skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Under the ACA, health care is no longer tied to employment.

Under the ACA, health care is very much tied to employment, and (except that the new employer mandates have been delayed in implementation) even more employers are required to provide insurance. It's true that there is a new additional individual mandate that falls on people who both have a certain minimum income level and do not have employer-provide health insurance, but the existing incentives that tie health insurance to employers remain and new mandates that encourage employer-tied health insurance exist.

> It's not as sensible a system as single payer, but it's a big step toward making people less dependent on their boss for their health.

This is true insofar that the exchanges by existing, the larger risk pools for individual insurance purchases, and the subsidies for low-to-moderate income workers (and the Medicaid expansion for lower incomes) make it less likely that you will end up with no insurance that you can afford if you lose your job, it doesn't do much to make it any less likely that you won't be financially able to retain your existing insurance (and access to the particular provider network it has) if you lose your job.
Kofi Annan's definition seemed reasonable to me:

Any action constitutes terrorism if it is intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act.
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Don't forget how much paid maternity leave the US kindly bestows on it's female population (none).
Great!

If giving up my land for these projects will have such positive results, I should be compensated well above the market rates for otherwise similar properties, no?
the project is open source so you can also take a look through the source code: https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-router
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iZettle? Really? Square is much better than that as it is more versatile. You can accept card payment with square at road side, with in cab by just plugging in the reader into your mobile device. And, iZettle expects you to be fully settled inside your shop :-)
Those other kernels have driver frameworks too. And if they find them inadequate for some reason, they are of course able to make modifications.

But this is not a suggestion for them to scrap it, necessarily. As I said in some other comments on this thread, I think the real reason is that they had people that knew their existing kernel well, and don't see a need to replace it.
Why Do Users Choose KDE Desktop and Software
I think I'll read it tomorrow when I have more time.
Exactly. Our propaganda isn't posters of people marching in support of our glorious nation. It's much more subtle. Instead you just make people think they're free when really, they are only free to march along the dotted line. Free to buy what they want. Free to watch 500 channels. The government doesn't even need to enforce it because it's engrained in our culture. Try bringing up how failingly stupid US capitalism is or how broken the voting system is and people spend every breath they have bitching you out for being unamerican. I feel like we got really close to people waking up a little bit around when the 2008 crash happened, but since then it's been business as usual for the most part, unfortunately.
There is also a Python shell now :)
> I agree that the difference is important to the degree that the concern is over education rather than about credentials.

The difference is important if the concern is about credentials, too; when the concern is about credentials, then exactly what the degree is in can be very important.

CS and IT mean different things, including (perhaps especially) to people who are evaluating credentials. (In some cases, IT may be preferred, in other cases, CS may be.)
Lets break down the role of interviews into two parts. The first part: To ensure the candidate is sufficiently-socialised and isn't a dangerous toxic mouth-breather. For this, current interviews can work relatively well. An hour or so, face to face, just talking back and forth mulling over problems/theory with an authority in the field or people they're working with.

I am genuinely skeptical about whether people who don't know what they're talking about can actually hide that fact
from people who do know what they're talking about in such a situation. The secret of course is to basically ignore qualifications/status and do it as a conversation. Perhaps in such a scenario, five minutes in me and the original poster would be getting onto ridiculous questions of trading/probability with great big smiles on our faces and forgetting all about whether one can remember bayes off the top of their head.

The second part: Assessing the technical ability of the candidate at hand. And for this I think current interview culture is horribly toxic.

I do not work for Facebook, nor do I believe that such techniques are not without their flaws, and are difficult/expensive to implement, but I think techniques aimed at "actually get the candidate to do the task involved in the job, and see how they go" has merit. Forget your preconceptions about what is required. Give them a real world task you'd expect them to do in the job, the time it would be expected of someone in the job. The resources of the job. See how they go.: See http://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iii-keyword-extr... for example.

Not perfect, but better than 5 minute "interviewer questions of the year".

Funnily enough, I got into my current organisation answering questions in the interview on analyzing health statistics. Something I knew nothing about. A senior executive then snatched/let me move across to his area in the more technical side of things without a subsequent interview after I made it known I'd be interested, and after working with their guys for a bit on another project. Swings and roundabouts :P
We're going to be releasing a statement shortly.

Here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8231005
> I take issue with this new generation of developers who seem to have no moral or ethical boundaries on the invasion of privacy.

I do too, but I'm beginning to become convinced that most people really don't care and really aren't bothered by it.

We've had numerous clients -- maybe most of them -- request or expect us to keep track of the passwords for their online accounts for them. Privacy erosions and violations by various businesses really haven't been that big of a deal outside of tech circles. Just an hour or so ago, while on an errand, an NPR guest was mentioning something similar, that her Facebook account had been compromised but it didn't change the way she used the service. It wasn't really anything more than a temporary inconvenience for her.

Earlier today, a client's personal Hotmail account was compromised. It was being used to spam people on his contacts list. We got in touch with him to give him the heads-up on it. His response was, "it's not a big deal, I don't really care about that, I'm not even going to change the password on it."

We had one business client that supposedly took security very seriously. Government funded and all that. They would routinely ask us to put new procedures and safeguards in place, only to then turn around and immediately try to work around them for convenience's sake.

This has been a tough thing to accept, but I really don't believe any more that most people care at all about privacy or security. What they mostly want is convenience.

And SnapChat is very convenient.
The points in the network are in the range that Cat6 can handle. Wouldn't it be easier to just run cat6 between the points and put 50$ APs with gigabit in each point? You'd get wifi and gigabit for the clients and regular switched gigabit interconnect. Surely it would be much faster and more reliable. A few TP-Link TL-WDR3600 APs would do nicely and even give you a couple of USB ports to attach some printers for network printing.
Self-promotion for game developers
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> On one hand, it's really sad that we're so work obsessed here - money is more important than people so much of the time.

Who says it is about money? What if it is about making an impact upon the world? About creating products that touch millions of lives, about doing our small part to make the world a better place?

Then again I'm not good at vacations. I don't switch off well, I'm the guy reading a book or playing a game while watching TV. Heck at times I'll play two video games at once, or play a game while reading an article. A two second pause in action in one game is plenty of time to alt tab out, read half a sentence, and alt-tab back in.

Heck two seconds feels like an eternity at times!

> Ideally, my dream job is to just work for myself (I'm sure that's everyone else's too).

Nope, although a good profit sharing plan would be appreciated! I love working within a team of people, we can get a lot more done together than as individuals!
Dear New York Times: If Snowden Is a Whistleblower, What Is Chelsea Manning?
Not quite the same thing, but a 6-lane freeway (GA400) goes under the Atlanta Financial Center. http://www.southeastroads.com/georgia200/ga-400_toll_nb_exit...
I am going to make a new word, "learnacrastinator", "learnicrastor" (feel free to fix/expound). One who learns a subject or skill while procrastinating studying for another.
allured by the perks that tech firms have to offer such as unlimited PTO in some cases.

"Unlimited PTO" is usually a bad thing, at least in startups. I don't like vacation tracking-- I think it's a waste of electrons and ink-- but the one company over 10 people where I worked that had "unlimited vacation" was a place where 2 weeks would usually get a person fired for "culture fit".

I'd be more inclined to work for a company that offered 5 weeks (more than I need, at this age) than one that offered "unlimited". If nothing else, the former is better because it gives you the ability to say, "I'm used to 5 weeks" in negotiating a job offer and increasing the likelihood of a match. If you say, "I'm used to 'unlimited vacation'" you make it sound like you worked at a disorganized company and you won't get matched.
It's one thing if the RCMP announces their intent, and works with property owners to properly secure the guns.

It's entirely another for it to be "discovered" by other parties, and then be explained post-facto. Suspicious, to say the least.
Community is something few companies do well. Yelp does it really well with the Yelp Elite program. YouTube seems to do alright with their small business ad platform, live-action shows(although I've heard many of these have been flops) and other events.

But, for example, Facebook has no community outreach. None. I mean, shit, Instagram does waaaay better with at least fostering community outreach than Facebook. Uber is not cultivating the community nor fostering community outreach by its drivers.

Lyft is literally built around community; it started with regular drivers instead of commercial ones.

Community allows people to feel comfortable in sharing excitement for a product. That's all. I'm excited about Instagram or Lyft or Yelp. I'm excited to watch YouTube videos.

I'm excited to use Uber. Is anyone else?
1. Yes, I can say: I used to be CTO at Open Mobile Worldwide.

2. I wish! But no.

Open Mobile's Web site openmobileww.com lists all the details that are public re the product. If you need an introduction, let me know.
Link bait title
> Java did win the war... ...You could argue that Ruby has overtaken it

For what? A specific niche of web applications?
He's currently paid a salary from his university, so yes he and his employer are very benefiting from the federal student loan programs and subsidies.

I don't see how the fact he grew up Pittsburgh and received forms of government assistance is relevant. Good for him but the income of his employer is heavily subsidized by student loans.
It depends on what kind of privacy you care about. Personally, I care very much about the privacy of my private communications (Facebook messages, emails, texts).

I don't consider usernames or phone numbers to be private information. Being able to find someone's contact info by name (and vice versa) is useful and people who make this difficult are just annoying. Failing to protect contact information is very different from failing to protect actual communications or metadata, and a callous attitude towards the security of contact information does not imply a callous attitude towards the security of communications.

There is a reasonable argument that a map between phone numbers and usernames could blow pseudonyms. But AFAIK most people use Snapchat with their friends - people who already have their names and phone numbers. If you reuse your Snapchat username somewhere where you want to be anonymous, you've already fucked up. Your cover is already blown. Whether it's blown to your friends or the whole world is a distinction without a difference.
My key to the office building has a chip inside. So i guess they are slowy coming.
In SVN, that shows up as a conflict which has to be merged by hand. 'git rebase' and/or 'git mergetool' are nicer.
I took that to mean the region (and thus the service providers) and not the individual users.
> The technical term for a business incapable of paying its employees is "bankrupt".

No, its "insolvent". Insolvency can lead to bankruptcy, but they aren't the same thing.

> Keeping such a business running is, in many jurisdictions, a crime.

[citation needed]
One of the initial draws of Bitcoin is that there is a fixed amount of BTC available and once it's all mined, it's impossible to anyone to "print more money". But now, with clone currencies like dogecoin and litecoin (and now coinye), it's possible to print more money by simply forking the codebase.

The irony tickles me so.
For those who are data curious:
https://gist.github.com/agibsonccc/8230583

I cherry picked this from the source for those who might want the generator. I "think" that's everything, correct me if I'm wrong there. I didn't really test it, just took a few seconds to grab what I saw for later.
あああ... なるほど...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaOF6lDnRUk

I was hoping they'd show what it sounded like on the 4th-8th floors. Can't be optimal working conditions.
The ePub chapter titles are "The third chapter", etc. Would be better if they used the actual chapter titles, like "Time and order".

http://i.imgur.com/T6YtJ0F.png
This looks like shell scrips for patches and config files. Is there another place with the source that actually used to compile the binaries like this: http://downloads.commotionwireless.net/router/1.0/ar71xx/gen...
I tried to include how this applies to hiring and causes biases.
What is your assessment of the reputability of those journals where Lustig has published?
Ask HN: Idea validation on a tight budget?
How do you go about validating an idea without spending a fortune? The idea I have has no implementations (only one that is similar in only a small part, and is successful).

Are there any guides for this? Like how do you phrase your questions when asking people if they will like the idea or not.

Any help is appreciated.
"Elon Musk killed in article body: with excitement from his growing business."

What a link bait title.
While this isn't what commotion is using, its what we are using for Project Meshnet. "Cjdns implements an encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing." https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
Is "unlimited PTO" ever not window dressing for a more predatory policy? Anywhere I've worked with this policy had implemented it so that ever taking vacation was a negotiation with your boss (not something you could just comfortably declare), and it led to not being paid for any surplus vacation days (as none exist but an "infinite" amount) when you do finally leave said job because of burnout.
RLY? OMG, who would expect that?!?!
About as useful as debating economics with a baked potato...
Uber Driver Identified In Death Of 6-Year-Old Pedestrian In San Francisco
This deserves more upvotes than the one that I can give it. Also, genwin is right. The zero-tolerance time-Nazi stuff was to push out people with stock options. If the policies weren't also applied (with the same penalties and enforcement) within the acquirer, you probably could have sued and, at the least, gotten a decent settlement due to their desire to avoid embarrassment.
Thanks for the info. I forgot about the Grover speedup. I think it would still be amazing to get 2^64 operations on a 128-qubit quantum computer to break current 128-bit schemes. It seems like quite a tall order.

Does using Shor to attack EC discrete log require us to work in the group of integers mod p? If it can work with the generic group then you might not need to go beyond 160-qubits. (But all of the above reasoning is based off the wiki article, so I might be mistaken.)
The pressure wave would likely destroy your hearing because of the additional energy that would be required to lift a more massive object like a golf ball.
"Well, there's an awful lot of applications, really."

I doubt it. Firstly, how does one fix that 'palsy'?

Secondly, I wonder how much power this thing takes to lift those tiny objects (what does a resistor weigh? Rounding up, it's maybe a tenth of a cubic centimeter. Rounding up, its density is 10kg/l, so that's at most a gram). Low efficiency can make lots of applications prohibitively expensive.

But cool tech? Certainly.
Last time I checked, Uber wasn't an autonomous, driverless automobile service.

Given that fact, I really don't understand how the responsibility of pedestrian fatalities resides with anyone except the person who assumes direct control of the car. When you drive the car, you, and you alone are responsible for anyone you might kill.

What a stupid headline. Yellow journalism. Mud slinging. and for what? To parade a dead child as a trophy, and a symbol for the car service you choose?
http://alphalem.com/pages/alphalem-os

I like the reference to [MCP](http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/MCP)!
> At UCSF, he's generally considered a bit of a quack

You have also stated that every epidemiology researcher is a quack, save ~5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7002375
So if it's perfectly constitutional and legal, why did Wyden feel the need to ask the question? And why did Clapper respond the way he did?
Kind of like how I can write "1 eurleif dollar, issued by the bank of eurleif" on a piece of paper to print more paper currency...
7 ways calorie trackers lie to you
According to wiki, those floors are unoccupied with extra shielding to protect the building.
When I avoid carbs, I lose weight. I don't get cravings for the foods that normally led me to overeat. It's an anecdote, so feel free to take it with a grain of sugar, but Taubes and Lustig improved my life a great deal.
Did you mean to write "I'm not excited to use Uber."? Just wanted to clarify!
It uses the OpenWRT build system to produce those binaries. Try pulling the source code and building it yourself :)

https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-router#instal...
Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death
That seems to be VERY close to _exactly_ what I'm looking for, but it's not quite right (which makes it very far from useful, unfortunately).

The problem is that pressing Ctrl+F4 twice in a row keeps iterating over the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. windows. So if you want to switch between two most recently windows, you have to press Ctrl+F4, then Ctrl+Shift+F4, then Ctrl+F4, then Ctrl+Shift+F4, etc.
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I agree about analogies. But: this is a perspective on "unauthorized access" that decriminalizes SQL injection.
You're seriously using a dead six year old kid as a springboard for a another dreary rant about surge pricing? You're a damn ghoul.
This Is What San Francisco Could Look Like In 2033
No Less files? That feels like something that would be really helpful.
The issue here is that it really would not be in Uber's best interest to take all of the hit for this. This bullshit about "community" or whatever is a nice sugar coating for the whole issue, but it really has to do with legal jurisdiction and economics.

Uber drivers are not employees. They are independent contractors. They can be part of a limo company or they can be literally independent, and drive the car they own/lease around. That is what many drivers in Philadelphia do. So in that sense, Uber is pretty much a more expensive, clean, and medallion-free version of a taxicab.

This is precisely why it isn't Uber's fault at all for what happened, especially because the service wasn't used in any stage of this scenario. So in that sense, I think it's good that they are "standing their ground" and emphasizing how background they are in this whole operation.

Personally, I like that. I'm a big believer in supporting your local economy, and I like how my Uber fares are mostly going to the driver. But the other side of that coin, responsibility, is also being saddled on the Uber driver. I also like that. It means that it's up to the driver and I, not some bullshit startup 5,000 miles away, to set out the rules of the trip. It makes Uber a better company to contract from and it makes the whole trip feel more "homey" rather than some kind of "ride from above".

In my opinion, Uber's done a great job at fostering its community by staying the FUCK out of my business.
Any old iPad mount you have, combined with good rare-earth magnets and a hot-glue gun.
counter-example: EVE Online.
They are excellent courses if your primary interest is elec engineering. 6.004 is prob the best course I took, all the lectures are online and course material from 2012. Of course you are missing recitation for many courses and TA access though. The assignments for 6.857 and lecture notes are really good for self learning too. As for a job you would have to prove your skills with a portfolio which is a repository of code you've done and develop for some open source project you are interested in. You might find job offers come to you by being helpful on their dev mailing list and somebody notices.
Wow, two different colors of green. That person must hate the color blind with a passion.
RMS has RSI, so he doesn't type, he dictates. Oh, shit -- that didn't come out the way I meant it to. ;(
Thanks for reading.

I explicitly state in the article that I feel no legal responsibility rests with them. I state that in the first few paragraphs.

What I am trying to make clear is that treating a tragedy like a legal technicality is not a way to build community. People are disgusted by their reaction.

For the record, I don't use any of the car services...this is not meant to promote Lyft or degrade Uber in any way, just to advise companies to invest in community. I would have hoped my numerous clear messages that I do not harbor anything against Uber would have made that clear.

I agree that my headline was designed to be provocative (though it is addressed in my very first sentence) and perhaps a bad choice on my part.
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Define "real-world." Open-source projects are highly relevant in terms of getting exposure and connections. If you contribute to a project used by a company, that can be a big plus, for example. Or if you contribute to a project, you can then probably get internal referrals from other contributors at the companies they work at.