skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what's even funnier is all the facebook and twitter post à la "That's it, I'm leaving France, going to live in the US" every time there is a new president elected or a new controversial law that is passed.
Didn't expect so many downvotes on that post. It seems many people here ( most of them living in the US i presume) don't want to hear about the downsides of a system i'm currently living in.
I suppose this is a too sensitive subject to have a pros/cons type of discussion.

French NHS works because everybody accepts to lower the rates of everything. We ( the french) live in a pseudo state-regulated health economy. When you're doing this, you're reducing the total amount of money that's flowing into that economy, which logically impacts the financing capabilities for R&D.

Other people have said the same thing : http://www.nber.org/digest/may05/w11114.html
Its not just that.

The problem is that for the insurance to work optimally everyone have to chip in so that those that are healthy offset the cost of those that aren't.

In the US the young aren't getting insurance which is one of the reasons for the Offordable Healthcare Act. To force everyone to have an insurance so that economics become better.

Of course in reality the best possible system would be a single payer (tax based) healthcare system with some payment for usage but where no one can go bankrupt or be dropped or fall under the deadly pre-existing conditions clause.

Or a mandated private insurance like in Germany & Switzerland. Obamacare is one step of that way but it's so alien to US culture and have been so poorly implemented that on could fear for its future.
>hunger is a consequence of idleness in a subsistence farming economy //

Yeah, 'cause famines and floods and other natural disasters never happen. No-one ever has to sell all their produce to pay for medicine. No, nothing like that; hunger==idleness for sure. /sarc
I've been putting off switching from W7 for 2 years now. I hated how the Wacom worked on the first version fo Windows 8.

Check this page to see how much pain they have been putting people through: http://viziblr.com/news/2012/8/18/windows-8-rtm-and-wacom-ta...
...with LDAP and ideally older Kerberos backends.

If that's what I need I'd rather use WS-Federation or SAML. Both have been around for longer, and I consequently have a lot more faith in them. Sure, they're XML-based, but that's quite ok for what I'm getting.
What these H.S. students did for V-day is pretty awesome.
As mentioned in the article, the USA spends more per capita on healthcare than France, so it's not as if they're achieving this better service by being incredibly lavish with spending.
This. All this hate for the European health care systems is just misguided and ignorant. Health care delivery is one of the few sectors of the economy that the US is not world class in (despite having the best medical research).

We all have our national pride and there are real philosophical difference on how to organize societies - and these differences matter. Being smart however includes the ability to sometimes ignore one's ego, compare solutions based on their merit, and learn from each other where possible.
Is it really important to you that race be traced back to genetics?

I mean, is it really important we have this concept?

You realize that your brain is not your skin right? The whole concept of race not existing is that if you look at genetic diversity for markers we can correlate to function, there is no difference between the "races" greater then the difference we find within each population - i.e. the population does not exist, beyond visual cues.

But you know, it's probably really important we be utterly pedantic on this point. Because heaven help us if we don't acknowledge people's skin color can be different in a consistent way. That seems really important and we must mention it a lot. For some reason.
and all that to impose its views, to counter communism.
Nobody would thought Argentina was on the brink of it 2 years ago. Brazil is a mess.
I've seen this in a VM (with no touch support at all) I ignored it. IIRC I just pressed the windows key, went back to desktop and presto, forced swipe how-to gone.

If not, just reboot.. isn't that the way all serious problems in Windows are fixed? ;)

All things taken aside I do agree that the simple solution, an "x" button is missing.
I think ignoring the differences between races (e.g. hypertension medicine targeted at african americans) is as wrong as ignoring the fact, that genetic differences between 2 people, which might be considered as being from the same "race", might be much greater.

Furthermore "white knighting" for races (i.e. probably non-caucasian ones) is very likely not much better than racism itself (same as the people fighting "for" women and against the jerks at conferences etc.).
>I'm just responding that paying auto workers more would not result in a net benefit to the middle class. If as the parent's scenario implies there is nowhere else for manufacturers to find labor (which implies no outsourcing), then for every increase in automobile prices that's brought about by increases in auto workers' wages, that means less resources available for car buyers to spend on other things.

There is another party to the transaction, the owners of capital. Generally speaking, pro-union people argue that capital is in too strong of a negotiating position, and the workers need to unionize to negotiate against the owners of capital. If capital takes less profit, in theory, you can have lower prices and higher wages.

Yes, in the real world, it's messier than that. But, in all real-world business deals, yes, there is surplus value, but who gets that surplus value?

But the bit you are missing here, I think, is that the owners of the capital are a third party, and the more profit they take, the less surplus value is left for consumers or workers. (I'm not saying that eliminating profit would be a good thing, or even that minimizing profit is a good goal. I'm just saying, there are three parties to that negotiation. Three parties negotiating over that surplus value.)

you said:

>Unions in the American style cannot make the pie bigger, they can only divide it differently.

Which is exactly the point. Joining a union is very much the equivalent of hiring a lawyer (or other professional negotiator) to negotiate a business deal for me.

So yes, there is a conflict of interest. but there is /always/ a conflict of interest when trying to decide who gets the surplus value.
"Capitalism" is not a system. Capitalism is life itself.

The system can be more socialistic or more free-marketist, that's the only choice. And the more socialistic have failed more.
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Something something long horses, something something lol we both know Reddit lore something something shared knowledge is fun.
This is not true. The most powerful tools often require a lot 'teaching' and have a steep learning curve even for basic usage. See vim or Blender as examples. I would argue that Windows 8, even in its RT form, is far more powerful than iOS in this sense. Once you get used to all the swipes, it is much quicker to access OS features, perform multitasking and do all kinds of things.

Microsoft did not build a bad OS by any means. As someone who can take this learning curve, I really enjoy using it on a tablet (I think it's much superior than iOS and superior to Android when it comes to the core OS), and I also like its Metro features a lot on my desktop. What Microsoft did very wrong however is building this interface for an audience where the overwhelming majority is not willing to take this learning curve. It's simply not built for the "average user".
With all due respect you probably do not work in an institution where you have to rely on SAML for day-to-day operations (I work in a uni, so Shibboleth). If you did, you would realize why SAML is lauded as a great solution, but in reality can be very fragile and needs to be rolled out all or nothing. I have been part of a multi-year piecemeal deployment and it has rough edges.
Assume you were an insurance company executive and you wanted to maximize profit and you were indifferent to the plight of your customers. What would you do?

I'd release new products regularly, while increasing the insurance premiums of old products. Healthy people would just switch to the new product to avoid the price increase, but people with pre-existing conditions wouldn't be eligible so I could price-gouge them.

So you could get insurance against expensive medical conditions - but if you had to claim on that insurance, suddenly your premiums would start rising by 30% a year, and you would have no alternative because of your pre-existing condition.

The companies that didn't engage in this would then look expensive to healthy people and attractive to unhealthy people. And if the healthy (profitable) people leave and unhealthy (subsidized) people join, meaning premiums have to go up further, you could get a chain reaction putting them out of business.
I am in agreement with you, but the misunderstanding is about DNSSEC, etc. The only reason SRV records are not used for that is probably that nobody suggested it (it's a good idea, you should probably open an issue).
The basic problem is that gestures are non-discoverable, and should not be used for core functionality.
Kitchenplan 2: stability, maintainability and configuration over recipes
Few dozen or few hundred? This isn't the 90s, games are played by millions of people daily. More than tens of thousands of people are effected by someone taking down, say, LoL servers with a DDoS.
As opposed to GPL & Toejam afficianados alike, who basically claim any license except GPL3 is the work of the devil, because I, a developer, dare to give someone other downstream developer, the choice to distribute derivative works how they see fit.

GPL perponents always claim its about "freedom". But it's one specific type of freedom, to the exclusion of all others.
just leave. i did, a few months back, and i have more free time and less stress. really; it's not worth the aggro.
The fact is that sometimes security through obscurity works. Take Skype for example, it was well known that the US government had for a long time wanted access and, depending on who you ask, failed. After being bought by MS and reconfigured, it could be argued that there are now fewer access problems.

Where obscurity fails is where the product has been poorly designed in the first place - perhaps due to lack of time or manufacture costs - or there is a failure to update when the scenario or environment for which it was built changes.

Obscurity is really a term about confidence and PR of a system (eg. ISO standards compliant?) or company (RSA anyone?). How does the company convince you that it is using best practices without compromising its competitive advantage?

The grumbles about running Windows98 are pointless if the system meets the requirements.
Paying for STD tests? It means that it is not anonymous either… What a shame.

For non-French people: in France it is standard that STD tests can be done anonymously and for free by anyone (you are never asked any identification information, everybody can do it even non-French person).
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OTOH, if you would resent someone repackaging your work and selling it for a profit, use a GPL variant.
Netflix slow on Verizon or Comcast? A VPN might speed up that video
"From Scheme to Ruby" – post about switching from functional to OO
"The most powerful tools often require a lot 'teaching' and have a steep learning curve even for basic usage"

Or better said: "The most powerful tools that don't care for user experience often require a lot of 'teaching'"

Unless you're talking about something like a CNC machine, Electronic test equipment, EEC machine, etc

'It's simply not built for the "average user"'

No? Then they shot themselves in the foot, because Windows is associated with that, more than anyone. Hence, they can't complain it's not selling well.

It's very easy to shy from making things easy to use behind "it has more features".
I haven't done it myself (only been doing research) but WordPress plugins might fit the bill. Mostly due to the fact that the WordPress plugin directory does some of the marketing for you. Also many WordPress owners are willing to pay money to improve their websites.
The author is the one most likely to be upset when slightly rebranded versions of the program hit the app store.
It's shunned in most languages because it's often the only way to do things to offer. OOP is really appropriate in some circumstances but it's not the ultimate paradigm that solves all your problems. Javascript offers some facilities that makes it more polyvalent.

Disclaimer : I'm not actually a big fan of javascript.
YES... changing the world. Everyone go and do it! NOOOOW!
There. Disable the help tips with Group Policy Editor.

http://superuser.com/questions/666247/hide-win-8-1-tip-about...
I'd totally be willing to trust a service called Impersona.
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This was my first reaction as well. If a call comes in of a bicycling accident, why would the 911 dispatcher send a fire truck and multiple police squads to the scene?
Ask HN: How do you sell in a new programming language?
People who are passionate about programming often find themselves with a need to convince their organisation that it is time to try something new. Resistance against this kind of change is often entrenched, and a long struggle awaits.

What kinds of arguments do you use? What kinds of arguments actually work?

What strategies for transitioning to the "new" have you proposed, and what has actually worked out in real life?
The iPhone ran tons of ads showing people how to navigate and use swipes and pinch-to-zoom before the product was released. That's really not an obvious thing to do with a phone, if you've never seen it before.
It's even worse when you consider one of the reasons why healthcare costs are so high in the US - people avoid getting early treatment because it costs so much. A vicous cycle. Whereas socialised healthcare can prevent a lot of illnesses in their early stages at a far lower cost, because people don't need to worry about going bankrupt after a doctors visit.

And that's just looking at the direct cost to the patient, completely ignoring the costs to society and the economy. Having to treat severely ill patients in late-stage scenarios where the patient is now out of work for months on end.

I still recall one story I heard during the Obamacare debate about a young father who died from a gum infection. His insurance had lapsed (unemployed) and he only had enough cash to pay for either painkillers or antibiotics, not both. He made the wrong choice unfortunately. This scenario does not exist where I'm from. Hell, I'm happy to pay for other people to get this kind of care. It still costs me less than the US system!

NB: Having personally had a serious abcess that needed root canal in the past (was abroad so couldn't get immediate treatment), I can't honestly blame him for taking the painkillers, it is astonishingly painful.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
The page is more positive than the title. It recommends:

* Persona should be pared down to its core: a decentralized email verification and login API for the web. No more session management, no attribute exchange.
* Persona should be built natively into Firefox, Fennec and Firefox OS to make the JavaScript shim unnecessary on these platforms. The base functionality should be cross-browser, but the experience should be optimized for the native platforms.
* Sites should control most of the user flow and Persona should be almost invisible to users.
* Sites should be able to offer these benefits to their users with a native UA implementation: better UX, reduced login friction and phishing protection.

All of which sound great!

BTW, has Persona reached 1.0 yet? Last I was aware, it was still in beta, which might partly explain the lack of adoption.
yes. I used RDF with owl ontology to define the semantics of the data.
Counter-points: North Korea, Cuba
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I'm (somewhat) sure that this works only in 8 Pro.
If it were truly useful, it would have generated its own promotion. It'd be more like the early years of Firefox, where the benefits it provides are so overwhelming that the early adopters are very willing to spread the word and get others to use it. But Persona clearly isn't that useful to enough people. Even those who've known about it for a long time now just haven't found it practical enough to try to get others to use it.
Wow, MtGox price is almost half that of Bitstamp:

MtGox: $346 for 1 BTC

Bitstamp: $651 for 1 BTC

When MtGox re-enables bitcoin withdrawals, will there be a surge of arbitrage trading?

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=define:+arbitrage+trad...
I think his statement is correct in 99%+ of the cases. Of course there are a few startups who will "disrupt" a market with implementation of a new technology. On the other hand, assuming that the only reason to start a company is "changing the world" is very stupid and not how the world works. Thus his statement that if you want to "tinker with cutting edge technology" you shouldn't be in a startup is holds true in the overwhelming number of situations.

tldr; hipsters will grossly overestimate their ability to "change the world" with that "brilliant idea" they had this morning in the shower, so starting a new company is pretty much the worst path to take, if you want to "tinker with technology".
France is a free country, by any sensible definition of the term.

Sure, you can coin a definition of "free" that excludes France, but you can do that for any country, including (and perhaps especially) the United States.

(or perhaps you were being sarcastic)
I think you're right... But gox really needs to do something to prove they control [a whole bunch of] funds, like they did a couple years ago.
you can define the settings in os-specific settings files in ST already
You are right in saying that "blacks are dis-proportionally present in the prison population" does not prove that, if all factors were equal, people who happen to have darker skin are somehow predisposed to end up in prison. That statement on its own doesn't tell us much and endlessly repeating it is prone to lead to racist beliefs among many people.

However, research that shows a group of people with a common ancestry share a genetic trait that is known to make them more or less susceptible to a certain disease or more or less responsive to certain treatments IS showing a causal link. It is most certainly worth mentioning because it will lead to better medical treatment. This is not an uninformed judgement call based on a naive interpretation of complex social issues. This isn't social science. This is natural science.

I'm hopeful that this research will be done with as little mention of "race" as possible. Race is a social construct, this research is related to shared ancestry. It should be "we'll do a genetic test, and if you have this genetic marker, we'll do X, otherwise, we'll do Y." So many people in the US are of mixed ancestry that it is unlikely that any social definition of race is going to be useful for making medical decisions without a genetic test.
Yes. There's also the Apple Stores where you can play with them, so it was already clear in the mind of early adopters how to use it.

Cleverly subtle.
One difference between France and the UK is that doctors' salaries are much lower there. The French get more value for their healthcare spending than does the UK.
My father passed away from cancer, he was given 3 months to live. I often believe he received a sub-standard level of care and wonder would things have been different if he lived in a country like France.

Work hard and pay high taxes all your life. Your country should take care of you when you need it the most.
Human races haven't diverged, though. Divergence requires isolation that isn't present in humans. People are incredibly mobile and people of different races frequently intermarry, ensuring that any traits that emerge in one get shared with all the others.
I don't find Persona compelling, but I do think they offer an interesting value proposition for people - and framework developers - who have to implement their own user authentication.

Even Django - which is about as close to the proverbial bicycle with training wheels as you can get - can be a pain, especially after django-registration was abandoned. The Django documentation was never really good either, to make matters worse.

It also makes writing guides that much simpler, so although Persona doesn't hold much sway in a vaccum, it's great to have as a pragmatic option.
> There, they actually seem like a useful abstraction for employers, at least in some industries. Not necessarily adversarial, and little of the crazy featherbedding.

It's not quite as romantic as it looks from the outside:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/13/germany.automot...
related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFUyXWlObLw
The US will never have humane health care like France as long as we are locked into the insurance driven model.

And that fate has pretty much been sealed now for the next few generations, maybe even hundreds of years.

There are now many millions of people in the US that will never have health care under the insurance model because of the medicaid gap caused by the loophole the supreme court made and the states that refused medicaid expansion.
So you could get insurance against expensive medical conditions - but if you had to claim on that insurance, suddenly your premiums would start rising by 30% a year, and you would have no alternative because of your pre-existing condition.

To bolster this example, I hear from my parents that this is more or less what's happened to insurance premiums in Switzerland since some idiot in government deregulated the insurance industry.
Yes. I recently purchased a Windows 8.1 laptop and had to turn to Google to figure out how to reboot it. And when I do discover a gesture, it's by accident and it screws up whatever I was trying to do.
By your logic, all of the following statements should lead to an arrest:

I'm gonna have to kill someone if I don't get to sleep soon.

You make me so mad I want to kill you!

If these kids don't calm down you'll have to restrain me so I don't kill one.

A: If they don't budge on this soon we'll have to consider some other options. B: What about kidnapping?

Plus a bunch of comedian, talk-show hosts and other free-spoken people. A joke is a joke; it's not an action and it's not a plan to action. It's irrelevant whether you personally find it funny or not.

If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu

Please reconsider the consequences of what you are proposing.
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Not being able to transfer BTC out of MtGox
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I certainly tried to treat them equally. If I cut-and-pasted from the web more often for the Haskell, it's because I got stuck more often.

For example, I didn't need to search the web for how to read argv[0] in OCaml. It's just Sys.argv.(0). Easy. Would you really expect a beginner to figure out the Haskell version on their own?
When creating complex apps, by the book design pattern solutions are nice to have, e.g: www.sharefest.me, www.asana.com and so on.