue for awhile now, I'll make a point to actually read it soon.
Hang on, I thought 'Solar system' means the system orbiting the star 'Sol' i.e. our sun? Isn't the general term 'planetary system'?
Some years ago I had a native German explain to me that what JFK said really did mean "I'm a jelly donut," and he should have said "Ich bin Berliner." So YMMV.
Join 5 people and you will get 6 different answers.
Nay on GMO labeling laws
Samsung wants Android apps that stand apart, starting now
>These are senators, not 5 year old children.

The behavior of Ted Cruz, et al successfully shutting down the government for a few weeks over something party leadership told them wasn't winnable would seem to indicate that there's really not that much difference between the two.

Yes, it's worse now, but it was already headed there when the ACA was passed.
I guess my real question is can a Bootcamp take off in a smaller city, and if our coders volunteered to teach Highschoolers and Middleschoolers code, would it ignite more startups here locally?
That's not necessarily true. Divergent evolution of ideas means that there could be some truly primitive ideas that's still useful to us today simply because we never went down that particular tree in our development. It's hard for us to imagine, but that's the point. I mean just look at how many of our everyday gadgets hasn't changed much in the last 100 years. Zippers for instance:)
> But how can one society produce one category of ideas cheaply while another produces a different category of ideas cheaply?

Different brain organization?
I'd be very interested in seeing (although this data probably doesn't exist) a chart of how this data changes over the term of sentences. Or more simply put, are Christians out committing crimes or are people who have committed crimes becoming Christians in prison? I'd also love to see a chart of religious affiliation vs crime type (violent, financial, drug posession, etc).
As a former Catholic, when I read lines like that I can't help but be struck with the observation that this seems to be a feminist/progressive version of confessing your sins in order to be absolved of them.
I went to the hackathon in SF last year and was very disappointed. I have decided to never go again.
LLACircularProgressView - An iOS7 style circular progress view
Key phrase being 'end up'. After denying for a long time, forcing many people to pay out of pocket for repairs (which weren't retroactively reimbursed). Hardly stellar customer service.
I still remember when you guys initially posted this on HN a couple of months ago. I found it interesting though one dominant criticism was that your site does not deliver enough information about the product to form an informed decision. Especially not given the steep price. I've played with NU, I've played with Clozure, I've played (a bit) with ClojureC, but they all felt half-finished or I couldn't get into them. Mocl still sounds kinda good, but your site looks just like it looked a couple of months ago, no information on why exactly I should spend that much money, or how it performs in comparison to other solutions etc.

I think it would be great if you could put way more code and docs there.
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You could look here: https://openhatch.org/
They've got the equipment in-house, so of course they're going to use it.

Exactly, they are going to use it as much as they can, whether it's necessary or not, because they have it.
C and later on C++ just got widespread due to UNIX's adoption at the enterprise, before that, there were quite a few systems programming languages around.

Of course, youngsters nowadays tend to think only C and C++ play on that league.
Poll: Music while coding: Yes/No and What Kind?
Music can be inspiring, motivating, and push buttons in different centers of the brain. - - What music do you listen to while coding? Or do you find music to be a distraction?
Which modern databases support ACID transactions?
As a user of PagerDuty, this is most welcome. The only unfortunate thing was that I was just on call before the update and won't be on call again until January.
I've been to a lot of these (I'm loosely associated with TC these days but help them out) and while I think Arrington's criticisms are sort of silly after everything that went down before, I do agree that there's been a lack of focus on editorial content since the whole thing was doubled down on about 18 months ago. Too many promotional interviews, not enough exploration of culture and concepts. It's become a convenient platform for moneyed entrepreneurs to launch, rather than a serious investigation of the people and companies involved. There's still good stuff, and we get great guests, but I do agree it needs to be pulled back and made more beholden to editorial — they can sell that. Right now it's kind of a meat grinder of valley trends and personalities.
Do you know what it feels like to be a 5'1" white male or a 7'2" obese white male or a 6'5" white female? Race problems do exist, but because you're white doesn't mean you don't have problems with society.
the entire system lies within one Earth orbit

Perhaps little chance of life as we know it.
How the heck can you put a PaaS business on the back-burner while you bet the company on a small piece of software and expect customers to stick around?
I think Kickstarter is amazing. However, it is considered a pre-order site by many. Which is incorrect. It is a way to put money towards ideas you want to see in the world. That is why they are known as "rewards" not products.
I'd go further and say that eveyone is almost definitely wrong and if they are ever even slightly right it is nearly always by accident and usually nobody notices, however for a certain select set of wrong things we have ways (that are probably wrong) of measuring just how wrong they are, so we can slowly try to replace them with things that are slightly less wrong and these things we call 'science'.
I'm not aware of the event but if it is a Salesforce hackathon (i.e. they are running it) doesn't it make sense you get points for innovative use of their platform? If they are just a sponsor I can understand frustration.
Why do browsers let Back button be broken? So intrusive.
Gee, I am so shocked that the publishers, who just settled an antitrust case whose goal was to raise e-book prices in opposition to Amazon, are not opting in to a program from that same Amazon which allows people to purchase books for less money.
Just imagine what a hamburger would cost if you could only purchase them through some kind of hamburger insurance.

You would hand over a small copayment and get your burger. Months later, you would receive a really confusing looking Explanation of Benefits from your burger insurance provider with multiple pages of line items - full of really high prices for pickles, pickle slicing fees, etc... ending with an "Amount You May Owe Provider" that would be many times more than we pay for hamburgers on our current free market system.

We'd then demand a huge law be passed that would slightly decrease out of pocket costs for some, increase them for others, and force everyone to buy burgercare. And when it caused even more problems, we'd throw up our hands and finally adopt a single payer burger system.

In the end, we'd have long forgotten and laugh at anyone who suggested that burgers were once far cheaper, and that it was therefore a lot easier to buy a burger for someone who couldn't afford one.
I think that bribery is too pervasive to be based on cultural norms. I take it as a sign of disorganization and lack of professionalism in government and institutions, which is a sign of weak rule of law and a weak ability to govern. Establishing order and predictability in society is the core function of government, and that's incompatible with officials not taking their jobs seriously and accepting bribes.

It's a self-perpetuating cycle, whether for better or for worse: children in the US grow up expecting professionalism in government, and children in most other countries learn not to expect it.
Growing up in a poorer neighbourhood, the native friends I had were able to play football, have school lunches, go on fieldtrips, and go to university when I could not because they were paid for with tax payers' dollars.

My grandparents were not even in this country at the time, it was not my ancestors nor me that hurt anyone.
So I should have less because of what someone with the same skin colour as me did decades ago? Doesn't that seem a little, I don't know, discriminatory?
Let's say things are set up to pander to the majority, even when it puts a minority at a disadvantage. What is the argument for making things harder for the majority, to equalize things for the minority? On average, society would come out worse, so you'd have to argue that equality itself is more valuable than any advantage for the majority.
Wow somebody forgot to tell the author she was neither a Christian nor an altruist. Every critique he lobs against her is based on the degree to which she FAILED to achieve the ideal values of Christians and altruists. Wtf
the majority isnt all those things and male.
> You're not alone. You're privileged. You probably don't even know what real loneliness is.

Did you even read the article? He addresses your first point in the beginning, and your second point at the end of the article. No bullshitting here.
Moons orbiting the outermost gas giant could support earth like life.
Yes, 'Solar' refers to our sun, Sol. So there is only one 'Solar' system which is our own.

I think 'star system' is acceptable as well.
How exactly does writing an email client satisfy "instead of disrupting your workflow by offering a distinct native app developed from scratch"?
I wonder if Guido is behind this. He wrote the Datastore API for AppEngine, and transferred to Dropbox last year.
My favorite so far is Samuel L. Jackson

Highest rated film: Pulp Fiction (1994) - 9.0
Lowest rated film: Hail Caesar (1994)- 2.9
That's easy! We could use two-way encryption to encrypt the encryption key.
Is this version compatible with 1.4.2 or will it require a full data dump/restore?
Has anyone done this yet? Or too early to get the kitty van? I see the "Kittens!" option in Uber but don't see the cat icon.
> Your wife can mandate health care when you are otherwise incapable. You have 7 wives. Who has final say.

Establishing a rule for priority in this situation is fairly straightforward. The most obvious rule is to support a pre-need declaration of priority if one exists, and otherwise default to an oldest-marriage priority.

> You get a divorce from one wife. What does she get?

This is essentially an identical issue to dissolution of a partnership with more than two partners, and as such is pretty well already solved by the legal system.
I feel this is something that happens when people work at startups, especially early stage ones. There is such pressure to work with your small team and put all your time and effort into this startup (like all of the people who brag about working 80 or 100 weeks --- or the OP mentioning taking a nap at the office on friday night), that you are really sacrificing opportunity to build or maintain friendships with a wider group of people. There is nothing wrong with having 3 friends and doing a lot of stuff alone, however it also doesn't have to be that way if you don't want it to be.

Do you have any old college buddies who live in SF? Email them and ask to meet up for a beer. If you are interested in dating, go on okcupid. If you like playing sports, join an intramural sports team. If you like bar trivia, just go to your local trivia night and find a team of random people to join. All of these things take time and effort, but they will result in a larger, more diverse, group of friends.

The truth is this is probably negative value for ones startup. Giving 100% of your effort to a startup will probably make it more successful than giving it 80%. But you only get one life, and perhaps more friends and a less successful startup might make somebody happier.
Yes, Guido wrote the datastores part of the Python SDK and also played a big role in the design of the Datastore API itself.
Well I think it shows that one thing is far from perfect, namely the American healthcare system which is the point of the article.
I would like to know the reasons why they rules out Java and the gangs on the JVM such as Scala, Clojure.
Yup. I love the thought that absurdity and irony was just as alive and well then as it is now.
I've never been a fan of the US health care system (I much prefer a public system) for ethical reasons (I think everyone should have access to free health care). I never imagined stories like yours happening in either system. With things like that happening how can anyone support a private system with no free, public alternative?
Yeah, unreachable without FTL travel.
I think the adoption of something like this would be pretty low, the return on which may not even cover the outlay on marketing to make it known that a pay-for-no-ads option exists.

I don't disagree with those of you who were a bit surprised to find this application blocks all ads indiscriminately. I also find Google's ads to be the least intrusive on the block. One need only login to Yahoo! Mail to realize how unobtrusive Google's ads are.
The Office Spoof - Kids Run The Office
This could be a fantastic opportunity for startups to scale more quickly without most of the per-user costs. If the user brings his own storage, I don't have to pay Google/Amazon/etc. to put the user's data in my app's datastore. Since Dropbox has utility to the user beyond just my app, I don't have to convince the user to start a subscription with me to cover his share of my costs; he already has a Dropbox account. As long as Dropbox comes with 2GB free storage, he doesn't even have to be a paying customer.
If you do not positively believe in open and fair trials for bad people, do not pretend you believe in trials at all.

Good point, and ultimately I think you're right. It just gets irritating when the enemy doesn't have to follow the same rules.
Yes, I have considered all of that.

When I started coding, there was no such thing as GNU or open source movement. You got commercial software, shareware, beerware, donationware, whateverware.

I don't have any problem with commercial software, actually I do use quite a lot of it.

What I have problems with, and I have seen it happening a lot, is companies using source code from someone else as a means to cut costs for their binary blobs, without any form of contribution.

So I always defend a dual license scheme. GPL for open source projects, and some company whats to use the code in a commercial product, just needs to ask for the commercial license.

The only freedom GPL takes away, is the freedom to abuse the work of others.
It would take about 15.6 years [0] to reach the star on a ship capable of a constant 1G acceleration.

Here is the explanation and equations: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.h...

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6637131
I think the cap on the MLR is probably the single best thing in Obamacare. It seems to shift incentives in a meaningful way. This just addresses incentives for the insurance companies, though, not doctors...
Show HN: Halloween costumes from Koding
"It is easy for a rich man to be virtuous" - Indian Prime minister Morarji Desai said, when a journalist asked him the same question during his US visit.
So, simple answer - Reduce poverty.
Even today I'm disappointed with Nexflix's selection so I never bothered getting past the free trials.

I would hope that some day Amazon would require everyone that wants to sell a physical copy join in on the program but I can see how that might damage their profits. Maybe once a majority of books are on the program they can make it a requirement and everyone selling books will have to decide to suck it up and join or not make money through Amazon.

What I really don't understand is why anyone selling books wouldn't want to join the program. Is there any scenario at all where they would lose by being a part of it?
Its just mindless burb-bashing, doesn't mean a thing. I can assure you that a school campus in a big city isn't all that different than a school campus in a small city. Ditto museums, bars, concerts, whatever. They'll be some cultural offset what with the people being richer and the surroundings being somewhat more civilized, but its usually not a big deal.

The huge hang up is getting confused about geography. In a big city, nearly every street corner has a bar, restaurant, "something". So you get a hangup that what makes a city friendly somehow has something to do with street intersections or panhandlers or something, not the bar/museum/whatever found at those intersections. Then you visit a suburb and decide to socialize so you've learned that means finding a street intersection, so you stand at a random corner in your subdivision and ... nothing happens. That's because you need to go to a bar or park or cultural activity, not the mere street intersection.

Its confusing correlation with causation. I had fun; there's a homeless dude living in the alley; therefore you can't have fun without a homeless dude in the alley. Um no not really.
I was pleasantly surprised by the update. It's so much easier to acknowledge an incident and prevent phone calls or other escalation while I'm working on the issue.

I feel like PagerDuty now really does its job and then gets out of the way, which is exactly what I want after I get a PD alert.

It's just unfortunate that your brand has to be associated with the dreadful feeling I get when something breaks.
just three years at warp 9 =)
Over the years, evolving in its own way, Y Combinator has continued to grow at an astounding rate. It is valued now at $13.7 billion, with the clear potential for further growth.

Ignoring the mistake of valuing YC at $13.7B instead of its companies, here's a crazy idea: I wonder when we'll see YC go for an IPO?
Somebody should really clear that up.

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store
Meh, it's a question of scale.

In the 1980s, there was a TV program on in the US (I think it was Countdown to Looking Glass) which depicted what a hypothetical escalation between the US and USSR might have looked like, culminating in a nuclear exchange. It was complete with actors as news anchors, Newt Gingrich apparently played himself (don't remember that part), etc.

My poor grandmother, who was staying with us for a few days, started watching in the middle of it, unaware that it was fiction. A little later she walked grimly into my room to announce that we'd just traded nukes with the Soviets in the Middle East.

So, yeah, I'm sure a number of people were fooled by War of the Worlds and its descendants. Whether it rose quite to the legend doesn't strike me as a particularly interesting question.
It depends on your definition of "back-burner". DotCloud might no longer be one of the most innovative PaaS, adding features left and right like it used to - but there's no reason it can't continue to be a reliable place to host your applications. DotCloud production customers want availability, performance, reliable support, good tooling, prompt bugfixes, and generous advance warning and transition support in the event of a sunset. It's very important to us that they continue to get all these things.
What it takes to start a company
Who paid for that hip? If he did, or you did, or any other private party did; then it would work exactly the same! The question here (death panels) is only about what the government would have paid for. Since the government has finite money, it must decide what it will and will not pay for. There is not enough money to pay for everything. Decisions must be made.
Kepler 62 seems interesting
CERN had some remote app to control coffee maker.
What on earth were you comparing with to come up with go as having stricter code checking?

I'd say early stage startups are probably the least likely place for go to be a good choice - it sacrifices a lot for the sake of performance, which only matters once you've made it. As they say, scaling is a nice problem to have.

(Edit: and like Java it makes other sacrifices in the interests of being maintainable by less talented engineers. Again, that's something big companies need, not early stage startups)
We just had the kittens at our office (they just left). They have 3 cars doing it, and we were only the second company to get that car.

One of them really liked me (Artemis). :)
I don't see why it wouldn't work for ideas just as well as physical goods. Maybe you are smarter than me and can do research in physics and biology much better than me, but you can't do both - so we're better off if you do physics really well and I do biology not so well and we trade. There's no more reason that 2 planets cannot specialize in different kinds of science or math than 2 universities cannot have different strengths.
>As a side note I love how 80% of the comments here are about the number of books available as a pissing contest versus any real discussion for the merits of the idea. For shame.

Real discussion for the merits? I think maybe all of our collective experiences so far might show that it was good in theory but bad in practice (although I really hope not).
The best part is that I'm an engineer, and a Linux user, and I still don't do all that because it's a pain in the ass.

(But then, I don't use Dropbox either.)
Just for a frame of reference, the Grand Central Terminal Apple store is 23,000 square-feet. Their proposed store in Union Square (SF) will occupy about 25,000 square-feet, with two levels and 1/3 of the building "behind the scenes", call 30,000 square feet total.

Not unheard of.
Uber CEO responds to concern that Uber's SF service is decreasing in quality
now they just need to lease a nuclear submarine to power the barges datacenters.
People in the US don't need to get driver's licenses, building permits, and all the other stuff people in other countries need to get?
It's actually directly relevant; they're acknowledging that when they say "if you're lonely, just get out there and say hello!" is an acceptable option partially because it really is true that at the worst, they'll feel uncomfortable. Someone who does not come from this place in life has a myriad of other things that can add to the downsides in this equation, and when you stack the two up against each other, they start looking differently really quickly.

Of course, since you skipped the "please remember the position I come from and critically engage with how that effects the thoughts I have," I shouldn't have expected you to.