skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any (significant) temperature delta is fine? It doesn't have to be capable of running a boiler or whatever? Just curious about the feasibility of geothermal.
I had the same problem, when I used the 4.2 linux version of the Skype client. It seems that it was a protocol mismatch between the Windows and Linux versions of the Skype client, and the 4-digit number is the duration of the call in seconds.
It's precisely why high income taxes on the wealthy should exist. With high income tax, they have an incentive to invest more money than they keep (rather than hand it over to the government). With low taxation, they can take a small hit and hoard whatever amount they feel like they should. Not taxing the "job creators" stops making them "job creators". Furthermore, keeping wages low prevents regular workers from ever becoming "job creators".
Interesting bit of trivia: the MHz LED display on the front of most PC cases was typically configured by jumpers and wired directly to the turbo button; it did not read the actual speed from the motherboard. So if you wanted, you could make it say "HI" for high speed and "LO" for low speed.
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Its really nice, I wish it could do some auto-tiling, but all things considered it works quite well
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Awesome! Will be more 386-like if I can use the arrow keys to control the navigator ;)
This is a really neat twist to Pong. Nice work! Did you open source it, by any chance?
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With bogus physician bills my SOP is to call the office and tell them that I will let the bill run to collection and dispute it in court. This strategy never failed, physicians are mortally afraid of having to admit that their billing practice is questionable.

With refunds from the insurance company I have found that a nice letter "please pay up 10 days from now or I will get a title in court" works wonders. I never had to no, not once.
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This simplistic brand of economics is killing us. It is infecting otherwise intelligent people and causing wholesale policy mistakes that is hurting everyone.

It is the equivalent of taking a physiology course and diagnosing your friends' medical conditions -- it is not that simple.

There is a whole system that needs to be taken into account and simple models, while useful in a limited sense, do not even come close to creating an accurate picture of reality.
Looks great! Have been looking for a Slate replacement for a while...

Have you considered adding Lua calls for accessing and modifying window contents, selections, etc? OS X has a rich collection of APIs for doing this via Scripting Bridge and AXAccessibility.
As far as I am to understand, most of the 1%'ers wealth is tied up in investments.

And this is why they consider themselves the job creators.

But this is a very inefficient way of creating jobs; that's one of the main points of the article. Most of the 1%'ers wealth is in investments that they do not actively manage. That has to be the case, because a single person just doesn't scale. There's no way any single person can efficiently determine how best to spend billions of dollars. But if you spread the billions of dollars out among thousands (or even millions) of people, they'll find much better ways to spend it--where "better" means "creating more wealth in aggregate".
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You ignored the most important word in the message when crafting your reply. Which, amusingly, means you're exactly the target of that message.
If you love books you should root for Amazon, not Hachette or Big Five
This seems similar to third-party warranty companies. They offer full coverage for low amounts, but when the time comes for them to pay up, they're impossible to deal with. Can't reach them on the phone, they need things to be faxed(!) over, and then because of so-and-so reason, it won't be covered.

Healthcare shouldn't be handled by startups. Its too expensive and there's too much riding on it for something that could go belly-up at any moment to handle.

Of course, that brings up the question: How do you actually start an insurance company? I'd imagine that in a perfect world, the government could guarantee your coverage until you get enough in your coffers to handle things without a backup.
This is incredibly well done.

My one criticism is the hamburger being used at 978 and below. The hamburger is a 21st century artifact. Using [MENU] feels more old-school to me.

(yes Xerox did it in 1981, but I expect most of us were rocking a Apple II, 386, or C64 at that time...)
I'm a -big- huge fan of Spectacle, I've been using it for a long time now and couldn't imagine life on a Mac without it. There's worth noting that there's a plethora of similar apps out there:

http://alternativeto.net/software/spectacle/?platform=mac
The Snowden revelations also killed two other illusions:

1. Putting the state-actor threat in the too-hard pile is a viable security plan.

2. If you sell to governments, especially the US government, you can also sell internationally to strategically important customers and not provide a "trust nobody" level of security. "Trust that I have implemented no back doors."

Going dark simply means providing the level of security that was always needed against mafia-connected state-actors and other high-level threats. And it means adapting to the level of trust (i.e. none) required to do business across multiple sovereign nations that want real autonomy of action.
Downworthy?
This hit some big ones too. Like Sony's Xperia dev kit:

https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/prima

Lets hope this pisses off enough people to actually go after Qualcomm for such an egregious mis-use of the DMCA.
One would hope whomever's name is attached to the request, as they are responsible for that reqest.
Apparently they're still popular in Taiwan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System
The owner or operator of the bot.
Oh, it's Mr. Ultra-Hype again.
Looks like a useful article but almost half the images are broken which is slightly ironic given it's an article about infographics.
Sorry.. I was talking about my script. I was just lazy with the regex but I fixed it, although it's still a bit buggy.
definitely feel like this one was more widely known in the days of printed manuals.
sdegutis: would it be possible to get spaces / mission control into the API? That is, if it's not already there; I looked in every module and couldn't find anything that looked applicable. Farthest I got was screen.mainscreen()["__screen"], which is a userdata.
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But how much will demand go up for products and services in the area? How much of the owners profits goes to taxes and investments that will now get spent on things like restaurants.
I agree with your main point. However, this

> one company with a direct link to the NSA

is a blatant misrepresentation.

If mafia (or whoever) wiretapped your fibers would you be fine with people describing you as "a person with a direct link to the mafia"?
The right to anonymous speech is can be considered (and is by many) an implication of first amendment rights to free speech. One way to look at it is that the requirement that a person be identified before being allowed to speak is itself a limitation on speech.

I'm too lazy to do my own citations, but the courts have repeatedly struck down bans on anonymous speech on these grounds.
I had a conversation with a friend recently who was a doctor. He was telling me that he had 3 patients in a fairly short period of time that had come in with mysterious symptoms (they were all in their 70's) and that had died soon after being admitted. While he knew that he had technically done everything by the book to treat them, he worried that he had made a mistake along the way that possibly could have been the cause of their death.

It made me appreciate that the code that I produce as a web developer most of the time would never have me facing those same ethical dilemmas -- there are very few times a bug in a web app would cause people to die or to be financially ruined.

In this case, however, you can see what happens when an ambitious startup ends up trying to apply things web developers had done for years (A/B testing, "design" decisions) to avenues of life where people's livelihood or health is at stake -- people can end up getting hurt. "Failing hard and fast", the motto many people have regarding startups, cannot be taken with the same arrogance. If you want to change the world in ways that impact people on a personal level, be ready to be very careful with the trust your customers put in you.
pretty good job! my only comment is to make more standard options to select from a list vs. typing in any value.
"She" is finally speaking up.
Worked on iOS for me?
Ahh yes, the ladybug, we had a few of those back in 2005-6. One of my colleagues strapped one to the top of a car with a GPS and drove around downtown. We wrote a java applet (and eventually had a flash version) to navigate the capture sequences, eventually integrated with Google Maps. Someone also strapped it to a robot and did our school's campus (or at least as far as the battery would go). Good times.
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A mature way to handle this is to ask for a copy of the bill for clients that are paying directly, without insurance.

Please don't take me to court now.
With a healthcare startup, you will almost always pay more. Large insurance companies are able to bargain the best rates through many means based upon their size.

Even when the provider disagrees (with capitated services for example) and bills the member, the larger insurance companies will reimburse the member and then bill the provider.
Well let's look at a group photo:

http://i.imgur.com/BTv37qB.jpg

ahh yes, I think I see is a solitary black kid near the middle.
On this site, people often down vote things they disagree with, without regard to whether they contribute to the conversation.

I think this is a problem endemic to the internet.

Voting was created to combat spam, originally, but unfortunately often can effectively become censorship by democracy.
Following from the last point, It's a nice thought to consider that in the future our present will be viewed by some as "the good old days".

I wonder what aspects of today will be desirable to hackers of the future.
> As far as I know, drivers pay "rent" to the owners, and then keep the remainder of the takings for the day...

That's how taxis work in many places, including where I live (Austin, TX). Many of the taxi drivers here lease their taxi from one of the few cab companies which are restricted by anti free market cab regulations.

> ...incentivising extreme recklessness and lawlessness as they try to complete as many trips as possible

These two are not necessarily connected. It is the government's responsibility to make sure they are not being reckless or lawless.
That's actually an accepted use of vote-down on this site.
I had no idea dmca could be used for source code. I feel like the merits of the claim could require argument. It's not like media where you're very clearly using some ones so g or picture.
my parents own a small time pizza shop. They have already talked about it they would do. stop offering delivery. A good chunk of costs in pizza are to subsidize delivery and early and late hours. maybe shut down on sundays or lunch. only keep the profitable hours.
I'm sorry but I've had all these problems and many more with traditional health care companies. As a diabetic I'm intimately familiar with the health care system. It's a hard space to work in and I'm happy to see startups trying to tackle it. But it won't solved soon. Unlike Dropbox, where they "solved" sync more or less there is no one thing in health care, but many.
>That's not racism, that's just the reality of how you make money as a cab driver.

... under a bureaucratically-controlled pricing structure that ignores reality by forcing you to price all those routes the same.
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A lot of the startups that I see that try this are doing it because they really believe that they're bringing the value in this relationship - that they're going to be so successful, there's so much money here, they have SUCH a good concept, that the applicant should be grateful to get in on the ground floor.

Of course, 90%+ of the time they're totally wrong about everything about what they're bringing to the table, and in the other times, they'll often conveniently change things around to benefit them, like, "Well, you know, I know we said 4% of the company once we raised series A, but honestly, your contributions have not been what we expected, and so you really only are entitled to 1%"

To quote "The Spanish Prisoner":

Jimmy Dell: I think you'll find that if what you've done for them is as valuable as you say it is, if they are indebted to you morally but not legally, my experience is they will give you nothing, and they will begin to act cruelly toward you.

Joe Ross: Why?

Jimmy Dell: To suppress their guilt.
But it is a proper terminal.
It would not. The only thing I could imagine countering is: Fly me to Austin for two weeks, put me up in a hotel, and hire me to do a project at $x/hr. If we both like what we see, let's talk about a full-time position.

Frankly, I think this is anti-candidate behavior if the employer suggests it, but if you actually want it, they should be willing to do it if they can vet you otherwise (github, etc).
The article notes that minimum wage increases are supported by many small business associations.

That's because, in most cases, it's the Mom & Pop stores that can afford minimum wage increases more than the big corporations can.

Many of the hours worked in a Mom & Pop store are worked by Mom & Pop. That salary won't change no matter what happens.

Mom & Pop stores are also more likely to be already paying above minimum wage.

As for ability to pay, Wal-Mart does not have the ability to significantly increase pay unilaterally.[1] A minimum wage hike would require them to raise prices. This would allow Mom & Pops to compete with Wal-Mart better.

1: http://ipeatunc.blogspot.ca/2013/07/walmart-workers-cant-be-...
worked here, 5 minutes ago. Now I get broken images as well.
Hope you found it useful :)
Violence simulations are easier to /fake/ than social simulations because few of us have routine experience with violence in our daily lives. We have little to compare the simulation against, so even though it's clunky, the violence seems plausible enough.

But since we have social interactions every day, we have sophisticated intuitive expectations about what's a reasonable reaction in a given situation. So social simulations are judged very harshly, because they have a lot more to live up to.
Most of ValleyWag articles are extremely biased and twisted.

There are actually too many things to list, their Uber coverage, their coverage of start-up 'parties' and how people are throwing money there (while Gawker holds the same parties) etc.

Then you have this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jtmFlUg56w
The original title claimed that PlayPanel is automatically installed with the newest Flash update. In reality, it just tells you about PlayPanel and encourages you to go download it elsewhere.

There is no need to dilute the large body of legitimate Adobe criticisms with lies.
The percent of income (let's include capital gains for the year since this is where really rich people derive the increase in their 'money') paid in sales tax by a rich person is far less than that of a poor person for a given year. Thus, in the minds of the general populace, sales tax is considered regressive. This is what people mean when they say this. The effect of a sales tax on food for a poor person is far more detrimental to them than a sales tax on food for a rich person. Thus many people find this to be regressive.
That right there, that's beautiful. I love list comprehensions.
Another trope is "the only alternative to the current state of affairs is the worse possible thing I can imagine".

This isn't even malicious, it's just an expression of the person's fears.

Practically, surface streets would likely be owned and managed by a corporation, whose shares are owned by the people who live in and operate businesses in the vicinity. And you wouldn't move there without doing diligence on the situation.

This is exactly the situation in many communities where the streets are owned by the homeowners association. Also happens in rural areas where several houses are served by a street that connects to a city road. The maintenance of which is paid for by the home owners in a way they agree to.

Contracts to manage things where property is owned by groups of people exists in the current system can can be applied to many situations that are currently handled by the government.
But when that happens, we have both the owners of the stores and their employees joining the unemployment pool. Then what?
Assume 5% of Tor users are nefarious. Assume 1% of Internet at large users are nefarious. The proportion of nefarious Tor users is significantly (5x) higher. But it's not majority.
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How about this: There are use cases in 2014 that are not covered by a standard built in 1986. As such, to accommodate these things, people have made incompatible extensions to the format, making interoperability very difficult. As such, we need to standardize the way we do these expanded things, whether we put some formal extensions to IMAP or we replace it.
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That's not really much different than the standard one year cliff.
Bizarrely, the link to download this thing is at download.macromedia.com. A remnant of the past...
>> Why is that?

<Cough> Obviously because I'm blind? :-) Thanks.
Your analogy is analogous to swiss cheese. It's near given that a volunteer firefighter will encounter a fire. However, most startups fail and provide poor job security. Equity should not be factored unless it is a tremendous amount. A couple percent is a joke. 10% and up becomes reasonable, and should be understood to be merely a bonus for working for an early-stage company.

Just the job security alone is enough to balance out the equity. A shitty salary is not an excuse.
Does your protocol do any NAT traversal if the bridge is stuck on an IPv4 network or behind a firewall that doesn't allow inbound? Like if I have two bridges, will traffic go point to point between them or does it have to visit Helium's servers?

Also I'm curious about this distributed system. Is it based on a DHT, a meshnet protocol, some kind of distributed database, or something else? Or is it something simpler than that that lives in the cloud?

I guess I'm wondering if you've gone into the realm of truly decentralized networking or whether this is a cloud-based service.