skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two prices of health care I have to pay. One is the up front cash (or monthly insurance) cost I have to pay, the other is the massive time sink and general pain and inconvenience it is to get it.

I live in country where the cash cost is basically zero, yet I consume as little health care as possible due to the high second cost. In fact the times I do need health care I often opt to pay more up front to avoid as much of the second cost as possible.

As long as you keep the second high enough the demand for health care won't go to infinity even as the first cost goes to zero.
Being a non native speaker, I had no doubt that a developer licence saying "You have rights for royalty free use of our resources for any of your personal or commercial project." lacks the pluralization of project and is meant to allow using it on _any_ of your projects. Designmodo clearly stated it's one licence for one project. They should replace _any_ with _one_.
Wow, now we know how how those withered, barely readable tomes in your RPG should look like:
http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/page.php?book=ms._barocci_2...
Somewhat related: A collection of the different types of chairs in The Incredibles

http://jimunwin.com/extra/incrediblechairs/
I'm pretty sure they know the exact gender distribution of Spongebob / Scooby Doo merchandise buyers.

I don't - but from observing friends of my kids I'm fairly sure that it's nowhere near 50/50, despite, as you say, "they aren't particularly tailored to one gender or the other".
Snapchat pioneered ephemeral messaging. PingPal makes that available to ALL apps
Facebook finally launches 'dislike,' but only for Messenger
Fedora 20 released
Download: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/

More mirrors here, but not all servers are synced with 20 yet:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/20/

No announcement yet, link in title leads to release notes.
I'm a physician and software developer.

Diagnosing is a actually a rather small part (but very important) of my daily job as a physician. Doctors can't be replaced by computers and robots at the moment because much of what I do is listening, comforting, reassuring, educating, managing, administrating etc etc.

We urgently need better computer support tools.
Will doctors be replaced my robots? When you feel comfortable being comforted by a robot they will.
Download: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/

More mirrors here, but not all servers are synced with 20 yet:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/20/

No announcement yet, link in title leads to release notes.
Interesting... I thought the old nationalised BT had cables to every house.

I just object to not being allowed to use the hardware already installed with a provider entirely of my own choice, which would be the most efficient way to run infrastructure businesses.
Markets set efficient prices through competition. When I have just one vendor to buy from and have to pay whatever they demand or go without, it's recognized as an abusive monopoly and market failure. Why is it suddenly okay for a bunch of vendors (of labor) to openly form a cartel, declare all competing vendors off limits through intimidation and violence, and extort whatever they can? Why don't unions have to compete for contracts and thereby set sane terms?
(UK at least...)

You couldn't just point blank fire the bottom x% each year based on their ranking, you'd need to give the bottom x% warnings and put them on an improvement plan (so they have a chance to improve) and then, for those that don't, you can sack them.

Even then it may be tricky if you are cutting too deeply. Taking it to the extreme you couldn't use this method to fire the bottom 99% of employees as a tribunal would take that as constructive dismissal.

Firing the bottom 5%, after appropriate warnings/etc, is in the realms of possibility as there's a good chance that the employer can provide documentary proof that the employees fired were performing below expectations should a disgruntled employee take them to tribunal (which, sadly, now costs the dismissed employee £250 to file the claim and £950 if it goes to a hearing.)
I don't know. That was an honest question. The original post seemed to mention facebook being stuck on mysql as a big issue. So that made me wonder if that could be a reason why the only useful feature facebook released was facebook chat, and it was more than two years ago.
In this case, reading the linker documentation to find out what the various options do could be more productive than just making random changes to the linker script.

If you haven't been faced with a mystifying bug where randomly futzing with things in the hope that you would find a change that had a reliable effect was the best hope you had of solving it then you probably haven't been programming long enough.
And plenty of companies move away from Python and Ruby once they hit "own our own data center" scale, too. You only optimize once it's worth it.
On the flip side - I'm a helluva lot more comfortable divulging sensitive information to an expert system than I ever would to a doctor.
I think we need two classes of doctors. One that is a diagnostics and medical computer systems experts and never actually meets patients and one who's main focus is human and social skills that actually talks to patients, gets the data to feed into the computers and then interprets and explains the results.
What you do is important, not the hours I agree, but do you know what changed my life for the better with respect to work and home without changing the hours?

I stopped watching television.
I wasn't talking about facebook technical innovations, but rather end-user new features, sorry i wasn't clear.
The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study
Ah, bummer. I was hoping it would end up being something cooler.

Like in the 80's, writing games for the Commodore 64... Where they kept the memory for the program at a location shortly after where they kept the screen memory... So if you forgot to bounds-check the coordinates of the little guy you had running around on the screen, you could run him right off the bottom.

Where he'd start overwriting random bits of memory. Until eventually he walked right over your source code. Which was being interpreted. Until, of course, the guy caught up with the current execution point.

At which point, you hoped you had spent 10 minutes saving a copy of your code recently. Because listing your source you'd find it speckled with random special characters and changed values. Tire tracks from that little guy.

And you learned that the first thing you do when implementing that joystick routine is to also implement bounds checking.
But at that time it was relatively rare. Moving to an 8 hour day and only 5 days a week was unheard of at companies as large as Ford.
So they made a bootstrap for money?
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The article makes it sound as though the eight hour work day was a gift from the bosses to the workers; or an attempt to make them better consumers.

The truth is that thousands of workers died in a world wide struggle for humane working conditions during the 19th century.

In Chicago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

In 1921 bombs were dropped on striking coal miners in West Virginia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Video Backgrounds: Video Backgrounds
SteamOS is based on Debian Wheezy
A Really Boring Wabi-Sabi Designer
There is nothing...
I think it's a little more complicated than that.

If you had his background and the job in question, could you morally continue? No. If you were his employer and were involved in such things, could you continue employing him? No.

Nothing may have been said, even between Schneier and BT, but consider that every contract out there has a "don't badmouth your old employer" clause these days.
Facebook to announce in-feed video ads tomorrow
This site will give you a graph: http://hnrankings.info/6919666/
This is great. :-) This is still in beta.
Pie charts are bad
I'm by no means an expert but wouldn't it work the same way as earth as in the evaporated water would make it back down to the surface and repeaet?
Fedora 20 is out
Fedora 20 is out...
I do a less extreme version of this. I don't own a TV, but I still watch a few selected shows on my computer. Doing it that way means I can watch when I want, and also has the benefit of fewer commercials. In total, I probably watch about 4 hours of mindless TV a week, when many people watch that much in a day.
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It's inventions like the Karnaugh Map and the MOSFET that changed how the world does computing. I don't mean to downplay the technical merits of BigTable or Megastore, but all they really changed is how salesmen sell things.
Also, 8 hours of "work" vs. 8 hours of productivity is quite different. I use pomodoro timers to track my level of productivity and when they add up to 8 hours, my brain is totally done. I'd have to squeeze in a long run to shake myself out of it.
I think he was attributing the 5 day working week to Ford rather then the hours/day. 8/8/8 could result in a 48 hour week if you work six days, as many factory workers used to.
I think the point is that it is simple to add symbols in the C source code. You simply count the number of characters and then add it in the appropriate place.
I think that is the point of the article. Bell Labs had to release their research, Google does not have to. Well maybe the author of the article should replace "state sanctioned" by "state tolerated" in his description of Bell's monopoly but the key point remains - the difference between Google and Bell Labs is (was) the government involvement.
In small settings, e.g. just yourself, or you and your co-funder, of just a few employees, I guess this article makes sense for everyone. But the problem is with growing, bigger scheme.

It seems like as businesses grow and add more and more employees, they move to a more repetitive and uniform way to organize. Everybody should have the same schedule, losing an employee or hiring a new one isn't felt as much as a problem, they start to receive less feedback from employees and treat them more as repleceable workers.
Exactly. This article needs some better research. The real history of the eight-hour work day is intertwined with the history of worker's movements beginning in the mid 1800's. Ford was nothing more than an opportunistic Capitalist (hint: they all are). If you're interested in this subject, I suggest learning about the NLU, the Knights of Labor, August Spies, Haymarket, etc.
By targeting one gender, rather than both, advertising execs can ask for more money than a "generic" multiple gender ad. It's stupid.
This is great stuff that I think everybody should check out, whatever your field- it's just generally interesting. Insights can be useful metaphors for presentation, direction, writing, project management...

Relevant link: The use of light in cinema: http://imgur.com/a/cpLno
> Smith voluntarily transmitted the phone numbers he dialed to the phone company, information he and everyone else know are commonly stored as business records

I think I can understand and agree with this. I'm not sure what I think about the phone company disclosing these records to other people. Regardless of its actual legality, I think the distribution of that data could be a breach of trust.

It is entirely reasonable for my phone company to know who I'm calling, but I still expect that data to be "relatively private". I would be upset if my neighbours could get it from the phone company. I would be upset if the phone company mailed that data to me on a postcard. I think we should be similarly upset if the police can get hold of it without a court order.

How does the law address this? Is that information just not disclosed "in confidence"? Does the law follow a "genie out of the bottle" logic, whereby information that is not absolutely private is not private at all? Or do law enforcement agencies have a privileges regarding otherwise private information?
Exactly. Cant agree more. :)
Did any of HN readers tried this on their Android Phone ?
Yep. To be honest, since excluding television I worked out I'm maximally productive for about 25-30 hours a week. I've managed to get my working hours down to that from the standard 8 hour day by minimising politics and keeping collaboration tight as anything. Those hours may be over a 40-100 hour period though.

Obsessive tracking of the time is as unhealthy I found. I keep a work log but I never read it. It's mainly for other peoples' benefit.
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I noticed a load of icons downloaded to my Android Gallery application. They were not pictures I had taken, and didn't seem to be cached from something else I had looked at.
7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020
Meh. Posting because this type of story irks me every time.

I know I am a decent programmer. I also know I am not a good sales person (why? because I'm not good with people, or lying, or gambling - in fact I'm not allowed to talk to new leads at work until they are confirmed as clients and fully on board with a project). Therefore I need to stick with programming. However my current job has me stuck doing mundane repetitive programming. I've been looking for quite some time, but there are no job prospects in my field in my locality.

So the only realistic solution to being the best I can would be to go out on my own and start my own company - but I am not a good sales person, and chances are high that I would fail and be unemployed and broke. I can't move to a different location (I'm 2 years into a mortgage which has terms saying I cannot sell the house for 5 years), but even if I did Ireland as a whole is in a huge recession with huge unemployment and very few prospects. Moving abroad is expensive and has too many unknowns.

So I guess I'm left with post negative comments to random people on the internet.

You can't just say "be the person you want to be", and snap your fingers and make it happen. You can't blame your limits on other people and what they have said to you in the past. You have to work with facts as they are presented to you, and the fact is everyones circumstances are different and not everyones situation can be improved by reading silly feel good stories.
I fully agree. Everybody can surely agree this is vastly better that WhatsApp despite it's shortcomings.
BT was forced to unbundle the local loops years ago, and it's been possible to get broadband and phone services from a diversity of providers using old BT-installed lines for some time.
Designmodo are kind of like cancer for the design industry.
It's nice and well done, but now who would use this novelty idea in a real work? There are animated GIF or fonts SVG for that.
I think this is only true if you don't consider trillion-fold cost reduction as an option.
Yes, that really annoyed me about the article too. It made it much harder to read on a mobile device for one, plus I wanted to copy some text and share it as a quote with a link to the pdf but that was harder due to it being a pdf.
> Let's say the US retaliates against Iran's threat of force (let's just assume it makes a legitimate threat of force) and kills uninvolved Iranian citizens as a side-effect. Assume the US made reasonable attempts to minimize civilian casualties.
> Was the US's force against those civilians retaliatory, or initiatory? I would say the former. Iran initiated the force and is morally culpable for those deaths.

Eh, why do you think Iran is responsible for these deaths and not the US? Threats and disagreements are between the rulers of both countries, why on the earth should civilians be somehow involved and the slaughter be justified?

> If you agree with me here, we can procede. But this is important. I am saying that when the US (for example; imagine, now, that it is a mininal government) levies taxes to establish basic, necessary protection of rights (minimal police, courts, and military), it is analogous. It is retaliatory.

Why should some group of people decide what personally I need and impose payments for that "service" upon me? Did I have a say?

> The threat of initiated force being retaliated against is robbers, theives, foreign countries that would invade, etc. We know all these will run rampant without government (at least you can agree with me that that is true given the way society is now). It doens't have to be a specific thief or other rights-violator; we know they are out there, and that government is necessary to protect rights.

So, basically, to protect the people from robbery, we need to institute a larger theft body? Sounds like a good plan.

Now, what if I don't like the way government does its job protecting my rights? What if I find the govt performs this task in an inefficient and quite costly manner? What is I'm a pacifist and I don't want anybody to protect me? I can't opt out of the government "protection"; I can't switch the provider either.
According to Wikipedia[1], AT&T/Bell Labs UNIX license fees (for non-academic use) during the '70s and '80s ranged from $20,000—$200,000, and the terms were not even close to public domain, free, or open.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Systems_Research_Group
Yep, two other more 'deterministic' strategies should have caught this: interactive debugging should have showed that the memory is set to zero immediately after loading, not while running; and inspecting the symbol table could have revealed that only data after a fixed offset is corrupt.
I really like how it looks. However, the website is a little bit laggy when you scroll down. I wonder how they decided on the pricing model i.e. $249 for a single-user license. Not saying that it is unfair. Just asking if anyone has an idea.
Stunning revelation from man who sued NSA
What if your blog is hosted in America or other state?

Also if license is in English, the English definition of 'commercial' should apply. It should be translated 'for profit' to German.
That's cool, but I think if you want to study film, you should study the likes of Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone or Krzysztof Kieslowski [1] first. A lot of what Hollywood is doing has been first done by these guys.

Especially computer games and Pixar movies are often directly reusing famous scenes and camera angles.

[1] Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of "Three Colors", especially "Red".
Ask HN: How do you hire someone. 
OK, I am finally going to get another member of staff to help me. I read a lot about "How not to hire someone", how programming trivia questions are not a good idea. What ways do you guys have of finding someone good?

(The job will likely be intermediate level all round developer, with a good bit of database / Django work. In the past I found it very frustrating to work with a college who proudly proclaimed not to know OOP, had no interest in learning. So I guess willingness to learn new tech is one thing on my list of wants).
Is it possible to work remotely on any of this positions?
Thinking about this, I know there is plenty of pretty geekwear for women online, but I've never seen any for girls. Maybe I've never noticed? But then there's always the option of buying unicoloured stuff and the print shop.. not fixing the systematic problem though.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "make their shows as profitable as possible in ways they already understand"?

The piece mentions Harry Potter and while the lead character may be a boy, the smartest character is a girl and as a franchise that did OK. Sure not everything is going to be Harry Potter but it, Hunger Games, Buffy and so on show it's more than possible to have a franchise that has a mixed audience and still works.

It feels more of a "we know how this works and we're comfortable with it" thing than an absolute profit maximisation.
I'm totally fine with collective bargaining.
With the disposable income males at those ages have, I'd wager they certainly do buy toys. Lots of them.
Thanks for the reccomendations! I've heard so much about Akira Kurosawa. Gotta check him out.
You can now get a PSTN connection without having a direct relationship with BT, through unbundling. I get my phone line from Zen (no relationship apart from being a happy customer). At the end of the day it's still a BT engineer who comes to fit the thing (assuming the wiring isn't there already), but it's your provider who has the contractual relationship with BT.

There's also the cable option, but if you go down that route then you're actually more tied in to a single provider for services than with PSTN/ADSL.
The other day I saw http://www.knocktounlock.com/ and was convinced it was a brilliant comedy piece, but then left the site confused and unsure...
I see you are an attorney, so I'll skip the detailed explanation of vertical stare decisis and simply point out that Sotomayor joined Scalia's opinion in Jones, which commanded a majority and was the opinion of the Court. Therefore, the holding of the case has to do with the continuing validity of traditional trespass as a fourth amendment search, and the mosaic theory in the concurrence is dicta. I personally find it compelling, but I'm not a District Court judge bound by the strictures of precedent.

Nothing in Smith itself or it's Supreme Court progeny indicate that the length of time the government intends to keep information that it found the people have no reasonable expectation of privacy in is of constitutional moment. Nor the number of phones, or how frequently they are used. As for SMS and writing letters, it is the Court's allowing the government to collect mail metadata (the envelope info) that got this entire line of precedents started.

If this had been an email case, I'd be right there with you. I don't think the device that the government wanted to install in the Lavabit case is sufficiently similar to a classic pen register to be covered by Smith, and I think the third party and his representations matter with respect to customers' expectations. But here we have telephone records as collected by telephone companies. Smith is squarely on point. Limiting Smith to 1979 is tantamount to overruling it, not distinguishing it.

Judge Leon doesn't like Smith, I get that, I don't either. Fortunately or unfortunately, neither if us is on the Supreme Court. (See also, Reinhardt, J. any opinion.)
I would. Certainly prefer CSS stuff compared to GIFs for this kind of stuff.
Are You an Architect or a Gardener?
Remote desktop in Chrome Dev Tools
Database of 15 million chemical structures set free
I'm not sure that matters much to a world-class cryptographer who has consistently spoken out on principle. Many many people want to do meaningful work that matters.
Nice: First I would really prefere it, if my name was spelled right. That much of respect should have been the least to do.

But back on topic:
Why should I (as fairly technically adapt person) have to search deeply inside the configuration, to maybe find a feature, that I expect to be active by default?

So sorry - Ghostery is so far off my radar nowadays, as I felt tricked and victim of a dark pattern [1]. And as I nowadays have a strict "zero tolerance" policy regarding sites/services/tools that act this way. Ghostery was, is and will be on my list of tools, that I would never ever recommend to anybody.

Btw.: I do not mind downvoting - as it shows me, I must have done something right:

"Methinks thou dost protest too much." (English proverb)

[1]: http://darkpatterns.org/
I instantly had to think of this article: http://legacy.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-less...

Topics like crunching always affect me, being in the video game industry.
You literally just took a socialist concept and attributed it to a capitalist. Srsly, WTF?

Next, you're going to tell me that JP Morgan invented the weekend.