skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the links in your post? The first doesn't strongly support your points, and the second was out of date almost 4 months ago.

And that's really saying something, because the first link is an OpEd by Mitt Romney's former health care advisor who is a senior fellow at a conservative think-tank.

Some of the downsides of allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines are addressed at http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2010/september/30/se... - and they include an AEI fellow's views for balance. The auto insurance market is a hybrid, though, and doesn't show a large cost savings for states that effectively allow cross-state lines operations via identical regulations.

I think it's also fair to ask also why health insurers that operate in all/most states (UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, Athena, etc) are not substantially cheaper that BC/BS peers that don't.
This is exactly the reason I started https://instajob.biz I have had nothing but bad experiences with them (with the odd exception of course)

I am not sure what it is like in the rest of the world but in my experience, in the UK, they really don't give a damn about you: You are a number to them and they will say whatever they can to get you in the door.

I have a few friends that work in recruitment (or used to) and they paint a worse picture than that.

I do not trust them, nor do I know anyone that likes dealing with them.
I get a lot of random recruiter pings, probably mostly because I don't bother to do anything to proactively limit them (and I tend to use my real name on forums, social networks, etc and will often post my real gmail address and such).

But for me it doesn't seem like they are that big of a deal and the vast majority of them I just completely ignore. If somebody emails me out of the blue unprompted, I don't feel guilty about archiving their message away without a response. And practically speaking, given the shotgun nature that most of these emails come in on, the recruiter isn't even going to notice that I didn't respond, let alone feel slighted by it.

Getting about an average of one easily-ignorable email per day trying to let you know about an open job opportunity in your field is truly a high level first world problem... one that a lot of people living in the first world in other professions would likely be very happy to have.
> ICQ originally had an interface which didn't show a running log of the conversation.

The earliest version I remember, before 98a, had a history button that would show the running log on the top of the message box window, which was nice.

The nicest thing about ICQ for me back then was the fact that the message disappeared when you sent it -- it wasn't there filling your taskbar or occupying your mindspace.
... isn't that part of what a scrollbar is for?
The whole document was an interesting read.

http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Fe...
I'm interested in what you mean by "fundamentals"?
You are right, in case of C++ the language doesn't ensure safety because of RAII since one can always go back to manual new / delete and etc. But in newer languages this can be avoided.

Rust actually does that, and GC there is optional by the way.
Interesting that you guys went with Solano. We used them back when they were TDDium and found the experience to be very bad. There was notable downtime, a poor interface, and a crappy configuration experience (getting environmental variables into it was very annoying). We've been happily with Codeship ever since.

What reasons did you have for choosing Solano? How has your experience been?
Pedantic point, but US inflation has only climbed above 2% once in the past two years. If their target was 2 percent inflation, they should have been above it roughly half the time. It seems they are happy with 1.5 or so.
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$110k isn't very much for late-30s professional anymore, especially for a single income earner.

$150k x 2 for Seattle, or $200-250k x2 for SFBA, is more like a high-end DINK situation, if you count the value of stock and other benefits. $110k is solidly middle class, and fine if you're in your 20s, but by late 30s I'd consider that on the low end of someone in the software engineering field.

Muni drivers or police/fire/etc. in SF can easily make in the 100-250k range, without college.

(I agree this is all insane, but...inflation. And particularly in the coastal areas. If we were a separate country from the midwest, inflation would be vastly more pronounced. In SF, items e.g. iPhones bought by your employer cost basically 10-20% what they cost in the midwest bought personally for non-business reasons, once you account for taxes, salary differentials, etc. Crazy.)
The concept (lower case c) of monads cannot be represented in C++, but you can certainly write monads in it like in just about any language. You just can't make the compiler verify that what you have is actually a monad. As you suspect, Concepts (capital C) should make it possible to type-check monads in C++ like in Haskell).
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They cared when it was school doing it on students laptops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_...

But now somehow dont care when 2mil Yahoo users are the target?
Bitch please.
it seems is pretty much the same as Sails in Node world
Could not agree more. Cultural sensitivity is one thing, acceptance of this is different entirely.
perl unicode support is actually pretty good http://dheeb.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gbu.pdf
Think about where your grandfather & grandmother lived, and what the place was like when they lived there. Silicon Valley, for example, was pretty cheap before the tech booms. Speaking to people who moved there in the late 70's and early 80's, there were still orchards and fields everywhere.

What I'm getting at is it's easy to get by on simple jobs like that when you live in Nowhere, WY. Then, later, when the town booms people are incredulous about how you were ever able to afford living there.
Which working group will the webrtc tie in be discussed?
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I for one welcome our muddy::future!
If you don't know what a Monoid is you are probably a pretty poor mathematician as it is core structure to do even undergraduate abstract algebra.

Many computer scientists already understand reasoning about abstract structures and use them in their work.

For example commutative operators are incredibly powerful tool in distributed systems, as I am able to disregard ordering.
In general it is useful to be able to say that if I meet an abstract specification (i.e a Monoid, Group, Ring, ect)
because it allows me to perform operations with confidence that they are correct.

If you doubt the usefulness of this just look to Twitter (can't get much more "real world" than that) and see how they have been leveraging abstract reasoning in projects like Summing Bird (and its sub-projects like Algebird, Bijection, ect).
Starting a makerspace in conservative Louisiana city; need tons of advice
If you're familiar with hackerspaces/makerspaces, you know that the core group and the culture they establish can make or break them. And the values/norms of most places like that are pretty different from the standard right-wing worldview.

With that in mind, I'm looking for people willing to help us define and protect the makerspace's culture from ourselves. We're setting it up as a non-profit, so we've got a board of directors. One idea I'm exploring is writing bylaws that say for every local board member there must be 2 others who have experience organizing similar spaces/cultures. Not set in stone, of course...just an thought.

Anyway, we're running a small crowdfunding campaign right now at http://www.lftum.com (the description could use some filling in, I know).

We're only just getting things rolling and while we don't have equipment or a community to use it, we do have a 10k sq ft warehouse whose rent's been guaranteed for a year by renting out a portion of it to a theater group for rehearsal and set building. I'm the only one deeply involved who's been to a hackerspace and researching what needs to be done for it, so I can use all the help I can get. That includes advice on anything/everything, such as how to get people accustomed to having tasks assigned to them to start working in a self-organized collaborative manner.

Also, if anyone's interested in joining our board of directors as a remote member, email me at crawford.comeaux@gmail.com or give me a call at 337-739-2846.

So any questions/suggestions out there?
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I believe surrounding yourself with highly creative people is the problem you're talking about.

I just had this conversation with a friend of mine last night. It seems the answer is nothing. You're situation, which is very similar to my own, is a pretty good one.

You've worked so hard. You've gotten so far. Yet something is off. You've made it and then immediately readjusted the goal posts. Now you haven't made it. Your situation sucks and you don't know why. Well, it doesn't suck but something is off.

I believe this desire is born out of those productive creative people you're exposed to; be it your friends in real life or on Facebook or just people you look up to or read about.

The pressure you're feeling is the comparison you make between yourself and others; it's the death knell of ever feeling good about yourself. You'll never feel satisfied because you're not a successful writer or actor or musician or scrabble player or race car driver or etc like your friends are.

I think the pressure you're feeling is WhatApps gets acquired for $19 billion and you go "damn it I'm how old and how creative and fuck I can't even write a damn blog post and these guys carve out some time and make something badass."

You're economic success is not inline with your actual creative output or potential. Bottom line, sounds like you have some creative juices pent up that need to be let out.

Go make something.

Because if the economy is bad you're not feeling it(110k, decent savings, no debt?, paid-off car, etc.), so it might be something else.
The 30 seconds is not because twitch sucks. They do encoding/decoding/sampling

And honestly, if you were streaming a 1080p video over p2p, I see no physical way that it would be below a 30s delay if there was 1k+ people watching it.

You are limited by peers outbound bandwidth and for most in the US that is going to be sub 5MB/s. With that in mind, you can really only have a maximum of 5 or less streams per user. That means to get to the 1000th viewer, its going to be a daisy chain of 50+ users in front of you before you get the data.

P2P does not and can not work for distributed video until home connections catch up. (Unless you are OK with insane delays)
Well, I have had two classes on Peak Oil and I really don't agree. To reiterate: The current U.S. economy/lifestyle is based on cheap oil. Cheap oil is gradually disappearing. It will only get worse from here. This is just the beginning. Since cheap oil is a foundation stone for our current culture, changes there will be felt wide and deep.

But I guess this is the point at which we agree to disagree.

Thank you for responding. (Edit: and have some upvotes)
"Monoid" is a very detached term.

What does that mean? How is it any more detached than object or method?
You could solve a lot of problems with position: absolute and javascript, which you assume is on.

A bigger problem is that mobile safari doesn't let you execute js during scroll. One way around that is by hsing iScroll which fakes scrolling using CSS.
This reminds me of the "10th floor test" in Bootstrapping an infrastructure, a Lisa'98 paper which was pretty influential for me and a whole wave of sysadmins getting excited about this transition from individual machines to shapeless "infrastructure" where the individual machines mattered less.

It doesn't mention pets or cattle, but makes a similar point:

The test we used when designing infrastructures was "Can I grab a random machine and throw it out the tenth-floor window without adversely impacting users for more than 10 minutes?" If the answer to this was "yes", then we knew we were doing things right.

http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.ht...
I also wonder about "memory problems", but of the soft kind. I like to consuming "pages" of content at a time, spread between many tabs. Usually I read to the bottom of a "page", and then switch tabs. When I come back to that tab, I'm ready to go to the next page.

But with infinite scrolling, I feel like I'd be re-reading content to find my exact spot I left off..
If anyone has a spare invite, please send one to pankaj.ghosh[at]gmail[.]com.
Thanks in advance.
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Why is this so hard that even Google can't get it right? If a page has little to no other content than the content in the list, why is it worth the hassle?
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I would keep it and profit from it. It looks like you could make a lot more than $25k. From the name I thought it was going to be bitcoin poker. I think if you added that you would be very successful.

If you do want to sell it now, I would try and get much more than $25k anyway. That seems like a bargain.
> (which, while unlikely, isn’t inconceivable)

Not only do I think it's not unlikely, I actually think it's pretty much a certainty that Apple has a backdoor in their code. After the slides detailing how easy it is for NSA to break into Apple phones I'd be simply shocked if they hadn't inserted such a vulnerability.

Sounds to me like the author is applying a nice coat of white wash.
Off Topic: I don't know what the connection between the things the elements linked is, but many of them have single digit view counts:

http://scrollsample.appspot.com/item?id=33
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We are talking about the names of algebraic structures, not symbols in equations.
Please turn this into a blog post and submit it to HN. I'd love to see this comment about correlations see more attention ;)
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> Thus, they could stamp out wooden nickels, but that wouldn't make them worth anything to anybody, except possibly for payment of federal taxes. As long as we have those, it is only a short hop to rectangular paper "coins". They can do it, but nobody has to accept them.

Nobody has to accept paper money, either. The only thing "legal tender" laws mean is that if you want to use the power of government to enforce debts, then the government gets to say that its job is done when government-declared legal tender has been presented, whether you accept it or not.

If you don't choose to involve the government in your affairs, then legal tender laws don't affect you.
Can you believe it?
http://nypost.com/2014/02/25/hipster-wannabes-forking-over-t...
Housing & health care are indeed the greatest costs, I'm just arguing that other costs are usually not so small in comparison that they can be waived in this discussion as negligible. If you rent a studio for $800 (as you could in this town), cutting your communication costs by $100-200 yield a moderate but real impact.

I don't mean I live in the middle of nowhere and commute to the city, I mean it's a satellite town of the variety you often find near large cities (To give you an idea). 150,000 people, and I live 200 yards from one of many fire stations.
It's understandable that recruiters are playing a numbers game.

Imagine if recruiters were paid using the formula:

% of filled position salary / # of contacted recipients

This would encourage recruiters to contact only the best-fit(s) for the position. While at the same time reducing the "spam" some of us receive on a daily basis.

A win-win.

P.S. I understand it's nearly impossible to track the # of contacts.
When you're loading more elements at the bottom - drop the equivalent count of elements from the top of the list. Problem solved.
Really!
I have a similar script[0] that I use quickly cd to projects that I work on frequently. I maintain a ~/.projects file which is a space seperated value file with pairs of name and location. Then I just use 'project worldpeacexyz' to go to the appropriate directory.

[0] Here is the one liner...

cd $(awk -v proj=$1 '$1 == proj { print $2; }' ~/.projects)
Unfortunately the term 'function' is somewhat misused in most programming languages, where 'procedure' would be a better term. The Wirth languages, Haskell, and Nimrod are the few that seem to get this right.
Rogue employees, software bugs, and malicious hacks can also happen in a pure USD business covered by explicit laws.
Stored in the data model; the memory issue is a rendering one (not a hard drive capacity one)
Ask HN: Does startups need to focus on execute despite having technical debt?
To give you little context: 230k users since november 2013, 1.4m monthly pageviews, 50% users MoM growth. So at this point we're having discussions whether if we still need to do hacks and monkey-patching our overall system or start doing massive refactors to our core funcionality code. What do you think? Have you experienced something like this?
It must have been plagiarized.
This reminds me of Gabriel García Marquez's novel _The Autumn of the Patriarch_, which has no paragraphs and infinitely long sentences.
It's not really clear what "learning trig" actually means.

Trigonometry, as a subject, can be fully understood in a sentence: "Triangles (especially triangles with a 90-degree angle) have special properties that make them interesting." This is not useful, of course, and worse, it fails to justify high schoolers spending most of a year on the subject.

Trig might instead be understood in this way: "Breaking down complex shapes into triangles makes it possible to find many of the values involved in the shape, because of the special properties that triangles have."

I think this is a fair summary of the topic. If that's good enough, it might be worth doing an article based around taking a complex collection of lines and curves (and draw it out of a photograph for making it feel applicable), assigning a length here and there, and then spending the entire article zooming in on specific sections in order to figure out the consequent lengths of everything else.
I'm also skeptical of Politifact's competence.

FTFY
It's amusing because that isn't the way aircraft carriers are made. Something like a tank might just get handed over after only manufacturer testing, but big ticket items like aircraft carriers go through a year plus of acceptance trials and testing.

They don't finish the last coat of paint, load an air wing, and send it out on deployment.
Its easy when you are just dealing with "text elements" of equal size. But if you are loading images or injecting content in the list elements, the back-button starts to break.
Were they towards the end of the month? :P

Most agency recruiters are fresh out of college, up against some hard quotas, and super stressed. Turnover is very high.
That's totally exaggerating. Anyone who is that green to code is probably not even thinking extending their editor yet, and any working programmer has picked up more than enough JS in their to be able to write and understand far more than that line.

Plus, Emacs is a ghost town anyway. You're going to run into the problem that there are not bodies willing to use the editor, let alone extend it.
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What are your means? What is "quite well"?
Insightful points!
Perhaps the problem is that there's no good real-world equivalent of a "monoid" that basically everybody is familiar with.

Most people are inherently familiar with the concept of a "container", in the sense of something that holds other things, regardless of whether it's a physical container or a data structure.

"Iterator" might not be as clear as "container", but at least most people are familiar with the concept of doing something repeatedly, whether it's some physical action or executing some chunk of source code.

"Monoid" just isn't like that. It may be concrete when constrained to the context of mathematics or programming, but it's quite meaningless outside of those very specific contexts.
Samus Aran is a great character in general, not just a great female character.

Except for in Other M.
Ha, why? Because it's actually well-written and valid?
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Streaming should be free, as should the protocol it's developed on top of, so anybody can use it, and trust it.

Revenue streams come from supporting the back-end telcos (billing, active traffic mgmt & shaping), and content generators (disney/pixar etc), and a couple of other things I'm not ready to talk about just yet ;-).
True P2P streaming is more trouble than its worth. Take it from a guy who streams petabytes a month and has looked into it more times than most.

P2P has 2 main advantages, both of which are voided by this implementation:

1: Better latency. If Joe talks directly to Sue, that is the fastest connection possible, as opposed to Joe -> Server -> Sue

2: The host saves on bandwidth costs

Now, point #1 is moot because this needs servers to work for live broadcasts with lots of viewers. Also, even if server were not on the mix, you are still going to need your data relayed several times depending on how far from the source you are. You cannot hype away the fact that if a person is streaming a 1080p video at 1mb/s and the average peer has less than 5mb/s outbound, that the delay in getting that video to the thousandth viewer is going to be exponential unless you add in servers anyways.

Point #2 is mostly moot for 2 reasons. The first reason is the cost of bandwidth is almost dirt cheap now. You can get a unmetered 1gb/s line for under $200/month.
The second reason is that when you go full P2P, you lose out on a lot of value adds that people like. Things like transcoding for different sizes / mobile as well as DVR style seeking/recording.

Another reason which I am sure will be hotly contested by the developers is that the quality will be more unreliable than a direct server. Last mile Peers are the worst for sending data. You want to typically be in a hub for direct peering to the various end points (comcast/tw/etc.)

In most cases, Its unfortunately the case that P2P causes exponentially more headaches than it solves.

Now, that is not to say that multicast does not have its place in the world. Just that its more of a feature to compliment traditional relay streaming vs being a product on its own.
"Boys got action figures, not dolls. Boys got to have watergun fights, not play dress-up. Much like their videogame counterparts, boys got to do things, and I wanted to do things too"

Find the error...

If you want to do things, don't buy stuff, do things. If you feel you need to buy stuff to do things, you have already lost.