skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$3.70 per second is 222 per hour. In a world where a freelance Javascript developer can bill 125 or more per hour, that doesn't seem too unreasonable for doctor plus nurse plus office overhead plus materials. In fact it seems cheap. My daughter just broke her wrist and I paid the bill. 3.70 per second is ballpark what I paid as well. I feel the pain, but yes it was worth it.

EDIT: oops, bad math. But 3.70 per minute is closer to the actual cost I paid. I can't say exactly because I didn't have a stopwatch going.
Depends. If it was because someone in the office told them they were doing subpar work, then yeah, that matters.
Wow, thanks everyone. I didn't expect this great of a response.
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Steve jobs didn't say to maximise profits. He said make great products, rather than simply adequate products.
Questions never asked:

1) Do antiviral programs have backdoors to allow this?
2) If not, can these be detected by them?
3) How difficult would it be for the secret court to order antiviral makers not to detect these things?

I've been asking for months, since the NSA revelations. No journalist has picked it up.
Actually, the background check company specifically cannot pass along convictions wherein the end of the sentence was more than seven years ago. If you read a HireRight report, it specifically mentions this. Any background check provider that supplies convictions older than seven years is liable under FCRA (with a few exceptions), and in California, you are entitled to your report after it is completed. You can connect the dots yourself.
The article is a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653093
That's a great use of drones. Poaching poachers. :)
I was gonna write this.

Shell script syntax has always been hard to remember to me (but I feel it to be less than intuitive compared to lisp, perl, js, c, ruby, python...) , subject to different behaviors between shells (csh vs ksh IIRC), string manipulation is close to non-existing, types are more difficult to use than in PHP,...

Okay, it works, we can do stuff with it, we can hack a quick thingie there and there,... I know the main appeal is, "it just runs everywhere, no install required" (minus the csh/ksh differences), but is it really the tool we need for all we use it for?
Specifically, I think AdviceAnimals and Gaming are the most toxic defaults plaguing the front page. Reddit would have a substantially more intelligent front page if it got rid of those defaults.

I would almost suggest replacing /r/gaming with /r/games, which is a 100x more intelligent subreddit with actual discussion (due to proper moderating and disabling of thumbnails), but I would hate to see that subreddit become toxic because of front-page publicity. It really depends on how dedicated its moderators are up for the task.
> Actually, chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, among people younger than 65 drives two-thirds of medical spending. About 85 percent of medical costs are spent on people younger than 65, though people do spend more on healthcare as they age.

I thought this might be because the US system has much more support for people over the age of 65, and thus pushes prices down, but later on in the article they say

> Though it often may feel like out-of-pocket expenses are growing disproportionately to the cost of healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, and federal employee plans have actually picked up an increasingly larger share of the tab.

The article makes some assumptions.

> The patient wants to see the best doctors and get the best treatments available,

Not necessarily. Many patients don't want the best, they just want protection from the worst and they want "good" or "excellent", but they'll include other things. "How convenient is the hospital for people to visit or for me to get after care?" is one example.

The article title is annoying. The article doesn't explain why obesity is driving up costs, and doesn't do a good job of showing that obesity is driving up costs. The abstract doesn't mention obesity, but says:

> Three factors have produced the most change: (1) consolidation, with fewer general hospitals and more single-specialty hospitals and physician groups, producing financial concentration in health systems, insurers, pharmacies, and benefit managers; (2) information technology, in which investment has occurred but value is elusive; and (3) the patient as consumer, whereby influence is sought outside traditional channels, using social media, informal networks, new public sources of information, and self-management software.
After 4 years of Git and 1 year of Mercurial, I like them roughly equally. I love cheap local branches, I also love MQ. They're just tools, I wish people could get over this kind of stuff.

If this is really about getting more contributors, I suggest a GitHub mirror. We do that, it's not a big deal (hg-git is pretty good), and it does get us more contributors.
Any of them work in ER? What about alcohol or mental health?

EDIT (after question was answered) I do agree that obesity is the leading problem with healthcare! I'm just curious about the problems of alcohol or MH in emergency care settings. They're significant in the UK.
I like SourceTree but it the UI gets clunky and slow within a short period of time. Not sure why, but it usually happens when you have anything more than a trivial number of commits.
I never understood why they didn't just expose their tags as imap keywords?
thanks. I really appreciate that. Just emailed you. :)
Yes, database access is probably not the strongest side of R.

I think part of the issue is that the typical use cases of Python and R are a bit different, so a lot of functionality that in case of Python comes in well-debugged and well-documented standard libraries, in case of R comes in relatively little-supported user packages.

Also, the standard package documentation system in R is absolutely atrocious; I am convinced that R would have been far better off without any package documentation standards at all.
Find a way to make this profitable please. I'd love to use it, but I don't want it to disappear!
Yes, autoBind are done by default now. Also, you need to replace `class` by `className` in JSX.

You can also take the advantage of getDefaultProps() instead of doing `this.props.something || 12` everywhere.
Some might find it interesting that I consider part of my job as a tech strategy consultant is to keep up with what's happening on HN.

I try not to open every link or anything, because I procrastinate just like everyone else. However, some of the value that I provide my clients is knowing about changes to their competitive landscape before they do.

Tightly coupled with both experience and a willingness to offer strong, thoughtful opinions on the day's tech news, I am often able to be the most honest and disconcertingly knowledgeable person at the table... all thanks to scanning HN a few times a day.

I owe much of my livelihood to your often link-bait posts, so thanks. :)
With absolutely no specifics this article is useless.
Out of the press box and onto the field
>$3.70 per second is 222 per hour.

$3.70 per minute is $222 per hour. $3.70 per second is $13320 per hour.
What is rather mind boggling is that Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo all have multiple, huge data center installations and, they are all profitable companies. It does not seem to be a zero-sum game yet for market share, and the growth in the world's appetite for storage and access is still not fully served. Can they all wind up 'winning' with profitable operations founded on web infrastructure?

How much storage does one Internet citizen occupy, anyway?
I'll borrow from a separate reply. When you dedicate 14 years of your life and are hundreds of thousands in the hole when you're finally able to earn feel free to talk about how you get paid too much.

What I know is that when I'm sick and/or injured I want a well paid doctor who has spent 14 years in training taking care of me.

The reason your ambulance ride was 4k is because anybody who is even remotely able to pay subsidizes everyone who doesn't. Healthcare is systematically broken in this regard, here in the US because there is no universal coverage. Not because there are neighborhoods where doctors live.

Your gripe is with the ever increasing administrative burden on doctors and the burgeoning bureaucracy. Doctors and other healthcare professionals are worth every penny.

Actually, what's sickening is ingrates like you who begrudge experts their due.
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That's still one day, all pre-orders are picked up on day 1.
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!
$3.70 per second is $13320 per hour.
That's the cost of being a dynamic language. Since Python objects can be dynamically enhanced everywhere (also from inheriting classes and even from outside of the class) it needs dictionaries. But those can be very memory inefficient, specially on modern 64bit Hardware. One dict can easily take 1-2k for very few stored attributes (size can even depend on actual names used, because of the nature of dicts). So when it comes to millions of object instances, it is better to use __slots__ but those come with a cost: Those objects are not enhance-able any more. You have to know all attributes of the objects in advance. So you should only use it on objects that are really used a lot or are really simple.
i am worried about the popularity of git to be honest. i'm convinced it is popular rather than good.

"I've really tried to 'get into' mercurial's mindset several times now, but never could, whereas, IMO, git's model is simple and powerful. "

I find it hard to understand what this means, but this is typical of the arguments i see for using git. really the core concepts of DVCS are the same no matter what tool you use, and actually i consider the things that git does differently to hg to be demonstrably and measurably counter-intuitive and in some cases dangerous.

the biggest problem by far is that git is dangerous out of the box - it can destroy your work very easily or leave you in an unrecoverable state.

why can't i roll back a merge in one step if i didn't configure things to be able to do that? why does my branch disappear when i merge? how do the jenkins guys break their repo so casually and find themselves struggling to recover it?

i believe this is the robustness mentioned here: "The changeset graph is in some sense more "robust" in that it's just there and doesn't change on its own initiative"

mercurial seems loathe to alter history - which is pretty sane and common sensical seeming to me, git does it as part of how it is 'supposed to be used' which frankly sounds as mad as travelling back in time to shoot your grandfather. for these reasons - to me - using git is asking for trouble (it has caused me trouble and i switched to hg for precisely this reason).

i cant reasonably recommend git to anyone... which is a shame. other than that flaw it is really quite rich and powerful and has other advantages over mercurial - including (perhaps foremost) its enormous popularity.

EDIT: watch as this gets downvoted from hipster gut responses instead of thought :D
Fascinating idea. I just downloaded the app for Android.
Have you tried it in the last few days? After SourceTree got relatively slow for me with the past few updates, the last update actually completely fixed that!
I use bootstrap-stylus, because Stylus is what I like. I load one custom.styl after the bootstrap files, and modify bootstrap's variables.styl.
Here are 3 pertinent facts related to your post:

1) When I worked there, long before Larry Page was CEO, 20% time barely existed and Google cared a heck of a lot about making money.

2) The share price going up makes employees, former employees, and all sorts of non-"wall street investors" very happy.

3) Your hacker news about section links to your Google+ page
Back when I was showing off my Google T-shirt, this is what they were (archive.org):
https://web.archive.org/web/20001203022500/http://www.google...

A lot more's changed than just a CEO.
It all depends on how many servers you have, as well as what sort of databases/database complexity.

For a laughably trivial site, a single host could do a lot of requests per second without too much effort. For a normal Rails app running on a handful of hosts, 100 requests per second is nothing to scoff at, especially if you're on your own.
Yes! This and the need to explain things always in an exact and neutral way without actually knowing all to much about the issue at hand and thereby blatantly ignoring the reality and the knowledge and interest of the persons around you.

I don't blame HN. I've learned and still learn a lot of cool stuff here. It's the best source to stay up to date on internet drama and timely background information for security and hacking related incidents. Also a lot of programming and Unix related ideas I would hardly find anywhere else. But it's of little use to me. I'm not the security engineer of a start up. I'm not even really coding at the moment.

My reality is different. I should leave my room, work on my bicycle, solve the real and urgent issues around my life and sit in the library or hanging around with friends doing real stuff. Connecting with real people and learning something about other aspects of life. This may be different for others here.

Instead I'm here trapped in a strange click loop. I would do probably something similar without HN or even without internet. It's sad but the OPs post about is a good reminder to cut it down... it's irrational for me and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Inspiring work. Will definitely be keeping up with this project.
twitter are showing signs of going the same way. what it takes is someone prepared to take a low-prifit long-haul trust based approach rather than 'monetise now!'. this is a hard choice to make at the moment when its so easy to make money from investors who think they can both make big profits and keep users signing up.
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Author tired of the project before he got to that part :)
HAH!

No hangovers.
Or, you know, pay for the product. I don't understand the logic behind complaining about paying $3.75 a week for a product that you use so frequently. It should be embarrassing.
In my view, a startup can be for or non-profit. The main thing to me is the driving motivation and the overall experience.

That's a great use of drones. Poaching poachers. :)
I rarely read every article on page one, and many of those that I do look at I only read a couple of paragraphs, as was the case with this article.

Ergo, I disagree with the premise of this article.
Can I ask the obvious question Why? Email (IMAP/SMTP) is so standard, there are lots of companies out there that do it better and cheaper than you yourself can do. GMail (Google Apps for business) and Fastmail.fm are the 2 names I always recommend.

Another factor to consider is how you will keep your SMTP ip-addresses from being blacklisted. Companies like Mailchimp and Sendgrid spend a lot of time and effort on this. With your own very low volume, it takes only a couple of persons to mark your email as spam and suddenly all mails sent from your domain end up in in spam folders, no matter what DKIM or SPF settings you have configured.

Only reason I would see is when you want to keep your email away from the NSA and therefore out of the USA (Fastmail is Australian based btw http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/07/are-overseas-based-...). Keeping your server out of the USA will not mean that your email will never travel through the USA, where the NSA can still access it, as SMTP is very cleartext between MTA's.
Thanks for the quality information
Looks like this is only useful for storing objects related to a single session of a user. If you have more than one device accessing the same data on a server, the server needs to persist the data between requests.

However, it would be interesting to get rid of the client/server dichotomy and use WebRTC between clients.
And your point is? Most employers like bums on seats as its easier to manage.
Wondering where is the best info for economic performance and other govt data in the world? Any APIs other than Census API?
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Yeah, I had many of the same sentiments that I wrote up around the time the death of Reader was announced (http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/17/god-damn-it-google/). I can't really look to them for inspiration any more, which is a greater loss than I would have admitted a year or two ago when I finally admitted Google was no longer Google. Oh well. Next!
A big step in the right direction, but, upstream of the insurance companies, the health care service and product providers have much greater supplier strength than in single-payer systems. There is still of lot of complexity inside that box but "Supplier strength in pricing" is much closer to the cost TL;DR than fat people.
How robust is the mobile detection? If using the user agent to determine a mobile browser results in many false negatives then not directing from the mobile site version is a good idea.

Edit: To be more clear. If you are on a mobile device and you are trying to access the mobile site but the server can't reliable determine that you are in fact on a mobile device it would be bad to auto-redirect. At the same time accessing the mobile site on desktop browser should still allow the site to be usable.
They are the new Microsoft but they're trying to avoid the same fate of companies like Yahoo and Microsoft; i.e viewed as stodgy old companies that aren't great places to work. The perception about Google needs to be "innovative" which is why there is lots of PR about their X Labs initiatives. But if you think about all of the high profile ones, they aren't really attractive businesses.

Driverless cars? It's technology that all the major car companies have been working on for years and is close to market. This means they aren't going to create a business of licensing that tech to them. Are they going to get into the high capex business of car manufacturing?

Google Fiber? Same story. Capex heavy business with lower margins than being an ad company. It also takes a lot of time to scale it up and roll it out to cities.

Most of these things are for PR rather than real businesses that will be successful and change Google's revenue mix from 90%+ advertising to anything else. Even in their core business, Cost Per Clicks continue to trend down. This is a deterioration in pricing power largely being driven by the shift to computing on mobile devices. Their latest quarterly results were good because they are essentially "making it up in volume", but there is a limit to how much ad inventory you can squeeze out of all your properties to keep driving aggregate clicks up without pissing off users or trashing your products.
Soda made from regular sugar is going to be as cheap as soda made from HFCS. Obese people will still be able to drink 64 ounce "cups" of sugar water.

Fat people do not need HFCS to become fat. They need calories. Some people suggest that HFCS may make those calories less satiating than calories from fat, but they don't mention other types of sugar. Any sugar when eaten in excess is harmful. Sugar from honey or sugar beets or sugar cane is going to cause harm if you're drinking six litres of soda a day.

The Economist puts a UK Big Mac as cheaper than a US Big mac. What are our subsidies that make the burgers so cheap, if we don't have cheap HFCS?

http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
Could line 21 of nginx.conf actually be any more arrogant or presumptuous?
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> You made me curious and while googling I came across some information that seems to indicate that companies in California cannot go back further than seven years on a background check and cannot ask about convictions more than seven years ago.

That's the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which is federal:

Except as authorized under subsection (b)
of this section, no consumer reporting agency may make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information: [...] Civil suits, civil judgments, and records of arrest that from date of entry, antedate the report by more than seven years or until the governing statute of limitations has expired, whichever is the longer period.

There is an exemption for salaries above $75,000 and underwriting/credit above $150,000, but most companies err on the safe side and never provide that information anyway.
Agreed. Honestly, I see the appeal of maintaining a clean history, but shouldn't that be done in some non-destructive fashion? Do we need source-control on our source-control? Or at least simply flag squashed commits instead of destroying them?
Tried and was disappointed I couldn't search the 2000-era web.
At the company I work, we use Windows for an array of monitors running in our network operations centre. The only reason we went with Windows was that the display multiplexer thingy we bought doesn't support Linux.

Our app is entirely web-based, so it was quite possible to choose any reasonably modern OS.

http://xkcd.com/934/
If someone likes the subreddits mentioned above, you might also want to look at these:

http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview,

http://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics,

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/,

http://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/.
> Now it's just another large company - only concerned about maximizing profit.

> Google was a company that, for a time, I loved. To me, they represented the antithesis of Microsoft, a rebellion against a poisonous corporate culture dominated by profiteering that had no regard for its users.

Maybe You're Just Not Their Target Demographic Anymore™

Google had better ideals, sure. But I'd say their current actions are actually making Google's products better for more people. Unfortunately, as their products improve for the majority of people, they become less accommodating[1] of early users and people who actually care about privacy, restraint in advertising, and domain-specific needs.

However, OP doesn't provide specific examples of what Google did that made him worry, just a general discomfort with Google that's been voiced countless times since their IPO.

I hate their general attitude about privacy, their gradual shoving of ads everywhere, and the usual we-are-open stuff used to divert questioning, but maybe it's time to admit that Google is just getting better at things that don't matter to you.

[1]: It's a false choice, yes: they could keep honoring their initial principles and still grow and profit, but has any behemoth corporation ever done that?
This is great, thanks for sharing. I used to use ifconfig.me but somehow it's taking a long time to respond even if you are just using curl. So I'm glad I'll be able to replace it with your site.
Mmm I don't quite get why sys.getsizeof is reporting a bigger size in the slotted class, it should be the other way around according to that post.

Test code at: http://codepad.org/wlb53BLf not sure if I'm missing something...
i think you misunderstand me, what is scary is that the comment needs making at all.

"why don't people test their software by merely running it? esp in the config it will ship in."

i.e. why aren't you testing what you ship. i.e. with the -O flag on. the fact that build flags cause headaches like this is well understood from my history with languages using the C preprocessor - all C, C++ etc. programmers will have a good handle on this from necessity i think. it scares me to think that people are writing code but not understanding what it is going to do...
Or for many of the world's desktop Linux developers who use Eclpipse, EGit is quite good and also free. Oh, and it works on Windows, Mac, for that matter just about any Linux platform that supports Eclipse.
ER, Neuro, OB, Radiology, Psych, GI, Cardio, Optho, Family, Peds, Nursing. I'm sure I'm skipping a few.

Honestly, obesity is a root cause for so many preventable illnesses. All it takes is moderate diet and exercise and you'll be set.