skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single payer systems don't just write blank checks. The real issue with US healthcare is it's become a game where the players spend money to lower their percentage of the healthcare burden without lowering the total costs. The net effect of which is the average person pays a lot more for zero average gain. With a small number of people get a free ride and everyone doing a lot of extra paperwork.
From the article: 2. The C compiler prepends _ to global identifers, so they wouldn't match with Optlink ones. The easiest solution was to hack the C compiler to stop doing that.
I felt the same way about "ordering off menu" and "ordering off the menu" (the former, you're asking the chef for something special; the later, you're making a choice from what's printed). It's even worse when people announce their availability with "out of office". The idiom seems to be based on intimate knowledge of how the person normally works, where they expect to be, and how much of the sentence is implied ("I'll be out..." vs "I'll be working..."). Idioms are funny that way.
Thought folks might be interested that Linode, which faired well in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555 seems to be currently experiencing a significant outage at their Dallas data center.

By the way, I've been very happy with Linode, this is my first major outage with them, but middle-of-the-day-outage is bad timing.

Any chance this is actually related to their recent good press? A surge in customers maybe?
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Interesting...I was just able to pull up everything hosted with them. Hopefully, it doesn't spread. :(
You bring up a good point about passing map and filter around. I hadn't really thought of that.

I still prefer to user list comprehensions, and don't think it would be so bad to have map, filter, reduce live in the itertools module. This would stylistically match what is done with the comparison operator functions living in their own module, which you can import if you need to pass the functions around.
Some good ideas, but mostly revolting. He's basically trying to preserve a system where the wealthy get better treatment than the rest. (See items #3, 9, 14, and 15.)

Realize that screening doesn’t save money for society.

Um, link? Although current screening practices may be overly aggressive-- I have no idea-- this is different from saying that screening is an unconditional money-loser, which is what the OP strongly implies.

Notice this, as well: Dan Field is a physician with The Permanente Medical Group.

So, at least he discloses the pocket he's in.
Very cool article. As someone who's very much for small gov't, net neutrality has been a really hard issue for me, personally, as it's making another law to ensure more freedom? Those two concepts are kind of hard to fit together sometimes.
Closures for Java: The Q&A
So my question is - if the startup has $250k in funding, why can't they sponsor for an H1B for the founder(s)?
I have created this site for the purpose of allowing people to sell and buy products online easily. I am still tweaking the appearance of the site, and there are still quite a few features (basic features even) that I need to add, but I would like some initial feedback from people that are best suited to give it to me (other than the customers.)

Please let me know what you think.

Also, if you want to sell anything at no charge, simply sign up and use GRANDOPEN100 as the promotional code. (All uppercase) This code will give you up to 100 inventory slots, no listing fees, no monthly fees, no commission fees, no transaction fees, etc. until March 1, 2010. (No fees whatsoever until then.) The code expires December 31, 2009 so use it before then if you want to test it.
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I have the same problems now but escaped the last one without any issues. (I can ping my server, but that's it.)

In a few hours or days that twitter search link will be pointing to other tweets entirely, but I find it fascinating to watch the feed unfold. There have been maybe 50 tweets on this in the last 20 minutes, and more coming in all the time. Still no response on the Linode Twitter account. This is an interesting case of CRM on social media.
A man always has two reasons for what he does: a good one and the real one. - J.P.Morgan
The Decline of the Agile Charlatan
It's on Wikipedia, but they also mention in it a lot of their documentaries and stuff, like on their live DVD's where there's usually a disc 2 about it.
I smell a straw man here.

All the problems mentioned arose because WU was a monopoly. But, why was WU a monopoly?

Telegraph lines could only be installed profitably along railroad lines. Thus, the railroad companies could create a situation where there could only be one telegraph company--a monopoly.

Why could telegraph lines only be installed profitably alongside railroad lines?

Well, one could lay telegraph lines through the countryside fairly cheaply, but the problem is: high taxes on the land you're using, government not allowing you to bury lines below roads and other obstructions, and similar regulatory issues.

In other words, there were no non-regulatory reasons one couldn't set up a competing telegraph company (at great profit, if it's true that WU charged exorbitant prices and spied on your messages).

Likewise, in the modern telco industry, there are government-granted monopolies to certain companies like AT&T and Time Warner through regulatory means. E.g. typically, only one company is allowed to install communication lines in a given area.

Doing away with government-granted monopolistic regulations is the solution. Consider what happens if the other route is taken.

The other answer is to have government more heavily regulate the existing monopolies - which will lead to abuse and corruption. If you allow for excessive regulation, you have the recipie for the problem cited in the article: government and certain companies will conspire with each other, to everyone's detriment. It's already happening with AT&T and the US government (consider the extra/quasi-legal spying AT&T has done for the government), and it will get worse under net neutrailty.
I dont buy it: which "little guy" has been prosecuted for breaking DRM encryption for personal use? (as this is what it amounts to).

I cant agree this would help: it's not really a contentious issue at the moment and this risks a) giving copyright apologists something to distract people with and b) risks a crackdown on people making personal backups...

I think there are better areas to challenge initially; that's all.
Looks like a garbage site updated every couple days with entertainment rubbish. And it has an auto-play video ad. Gosh, what a shame.
Sorry to have not been clear but I meant the laws around breaking the DRM/encryption - not the act of making the copy.

Bootlegging is one example of it's practical use.
The best way to avoid working long hours is to be passionate about something besides your work.
I don't understand how the laws are contradictory. Commercial disk does not necessarily mean DRM right?
The fact that this is newsworthy is the problem. This data should be available via open APIs. It shouldn't take a licensing agreement negotiated by lawyers for stuff like this to happen.
at some point in time, there's a layer where you have to give someone some level of trust. again, in the case of ATM and gas station skimming, even official looking devices can be malicious.

also, what are your thoughts on online purchases? you're relinquishing a certain degree of control there, too.

disputing isn't fun or convenient, but if it wasn't there or it was worse, i don't know that the CC system would be as popular or successful. its one of the reasons why debit cards had a rocky start.
People stop caring?
Somehow, I think there's a difference between eating filet mignon and being treated for cancer. I could eat a good steak every day, but I wouldn't want chemotherapy unless I was pretty sure I had cancer in the first place.

Most people are just trying to get the treatment necessary to keep them at a high level of function. Why should anyone be denied that? Almost no one goes into a hospital and demands thousands of dollars worth of unnecessary tests for diseases they couldn't possibly have-- and those who do are often mentally ill hypochondriacs, given inappropriate treatment because (surprise!) health insurers are generally shitty about MH issues.
It isn't IMDB that has been "de-googled". It is StudioBriefing.net
I think most DVD movies have a DRM that you must break to backup the disk.
This isn't about IMDB, it's about Studio Briefing.
And regardless of whether you consider it garbage or not, it might have had value to other people - which is why they were using it, I suppose - and it appears Google has been unreasonable in taking it off the index / shutting down the ads. Either that, or we're just hearing one side of the story.
Jeez, finally...
Is the title perhaps vague or misleading? studiobriefing.net appears to have been delisted, not IMDB itself.

Saying 'we', given the domain, kind of implies IMDB - I appreciate it's a quote, but it's out of context.
yeah no worries

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:imdb.com&a...

shows 50mm 600k imdb.com webpages indexed / its their spam blog that did it / It immediately fired away with a audio ad that auto plays :(

good riddance.
If the frequency of closed door meetings goes up, and often the managers will disappear for hours on end, the company you work for is about to fail.

If there is a lack of interest in schedules and details from the management team, the company you work for is about to fail.

If you get a sinking feeling the company you work for is about to go belly up, the company you work for is about to fail.

OR they are about to fail and are arranging to be bought out, or bailed out.

Why not ask a manager you trust? If your getting these vibes surely other people are as well. You'll know by looking at your manager's face after you ask.
How did MOG get such favorable licensing from the labels, if Pandora has been struggling for so long?
It's a fair enough generalisation in my experience.

Fair enough in what context? It's certainly a patently valid generalization, but it's still a generalization and, perhaps more importantly, is one that has no obvious and direct connection to being female.

Had the OP's study limited itself to women who self-identify as being feminine and/or wearing skirts, or at least measured that, I wouldn't even question it.
Currently using it and love it. Now just needs apps on mobile devices.
It may be more likely than I think, but what matters is if it is so much more likely that P(Silicon Valley startup getting funding) < P(Canada/foreign startup getting funding), all other things being equal. Do you think that this is the case?

I don't think that every startup needs to be in the Valley to get funding, but what I've witnessed here is a prime example of "it's not (only) what you know, it's who you know". If you have a viable startup, knowing people that have made names for themselves in the startup scene, many of which are based in Silicon Valley, can go a long way towards getting introduced to potential investors, whether they be angel investors or VCs.
Compile-time type checking is available only in a limited form.

For 'interfaces' and 'abstract classes' - add them if you need them (I have seen them in some projects).
Living in a browser [dive into mark]
You completely and totally missed the point.
Yearly quota. Only 65k applications for H1B visas are accepted every year. To be able to sponsor someone out of the quota, the institution has to be either a non-profit or educational - universities and such.
> The majority of the American people believe that the top two economic priorities of our nation are to perpetuate endless war

The American people elected President Obama. Did you not see his speech about Afghanistan last night? He contradicts the endless war notion directly. I've looked it up for you: (23:00 to 25:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLVqhsLgIw
Come on, man. If you're doing something worthwhile, it likely takes 2-3 months (if you're lucky) to just understand the problem. Common Lisp is an amazing language and development environment, but it won't help you actually solve the problem any faster, only to implement the solution. No silver bullets and all. I love Common Lisp, but the whole "code this in a weekend" thing has got to stop. Good software takes a damn long time to develop in any language, because the language isn't the bottleneck.
For what it is worth, they seem to be coming back up now, approximately 30 minutes from the first reported outage on Twitter.
Not IMDB.

Rather, that is for a web site with vast quantities of graphic ads surrounding a very small box of celebrity-focused text content.

If it's not a landing-page advertising web site, then the site in question is certainly constructed very much like one.

And based on a very quick look, the text of the article on getting banned by Google (which is reposted on IMDB) is vastly larger than the text on the other web pages sampled.
Can someone fix this link to point to the actual page:

http://www.studiobriefing.net/studiobriefing.net/FILM_NEWS/E...

If it's so annoying that Hacker News won't link to it, why should we be surprised that Google won't?
Step-by-Step Math
The iPhone model I referred to was a flop. It was on track to underperform Apple's predictions. It sold very few units. And it even only got as far as it did when they cut the price so soon after launch that the people who did buy it right away were pissed off. Price was a large part of my argument, and I'd argue still that I was not incorrect. The original iPhone was clearly a disappointment to Apple.

The 3G unit was not a flop.
I guess people just vote this up without actually reading it or realizing that the post is just being syndicated on imdb.com from studiobriefing.net (the site that has been de-googled).

I also think de-googled implies that they were removed from the index when in fact they were simple kicked out of the adsense program. My bet would be for running too many ads or for clicking on their own ads.
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What is was it about CLOS that made you feel it was a killer language feature? Many seasoned Lisp programmers do not even consider it or OO in general particularly useful.
That's ludicrous. Selling someone something in game is no different than selling them something in real life. Do makers of razor blades blackmail users? What about Apple with iTunes DRM?

And if you think the lottery is stupid, you should not ever work in the game design industry.
No, they claim google is no longer indexing their site: "Not only did Google delete the Adsense advertisements appearing on the blog, but it diverted its spider from the site as well. As a result, StudioBriefing.net ceased being cited in Google search results."
We are working on it
A classic good error page (a 404)

http://homestarrunner.com/foobar
Indeed. From the guidelines,

You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.
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My upvotes will probably be swamped by the disagree-downvotes, so I'll explicitly thank you for taking this controversial position.

I don't fully agree with you, but there is something very similar to online gambling in these games. (Wasn't Texas Hold 'Em one of Zynga's first games?) Casual games with virtual goods are an expertly engineered environment that is evolved through constant refinement to maximize money extraction -- like slot machines or indeed entire casino buildings. As with casinos, it may turn out they make a significant portion of their revenue from people prone to addiction or suffering from other mood problems, soothed temporarily (but perhaps made more dependent/despondent) by the games' synthetic reward system.

And while I don't support government regulation (of either games or gambling), cultural norms will need to evolve, for individuals and peer groups, that moderate participation. Otherwise, profit-maximizing addiction-engineering will do real damage.

The checkout form for virtual good purchases may someday include a tiny link to "Gamers Anonymous" just like the tiny print and brochures about "Gambler's Anonymous" near casino ATMs and cashier cages.
Ask HN: Question on situation
I was hoping to get your thoughts on a situation...

So recently I hired a well known, but small, web design firm. I specifically hired this firm because all of their websites carry a very unique style. They were more expensive then most freelancers I had worked with in the past, but it was worth it to me to obtain this style.

I figured that the head designer and founder, wouldn't take the project as it was smaller. But one of his other 4 designers would do it.

A few days after we paid the deposit, we got an email to join the basecamp project to start things off. In the basecamp was our project manager and a women, who I assumed worked with for this company. When I clicked on her name thought, it was apparent by her email address that she was not part of their company, but rather an outside freelancer.

So, rather pissed at this point, I told my project manager that this wasn't going to work. He tried to claim she was doing a majority of the work for them, but couldn't show me any projects she had done for them. They ended up refunding my money, but wouldn't admit that they were doing anything wrong.

Do you think they were wrong in not disclosing that they were going to farm the work out? Or did I overreact?
Why is this at the top ? Its not IMDB thats been de-googled , its studiobriefing.net - which looks like a Spam site.
Like many drugs, gambling is heavily regulated because of puritanical values, not because regulation helps reduce the social impact. These games are not gambling at all, and share no more in common with gambling than any other form of capitalism.

And yes, it would be totally fine. If you don't like it you don't have to play Street Fighter II. And given that it costs 50 cents a play and has a steep learning curve, that's effectively what they do in a roundabout way.
Mog has way better editorial and music discovery features. Also Mog has a radio feature that lets you listen to any range between artist only radio and pandora like radio which you can modify at will... if you start in listening to it pandora style and decide you want to start listening only to a single artist, you can just move a slider.
"Python 2 is fine now – but in the coming months and years new libraries,
features, and performance improvements are only going to be introduced
in Python 3, and I didn’t want to get left behind or forced to take on
an expensive and time consuming port in the future."

Does this argument hold some water, or is Python 2-to-3 conversion often pretty trivial in practice?
I'm guessing that they used the link to imdb because it's copyable text, whereas on the studiobriefing.net site the post is actually a PNG file. That's the sort of thing that makes think they deserved to get kicked out of the index.
This works even cooler when you want to minify your code:

MyLongClassName = function() {};

function(_c) {
_c.prototype.method1 = ...;
_c.prototype.method2 = ...;
}(MyLongClassName);

This allows something like YUI compressor to shorten _c local variable for every method definition, rather than store "MyLongClassName" for each one.
It's funny, when I googled "Clozure CL" I got:

An open-sourced Common Lisp implementation for LinuxPPC.

and didn't look at it again. If you are using OSX/Linux anyway, is Clozure CL useful (considering you we already got CMUCL/SBCL)?
Guaranteed by whom? If in 2009 the government guarantees that its mint's coins will be at least 99% gold, and then in 2010 it guarantees that they will be at least 90% gold, what are you going to do—assay each coin that comes into your hand before you put it in your wallet?

(The Israel Museum once had an exhibit on money which included a series of ancient coins, struck from exactly the same mold over a number of years. The oldest one was something like 90% gold and the most recent was something like 1%.)
You made an inappropriate analogy.

There are no inherent costs to the consumer in eating fine foods.

There are enormous inherent costs to medical care. Most patients want to be treated with minimal pain, risk, and time lost, so they can get back to their regular lives. Their incentive is already, in virtually all cases, in the cost-minimizing direction.
There is a lot to be lost. It means you cannot emphasize with the people who enjoy it. It means you cannot replicate or iterate upon it, or apply those concepts to other things in the future.

It's dismissive, and you should never be dismissive of something that makes $250m per year. It clearly has a lot of value that the author doesn't understand, and since he has dismissed it he will never tap into that. That hurts him.

I don't like Twitter (which makes $0m per year) very much, but I try to understand it, play with it, and find out what people do like about it because it will inform product design decisions that I make in the future. I know that a LOT of people do like Twitter and therefore it cannot be stupid. In fact in some ways it must even be brilliant.
It's funny, that the decision to choose Common Lisp for some project often has to defend itself (because of so much FUD around the language). CL has one killer feature, that will appeal to any mature developer: it's the only production-ready language around, in which you are virtually not constrained by any third-party design decision. That's it. Discussing other details just boils down to the question of tastes (that differ).
One second-order benefit of universal healthcare is that countries with such plans view health problems as a social cost, so there's more regulation of food production, industrial practices, et cetera. Consequently, Western Europe is a safer and environmentally cleaner place, in many ways, to live.
I'm not surprised they got kicked out as "... we were encouraged by a few industry warhorses to launch a unique blog that would link the items in our daily digest directly ..." sounds suspiciously like something that looks like a link farm to an alogorithm.
At first, I thought "wow, Python generator expressions are really ugly nested". This is especially true after working with C#3/Linq because query expressions have natural places for line breaks and read in a more consistent order.

Later, I ran into some cases where I wanted a multi-line lambda. And my thought was "aaragh134!#?!"

Then, a weird thing happened. I started making a conscious effort to follow PEP 8. 79 column limit? Seriously? That sucks. But after weeks of struggling with it, something finally hit me. I realized I was writing better code by forcing myself to reduce code density. Sure, it was a little bit longer, but I spend way more time reading it than writing it.

Stop trying to fight it; assign a name to that lambda. Readability counts.

Stop trying to be clever; assign a name to that inner expression. Flat is better than nested.
Yea, no doubt most. But most is not all. So in my opinion it's not ambiguous, and not contradictory. It's still stupid, but it's not really ambiguous. It just means if it has DRM and it's commercial, you'll have to find another way to rip a copy, or go rip a commercial disk without DRM.
Socialize the judicial portion with flat rates for
doctor/hospital boo-boos and a government panel to oversee
and "punish". 3 strikes and you loose your license, back to
school. No lawyers, reduced insurance, speeder payment processes. = Reduced rates for us.
Which begs the question as to why this is on imdb at all? Is imdb syndicating their "film news"?
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