skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California's exchange: 28k people signed up in the first week.

Washington's exchange: 55k enrolled (mostly in Medicaid) in October, and another 40k applied for coverage.

Colorado: 37k in October.

Kentucky: 32k.

New York: 47k.

There were some glitches here in Washington. They had stability and speed problems at launch. They took the site down for a few hours, and then overnight, for maintenance. Within 48 hours, it was fixed and has been stable ever since.

One of the keys to Washington's success was to treat the exchange as essentially a startup. They sought people to build the site who thought it was a great thing to do and found it exciting and interesting, not contractors who would see it as just more 9 to 5 work to do.

Article on the above: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-washington-obamacare-201...
"The company had previously closed the door on iOS users because Flash was needed to enforce DRM restrictions set by music labels. Now, Google appears to have overcome that issue and is nearly ready to launch."

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/03/google-music-ios-app-laun...

Apple's decision to not support Flash hindered this port.
More burger variety = less obesity. This is a very counterintuitive result.

I would like to see two other breakouts:

1) Quantity of Burgers ordered (as opposed to Burger options) versus obesity.

2) Fast Food Options versus Obesity.

My guess is that populations that eat at McDonalds and Burger King tend to be more obese, no matter how many options they have. I would enjoy seeing data on this.

Econometrics can be very interesting.
If you want to use AES without exposing yourself to timing attacks, the correct course of action is to use NaCl.
Good to know, I'll check the Camden branch.
I wonder how come Amazon didn't mop up the floor with his competitors (e.g. DigitalOcean, Rackspace) price-wise if AWS infrastructure is so optimized? Of course, they have more features, but that's all kinda software-related, and they say software doesn't cost them that much.
What's wrong with fsck'ing servers?
"nothing to do with Apple withholding the Google Music iOS app"

Correct. It had everything to do with the music labels demanding Flash DRM, and Apple deciding not to support Flash at all. From your article:

"The company had previously closed the door on iOS users because Flash was needed to enforce DRM restrictions set by music labels. Now, Google appears to have overcome that issue and is nearly ready to launch."
I was not expecting something like this on here. Why Nicole?
yep, it seems built to encourage learning and then pursuing the credentials to guarantee that enrollment stats are good.
On a long enough timeline, HTML wins and posts like mine look dated and short-sighted. There's no doubt that things are getting better, and I can't look at at an in-browser demo of Epic Citadel and say that HTML isn't good enough for native apps. Once the tooling catches up, it'll be a moot point.

That said, things are also getting worse.

Fragmentation on the browser and device side is worse than ever. Implementation starts with caniuse.com, followed by ripping out the feature later when browsers support (or partially support) features differently across tablet, desktop and mobile form factors. Mobile browsers tend to be an absolute disaster, in which something as simple as a div with overflow-y requires Herculean effort to implement across devices spanning Android 2 to Windows Phone 8. That's something that should be brain-dead simple, and things don't get much better once you move beyond that.

One popular train of thought I've had enough of is "consistent implementation of X isn't a problem, just include library or polyfill Y and things will be great", which is a mindset that tends to defer problems over solving them when the solution eventually tips over and requires in-depth bug fixing or a from-scratch reimplementation.
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It doesn't, but the OP said "the PS4's desktop is the one place where performance least matters"
> Once you actually travel like this a lot you come to realize that changing clothes is basically optional.

some people sharing transport with you may disagree.
Distant artificial atoms cooperate by sharing light
Not just older people, let's consider some other demographics beyond mostly white wealthy 20-something men:

Women
Rural populations
Countries other than the US
The disabled or those with different capabilities

Now it makes a lot of sense to craft a product for people that have money to spend (young men with disposable income) but if we're truly serious about improving the world, we need to get out of our own experiences.

I'm not going to claim it's easy to understand the position of someone with a completely different background, but I would like to encourage you all to consider if we can make this world a better world for _everyone_ and not just people with AppCash to spend.
No, their loss of the sale, obviously.
Asking 'why doesn't the press cover x' is not really satisfactorily answered by 'maybe they haven't heard of it'. It's their job to hear of things.
I'm feeling a tangible dissonance brought on by these two seemingly inconsistent truths:

* The government is incompetent at implementing good programs, like healthcare reform.

* The government is very competent at doing bad things, like domestic spying.
There are countries where woman cannot choose who they marry. Where woman are beaten, Where woman are not allow outside on their own, where woman earn double digit percentages less than male counterparts... You are seriously saying that 'often' the 'worst' mysoginists are woman in the magazine industry!?

And then claiming others are arguing from ignorance. LOL.
That's great to hear, congratulations on getting that done. I think a lot of us in communities like Python and Ruby are really interested in an alternative to C/++ for writing extensions.
Hi! I'm one of the developers of Hub. We've been having some issues with GitHub rate limiting, but that should have reset now, so if you still want to try it out, it should work for you now. :)
Do you still do side work as a sysadmin for the Russian Mob? How did you escape from the fictional universe of Neal Stephenson's Reamde?
Canadian mirror: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?videoP... - forward to part 3
Healthy daily salt limit and how to reduce Intake
Please review my new startup
Started coding this just after going bankrupt with beepl.com....
The question is - what to do next?
Opensourcing it maybe?
Totally stuck with the business side of things.
Any thoughts, or ideas?
Thank you.
> Unless you mean that governments don't relinquish power unless they're designed to, but that's a big difference.

No I mean once they've taken it or the people give them that power, they don't relinquish it.

Consider the extensions to the Patriot Act.

"The provisions -- passed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack -- deal with roving wiretaps, the tracking of alleged "lone wolf" terrorists, and the ability of law enforcement officials to obtain records they deem relevant to an investigation after securing an order from a federal court."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/27/congress.patriot.act/

> Nor is it true that governments can't due anything well by virtue of being governments.

Governments can't do anything well because they are bureaucratic nightmares.
The idea that criminal law should be about rehabilitation goes back a lot further than the '60s. Look up the etymology and provenance of the word "penitentiary".
southern europe here (portugal) and in the cities it's pretty common
Yes, but then you've added SASS to the mix. If you stay in Bootstrap-land you're at CSS level still. Or am I wrong?

I want to stay at HTML/CSS/JS level. I don't want layers and layers and layers. Even using Ruby templates (if I'm using Ruby for instance) irks me. Maybe I'm weird. But I'm only a semi-professional web dev at this stage so my 2c may be worth les than your 2c :)
The difference is the UI runs continuously and is RAM that a game cannot use. The web browser, by contrast, does not. It stops running when you leave it. Or it could, anyway, if it wasn't also being used as a GL container for the UI.
I'm talking about Enterprises (fortune companies), that've been tied to IBM or Microsoft, access to files everywhere is new. And google apps for enterprises doesn't preceed o365 by that much
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I'm in the same camp. I know everyone is gung-ho on separation of the presentation layer, but I believe styles are far too intertwined into the presentation for semantic markup to be beneficial at a large scale. My primary concerns with semantic markup is that there's no quick way in your developer tools / inspector to lookup correlated rules in your LESS/SASS files and have them make sense (i.e. how many columns is this and how does it handle responsively?). As @bguthrie said, there's little you can deduce regarding relationships between the CSS file and the HTML markup. For this reason I stick with classes, as it's far easier to tell how my layout/grid is structured by simply viewing the source. I'm sure many will opinionatedly differ, but it's worked just fine for me for a decade and I find it easier to maintain and for other's to understand the structure on first glance of the HTML.
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Serious question, what does tmux have to offer emacs users? I used and loved tmux back when vim was my editor, but after switching to emacs (thanks evil-mode), I stopped using it because emacs seems to cover all the bases on its own.
That's because it has to load content remotely. Any UI is shitty when trapped behind a huge network latency.
As a sane developer, I'd like something that can compile to multiple platforms from a single code-base. I can't imagine targeting only iOS.
So what you're saying is:

Udacity:Coursera:Community College:Harvard:?:Profit ?
I'm using the netrc account field as an identifier on which I filter account info in the lambda function. More info about fields are here http://linux.die.net/man/5/netrc
East - node.js database (mongodb and others) migration tool
Reminds me of what iMovie did when it shipped native on Mac.
When I was younger it gave me an opportunity to play around with video editing software, and really lowered the barrier to entry.

I would love for this to do something similar in 3D printing where kids might not know where to start, but happen to open up the app and play around.
Did you even read the article? Did anyone who update you read the article?

This has nothing to do with security issues. It is to do with fixing specific bugs in the D compiler and libraries.
They could still use JS and not use WebGL. WebGL is just GLES in a web browser. Slower than GLES running natively thanks to sandboxing overhead, for what it's worth. But I was more talking about the RAM overhead of using the browser just to create a window to render GLES into. You can easily achieve the same thing with EGL or SDL or whatever the PS4 natively provides to games. It's trivial to setup a GLES context.
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In my experience both have been less than optimal in terms of performance and fluidity. HTML is getting better, but it isn't anywhere near native at this point.
Online Desktop & the Involvement of Cloud Computing in the US Healthcare System
Rules and legislation are made for a reason.

There are laws of people ("no decapitating moron drivers"), laws of society ("no imploding buildings just to see what will happen", "no dumping your waste in the river"), and laws of multinational corporations ("no copying data, no tampering when we say no tampering, everybody must buy private health insurance, ...").

It's easier, and more valid, to ignore laws at the high end of the abstract-o-sphere.
Is unreasonable sentencing a good "deterrent"?

Even if it is constitutional, is it wise to to permit?
I just checked my old archive folders and it looks like the code was lost when Dreamhost borked up my home directory a few years back. I assure you it was pretty gross :)
I'm really enjoying the beta. I would really appreciate being able to edit the title of the Unsorted category, as I am trying to mimic the default Gmail categories.

I would drop the name to just SquareMail.

The sorting contacts feature is amazing.

In my professional opinion, the UI/UX is way better than any mobile email (or at least Gmail) client that exists today. The Mailbox app was definitely not as well done as this, but there marketing effort was fantastic. If you can market this effectively and build up a ton of hype for your launch, this will be huge.
I'm not sure what you mean? The Nazi party was a fascist organisation...among other things. Mussolini's party was fascist as well. I dont think it was possible to be a Nazi supporter and not a proponent of a Fascist agenda in the 1930's/40's but todays Nazi apologists are often primarily interested in the Nazi's racist and antisematic agenda. For many people Nazi apologism is strongly and perhaps primarily linked with Holocaust denial.

The word Fascism may today primarily conjure images of Hitler and the Third Reich, but in the thirties it was strongly tied with Italy as well.
Is there an option/way to have "lables" in panes. Just like you have a info bar for windows, I would love to label my panes.
Normally have a bunch of panes setup for logs, and it would be really nice to label them so i could tell what is in each pane.
Interesting concept. Was surprised by the chat feature, but it actually makes things interesting.
Ok, so that's a message to retailers that they might get more sales by rearranging magazines on their shelves - how do we get this message to them?
URI Parsing with Javascript
What tool are you using for migrating database in node.js projects?
How to make blogging a mindful practice
In my experience, implementing a sufficiently complex app in PhoneGap targeting Android, Windows Phone, iPhone and iPad is absolutely more work with lower quality result than doing native versions of each app through Xamarin.

HTML apps have a tremendous hurdle to overcome. Customer expectations are different between something opened in a web browser and something downloaded from the app store. Apps that are amazing as web pages can be awful as apps. The amount of effort required to get a web application to perform in a way that matches user expectations for native UI cues, animations, quality and responsiveness across platforms is enormous and incredibly more difficult than your standard web app.

Of course, if you target just one platform, things get a lot better, but at that point, why not just use the native tooling?

This has been my experience, having tried both approaches over the course of several years, across team sizes ranging between one and ten developers.
You use a naive argument to attempt to refute one point of my whole comment (which contains several reasons this will not work) and call the whole thing garbage? Yours is the typical HN top comment dismissal, not mine.

On top of this, your criticism is not even valid. Let me explain why.

You clearly have never given birth with or even assisted in an obstructed delivery? Corks, prototypes, and dummies are not made to fit as tight as an obstructed birth canal and do not even try to replicate this scenario.

If you've read the article carefully, and paid attention to the details you would know the live births used are no evidence that his will work when it is actually needed.

>So far, the device has been safety-tested only on 30 Argentine women, all of whom were in hospitals, had given birth before and were in normal labor.

So the diameter of these women's birth canals were far larger than typical obstructed ones because they had given birth before. They also were in normal labor. There would be far more room available to use this device when it is not actually needed. Try shoving something like this down and around a curved surface with an obstruction preventing it's passage. The material would have to be very stiff, but to curve properly around the head and face, it would have to be very flexible. These things are mutually exclusive. Even if you managed to get it worked into place eventually (without it folding over someplace) it would take a fairly long period of time to work it into place. Suction is very quick to attach and is often used when that baby is already in distress (needs to come out in a hurry).

Here are some more reasons this won't work.

Sizing. Babies craniums are vastly different sizes. Either they will need 8 sized of these hanging on the wall, or the inflation part will have to allow for dramatic size differences. If there is only one size, and the baby's head is small, you are increasing the size of the object that needs to pass through the canal by a large margin (Actually adding to the problem). I suppose that big hospitals could have 8 sizes of these on hand, but not third world midwives.

If there is enough room for this thing to fit on, there is enough room for the Dr or midwife to just use their hands. This is far better anyway as they will have far more tactile feel.
Great tool. However, since this is an extremely obvious example, I have to attempt once again to point out that textual programming languages are far from ideal representations in many problem domains. The inability or refusal of programmers to accept visual and interactive tools is the main thing holding back software development. I think the main reasons are related to false outdated beliefs about the nature of programming and a fear of being labeled as a novice, since interactive graphical tools are always categorized as being for novices. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461796/dataflow-programmi... http://noflojs.org/
> "...we can still style this page using Bootstrap's style definitions by @extend-ing Bootstrap classes..."

FYI, LESS has the same exact functionality since v1.4.0. https://github.com/less/less.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
For how to use Linux well, it helps to become very familiar with the UNIX shell. I recommend reading The Linux Command Line* for this.

* http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
With uncertainty you just change your objective function to an evaluation function of any possible scenario scaled with its probability. It doesn't change how optimization works. Again this formulation is only easy to solve in very limited context. For example in economics people have been working with the oversimplified supply-demand curves precisely because they are usually the dominating factors and in practice a sufficiently accurate model works just fine. This model only gives insights for why different ways of reasoning works, not actually providing the panacea.

The good thing about gradient descent is that you do NOT need to have a model, you just need to focus on a few parameters and figure out what is the direction for best improvement from a current relatively good point, where the other billions of parameters are already accounted for and assumed independent from the direction you are going.
Sorry to hear that :( I'm also one of the devs. If you are still having issues with authenticating you can check out a video and description about our service at http://nodeknockout.com/teams/team-name-goes-here
Yes, of course. If you take a look at the example...

user.id and tournament.id can be merged in parallel to the initial game.level lookup.

Obviously subsequent relations can't be done in parallel, but the ones that can will be.
It's nice but if you ever even appear to cut into their ad model they'll shut ya down. Gotta pay the engineers, other employees, electric bill etc.... youtube ain't free ;)

EDIT: I really like the site & hope you flesh it out. Just not getting my hopes up too high. :)
Yes. We use branches a lot at our startup. Typically our workflow goes as follows:

1) git checkout master

2) git pull // to fetch latest version

3) git branch issues/feature name

4) git checkout branch name

//...do work on branch...//

5) git add .

6) git commit -m "Description of commits"

7) repeat 5) and 6) until feature/issue is fully implemented/fixed

8) git push origin banch name

9) git checkout master

10) git merge branch name // only after the issue/feature is tested and debugged

11) git push origin master
If they generate and send a plaintext password, then anyone who gets access to that email, even months in future, can silently access the account. So there is a difference.

Not if you change the password immediately.
Doesn't matter != matters least.

The performance of the desktop on the PS3 and PS4 is less important to the gamer than the performance of the games, also known as the primary purpose of the device.

However, that doesn't mean that it is unimportant.
I don't know the specifics of the Washington healthcare exchange, but I can tell you right now, the healthcare.gov didn't fail because they chose contractors to do the job, they failed because of extremely incompetent management on the government side. Had a start up been chosen to do healthcare.gov, and none of the government management were changed, even the best start up would've failed too.

The same contractors that did healthcare.gov (CGI Federal) also developed the Kentucky exchange, which has been lauded as one of the more successful state exchanges. If the contractor was the problem, you'd have expected them to fail in Kentucky too.
I think this is somewhat misleading.

> People forget, no matter how much optimization you do, joins are slow - and it is for exactly this reason that Mongo is fast, with usually 5ms response times.

Yes, joins can be slow, but that's not the reason that Mongo is fast. The presence of a join feature doesn't slow down a database, just its use. Seems like just more anti-SQL FUD.

> At least with Mongo you are in explicit control of the speed of your database.

I don't see how Mongo gives you any more control in this respect -- joins are totally optional in a SQL DB.
It's the difference between optimizing for latency and optimizing for throughput. Clients tend to want to optimize for latency rather than throughput. To them, a "good enough" analysis by tomorrow morning (before some important meeting) is often much more valuable than a perfect analysis tomorrow afternoon (after the meeting is over).
I never said anything about performance? I specifically mentioned RAM. Although it is pissing away performance because WebGL is slower than running GLES directly, thanks to the sanitation of the GLES shaders that the browser does.

But this is still a proprietary, "junky" interface. If it's WebGL, it's still entirely custom, with entirely custom event handling, and entirely custom accessibility (or lack thereof), and entirely custom everything. If you are just using WebGL, which is what they said, then the browser is a massive chunk of dead weight that's doing jack shit. All the browser did is setup the EGL context, create a GLES context from that, and then handed it to you. This is basic hello world stuff, that's the entirety of the browser's involvement in this scenario.
Those who enjoyed this and streams2+ in general may find useful this library we've made to use objectMode streams in the browser.
http://github.com/Livefyre/stream
There are quite a few tests if you want to get a feel for how streams work: https://github.com/Livefyre/stream/blob/master/tests/spec/re...

For a concrete implementation, check out our SDK. We use streams to abstract away the details of paging out Content from our APIs. There is an example in the README.
https://github.com/Livefyre/streamhub-sdk

These streams power the bottom 5 apps you see here: http://apps.livefyre.com/
If they're using nothing but a WebGL context filled with custom code for text, layout, etc. then you have a fair point. I doubt that's the case, though. It seems likely that they're taking advantage of HTML/CSS on top of whatever WebGL parts they're using, allowing system UI work to be done by more general web design people rather than involving lower-level developers just to implement a new kind of dialog.