skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty interesting. This is what I've been doing for the last 12 months throughout Europe, but with a new location every 1-2 months.

At first the organisational details were the frustrating part, but after almost 12 months and 8 cities the lack of longer term friendships is more of a problem.

In regards to "the headaches of looking after 100 people", surely that's something that can be addressed by limiting the scope of services provided? I think handling 1) accommodation and 2) work would be more than sufficient for most responsible people.
Your comment doesn't resonant with me.

I have an hour commute in the bay area twice a day, I used waze(now owned by Google) every trip. It's rare that it routes me in the same route twice in a row, there are all sorts of dynamic conditions that affect traffic conditions, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Waze also alerts my departure time and accurate ETA to my wife, which is also pretty cool.

Google now is also really cool, if creepy. It sees the airplane ticket confirmation in my email, or a concert ticket, it computes realtime traffic information, then gives me a heads up that I may want to start thinking about leaving, without any input from me.

This seems like a much better system them relying on myself to set some sort of calendar event which is not at all reactive to any dynamic conditions and is predicated on me to remember to do so. It also does this without any input from myself. I see it as an actual step in the direction of "Personal Digital Assistant" that was promised to us so long ago and services like google now are just in their infancy.

Now saying all that, I have no plays of going to Apple, I don't like their close-ecosystem, and have little faith that the iwatch will be the cash cow that the iphone/ipad was for Apple. I have for quite a long time and still do feel that Apple pulled a one/two hit wonder by being in the right place at the right time with the right team.
Exactly. There have already been enough examples to show that intelligence, creativity and potential in the brain occurs in any race or gender, and often defies genetics.

This is one of the reasons I want to find more ways to get technology to poor cities and third world countries. Not just for their potential as programmers or IT people, but to give them the same access to information that we have right now.

The person who can cure cancer could be sitting in the poorest slums of America, a village in Africa or Asia. The sooner people realize that the more inclined they may be to help.

Sorry to divert so much it's just that your comment rings true in so many ways.
Actually, generic protocols and parametric polymorphism are my friends. Representation is quite important, but that doesn't mean I want to hang out with it every day.
There's this story about health care that goes like this:

1. There are two kinds of health care systems in the world.

2. The first kind is private-run, profit-driven and super-expensive, the second kind is government-run and much cheaper.

3. America has the first kind. Every other country has the second kind.

You can see that story being repeated all over this page.
People are voting you down, but you make a great point.

It's especially apropos when you realize that many US states have massive gluts in hospital beds and more and more procedures that once required hospitalization are now outpatient, and private insurance makes it punitive in most cases to stay in a hospital for any length of time.

The money for these building binges is mostly from Medicare, which still allows hospitalization in more cases. The fact hospitals have sufficient funds to constantly build massive facilities is a signal that they are making too much money on Medicare. Particularly disturbing when you consider that Medicare is effectively a price floor for medical services.
Ok, as a remote worker this sounds super cool and all but I am going to have a minor complaint which has nothing to do with the feature at hand.

"REMOTEYEAR@GMAIL.COM"

Really? You have a domain name, couldn't set up "contact@remoteyear.com"?

Even though I'm sure nothing was meant by that, it makes the whole thing sound incredibly unprofessional and simply detracts from the offer.
Note, I specifically chose two liberal, wealthy, and modern governments and your counter argument relies on several countries that where both poor and for the most part no longer exist. If you want to compare the darker parts of history then let's look at the genocide of the American Indian, hundreds of years of brutal slavery, frequent overthrow of governments in south America and the middle east, use of biological, chemical and nuclear warfare, firebombing civilian populations, etc etc. However, as most of that took place in a vastly different economic and cultural environment it's irrelevant.

But more to the point. This was an attempt to follow just one person as they fall though the cracks not highlights of the worst things America has ever done. We systematically destroy people's lives in ways that will get ignored by history simply because there are no mass graves.
I would put it differently. I agree with the author's point that people are not A or B players -- but you can meaningfully rate them so in particular roles. The author is an A player in the right role. I don't think this should be news; you can see it in coaching of sports teams. Success often comes from matching people to the right role.

The whole "A's hire A's" thing is a bit trite, but it's probably true that if you are not a good fit to your current role, it's even less likely that you will be able to determine whether someone else is a good fit. (There are exceptions. There are non-technical people who are good at hiring technical people. They're just rare.)

As far as organizations gathering dead weight -- while mis-hires are propbably a big cause, people aren't immutably A, B, or C players. Life happens, priorities change, people sometimes shift roles over time as well.
The number of physicians is primarily limited by the number of available residency slots, over which the AMA has little control.
Ahh I see. Thank you, you gave me a bunch of fun new things to google.
You are a tourist working remotely for some company in other country, do you need work visa in that case ?
I can imagine trying to keep a magnetic connector in place while using the device in the bed (with all the connector nudging and cable stretching that entails) annoying.
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I feel like there is a lot of beating the dead horse with this issue.

Is there (holding the jingoistic flag wavers aside) any real disagreement on the conclusion that the US healthcare system is terrible for the average user - such that we need continual reminder?

Didn't the whole ACA debate prove that yes, we get it it's broken and there is major popular support for changes, even if the actual changes made were not themselves popular by a plurality?
I am sure this is what you are already thinking, but I wouldn't spend to much worrying about a free plan.

We made this mistake on our last startup, we got a ton of feedback saying, oh it's too expensive, I'd never use it.. make something cheaper/free.

The truth is... until those businesses are making more money that justifies $20 a month, you probably don't want them as customers... they will take up a TON of time, with adding little to no value and will have no problem jumping ship when you say, hey, you reached the size you said you were interested in paying $20 and we would like you to upgrade.

People want the world... focus on customers that find $20/month to be a huge value to them.
Ask HN: Why did Dropbox acquire Audiogalaxy?
Audiogalaxy was bar none the best music sharing system back in the late 90's. According to Wikipedia, "Audiogalaxy stopped accepting registrations on December 12, 2012, due to the company's acquisition by Dropbox." Does anyone know why Dropbox bought them? Any Audiogalaxers out there still working for Dropbox?
Not much to discuss here. Just don't do what that dingus did, unless you really don't care whether you take the course, whether you pass, how well you do, and whether you will ever need this prof to write a recommendation!
Part of the problem is that people get bikes as kids, then as they got older just start using them on the road without any real understanding of the laws and regulations on bikes. They don't realize that it's a vehicle, there's no required driver training, or licensing or anything to ride a bike on the road like with a car.

As kids you can kind of ride your bike wherever you want, as adults riders just sort of expand where they can ride to include roads and don't really give much thought to it. Police don't really seem to enforce the laws either, so you're kind of on your own to educate yourself or develop some method of ridership that works.
Indeed. You'd think that just a normal life of experiencing variance between humans would dispel that notion, but people are irrationally wedded to their prejudices.
I'm getting "SSL connection error".
The assumption is that Android apps are more intensive than web pages?
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Hey sorry for the confusion,

Some of the FAQ questions are geared towards the general public, check out our github page for more detailed development info:
https://github.com/Ranks/emojione

Unicode has set a standard for all emoji sets to follow, but if you want to implement them on the web, native desktop display varies drastically depending on the users device, and in a lot of cases there is no support at all (Chrome on windows).

This is especially useful for sites that accept input from mobile devices, ensuring that any emoji inputted from a phone will display correctly on desktop. Twitter has something similar in place using their own proprietary emoji set.

We did forget to include Linux's variant in the homepage graphic, however it is included on our full comparison table (Symbola): http://www.emoji.codes/family
Programmatic ad sales is established and growing rapidly and should be of bigger concern to people than the "native advertising" diversion people are misunderstanding lately.

Programmatic ad sales relies on collecting incredible amounts of behavioral data and letting advertisers target upon numerous criteria. Trying to get someone to sign up for your credit card? Perhaps try advertising to a 20-28 year old male who's hit up both a few debt forums and a few gadget review sites lately? It's all pretty amazing from a scientific POV.
I work 100% remote in the US, and plan on traveling across the world while working, but I don't plan on getting anything other than a tourist visa for other countries.
It seems likely that this new runtime won't work with apps that use the NDK. Three reasons come to my mind:

1. The NDK assumes a Linux environment, which the NaCl sanbox is not.

2. Binaries compiled with the NDK don't meet the special requirements of the NaCl machine code verifier.

3. A lot of NDK-based apps only build the native components for ARM. These wouldn't work on x86 Chromebooks, including the Pixel.
Okay, but consider the alternative -- that the existence of a non-materialistic reality is assumed without empirical (i.e. material) evidence. If that were to be accepted as a given, then we might build a pseudoscience on that foundation, one that would burden everyone with assumptions about empirically untestable, non-objective properties of reality. We would have created psychology.
> And don't even get me started on "pre-existing conditions".

First, I would delete the sentence after this if I were you, since it could come back to haunt you legally[0].

Second, unless things are different for foreigners in the US (which AFAIK is not the case), this is not how pre-existing conditions actually work (anymore), post-ACA.

[0] (I am not a lawyer, I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.)

> So you are practically forced to go in completely blind about potential costs.

This (price transparency) is actually the real problem more than the sticker prices themselves.

If patients had the ability to know expected prices beforehand, market forces would work to bring prices down. As it stands, we have a very awkward situation in which insurers compete to keep premiums down to attract customers, and therefore negotiate lower prices with providers, but patients are completely blind to this entire process and are unable to "vote with their wallets", because the prices that patients pay and the prices that insurers pay are not always directly linked in practice.
Would you need something like this Oculus bridge to make it work with the Oculus rift?

https://github.com/Instrument/oculus-bridge
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"At 22, I didn't think it was important to meet people."

I thought that was interesting.
I am a tourist working remotely for my own company while in the US.

Technically you need a visa. Practically as long as invoices are coming from your own country and the money is going to your own country, nobody will care (or even notice).

Unless of course you make posts like this one in a public forum under a name everyone knows you under. But I am counting on inefficiencies and the good will of fellow hackernewsers. (you'd need to actively get reported for anything to happen)

PS: having an actual tourist/business visitor's visa rather than just the visa waiver (esta) makes things easier and border crossings go much smoother
one of the coolest political science articles i've read. they have written several other papers on the topic. there most famous article on the topic is:

http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/censored.pdf
I wonder how little (and what part) of the brain we actually do _really_ need.

Maybe we need the software. The cloud provider sometimes has more available instances, other times less of them
I think it'll definitely make biking more approachable for people who are interested but scared to ride next to vehicles and their inattentive drivers. One side benefit of lots of bike lanes is that they're also good spaces for people on foot, sidewalks kind of aren't necessary so long as you follow basic ideas about slower traffic to the right and faster traffic to the left.
Yeah I think you make a good point about insecurity, I bet that does drive a lot of people. Given some of the bashing behavior I see people engage in, I think insecurity is definitely a factor.

In my experience with depression: while it does span months/years at a time, things can be different from day to day. If we're talking about happiness a scale from -10 to 10, a Major Depressive Episode is not just 6 months of feeling -10. There are days where you can get up to a 0, and maybe moments where you're up to 3 or 4. It is in those 'breaths of fresh air' where I, and I imagine others, have the capacity to think "WTF is going on here, and how do I make this not happen again?" Then its just a matter of making a plan, and putting one foot in front of the other, even at -10.
Is this scene from the a Team explainable by Physics?
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Okay, so if ChromeOS can run Android apps, and Android can run Chrome Web Apps[1], at what point does Google start to actually merge the platforms together?

1) http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/28/google-brings-chrome-apps-t...
If they have good outcomes, which they seem to it makes sense. While there may be a place for a hospital that does it all, it makes perfect sense that you would have a hospital that does just heart surgery and a lot of it.

You probably have less contagious people around; you're going to have staff that is familiar with the various complications available all the time; and you can probably negotiate better prices based on volume for the various tools and disposables; it just makes good sense.
In what way has F# become just another .Net language?
A Window into Everyday Morality via Text Message
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6202/1340.abstract

The paper in question.
I agree with everything you say.

BTW, A's hire A's is bullshit. A's hire B's all the time. Hiring is a specific skillset, and A managers suck at being A recruiters.
Or just "if there's something so wrong with your brain that the cerebellum is completely missing, odds are there is some hard-to-detect abnormalities in the rest of the brain".
Actually, it's more like ripping out the GPU and the CPU still being able to handle video decently.
There are a lot of reasons American health care costs more. Most people want to blame it on just one group or reason (which not coincidentally matches their political priors).

The answer tends to be "a little bit of everything." And it's really hard to cram down the costs on someone who is already making a certain amount of money.
Apple got to where they are now because they absolutely had the best product(smart phone) bar none, with pretty much everybody else immediately being put in catch-up mode. The people that say it was a marketing victory and not a product development victory are either biased or ill-informed.

However, Apple no longer holds this distinction, there are plenty of competing products that now either meet or exceed the value prop of an iphone. Apple's competitors caught up, and I am having a really hard time buying that the iwatch will be the next ipod/iphone/ipad for Apple. Wearables have already proven to have nearly the lowest customer attention retention(i.e. they win the prize for most likely to end up in a closet a month after purchase, rather then be relied on as a cornerstone of modern life as smartphones are today) index of any consumer electronic and it seems a bad platform to stage a resurgence.

As far as the larger iphone models, welcome to yesteryear, it's now Apple playing catch up.
You have to stop counting the abstraction levels to maintain any sanity these days. I mean we have a computer running a web browser running a Javascript VM running an Android runtime running a JAVA VM running the app. Did I miss one? Maybe the app is Minecraft running one of those graphical calculators :) /sarcasm
Really sad. They must have been very desperate.
I was just going to post this! First thing I thought of.
It's so amusing how intelligent people can come to such ignorant conclusions. I have no doubt I do it myself from time to time.
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Doesn't the guy in Gattaca probably have a heart condition? Science can definitely tell you that you're in a group that will probably die upon doing X.

Gender and race moreso are lousy predictors for most things, but they're not useless.
Or that running the Android apps on the Android platform on top of NaCl is more battery intensive than either running Android apps directly on top of Android or running NaCl apps on NaCl.
Everyone agrees that it needs to change.

There is little agreement on how to change it. Most proposed changes are "let's gore the other side's ox."
I agree that this is a root cause of some of the problems we see. I do think those problems are less prevalent than some assert, but I'd love for them to be less prevalent still. I approve of increased enforcement of the laws that apply to bicycles, provided the enforcement was sane and prioritized safety.

Note that the bicycle safety classes I mention above was not only free, they gave out free lights to boot!
You have perspective

People who are suffering from clinical depression may not have. The pain will be the same irrespective of their position in society.

I know what you mean, many of my (adult) students are doing a couple of minimum wage jobs, looking after children and/or parents and trying to study. Not easy.
"Don't let mainstream misinterpretations and gross oversimplifications of medical science try to dictate your potential based on gender, race or anything about your DNA. They're only right until they find out they're wrong."

FTFY.

Most of the issues you're alluding to are not because medical science says something is impossible but because the media hears "X group has slightly elevated probability of Y" and reports it as "X group has Y".
Thinking of the brain as a computing platform is never a good metaphor. Neural networks do not have a rigid delineation between instruction-storage, data-storage, and CPU. Every neuron wears all three hats and intertwingles those concepts.
Yes, if the kinetic energy (i.e. the round's mass times the square of its velocity) of the discharged round equals the kinetic energy of the falling tank. Otherwise no.

If it were true, if the round's mass times the square of its velocity equaled the KE of the falling tank, the tank would stop in the air, then resume its fall as though from a stationary start.

And ... the sudden stop would probably kill the tank's occupants, just as though it had collided with the ground.
Best practice around canula tells us to do one thing. But if you have all these patients and you have your own data you can drop the standard a little bit. You've saved a bit of money, and raised risk by a tiny bit. While no surgery is risk free it's kind of odd to increase risks to save a few dollars. I guess I don't mean scary, just, it's something to think about.
It's actually really nice not just for plugging it in but because it pops out instead of stressing or breaking your cable / device.
http://i.imgur.com/aL7ogTS.png?1

http://i.imgur.com/qGvqIqK.png

Would you still call those ugly? Either way it's definitely not just some dim display with a rubber strap.
>No doctor, no matter how talented, needs to make what they do

You are blaming the wrong person.
Similar experience. I've been moving around every 3 months or so for the past year and a half and man, the friendship and human connection stuff gets hard. So hard in fact that I ended up staying in SF two months longer than intended just because I had found some great people to hang out with regularly.

WhatsApp can only get you so far.
I think this article buries the real reason women don't contribute at the very end. Wikipedia's efforts to make the editing interface more friendly to non developers has been strongly opposed by the community. I think this is often the case with strong community based products, when working at Fickr I saw that many changes aimed at attracting new users were met with serious objections from most active community members. Balancing the desire to please existing community members with the desire to gain new members is never easy.

We all know that women make up a small fraction of the developer community, so it should come as no surprise that women haven't contributed much to a product that has historically required a little understanding of "programming" in order to edit (of course it don't seem like programming to developers, but to non developers it is scary). With an easy to use interface for editing articles, that is strongly advertised and pushed (despite community objections), Wikipedia could start to make headway with gaining women editors, but overcoming history is not going to be easy.
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