skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the chances of you actually seeing anything particularly interesting is pretty low.
I'm just thankful that China doesn't make computer hardware.
hypertext man pages ? what is it that people don't like about them ?
In terms of absolute dollar-outlay amounts, perhaps. But in terms of discretionary spending — the things on which we can choose to spend money — blowing shit up accounts for more than half of it. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are monies the government is obligated to spend, and so in terms of a discussion of our priorities, aren't exactly relevant.

Source: the same Wikipedia article you used.
Let's again be clear about what I said. "They" (meaning every insurer in IL) did not "look at our medical history". They looked at visits to doctors and (in one case) the emergency room that did not result in diagnoses, and decided to hedge their bets by presuming a preexisting condition that was not indicated in the record.

Another thing that happens --- particularly in California, lest you think this is an IL problem --- is that comparatively minor medical conditions were used as proxies for rare but expensive conditions. For instance, if you were a woman with abnormal cramping, you might be default-denied based on a simple blacklist of uninsurable conditions because insurers were scared that might presage something expensive down the road.

The preexisting condition and recission policies of insurers prior to Obamacare were a national disgrace.
How does KDE depend on Ubuntu? It's not like KDE will cease to exist if KDE is not included in Ubuntu. And besides, Canonical is more than welcome manage their patches for KWin (or fork KWin) if they really want it to be included in their distribution with their own unique Windowing stack (Mir).

I think the problem here is the attitude coming from Mark Shuttleworth which is a terrible example for the rest of the Ubuntu community. Regardless of what Shuttleworth believes, KDE is a own standalone open source project and does not owe anything to Canonical/Ubuntu.
LM just announced a Skunkworks practical fusion power project--would that be for the same reason? I hope that one isn't dead in the water.

http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheeds-skunk-works-promise...
Hey guess what -- one can't be a fanboy of shiny, sexy toys like the SR-71/72 without also being a fanboy of the Drone War in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen:

(1) http://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/pbs-drone-coverage...

(2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/companies-making-dr...

(3) http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2013/05/is-lockheed-martin-...

Not to mention its "gorgeous" effects on the people who committed the moral failure of being born in those countries:

(4) http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/the_face_of_collateral_damag...

(5) http://droneswatch.org/2013/01/20/list-of-children-killed-by...

And of the serial graft, greed, & pork-o-rama that seems to make up the very DNA of its corporate parent, Lockheed Martin, of and most of its competitors as well:

(6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals

(7) http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2009/06/former-lockheed-mar...

(8) http://www.docudharma.com/diary/32340/lockheed-and-the-seque...

No secrets here -- it's just the way the industry works.
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I guess their reasoning is that since they create one UI "idea" on their main product, it should therefore be used absolutely everywhere. Clearly people want to open popups and click one thing on the popup again when they actually just want to click the link.
Fair enough that gold is a zero sum game and perhaps gold rush might be the wrong terminology to use. What I really was referring to was the fact that many investors just jump on the bandwagon to avoid missing out on the next big thing. Even when the business model is unclear.
You can now use PayPal to fund your PlayStation Store purchases
Those might actually be worth something some day. Not many people collected those, so the present supply is low, and will only decline further as time goes on. Magic was a game widely played by geeks, and I'm sure quite a few have fond memories of sitting around playing the game with friends, thus the game has sentimental value for them. Finally, geeks and former geeks will probably continue to gain more wealth over the next few decades, at least, which means that there will be a decreasing supply of something that an increasing number of people with money want. I'd definitely hang on to them.
It's roughly $6000/term (for engineering, cheaper for CS students though) not including paying for food + housing (an additional $1600-3000 depending on where you decide to live on or off-campus). I'm in the boat of Waterloo grads who graduated with no debt. But I would hazard a guess that the majority of engineering students have little to no debt. And the students who do co-op in the US most definitely earn more money than what's required to pay for school.
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At this point, I'm not sure the facts matter to any but a very small segment of the American people. Given what we already know about Snowden, he was either a Patriot or a Traitor.

From the evidence, I think it's obvious which. I have a sneaking suspicion that most Americans also feel that it's obvious.
Docker: 93% of the total contributors belong to the community
Ross Douthat has a pretty good summary of at least the egghead Republican health care policy preference and its pros and cons. The whole thing is worth reading.

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/why-not-medicaid...

Short version: Subsidized catastrophic care for real "insurance", and tax-advantaged HSA's for your more predictable medical costs. The former probably still requires something like the existing individual mandate, so it's unfortunate that Republicans seized on that as one of their primary objections to PPACA (an objection that Candidate Obama shared in 2008!)

More practically, a Republican alternative would certainly not have made these catastrophic plans currently being cancelled illegal.

This stuff is not fiddling around the margins: PPACA will only work if it substantially shifts costs from the old and sick (who need comprehensive plans) to the young and healthy (who would typically be fine with catastrophic ones). I don't know why you would expect the GOP to be happy about a wealth transfer like that, particularly when they couldn't expect to extract any leverage from their participation with a Democratic super-majority able to pass whatever it could agree on. All for a bill whose popular support never seriously cracked 50%? I wish Democrats had engaged with President Bush in '05 when he came out of the reelect gate for Social Security reform, rather then declare the whole thing DOA. But I certainly am not shocked they behaved like an opposition.
No, and being able to download all the FAQs easily is cool but there are things where it actually impacts me. For instance, I have a netbook without a cdrom drive or floppy disk. So, to install OpenBSD on it, I had to first install OpenBSD onto another PC computer, and then run makeboot and such on my USB drive and copy over the ramdisk.

Apparently the cited excuse for why they don't support USB bootable media is because it's hard because some computers only support floppy emulator or don't support it, and there are many bugs in USB boot for older BIOS.. But that doesn't keep every other operating system of this day and age supporting it
I'm guessing that it's related to Google Hangouts, which is integrated in every Google+ page.

If you have the Google Talk plugin (or whatever it's called now) you can do video chat right in the browser.

Some bug with the drivers, I presume? (I have all the add-ons in Firefox 24.0, but no light for me)
Bravo. Whenever I think about all of those comics, many of them great reading material, stored away to be forever unread based on some notion of "value" makes me sad.

I taught my kids how to read the same way that I learned, reading Spidey Super Stories comics from the 1970s. They were just a few bucks at my local comic book shop, and worth every penny.
Also: Dragos Ruiu is primarily a security conference organizer, not a researcher. I don't mean to impugn his skills, but I'm pretty sure that he's operating far outside his area of expertise here.
That very much meets with my general career pattern. If you want to make quick advancement (especially if, like me you started as a developer at 33 instead of 23), then this make s a whole lot of sense. I literally doubled my hourly rate every three months for a year (it didn't hurt that I started off crapping out small marketing sites for $14/hr).

I gave each group I moved on from chances to match whatever offer I was moving to, but usually when confronted with having to pay me almost double, they were quite happy for me and totally understood why I was moving on (even though it's not about the money).

To add to the other things that I agree with (don't burn bridges, neither lie nor undersell yourself, don't move to "perm", money isn't the motivator as much as finding higher quality projects): having a pad of cash saved up when you can do it makes all of that a lot less risky and makes decisions easier to make.

If you're used to living on $16/hr, the first step is risky and hard to take, but if you can maintain that way of living the next several steps all seem increasingly less risky, to the point where I have tow concurrent contracts who want to hire me and I don't know if I want to get pinned.
I've only just started developing for Android (Foundbite's next version) so can't really give an opinion. Visual Studio is great to work with though. There are only 4 screen resolutions for Windows Phone so in that sense it's easier to develop the UI.
Still investigating, but Nick just turned off the site for non logged-in users to take the load off the system while we try to figure out what's going on.
It's very nicely made. I love how instead of hijacking scroll, it “plays with” the scroll, turning the videos off and on.
Shooting at LAX: TSA agent, alleged gunman wounded [video]
CS with coop is $6300 a term. I think engineering is a few hundred more.
NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts
Actually, it's worth 7 figures.
I study Software Engineering at Waterloo right now; I paid 7600 this term including tuition, incidental fees, co-op fees, etc. but not including food or residence.
It seems telling that unlike most such paranoid fantasists, he hasn't blamed anyone for this yet. Usually such delusions come with accused culprits and the like. I really don't like how people are jumping to labeling as suffering from a mental malady. Maybe he's in error, but why does he have to be ill?
Do you get a lot of users refering others?
Yeah, god forbid people having actual tasks to do instead of micromanaging their online presence like a SF web monkey.
As a rule, insurance doesn't insure against Armageddon. This would be like trying to get Geico to cover a top fuel dragster.
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Is there a reason it requires iOS 7? Those with jail broken iphones might still be on 5...
This made me think about LPs. I bought my last in 1999 (Pavement's Wowee Zowee and a used copy of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres). It was an impulse buy and they were cheap. At the time, I thought that LPs would go the way of 8-track and reel-to-reel audio, another old format eclipsed by the new (CDs and mp3s, which were just starting to become popular in the late 90s). I was wrong. People still buy LPs, and even more interesting to me is they are not just folks over 40.

That said, I noticed that most used LPs are still dirt cheap -- while there is demand, it seems that it's just not large enough to put a dent in the supply. It also seems very difficult to sell old collections unless you truly have some rarities or good music that never made the digital transition).
I knew a kid growing up who had one of those spinning comic book racks like you find in a corner store in his bedroom that was fully packed with great comics. That totally made him the coolest kid ever.

Pay it forward.
I've been thinking of this less as a troll, as possibly elaborate viral marketing for a complex proof-of-concept.
This is a good example of why you need copy-editors. Sometimes your edits end up making a sentence that doesn't make sense.

Although I thought Ars did have copy-editors.
I didn't know they existed. Apparently they have a whole program for this:
http://www.rpxcorp.com/rpx-npe-litigation-insurance
The headline is weird (and misleading).

The body of the post says: "anyone we offer an engineering job gets $1,000 cash".

Just because someone passes your technical interviews doesn't mean you'll extend them a job offer. There's a ton of other factors (cultural fit, attitude, references, experience, etc.).
>When people share and rent things instead of buying them, does that mean we need to produce less stuff, requiring fewer jobs, ultimately creating less economic growth?

Well if this was true you could just force people to buy things they don't need then throw them away and create economic growth easily.
Snowden papers unmask co-operation of European spy agencies
I'm going to assume this is meant as sarcasm, because that's the only way it can be read.
That's not quite true. The newer generation of tech companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter) have taken to using patents very very defensively, at least so far.

Google has gone as far doing an "open patent non-assertion pledge" which is far beyond just not using patents:
http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/

Twitter has an Innovator Patent agreement:
https://blog.twitter.com/2012/introducing-innovators-patent-...
Hopefully you can, especially about the "insane productive" part. But for startups roles due to the shortened timeframe and heightened expectations on the part of the hiring manager the job applicant needs to make doubly sure they convey this impression.
It's not related so far as we can tell.
The idea is maybe clever, but it has at least 2 major downfalls.

1.

The system is gamable by the trolls. Hurricanes don't care if you're insured, but trolls have an interest in taking troll insurance down. The way insurance works means that if you have a statistically unlikely run of bad luck, you could topple the whole insurance enterprise and leave those who thought they were covered out in the cold.

If I were a troll, I'd get together with other trolls and coordinate enough legal pressure that it was impossible to go to court on all the pending cases at once.

2.

Having insurance like this legitimizes the whole trolling issue, instead of fixing the systemic issues that cause it in the first place. You might think that doesn't matter since we can't really fix the trolling issue, but we can (maybe) create insurance to route around the problem. But here's why it actually does matter: if the troll insurance works and isn't killed by my point #1, then we've actually created a lobbying group with a vested interest in keeping trolling alive. In other words, the organization we created to protect us, if it actually works, will have strong incentive to work against our long term best interests by allying themselves with the trolls they are supposed to be protecting us against.

We'd essentially be creating a protection racket to extort /ourselves/.

Can't see this working.
No, they have a sense of humor when it comes to talking with credulous reporters.
It gets you a job offer and $1000. You get the money even if you don't accept the job.

I think it's a good idea. I wouldn't have considered applying, because I'm not looking for work. But if they were local, I'd apply just for the $1000, and then they'd have a chance to sell me.
It's awesome pg responds so quickly... I'm wondering if he gets alerted (probably) or if he's on here a lot (probably). Maybe we could DDOS his alert system with threads about pg rated movies...

And an aside- does pg have the most karma of any HN user?
Do you have to accept to get the $1,000. Would be a pretty fun test.
You're eluding to http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/
Gullible.
If patent system was OK, with their power and money they could always find another weapon if what they really want is to attack a competitor. That said, I don't want to mean that the system is OK, obviously, this weapon surely looks too powerful.
> Is it a frat house?

Most startups are
The description about Feinstein is wrong. She didn't backtrack about anything. She's only pretending to do it, while passing Newspeak bills with backdoors that codify and legalize NSA's mass spying.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/sen-feinsteins-nsa-bil...

Feinstein has done nothing but help the NSA so far. She's not going to just stop because she suddenly developed a conscience. I wish Californians would just recall her, because otherwise we're stuck with her and her pro-surveillance state bias until 2018. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, if she wasn't also the head of the Intelligence Committee, and having tremendous power in the Senate to continue things as they are.
Hypersonic aircraft serve only one purpose now that drones and satellites exist: highly mobile weapons platform.
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I ignored incidental fees from my figure. Strictly the tuition cost.

Also factoring in the point that tuition for engineering is making a major hike (I think it was 5%?) and a lot of students get the 30% tuition cut from the provincial government (although this doesn't apply to 4B students).
And likewise Canonical owes nothing to KDE. I think KDE wants to be on Ubuntu more than Canonical wants KDE...
I live in spain, and during last month with my optic fiber connection HN takes around 25 seconds to load. today topped 40 seconds.
Is it only me? is it spain? Whats going on? Its becoming frustrating participating in my fav community .
Lately i've been cmd+t and browse somewhere else until page loaded.
If you don't mind me asking, what percentage of page views are non logged-in users?
Perhaps if we talk about it enough, someone will actually run with the ideas and create what is described?
You say you evaluated Cloudant and MongoDB, among others. Why did you decide on Cloudant?
Are they much different than the freebsd docs?
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Apart from the outages, the favicon is missing since a few days.
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