skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't go and release both products to see which would win out; the better product was selected internally and Apple went with that. The article is about Google releasing two of everything, not making multiple prototypes of things.

I actually think making multiple prototypes is a good thing, it helps you understand things from more angles and see more possibilities about how a problem can be solved. But going and releasing both is confusing to customers and ultimately fragments your product line-up (canibalizing your sales) which is something Apple is desperate to avoid.
Flash. Must. Die
That's atrocious. We're in Michigan and only pay $798/mo for a $1,500 individual /$3,000 family PPO through HAP for my wife and I. Individual deductible for ACA plans is limited to $6,600 individual and $13,200 family, so you may want to shop around for a new plan during open enrollment this year.
My UK bank (Lloyds) cannot handle non ASCII symbols in the address fields for IBANN payments. Drives me crazy every time as most places I make payments to have at least a few å or ë letters in them. How someone could create such a form without testing it on a bunch of international addresses is boggling.
Integrating Leap Motion with Intel Edison
>those organizations have saved more people than you'd know and they are the reason we don't have 9-11s each week

Citation needed.
InfoQ: Mesosphere Releases SDK for Mesos-Powered 'Datacenter Operating System'
Fair point.

> Mr. Yassky (taxi commissioner) said that in lieu of demanding advertising revenue, the city hoped that the additional income for vendors might encourage them to lower the fees they charge to cab owners, which could in turn reduce the pressure to increase fares. “I don’t think advertising is so much an opportunity for city revenue,” he said, “so much as an opportunity to keep fares down.”

Looks like NYC government isn't really benefiting but (presumably) bearing the cost of fitting these TVs. Government officials always associate price with cost rather than price with demand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/nyregion/13taxitv.html
I find it both cool and useful. The digits on my credit card are already separated into 4 segments, so it's natural for me to both read and type them in 'chunks' of 4. If I need to compare it to what's on screen, it's much easier to see. And it's harder to lose track of which digit you're at and what's next. Or if you mistyped anything - it's visually clear as well because you're likely to change the "balance" between the individual segments (e.g. push one digit to the next segment).
I use vantage point trees for finding the closest point:

https://github.com/pornel/vpsearch (https://github.com/pornel/pngquant/blob/master/lib/nearest.c)
We are in desperate, desperate need of more decentralization in our core infrastructures, to the point that this libertarian could see his way clear to agreeing not to grouse about subsidies for technology that's already cost-effective if it will accomplish more decentralization. As nifty as the "big solar plants" are in some ways, installing 10,000 acres of solar in the middle of the desert isn't really "decentralization".

(I was much grumpier about subsidizing things that couldn't stand on their own economically as there's a lot more economic waste and false investments that occur, but if solar can already stand on its own two feet and the we collectively tip some money into the kitty to get it out there faster the waste is far less, and the societal benefit far greater.)
The CL community on exercism.io is small but top-notch and very helpful. Even after something like 7 years of CL hobby programming I learned something new having experienced Lispers review my code.
How to download the history of your physical Amazon orders
I get the impression that he is looking to the future rather than the past, and that's convergence. Right now, we have 7-inch tablets and 7-inch phones. It's pretty easy to see that these are essentially the same thing. Windows 10 brings a unified operating system which adapts to form factors, but the centerpiece is Cortana. Many people are looking to the future of computing as cloud-based personal assistants which connect to the Internet of Things, and Microsoft is currently ahead of everyone in this area, with Google, Apple, and Amazon close behnd. The form factor of the device a person uses becomes less important as interconnected, data-driven services become the platform.

People keep misinterpreting the Nokia layoffs as giving up on phones. What actually happened was that the phone department was rolled into the Windows department. Windows Phone is dead, but Windows Mobile has replaced it as a transition into just Windows, the platform-agnostic, cloud-based, Cortana-driven operating system. The future Internet will not be phone-based. Phones will be a convenient form-factor for the near future, but they are just nodes in the cloud.

There's plenty of time for everyone to catch up to Microsoft, but I think everyone should be paying attention to what they're doing. Remember when the iPod was the most important thing that Apple had? Microsoft is betting that its future as a company is not dependent on building a better Zune. It's about thinking about where the iPhone is going, not where the iPhone is.
yes im sure there are some very nice very unconscious people working for GCHQ and NSA. wasnt particularly having a go at the pawns. i know tho that they believe they are really doing essential work. they would have to.
Not their first Opensource project Apache Accumulo was opensourced by them - http://www.informationweek.com/applications/nsa-submits-open...?
It's for a curated set of circuits with increasing difficulty that have a known (and ideally cognitively linked) purpose.

People sell this sort of thing all the time even though you can find it for free if you know what to look for - it's the curation you're paying for.
Like others have mentioned...if you're in NY, just go to https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/individual to research and enroll in an ACA-compliant individual health plan.

Personally, I went with a plan from Oscar (http://hioscar.com). Oscar offers reimbursements for gym memberships, free unlimited access to Teladoc (http://www.teladoc.com/), and Amazon gift cards if you take enough steps per day (tracked by a free Misfit Flash).

Pre-2015, I had insurance with Freelancers Union (https://www.freelancersunion.org/). Their plans are not subsidized, but with some of them you get free, unlimited access to doctors at Freelancers Medical (https://www.freelancersmedical.org/). They have two offices, one in Downtown Brooklyn, and one in the Financial District.
I use Dashlane and stopped entering credit card and billing info manually 2 years ago :-)

Their tech is amazing. They autodetect credit card fields when you focus on them and show a little popover where you can choose the card that you want to use. Just click on the card and everything fills up.

http://dashlane.com - email me if you'd like a referral link to get 6 months of premium service for free, btw.
It's only exploitation if you define it as such. Uber is a business (and if they weren't, then I at least wouldn't be interested in them) - they voluntarily give people money for voluntarily performing a task for them - what a concept. They like to hire vets because: 1) there are tax breaks, 2) it's a marketing point, 3) vets have already proven themselves to some degree. But point one is the most impactful - tax incentives are the self-abuse zits of our existence - you have to address them, but they only exist to balance out some other issue of complication.

Being a vet doesn't make him particularly special - there are 20 million of us for the VA to ignore, after all. Any solution that puts the $160 billion annual budget of the VA and $60 billion DOD health budget into non-political hands is a non starter - and giving up political control doesn't happen in civilized society, especially one where vets vote for one party 20 points more than the other - there's no particular pressure on either party to fix that - one party doesn't appeal to most vets for a myriad of reasons, and the other has already captured those votes in spite of their general indifference.

The "Gig Economy" exists because of the complications of doing it any other way, and is the only perturbation likely to get us off whatever local maxima our ever-increasing bureaucratic approach to life has captured us on.
I went to a health insurance broker who helped find the best plan for IRS section 105.
Josh Waitzkin describes something like this in his book The Art of Learning. Basically, he broke his arm a few months before an important martial arts tournament. While it was immobilized in a sling, he worked out the other arm then meditated, imagining he was working out the busted arm. He reported that this helped keep his bad arm from atrophying and becoming weak while he couldn't use it.
6 Tips to Get More Subscribers from People Who Teach Online Successfully
When I studied library design, the situation you described was the basic indicator of "domain misunderstanding": no one understands the domain well enough to produce a suitable abstraction. If the problem persists for a couple of decades, it might imply that domains have been improperly mixed.
You can purchase the official Arduino starter kit for less than what the yearly price costs, not to mention the shipping fees from Amazon.

As someone who works for a SaaS and pays for a Barkbox subscription, I do think the idea is good, but the pricing combined with the lack description on the page is probably going to be a huge road block.
This one sided view of their marketing pitch is exactly what's wrong with them and, to some extent HN in general, in it's Californian money & tech bubble...

Seen from the outside, this kind of tech-trip-before-thinking-globally, or solutionism, is why people are upset, and rightly so. Snowden has shown, as many others have before and after, that they spy for economic and political gain against ally, they don't even respect local American's laws and could hardly be described as democratic or even accountable.

I'm not saying there isn't a need for law enforcement or surveillance, but it has to be accountable, targeted and justified. Not simply a secret digital war machine disguised under the "omg, everything is now terrorism! Save the children! --fox" and cool marketing to entrap the young mind and throw them away once their time has passed...

I wish I would want to work there, IF and only IF, they would fix all those issues.

In the mean time, yes, they are an enemy of democracy, and a very hypocritical one at that.

The public servants that work there deserve to be put to work for the greater good.
Yes but Rosetta orbited the comet, whereas in this case the probe would just zoom past the planet
For some context..

Adam Smith saw himself as a moral philosophy specialist. He spent way more time and effort on it that economics. He saw economics as an important tangent to moral philosophy.

His most important book in his eyes was "A Theory of Moral Sentiments" not "Wealth of nations."
That's so cool - I have an HF rig and I did try to build my own G5RV, but I found that I cut the matching portion of the latter line too short, which is causing for some of the RF to get back into the shack.

A buddy of mine just got me some custom QSL cards, so I have no excuse not to fix my antenna and get on the air!
TLDR; the current situation sucks, and is not sustainable. Save your pennies.

I started freelancing in 2012 with BCBS of MI. Being young-ish and healthy with no kids, just a spouse, I was paying something around $200/mo for a PPO with an HSA (side note: get an HSA and save - it's your best option for not being screwed as a freelancer). 3 years later and the AHA has left me at $400 a month for a HMO (downgrade), higher deductable (downgrade), but thankfully I still am allowed to use an HSA (HSA compatibility is complete bullshit, BTW).

Everything is out of pocket except some bare minimum prevention stuff. Everything trip to the doctor involves me wondering if it's really worth the money and the hassle (thanks to the HMO I can no longer see my old family doctor).

Those of you bound to say that I should shop around using the marketplace - yup, I did. This was the best deal. Insurance is dependent on geography. I'd love to see an app that told me which address would give me the most reasonable insurance. Any takers?

My suggestion - budget something like $500/mo/person. Half for insurance and half for saving in the HSA. As a freelancer you'll likely make too much money to have any of your insurance covered by the government. It's outrageously expensive, but if you have serious health problems, a $12.7k deductible is way less than potentially ten times that in hospital bills.

As an aside - I do believe the AHA did some good. I had friends in states without a non-profit insurance provider like BCBS who simply could not leave their jobs due to pre-existing conditions. That no longer happens, thankfully. However - we can do better. It's insane that I have to weigh the monetary cost of going to the doctor in my decision to go. Of course we all go for an acute illness, but I believe there are millions with minor chronic illness that are simply not getting treated because they cost of even the most common diagnostic tests is astronomical.
How I upgraded my Ruby with Contracts
we had hailo. they pulled out of nyc.
Do you have an HSA?
How does #deepdream work?
Transparently fake duality: "economic theory" vs "hating economics". When obviously there's many kinds of economic theories he decries. (Many of which are no doubt better at understanding/predicting than the ones he espouses, because his "theories" are required to serve certain sectors of power.)
The USMC will still have personnel stationed in these organizations, it won't all be Navy.
Just for future reference, you are using the term externality incorrectly. The word you seem to want to be using in its place is "competitor."

Externality has a very specific, economics meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
We've got precious few choices in NC - our county has had only one insurance company providing ACA-compliant insurance for the last few years, and premiums have basically doubled in 3 years ($275/month to $530/month). It'll go up again next year no doubt. This is with the highest deductible available as well.

Some areas of the country seem to have been better served with the passage of ACA, but much of NC seems in the dark ages. I think we've got one other company that's now serving our county this year, and they're ... 20% more expensive, IIRC.
No, I haven't, but I am looking for a good desktop application to receive SSTV. The mobile app I use can determine the protocol automatically, so I'd want a desktop app that can do the same.

Thanks!
Tiny Skateboards and the Fast Fingers that Ride Them
All markets are artificial.
you dont understand because you work in their PR dept. i wont go into the evidence of intelligence agencies involvement in false flag terrorist incidents. you can look it up for yourself. try 'gladio'
Do you know how many events happened and are taking place around you right now?
Now Worth $10B, Is WeWork a 2000 Redux?
Second vote for Oscar here. My wife and I pay north of $1,000 but have something of a Platinum plan and it covers everything.

The Affordable Care Act has really taken the pain out of insurance when working for yourself. Things like Freelancers Union were almost a necessity before the ACA. Now individuals can buy insurance at competitive rates and without worrying about "pre existing conditions".
Seriously? That's the critique you have?

Choices like that are 100% personal preference, and belief of which is "better" again is personal opinion.

Foe the counter argument; I find it far more readable to follow the if/else blocks, than to rely on identifying which if blocks contain return statements.

Personally, I prefer a step further, keeping all if/else blocks and using a variable inside the method to track the return value, with a single return statement at the end of the method.

There are plenty of blogs and articles debating for or against every permutation of this. But in the end, it really doesn't matter one bit whether there's an else statement on line X Y and Z.
It was definitely an issue. Not that "every" cab wouldn't, but I learned quickly to get in the cab before saying that I was going to Brooklyn - numerous drivers would drive off when they heard it.
Linux gives each process a 32 bit random seed, which is probably more useful (as is making a syscall). On an embedded system the address seed may well be useless anyway.
Spark and rstudio
Would there be an overall economic net gain or loss if the Taxi industry was replaced entirely (or close to it) by Uber?

I can't help but think it's not a good idea to convert an entire industry to contract workers...
I believe this was started originally by Terence Tao and maybe Timothy Gowers, though I don't think it's actively maintained anymore.
This is all truly a non-issue if you program in a Lisp. You don't need any precedence table if you write S-expressions.

Seriously, making white space syntactically significant is a horrible idea.
Krugman's gained influence and popularity by writing for the NYTimes, yes, but I doubt the gig pays him more than Princeton did.
The reason for the high cost of NYC Taxi Medallions is because of politically induced artificial scarcity of limiting Taxi Medallions (Microeconomics term is "rent seeking"). Rent seeking is a form of market inefficiency that causes people to pay more of their income for taxis which means less spending on other things.

I welcome anything that rids us of "rent seeking" and helps with market efficiencies.
Ask HN: Any positive health effects from startup life?
A friend recently asked me: "What do you think would be the effects on my health if I joined a startup?"

I told him stories about the lack of sleep, the constant snacking (and the weight gain that typically follows that), the caffeine addiction, the Adderall and other prescriptions, the alcohol, the "no time to workout this month" problem, the depression, etc etc.

Halfway through my answer I realized: "This is coming off super negative, maybe I'm not being fair here." So I thought I'd ask you HN:

Have you experienced any positive health effects from startup life? Either physical health, emotional/psychological health, spiritual health, social well-being, etc?
>>the mental-exercise group physically increased the strength of one of their fingers by imagining, repeatedly, over the course of about three months, that they were exercising it. They didn’t have to lift a finger in order to convince their brains that they were, in fact, lifting a finger.

Wow! Now that is something to think about. No pun intended. But wow. Mind over matter, literally.
13 AdWords tips from a former Googler
I'm also in Michigan and curious about the specifics of options 2 and 3. Would you be willing to share the details?
I pay $228/month for a personal silver plan down here in NC through the marketplace.
Why was award-winning documentary maker harassed?
The Operating System of the New Horizons Spacecraft
The deductible cap is only applicable to plans purchased through a health care exchange. He is likely on a family plan and purchased his insurance individually. similar ACA coverage would certainly carry a lower yearly deductible, however would likely double his monthly premiums. This was the case for me on my individual plan.

If he has a healthy family who does not need coverage outside of basic physicals, then its likely he purchased this plan to only cover catastrophic events, I know I would rather purchase the $500/m with 23k deductible rather then the $1000/m 13k deductible if I only planned on using coverage in the event of a horrible catastrophe.
I became a freelance 13 years ago. On COBRA for a while. Looked for IEEE group insurance but HI wasn't covered then. The insurance company (HMSA) offered a switch to individual plan. It wasn't too bad initially ($350/mo for me and my wife, HMO, $500/$1000 ded.) But then the premium soared and also we had a kid; at peak it was $1050/mo without drug, vision and dental. I learned antibiotics are pretty expensive.

After ACA, it got a lot better. Currently we have PPO through HMSA in HI. About $650/mo for me, my wife and one kid. Kind of high ded ($1500/$3000), but drugs are covered and also with basic vision and dental.
you are right. I edited that part. I did this a couple of years ago so a lot has changed since then.
When I was in NYC I joined the Freelancer's Union which provided health insurance. That was a few years ago, but it was quite helpful.
I think it would be a very good idea for them to get some prominent bloggers to do a review of the first kit.
Transistors is way too abstract.

He is talking about something around the HTTP and DNS protocol layers, so getting access to 'http://example.com/' for instance, wheras the article is dicussing the IP routing and MAC address layers. That is, where the actual packets eventually end up, on which NIC and which server.
This article is from 2009. Most recent comment from 2010.

Possibly, it is meant as a reminder of something that we should all not forget?

Would the submitter please take the time to clarify the reasoning for necroing this article?
The world's most insane Donut Shop is in Portland Oregon
Drupal 8 early adoption at Memorial Sloan Kettering
$380/month sounds kind of high. I have similar coverage via MassHealth for $225/month (+$25 for dental). YMMV, of course.
That's the thing. Evolution has found a lot of molecules that provide immediate benefits with little long-term consequences (along with a lot that have long-term consequences too). The pharmaceutical industry just hasn't found them all yet.
The cost went up because of the pre-existing condition situation. Pre Obama Care, if you had any kind of pre-existing condition, you wouldn't be able to buy the $84 coverage.

(I got stuck having to get a normal job because of a pre-existing condition.)
Configuring Your GOPATH with Go and Google App Engine
Show HN: Discover contacts connected to your colleagues, inside your email app
Samy Kamkar's resurrection of ProxyHam
The problem with saying "Uber is such a good experience in comparison to Taxis." is, well, which Uber, and which taxi?

In New York, for example, Uber drivers are... OK. They're usually polite enough but they're utterly dependent on their GPS - half the time they don't even seem to know street intersections. Most of the time that's fine, but if the GPS has something wrong or fails they're hopeless. Now, NYC cab drivers can actually be even worse. They're often rude, and sometimes have no idea where they're going - they can't use GPSes, so they know more often than Uber drivers, but still.

So, in NYC, Uber is the better choice. But then go to London, where cabbies are polite (to be point of being too chatty) and know exactly where they're going because of studying for "the knowledge". I'd trust a London cabbie over an Uber driver to get me to my destination every time. So in London, cabbies win out.

TL;DR: I don't think there's any universal measure of taxis vs Uber that can be applied to, say, all users of HN.
Why Israel Is the New Land for Startups
not really, for me its more like work on yourself, not necessarily hard, but continuously. in time, you will leave most people behind. and recognize moments when life is giving you a chance, and grab it like there is no tomorrow.
Seeking+Passive-Aggressive+JavaScript+Developers+Job+in+New+York,+New+York+US
Foo Fighters 2015 Photo Waiver
Props to the author/website for providing links to the papers it discusses at the bottom of the page. Drives me nuts when articles neglect to do this.
How to get started with Natron, an open source compositor
You can take that combination with green tea too.
Social Media Automation: Save Time with These IFTTT Recipes
How do you know who the attacked is to then be able to sue them?