skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the emergency or otherwise time sensitive stuff is harder to fix up but it's still doable.

I am not suggesting that the rich be able to spend $100 to see a doctor and all the cattle should be left to fend for themselves. What I am suggesting is that it's not outside the realm of possibility for people to fund their own care.

Right now the way insurance is structured they lump together "maintenance" with "serious" and "catastrophic" all in a single insurance policy. That is unfortunate because most regular human beings can self-fund "maintenance" and many can even self-fund "serious" but only very wealthy folks have the capacity to pay for "catastrophic"

The reason we want individuals to pay for "maintenance" and even some "serious" stuff out of pocket is two-fold. First we want competitive pressure on doctors to not jack their prices up. Second, it will help encourage a culture of "do I really need this?" among patients and they will ask their doctors about more than "will it help" but more like "is it worth it" and while some doctors might lie to enrich themselves most that I have met aren't the type.

Why do we want competitive pressure on doctors not to jack their prices up? Because right now the way things work is that the insurance companies have a pretty good idea of what things cost and they negotiate doctors down very aggressively on that. They will of course let the docs make a little money, but nothing crazy. Let's say 10% as an example. If you can only make 10% on your costs then the easiest thing to do is to work on increasing your costs, which then makes a bigger pie for you to earn 10% of. Furthermore there is no incentive for doctors to come up with cost-savings because if they do, it simply reduces the size of their pie to earn 10% of. The unfortunate side effect is that even though medicine has more and more technology and that technology is getting cheaper and cheaper, the cost of medicine is rising.

I realize that I don't have the answers to everything but competitive pressure and rewarding innovation are sorely lacking in medicine today. Other forces are also necessary, like publishing outcome statistics in addition to prices. But I find it very difficult to believe that for the mundane stuff that makes up a lot of a person's exposure to medicine until something serious or catastrophic happens (or late in life) would go a long way towards reshaping people's expectations as well.
What do app users believe about mobile monetization techniques on android?
In "You are reaching out to Reporter at XXX..Over a story titled.." screen, the screen keeps moving back to the top blocking me from entering any information in fields below. Won't even let me scroll down from second time onwards.
I wonder how they disperse the money to the various shops.

Edit:
From the website "We pay you for each drink purchased at your awesome coffee shop "
The same arguments can be used against a removable battery, but the flagship Samsung has one.
+1 for the allergens - best thing I ever did for my overall mental health was realize I was gluten intolerant
The first workaround is actually the same as what you do for a map in 2.x (that always works):

for x in map(lambda i: lambda: i, range(5)):
print(x())
And if you trust someone else to exploit you for convenience, https://reverseheartbleed.com/
For $0 a month you can drink water from the tap. It's healthy and doesn't require installing an app.

(Psst. You should be finding ways to balance your diet, not contribute to its destruction.)
Ally is a bank and regulated as one, even though they're 'online'. Coinbase is not regulated as a bank. They're not even regulated under the much looser guidelines of a money transmitter.
I've dropped my Nokia 521 down stairs, into water, all over the place. It's incredibly durable.
We are metricwire.com and we got an acceptance. We provide a platform for researchers(market, academics and medical) to perform studies. Our tool provides these researchers with an easy to use tool to build their study and push it to users smartphones and then the data is aggregated online and they can run analytic models through our interface.
there's an HN meetup group though it's been dormant for a while:

http://www.meetup.com/JoinHNDC/
http://warriorforumsucks.com/
There is money to be made milking the vulnerable.
I appreciate the comments. As I said, I'm just getting started with this. I posted it here just to get some initial feedback.

I understand there are other options for standing desks that are both less expensive and more functional. The value proposition isn’t a "better" standing desk, or a "cheaper" standing desk, it is a standing desk that is built by hand from reclaimed, quality materials, sourced from the community.

It allows me to continue to support the deconstruction of abandoned homes and buildings in the Detroit area, which is one of my main focuses.
This is the only organizational tool I use and it is awesome! Never been one for saving things to say Evernote or Pocket, but because the drag and drop is so intuitive and easy, I use this everyday.
Yeah, nobody is ever going to agree about language statics. From each person's POV: "you either get it or you don't".

But totally agree about the pragmatism of Lisp. It's clever self-interpreter is clever but not terrifically interesting as a proof of simplicity of language but instead a proof of simplicity of self-implementation.
Head on over to: DC.started.in/apply/

We'd love to talk to you!
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That's because you have to enter information in there... we do not want you to go on without entering something in that screen. Reason being is because formulating the pitch is a vital part of the process..
Would love to hear your feedback.
I got that he was joking a bit, but since he never mentioned Erlang again, and he wanted something good at doing concurrent programming, it seemed a bit "hah, hah, only serious". There are plenty of good things about Go, so I'm sure it's a fine language for what he is doing, but I was wondering why Erlang was never heard from again.
GoCardless (YC S11) is hiring developers in London
Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
If I had written a book on implementing cryptography in Golang, I assure you that someone else would have reviewed it harshly too. It's simply a difficult subject to get right.
Provide valuable content for us to read about your website.
Or as my 4th grade teacher used to say "Don't be sorry, be right".
A bit off-topic, but is there a way to import a bookmark folder into Dragdis? :)
> - non-techy enough to not have built a crazy $10k coffee-brewing setup at home

I have an espresso maker (admittedly much much cheaper than that) at home, but I still drink coffee out throughout the day.

Though I also must admit to the fact that I leave in Rome where an espresso is 70-90 cents and consistently good.
#lang typed/racket

Isn't bound by backwards compatibility in the sense [I think] you are implying. What the docs are saying is that modules which enjoy static typing may be called transparently from modules which don't - though as is common with functions in the Math library there may be a performance penalty. The backwards compatibility is that the implementation of static typing does not impede dynamically typed code. Statically typed code works just fine with dynamic type checking.

+ regex-match-event from racket/port might be an alternative to handle network connections than hash table lookup. http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/port-lib.html#%28def._...
With Skepchick involved, this seems sketchy.

I'm not going to spend today defending GoDaddy, as they've been a fair fly in the ointment to me. However I would not suggest burning them at the stake because of somebody on this particular blog posted an inconclusive statement about a breach which was, as far as we can tell, dealt with already.

As a customer of theirs, I'll probably be contacting them about this to make sure I don't have any similar issues, and suggesting a remedy (probably something like the cryptographic hash based verification method suggested elsewhere on this page) for the future.
Confused about high-frequency trading? Here's a guide
While this is a valid course of action, I still feel it's up to an author to use due diligence in both researching the material, and seeking out expert advice before publishing.
There's a very limited supply of SF. We've recently collectively realized that it's worth more than we thought. So yeah, if you want to keep retaining exclusive use of a particular piece of it (you have the coercive state action part backwards - property rights are not a natural right, they only exist through government action), you'd better pay our governmental institutions according to the present market rate, just like you'd pay for radio spectrum or any other limited public resource.
Ask HN: How to get job in the US as an european CS graduate?
In a year or so I will graduate from uni and I was just wondering if anyone here would have tips regarding job search, visa issues etc.
Ahh, yes, I live in a state with no income tax, so sales tax deduction tends to be substantial for me.
What about writing blog posts about cool things you can do with Pintask? Or maybe even something not related to Pintask but to coding in general?
Been using geocod.io for a few months now and it's one of the easier geocoding services I've worked with. Keep up the good work!
I'm curious to see what I will be able to do with the interconnect myself. For instance, could I rig something up to hook a couple of modules to my laptop or car?
I'm a huge espresso lover - made sure to have an espresso machine everywhere I spend more than a few hours (office x 2, apartment x 2) and I still find myself buying coffee when I'm outside.

I've used them while in Israel (and I know one of the founders), I only have good stuff to say about them.

There are 2 benefits from using it, obviously the first one is the huge cost saving but the second is the fact you can drink at several places and you get to discover some good places.

When you pay for your espresso sometimes you tend to stick with the place you know have good espresso, however with CUPS I get to visit new places from time to time (mostly when I see on the app that a nearby cafe is a member) and I get to experiment with new blends.

Also I found that some places have amazing savings for members - some places will give you drinks and other things at a discount and usually will welcome you as a regular (meaning you get a better service).

I hope they spread everywhere and make this an international membership meaning if I visit NYC I can use my app from Israel.
An example of the problem: Describe in appropriate level of detail what a "royalty" is and where it originates. Please note that you must be as robust against edge cases as a login form or you will cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars.

If you can do this in under 100 pages, you're doing really well.
I have a phone with a slightly larger screen than a Galaxy S5, that is also slightly smaller (LG G2). The efficient use of space mitigates the (few) disadvantages of a larger screen.

A phone that is bulky and has a large screen would be impractical. That's why size matters.

I don't really know who they are targetting with this device or their anticipated volume, so it is hard to say whether this will be "successful" or not. It seems certain to me that this is not a mass-market offering, though.
This looks nice, but I would be more excited by a startup offering affordable walking workstations. I've put together a couple of these with the cheapest one costing only $80. The price largely depends on the local availability of used treadmills. For the keyboard stand I used reclaimed wood pallets. For the monitor stand, a bookshelf.
Sure, but there's a difference between "this book is really bad, it contains errors and wrong advice, I would advise against it and avoid it" and "goddamn this is literally the stupidest book that has ever been written". They convey the same amount of information, but the author's feelings are not hurt equally.
There's been a lot of buzz about SocialRadar around town. I'm surprised no one has mentioned them yet

http://www.socialradar.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_benefits
Seems sketchy? She has evidence to back up her claims including an email from godaddy.
Thanks for that. It's counterproductive for a project like this to not be free/open hardware.
The government raising road/gas taxes to the point where you can't afford to run a car any more?
I love that that Wikipedia article references Sugababes - a British pop band which has changed entire line up over it's existence (begging the question is it still the same band).
German Researchers easily hack Samsung Galaxy S5’s fingerprint sensor
We reached out to them before our launch. We'd love to see them on the site.
I'm not 100% sure I understand why miner would prefer BU pools as opposed to other pools. Is it because the miners receive 100% of the mining fees? (as opposed to having to pay admin fee to the pool manager) BU's income is the fee payed by successful customers.

That means that there should be an equilibrium point between "miners for hire" (that try and target specific transactions) and regular miners.
Coffee is good for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#General_health
> When done correctly, automation tools are giving [developers] time back — and helping out of this problem of needing to wear many hats.

I've found this to be the case both in my full-time job (enterprise/healthcare industry) and in my larger side projects. Using some simple tools to make sure both server environments and deployments are uniform/repeatable/known in a good state has given me much more time to focus on actually developing.

Additionally, there are times when certain features (especially surrounding performance and scalability) requires a deeper knowledge of part of your stack. Being a good developer requires you to be a specialist (in your primary language/tools) and generalist (in almost all other areas) at the same time.
off the top of my head:

- tab completion on a shit-ton of stuff (configure scripts, makefiles, ssh hosts, aptitude packages, git branches)

- partially entered command? push up to look at similar commands you have previously entered

- immediate propagation of zsh_history to all open shells

you could (correctly) argue that you can do all that in bash. of course, shell scripting is turing complete, so yes, you can. but with zsh, it's already there, and ready.
Ask HN: Is anyone using Namecheap's hosting service?
Namecheap is highly recommended here on HN by many for domain names. What about hosting ? They have a few hosting plans and I was wondering if anyone hosts with them ?
I've never though about it, but what Americans call "regular coffee" in my country is called "American coffee". When I ask for a "coffee" I probably get a latte or in Spanish "café con leche".
She did handle her problem by reporting it to GoDaddy.
That's a good idea, but if all you submit is your own blog, you're going to get blocked at some point by the spam protection system. HN is specifically set up to prevent non-contributors from using HN to promote their content. In other words, if you want to benefit from HN, you need to let HN benefit from you and your full participation in the community. It can't go just one way.
I entered a keyword, and only got 5 results, but I know for a fact there's at least 100+ articles written about that keyword in the past 3 months alone.

Also, you don't need the form for asking ppl questions and formulating the email. That's the EASY part.. the hard part is automating the process of finding the journalists, and getting their emails. Just show me that list, and let me export via Excel. That's all. Everything else is plain overkill and dilutes your value proposition.
Saved stories is anything you've upvoted.
>Fortunately for them, starting in NYC, that still leaves around thirty million potential customers

The population of New York City (5 boroughs) is 8.337 million people.

The population of Manhattan is 1.626 million people. During the day, commuters from the other boroughs and outside the city nearly double Manhattan’s population to 3.1 million people.

I can't imagine them doing this outside of Manhattan, but even if they do according to the Metropolitan Statistical Area, the entire population of the New York metro area is 19.9 million people.

The entire population of New York State is 19.651 million people.

>untrendy enough to be seen using "coupons" in public

>can't be bothered to carry a credit card around every day

Where do you get this from?

> wealthy enough to live in NYC and buy at least one cup of coffee every single work day

Brooklyn has more affordable housing and is becoming gentrified with a median per capita income of $43,567. It's easy to commute to Manhattan from some affordable neighborhoods.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/01/new_...
And yet if you ask people how much they pay taxes they probably don't know.

They may know how much they take home and how much they get back on their return, but the dollar amount they pay in taxes? I would bet most don't know.
I don't know, I have problems with these things. I never know who's wrong, should the author not take it personally, or should the reviewer be tactful? I guess both.

Why hurt someone when you can avoid it?
Do you guarantee reply from reporters? What's included in the price?
reminds me of a seinfeld episode.
I own 3 espresso machines and have access to 5 no matter where I am (Splitting my time between Tel Aviv and the bay area) and I still drink coffee outside.
Beauty Killed The Beast – How GoToMyPC Beat pcAnywhere
Show HN: Macho Megabus 1 Dollar Ticket Explorer
Thanks for posting those! I came across the leapsecond site years ago and enjoyed it but haven't been back in a while. If I wasn't already so over-hobbied I'd probably be a time nut. My father is a ham radio operator and always set the clocks in the house from the WWV broadcasts, thus establishing in me at a young age an appreciation of accurate clocks.
I actually agree with most of this.

The issue with the NIST P- curves is that there's no good reason to trust them. And, for what it's worth, being ahead of academia on pure math isn't science fiction; NSA employs a lot of mathematicians. But the notion of a backdoor in the NIST curves is totally speculative.

Here's what I was trying to capture:

http://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/20130531.pdf

Despite its very weird submission as a story to HN, what you'd been reading was just a very long HN comment; I wrote it in a single draft and in the style I would use when writing a comment.
This is solvable through policy: Have the daycare, educational institution, lender, mortgagee send the IRS (and you) a form detailing the amount you paid. Hell, this is already the case for most tuition and mortgage interest payments.
I was being sarcastic ;-)
I think Cringley is more on Chompsky's side since he is concerned about not being able to understand the internals of models created with machine learning.

It may sound like a contradiction, but I agree with both Norvig's and Chomsky's positions, depending on context.

I would like to see a model for real AI developed from an understanding of how our brains work, but real AI will probably not be created that way. When/if we see real AI, we probably won't understand how it works.
even simpler for most in the UK its all done via your employer PAYE - and when I had a complex tax suitation (empoyer went bust the hard way) I rang up and they said ok your owed xxxx took 15 mins to sort out.
Aah - makes a lot of sense now. Does this mean there never was a "save" link and I'm just mis-remembering?

In any case, thank you!
> And the "externality" in restricting that land to your private use is captured by the housing market. If you're sitting on a plot of land worth a million dollars, it means you value that land at more than a million dollars, because otherwise you would sell it. Sitting on it is costing you access to a million dollars. Living there is costing you the money you could get by renting it out.

Here in London there are whole apartment blocks owned solely by investors with no-one living in them. That's morally repugnant, a deadweight loss, whatever sophist arguments you can come up with for why really the right thing. Property taxes are a nudge in the right direction.
When I used to live in Norway you could buy a coffee cup (an actual cup) from Statoil (petrol station) and you could drink free coffee with that cup forever (in Statoil stations of course). That was 7 years ago though, so it could have changed by now.
And anything you submitted.
Interesting. At least one coffee shop in NYC has already done this on their own, for only $25/mo (but it's only one location):

http://www.yelp.com/biz/fair-folks-and-a-goat-new-york-2
OTOH, with this system, once you file you are protected from future identity theft. Since most people will file by the deadline, that limits the potential exposure.
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Citizens
Wait, before you all drink up, check out the CAFFEINATED documentary (the actual documentary starts at 4:19). Ever wonder why Barack Obama doesn't drink coffee?

Pt. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OecTZBjFvw#t=259

Pt. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qncmE7O7wg4
Most of the things you mentioned are reported by banks, other government entities etc.

The less people have to think about and understand the staggering amount of taxes paid the better.
But the only difference is the amount of money, not the attitude. No one thinks "I can afford a new laptop, but I'll rehabilitate this old one anyway."
Look at it this way: a parent is choosing a preschool and asks what training the staff has. At one school the answer is "we don't have any training; we just try to be good people." At another school the answer is "every member of our staff has an associates degree in early childhood development." Which school would most parents prefer for their children?

If ignorance is no virtue for preschool staff, why would it be a virtue for parents?
This sounds like a devilish proposition, only surpassed by "All the amphetamines you can ingest".

I like it :)
Yes, that's called a Use Tax, and it applies to things like Amazon purchases as well if they cross state lines and you weren't charged sales tax on the purchase.
I have a personal problem with ASN.1, and with authenticate- then- obliviously- decrypt. I don't know the author of this book at all and reject the implication that the review had a personalized tone.

Having said that: had I written the "review" as an actual "review", and not as an oversized HN comment that I had to make a Gist out of to get it onto the site, I would have written it more carefully.
Addressing your points 2-7: This clearly isn't a revolutionary, disruptive startup, it's a clever play to incrementally remove a little friction, but every little helps. It may not remove enough friction to be worthwhile, but I can't fault them for taking a shot.

Point 1: As you suggest, that's probably not such a small population to start out with, and it's not like NYC is the only coffeedrinking city on earth, or that coffee is the only drink enjoyed by city-dwellers.

Point 8: There's almost no point in paying insane NYC rents if you spend the majority of your time in your apartment.