skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I'm just completely retarded or hitting a bug. How do I use the "Select a Procedure..." box? Typing into it does nothing. If I click on the box (or the down triangle), it brings up a menu with only one option, which says "Select a Procedure..." and does nothing. This is on Chrome on Windows. I'm in Los Angeles, if that matters.
The reason she seemed to exclude Social Security is that there is no way to have a Basic Income replace Social Security without having a massive decrease in social security checks. You essentially cut them in half.

Social Security doesn't work if a check is $600 a month. It won't prevent poverty.
I usually limit them to alphanum, spaces, dashes, underscores. The rest of the characters is a pain to type on mobile.

I also try to futureproof with using extra long passwords. Most of the time I copy-paste them anyway, so it doesn't matter.

The attacker wouldn't know which characters I used, so they will have to have a wider coverage anyway.

Keylogger is my worst fear, of course. But I try to be safe about the shit I download and how I browse the websites. I scan my PC for viruses, keyloggers and rootkits daily.
My favorite is "wreckless", as in "wreckless driving". One should hope that all driving is wreckless.
Well here is one way it could be implemented, and this would also solve the issue of cost.

Imagine it's offset against earnings. That is, if you earn more or less than the benefit amount, you get paid the difference - in one case by the employer, in the other case by the government.

You can see how this solves the cost problem: the society overall is already paying the total cost is of whatever people are currently paid; this just puts a floor on the range.

Clearly this would get rid of much of the extreme inequality: it would amount to a kind of minimum wage; the net effect would be to give workers a larger share, and more bargaining power, and leave less for the upper-middle and the 1% - at no more cost than the current system.
He didn't show it wasn't a strong argument, he showed his tool for arguing is a fallacious statement. Reductio ad absurdum[1] is a weak argument. It involves non sequiturs, consequents which do not (by any sane logic) follow from the initial statement or assertion.

There are certainly issues in academia. "Publish or perish" is a terrible model for retaining people and measuring success. In the enterprise world the endless emails and meetings seriously detract from the work effort in many cases. That doesn't mean things don't get done, it means the balance is off. Be proactive and instead of making up absurd arguments about the impossible consequences of a thing, fix it. Develop tools that manage communication better. Show that in your office the daily stand ups are not necessary and ask forgiveness along with submitting the case study that demonstrates you improved productivity with your alternate approaches. Avoid making weak, sarcastic, slippery slope arguments like a religious fundamentalist that believes condoms lead to sheep fucking.

EDIT: [1] I should say, in this case, as water boarding nor anything near it in terms of affecting the mind is or is at risk of being applied in academia or enterprises where deep thought and creativity are necessary to the completion of the task.
Yes, since the particles are point-like we should expect the force between them to grow without bound if they are very near.

I find the calculation for small distances to be unpredictable, one easy way to test it is to place two particles with small gravity and a large attractive charge. Occasionally close passes cause explosive motion, while other times it hardly overcomes gravity.
> An ER is required by law to treat anyone who comes in.

They're basically allowed to make you "stable" and then send you out into the cold. They might do more but they don't have to.
A quote from a friend of mine:

"Arrested development is smart jokes at the expense of stupid people; the Big Bang Theory is stupid jokes at the expense of smart people."
Where you are missing the point is that in those endeavors you mention—music, acting, sports—the activity IS play. Playing is what you are expected to be doing, and you actually practice at it. (Source: I majored in acting and music.)

Certainly Cleese is more interested in the creativity of ideas, especially writing, but his requirements for creativity (space, time, time, confidence, humor) apply to anything.
> My life was so much easier to live when I decided that it was okay to peacefully allow other people enjoy things that I don't.

Yes it is, it will also be easier when you don't complain about people complaining about things they don't like.
No, I just don't think making references for their own sake is particularly clever.

But if you like that kind of joke and you like the show, that's great. It's not something I would judge you as a person for. Heck, I'd be happy to suggest Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, if you haven't read it already.
Blog or get off the pot (2006)
In answer to the question:

"Suppose Bitcoin mining software always explored nonces starting with x = 0, then x = 1, x = 2,\ldots. If this is done by all (or even just a substantial fraction) of Bitcoin miners then it creates a vulnerability."

The reward for mining the block includes the miner's account, so each miner is hashing a unique block.
>>Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".
Oh it might be this syntax error on line 21 of index.js:

Is: query.ascending)(

Presumably should be: query.ascending();
Offshore fresh groundwater reserves as a global phenomenon
Well, easy, you just apply group theory ;-) and clearly you have the correct amount such that if you keeping eating this amount of cookies, no matter how many cookies you start with, you end up the same number [Identity]
No. This is wrong, yet people keep citing this.

EMTALA [0] requires the hospital to stabilize the patient, ie, make it so that it is no longer an emergency (the "E" in "ER"). If you "really can't pay" and it's not an emergency, you likely will find yourself in collections from the hospital.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and...
So ignoring Medicare / Medicaid / health insurance in general, the current expenditures on social security / unemployment / welfare add up to ~$1.4 trillion, which (given the 235 million adults stated in the article) is ~$500/month per citizen.

I could easily live alone on that in parts of the country. Given that people surviving on said basic income could (and should!) have roommates or spouses, it's even more than necessary.
The extension is still .exe, though. It only _looks_ like .doc after font rendering. And so, as the OP suspected, the .exe needs to have the proper icon embedded. It's not provided by the file browser.
App doesn't work on safari or firefox mac
Wow, you have an exceptional parent, that's all I can say.
The purpose of TBBT is not to entertain nerds, it's to acclimatize everyone else to the new normal where nerds hold a form of status. In 2013 nerds can be very rich, their fields can be very influential, and their intelligence can be useful to normals.

Normals, however, don't understand how to relate to nerds in a post-high school environment. Their previous social training has been to simply ostracize and bully. TBBT teaches normals a new way of relating to nerds: tolerate them, make friends with them, turn a blind eye to their social awkwardness and weirdness, and trade your cultural capital for the nerd's intellectual and financial capital.

Nerds can be useful to normals. Nerds can be good friends if you understand how to handle and bracket their awkwardness. They can even be good boyfriends if you understand how to handle them--Leonard can benefit Penny with his intelligence, devotion, and wealth even if he isn't cool.

TBBT isn't aimed at nerds, it's a primetime mainstream TV show.

The author is right that the public is laughing at the nerds not with them. However TBBT still represents a sea change in the public representation of nerds--now nerds are not to be ostracized, rather they are to be tolerated.
Social Security and Medicare are about 1.3 trillion a year and any system that replaced Social Security and Medicare will be a system that is much less generous to the elderly. A basic income will essentially reduce the monthly check from 1100 to about 670 with no health benefits at all. There is no way to get around the fact that this will cause a massive increase in elderly poverty.
Nice work digging in and figuring out how to trigger it. I fiddled around some earlier and wasn't able to reproduce the behavior I saw before, so I gave up. :) You are correct that the CLR does a poor job optimizing value types, and I probably made the same mistake (i.e. used a struct)
For me (and lots of other people, too) Clojure is a fantastically acceptable flavor of LISP.
That doesn't mean they can't be counted linked lists.
Forget mature. It's not an investment vehicle, period. No currency is an investment vehicle. No currency can be an investment vehicle.

Now, if you want to speculate on how currency values might fluctuate relative to each other, then you've got something. Bitcoin's an absolutely fantastic currency for speculation.
Of course, but Clojure didn't exist in 2006. I wonder what Steve Yegge would say today.
This is a long shot, but could you be thinking of the Django template language?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins...

<ul>
{% for athlete in athlete_list %}
<li>{{ athlete.name }}</li>
{% empty %}
<li>Sorry, no athletes in this list.</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
During World War II, one of the U.S.'s great technical marvels was the Norden bombsight. Production, by GM, needed to be ramped up: but labor in Detroit was exceedingly tight. The only sufficiently large group available, who were hired, trained, and succeeded in production, were "superannuated Negro prostitutes." The reason the Germans didn't produce their own bombsight in equal numbers is that they believed that such a device could only be produced by highly trained, laboriously apprenticed technicians.

IMO, the idea that there are worthless people, in any significant number, is a pernicious and evil meme.
Same here. From my experience in regular stock trading on etrade, I've come to expect anything I invest in to crash to the ground 1 minute later so I bought a minimal amount of BTC to test the waters. Sure enough, crash. I totally went into this with the plan of first buying 1kUSD of bitcoin; crash a week later then buy $4k. Just waiting to see if it'll crash below $500.
"some agencies still scan documents on to a computer and save them on floppy disks. The disks are then sent by courier to the register."

So painful to read.
There are a myriad of agencies still using floppies in some capacity. I know for a fact that the ATF still has them available, even if maybe they're only around for investigate purposes. The Department of Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) (and possibly the Mint) had them the last time I was there, as they're used in the machines that make the moneys.

I have it on good authority that floppy disk drives can still be found in the NSA and the Pentagon (though they've made a very strong push for multi-tenancy SAN as primary storage over the past decade), etc., etc.

That this one particular agency still receives files on floppy disks necessitates that they still have floppy disk drives, though I must say that I'm a little surprised they haven't simply dictated to their upstream providers that they're switching.
Nice! Me and my friend made this app back in a few weeks ago, and here is the link.http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/#/

1. We used the 'Average Payment' for the actual number shown on the site.
2. Even though it's irrelevant, but it actually goes back to you by your co-pay and other expenses to you. Not 100% sure though. The point in our app is that, we want to compare the price vs quality in the US top hospitals. They actually vary a lot.
3,4 I agree. Co-pay is what you pay mostly.
5. We cleaned up the procedure names manually, and matched the procedure related specialties to the hospital specialty ranking made by US News, and it gives much better perspective to the users.

Nice to see people doing more health related stuff out there!
Stagnation is not only a manifestation of economy but every other field such as science. We have seen rapid growth in the past century and some forces be it policy, or expectation and pressure for faster growth will ultimately contribute to a stagnant period in terms of growth vs growth to the prior.
Here is what he said then re Arc: "My prediction: someone will get tired of waiting, and they'll Torvalds Arc into obsolescence before it's ever released. (If you don't get the reference, it's what Linux did to GNU Hurd)."
"As a hobby"... are we talking about a certain plant in particular?
It wasn't. Seems to me that it's a way to keep things going. No one was recruited.
While the tax code may use a different definition for clarity, having a job is still technically running your own business in every other way. What is interesting is that while there are an infinite number of ways to make money, the vast majority of the population all choose to run their business in the exact same way (single client, set working hours, defined pay schedule, etc.). Is that business model chosen because it is the most efficient way to run a business, or is it because they learned to run their business that way from an external source, such as school?

I'm not sure we can garner any meaningful data from dropouts as only 8% of the population (in the US) drop out of the public education system, and I expect you'll find that the majority of them drop out in their later years, after already spending many years exposed to the system.
Yes, that was a bug.

They actually correspond to two different slugs in our database. One that has higher price is pointed to the more complicated procedures that involved multiple complications, while the other one is simpler procedure without any complications.
Healthcare.gov embraces nodejs
There was a whole "yes language" kerfuffle a while back. Quite frankly, I'm glad Clojure doesn't fit in to Yegge's world view.
frankly its fine that they do this, as long as it is regulated and is not abused. Today's criminals are harder to catch and to be blunt if the NSA had not broken laws and crossed the lines they had crossed stories like these would be fine and would not even have media relevancy.
I wonder to what extent this is still true with Clojure picking up steam. It doesn't have the old-Lisp roots sticking out, but replaces them with protruding Java bits[0]. Plus I seem to recall Steve wanted Clojure to "say yes more" (can't find the link now), but don't know if he still feels that strongly.

[0] I have only done a little bit of Clojure programming, but I remember being mildly frustrated by having to deal with unfamiliar Java-isms that were showing, not having done Java at that time. This was around a year ago.
Ask HN: Do we believe BAML or Baidu On Bitcoin?
So Bank of America Merrill Lynch says Bitcoin is going to $1300, but Baidu is no longer accepting it.

The two are in strong conflict, and based on the sudden dive in BTC it would look like Baidu is more influential. So should I liquidiate my coins and get out while I am still up from my buy in August? Or do I double down and buy while the price is slumping?
I am interested in what kind of alternative are you offering? How do you give basic knowledge to the majority of people?
That is a nice story, but maybe we should face the replacement of human labor head on instead of lying to ourselves.
Math, science, and programming, are also play. ;-)
We're not genetically different from early Man, who got nothing done except for basic survival and raising a family. Being unproductive is the default.
I was wondering when Satoshi Nakamoto would decide to cash out.

If one (or several) big account(s) was making a huge trade like that, though, it would be visible on the block chain.
I don't think it's about "quiet" - if you meant it literally - the right kind of distraction can be a sort of mental noise cancellation mechanism. Though this tends to work better in solitude, for obvious control reasons.
This reminds me of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand...
this is seriously bad ass! what a great idea.
so what? i've worked for large, successful private enterprises that still use 1960's technology, such as mainframes, tapes, and terminals.
I just tried it and I have the problem that it's very difficult for me to extend only my ring finger. I vaguely remember someone saying that this is because some fraction of the population don't have fully independent 4th and 5th fingers...
BC moves 30% HN turns into a currency trader forum.
I thought about this many years ago. It occurred to me that it could be put under the purview of the Federal Reserve Bank. Each citizen would become a stock holder of the Fed, owning one non-transferable share. Each stock would pay a monthly dividend and hence a basic income for all.

Few people know that right now there are already share holders in the Federal Reserve. They get paid 6% on their money guaranteed by law. Hence the Fed has incentive to keep inflation below this threshold. Lets use this as a template for every citizen. If a "basic income" was pegged to a 20hr part-time job at minimum wage, that would be approx $6000/yr. That amount is 6% of $100,000. So if the Government invested $100,000 per citizen in the Fed, that would cover it. With 200,000,000 million adults that comes to a total of $20 trillion. Now we can use another clever idea... the Treasury can just print two $10 trillion dollar coins, pay the Fed with it and issue each stock in the name of every citizen (based on SS). And the matter is all but done. This transaction is essentially the same as the current issuance of Federal bonds. So it is a simple precedence to follow. (Note, as the minimum wage gets raised, the Government adds additional funds, about $1 billion for every quarter raise.)
recursion & abstraction
1-year validity, 60-day length of stay.
In reading that link here are just a few things that seem to be wrong with it on first glance.

(In the link attempting explain the flatness problem), one cannot just assume all galaxies are moving towards each other without first positioning a center (of those galaxies). That in itself invalidates the rest of the flatness argument, which is required for the article on your link.

This was based on a precursory read, so it may not be entirely right
What's your goal, what do you want to achieve with this? Raise awareness? Promote the idea? Eventually apply this?

Also, you are based in the US, I understand? What's the number of bucks you'd say is the right amount for this? Do you reckon that's something easy to agree on?

Hope my questions are not mistaken for disagreement or criticism, I'd be all in for this if it was to be done thoughtfully.
Oh, I see now. That at least makes some sense. But surely you could construct some formula to mitigate that effect, if not eliminate it?

I fear that many arguments about incentive and disincentive are just morality tales anyway, based on beliefs about human nature. It's easy to imagine opposite stories. Maybe there will be a social incentive to work. Maybe there won't be enough jobs for everyone anyway. Maybe the disincentive to work will make wages go high enough that they become an incentive to work again. Maybe the disincentive to do menial jobs will free up incentive to do creative things, a net win for society.

It's easy to make these things up, and everyone mostly does it based on whether they already like or dislike an idea. (I rather like this one. Megan Mcardle presumably doesn't.) But do we have a good way to decide between them?
are you kidding? there's a huge difference between parsing a document with a program you've already trusted and installed, and running an executable.

your web browser literally downloads and parses documents all day long. pdf and .doc files might be marginally less secure, but they're by no means supposed to be executable.

if windows refuses to display the correct extension, I suppose you have to manually open them from whatever you want to view them with (File|Open) after downloading them to a certain folder.

I'd have zero qualms about doing this with a .txt file on windows for example - wouldn't you?
I see the same arguments about America's use of the atomic bomb in WW2.

A false analogy, since the US was in a position of overwhelming strategic superiority when it dropped A=bombs on Japan. It could easily have set up a naval blockade and waited the Japanese out, or continued it's highly effective conventional bombing campaign, or demonstrated the devastating power of the A-bomb in a thinly populated area - by dropping it on Mt. Fuji, for example, which would certainly have garnered a similar level of attention within Japan.
It's a Service as a Service. :)
I am actually a student/entrepreneur in residence at fastStart.Studio... I am emailing Michael Sawitz (the founder) right now...
they all have names like mine...no "Tom Jones" or "Chris Sullivan's" here
so your friend is reddit? pls go
My point is that using passwords that length doesn't gain you anything. It would take the world's fastest super computer in 20 years from now about 7 trillion years to brute force 128 bits of entropy, assuming the speed of the fastest super computer in the world keeps doubling every 1.1 years. And your passphrases have far more than that. It's like I said: The only way you can think that it provides you anything is if you also think there's some entity that makes computers orders of magnitude I can't comprehend faster than anything around, even without any sort of key extending. To brute force 20 characters, it would cost $280,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 on Amazon EC2, or about 6,000,000,000,000 times the amount of money in circulation globally. It's safe to say 20 characters is enough (as long as they're fully random); you're literally not gaining anything beyond that. My point about keyloggers was to show the disproportion of your paranoia: anyone who could attack that could also easily fund a targeted attack on your computer that you would never be able to detect, well beyond stuxnet funding levels.
I understand what you're saying. I'm aware of pretty much everything you said and I try to build startups in that way. I only work on projects that I can start small and grow. For example I had an idea for a more 'human' analytics app, which instead of showing graphs and statics would explain what was happening and ways to improve things with text. So I thought I'd keep it lean and started with just Twitter analytics and no body cared for it. I still love the idea but I don't have the time or resources to build it into the app I want it to be.

Thanks though, I do appreciate the advise.
I like the betterdoctor price maps! Too bad you didn't have a chance to enter our competition, because you might have been a winner. By point:

1.) Good choice
2.) You need to consider co-pays as well as allowable charges, deductibles, co-insurance (if applicable), and benefit maximums.
2b.) The quality data out there sucks (hard to measure quality in HC) and is hard to find.
3.) Cool
4.) Ibid
5.) Clever

HC now is like the internet in the early 90s. Huge opportunities that will hopefully attract talented developers, technologists, and entrepreneurs.
A little more concerning to me: "The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording"