skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built and use djangothis[1] for my blog. It gives you most of the power and flexibility of django, like templates, arbitrary urls and views [which gets converted to static html], templatetags and a few other niceties.

[1]: https://github.com/amitu/djangothis/.
Over $800 now. I guess someone with a large wallet just dumped everything carelessly.
The South African resistance to apartheid also bombed civilians. And I suspect that they did not recognize the right of South Africa to exist as a White country.
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Assuming this data is from the Medicare (insurance program for those >65) dataset released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services earlier this year (http://go.cms.gov/1bowKJA) I have a couple of points to make:

1.) Not sure if you grabbed "charges" or "payments", but "charges" are what the providers (hospitals) billed to Medicare, and "payments" are what Medicare actually paid the providers. "Payments" would be the best indicator of "price".

2.) Regardless of whether you are using "charges" or "payments", it's pretty much irrelevant for the average person. Why? Because the patient never pays the full amount (except for the uninsured...see below).

3.) While you don't pay the full amount in most cases, you will have to pay something. However, what you actually pay varies WIDELY based on your health insurer (the "payor") and the design of the health insurance plan.

4.) Also note that every "payor" negotiates a different price, so the Medicare price does not equal the Commercial Insurance price which does not equal the Medicaid price which does not equal the price the uninsured person pays.

5.) Finally, the diagnostic/procedural terminology in this dataset is impenetrable to most people. For example, does anyone on HN know what "transient ischemia" is? And if you do, do you understand that you can have transient ischemia in many parts of your body (FTR, I'm an MD)?

Although I appreciate the effort and the clean visualization, I don't think this data is particularly useful to an individual trying to make health care decisions for reasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (and probably others that I'm missing).

The one place where this data may be useful on an individual level is in the case of the uninsured. When you have no insurance the hospital basically makes up a price (taken from something called the "chargemaster") that is way more than what commercial insurance would pay, and WAY WAY more than what Medicare would pay. Having access to this data might help an uninsured person negotiate a lower price when the hospital comes after you with a giant bill. Medicare is a pretty solid standard to compare to - i.e. "you're charging me 5X, whereas you would only charge Medicare X".

On a societal level I think this data is also extremely valuable because now you can start to analyze pricing disparities across procedure types and geographies, which is really helpful. You can also put pressure on providers who are gouging individuals paying sticker price (i.e. the uninsured), which is important given that medical bills drive the majority of personal bankruptcies.

We ran a competition on this topic recently at Health 2.0 and you can learn more about the issue and the datasets on our site. You can also view other visualizations of this very important data:

http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/rwjf-hospital-price-t...

Transparency in health pricing is a very important topic and something you'll hear a lot more about in the future. Happy to discuss further with anyone who wants to learn more (@jeanlucneptune, jeanlucneptune@gmail.com).
The $600bn spent on "income security" excludes social security, no? That's a huge chunk of change, and a basic income could in effect replace the need for it. That said, any sort of transition would be difficult to implement (and political kryptonite.)
However, I think hand in hand with this you need to map outcomes data, especially for invasive procedures. Often, the reason to go to a "Big Hospital" say UCSF instead of Podunk Community Hospital is that there is often a big disparity in skill between a UCSF faculty surgeon vs. others. Or, even between different hospitals.

I'm not sure how to do this - hospitals like to hide adverse outcomes from the public, but it's really information in the public interest. Ideally you'd want some sort of index that weighs complication rates (something unexpected happening), outcome/effect measures (procedure did what it was supposed to do), with price.
I think it's going to be pretty wild for the next few days/weeks because of the China news. I would sell at $777 and wait for the ride to be over before I bought in again. I got out earlier today at $900 anticipating the China news to sink in later today. Sure enough when China wakes up it crashes.

I'm going to wait until it stabilizes around a price before I buy again.

The good news: China can't ban BitCoin as a currency again, and the US looks like it isn't going to.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the Chinese Central Bank action (discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6853305) prevented Chinese citizens from converting RMB into BTC directly from their bank accounts? Might be behind some of this (from what I understand, BTC was one of the only ways mainland Chinese citizens could /legally/ convert RMB into other currencies above the daily limit).
Those aren't downsides of bitcoin, they're downsides of unregulated trading markets controlled by a single entity. You'd have exactly the same problems if MtGox was trading horseshoes.
Are GitHub contributions viable to gain experience?
As a CS sophomore with no significant projects/practical experience to speak of, I'd like to start addressing that and looking around, working on open source projects on GitHub seems to be all the rage nowadays. I was wondering what people's thoughts on this are, since I'm trying to position myself better to get a decent internship next year and this is a huge oversight on my part so far.
Have you ever thought you were having a heart attack? Flu tends to be moved by car.
Yea, they may be. But not now. The trader's goal is to buy low, and sell high. Selling low makes no sense.
Estimates of Missing Women in Twentieth Century China
Oh, you must be one of the first people who tried to access healthcare.gov then :-) that explains it
No, having any requirement at all puts more bureacracy into it, the point is to get rid of bureacracy -because that requires money for paperwork filing, and management, that could be spend on instituting the policy. The better method would be to have tax breaks for employed individuals. Perhaps each person would be required to pay back $500 in taxes per year if they're not employed, or something similar... Though, I feel we should move away from income tax as well and just have a national sales tax which would fluctuate based on what outstanding debt is and how much is brought in per year.

It IS possible to get spending in check, and fix everything, but we need to get rid of a LOT of bloat, there are WAY too many uneeded jobs in congress(especially in congress/and the senate lol). Personally, if I had a gbi, I would NOT work--in the basic sense, I WOULD innovate and do freelance work to earn extra money to put towards a startup idea... That is what I love about GBI -- the fact that entrepreneurs don't need to work but can actually work full-time on their business ideas!
Patriot Act author: Obama’s intel czar should be prosecuted
Asking for definitions of what people should do, when ultimately the individual will be the one who will have a choice to make regardless of the circumstances, seems like yardsticking to me (that's what definitions are used for, right?), though I suppose I could wonder about that too.

I also suppose I could wonder about how many aspiring/(non)tenured PHD's spend their entire lives producing publication after publication without an inkling of fame or any major contributions relative to those of the likes of Higgs (or in general, anything any individual decides to do in the spectrum of their peers), who think that they haven't wasted their life.
That guy went way overboard. I share some of the "nerds" hobbies and I don't mind the jokes at all
Another way of phrasing the same thing, is that modern welfare systems (e.g. Australia's) put reasonable conditions on receiving welfare, that make it possible to target welfare to only the people who really cannot find a job, making the disincentive to work associated with welfare much smaller than it would have been otherwise.

I actually think it's sadder that you think characterizing people's attitudes using negative terminology is a substitute for a real argument.

EDIT: I've never complained about ratings before, but is this really a bad argument, or do basic income proponents just think that everyone who disagrees with them is an evil ignorant person? It seems to me that certain causes attract zealots.
Yeah, I guess that is a big plus. The feature I was referring to was the ability to directly access a track on Spotify from mobile, which is only available with Premium.
can we get that in postgresql 9.3.3 ok tks bye
Brain is remarkably adaptable.

So, waterboarding is consistent with an environment conducive to academic research?
I think the authors point was that the people in that room consider $1000 a month to not be a livable wage. Therefore, the inference is that those people would want to see more than $1000 a month, which would be even more costly. Perhaps the author just picked $1000 for ease of mathematical illustration.
> It's an observed phenomenon in Africa.

Here I was expecting.. "in the western world" ;D
OP: Thanks everyone for the feedback!

Just a short explanation of the (still very rudimentary) query "system" (using the term loosely here)...

Tab file gets scraped, broken down into individual passages based on how it's written (aka the "riffs", even though they might not technically be)..

P.M.---| h P.M. h
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|--------7^8--7-------------|
|--------------------7^8--7-|
|-0---0-----------0---------|
|---------------------------|

becomes normalized / encoded to something like

"5a 5a 3h 3i 3h 5a 4h 4i 4h"

and inserted into an ElasticSearch cluster, using a non-word analyzer for indexing (simplified a bit here for sake of argument - but I also save all spacing, symbol markup, bar sections and palm muting they just are not being utilized in search currently).

"settings": {
"index.analysis.analyzer.nonword.type": "pattern",
"index.analysis.analyzer.nonword.pattern": "[^\\w]+"
}...

Upon search - the same encoding function is then applied to the incoming text, exploded and thrown in an ordered SPAN query with diff levels of 'slop'...

"query": {
"span_near": {
"clauses": [
{
"span_term": {
"riff_code": "5a"
}
},
{
"span_term": {
"riff_code": "5a"
}
},
{
"span_term": {
"riff_code": "3h"
}
},
{
"span_term": {
"riff_code": "3i"
}
}
],
"slop": 6,
"in_order": true
} ....

I cut the score off at a >1.1 or something so that it doesn't show things that are way off.

At the time it seemed like the best way to detect patterns that are mostly similar and look decent. I also experimented with MoreLikeThis and FuzzyLikeThis query variants, but ultimately the span query gave closer results to what one would EXPECT to see (but still has some scoring and clustering problems).

Any Lucene / ElasticSearch gurus feel free to suggest differently.
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R terminal:

> 2147483629*2147483647

[1] 4.611686e+18
I don't think Reagan supported segregation. I do think he was willing to support segregation in South Africa to achieve American geopolitical goals. Many people would argue that this is proper and the American President has no obligation to anyone but Americans.

My point was more that we consider segregation to be long-past history, while we consider Reagan to be a President of the modern era. In fact, Reagan was eight years older than George Wallace, and was in his 50's by the time of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Or, say, Magic cards (which is exactly what MtGox was originally, hence the "MtG" in the name).
Decision Points in Programming
Langton and Dupre try to unconfuse journalists about minds, brains, and gender
This is cool, I could consider booting up my old netbook again if I can just use flash. One problem I foresee though is that the keyboard layouts are some short list. I don't know which "Canadian" keyboard layout it is, there are at least 3 common variations. I hope they can fix that so we can select from the full list of keyboards.
The "cost" and "work" arguments really need to be combined together (this is also why economists prefer models to verbal arguments - it forces some amount of internal consistency and avoids endless arguments about definitions).

The primary difference between conventional welfare and basic income, is that you can have extremely high effective marginal tax rates for people on welfare. E.g. in Australia your effective marginal tax rate while on welfare is around 50%. For each dollar you earn, you get $0.50 less welfare (and pay a small amount of tax too).

Usually high marginal tax rates are associate with a disincentive to work. However since when you are on welfare, the government makes you report your job-seeking activity, you are forced to try to look for work even though without this monitoring there would be little financial incentive to work. So having strings attached to welfare allows a higher effective marginal tax rate for people on welfare, and is therefore "cheaper" in some sense.
Oh good, are we using hyperbole now?
Near as I can tell, the mainstream K-12 curriculum today resembles what Wilson would have considered to be a liberal education. Lots of math, science, reading, writing, history, etc.
a trader needs to cut his losses. Selling low makes more sense than losing all.
Very nice but it sucks on mobile.
Thanks for posting this. I am going to subscribe to this. I've been hearing nothing but wonderful things about Elixir but have been struggling with making some mental connections. Your videos look like they'll help me make those connections.
I used to think that, but then I realised that within enterprise, "cyber-" comes with 20% extra salary for the same role. Downside is having to be able to translate for suits, upside is /you get to translate for the suits and do it right/ ;)
China woke up and itsnot crashing that much more.
honestly, what is "a paper"? a publication is an atrifact of an idea. says nothing about the quality of that idea. today's system is just geared toward printing out a lot of garbage. one way to understand this is that all subjects have similarly increased publications over the years. does that mean each subject is progressing as a function of the subject's publications? of course not. they are being told to "jump" for money, so those in academy respond: "how high"? Acdemics are truly just rats in a maze at this stage of the game. They are guaranteed a salary by tenure, but not "funding" to actually do their work. Tenure offers no job security, in the broader sense, of having your costs covered.
I haven't watched Community, but that is a long form version of my description to others (when asked) of why I don't watch The Big Bang Theory. I gave it a few episodes, I caught more when others watched it. It never clicked for me why I would be considered a part of the target audience when you often don't laugh with the characters, but at them. Thanks for the link.
Ask HN: Any volunteers for Guaranteed Basic Income Non-Profit? 
I'm a huge fan of this idea, as I love how it empowers people--when all people receive equal income, they no-longer have the 'I'm a loser collecting a handout' mentality. People will feel better about themselves, and seek to rise above their station. -- People spend hours in unemployment lines, and collecting foodstamps, and going through hoops that they could spend on education, or applying for jobs, or starting new businesses.

Entrepreneurs will have more expendable income and time freedom to go out and start something awesome.

The icing on the cake is that it won't cost anymore than we're currently spending, and a lot of sound studies point to the fact that it could actually end poverty once and for all!

I'm wanting to get some bright minds together to start an initiative to get the ball rolling.

Here are some phases: 1 : Build website/media channels to get the word out and explain in idiot-proof terms what it is, and why people should talk to their congressmen about it.

2 : Get politicians on board--as far as I can tell, this is something that MANY libertarians are behind, lots of democrats, and even conservatives like. It's a NON partisan issue, which means if we can get a respectable member from each party on board we could build some strong momentum.

3 : Collect donations to get the word out, and collect signatures in support of the initiative, and build an email/mail congress system to contact politicians and get the word out.

If you're onboard, send me an email : pixelgremlins@gmail.com
> Can someone from Orange County please go pay him a visit at one of his many offices or his cowork space.

This isn't /b/.
I'm pretty sure that kind of suggestion is frowned on in these parts.
Its annoying that people have started using hacking for everything. Isn't art hacking just art? Isn't growth hacking just growth. I hate how these buzz words catch on and are then used for anything and everything.
Is buying SAFE similar to buying CALL option?
' [just] the government/military who are obsessed with labeling things "Cyber." '

By extension, this means anyone who works with them, which means in turn any FTSE/NASDAQ 500 organisation and their partners/suppliers. So pretty much any medium to large enterprise (enterprise for short).

If you're a start-up and want access to the big revenue generating clients, the enterprise is were it's at. Which means making them feel safe and secure and using the easy terminology they understand.

Cyber.
The best deals never even hit CL as they are usually dealt to someone else before the ad ever goes up.

For the SF Bay Area, where rents are outrageous, house or apartment sharing is really the only way to cut your monthly rent. So get a place but continue to network to get a line on a better place, once you are in the area you want to live.

I do know a guy who would posts ads in CL asking for a room for rent, or in-law units, etc. He has found some nice places for pretty cheap because some of these in-law units are not exactly legal or perhaps the income is not reported and the owner doesn't want ads floating around as evidence.
Look at a chart of the last 30 hours. I wouldn't draw too many conclusions minute to minute here, it's anybody's guess where things will be in a few days (I suppose as is per usual with bitcoin).
try asking him 'if you have one cookie, and I eat it, how many cookies do you have?'
You could translate to either Lisp or raw instructions for the Lisp machine, but it doesn't really matter. The main thing that you do differently from a normal C compiler is translate pointers into pairs of a buffer and an index into the buffer. Then pointer arithmetic still works as far as it is required to work by the C spec.
> I would not be opposed to a system of guaranteed jobs that paid $10,000 a year, or whatever we think this basic income should be.

It already exists. It's called civil service/public sector and the problem with it is that there's not enough money and not enough made up jobs to hire everyone.
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This looks like the technology behind Prior Knowledge (http://priorknowledge.com/), which is not surprising given that a lot of the same people are involved. Awesome that it's going open source.

It will be interesting to see how far the database analogy can be pushed. The key thing to realize is that BayesDB is based on a particular model, CrossCat (http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/crosscat/). If your database table is an adjacency list that represents a graph, for instance, it's not going to perform very well compared to a more tailored model. On the other hand, a generic approach to high-dimensional imputation is very useful.
Most of these objections (e.g. the reciprocity thing) seem absurdly made-up; you could just as easily make up something opposite. But a couple of points are substantive if not substantiated. For example:

But if you means-test it to control the cost, or try to tax most of the benefits back for people who aren’t low-income, you rapidly lose the efficiency gains and start creating some pretty powerful disincentives to work.

Why? I can see how "means-test" might imply bureaucracy and thus inefficiency, but what's wrong with using tax policy for this? It seems like an obvious way to ensure that people who don't need the money don't get it, and no more inefficient as everyone has to fill out their taxes anyway.

Come to think of it, isn't that so obvious that the debate ought to start there, rather than end there? Otherwise the objections start to seem rather straw-man.
A choice to create a bootable USB image would be nice, since despite the existence of some automation tools, this is a hurdle that puts off some people interested in exploring RAM-resident Linuxes.
The stricter rules took effect on July 31st. But are you referring to validity or length of stay? I've never heard of a tourist visa that allowed you to stay for a year even before the crackdown.
Tax breaks for employed individuals is exactly what the EITC is. Assuming you stick with an income-based tax system, employment verification is effectively built in and requires little to no additional bureaucracy.

A national sales tax comes with its own set of bureaucracy. It's also regressive and shifts the tax burden disproportionately onto the poor (unless you made the sales tax wealth or income dependent, which would introduce the same bureaucracy you were trying to get rid of earlier).

I'm not sure a GBI would necessarily be good for entrepreneurship. I see your point, but having a runway disciplines young companies and forces them to get to market in a timely manner.
The whole point is that some people won't be working because they are being made obsolete with the advent of computerized robotics. I don't want the uninformed and skilless clamouring to be in the work force, I want them out of the way.

As for the cost, that is simple. Don't just look at federal numbers. Basic Income should be at National, State/Province, and City level to iron out regional differences. Don't forget that there are a lot of other costs that go away with a Basic Income, like minimum wage and socialized housing.
once your funds are in, you can instantly exchange between crypto-currencies
You're right, of course. It's not pseudoscience because it's a blog targeted at a non-scientific audience. It's pseudoscience because it's complete nonsense.
I'm sure there are many, many more federal agencies that use floppies.
FBI’s search for ‘Mo’ highlights use of malware for surveillance
I'm trying to figure out where your non sequitur came from. The brain being adaptable does not mean its ability to adapt is infinite and no one, but you, suggested that. Did they waterboard you in your academic program? Is that supposed to be an analogy to some other behavior? I can't even conceive of what they might do that would be close to that hard on a person's mind.
Someone bought a Tesla with Bitcoins
These arguments are specious.

Most Libertarian proponents of a guaranteed income don't favor it because it will "save money," but because it's the least economically distortive way of redistributing wealth. The arguments goes, "Well, as long we're going to be handing out money, we should do it in a way that minimizes the number of strange incentives." There are also ways of implementing a guaranteed income that don't involve mailing a bunch of checks to people every month, e.g., a negative income tax.

Overall the article appears to be arguing against a particular and very naïve implementation of a guaranteed income.