skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's any contention at all, the state health agencies typically "determine need" by holding a hearing which gives an opportunity for "the people in the community" to weigh in.

The way that works in practice is that at the hearing any hospitals in the surrounding area that care to do so will have someone show up to testify that it would hurt their business (and is "unneeded") to let a new place be built or expand near their area. The agency doesn't HAVE to take their word for it but in practice tends to do so - after the hearing, a committee that heard one voice FOR the new place and five or ten voices OPPOSED to it decides that "based on the weight of the testimony heard" there's no need for the new place. Unless a new lower-priced competitor can somehow generate the impression of a huge groundswell of support for the value of something new that hasn't even been built yet and thus can't sensibly be judged - in the face of really well-funded opposition - it never gets the chance to compete. So in practice, the status quo operations have a veto, even if the law doesn't explicitly say that.

Here's an example of an existing hospital requesting a need hearing so they can make their case to stop a potential competitor from getting some of their business:

http://wvuhealthcare.com/wvuh/Content/Media/News-Releases/20...

And here's an FAQ/description of the hearings:

http://www.doh.wa.gov/LicensesPermitsandCertificates/Facilit...

In most private sector businesses, if I think I can run you out of business by selling a lower priced product next door, I can just go ahead and DO that. There's no hearing at which you get to testify that there's insufficient NEED for my new restaurant/auto repair shop/what-have-you and thereby deny me a permit to build. Health care is special that way. In essence, hospitals belong to a government-maintained cartel.

UPDATE: in some states there do exist "objective standards" for what constitutes need...but it seems like what really matters is whether your Certificate Of Need application is UNCONTESTED (and might just sail right through committee) or is CONTESTED (so there's a hearing in which a bunch of lawyers challenge your right to compete - and probably find against you). Where there exist official standards determining how much supply is allowed in a given area, they tend look kind of like the documents here:
http://www.tennessee.gov/hsda/con_standards.shtml

Note that if you use those exact standards, starting a new hospital in order to undercut existing ones and drive them out of business due to your better/cheaper service is basically impossible. For instance, you can't start or expand a long-term care facility unless ALL the other facilities in your area have >85% annual bed utilization.
But I am logged in and have set a default shipping address. So either it's different depending on country, or it's because this item is a fulfillment item, or if you're also in Canada and looking at the same item... I don't know, I guess Amazon just doesn't like me?
If you have immense personal leverage over someone, you can dispense with the bureaucratic paper pushing. They won't step out of line.
It is a bit off topic, but do people have a good reference to German government policy around self employment visas and laws? Realistically, via the wife (a German national), I could arrange necessary permits when we decide to move there. That said, I'd like to know what the self employment/self funding routes might be just to be better rounded in the whole approach.
EDIT - dugmartin explained it better below ...

Maybe, something similar to hearing, a person who is closer is louder while the one far is faint....
So nearby people have a stronger font while the one who is far has a lighter font ?
Note - I've not used this app, so don't know how it is working ...
$10k does not buy an election. sounds like the outgoing guy is trying to buy a headline himself.
Seems that Angular is slow by default
If we want bio computing to take off, somehow we need an IDE for this stuff. I thought following install instructions for typical software was hard, check this out:

http://openwetware.org/wiki/ChIP-Chip_E._coli

edit:

found this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989930/

BioCoder, a C++ library that enables biologists to express the exact steps needed to execute a protocol. In addition to being suitable for automation, BioCoder converts the code into a readable, English-language description for use by biologists
But the worst case then is that you add something to your cart and then find out later that you can't buy it, just like now. It's not going to make the cart self-destruct. ;)

If it thinks you're in Montana once, it's probably going to every time. So you'll see exactly what you see now. Heck, maybe this is exactly what they DO do, and it thinks I'm in Washington so I never get a message. :) But for the majority of cases where it can geolocate the country properly, at least to the resolution of US vs not-US, it would be helpful.
For those who don't have a use case, make the use case a simple security measure. For instance, create metadata for the persons name and perhaps tie it back to objects in your db. This way, you can easily rebuild transaction history if ever it is lost.
Mystery World Baffles Astronomers
The issue is six years old (2007) but the problem is still relevant in 2013: see the brand new paper by Wang, et al. 'Towards Optimization-Safe Systems: Analyzing the Impact of Undefined Behavior' to appear in SOSP'13 next week. The authors define 'optimisation-unstable code' unusually; what I think they mean is that compilers are permitted by the C language standard to do anything with undefined code, but the real problem is that any change of compiler, environment, flags, or compiler version might change the behaviour of existing code, including opening up security vulnerabilities that weren't there last week.

ETA: here is the link to the paper, in PDF:

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/stack:sosp13.pdf‎
Utilities such as electricity, sewage, and water are natural monopolies; mainly due to the significant capital costs involved with each, a sole competitor represents the most efficient long-run production costs. Though the capital costs are lower compared to the others you listed, most economists would also consider garbage collection to be a natural monopoly.

In each case, additional competitors would increase average total costs for services by lowering economies of scale. But there's a far more significant characteristic: there's no differentiation between services. Combined with their being natural monopolies, you have the primary reasons for their status as government-granted monopolies.

Broadband services, on the other hand, have seen an explosion in product differentiation. We're using one word, but what we're actually referring to are a variety of separate services with significant differences (speed, quality, manner of delivery, etc.) that offer different degrees of utility relative to each other. Whether a municipality grants exclusive or even just preferential rights to a provider, the end result is that the service provided is isolated from competitive forces outside the service region.

Even if Google Fiber is in the next town over and offering an indisputably better quality service (such as endless speed and a free magical Genie with every install, wishes included), it has no consequence on the service available in your town.

That's one of the sticking points when you're dealing with coercive monopolies. When you're talking about other utilities, the negative consequences of that coercion (in an economic sense and not the pejorative) pale by comparison to the efficiencies stemming from lower production costs. The analysis for broadband, however, isn't nearly as static.

Municipal broadband certainly isn't a silver-bullet. Some have knocked their rollouts out of the park; others have bungled them. But dx4100 is missing the point by comparing municipal broadband to private firms. The status quo doesn't consist of competitive markets; it's a collection of non-contestable markets. When entry to the field is effectively closed with no competitive forces, municipal broadband and other alternative ideas represent some of the only real options available to us.

In other words, what a sad little fucked up situation we have on our hands.
That's okay, what's old is new again. Haven't you heard that Perl is hip again?
Cross-Region Snapshot Copy for Amazon RDS
Russia has new ICBM that can follow non-classical flight paths and evade threats
IGoogle is dead and buried
And to follow up, the E5 is an absolute beast of a processor. It's hard to imagine Intel having that kind of leap in the next 5-7 years (but here's hoping ;).
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Many others might whether you believe in the product or not though. I guess I am looking for less intrusive and disruptive way to acquire user, but the downside to this is that it is way harder to gain users. But I think your facebook group selection was smart. A lot of freshmen would like this app.
That is how it is working in real life. You can hear the person closer to you speaking, but not the one farther
Angry Over U.S. Surveillance, Tech Giants Bolster Defenses
Don't mess up/risk your own computer just your friends... You must have trusting friends. lol
8,400 Security Clearance Holders Owe IRS $85 Million in Unpaid Taxes
that was my original intent. and then I totally forgot to add it until I had already posted.
Being A CIO At Tesla Motors, A Startup That Builds Cars And Its Own IT
It is a big deal.
We're working on it (multiple subscriptions)! (:
Heh, you caught me. Barco is trying to market these fancy monitors for pathology as the slide scanner wave rises. Really these are rebranded versions of the displays they sell for mammography/radiology applications.

There are a few deployments of these things, but mostly the smaller (cheaper) displays[1]. I think Ventana (formerly Bioimagene) also used to ship Barco displays with their Virtuoso package[2]

Nobody says that the display vendors have been successful with this marketing so far; the people I've worked with are also not buying these things. 17-19" Dell 2MP will do...

[1] http://www.barco.com/en/News/Press-releases/barco-delivers-c...

[2] http://www.barco.com/en/News/Post/2013/6/4/barco-and-ventana...
This is a pretty good article - a lot of people don't realize that $scope.$watch is the most draining part of Angular performance-wise. It is easy to see the drain that it has by observing Batarang briefly.

I think it is possible to make most of these optimizations without bending the Angular source itself though. $scope.$watch returns an unregister function, so it should be relatively easy to unbind watches after they served their purpose.
I've been meaning to learn more about meteor. I've read the official docs, tutorials here and there, but haven't really found any resource that clicked. Would you mind sharing resources you used to learn meteor? My email is sumanyu at hotmail

Thanks a ton!
or possibly a self checking script that only executed if it was complete... ie: the script is escaped and must run unescape(escaped_script) to be lethal but by then you can confirm that the script is infact whole and as the creator intended to be...
> "Direct enrollment (signing up directly on an insurer's website) is not working for any issuers."

> I wonder exactly what this means.

Probably exactly what it says: for the plans available through the federally-run exchanges (the ones that the federal site serves), enrollment through the insurer's own sites (which presumably still includes links back to the exchange) were not working.

> We know the federal site is intertwingled with the state ones

The federal site serves only the states that didn't set up their own exchanges (for the states that did set up their exchanges, the marketplace just redirects to the state site, they aren't "intertwingled" any more than by a hyperlink.)
Is this a Google security engineer publicly stating that he sees nothing wrong with the NSA accessing all of Google's traffic? I can't believe that he'll stay employed by Google for long. At least, I hope he won't be.
It has always annoyed me that "world wide web" is significantly faster to say than "www".
You have the right idea. I'm currently build a Bio-CAD/CAM system for engineering biology. Like an AutoCAD for genetic engineering that's easy to use and even provides tools for downstream assembly automation in the lab.

Its built on the cloud with NodeJS & MongoDB. Runs right in the browser.

Check it out. Its free.

http://teselagen.com/
I wonder... If Google were to pony up the cash to buy RIM, wouldn't this lawsuit go away?
Rebekah Campbell: I have to admit being a female tech entrepreneur is different
this is great. the positive responses you've seen combined with an interesting article i read a few days ago [1] make me want to write an ML suicide prevention bot for social media channels. a 20-30% positive response to suicide prevention would be astounding, and the cost is so small.

[1] http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/6451/what-suicide-n...
thats why i just say dub dub dub for www. There couldnt be a worse standard subdomain. Also great article.. if you are interested in measuring words and speech, we should talk ;)
wget -O - https://example.com/install.sh | vim -
Go Daddy Promises No More Sleazy Super Bowl Ads
meteor does same thing - https://github.com/meteor/meteor
Start-up nation: Australia needs specialisation and tax breaks
I spent last night (which was the 31st here) doing my tax return and completing some homework for an edX course (Delft's solar energy one). Australia doesn't really do halloween in any significant sense, though there's a few people I know going to parties tonight (Friday night) but they're really just excuses to get dressed up and drunk.
This is a bit like Fay, is it not? I'm not skilled enough in either languages to cite the differences, though pureScript does not seem like it's strictly adhering to haskell syntax.
I implemented the threadpool tuning originally first for the ASP.NET tests (https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/39...) because it improved performance 5-10%. If you've seen data showing that it actually hurts performance, please open an issue or send a pull request (especially for the additional ~60% performance gain). Thanks.
Inside the Failure of Healthcare.gov
Most Android devices with NFC will probably support the API assuming they are running or are upgraded to KitKat.

Edit: including link to source:
http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html#44-h...

"Support for HCE is already widely available on most NFC controllers, which offer dynamic support for both HCE and SE transactions. Android 4.4 devices that support NFC will include Tap & Pay for easy payments using HCE."
Bitcoin mining broke 4 Petahashes/sec, 9 days after 3 Ph/s, 10 days after 2 Ph/s
There are some similarities, yes. There's a good discussion of the differences here: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1pkzd0/show_reddit_...

Basically, I wrote this partly just for fun, but also because each of the current options (Fay, Elm, Roy, TypeScript, etc.) all had some small feature I wanted to change. The biggest factor for me was the generation of compact, readable, debuggable Javascript.
Graduation rates for pathologists are stagnant or falling, and case loads are rising as people get old and cancerous.

Hopefully CAD tools will speed you up, rather than put you of a job. Having worked with pathologists, I think digital has a ways to go before it replaces you entirely.
Let's make a movement to call W "wub". It uses its own sound, it is one syllable, and it sounds like "dub" (as in "double U"). As a bonus side effect, "www" will sound like dubstep.
What size sim does the Nexus 5 take?

By the way T-Mobile sims are temporarily free instead of $10
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-phone/T-Mobile-Na...
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-phone/T-Mobile-Mi...
I know that particular case isn't serious, but it is definitely cool tech.
i love it. very easy transition from dub dub dub
that doesn't change anything... now instead of the output buffer having incomplete data, the install.sh file has incomplete data that is still executed.

in order to make it fool proof the server would have to sign the code using public key cryptography, and the user would have to have their public key and validate the code before executing it.
Personally I prefer to save to file, then inspect (with less or vim) -- but some scripts are a little too clever. Lein is one great example of something that works, but at the same time is pretty scary (read time-consuming to verify by hand).

Another favourite are those tiny installers that wrap a nice "curl http://yeah.not.ssl.com/boom.sh | sudo -s" inside the "installer". Great for building confidence in a project.

Maybe the best thing to do is to just distribute the shell scripts encrypted with the private key of the project, thereby forcing users to run it through gpg. Or use a gpg-archive -- both PGP and GPG has support for this, see gpg-zip(1).

That way you can at least establish a chain of trust that goes straight back to the author, and links the installer(s) directly with a gpg-key. It's not really possible to get anything better than that. And you avoid having a separate .sig-file.

Apparently there's also a GNU project for distributing signed archives -- but it doesn't appear to have wide support.
it's hard to hear from someone whose entire hard drive was wiped...
I would think this will definitely increase Google's interest in RIM and its patent arsenal.
I thought it was impossible to be more of a douchebag than Intellectual Ventures, but apparently, there's a new winner in town. It was obvious when the Rockstar bid won and you looked at who made up the group, what was going to happen.

I used to get really angry and outraged when reading stories like this, but now I'm just resigned. Patent reform isn't going to happen and this kind of predatory and unethical abuse of the system by sharks and parasites will continue as the cost of doing business.

One can only hope for karmic retribution one day.
The Fortunes test exercises server-side templates. You can see the requirements for each test in the "Source code & requirements" section: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=code

I think we used to have a brief description of each test in the results section as well, and they somehow got lost in this round. We should add them back; how is a new reader supposed to know what "Fortunes" means?
Russian Roulette as a Service :

- A curl endpoint, piped to shell.
- 5 times out of 6, the result is echo "click"
- The other time, is something more sinister.
Can this be like Soda vs Pop?

We can get the dubs and wubs together and have a rave.
They are providing motherboard replacements for existing n900s too.
Wasn't it some stupid valentine's day thing? I looked for it earlier but couldn't find it; either my search-fu is failing or engines are getting worse.
RIM is a co-owner of Rockstar.
The patent system has been out of hand for a while but the big corporations haven't complained too much about it because having huge patent portfolios themselves allowed them to build a virtual moat around their business units.

If things go nuclear and they start hemorrhaging even more legal fees, they may begin to exert more pressure to change the system.

Given some of the recent proposed legislation, hopefully the tide is turning against filing patent lawsuits as a business model.
Easy people, just don't buy Apple / M$ products! They are trying to stop innovation...
dir_user_old=/home/luser/.old_version
dir_user=/home/luser
rm -rf $dir_user_old
^

Truncate at the caret (^), and it turns into:

dir_user_old=/home/luser/.old_version
dir_user=/home/luser
rm -rf $dir_user

which removes your home directory.

Incidentally, I think the last example in the OP ("rm -rf /") is wrong. The "/" would never be transmitted, it is part of the variable $TMP_DIR which is expanded on the local system, not the remote server. But the idea and the other test with echo seem correct.
i know this will get downvoted, and i've avoided doing this until now, but it's just too appropriate here

http://images.wikia.com/random-ness/images/3/34/Michael_Jack...
Also, people might just eat a spoonful of more food, if they need 20kcal more per day.
India’s mission to Mars: To boldly go, with China in mind
https://twitter.com/HaveAUnicodeBot is using your code
'One patent filed in 1997, for a "navigation tool for graphical user interface," describes a way of navigating through electronic documents. Another describes an "Internet protocol filter," and a third patent describes an "integrated message center."'

Well with earth-shaking innovative patents like that I hope they succeed.

I would never have thought of an integrated message center for anything.
Even better, then.
> I've learned Facebook and LinkedIn can produce really disappointing results.

(...)

> The best results we got have been due to friends, family, neighbors and local teachers making a push to reach to their immediate connections (their friends, family and co-workers) to have them engage.

Do you mean facebook ads in your first use of Facebook? Because I would think "organic" use of Facebook would be a contributing factor to "reach ... immediate connections"?

I've never quite understood the idea of Facebook "ads". If you want to do "viral" marketing -- let your product/cause spread via social media via actual human connections. If you want to do advertising, do advertising.
It's an interesting app, and a really cool idea.

However, should you be displaying the location of your users on a Google Map via your publicly accessible backend website?

I'm happy for location to be sent to the server for working out where I am. I'm less happy for it to popup where everyone can access it.
Just give it a more efficient name. In German it's referred to as [veː].
Ha. Didn't catch that! I wonder what percentage. Google could get some percentage of any potential judgement against themselves by buying RIM. It's like the M&A version of an option spread play.
Please, make it stop. Make it stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOP. How many billions of dollars are these companies going to flush down the drain on legal fees that could be better spent doing just about anything else?

>When Wired visited Rockstar's Ontario headquarters, it found 10 reverse-engineering experts, working daily to take apart products and find patent infringement.

>With just a few dozen employees, Rockstar is hoping to convince more than 100 technology companies to pay it patent licensing fees for a huge array of products. "Pretty much anyone out there is infringing," said Rockstar's CEO, John Veschi.

Oh fuck these guys.
or you know, open sourcing the drivers, or providing the specifications so we can write our own.

Im aware of the torrent of weak excuses why this wont happen, save it.
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If corporations are banned from trying to persuade people (i.e., advertising), they'll turn to bribing politicians (i.e. hiring lobbyists). Which is worse? I think that's clear.

I don't agree with Comcast's position here, but I think they should be allowed to be heard if they want to be. Democratic societies are strong because they're made up of a lot of strong non-governmental institutions and groups, not just an all-powerful government and powerless individuals.
We'd have to do a little cleanup work to be able to publish these, but we'll definitely do it if there's enough interest. Feel free to follow up with us at contact@scalyr.com.
Google should sue them for racket or find some other way to smash these trolls down.