skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire medical bill and insurance system is insane. I say this after going through 2 pregnancies (with my wife) and now with 2 young kids.

The process is that you go to the doctor, they will NOT tell you how much it costs out of pocket because that amount is probably insane anyway but you need insurance to "bill" that insane amount to the insurance company. The doctor will send say $1000 bill to insurance company for a simple checkup (yes, it can be that bad). THe insurance company then will say "no no sir, we only allow $200 for this specific item". Then insurance company will figure out how much you the patient ius supposed to pay out of that $200 (copay, co-insurance etc) and THEN they will pay the remainder to the doctor.

See the issue here ? The price of a simple checkup is inflated from $200 (we can argue on this too) to $1000. This $1000 is just to scare you but really does not mean shit.

Imagine that the doctor could bill you that $200 directly anyway or whatever amount they eventually get from insurance company. It will save their time, your time, their staff hours and probably save more for them in terms of resource usage.

What we need is a system where not everything goes through insurance. This scare of having mandatory insurance is the root cause. Doctors/hospitals need to have transparent pricing just like other businesses and insurance should only bee needed for really catastrophic events like cancer, major accident etc.

I would much rather pay $200 to a couple of visits instead of paying insrance $1000/month just to "insure" myself.
The design (icons, graphics, screenshots) all look really nice. if you did all of that by yourself, then kudos!
> I doubt you'll hear a lot about "peak car" outside these small groups or areas.

On the contrary, I think the prosperity evident in rural areas that can afford high ratios of car ownership is itself a small, self-selecting group of very well-off countries. If you broaden your view to the rest of the world, peak car doesn't look so silly after all.

A car is a much bigger investment in the developing world than it is in developed nations. Technology will enable more and more people in these nations to get more and more of their life done without the need to own an automobile.

We may see a saturation profile in the small part of the world where cars are both small investments and big conveniences, and a peak profile everywhere else. Which is, on the whole, a peak profile.
I felt the same. People differ in the way they interact with systems and logic. I certainly disliked being fed the Java way rigidly. I actually learned more about basic OOP by simulating it in ADA. Some people like to understand by building. But it's also valuable to understand an abstraction outside of any implementation. In the end it's better to have done both. And I feel strongly that to understand programming, one must write an interpreter and a compiler, so you can reason about the different abstraction levels clearly, without blind spots or dark magic.
They are called the same in English: bedroom town.
It should be possible to link to individual pages. ( So that one can show where the opening line of Neuromancer or the first paragraph of The Library of Babel is located.) But otherwise really cool.
I used to do this when I was an executive at a software firm in Boulder, Colorado. I maintained a home in another state but commuted to Boulder every week. For a while I had a great deal on a shared condo but when the owner sold it I was faced with staying in hotels or... sleeping in my cubicle under the desk. There was a shower for employees so I would just get up early and be ready to go by 6 am. No one ever discovered me in my sleeping bag.
The technical reason is probably that Obj-C has multiple stable implementations (which agree almost entirely), the GNU or Clang frontends, which makes it easy to write your own implementation because you can study what those two do (in the worst case; the Obj-C part they could just do by compiling either of those two compilers).

With Swift, the compiler is closed source, so you either have to examine the code it produces or the programmers manual, which is legitimately more difficult technically.

Then there's the fact that the lawyers will have to be all over any Swift implementation, and it gets even harder.

None of this would have happened if Clang didn't exist :P The whole reason that Microsoft can do this project now is because Clang didn't exist when Apple/NeXT started development on Obj-C.
Not really from scratch, they forked Trident, removed the crap and built from there.
I don't know why comments here think it is Metro IE repackaged. It doesn't look anything like it (it looks more like Chrome than Metro IE), doesn't have the same rendering engine, supports crazy amount of new functionality:

1. Google Now styled contextual cards appear as soon as you start typing in address bar to search.

2. It does have support for Hubs, probably the best feature of Windows 8.

3. Annotations, so many ways of annotations. Not only it is natural, there is actually no easy way to annotate the web in any browser today.

4. Reading lists - not new, but new in MS realm.

5. Lastly, the hidden weapon - Cortana. It is integrated every-freakin-where in the browser. It is like Siri had sex with Google Now.
What kind of voodoo bullshit is electroshock therapy?
As per an article linked in one of the comments here (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts...) it seems as if WebRTC 1.1 will be supported.
Oh, ok. Well, thank you for this clarification!

I have to admit that I also did not understand why it was displayed in the way it is. Thank you!
So I guess it's all caused by an interface stumbling block we did not realise.
Will it feature automatic [and silent] updates like Chrome does?

Or we will have to maintain websites for each version for several years, like IE?
I made this website to generate music playlists related to a given musician/band
It's a complete rebuilt engine called EdgeHTML, it's not hosting the old MSHTML engine anymore. IE will still be around as a browser program (with updates) for those who need it (enterprises, etc).
It's really unfortunate that they were taken down. Sure, there exist paid services like Spotify, but when there's only licensable content you miss out on all weird obscure stuff that Grooveshark had, like video game soundtracks, chiptunes, and international music not licensed abroad.

If only every one of these large record labels could just instantly go out of business, simultaneously. That would be wonderful...
> The front-end system that Grooveshark built [...] is now jointly owned by the major labels. They cannot possibly be short-sighted enough just to throw that away.

Uhhh. I'm honestly confused. Is this sarcasm? Because if there's one thing that major labels have demonstrated, it's a willingness to be short-sighted.
This question needs answering for those of us not in the know. Otherwise, somebody will be supporting this version of a browser 11 years from now
I use stimulants myself. There is no way I'm daydreaming after three cups of coffee.
That is because MS is currently putting out a lot of things that we simply didn't believe was possible 5 years ago. Suddenly MS is not only relevant again but interesting - heck the technology I am most psyced about (their augmented reality system) is a Microsoft product.
Arabic it's still quite rough, though, and I wouldn't be surprised if other non-western languages were too.
It's not a redesign, it's a completely new browser built clean and based on EdgeHTML.

IE will still be around as a separate browser that can be used in environments it's needed but Spartan/Edge is completely new and the way forward for the mainstream users.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/03/24/updates-from-t...
I was confused as well. I wish I could have explained it! Sorry for being snappy in the end.
Ninjatel, the hacker cellphone network (2012)
My comment was not directly about having the ability to mutate or not.

It's about that this API design causes close coupling between the API and the internal representation of the API. If you change your internal software structure and the data is stored in another way or you choose the make your library concurrent internally where different parts could mutate the vector while the user might request the same data in parallel then returning the slice would no longer be possible. And so you would have to change your external API and all consumers of the API only because you wanted to change internal things.

But as I said: Depends on the use-case.
- Swift uses the same compilers and frameworks

- Swift support s in Xcode and if Microsoft doesn't watch out their implementation might be miles ahead at their first try

- Swift 1.0 was a marketing 1.0, technically maybe a 0.2 release. I hope I don't need to touch it again in the next year even though I like the language principally
> What about 'privatizing' a police force, with the correct incentives (not perverse incentives, as we see in the correctional sector)? I can see the bad aspects of this, as well the good ones.

Privatizing the prison force has led to an influx of prisoners, as well as for-profit wardens colluding with judges to increase the prisoner count (ie: profits) for their prison.

Privatizing colleges into for-profit colleges led to rampant abuse of education loans, rampant lies from recruiters, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for hundreds of thousands of people. Until Obama cracked down on the practice and regulated the heck out of them.

I don't understand why libertarians take various institutions, slap "privatize" on them and then assume that things will work out in the end.
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One of the links in the post is very interesting, and was submitted two weeks ago: "Competing in a data science contest without reading the data" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395287 (35 points, 15 days ago, 4 comments)
How good was their business model? They survived for 10 years, including financing what I'm sure were expensive legal battles, but how much of that was from revenue and how much from equity/debt financing?
Its quite simple. The "$" and ";" are used in groups of three to signify other characters.

"$$$" = "["
"$$;" = "]"
"$;$" = "("
"$;;" = ")"
";$$" = "+"
";$;" = "!"
It's going to be a Windows store application, so yes.
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I don't understand why the original comment is getting downvoted.

How can they implement this without copying the website in some form? It would constitute basic copyright infringement.
Hm, nice hype. But what about standards support? For instance, IE since IE10 has been missing some parts of the IndexedDB API. Last I heard, they weren't planning to fix it any time soon https://twitter.com/IEDevChat/status/533338659555008512

This is stuff that a single engineer could easily implement in a couple weeks. Firefox and Chrome have open source implementations and open source unit tests (the W3C has open unit tests too), which makes things even easier. Guess it's too much to ask of a company with the meager resources of MS, though...
No, it's not completely new from scratch:

So we set about to create a new engine using IE11’s standards support as a baseline. I watched Justin Rogers, one of our engineers, press “Enter” on the commit that forked the engine—it took almost 45 minutes just to process it (just committing the changes, not building!).

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts...
Really? With all the new things coming out of Redmond and with them open sourcing the full server side .NET stack[1], the description above still sounds like MS to you?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905
Alternative link:http://www.browserfordong.com/

Oddly enough, running a whois on the above returns a different company/person then microsoft. I suppose Microsoft paid them to forward this, or they're much nicer people then I am... Missed opportunity for a prank.
Just some very unscientific tests: loaded a few sites on both Servo and Chrome and compared the effects of resizing their windows. For instance, the frame rate looked about the same on Wikipedia, but Servo struggled on Reddit.

Is Servo running on Windows? The comparison could be more precise on my 120hz Windows box.
I remember this being posted in 1998, as people were debating the surge of Java relative to C++ or Smalltalk.

These were the twilight days where C and assembly were the only language Real Programmers used, Perl and Tcl or any scripting/interpreted language were considered toys for sysops and never meant for production, OO was treated with deep suspicion, and functional languages were considered crazy talk. I remember people in my company saying a particular C++ replacement program my colleague wrote was "too OO" and would execute 10x slower than required (when it was 2x faster than the legacy).

Point is, a lot of what Kay says is obvious now, but it wasn't in the 90s, and it REALLY wasn't in the 70s.

One sees new things every time one reads this. For example, Kay comes out as a supporter (of sorts) to functional programming principles by calling assignments (mutable state) a metalevel change.
> If you change your internal software structure and the data is stored in another way or you choose the make your library concurrent internally where different parts could mutate the vector while the user might request the same data in parallel then returning the slice would no longer be possible

In that case you wouldn't want to return a slice, because it would be dangerous. The compiler would prevent you from invalidating an API use case. I don't see a problem here.
Anyone knows how this relates to "Spartan?" I have Windows 10 preview installed, subscribed to "fast" (nighties) and Spartan looks like Edge.
What do you mean? They simply add a layer of annotations over the site's HTML. You don't need to copy the website to do that.
The compromise is losing 2 hours a day in your car. This is why I didn't take the job in LA.
Assuming you're making annotations for yourself, the copy of the annotated page in your cache is referenced, and bookmarks for where you annotated are stored in some other local file.

If they're sharing all annotations with other users of the browser, the bookmarks get stored on Microsoft servers and reference, perhaps, a digest of the annotated page.

No copyright infringement required.
I wouldn't underestimate the power of time. Maybe at the time the web wasn't about information as much as today. Maybe MS implementation will be smoother and more integrated. Maybe people minds have changed. So many things died in the past only to be reincarnated slightly differently now they can but seen under the right light.
@diggan, hello. Apologies for the english. I'm not sure what you mean by "sharing data between them". What I really meant was survey whose results are accessible to everyone, I understand that some surveys like HR surveys are meant to be private, but for many other people would like to know what other people have answered in certain surveys like market research.

I have not even begun sketching this project yet, but I would have to consider both options for the kind of path this project would take.

Since you work at Typeform, I would like to ask a few questions(If you are willing). I'm not a heavy typeform user so some points might not be relevant.

I understand that Typeform is mostly centered towards the UX, but could it be beneficial to add feature for a markdown like syntax as an alternative to WYSIWYG, partly because I'm a power user and otherwise the interface is too laggy.

As far as reporting/analytics goes, Typeform is not very useful. I would love to see something like cross-tabs where you can cross multiple metrics to derive data. Yes writing a generic solution would be hard for this problem I think! it would be great to see something like this. As otherwise it is difficult to derive answers for questions like, what is the % of people who like trekking and would love to go to the moon?

This would be another benefit of using textual syntax, as users can point out with the DSL what metrics can be crossed and what cannot be.

This is just my feedback!
I have a some other points, I would be happy to answer any queries you have and would love to hear what you have to say.

Have a great day.
Not unlike that hideos website design.
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"All the new things" You mean, flooding the market without a proper direction? :)

As for open sourcing, I don't see how that invalidates any of the points. None of them had "keeping platforms proprietary".
At the risk of getting pedantic... they basically deleted the majority of it.

>> In the coming months, swathes of IE legacy were deleted from the new engine. Gone were document modes. Removed was the subsystem responsible for emulating IE8 layout quirks. VBScript eliminated. Remnants like attachEvent, X-UA-Compatible, currentStyle were all purged from the new engine. The codebase looks little like Trident anymore (far more diverged already than even Blink is from WebKit). What remained was a clean slate.

At this point, they kept basic stuff any rendering engine would do but it's as clean a start as you can get.
I wonder what would happen if this form of housing became more popular. Maybe soon we'll be reading accounts about two office-overnighters who inevitably found about one another.
That information is definitely not public, so he's just guessing. One could look at some of a16z's hits and show they have done well at least in some cases. 50 mil into skype which they made into an estimated 150 - 170. They were one of nicira's biggest backers who sold to vmware for north of a billion. They were investors in Facebook, etc.
Not sure why you say this is dead wrong? It just stresses that focusing on only language is leaving a lot of opportunity on the table.

Of course, make sure you have a business in your primary customers' language, I agree!
Project Spartan was the codename for the project, Edge is the official name, it will be changed over in an upcoming preview build I imagine.
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I don't ask many of these anymore but even when I do and have in the past it is never to humiliate anyone. To that point I don't even care if they give the right answer, what I want someone to do is talk out how they'd figure it out.

So at least in my opinion it is about seeing how you think not whether you can solve some complex problem in 5 minutes. This is also why I have changed how I ask and what I ask. I've moved to telling people up front that I don't care if they get the right answer, I just want them to show me their thought process and how they would go about solving it. And I will also participate and provide feedback and talk through it with you like we would as team members. This way we can see how good or bad we might work together.
Source? I didn't think they had released any example screenshots of "converted" apps yet.
For games this approach can make a lot of sense, for other types of apps that make heavy use of UIKit it's certainly worth considering if it's the best approach.
So that I can learn it. Everyone's gotta start somewhere. Not everyone learns the same way. Some people want a beginning book on a topic.
These stories aren't in the front page because it's Microsoft, but because they are interesting. Microsoft is just doing consistently interesting things lately.
What languages Internet users in general speak is not relevant unless you are Google. That's like saying 90% of those who have a phone don't speak English, so if you answer the phone you have to cater to them too.

You should care about your customers first, and potential customers second. Unless you actually offer your services, can give support in the language in question, and will take payments from the users, there is really no use translating your web pages.

More importantly, and I will say this in the nicest possible way: Never ever publish anything that has been automatically translated. Never. Don't even think about it.

You don't know the number of times I've had to re-run the translation backwards to English just to guess what the original intention was... and I speak a western language closely related to English. Botching someone's language does not gain you a user.
I watched this amazing 3 hour long video/info on ADHD shared by nickysielicki in this thread below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo

After viewing this video, it seems like many people diagnosed for ADHD could be in the CDD/SCT like. This distinction was not made few years back. In fact ADHD sounds seriously scary after looking at this video.
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Tomorrow is as good an estimate as any.

Seriously from earth we are only likely to find aliens at the same or slightly ahead of our own technology. If one visits us first it might come sooner. If the aliens are far ahead of us we may never even notice them. It's like dumping Newton in a modern corn field and telling him he is surrounded by people communicating. He would have no idea about cell phone, microwave and other transmissions. Take technology from 300 years in the future in an alien today and we might be equally clueless.
> This is stuff that a single engineer could easily implement in a couple weeks.

Just because it can be done by 1 person, doesn't mean there are resources to do so. How many other one person for couple of weeks features are there, you think?
It's in development according to https://status.modern.ie/webrtcobjectrtcapi?term=webrt
Doyou have any other fun multiplayer games?
Skype vulnerable to “Redirect to SMB”
There have been large settlements in the past that turned out to be false. They want a high number for shock value, but nobody's actually paying it. (There was something to that effect in the sony docs iirc.) See: Hotfile, Isohunt, etc.
As an urban planner (well, PhD student now), the utility of electric bikes strikes me as obscenely high. We know that the vast majority of urban trips are < 3 miles--with a goodly portion under 1. Yet, so many people make these trips by car. A bike is very much more efficient, and often much faster if there is any congestion.

Electric bikes remove one major barrier people have, namely the arrive sweaty after a hill climb factor. I hear other bicyclists claim that this is less karmic because of exercise, but I view it differently. We know that, controlling for type of infrastructure, the prevalence of bicycling is strongly correlated with improved safety. The plausible explanation I subscribe to is that, with increased numbers, drivers are more accustomed to looking for bicyclists, and that bicyclists are better able to establish good group norms about how to ride safely. And of course increased numbers also mean that there is more political will to add more bicycling infrastructure, which in turn generates more bicycling. Electric assist bikes help with all aspects of this, with the exception of getting the maximum amount of exercise on every trip.

I'd love to see a business model that figures out how to 1. create a desirable electric bike brand 2. Have a low-barrier-to-entry rental or lease mode 3. Handles maintenance in a frictionless, reassuring way--perhaps with roadside emergency support 4. Has great on boarding for how to ride safely and confidently, perhaps coordinating with local bike clubs for instruction and personalized route planning.
Unsurprisingly, the Swiss passport is the one with the most interesting and visually pleasing design.
A clean engine is Servo. This just sounds like cleaning up the codebase.
Yes. Find a service that exports your kindle library and prints them on a large bookshelf sized poster.
Does this work on Windows <10 ?
I'd like to read their employee handbook.
Anyone else noticed the favicon? Looks like the settled for an "e" for it's icon.
Why are we obsessed with robots?
I hope never.

It's like amerindians wanting to find spaniards.
Lots of those already exist. There also exists a need for getting a deeper understanding of the Make tool and its capabilities, and I'm glad that this is trying to fill that void.