skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US spends 17.9% of its GDP on Healthcare. The UK by contrast spends 9.6%. (Canada is 11.3%) I read another article that says the US has 2.2 administrative workers per office based physician, Canada is 1.1.

It just seems to me that the 'Private' system that many Americans insist is better than the 'Public' systems that the rest of the 1st world is simply not the case.

I think that if you either are fantastically rich, or work for a company like Microsoft, then the average person is better off with public healthcare system of a 1st world economy (or Cuba).

Hope I don't appear defensive with this, but I don't think I ever came close to suggesting that 'the UK NHS and Health Canada are without problems' and that for you to suggest the issues they have are more significant than the issues facing American healthcare is totally disingenuous. Simply put, all users of the health care system from unemployed worker right up to the Royal family have access, and use the same system.

I have significant (anecdotal) experience with the American, French, Canadian (BC), and British (England and Scotland) systems with family and friends with geriatric, orthopaedic, and oncology care. I can tell you definitively that you are better off anywhere but the USA. The care that was/is given in the Canada, the UK, and France was excellent. It seemed to us that only thing that mattered in the States was who was going to pay the bills.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19317991
Content Security Policy -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy

basically headers that can tell the browser not to execute stuff that leads to injection like inline javascript or inline styling, allows for whitelists of domains (so the browser won't run script src="http://hackercdn.com/malicious.js"), etc.
Good advice, Quill & cool service! At Instrumentl we're stopping at nothing to support our researchers, bottom line. Best of luck in interviews!
Why is Bootstrap much more popular than Foundation? Is technically better for most tasks?
docker run -t -i imiell/osquery /bin/bash
history

for my gory details.

I'll post a shutit script with the lot in tomorrow probably.

The rocksdb dep is already done:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/rocks...

but bed beckons. In the meantime IYI:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/osque...

Thrift is another dep:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/thrif...
Technically speaking, it should work, however it is no longer available during partitions since the only 2 nodes partition creates two minority partitions, so the algorithm can't promote a new leader, nor make progresses since new log entries can't reach the majority. Basically you have the same properties using a single node without consensus, if not for the data redundancy. However it is not something like: one node dies, the other can continue. TLDR: 3 nodes is the practical minimum.
SA-507 launched Apollo 12, November 14, 1969.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12
They said the alpha is a couple of weeks away. Do you expect IE8 browser share to change significantly in the next couple of months?
But what does a CPU running an idle virtual machine do?
Judge Denies Order to Stop Uber in Nevada
In the initial materials I read about Ara, they indicated there would be a very minimal, secondary CPU, memory and battery in the frame itself. So, when you want to hot-swap the CPU, it falls back on/suspends to that tiny system temporarily.
[Offtopic] Longboard Downhill Crash
As mentioned, the point at which the dialog for tip is presented (before or after CVM check) is a configuration option for the merchant. Keep in mind we are deploying a US solution first. We are also anticipating that in the US we will have signature as the primary CVM before PIN. From that perspective, our flow will should be a little less odd.

That said, in the true Chip & PIN solution, once you ask for tip after PIN entry you as the merchant are opening yourself up to higher rates (Card Not Present) as well assuming liability for chargebacks. I don't know why a merchant would want to do that but as a platform we have chosen that use-case as an option.
They started to add it with some automated flipping tech around 3.1 but a developer of a 3rd party Bootstrap RTL project convinced them that it didn't belong in core and should be done manually. The argument made no sense to me but they scrapped their efforts shortly afterwards.
In the context of the internet it isn't clear what "linear programming" even means. The concept requires the notion of a channel and what is that for the internet, a URL?
the only problem is that it is either too expensive for mass market or that the camera/projector device is not available separately yet
Are they generally smarter than the applicants of CS grads they compete with? Or is the market just that hot? Since they don't have CS backgrounds, I'm guessing most of their coding is probably front-end product building, or is that false?
There is an interesting anti-slim trend on the outskirts of mainstream smartphone news; ruggedized phones like the Caterpillar S50 and Runbo X6 are three times thicker than fragile 'stylish' phones and would seem good candidates for Ara. Often it is internal components that fail.
He did explain that - it can yield significant space savings where there is a common "type of document" because the field names do not need to be stored in each document instance, the way they would have to be in JSONB. Also, it means you can query these tables with normal Postgres query tools and they will actually make sense.
Ah, been a while, good to know, thanks.
Alibaba, Sony Pictures in Co-Financing Talks
Could you please offer evidence to support your statement that liberal arts major are never able to demonstrate a thing to be true and also, as an example, apply the scientific method to the question `who is a better President - Obama or Bush?`
I'd expect that was at least partially due to the fact that they were still supporting IE8.
See also BeStunning.net, which takes care of this for you, or ChurnBuster.io, which decides to wait for a failed payment (Andrew the founder says outdated CCs will still pass through many payments) and then follow up with a combination of email and real live human phone calls.
This was really fun, great job! I haven't played SkiFree in years, this brought me back to my childhood :)
Cheap gene sequencing has spurred an explosion of research on the bacterial flora in your gut and its links with various diseases and disorders. (Obesity, mood disorders, irritable bowel/Crohn's, I forget what else.)

There's a Coursera class in progress on this right now (https://class.coursera.org/microbiome-001/) run by Rob Knight at UC Boulder. Another interesting thing to look at is the American Gut (http://americangut.org/) project, which will analyse a sample of your gut bacteria for $100.
Once OTT MVPDs exist and have paying customers they may have leverage to incrementally negotiate better licensing.

How and why? Viacom's not giving anyone "better" fees to get their programming and you're going to have to get the whole Viacom bundle as well so if you want MTV and Comedy Central you're going to need to license VH1 Classics as well.

Any cost savings you're going to get would be as an OTT MVPD is from infrastructure savings but even then why would an OTT provider severely undercut on pricing?

The real win here is accesiblity on new devices.
We are fighting for the rights of women everywhere
Confirming this
If you have significant resistance to upgrading from Windows XP or IE8, then you need to charge more for your product. Let's face it, maintaining websites on older browsers that have poor standards support is expensive.

I maintain such a web application myself. I work primarily on OS/X as my main development machine, and run various windows versions in virtual box in order to test these older browsers. Since the feature is usually completed using modern browsers up-front, there almost always a QA glitch that has to get worked out on IE8, chewing up another 20-30% of the total time of the project. Time that costs everyone in the business time, energy and pain. Think about that; 30% of the cost of development to support < 3% of the users.

When the large web companies like Google and Facebook remove support for these legacy browsers, every web developer on Earth cheers. Every instance of IE8 that is snuffed from existence is more time we can spend on creating great software features, and not wasting time back-porting.
This is a really awesome article - thanks for sharing!
Bureaucracy isn't the only thing that expands to fill available space.

~125 characters, including this and "125 characters"
>You don't see any problem with Federal agents lying about who they are to further their own goals?

Not really. Undercover and sting operations are older than the sun. I'm not sure how police would effectively solve crimes without that tool in the toolbox.
Less still appears to be significantly more popular than Sass (sources: github / npm stats, not perfect sources but likely directionally correct)
5.) Walmart is like a monopoly. Tax deals as well as real estate location.
CVS, Walgreen are like a monopoly. Especially in Florida where 1/3
of population is older, retired or using Medicare.

6.)Identity theft is rising due to Affordable Health Care LAW, aka
'Obamacare.'

7.)Try to open an independent pharmacy in Florida and compete with
the 24 hour, cut throat pricing of CVS, Walgreens. Like an
EFFECTIVE monopoly.

8.)Your Grandma is NOT tech smart and lists her phone number in
the phone book EXPOSED. She uses her name in her e-mail
address. I use mail redirectors like 33mail and others as well as
'changing configurations.'

9.)As a non-public USA Citizen, it is AMAZING how many
ROBOT phone calls I get on an unlisted phone number and
how much spam and malware oritented stuff.

10.)why? The easiest and richest WHO OWN A HOUSE AND
a BANK ACCOUNT that is public rrecord are the SAND STATES.

11.)why? why? the Sand States are fast growing and have
retirees like Florida, Carolinas, Arizona (think Senator John McCain).
and even California.

Not a lot of folks who love to LIVE IN North Dakota Winter. Unless
you are a oil drilling FRACKER who is making 250 thousand a year
and living in a trailer.

18.) SUMMARY: Attitude - CurrentC hires security codes for
'close to minium wage' - SO THE QUALITY IS FAR ABOVE THAT
OF GOOGLE????
note: alleged and even stupidity can be relative in context.
Top Management Stupidity - the top are marketers of HIGH END
Soda. CVS pharmacy competes head to head against Publix
Shopping Chain. The BIG FLASHING SIGN marquee says
'special deal on Coca Cola Soda.
If Target and Home Depot Top Management have Never heard of
BSD OS or even linux command [ lsof -i ], then there is little hope
for the KEY PHARMACY SUPPLY CHAINS of the USA, in my
opinion. Add in the screens of the hospital waiting rooms that
SHOW WINDOWS XP or old version Windows NT
which can cause some of HN to laugh out loud.

New chaos + Monopoly + Attitude + Rise of Botnets + Testers= YOUR
Grandma + Old White Hair Consultant (think Captain Crunch)
+ Top Manager Stupidity == No Surprise

Do I expect the SWAT RAIDS on Grandma's house?... errr no
rare that someone would borrow her identity as a 'tester'
and

where are you hiding 'the pills' grandma?

*all respect to Grandma, she is used as a generalization.
1st amendment. fiction, no specialized mention of YOUR GRANDMA's
name and no animals were hurt in the making of this message.
Thanks! We're not using Stripe though, do you know of any solutions that do not depend on it?
Remember, when you pay money for ebooks with DRM, you are only leasing them, not buying them.

https://twitter.com/evmcl/status/261661956681908225/photo/1

http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/

http://the-digital-reader.com/2012/10/23/kobo-says-youre-no-...

https://twitter.com/librarythingtim/status/14262859728958259...
Sweet. Where will you go?

There is a lot of Universities with a great student life en Belgium (Ghent, Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Liège...). Price are very low and a lot of programs are starting to be taught in English.
Every reddit thread has a separate RSS feed so you can drop it into your favorite RSS reader. I'm using a IRC bot with an RSS plugin to not spam my normal RSS feed aggregator.

But this doesn't solve the issue of being notified of replies to subthreads. Reddit threads up to 100 messages tops are manageable that way but anything larger isn't.

Compare that to usenet threads were you could easily handle thousands of messages in one threads, this is really a shame.
Twitter Sees Two More Exec Departures, Including VP of Engineering Jeremy Gordon
Given that Rust developers have had macro access for a long time now, I don't think that's true. Or at least, I don't think that the standard library would be any different if macros were stable. Something like HKT would, though, and is already being considered with regards to the standard library's design.
I appreciate your concerns. Let me see if I can ease them. The intention is to make this product as useful as possible at a good price. The license is in place to try and keep a few basic things from happening.

1.) Purchaser buys SoundKit then adds the sounds to a commercial product like a toolkit that they want to sell. Or they add the sounds to a website template that they sell to others. Anything where another user would come along and use those sounds commercially for their own projects.

2.) Purchaser buys SoundKit then gives it to their friends for free.

3.) Purchaser buys SoundKit then places it on a server at an office for everyone to use.

4.) Someone accesses a repo who doesn't have a license for SoundKit, they pull the sounds and use them on another project.

On the other hand, if you buy the license and then you work on a project like a web or mobile app and you want to add the sounds, go for it. If someone else adds to the project or makes changes, that's not a problem. As long as a license owner is involved with the project and added them.

I really don't want to limit the use of the product, I just have to try and keep from everyone giving it to everyone for every use. And regarding the company issue, I should add a multiuser license. It is common in these situations.

At the end of the day, most people are probably not using their licenses correctly for all sorts of design elements, but this gives us some sort of protection in a worst case scenario.

I'll try and update the wording of the license to be as clear as possible for future buyers. If you have already purchased, feat not, the usage will become more flexible, not less.
They kept that trick up for a long time. As of AIX 3.2.5 back in the 1990s, an "idle" RS/6000 ran 70% cpu utilization. They were super-fast and efficient in their day, too.

Dunno how true that is today, but I wouldn't be surprised if AIX still uses the same kind of tight event loop internally.
I think he liked it a lot, and credits it with making him who he is today. I think definitely it's a "right disposition" kind of place. For one thing, it's an all-male school, so you have to be a) a man, and b) the kind of man who doesn't mind not having women around. It's also a tiny, tiny school. I think they only take like a dozen students each year, so you have to be prepared to spend all your time with the same really small group of people.
Don't you have any unemployed friends who are interested in taking the job?!

Jokes apart where I live I can only dream of co-founders. An Italian proverb says "Chi fa da sé fa per tre!". I'm putting it to the test...

Good luck with finding a co-founder.

ps. IMHO it's better if you can find a non-technical guy you trust and know very well, than a technical guy who you don't know at all. The non-techie can become a techie given enough time. It's way more difficult for an assh0le to come up straight.
What I find interesting is that many papers use references from the 70's and some times even 100 years old, in where they used very crude tools to come to certain conclusions.

I'm not saying we should discard old science discoveries, but it would be interesting redoing the experiments with today's technology.
YouTube Launches Support for 60fps Playback (Video Games Win)
What does an idle CPU do?

Oh, lifts weights, writes a little poetry, works on its side project startup, surfs for cat videos...
Auto-Update or Die
Hire HN: I need a logo for my iOS game
I need a logo for my iPhone game. It has simple vector graphics. Are there any talented freelance designers on HN?
Innovations For Poor Farmers
The P in perl also comes from the P in BCPL, a language from 1966, also according to Larry Wall.

And from BCPL came, in order...

* B language

* C, and its statically-typed "C" derivatives C++, Java, C#, ObjectiveC

* P for perl, and its dynamically-typed cousins and derivatives Python, PHP, Ruby, etc

* L for whatever's next, must be the final victory of Lisp
That gap is constantly closing. The sky is falling on Flash. Sure, if you legitimately have a project that won't work in HTML5, maybe Flash is a good choice. However, most of the time I see these statements used by Flash developers that don't want to learn javascript or admit their time is limited as Flash devs.
Please add the "clear" button back on input type=search! Thanks
All the more realistic given that the issue -- or a big fat hint at the issue, anyway -- was sitting in the public issue queue for nearly a year.

https://www.drupal.org/node/2146839
Why Your Mobile Strategy Doesn’t Start with the Phone
Increase.. spacing... between top icons... and labels.. twitch

Sorry, designeritis.
> I imagine not that many people would care if they turned into HTML5 Canvas games.

Presumably, the developers still making Flash games would, since HTML5 Canvas has wider reach than Flash, yet they still use Flash.
BlackBerry Classic
Getting Customer Insights with User Tests
Maybe it's an affectionate way of saying boozehound, as you might needle a friend.
>What is illegal about them shutting off the internet and then posing as repair men? Is there actually a law against that?

What do you think would happen if you tried that on the home (or office) of a law enforcement officer? I think you'd end up arrested and charged with something if you got caught; maybe destruction of properly, maybe fraud, maybe home invasion?
it isn't intended to be used in real-time, let me know what you can infer from that.
Netflix ICE and Docker
xdocker.io (https://www.xdocker.io) is an open source initiative project by Xervmon.
We have dockerized two of the most popular open source solutions for Amazon AWS, Netflix ICE and Netflix Security Monkey.

1. Login using github/linkedin account or sign up
2. Provide your AWS credentials through accounts interface
3. Select Netflix Ice Docker Image
4. Chose an instance type and image
5. Deploy.
6. Have a break for ~10-12 minutes and Netflix Ice is deployed onto your AWS account.

We have open sourced the docker image and users are welcome to pull it from https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/xdocker/netflix_ice/as well.
It is incredible how much software is written solely to "do better than a spreadsheet." And how much fails at it.

Great article.
Not just calculation, but abstract data comprehension. It's a fair bit more flexible than the word processor in this analogy.
Open Plea to Google About AngularJS 2.0
I work at CircleCI, so I can take a stab at some of these questions.

Selenium tests are a pain, and we come across a lot of customers who have unstable selenium tests. We're building a lot in the next few months to help with it.

Firstly, one feature that we've just put into beta is to show you failing tests. If you're using RSpec or Cucumber or another framework that can generate junit.xml files, we should be able to show you which tests failed, which is shown on the build page, in chat integrations, etc. (Also available via API if you want to consume it via hubot or at the command line or similar).

We're planning to use this to track flaky tests. Someone on our team has the objective to build it this year, so if things go as we optimistically guess that they might, we might see it this year. Otherwise, it should be easy to use the API to build that yourselves.

It seems like that might help you - let me know!
They require access to your location all the time whether the app is running or not. I guess that's gaining something. Uninstalled immediately.

Having tried that they will no longer get my patronage either, not that its quality got me there very often anyway.
Is Java-the-VM really that vulnerable? There are plenty of attacks on Java-the-web-plugin, but those wouldn't affect corporate deployments.
Pipedrive and Survicate integration – deal web tracking
SO great, I want to scream... This is awesome, you are the man!
Live to fly another day
RS/6000. Heh - I'm the only person left in my state who still knows how one of these works.

Diagnosing startup problems with all those super quick flashing codes was a nightmare.
The goal of Ara is to be IBM-PC ... and to put apple in 2018 where they were in 1998
If my memory serves, it's more a disposal for old damaged red blood cells than just disposal of excess.
Apple tells developer to kill iOS app widget after the company promoted it
Take down seems to forget that we have to replace road surface sometime and _if_ the claim that the solar roadway is net cost cheaper, then it seems to be the best choice. We dont have to dump $51T all at once, or even over 51 yrs timespan. Plus, doing it incrementally has the advantage of evolving in response to field reports/experience.
That's an odd argument. First its a government term and second it's right in the article:

> So-called linear channels, which offer the viewer a prescheduled lineup of programs, have been the largely exclusive purview of over-the-air broadcasting, cable, and satellite TV.

People still do this. Isn't this a perfect description of if someone says that my Twitch stream will be showing me playing again between 4 and 5 PM?

I thought we had decided that adding "on the Internet" doesn't fundamentally change things. Why would it here?

Just because people want to watch what they want when doesn't mean the FCC should automatically force everyone to put all shows up on-demand on the Internet.
Probably not, but the reverse is not necessarily true. It's mostly a matter of taste -- e.g. if you don't like SASS, you won't want to use Foundation.
I've been using Stacey for that purpose. It doesn't exactly export HTML but the surface area of attack is very reduced as it doesn't interact too much with the outside world: http://www.staceyapp.com/
Honestly I can see way more exciting things to do with this other than use it as a phone.

Something like a tricorder from Star Trek but with the ability to change and upgrade its components to give it new functions.

I think they are selling it in the wrong direction when they call it a phone. It could ultimately be the next natural progression for hackable hardware i.e. Arduino -> RaspberryPi -> The new google thing.
Wouldn't a better test be to see if you can implement something which the language is meant to be good at implementing? Even though a language might be a good fit for writing compilers (shown by being implemented "in itself"), that might not have anything to do with the domain it is meant for.

The "thing" that rust is meant to be a good fit for is implementing Servo.
Interview with Mitchell Baker - Mozilla Executive Chairwoman (Audio)