skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the return value of foo == foo.deserialize(foo.serialize()) is true unless foo has a soul.
Over the next 20 years, one side effect of this sort of bill might be to slow that innovation down.

Is that definitely true? There are no exceptions etc... in the bill for newly discovered drugs?

Even if it is, there is the argument that the American people are paying the price for new drug invention that the rest of the world (eventually) gets the benefit of.

Note: I'm not making a pro-American argument here, just looking at what I think are some important consequences.

A fine on obesity would probably do more to increase American health than a fine on being uninsured, but that's unlikely to happen.

At some point I think they were considering a reward for preventive measures. If that includes eating healthy and regular exercise, it would be great!
After a good night's sleep I see that my second edit is in fact wrong and my intuition in the first sentence was right (and the code in my edit fell victim to the same off-by-one as the code in the article).

Final proof:

for my $i (1..1000000) {
my @a = (0..10);
my @b = shuffle(@a);
for $j (0..10) {
if ($b[$j] == $j) {
die "Criticism is wrong $i";
}
}
}
Hm, I have never made much notes (mostly none), from my point of view, lectures are useful to get a rough idea about the subject, or "what should I really learn", and then there are textbooks, monographs and other sources to study thoroughly (alone). OK, mostly I wouldn't visit the lecture anyway, as it tends to be either boring or crowded, and so on. Powerpointesque presentation for the lectures are useful as a list of the topics mentioned in the lecture.
That's security through obscurity! Which we all know is bad. ;)
My son has cancer. He can't go into day care because of unvaccinated children.
> ... without the high costs of private health care, there will not be enough funding to assist with advances in medicine.

I think that is the token defense phrase used by the big pharma companies. In fact they spend more on marketing and advertising than on research. A lot of research is actually done by the public universities.
No, there is enormous difference in my thoughts on this matter and the Luddites. Freedom from work should be a great thing for humanity.
Ask HN: How to do a pre-beta invite promotion
I'm working on a web app. It's not even in the beta stage, but I would like to get people interested, get some emails, so when I launch I'll have a base of beta users. Or more generally, how do you star a web app promotion?

Obviously a need to have a blog and a signup page, but how do you promote those? Email bloggers, journalists or what? I'm interested in opinions of people who've done this before. Thanks.
Today, no passenger wants the computer to control the plane. They are right.

Today planes can take off and land using only software and radio signals, even when the pilot can't, like no visibility when cloudy.

The problem is that computer understanding of the surroundings is NULL. Today there is no software that could understand(well) that there are birds(or small planes) on the way that are going to be eaten by your engines, and damage it.

The only technologies that work are active, like LIDAR, this is going to change, but first on vehicles with less degrees of freedom. Trains(1FD) before ships(2FD) before cars before planes.
I'm surprised that the median job candidate gets that wrong. It isn't an especially hard question, and I would have assumed professional programers had a pretty good instinct for combinatorics.
How do you figure that? The Civil War demonstrated nothing of the kind. It only showed that if you split both the populace and the military establishment in two, the side that has more railroads, factories, and soldiers is going to win.
Again, I want to thank the United States. Cool content, too.
It's very hard to get people interested without actually having something tangible.
Make sure you produce an alpha version to which you invite a couple of feedback generators.
Friends, family or perhaps a couple of hardcore believers.
Next step is to get a decent beta and make it open.
How open is up to you to decide.
But this is nonetheless the step where people you don't know of actually tries your app.
(be sure to make it easy easy easy to give feedback, generally people find wasting time on noble causes boring)
It's the same thing here. I was describing this from a freelancer's point of view, who has to actually take out the money, but if you're in the system in any way (employed, unemployed, student) you don't even know you pay it.
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Using Chrome this page managed to choke my entire system including task manager, so I couldn't get a look at the process but it had chewed through 2GB - OS for sure because the hard drive was continually accessed.

Looked cool before then though.
What's not entirely clear is which countries will be poor and which ones will be rich two generations down the road. What if it's your children's children who are left to die?

It think we do have a chance to end wars once and for all as economies get more interconnected. Traditional geostrategic thinking is obsolete.
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What happens now if you don't have insurance and you need medical treatment? For example what happens if you're in a car accident, do they first ask you whether you have insurance? What do they do if you don't have health insurance & don't have enough money to pay for the treatment?

1) You die?
2) They take you to the hospital and treat you

If it's (2), who pays for you? If the answer is the taxpayers then that's a reason for making not having insurance illegal.

It's the same reason why car insurance isn't optional.
Isn't the crux of the problem that it costs $3k/day for a hospital stay to begin with?...

A bloated health care industry that inflates prices on medical services, making "insurance" the only viable option for payment, seems like the main issue that demands reformation.
I agree everyone should eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly, but that is impossible to verify.

How would the government (or a private insurer for that matter) attempt to verify whether I ate Kashi cereal for breakfast instead of an egg mcmuffin and coke at the nearest mcd's drive-thru? Random blood draws and expensive blood analysis?

How would the government attempt to verify whether I exercised getting my heart rate above 120 for 20 minutes at least 4 times a week? Mandatory wifi-enabled heart-rate monitors for everyone, to be worn 24/7?

In either case, there would be massive fraud, and efforts to combat fraud would lead to wholesale violation of personal privacy in contravention of established 4th amendment constitutional law.
Or a unique pointer.

Equality is a little more difficult than "we" are accustomed to:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html
"They told us they hadn’t realized this was still in their testing queue"

lol, sure, I believe them...

Where I used to work, we used to be instructed to crawl the net for obscure videos that we could pirate and resell as our own. If anyone ever called us on it, we were to fein ignorance and say we didn't realise they weren't original, and 'remove them immediately'.

So yeah, I believe they really didn't realise they were in their testing queue, sure...
What if you serialize the soul too?
So health insurance was the only thing keeping you from doing that so far?
Just to clarify-- the percentage increase in your taxes is much higher than 2.5%-- a 2.5% new tax rate is probably a 5 or 7% increase depending on your existing tax burden.
I was going to mention the DLR. Although there is no driver (a very good thing IMHO), there is always a guard who closes the doors and instructs the train to move to the next station. The guard is currently vital because you don't want a totally automated train to move off if someone is (eg) trapped in the doors.
The reality is that technology is making capital less relevant to capitalism. The world today is far more favorable to startups/good ideas than ever before.

If you have a great idea, it takes less money and effort to develop it and spread it around. Capital actively looks for you. Take any of the support services to business as examples (from printing to telecommunication - long distance fees anyone? mobile phones? to computing power to manufacturing). Who cares what percentage of the pie you have? It's your living standards that matter - and that's what's risen dramatically for almost every socio economic and demographic group with the exception of a few in places like Africa who live under horrific despots. I can't remember who first made the comment that the average 12 year old today gets more intellectual stimulation than Queen Victoria might have in her day.

You can lament the fact that even if you're extraordinarily successful you might not control as much resources as Bill Gates does as a percentage of the pie, but look a little further back in history to those like Rockefeller, JP Morgan, who controlled even more and wielded considerably more power. Is Bill Gates' life better than theirs? I would suggest that with the exception of the ability to use their power (which has declined considerably) nearly all other metrics would suggest this is the case. This, at least for the rest of us, seems like a good thing to me.

This idea that short term unemployment is relevant to anything at all is somewhat silly since it doesn't even begin to explain US unemployment versus Europe's chronically high unemployment rates. Further, while I can accept that industries change, this fear that technology results in less employment just doesn't track with history.

The pie grows with better ideas. With the average person increasingly being able to contribute directly to the development ideas, I suspect we will have a considerably brighter future than some of these pundits suggest.
Depends what you mean by mentally superior. Computers can add billions of numbers a second, work at a very high precision with reflexes measured in nanoseconds, do not have weaknesses like boredom and the need to socialize. If you're talking about creativity and navigating the real world, however, computers aren't there yet.
If you want to drive, but this would require health insurance simply for being alive, the alternative to which most of us do not consider an acceptable option.

There are a lot of areas in the US (most I'd venture to say...) where driving is essentially a necessity once someone has a full time job. Its not like we have a great public transport system. So while you can technically opt out of driving, its not really realistic to do so in most places.
Oops, posting while drunk again :-/
How do you protect your ideology of freedom and [pseudo?] democracy then from those bent on violent oppression. From what I can see a nation of absolute pacifists can be subdued by a single violent person - there has to be some point at which you'd make a physical stand?

I can see the courageous absolutism of Gandhi working well on a small scale inspiring others to rebel against the status quo - but against a nation bent on destruction of your own people, say, what then.

What I find intriguing is that in a situation of combat between computer-piloted UAV it is purely technological advance that gives the advantage. That then is dissociating war from direct violence and making technology the battleground rather than military aggression and effective killing.

Sadly I don't believe, for now, that we can end human warring in favour of "robot wars".
Rent can be as low as $200/mo if you're willing to share a room with someone.

Food is expensive if you don't have a kitchen, but generally America is cheaper than Australia for everything with a GST (not sure how similar is NZ to OZ)

Jobs are trivial to come across and Americans will not ask you for visa/ID, etc.
you're pretty much required to own car insurance if you want to drive.

My understanding is that you need to be able to cover any damage you cause someone else, not to cover your own car damages.

This doesn't kill the analogy though. If someone goes into the emergency room and can't pay for their service, the taxpayers pay the bill. So, by the analogy, the requirement should be to cover anything that the doctor must do because the cost could fall to the taxpayer.
Opera Speed Dial in my case, with links to HN, Google Reader, local traffic information, online banking and some others I rarely use.
Romania's society isn't especially healthy (life expectancy is lower than the U.S.). Neither is its economy, with a per capita GDP of less than $12,000 a year.

Don't buy the myths of government-run health care. It increases corruption and political control of our lives, the new taxes hurt entrepreneurs, and it will reduce overall health care innovation.

The US system needs reform but the bill passed last night does nothing to address the drivers of higher costs. Instead it forces more people and resources into the current system.
These second order effects are a big problem in Europe. The governments there make it very expensive to fire anyone; typically around 6 months wages for anyone laid off, I think. As a result, companies are loath to hire new workers, even when an economic upswing is under way. Result: chronically high unemployment rates and young people who can't get jobs and don't understand why, not to mention increased risk aversion for companies.
This is a factually incorrect description of the U.S. America already has massive government-provided health care systems for children, the poor, and the elderly.
For eating... your right, I can't think of a good system.

For exercise, some insurance companies give benefits for going to a gym some number of times a week/month/year. Its not perfect, but I would suspect it probably has few false positives.
Yes, Qt was released under a proprietary license at the time.
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In no small part, food is medical care. Good food is good preventive medical care. Bad food is like trying to perform a back-alley abortion.

But I take your point. Medical care doesn't have a higher priority, but its nature makes it a more important issue for government to deal with. The statistical nature of medical costs is that the vast majority of people cannot prepare for the worst without buying into an insurance plan of some sort. Food costs, although they can go up a lot during crises, never reach such heights. Barring a severe depression or massive food shortages -- which it should be noted affect everyone, not just a small portion of the population -- people living above poverty can shift their budgets to be able to afford food even if the price goes up 50%. Hardly anyone can modify their budget to be able to afford bypass surgery or treatment for cancer.

However, another side to the issue is that the government already interferes substantially in food costs and food policy. There are substantial subsidies paid to corn and soy farmers, for instance, driving consumer costs of many food products below the actual costs of production if you take away government subsidies.
There is also a Redout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redout, but for the purpose of this discussion the difference is merely a curiosity.
The rhythm is called "Shave and a Haircut"! I didn't know anyone who knew this. I'm impressed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut
I use The GIMP for serious work - production of advertising materials for print and for any non-vector elements of website designs. The quality demands (see eg http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/ ) seem so low in the print media industry that most graphic designers probably aren't using CS4 to any great advantage.

The only times I've needed anything else have been because the printers say "we only accept a PSD" or "files must be from Corel 9" or whatever. They always take something else in the end. Actually it's more often I need to use AI files and Inkscape's not doing to bad on that.

Exact colour match (pantones, etc.) doesn't matter for me; my target market couldn't generally care less that the shade is ever so slightly out and in most print situations the colour is either off at print (newspapers) or off by the point of viewing (eg magazine in a rack that's faded for a month).
To 64 or Not to 64, That Was My Question.
The unofficial name was "the clitoris" - with practice I liked it but I don't often get chance to play with one now ;0)>
Can someone explain that joke(?) ?
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One way I’ve found to be very successful in generating referral business with my customers and others is by employing a cost-effective referral gifting strategy. The best client referral sources are people who are naturally giving personalities. They want to help others by referring good services that they know about.

When I give them a simple referral gift and educate them about my business and that I work by client referrals, they naturally feel indebted to me and want to return the favor of the gift. I let them know that the best way to support me is to refer me to anyone they know who might need my services.

At the same time, I let them know that the best client referral is a specific type of client (possibly based on my current product availability or business segment focus). I share with them the proper way to give me the referral which is by calling me with the client’s name and phone number. That way I’m in control of the process.

One very cost effective referral gift that is appropriate for homeowners and prospective homeowners is the Ultimate Home Journal (http://www.ultimatehomejournal.com).

I’ve used these very successfully in my mortgage and real estate business for the last few years and have many happy customers across the country who have been successful with them as well.
Perhaps Google had not yet been invented. Libraries must have existed, of course, but would have been far more time consuming.
Which one of the Entrepreneurship books is a must read?
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I rarely give talks but I find it difficult to do a full talk-through as prep as I don't have the adrenaline buzz and can't put the enthusiasm into speaking to a wall that I do when talking to people. Any tips? I'm a very nervous speaker!
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this is a classic:
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/In-re-Bilski-Let-us-ge...

http://onproductmanagement.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/treec...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
Last time I had to make a support call (HP about 9 years ago, needed a OS disk) it cost me 80p per minute. More bugs = more profit in that sort of regime. Don't know if this sort of thing is still the norm. That call took me 20mins before they would just send me out the Windows install disk that should have been in the box when I bought the computer, £16!

I've called a few UK ISPs on behalf of friends when setting up their internet connections - 35p x 10mins to get a password reset.

Just doing a quick check now and Dell UK have "no fix no fee" for £19 minimum phone support. So OEMs probably like there to be some bugs in there ...
Computer hackers cause major blackouts
What first person shooter video games can teach us about running a startup
I can see the courageous absolutism of Gandhi working well on a small scale

You can't extrapolate from Gandhi to a generalized theory of resistance. His strategy worked well against the British Empire at a time that it had already decided that empires were more trouble than they're worth, and besides, we only came here to play cricket anyway. Any other imperial power would simply have shot him.
Rumors are that it's software. Unconfirmed and I have no cite, but I've read already that some aspect of the autofocus has already been fixed, but hasn't yet been pushed out.

FWIW, I find the camera ok; I haven't had too much autofocus issues, and it's worked ok in low light for me. Not great, but I have a 'real' camera for 'real' photos. Phone shots are spur of the moment things for me.
From the use of Royal I assume he's in the UK, and any State school that spent GBP 10k on a speaker would be pilloried in the press. That's not to say that schools are short of money (they have more than they know what to do with in their IT budgets alone), but there's that perception.
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They said it was a bug. So I think that it was a planned feature but wasn't working properly at that time.
I too am in this process. (almost)

My plan will be as follows:

Build a simple system to offer an invite code.

I add them to the system, and see if they take up the offer.

"The invite code" will be going in emails specifically written to them.

Who is them?

Family and friends, but not everyone. People who have a specific link to the web app in one form or other.

ie, They work in that field, they have an opinion on that field, They have knowledge of that field.

Once there, my next attack will be to "research" ( more than just google ), low and high level bloggers on the internet who might fit the initial requirements. ( In the area, opinion etc )

Build up a short term relationship ( if need be ) and write them a personal email. ( Not generic ) Further to that, if any of the people I research have a post address, I do plan on paying and sending them a letter. ( written by my own hand, not one of these email to mail apps )

When I finally start this process. I will do my best to keep records of it and then maybe one day convert it into a blog post.
http://www.google.com/ig

I did the random wikipedia link once and ended up getting Ginger Lynn...Not good when at work.
Obligatory link to Robotic Nation:

http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Marshall Brain discusses this in Robotic Nation:

American society has no way to deal with a situation where half of the workers are unemployed. During the Great Depression at its very worst, 25% of the population was unemployed. In the robotic future, where 50 million jobs are lost, there is the potential for 50% unemployment. The conventional wisdom says that the economy will create 50 million new jobs to absorb all the unemployed people, but that raises two important questions:

What will those new jobs be? They won't be in manufacturing -- robots will hold all the manufacturing jobs. They won't be in the service sector (where most new jobs are now) -- robots will work in all the restaurants and retail stores. They won't be in transportation -- robots will be driving everything. They won't be in security (robotic police, robotic firefighters), the military (robotic soldiers), entertainment (robotic actors), medicine (robotic doctors, nurses, pharmacists, counselors), construction (robotic construction workers), aviation (robotic pilots, robotic air traffic controllers), office work (robotic receptionists, call centers and managers), research (robotic scientists), education (robotic teachers and computer-based training), programming or engineering (outsourced to India at one-tenth the cost), farming (robotic agricultural machinery), etc. We are assuming that the economy is going to invent an entirely new category of employment that will absorb half of the working population.

Why isn't the economy creating those new jobs now? Today there are millions of unemployed people. There are also tens of millions of people who would gladly abandon their minimum wage jobs scrubbing toilets, flipping burgers, driving trucks and shelving inventory for something better. This imaginary new category of employment does not hinge on technology -- it is going to employ people, after all, in massive numbers -- it is going to employ half of today's working population. Why don't we see any evidence of this new category of jobs today?
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Peter Drucker wrote a while back that jobs in high demand in the 21st century will be those that combine both knowledge and manual skills.

From the article, it seems that he was as prescient as in most other cases.