skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so from what i understand, speaking with simple terms (simply because i don't know well topic :)) - any living being, including human, starts with "blank brain" where a lot of interconnections exists and/or created easily. And since memories are really "state" of this very complex system, most of things/events remember-able simply blends and blurres during first few years of life.

For me this means two things - there is no way child will recall events from first couple years of his life. So there is no need to try to show new places, make him excited with particular event/thing. But in the same time, events happening in these early years affects brain (and whole body) development as a whole, so it is very important to make baby feel connected, safe, curious, etc.

Or even simpler - first couple years define "North/South/West/East" directions and then later brain develops within few "degrees" of this initial path.
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Programming is the 'easy' part. To be employable learn the rest of the process, which is typically language agnostic:
Dev Processes & workflow (scrum),
DVCS (git),
TDD,
CI/CD (Travis/Jenkins/TeamCity),
devops (puppet).
etc

They're the things, regardless of language or project you will need, but which are rarely taught properly.
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I agree that this is not a typical web company project, but if you read the report, a lot of that money was for naught.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health-exchange/2014/07/30/gao-...

"Confusing and constantly changing marching orders from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services managers will get the blame for last year’s HealthCare.gov debacle under an independent government review, the Associated Press said Wednesday."
Australian HSR will never, ever happen.
Most large buildings in the parts of China that I've visited (4 different regions of the country) use government supplied central heating (hot water I think). Interestingly this supply is turned on in the fall based on local policy, which is often driven by economics and politics, So it's not uncommon for people to not get the heat turned on until much later in the year than anyone would really like... :)
hot water bottles work pretty well. Probably more effective than constantly heating up air. Water is a good storage of heat
> If however you perceive this to be some intrinsically complex task requiring extensive technical expertise you are wrong.

Have you ever worked on these projects before ? It DOES require technical expertise.

Working with legacy and enterprise systems requires knowledge that most developers think they could handle until they are actually in the weeds trying to understand some arcane domain model or file format. Combine that with the integration and scaling challenges and it is quite a technical problem.

Is it expensive sure. But to dismiss these projects without any visibility or understanding of the challenge requires some arrogance.
You've changed your position fundamentally, from saying you have nothing to lose to saying that even if you have something to lose you aren't at much risk of actually losing it.

That may well be true, but for a trade-off of risking everything I own in this world vs. an hour with an accountant/lawyer who actually knows what they're talking about, it's a pretty easy decision.

Also, there are other reasons to consider setting up a formal business entity besides a possible legal shield. You may not be able to access various financial services as a private individual. It may have tax advantages. Simply keeping your personal and business finances separate from day one may save more time and money when it comes to doing your accounts than it cost to set up.

Again, I'm not saying these would necessarily be the case for the OP here. I'm just saying that based only on what we've been told here, no-one in this forum is likely to be in a position to give reliable advice, while a qualified professional who can ask the right questions in their own field of expertise and in the relevant jurisdiction could.
I've had someone explain it to me as follows. If shit hits the fan and you are the one responsible for hiring Joe Schmo, your job might be on the line. If you've hired someone like Deloitte and then do what they tell you and shit still hits the fan, you can always say 'I did what all what I could have done'.
Fair perspective, but the government is still trying to solve a lot of the problems with closed-doors and the same contractors. There's a lot of startups that are focused on solving the problems of getting people health coverage.

A bigger challenge is ensuring people get the right coverage for their situation and understand the plan and provider network they're buying.

Disclaimer: I work at Stride Health, we help individuals buy plans in-context of their doctors, drugs, and health conditions they're treating. We're also hiring, sans the $840MM budget (https://stridehealth.com/jobs)
Vibe just uses FullContact (see their FAQ) who's data is pretty incomplete.

Connect6 uses LeadFerret to power their plugin, which is even worse.
I'm not saying that they did a perfect job of it. We all know they didn't.

I am just disputing anyone who thinks projects like this aren't technically challenging.
In theory, yes. In practice, most people aren't entrepreneurs. Try convincing someone living in the Bay Area to walk from their 200K/yr plus stock units from FB/Google/etc. and you'll find out the reality: what really separates capital from labor is risk tolerance.

Labor = show up, do your job, get paid. Capital = put money at risk without any guarantee of getting anything back, let alone earning a profit. Capital makes the rules because half of America is two paychecks away from bankruptcy (I read this somewhere credible) and can't/won't take any risk.
Most houses have poor in insulation. Also, adding good insulation without degrading indoor air quality and causing moisture/mildew problems is tricky. So improving energy efficiency of heating for existing houses with lesser insulation is very useful.
And the site will also continue to enroll users and provide service for years to come.. Does Ford amortize the cost of a factory on the first year's production?
Is there a technical breakdown anywhere that talks about the specific technical challenges, such as which specific legacy systems were interfaced with? If there were real technical challenges, there was likely a risk register of some sort tracked by project management for this contractor, which would have listed any major technical issues like that.
They'll just put the developers on a terrorist watch list instead...
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Michael Phelps needed 12,000 Calories a day when training. That's seriously "intense"!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/08/14/michael-phelps-12000...
Every one of our customers who has access to our API demonstrates that the Ark (YC W12) API has much more data than FullContact's API. Send me an email and I'll hook you up.
Those 3 cold days every other year in Florida are pretty amazing. People wearing every warm piece of clothing they own, old sheets and towels flung over all the tropical plants outside, heat pumps running nearly 24x7 trying to pull a bit of heat out of the air.
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Good on you speaking in virtue of suburbs.

There is a reason there are a lot of them - because they are a good product. There are bad ones and great ones, but most are good enough.

Some people like the hustle and bustle and meeting new people every minute. Others like a life of semi-solitude and private pursuits. The attraction of controlling what happens on your own patch of dirt is so strong it has to be inbuilt.

The key to suburban living is careful neighbourhood selection. When it comes to families, coffee shops and cinemas mean nothing, but parks, walks and schools mean everything. It's hard for young single people to grok that, but it's very true. The forces that make you choose a suburb for a family are much, much stronger than those that choose an inner city district.

The takeaway, as always, is match your living to your lifestyle.
Dang, that looks really cool. How does membership work? Do you just need to pay rent to live there? Do you know of other similar communities?
Children still recall events, but limited to the most impact-ful ones.
I don't have numbers, nor anyone will have I bet, since that kind of change requires some time to really see benefits (or negatives)

My opinion based on the fact that nothing is free, and people who currently don't have insurance, but still require medical attention, still cost the rest of us money. Also, since people without medical insurance tends to go to emergency room only in critical cases - problems they had could be much cheaper if they had insurance from the beginning.

Anecdotally, I know such people :)
> Why the hell does everything the government do have to go through a contract and outsourced/ bid on?

Because:

1) There are lots of people ideologically motivated to minimize the "size of government" as measured by public payroll, and almost no one ideologically motivated in the opposite direction, and so contracting out helps to improve a metric that is important to a large number of stakeholders even if it is substantively meaningless, and

2) There's lots of money in firms that are specialized in taking government contracts, and they both lobby government and engage in public political advocacy effectively.

And, no, those two factors are not independent -- #2 contributes directly to #1.

(Also, outsourcing blame as adamnemecek points to in a sibling comment, can be a factor where the people who would potentially be at risk of blame actually have discretion of whether to do something internally or contract out, but that's often not the case.)
IMO you shouldn't have to do that, so I flagged it.
It's essentially a broken attempt to avoid nepotism and gives the illusion of 'fairness'. Having worked in two different state governments for over 10 years of my IT career (some of it in management) I can assure you that most of the people in positions of power aren't really forward thinking enough with technology and IT.

Also, most governments have made a feeble attempt to move toward a 'one size fits all' type of IT structure. This includes state run data centers, state-wide Active Directory structures, procurements services, buying from approved hardward and software vendors, yada, yada, yada. They didn't care that software from approved vendor A met 48% of my needs list whereas software from vendor B met 98% of my needs list at a fraction of the cost. Vendor A had been approved by procurement and vendor B hadn't. How are we to know your Cousin Billy doesn't own and run vendor B? How do we know you aren't receiving a kickback for buying from vendor B?

Which leads me to another ridiculous rule under State Government...I wasn't allowed to receive anything from a vendor (worth > $10) as a gift, if it wasn't also available to the general public. So say I am interested in buying a server for $4500 and I'm on the fence. The vendor wants to throw in 2 years of 7X24 technical support for 2 years if I buy the server from them. NOPE. If the general public can only buy the same server and get 5X8 for 1 year. I wasn't allowed to even (on the fly) negotiate a better deal.
It's more like wanting to charge Amazon more money per package because they generate so much delivery work for USPS.
Each time I read about this I think about our dear Italian tourism portal www.italia.it that costed us more than 58mil€ in 2004-2008 and was a huge failure. According to wikipedia[1] we have then spent additional 10mil for redoing it, plus 20mil for managing it in these years.
Interesting for the HN designers is probably the "nice" logo[2] that won a 100.000Euro logo competition in 2006 (it was created by Landor, a US or UK brand design company...)
There were jokes about the green "t" that looked like a cucumber (and in Italy the cucumber - "il cetriolo" - has sometimes a double meaning)..

[1] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia.it
[2] http://www.marcosansalone.com/creativeantblog/?p=310
Broadband data connections to the internet are more or less fungible.

That's essentially what the whole net neutrality debate is about. Should internet connections be fungible, or should it be possible for connections to be qualitatively different, not merely faster, slower, cheaper, more expensive?
Comparing software development to hardware (+ software) development is not fair. I'm almost certain there was waste involved in that venture as well, but hardware is expensive.
Oh yeah, I don't totally dismiss ability to remember certain things. Just like adults get phobias - if there will be strong enough stimuli - it will affect state of the brain strongly enough to retain after many years.
It's why Gibson doesn't write "in the future" anymore, we're already in that world.
> you heat the whole house with hot water

As others have said, try cooling a house with rads. It's not like North America is oblivious to radiators; they were very much a standard way of heating houses before the popularity of AC made forced air a much more logical choice.

> Then you use insulation. This especially is something that feels nobody in the US has heard of. At least in California.

If you only know about the completely unrepresentative California, why expose your ignorance by projecting to all of the U.S.? And further, why bother calling it "the European model"? Obviously the way houses are built, insulated, and heated in a country like England or Norway is going to differ wildly from how it's done in say, Greece.

Even within California the climate differs so much that there are 4-5 different building codes for insulation. But in general, the minimum code for insulation in California is around half that of states with colder climates (e.g. R30 for ceiling in California, R50 for Wisconsin).
>a lot of that money was for naught

You've provided no evidence of this. Including that article.

I am just disputing your assertion that this is comparable to your typical Silicon Valley web company who rarely have to deal with legacy systems. Not whether it was a well run project.
I live in an apartment in downtown Seattle and I've never heard anyone through my walls. This is a solved problem in new construction.
I just read some of the tutorial and I must say this is some incredible work. Very powerful tool, and what a great choice of license (BSD). This benefits everyone; I'm very curious to read the source.
I don't think comfort would be much of an issue given a slow adjustment period, but structurally it would be ludicrous. You'd be unable to open or close doors. Your walls would have to be built a hundred times stronger than the walls of a normal house. Any breach in the pressure envelope would be a miniature version of Aloha Airlines 243.

This is, by the way, why hard drives have filtered air holes rather than being completely sealed.
You mean oligopoly?
Fortunately I have natural gas for heating and hot water. Much cheaper than electric heat, but the local gas utility is still charging me about $12/MMbtu, which is about 3x the Henry Hub spot price.

But electronics is not nearly as benign as you suggest, it depends on your lifestyle. E.g. I have 4 TiVo boxes running 24x7. Each draws about 40W. In my area 1W works out to about $1/yr. So my TiVo boxes cost me $160/yr just in electricity.

I also believe that LED lighting saves money. In our family room I used to have a 75W light bulb on for at least 12 hrs/day. That's $37/yr for just a single bulb. I replaced it with an 11W Philips LED. It's now costing me $5.50/yr. That's an over $30/yr savings on a single bulb. The same savings applies anywhere light bulbs are on for a long time.
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There were 42,000 students on the ASU campus when I was there. I said 10,000 Freshman -- I don't know for sure. Left out Grad Students but Freshman have not been weeded out, but I just thought of community college transfers. I think 10,000 is the right number for Freshman.
Either the laws of physics are different than well established theory says they are... or your thermostat didn't do a very good job. I vote for the second one.
I've spent quite a lot of time in state government, and agree with much of what you say (but see edit, below) -- but your description in the last paragraph seems to conflate common kinds of ethics rules on what you as a state employee are allowed to receive with rules for what the state is allowed to receive. Usually, the type of thing you discuss wouldn't fall under the no-gift type of ethics rules that would usually have a token exception like the under $10 one you mention, which usually apply to gifts to state employees, especially contract decision makers. It might be problematic for other reasons, though, under contract bidding rules (since essentially the vendor would be bidding on a contract with a different scope of work than the publicly announced RFP/RFO/IFB, and thus there wouldn't be fair competition between bids for the same thing.)

EDIT: But not the initial comment about anti-corruption/anti-nepotism -- contracting out everything isn't a fix for nepotism/corruption -- indeed, statutory rules restricting contracting out (which, IME, state agencies are very good at working around when they aren't just ingoring them outright) are attempts to restrict nepotism/corruption. More often, the contracting out is because budget rules make it administratively simpler in practice, even if the theoretical conditions that should apply are harder, to contract out then to get additional state positions. (An example of how this can manifest is rules which require legislative action both to appropriate funds and to assign positions to an agency to perform that function, but where using appropriated funds to contract out doesn't require separate legislative action, even if it requires the agency to certify that the work cannot be done by workers in any civil service classification.)
Very much the "philosophy" of heating here in Japan; heaters for single room, heavy futons on the bed with no heater, kotatsu, foot warmers, etc.

Comes from old, leaky wooden houses, but idea is the same. Lot of bad habits here still, but heating the upstairs guest bedroom all winter long isn't one of them
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I also live in an apartment in downtown Seattle and I've never heard anyone through my walls. Maybe we live in the same building. ;-)
Tramways work fine for intra-city movement, but inter-city movement really requires something more robust.
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This number may look big but remember average per head cost of a software engineer is about 230K/yr. Any software project that takes 3 years and requires ~1000 engineers would approximately cost similar amount.

On the side, I'd first hand experience with healthcare.gov to help someone else. I can imagine myriads of integration points between insurance companies, keeping track of their plans, state level requirements, credit checks, other govt agencies like social security, customer service backend etc. From my experience in working with this kind of complexities I think 200-300 engineers may be more than enough for 2 year execution plan. So still it's about 3X-4X waste when government gets involved.

PS: Per head cost needs to include base salary + bonuses + stock grants + hiring fees + employee events + office expenses + subsidized cafeteria + health benefits + 401K etc etc.
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"No" - phew

Thanks man!
Even after reading the comments here too, I still have no idea what this is supposed to be.
I do face swaps at work all the time, for kicks. I'll have to try this out. (I also have to superimpose real images together sometimes, not always just to put someone's face on the Incredible Hulk or whatnot.)
Market-based isn't the problem. Switzerland, Germany, and Singapore all have mostly-private competition-driven systems (more private than the American model, even), and they are inexpensive and provide high-quality care, along with universal coverage. So private insurers aren't why the American system is so uniquely incompetent and inefficient.

So what is the problem? The way I see it, there are two features that really distinguish the American system structurally. First, there's the state-by-state laws and regulations, resulting in effectively 51 different legal regimes. Second, American insurance is provided primarily through employers, rather than purchased individually. In fact, non-employer insurance is prohibitively expensive and often impossible to get.

I think the employer role is a much more likely cause of problems than the state laws, which are mostly consistent. Worse, tying insurance to employment traps people in jobs they hate - a distinctly un-American outcome.

So anyway, I used to think a more socialist system was the right answer too, until I looked more closely at the working systems in the world. It's not that one particular model works, because there are lots of models in use in other countries and they all work fine. It's that one model doesn't work - what we have in America.
So they want to be an permeant underdog (w/the exception of Reddit)? Or a more geeky & less slick implementation?

Odd goal.