skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's my biggest problem with the ACA, actually. I think it's great that insurance providers now have to accept pre-existing conditions, and while I'm against the ACA in general, I see that as the biggest good that it's doing

> My dislike for it is that one provision could have been its own separate law that would have been passed easily, with more bipartisan support, and would have fixed much of what ails the system

No, it would have destroyed the system.

This happened in Washington state in 1994. They passed a law in 1993 that required acceptance of people with pre-existing conditions, prevented charging sick subscribers more, and had an individual mandate to get health insurance. The mandate would start in a few years.

In 1994, Republicans got control of the state legislature, and repealed the individual mandate part of the law.

The result: people dropped insurance until they got sick, then got insurance. If their condition was not chronic, they would drop insurance after they got treatment. Insurance companies started bleeding money.

By 1998, 17 insurance companies that had provided individual health insurance in Washington no longer did so. By 1999, the last two companies that provided individual health insurance in the state stopped. You could essentially no longer buy individual health insurance in Washington.

In 2000, they modified the law so that people with pre-existing conditions had to wait nine months before insurance would be effective. I'm not sure why they picked nine months, but my guess is that it has something to do with how long pregnancy lasts in humans, because people buying insurance when they found out they were pregnant and dropping it when they brought the baby home was one of the biggest causes of losses to the insurance companies.
good call! i think i have someone even better than me in mind for it.
I had a similar issue with the verifying process. I opened an issue requesting better documentation on the signing command so that people can write their own clients: https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/174
>if you have a swimming pool and aren't using it as much as the public feel you should that it can be confiscated. Or, say, you have 2 cars - well clearly you can't drive both at once; repossession by the state, et cetera

This has nothing to do with what I said. Neither a swimming pool nor a car is a scarce resource. Now if you owned the only bridge to an island and didn't allow people to use it, or charged them extortionary rates... then we can begin the debate.

>Sure it does. IF you own it.

I'll tell you what, go let your house collapse from disrepair, attempt to assert mineral rights in your backyard and then pour raw sewage onto your land.... we'll see if the zoning code enforcement, county lawyers and EPA respectively come knocking or not. Despite your assertion, there is very little that we actually own in the real property market. This is because it is in the public interest to have the many protections that we have.
By the time Denver based devices are on market, Apple will be releasing A8 based devices, so it will probably be competing with A8 rather than A7.
I work in fraud management in the payment space for my day job. (Unfortunately we not have a publically available option yet for someone at your scale).

- You are most likely violating OFAC/KYC regulations in the US (Assuming you are in the US with references to the FBI)
- It is easy/cheap to buy on the black market complete combinations of credit cards/cvv/social security info
- People who buy/have these stolen cards want a cash exit
- Verification of both sides of the transaction are really needed for what is essentially a money transfer, to keep fraud down (steps beyond CCV to prove someone is in control of a CC)
- You are lucky, that $2000 was probably an initial probe to see what checks you had in place. Shutting down was the right thing to do. If you had left it open, you could've added three zeros to the damages
- CC's are not secure and the "merchant" is always the loser in fraud. Visa/Mastercard will always make their cut. Additionally ACH/echecks doesn't provide much in the way to claw back funds (any really).

Edit: Oh some other notes, the local PD are simply not equipped to handle this, even though you are the victim as you have been defrauded. Chargebacks can continue to roll in down the line, typically 30-90 days after the transaction. You may have violated your MCC code on your merchant account by doing this, as getting an MCC code to do a balance transfer like this is not a simple thing.
Because they already know JavaScript.
This makes me glad I set up the workflow I did at our company. Nothing gets into the central code base without a pull request.
That is all fine but it can be done without the chaos portrayed in the movie.
How to catch Kecleon?
I already pledged. And it is sad to see the campaign failing. Baring some very large scale donors, the progress is not enough to reach the goal...
["-webkit-", "-moz-", "-ms-", "-o-", ""].forEach(function(prefix) {
document.body.style[prefix+"transform"] = "rotate(180deg)";
});
Ask HN: How does Sway app know where I work and crush?
I got an email by Sway app[1] that someone from my organization has a crush on me and three of my facebook friends are using this app.

I have never signed up on any dating site, never signed up using facebook or standalone login.

I am wondering if Facebook sold my data? The reason I feel this way is because how do they know my place of work and that someone at the same place has a crush on me without me signing up for the app?

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sway-your-new-dating-app-aka/id737328371?mt=8
It seems to me that your response basically amounts to "out with the old, in with the new." I think it's better to carefully evaluate the tradeoffs of different solutions than to assume that either the old way or the new way is automatically better.

In this case, containers have definite merits. For example, you can be sure you're not inadvertently dependeing on something that happens to be installed on your systems but may not be explicitly declared as a dependency of your package. On the other hand, is containerization going to make it harder for admins to deploy security updates, especially for things that are usually system-wide libraries in the conventional distro packaging model, like OpenSSL?
Commands will be sent over a network to the bot, so it's probable that wire latency will be the bottleneck, not the language.
I'm talking about side-stepping the GC engine completely by allowing a form of quasi-manual control over buffer data. Being able to call a method that actually immediately releases buffer data would, I think, help considerably, rather than hoping and praying that the GC eventually gets around to clearing it up.

It might also be possible to create a sort of "weak reference" String-type class where you can manually ditch the data associated with it and not wreck other references to it, they'd just revert to empty string.

Seems like this could be done without having to get down and dirty in the GC itself.
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If the service is exposed publicly to the web, It can be crawled regardless of whatever guards are in place by the service provider. Browser emulation will be a good start.
Wilcard DNS, Content Poisoning, XSS and Certificate Pinning
>In the mean time, someone read about this big project and decides to built a mini mart called Main St. Shopping right around the corner

Are you trying to stengthen my argument? You've just proven that they were doing the very thing I'm arguing is unethical. Now if they incidentally named their shopping plaza this name and they can prove it was coincidence... well then we have an argument.

As for Google.io, they DO have a business there... and all over the internet. If there was an existing business there named Google that say delivered math lessons to homeschoolers, then I would say Google could not legitimately claim them as squatting.

This is a "I know it when I see it" standard. It's usually pretty obvious what is squatting and what is not.
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That's pretty much what the article said. When an entrepreneur fudges facts about cash flow or profitability, they tend to start believing that fudged reality and thus start reacting incorrectly to the real one.
the world has yet to see evidence that warming or cooling is NOT a "feature" of the ever natural climate change.
One users "stale" is another's "stable".
More exec departures hit payments startup Clinkle
My machine is going to be upgraded to the next LTS, 14.04, sometime over the summer, but that doesn't change the fact that 12.04 will still be around in 2017.

More importantly, 12.04 is the most current Ubuntu LTS. It's definitely still around now.
There are two ways to think of "web censorship":

The first is that web censorship (as opposed to just plain old regular censorship) requires filtering or interfering with the end-to-end principle. In this case, the U.S isn't really censored (although we had a close call with SOPA / PIPA). The DMCA and COPPA don't affect the end-to-end principle or block content -- they only threaten penalties on various people on the edges of the network.

The second way to think about this is to say that threatening penalties on people for what they say IS Internet Censorship. The question now isn't about "web censorship" per se, but really about whether said country has any restrictions on speech that can be applied to speech online. And if you take a very strict view of free speech rights, I'm pretty dubious you'll find any country that fits the bill (except perhaps some tiny nation with almost no laws to begin with).

Varying levels of "speech" you'd need to permit to be completely "censorship" free:

* Spammy advertisements

* Infringement of any and all IP rights

* Hate speech

* Threats

* Cyberbullying and other intentional inflictions of emotional distress

* Publication of private data

* (Re)-distribution of child porn
The dumbest mobile game ever made?
A game we made "could be one of the dumbest mobile games ever made."
> probably

Yeah, that's an interesting word. What if you're wrong? What if you're very, very wrong? What if you're catastrophically wrong?

I'm not a climate scientist, and I'm guessing you're not one either. Are you just going from your gut with that "probably" there? Should we really make policy decisions based on your gut instinct? What threshold of consensus should we have in the scientific community, before that's enough to drive policy? Not that consensus means ANYTHING in science, but what other basis would ever allow scientists to drive policy?

I'm genuinely curious, I'm not just trying to troll you. What do you think is the threshold for scientists driving public policy?
Yeah, every stencil file gets thoroughly reviewed. We reduce aperture sizes for fine pitch components, "window pane" large apertures, round-rects on BGA's, all that kind of stuff. If you choose a CircuitHub approved footprint, all that kind of stuff will be taken care of automatically.

Using high-end machines makes life a lot easier too because we have a controlled snap off speed and angle as well as consistent squeegee pressure and paste bead height. You wouldn't believe how many factors go into getting a good stencil print.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.gree.flopfu
wrong. he's sceptical of anthropologic warming.

> whose views and writings have been widely debunked.

by whom - the ipcc?
Catfan is looking for social marketing talents.
cause they cant learn anything else.
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None of the filtering in the UK is legally mandated, and only the major ISPs implement it. Smaller ISPs still offer a completely unfiltered service.
How Whole Foods Market improved meetings by using weekly progress report
npm is a fantastic package manager that integrates very well with github, and node -- in the opinion of a lot of people -- has a rather intuitive system for installing and loading third party modules.

EDIT: also wanted to add that node exposes your standard POSIX-style interfaces to the OS, so there's really no reason it can't be a general purpose replacement for other languages for writing system tools.
Are the hooks not run on each instance the package is being deployed to?
It's really a matter of total returns, using the SAP as a benchmark. The Spider S&P ETFs capture total returns.

There's an argument that dividend payers outperform the index over the long haul, but that's something different.
> The volumes for desktop/laptop are almost trivial compared to the volumes for handheld. (At least for Apple.)

Yep. IIRC Apple ships something like 10 million laptops/year. They ship 3 times that in phones… every quarter
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Over the past 15 years (and 10, so that I'm not cherrypicking the dot com bust) they've dramatically underperformed the market.
The courts can decide squatted/legitimate use. I mean, were you using email@4chan.com before 4chan.org was starting up? And for that matter why would you be saving 4chan.com for your child? Are you 'speculating' that it will be worth more over time? Or is their name Mrs. Four Chan? It should be easy to make your claim if it's bona fide.

Again, this is a 'I know it when I see it.'

That client thing is shitty and that sounds like actually you have a great argument. Especially if you just post your negative blog post/review of that company redirected from that domain.
Quoting my co-founder (and creator of this path) Parul's response to similar comment below.

"My apologies if you found that disorienting! You are right that CS101 becomes a prerequisite for CS253 (if you don't know python already). The reason I started with CS253 is because, personally for me, it helped a lot to know the top level concepts of "How web works" and the front-end (because that is what a normal user sees) and then go into concepts of server side languages which might seem too involved and dry to a beginner."
Not all ISPs implement this.
>"If you weren't doing your job, the net value of the equities and derivatives markets would be pretty much exactly the same; it's just that it would be parcelled up a little differently."

This claim really does require a citation, because it is quite significant, and is not necessarily true.

Bethany McLean (author of "All the Devils are Here" and "The Smartest Guys in the Room") once made a great point about people shorting stocks; she said that they are the only ones looking for bubbles, excesses, and other problems in the stock market and asset pricing in general, their vigilance helps to pop the bubbles sooner than they would otherwise, thus reducing the impact of the tumult or recession which may follow.[1] I think this is a valid point, and you should take this kind of action into account when judging these market participants; their motives may not be beneficent, but they are still fulfilling a necessary task.

[1] http://www.c-span.org/video/?296214-1/qa-bethany-mclean-
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if it had been a random price-drop announcement then this might be applicable, but everyone was pretty sure that Amazon was going to announce a price drop at re:Invent.
Bandwith Exceeded, go there instead: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eB8N3Wm...
The day scientific consensus fails to be a disputed issue is the day science begins to die.
Israeli Sniper's Anguished Look Into Crosshairs
> What a moronic idea, that a thousandth of a population can actually have a statistically significant effect on the entire population.

So, monarchy never happened?
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The primary argument against node.js (and perhaps ruby) AFAIC is that many users will not already have it installed. Python/Perl/Bash you can count on all users having. C is a fine choice, but of course requires more packaging to be user friendly.

I've used zsh as my interactive shell for years, but I always still write bash scripts instead of zsh scripts. You can count on bash scripts running just about anywhere.
This is due to the competition environment running in virtual environments that need to be able to build and run all the entries.
It's less about what you do with the domain and more about the method of choosing the domain. If your domain is blatantly copying a company name, and it's not your company name, you're not in a strong position. By copying I mean something like paypa1.com, not something like paypalsucks.com.

If you have a domain where you do nothing on it, but it's not copying anything either, that's squatting but nobody is going to care.

If you hold a client's site hostage for not paying, yeah that sounds like squatting. So what, that's not a value judgement.
If you don't upload your key to keybase.io, you need the command-line tool to generate the file to upload for you, and then subsequently verify it. She can't install keybase via npm because the version of npm she has with her OS is too old to install it. Therefore, she can't verify.
No, as a non distro-official package it should install into its own prefix in /opt.
"but it can be very kind to those blessed with good judgement, good fortune, and initial excess capital"

Those with excess capital can purchase good judgement, which increases your odds of good fortune. In fact purchasing good judgement may not even be necessary, since you can probably get buy simply copying what other wealthy are doing (ie. the people you talk to most).

So all you really need is excess capital, and not have really bad judgement.
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The Fastest-Growing Open Source Project As Determined By Our Incredibly Specific and Sometimes Downright Strange Metrics
"no reason it can't be a general purpose replacement for other languages for writing system tools."

Perl/Python come installed by default in the majority of distros (and Mac OSX)

They're also more mature at this stage

So, yeah, node may one day be as supported as them, but today it is at a disadvantage.
Hi mkal_tsr, you have a valid point there!

Popcorn Time is awesome, and if it continues (unlike the other Popcorn Time repository) it will eventually pass CodeCombat. However, it might also experience some event or plateau, like Pullup did, that will stop its growth.

A really interesting way to analyze the GitHub Timeline would be to rank repositories based on sustained average growth rate. We chose a fast, (sort of) cheap, and computationally easy way to run these statistics, but there are a myriad of other ways to process the same dataset, which we'd definitely be interested in seeing.
It's all about innovating and offering something that Google doesn't offer, such as privacy or smart widgets. See: DuckDuckGo.com

You're not going to crawl / index better than Google.

Maybe you could combine the DMOZ directory and Google results somehow.

Rather than replacing Google, try to supplement their services or just somehow provide more value to users.
Poll: Which political system do you prefer for your startup?
Startups and companies are often described with political analogies: Oracle as a dictatorship, Google as a diarchy/oligarchy, and Zappos as a communist society. Wondering what HN thinks is the ideal political system for their startup.
Diarchy
Monarchy
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Stateless programming is what the craze is all about. A lot of programmers grew up on C-style "x = 3;" kind of programming, so to write 500 good lines of code without an assignment operator can be a bit like walking down the street on your fingertips.

There is nothing special about Haskell. Every single one of its qualities have been / will be reimplemented in other languages. Do not stare at the tree that is Haskell: talk about the forest that is PL research / features.

For example, Shen is a great mindbender close in "power" to Haskell. It's a Lisp, it has an [inferential] static type checker, and only 2 functions in Klambda aren't referentially transparent.

Personally I dislike Haskell's syntax and think Worse is Better, anyways. ;)
I don't see how disappearing quotes affect you when you "add liquidity".
> Just because you own something DOESN'T give you impunity to 'waste' it as you see fit

Under US law you sure do.

You also have to define "waste". The owners of 4chan.com are obviously holding onto their domain because they see it as a valuable asset. I doubt they'd see this as wasting their property. They're watching it grow in value.

Your argument would virtually have us outlaw anyone from holding onto an asset if it could immediately be used better by somebody else.

As a counter-example: Why should anyone be allowed to horde gold? There's a gold shortage and it would be of much more use in computer manufacturing.

That's obviously insane, and yet it's essentially the same scenario.

I understand that it would be better for the common good if 4chan.com was owned by 4chan.org, but if we're playing the game of Capitalism, then these are the rules.
It's not so easy to enable - there are no simple, reasonably automated and secure ways to deploy,run&evaluate solutions developed in/for an arbitrary environment; there are multi-language code-evaluation environments that allow to do this for many but not all languages.

You don't want to run arbitrary binaries; linking of required libraries is an issue in many languages, and you can't install every version of every possible interpreter in the world to support all possible interpreted languages (and their multiple, incompatible versions).
I like this post -- it's like an _anatomy of a failed run_.

If I may, to split your into groups:

Things you don't finish:
> - Do your project ideas never get finished?
> - If not, is it because of technical issues that make it difficult to get your product working?
> - If not, is it because you lose interest or the people you work with lose interest?
> - If not, is it because there are non-technical factors outside your control that you cannot successfully deal with (e.g. licensing agreements)?

Ideas that fail because no one else is interested:
> - If so, is it because you've tried the standard promotional channels and nobody is paying attention?
> - If so, is it because the market has shifted in the period between inception and release in such a way your product is now redundant or obsolete?

Ideas that launch, but fail because of money/scaling issues:
> - Do your startups not get traction in the marketplace?
> - If so, is it because you're trying to unsuccessfully compete with a larger player in the field?
> - If so, is it because you're not waiting long enough, or your expectations are too high?
> - Are your projects torpedoed by the fact that you run out of living expense money before they have a chance to catch on?

Reasons that fail primarily due to interpersonal/stress reasons:
> - Are your projects torpedoed by issues related to the people you are working with, if any?
Is that you, Bernie Madoff?
I think the only reason prices would ever go UP, would be if the cost of generating electricity went up.. In which case, your in-house computing would cost more, as well.

Short of that, the trend seems to be costs going DOWN. Amazon recently noted their 42nd price decrease.
That is an interesting idea.

At one point I had a machine which allowed movement of data between apps running in Windows 3.1 on a DX4 and Risc OS on a StrongARM. I'm wondering how hard it would be with OSX (a far stricter OS than Win3.1 or Risc OS) to allow a sort of process level separation, where the OS and any ARM compatible processes are running on an ARM, but you keep an x86 around and spin it up for certain processes.