skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who in the United States doesn't have access to healthcare?

You're joking, right?
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Agreed with the first reply. People with normal sensory function have different habitual thinking styles. Noticing those differences in thinking styles is one of the most enjoyable aspects of my work as a mathematics teacher.

What I like to do as a teacher is help my pupils discover that they can learn new thinking styles and, as I put it, put new tools in their toolboxes. My wife, perhaps because of her east Asian education, has quite a diverse set of thinking styles. I've learned some from her, and I hope our kids are learning our whole repertoire of thinking styles from each of us. We do notice among our four children some differences in habitual approach. But most people can learn new ways of thinking, if they are exposed to those.
"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback."
The above statement holds true for me. It's only after investing way too much energy on stuff that does not help me in being closer to a MVP do I realize it.
Your hyperbole is inappropriate here. As an analogy, laws already make exceptions to discrimination if the nature of the job requires certain abilities. Go look for manual labor jobs and you will see statements like "applications must be able to lift X pounds to a height of Y feet". One might naively claim this was discrimination against some disabled people, but an exception is made if the job requires it.

Likewise, if a person does not physically fit into an airline seat, it does not seem unreasonable to me that they would need to pay for a second seat (or a first-class seat, or an extra large seat, however the airline chose to handle the situation).
People aren't looking for a replacement for email... excuuuse me? Explain Twitter, then. Explain IM. Explain Wikis and CMSes and pervasive webmail. Explain Facebook.

Collaboration as a space is hugely under-colonized and the existing colonies are small, sickly and vulnerable. They don't reinforce one another.

Also: if people can learn to drive a mess like Facebook, they can learn Wave, and in the same way: by getting pulled in by their friends, and following the affordances.
re: numbers adding up - re: 39B (not including research in medical equipment and techniques) versus NIH: I'd be curious what you would find if you added it up all other governments as I think you assume erroneously here. All european governments spent 3.7B (2000, the most recent number I was able to find) in medical research. Further, the impact of the pharma industry in the US is disproportionate to other countries in output. And again, not all dollars are equal in efficacy. Again, the US is the dominant innovator in medical technologies and the way that they charge for pharmaceuticals in the US differs than what they charge to the rest of the world.

re: doctor shortages in Canada: When you maximize number of patients and maximize amount charged on a given procedure, it amounts to a pay cap. A direct result is that doctors go elsewhere. The regulatory system is also inefficient as you note in that those who are trained elsewhere encounter barriers here. Further, we don't empower nurses sufficiently instead of allowing patients to choose like in the US (Walmart / Walgreens). This says nothing about specialists who are even harder to find in Canada because incentives are even greater to move elsewhere (again a direct result of caps in the one payer system).

A related article from Macleans: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE... (also talks about the spending in attempt to integrate some of the foreign medical practitioners)
The USPS operates under an insane number of constraints that private competitors don't. They have to serve every single residental address in America, no matter how remote (UPS, and especially FedEx, laugh at this); they have to have outposts in bumblefuck nowhere; they have to offer six days of service even though volumes don't support it; fixed rate pricing for First Class letters even from/to the most remote destinations; and so on, all under their universal service obligation.

Furthermore, the postal service is mandated by the United States Constitution (Article I, section 8, Clause 7).

Look, it's like criticizing Amtrak. It's under congressional (although not Constitutional) mandate to run all those dumbass routes with stops in the middle of fucking nowhere on tracks where the freight companies are blatantly ignoring the law that requires passenger trains to have right of way. No wonder Amtrak's losing money and are late all the time; they're not allowed to do their jobs.
Sounds like a great idea. I would definitely like to try it out in my organization. The few problems I see with the approach are:

1. For closed source companies, does this increase the recruiting complexity by requiring potential candidates to sign NDAs as they will be looking at proprietary code?

2. Does it add overhead if you have a lot of applicants? They would all be sending in questions that you need to review. Since the process may take long and is not time boxed, you may lose productivity as you get interrupts from a new channel. From the article it didn't seem as if the author performs any kind of pre-screening

[EDIT]2.1 If the applicant pool is large, this also sounds like a waste of money.

3. For reasonably complex systems (I am currently in enterprise software), you would need to provide a quick way for a new hire to finish setup of your application. There was a time when we expected a new guy to finish the first install of our app in a week (!!). Things are much better now with hosted VMs that you can just fire up with the install being 1 click, but not all companies are going to have that luxury

I am also assuming that to accommodate applicants that are applying while still being employed (they need to pay their bills too!), we would need to ensure that the task to complete is short enough/can be done over the weekend or off hours.
I think there is some correlation. If you are an American IMO contestant, you have a much higher chance of doing good mathematical research than a randomly chosen American.
I think the offlineimap option `realdelete' is related to your problem.
"use 256 bit keys, which are very easy to factor.".... uh, cite source please?
If you read through much of Boost and the version of the STL that comes with g++, you'll find attempts at emulating language support for concepts. So, to me, there's clear practice of using concepts themselves.

What's not clear is what, exactly, concepts should be. That's where ConceptGCC came in; it was an experimental implementation of concepts in g++. The standardization committee was not designing in a vacuum. When you have an established practice of people emulating a language feature as best they can, and you have an experimental implementation of that language feature, I think the next step is to evaluate and design what the standardized language feature should be. And that's what they're doing.
It took 6 hours for PCs to factor 256 bit RSA keys in 1997. Hey, parent commenter: email me shipping info.
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Startup valuations take a dive as 'down rounds' now rule the day
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It's also why health care should be a government problem rather than a free market problem. They can focus on the right things rather than the profitable things, no business can survive doing that.
Have you considered posting it to a site like http://refactormycode.com/ ? You're more likely to get feedback there. I posted once and I got good feedback right away.

http://refactormycode.com/codes/826-monthly-calendar-library
Virgin mobile phones mailed one of those Love Heart candies to business as apart of a "we love our customers" campaign. Unfortunately they got crushed by the post - resulting in white powder filled envelopes being mailed to lots of US business in the middle of the anthrax scare.
What happens when you don't have operators and sugar? You get ten-times-worse unreadable mess like anonymous inner subclasses. You get a dirty mix of a+b and a.add(b). And finally, you get a language that has to be extended with revisions of the core, rather than with libraries.

Scala's operators are OK, but Haskell's are better yet because of the concept of a typeclass. You can't abuse + because it comes bundled with -, instances which support < are guaranteed to support ==, and so on. Operators actually have meanings that aren't arbitrary.
For now, no. It turns out that a lot of the photo frame market actually prefers prints.
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2218

this says in the 90's a 512 bit key could be factored for under $1 million
The postal service is permitted, not mandated, by the constitution.

"The Congress shall have power to...[long list] To establish post offices and post roads..."
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Lift strikes me as the worst thing to happen to Scala.

It's a Ruby-like language in flexibility, something like Camping or Sinatra is a much better representation of Scala style than a do-everything Rails rewrite with a hard-on for Comet.
Why do they use RSA? Isn't Diffie-Hellman a better method? Exchange keys by DH and then encrypt traffic symmetricaly. Is it reasonable?
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Apple's arrangement allowed them to eventually come back around and start competing with Microsoft. (If you don't think so, look at the popularity of Webkit on phones and within Google.) I don't think Yahoo!'s arrangement will help them do that. I've got to ask, who's Yahoo!'s enemy? SmugMug? I agree with 37signals and Jeff Atwood that it's a good idea to have one. If you're going to expand, who's market share are you going to take?

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Have_an_Enemy.php

The nice thing about the Apple-Microsoft deal is that everyone still knew that Microsoft was Apple's enemy.
Twilio. Top notch.
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It slows down the system a bit though.
Stray thought: If "forced" to diversify, then they are probably choosing people they don't even like (much less trust) and this will hurt performance no matter the gender, age, skin color...etc...of the person they feel was foisted upon them.
If a tree falls and your iPod is loud you don't hear it, does the tree kill you?
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No, using DH would be even worse here than using RSA; JS crypto is intinsically vulnerable to MITM attacks, but so is DH --- an attacker just runs DH independently with both sides of the transaction, zeroing or fixating the key.

More comments about how they used RSA? Fire away, I'll send you a poster. They're pretty neat, if bigger than I expected.
The Congress shall also have the power to set up the court system (aside from SCOTUS). It is well established that this construct in the Constitution obligates Congress to do these things.
It may be fool's gold but you gotta give the people what they want. If you don't try to compete you have a 0% chance of success. If you want to be a successful software developer/publisher you need to offer a product in the markets people are interested in. What chance is there of an app of comparable quality & depth to a $5 iPhone app being more successful on the DS/PSP? Windows shareware?
a good idea.

but there are some countries/regions still missing from the "Regions" drop-down list which, being a required field, might prevent people from these countries filling out the form.

e.g., Ireland, Greece, ...
I wondered why I would see people outside the office here talking on their iPhones.

Took me a bit to realize they had AT&T and there was no signal in the building and barely any outside the building.

One reason why I stick with sprint is it works everywhere I go in this area.
If I was interviewing you (I've never interviewed anyone) and you gave that fibonacci algorithm, I would probably say, "Hmm, and how does that algorithm perform? Can you think of a better one?" If you said "its performance is crap, storing the previous two results and using iteration is better", I'd be happy. If you said "exponential" and "linear" instead of "crap" and "better" you'd get bonus points. Volunteering that information at the outset would get more bonus points because it shows that you really care and that you don't even feel comfortable writing down an exponential-time algorithm without loudly warning everybody they shouldn't use it.

The standard interview question is "write a function to solve this problem which has an elegant recursive solution", not "think of a recursive function". But if you do want to think of a recursive function, try factorial.

int fctl(int n){ return ( (n = 1) ? n : n * fctl(n)); }

(Don't use that code in an interview. It's questionable style for C, and the ternary operator is scary to people.)

I was asked to write a fibonacci function once, and I actually said, "you can do this recursively but the performance is awful" and wrote an iterative solution.

The point of an interview is for you to show off. If you start going on and on and on and on about unnecessary details the interviewer might stop you, but if you launch into a talk about the space and time properties of recursion vs. iteration and show some judgment for how to use recursion and how not to use recursion, then I know how knowledgeable you are.
The answer to your question is over 46.6 million Americans(1) (you have 300 million total), the ones without health insurance.

Lacking health insurance (i.e., a financial services product) is not the same thing as lacking medical services.

But lets ignore that and look more closely at your numbers. Of the 46.6 million uninsured, 14 million are eligible for medicaid/SCHIP, but haven't bothered to sign up. 27 million make at least $50,000/year and simply choose to spend money on other things. Another fun fact: excluding people eligible for medicaid, 70% are uninsured 4 months or less.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/who-are-the-...

That leaves about 5.6 million people. I expect we could solve the problem of those 5.6 simply by enforcing our immigration laws.
I guess it simplifies down to Microsoft has too many versions of Windows, but I guess it allows them to pull more money out of the market.
Google Insights is a fun toy, but this sort of story is annoyingly unscientific. Finding a cycle and an off-the-cuff explanation is easy. Where's the fun part--the search, the proof, the extension into other ideas?

As a reminder that Insight exists (I certainly keep forgetting about it), the article is okay.
Apple could sell 2m tablets @600 per, analyst says
This is really old, it appeared in Digg about 2 years ago! (And again today)
No, but that's the most obvious way to wrap a GUI around a command-line app.
"The code adds different coloured borders to the assets depending on its level."

* { outline: 2px dotted red }

* * { outline: 2px dotted green }

* * * { outline: 2px dotted orange }

* * * * { outline: 2px dotted blue }

* * * * * { outline: 1px solid red }

* * * * * * { outline: 1px solid green }

* * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid orange }

* * * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid blue }

nice trick. especially in the days before firebug as i would imagine :P
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=742914
I completely agree, the interviewer is hardly impartial: he pushes Bjarne to admit what he'd like.
Although I can't help thinking we have all been here before. C++ despite using it for a over a decade still feels like a research project, the thing is Bjarne never admits failure in anything C++. I can't help thinking the build-a-better-C, by providing generic programming and OO hasn't met it's goal. C for all its faults is beautifully simple. Where C++ after almost 20 years still needs "fixes" to make it better. To me better is not adding more compiler syntax (that most earlier generic/oo languages have done without). Programmers, even good ones, need to get increasingly bogged down on how to instruct their compiler to do the correct thing. Most programmers I know want to get the solution finished, and aren't interesting on how to be clever with the compiler. This trying to shoehorn objects onto C seems mad considering all that's needed to interoperate with C is the ability to support C linkage. Why not just design a better C?
You can put just the zip and the P.O. box number and it'll get there.
They exist in the US, just not on display.

I got the chance to examine the (US) National Gallery's collection of Escher prints; they aren't on display, but stored in the library, and you can see them on request. There are hundreds of prints, many of which are artist's proofs, and have penciled notes in the margins. It was those that impressed me more than anything else; as a printmaker, I hold his work in the highest regard --- and to see the amount of work he had to go to in order to accomplish the effects that he did did nothing to decrease my admiration.

It's worth looking at his straight forward woodcuts and lithographs, also, in addition to his famous tessellations and spatial warps; they are the epitome of good printmaking.
There are one-off promotions of course. And you can get them in any airline. Sure it can happen. But it's not the norm.

If you look at current "offers" you get a 12£ Bratislava flight (chosen at random - really)... if you click "continue" enough times, it's actually: Adult @ 12.99 GBP, Taxes/Fees details 28.27 GBP, Coming Back (Web Fare) 1 Adult @ 12.00 GBP, 1 x (Web Check in) 5.00 GBP

Total Cost of Flight	58.26 GBP

Yay - that's really almost 12£ ;) And you have to pay for the payment too, so it's ~68.26£
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javascript encryption will anyway only stop people at quickly decoding your data on sight. anyone who is willing to spend some time on decoding your data is able to do it, no matter which javascript library you use.

also: nice idea, modifying the js to add a plain text field to the form :P
Your comment triggered previously unsuspected knowledge of cartoon swearing, making me suspicious that your censoring is both too short and containing two ampersands next to each other, which just isn't on (apparently - who am I to argue with my subconscious?).

On a closer look, one of your ampersands appears to be italicised, suggesting your original typing was two characters longer and more even, which would make it look more typical.

HN's markup doesn't seem to have been designed with cryptoswearing in mind.
"I’ve often wondered what would happen to my blog here if I got hit by a bus or was assassinated by agents working deep cover for EA. I mean besides the fact that I wouldn’t update it anymore. What is the protocol for when a blogger dies suddenly? Do you log in and post a notice for their readers? Do you take it down? I Googled around for old articles talking about deceased bloggers, and sure enough when I searched for their blogs they were gone. Some of the people seemed semi-famous, enough so that you’d think someone would have taken up the job of caring for it. The most prominent case I found was Cathy Seipp, who seemed to be a widely-read political writer of some sort, and who died of cancer at 50. I searched for her blog, but the only thing I found was blank. She’s only been dead for two years and already her blog is gone."

There are some good ideas in this blog entry about how to prepare for a loved one's death, in the event the loved one has a big online presence. Something to talk about, if you care about someone whom many people Google up.
Let's take your argument and apply it to other commodities.

"How is it that someone can argue in favor of people not having free groceries? Would you also argue that people shouldn't have access to computers unless they pay the computer tax? Entertainment? The protection of free homes?"

The problem with making everything free is that you create a system where no one wants to work, corrupt officials take more than their fair share, and scarcity becomes the norm.
Interesting thoughts on autoloading:
http://wiki.getheavy.info/index.php/A_Note_About_Auto-Loadin...

I'm disappointed more frameworks don't autoload. I much prefer it to manually loading everything and I've used both styles over the years. There is also the small performance benefit of only loading classes I need at runtime rather than loading every possible class at parse time. But really, requiring everything manually seems redundant to me.
"There has to be value before everybody has upgraded"

Because the web was so very useful to people who hadn't yet gotten browsers.
I have it on occaison, almost always when I'm really exhusted.

I hate it. :(
As a counter argument to this, consider this blog post, called "Living with defaults": http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/10/living_with_defau...
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He didn't say make everything free, and healthcare isn't like any other commodity. The world is not so black and white.
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Do folks here buy into the REST == CRUD mapping the way it's basked into Rails?
I once mailed a postcard from Honolulu addressed only to

Michaelangelo McKasty
Albany, New York

and it never arrived. I find it highly unlikely there is more than one Michaelangelo McKasty in Albany. I assume the USPS clerks in Albany are somewhat more disenchanted with their jobs than the ones in Andover, and just threw the postcard away.
Going by that, even skinning your browser or adding a wallpaper will be called "customization". For people who do not change their computers that often, it is okay to customize to make your screen look prettier. I myself use 2 diff OS on 3 machines regularly, so not much customizations for me :(
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This is essentially an advertisement for the translation service whose effectiveness depends on the service providing poor results.

Imagine if a Windows ad got everyone's attention because it made fun of Windows.
i was waiting for labels from email programs for so long. well, i had it once when i wrote my own mail client for the BeOS but since then, it was mostly frustration so for me, that dissonance is truly painful.
maildir works very well with mutt as well and because of the 2 way sync nature of offlineimap, you can work offline with all of your mail ( something that the gmail offline doesn't allow me, it only makes some available. ).

yes, i am a big offlineimap fan.
It would be a valuable service to provide online to arrange in case such a unfortunate event does happen. Similar to life insurance, except for your online presence.

This could work as a authoritative service for other social networks that can disable/lock out the profiles and services used when triggered.
Google made a fair amount of money relatively early on by licencing their search engine to portals like Yahoo, etc.