skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean it as a judgement. It's just the reality that some procedures and areas of the hospital reimburse at much higher rates than others, and it's often unrelated to actual expenses. This isn't random speculation on my part -- I've spoken to hospital administrators as well as entrepreneurs working on fixing it.
This is one of the most profound and insightful comments on this page, and I wish I could upvote it more than once.

Did we come all this way so that we could buy a second SUV for 25 people, or do we instead want to save a human being with a life full of potential (and spare incredible grief from at least two other persons in the process)? We should do a cost benefit analysis! [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7206436
Only twenty minutes or so, so the coffee might be a bit lukewarm, but it's ok as you'll be living in the future!

Seriously though, this is a really cool fun hack, but I doubt it is meant to be actually useful, or that bitcoins will be ready for vending machines any time soon.
Yes! Had it not been for the incredible amount of time I spent unsupervised on the Internet, I wouldn't be as good a programmer as I am today.

Did I watch porn before I was of legal age? Yep, and I'm in a happy relationship with no sex problems. Break my computer often? Yep, I'd repair it every few days. I was also exposed to a variety of cultures, read about every operating system on Earth (toyed with emulated PDP-11s and VAXen and C64s for days and days) and wrote in every obscure language there is just because I was a kid and had enough time not to worry about whether spending a week to learn Forth was worth the hours I was putting into it.
On the contrary, the idea that HFT increases liquidity is pretty much obvious if you think about it. It's the assertion of the opposite that needs extraordinary proof, and since the author doesn't provide anything at all, he sounds like a bullshitter to me.
This is the most bizarre (and confusing) iteration pattern I have ever seen. The documentation for have_posts(http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/have_posts) shows a pretty silly fail case as well.
True, but VLC actually applies soft limiting when set to above 100%, so that hard clipping never occurs. I use this feature alot, it's great for taking down the usually thunderous sound effects in hollywood movies a few notches, while keeping quiet scenes at hearable levels.
> If fingerprinting really is a science

Fingerprinting isn't really a science. The law-enforcement practice pre-dates the common use of the empirical scientific method. The assertion that fingerprints are unique is unproven.

http://www.michaelspecter.com/2002/05/do-fingerprints-lie/
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> How often do self-insuranced companies run out of their set-aside?

I don't have any figures at my fingertips, but I know it's more often than insurance corporations, which are highly controlled by governmental oversight to prevent that very thing.

> When that occurs, do their employees simply go without health care?

Yes, that's exactly what happens. Sometimes instead, a company will stop offering in-house insurance and require employees to seek insurance elsewhere.
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Quick feedback: Don't commit vendor packages to your repository, make use of Composer (http://getcomposer.org). Separate out your application core from the public folder, that way you don't need to rely on your web server for security: if someone uses nginx your set up leaves them vulnerable. Look into MVC, you have logic and display mixed together.
This point cannot be overstated. I'd never have been a hacker without vast quantities of unsupervised, unfiltered internet time around age 9-12.

Same here. Emphasis on "vast quantities," "unsupervised," and "unfiltered." All three were required.
Joel Spolsky wrote a good article about this called "Back to Basics" (src: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html ). My favorite quote from it (capitalization modified) is, "If you want to teach somebody something well, you have to start at the very lowest level. It's like Karate Kid. Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off. Do that for three weeks. Then knocking the other kid's head off is easy."
Rem Koolhaas' design for the IIT Campus Center in Chicago takes this idea and uses it as a basis for generating the floorplan:

"...OMA carried out a study to map the “desire lines” of student foot traffic across the campus. These intersecting diagonal paths are maintained inside the Campus Center itself..." - from the project description

Check out the third image here: http://www.oma.eu/projects/2003/iit-mccormick-tribune-campus...

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If, as some other comments say, AOL self-insures, are they a covered entity?
It seems like quite a few of these photos have snow with tire tracks in them. Also, people drive quite differently under these conditions and in a constrained, slower manner. It would be foolish to say that area isn't being used by cars unless you are trying to keep traffic slowed to a crawl.
Ghost and WordPress offer hosted blogs as well as source code. It's no longer necessary to worry about servers or FTP details just to get up and running. Creating a blog is now as easy as filling out a form on a website and clicking submit.

Your only other USP appears to be the ability to parse themes designed for a different engine. Is this going to be enough to distinguish Ospari from your competitors? Is it feasible for someone to write a WordPress plugin that achieves the same thing?
As far as I can see I would still need to run ipv4 NAT in order to get ipv4 addresses for NAT64, so it doesnt really seem worth it.
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The problem with a self-insurance plan re-insuring is that it undermines the very reason for the self-insurance -- it erodes the advantage of local investment of the set-asides.
it was mentioned a few times, missing documentation was probably a deal breaker
I don't see how you were disagreeing with me? He was making the 401k plan marginally worse, not cutting benefits in general. I wasn't saying anything about his ability to lead going forward, just that if their medical policy is going to continue to be willing to pay for these unusual events in the future that he probably doesn't view them as unacceptable.
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Griefer votes are hard to do in Condorcet.

You're proposing plurality voting (plus a weird tie-breaker), which is the worst method on basically every criterion except for "simplicity" and "familiarity to Americans". It leads to really obvious vote-splitting, and people will vote strategically, because they know perfectly well what happens to honest votes in plurality voting. They will also simply propose fewer things.

If the computer is counting votes for you, simplicity shouldn't be the highest priority.

There's a reason people have put years and years of research into voting methods. The best method is unlikely to be the one you think of off the top of your head and post in an HN comment.
It's mostly true though, especially about BSD. The BSD TCP/IP stack code is used for teaching about network stack implementations, and Scheme is extremely useful for exploring theoretical ideas.
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That's why those companies employ teams of people who look for ways to avoid paying insurance.

You mean the people encouraging people to use proper fire-safety techniques, "baby-proof" their homes, eat more healthful foods, exercise regularly, etc?

Of course every insurance company knows they will have to pay some claims at some point, it's a cost of doing business. So their entire purpose isn't to avoid paying claims, it's to charge enough in premiums to cover those claims while still making a profit.
nice, looks really promising.
> This semester I used function pointers in an assignment and later heard them described as “Quinn’s magic C voodoo”.

I still think I have to polish up on 'em:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
//
int chk_arg(char *s, int (*f)(int)) {
while(*s)
if(!(f(*s)))
return 1;
else
++s;
return 0;
}
//
char *s[]= { "1048leet576", "numbers only pls\n" };
if(chk_arg(*s, isdigit))
printf(*(s+1));

> This was confusing - my classmates were juniors and seniors who were 3+ years into a computer science degree, yet many of them didn’t seem to have an understanding of how computers worked. They could write high-level code and analyze algorithms, but had never used malloc.

What the hell, CS students who haven't used malloc? I've got no formal background in CS, yesterday I wrote a binary search tree in C that passed valgrind.
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I was LinkedIn stalked by AOL HR two days before this happened. I thought about doing the interview just to get back in the habit but ended up declining the invite and indicating Armstrong's hamfistedness was the reason why.
farting magic numbers like this: https://github.com/maxmcd/FlappyBird/blob/master/index.html#...

:)
Yep, one of the problems with winter driving is the "nowhere to ditch" if it all goes bad. Taking away the area a car or bike use to maneuver can be very dangerous. Bikes are really penalized for having no wiggle room.
The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie (Kernighan has 2 other good programming books too) and/or look around youtube for tutorials on C. MIT has this online, lecture notes were good enough for me plus K&R book http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

This is a good course about architecture http://www.nand2tetris.org/course.php
What's the deal with this game anyway? It's nothing new, I was playing games based on exactly the same, pretty popular idea, years ago. What's all the fuss about?
Scheme is a small language as well, and it is worlds better for teach abstract concepts. You can write far more elegant and compact implementations of data structures in Scheme than you can write with C.

As for preferring one data structure over another, C does that as well: arrays are the only data structure with first-class support.
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> I hope that he gets scared and lonely as he gets older and older

You realize that will only exacerbate his mistakes, yes?
So I believe the following is true:

1. The costs of the procedures involved are wildly inflated by the private sector healthcare system we employ.
2. Regardless of 1 the effort involved in keeping the child alive was extraordinary.
3. The effort involved was disproportionate to the benefit to society.

It's unlikely the reader will agree with 3. That's ok. But I would ask anyone who disagrees with 3 to think carefully about if there is a line where the effort to save a child's life is too great, and if that line exists, how would you determine where it is, and given that method where is that line for you?
I'm delighted to hear that this child is doing well, and I'm utterly appalled at Tim Armstrong's attitudes towards the lives of his employee's children

Do you really think it's possible to have a comprehensive understanding of "Tim Armstrong's attitudes towards the lives of his employee's children" based on this one little blurb? I mean, seriously... I can't help but think people are constructing a caricature of the man, based on a very limited understanding, and heavily influenced by their own preconceived biases and generic "Robber Barrons, evil, muwahahahaha" stereotypes.

I'm not saying that Tim Armstrong is a good person, as I don't know him. But I am very suspicious of this rush to judgment that seems to be going on here.
I'd love to think they would be better off, but I assume their analytics are telling them right now that cheap trolling increases ad impressions more than journalistic hard work.
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decries outlandish million dollar spending to save child's life.

Where exactly did he do that?
Maybe it's possible that there are plenty of people out there who care about "ephemera", and yet are also capable of programming a computer or soldering things together? I think it's possible.

Sure, Jobs did. On the other hand, Woz was the tech genius, not Jobs.

I've never heard of a tech genius who also cared much about the qualities you mention. This seems more than a coincidence. If it were, then there'd probably be at least one counterexample. Is there someone who is at the level of Woz or Blackwell who also cares about popularity, beauty, and fitting in?
The PDF is dated from 2009 maybe it was common at the time to rely on MD5.
I tried this for a while. Before, I was using chrome on OS X and safari on iOS, just tolerating the lack of bookmark sync. I switched to safari on OS X because chrome was being slow, and images would suddenly stop loading. But using safari full time made me run screaming in the other direction on all platforms and I just switched back to chrome, I'm even using it 100% on iOS now that I worked around the problems in the article.

Safari on OS X has so many annoying little behaviors that become a problem in constant use. Things like accidentally closing a tab (or a whole window with 40 of them) and being unable to get them back without scrolling through history, or the poor handling of the tab bar, forcing you to click the drop down to get to the rest of them when there are too many to fit on screen at once. One that constantly bit me: right click a selection and search with google. In chrome it's in a new tab, in safari it blows away what you were doing in the same tab.

I also found out TLS client certificates on a websocket cause the connection to fail in Safari on OS X, it never authenticates and it shows up in a non-obvious way. I lost a whole 2 days of dev time on that thinking I did something wrong, only to notice it worked in chrome.

Safari was also crashing all the time, both in the middle of important things like writing a few paragraphs in a text box (and having them vanish), but also on stuff that is a major core function of the browser like typing in the URL bar.

I do like iCloud Keychain but it still works on iOS because Chrome on OS X puts passwords in the keychain and they get synced. It may not autofill in chrome on iOS (edit: it does I just tried) but I haven't noticed, I only have to enter passwords 1-2 times every few weeks, the rest of the time sessions stick around.

Safari also made me realize I needed bookmark sync on iOS very badly, so I had to get that feature back with Chrome.

The main problems in the article about chrome on iOS - lacking the fast JS engine, and inability to set chrome as the default browser (which leads to other problems) - were solved by jailbreaking and I'm absolutely pleased with the result I'll never give it up now. My stuff still syncs (yay bookmarks!), and chrome now handles all links from other apps and emails so I actually end up using it instead of accidentally ending up in safari. And it does a lot of little things better, like the reappearance behavior of the URL/tab bar during scrolling, VERY nice. Plus chrome dev tools are low friction for me, while safari again annoyed me to no end.

Something about google being a company whose developers spend a lot of time on the web doing development, and dogfooding chrome in the process, has resulted in Chrome being low friction in ways safari isn't.
> I was more saying the point of insurance in general to those buying the insurance is to protect against outliers.

Yes, and the basic principle of an insurance pool is to use the pool's size to absorb the impact of an outlier event. The larger the pool, the better it is able to absorb such an event. This means a small company can be a risky place to set up a self-insurance scheme on which the employees depend.

> since AOL 'self insured' there wasn't an insurance company at the heart. AOL just decided to cut corners and 'put away money for a rainy day', and was shortsighted on how much to put away, to put it simply

Yes, and that's a surprisingly common outcome -- it's the downside of self-insurance plans -- often a company or an individual doesn't actually have the resources to deal with an outlier, or a sudden surge in claims is synchronized with a business reversal.
was highly interested on http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1302_Depage/Saturday/Reproduci... but alas no sound, anyone has the same issue ?
Thanks for the feedback.

Obviously for developers it's something you could throw together, but I'm planning on adding more features later if there's real interest in this for them.

The target audience right now is more towards non-developers who just want to throw something together with as little investment as possible to validate/iterate their idea.
> which I was free to break (software-wise)

I'm curious, were you on a linux os? Did you break your software often?

It seems to me people who get on linux early might have an easier time, because they can so easily break their system and rebuild it. It seems like a kid who breaks a windows/ mac os might need to go to their parents to deal with license keys, which might cause the parents to say "no more hacking".
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i think that's exactly the point. They refer to their suggestions as "traffic calming" measures.
>you also have an interest in social media and graphic design

You added an "also." The criticism was of "women-in-tech" advocates who are solely "women-in-tech" advocates/PR people/designers and who are not programmers.
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Dell may be using poor quality parts. VLC can also make the sound louder than any other media player that I've used while generating destructive square clipping.

The problem is it's too easy to set the volume above 100%. I've done so with the mouse wheel. And I now have a $2000 out-of-warranty laptop with blown speakers.

Fixes could include:

* Not remember settings above 100% between sessions unless an advanced option is checked that warns the user.

* Require a double click on volume slider to go above 100%.

VLC's high volume is a wonderful feature when you're listening to DTS or AAC movies encoded with the volume too low. It's just too easy to be accidentally abused.
http://ip6.nl/#!mi5.gov.uk 0 stars
http://ip6.nl/#!fbi.gov 3 stars - yay hope
http://ip6.nl/#!cia.gov 3 stars again

My ISP, nope, BBC again no. Would appear the UK in no rush to move into IPv6, least publicly. Bet some people wondering what IRC is like over IPv6 and others wondering why Snowden never warned us about the lack of intelegence support of IPv6. If he did, then things would improve, but until people are forced into a corner then nothing will change.

I just think it is sad how IPv6 could of been and still can be pushed via mobile phone usage and in that case it is an area which makes 4G voice calls and easier from what I have heard (least networking level). Certainly the need is there in the mobile market, just support elsewere and it is not even a chicken and egg situation more a case of slowly dripping into excistance.

That all said it is such an investment in skills and effort for a demand that can just use an alternative. That and the NAT been abused so well that the biggest area (mobile networking) has been fine without it. Just makes it hard to justify, even if current hardware and software support it. One does not just go IPv6 overnight without some business tears.
The thing is though that she is in a very rare, privileged position. She liked her community, fit in well, felt protected and cared for, wasn't troubled by the gender ratio and all in all was just happy with her situation.

For a very large amount of women that is unfortunately not the case nowadays and unfortunately her situation is not typical in the slightest and I didn't see much actionable advice to improve on that.

It's also important to note that it seems the people she respected are separated from today's youth by almost two generations:

I've never had a problem with old-school hackers. These guys
treat me like one of them, rather than "the woman in the group",
and many are old enough to remember when they worked on teams
that were about one third women, and no one thought that strange.
Of course, the key word here is "old" (sorry guys). Most of the
programmers I like are closer to my father's age than mine.

Ever since that generation the gender gap has been widening and she's now witnessing attempts to correct that and she doesn't like what she sees. She doesn't like the exclusion of her son, the message it sends to him about women in tech (and thus herself) and most of all the fact that gender has now become a 'thing.' And I can totally relate that for her it must be painful indeed and that is her voice and she totally deserves it.

Where we would go wrong is if we took this as the right approach, if we started basing best practices from this or worse: if we would use it to belittle the work of everyone who is trying to improve the situation.
We actually have a system similar to what you describe in your last paragraph with the three "inverted" US equity exchanges where liquidity providers pay a fee and liquidity takers receive a rebate. It means that shares posted to the inverted exchanges are cheaper (net of fees) to aggressors than shares posted to other exchanges, so liquidity takers with a smart order router will look first to the inverted exchanges before the other exchanges.
Difficult to fit a laptop in a fanny pack, or even a 10-inch tablet. I suppose you might be able to fit a phone (which fits easily in a pocket anyway) or a 7-inch tablet.
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