skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear that you've completely missed my substantive position, in fact, in a number of places you're supporting it.

My "about half" number was intended to include Social Security, I misspoke. The point isn't about healthcare spending. It's about programs of "measurable and direct" outcome to the benefit of the population. (This distinction is common, as is evidenced by the Forbes Tax Misery Index -- http://www.forbes.com/global/2009/0413/034-tax-misery-reform...).

Your R&D link doesn't at all respond to my point about R&D as a fraction of taxes, as it doesn't separate government-owned industry from truly private industry. Keep in mind that 74% of major companies in China are state-owned.

Your quote -- "Wednesday, the Chinese central government announced both the allocation of 1.13 trillion yuan ($185.8 billion) for upgrading internet infrastructure and the creation of a 124.3 billion yuan fund for affordable housing. These expenditures follow Monday’s authorization of six new rail lines costing 250 billion yuan." -- directly supports my position that the government of China is forced to allocate tax capital to infrastructure expenses because they do not have adequate private infrastructural management.

If China is planning to increase their Healthcare expenditure 10-fold, that will come at the expense of higher taxes, as again, they are not prepared for the private management of infrastructure.

While the point about US healthcare "mismanagement" is largely irrelevant in a break-down of tax expenditure, it's worth responding to, as that is a commonly held misunderstanding about the American healthcare industry:

That belief is largely derived from the fact that healthcare R&D, and the costs associated with it, are not factored into the international cost equation. Yes, American Healthcare is expensive, but it's also driving global healthcare outcomes forward. Those countries with low costs are benefiting directly from our healthcare expenditures, without paying their fair share, because they don't respect our patents, and push their costs off onto American tax payers by threatening to just steal our medicine if we don't give it to them at a price they agree with.

To put a fine point on that, the US had 32,139 Biotechnological patents, and 43,317 Pharmaceutical patents from the period of 2001-2009. The UK produced 3,062 & 5,693 in that same period, that makes them fourth in the world, and they still produce roughly a tenth what we're producing in terms of medical R&D. Yes, their healthcare system can operate very cheaply, but it does so at the cost of innovation, and on the backs of the American medical system. Given that we are producing the vast majority of the world medical research, the impetus for increased costs in our healthcare system should be obvious -- we're producing most of the medicine. If we nationalize our medical system, yes, we could get prices down too, but we'd also be destroying the world's medicine R&D system in one fell swoop. (http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ipstats/images/wipo_pub...)
Foursqare, this is quickly turning creepy
For me the biggest difference is browser support. With React many libraries I have seen you can get pretty much running with IE9+ (often also IE8). In comparison Polymer: You need more or less the newest IE browser to get it working fully: https://github.com/WebComponents/webcomponentsjs#browser-sup...

At the moment I also see that React has the bigger community/ecosystem but this may change in the future?!
For me the biggest difference is browser support. With React many libraries I have seen you can get pretty much running with IE9+ (often also IE8). In comparison Polymer: You need more or less the newest IE browser to get it working fully: https://github.com/WebComponents/webcomponentsjs#browser-sup...

At the moment I also see that React has the bigger community/ecosystem but this may change in the near future?!
I like Wrox books...most of the thick ones on ASP.Net will talk a bit about IIS. You might listen to the .NET Rocks podcasts to get into the overall context.
The utility is quantifying a "gut feeling". More can probably be found in this thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2014/07/msg00234.html
I initially thought it was a bug bounty
I mean this honestly. Do people actually even use QR codes?

Filling up your phone with a bunch of hi-res pictures of bar codes, not to mention having to load:
1. QR code app
2. camera app
3. browser app

These things are 100% in the gimmick column in my life.
I see that the largest connected component is growing with each release, and is at an all time high. What's the implication here?

Is this bad? It it neutral?
StageFright – Hack into any android phone with just a message
Razer Acquires Ouya Software Assets
It was meant to be a non-web feature, till people found out about it and started posting blogs posts elsewhere, AFAIK, hence the decision to prefix does follow that resolution.
Make websites that look like websites.

Do not try to match them to desktops, unless you are wrapping the website in a desktop launcher!

I personally find the character of the San Francisco Font to be very Apple these days, clear to the point of being patronising and devoid of a soul.
I always wonder what would be the active-user count for G++ without YouTube (i.e. every logged in Google user visiting a YouTube page is marked as an active G+ user if she scrolls down the page once).
Yeah, he was going to explain a 10 year old girl the behind the scenes politics needed to get elected. This incident instead shows he was a great human being and he did not care whether he was elected again. It does not in any way explain what happened in the Presidential election.
If you're interested in Polymer just for its material design, you can use React just the same with something like Materialize. There are also projects like MaterialUI which might be worth looking at.

Forgetting the question about Material design, and just addressing which is better: I don't think its a one or the other deal. For the most atomic, cross-application, least state-full components, Web Components are a good choice. But if you're building an entire application that is component driven, does it make sense to have a Web Compoent <App />? At some point when you get to the point of using application level state across components, you can use React.
Last I heard, the Mill guys don't even have a compiler working, but do have a simulator. Not sure what they're simulating.
Blockchain tech is finally getting interesting.

Of the part of the population that is reasonable well informed about the workings of bitcoin, there is a huge sub population that, for one reason or another, regards it as less than a full viable implementation to accomplish the goals set forth in the whitepaper. I am among these.

Although the bitcoin whitepaper represents a compelling call to action and a mathematical head opener, the state of bitcoin today makes it clear that, like many first tries, this one didn't succeed.

However, announcements like this one provide a very powerful reminder that, taken generally, blockchain technology, as a movement, may yet have the evolutionary gravity that we imagined.
Impact-Oriented Knowledge Distribution
Maybe that's part of the reason I can never figure out what's going on when I follow someone's link to a conversation on Twitter.
> Why do people think that it's OK to allow kids to drink coffee?

Actually, most people I know don't consider coffee to be an acceptable drink to give to kids; but they don't think twice of serving them soda with the same amount of caffeine, or just lots of sugary drinks like non-caffeinated sodas, sweetened juices, "low fat chocolate milk" (as if the fat, rather than the sugar, is the problem there), etc.

> In fact, why do people think that drinking coffee is something that anyone must do?

Caffeine (and the various forms it's consumed in, like coffee or tea) has both health benefits and health risks. As far as I can tell, based on all of the data I have seen, sugary drinks are much, much worse for you.
Well worth seeing. As far as I know, it's the only Nike exhibit of its type with a launcher that actually gets raised up. There are various remains of other Nike sites around (including on Angel Island) but there's typically not much there.
To all the people that are saying that a treaty would work because of how we have controlled chemical and biological weapons - consider the following.

1) Biological and chemical weapons do not actually work well against trained and equipped military. Even with the chemical weapons in WWI, it did not significantly change the outcome.

2) They do work well against civilians - which is why most of the uses recently have been by dictators trying to control their population. Note, that treaties did not really prevent this.

3) Powers such as the USA, Russia, China, even if they do not have them, you can be sure that a large scale use by another power against civilians would result in nuclear retaliation.

With AI and robotics, they are useful against soldiers. Look at missiles which have revolutionized warfare. Thus, a country could use them in battle without rising to the level of MAD. Thus, there is a serious incentive, even for a signatory to the treaty to cheat. In addition, it is easy to get around any such treaty by designing 'human controlled' drones which a firmware update would turn into autonomous drones.
This is starting to get really exciting!
> I wonder what this will mean for the world economy. Are we limping from one recession into the next?

Check out the USD / AUD exchange rate for a good example of the danger.. A company I worked for used to do a lot of business in Australia. We made the decision to go there when the currency was favorable from the US perspective (about $0.85 USD/AUD), tried to stick it out but got crushed since our money was raised in the US but the rate spiked to $1.1 USD/AUD and stayed above $1 for years. Today, the rate is more like $0.73 USD/AUD. 30+% swings in a few years are poison for international investment.

The Australian economy and currency have been hugely propped up by all of the Chinese demand for raw materials and commodities and is going to really start hurting if there's a prolonged pull-back in China.

http://i.imgur.com/UbxUeVA.png
That coin has two sides, of course; if a franchisee makes alterations that dissatisfy customers (unintentionally or by choosing to cut corners), it reflects poorly on the brand.
Ask HN: Do small, single-purpose apps really make money?
There was another thread that linked to ProductHunt product page with little or no relation to title's subject.

That submission left me with the question how the choice of making single purpose apps ends up in terms of success and making money. Any experience ?
Cleaning up bunker oil with white rot fungi
How is this legal under california law?
http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=2...
> how often does the government dismiss cases because they are "too expensive to prosecute"?

Arguably that is what happened to banks that are "too big to jail" (with expenses to both the government and society at large). This does not make the situation seem any better or fairer.
It might be possible to do OS fingerprinting based on the font metrics, bypassing a spoofed UA.
API to Print and Mail (Postcards, Letters, Photos, Checks, Posters)
The world is better now than it ever was, in many ways: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-world-is-now-safer-and-better-...
downvoted - really ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW39Mt5kscQ

Another interesting alternative. Prettier than QR and IMO meshtag.
I was pulled in so many different directions, and basically stopped hacking on computer graphics.

I guessed that the downfall of the approach would be the iterations spent on the same pixel value in a texture, when, so to speak, Bresenham is "going vertical": marching through Y values while treading on the same X. If X is the texture space, it's wasteful. While rasterizing, it really behooves us to just map backwards from screen pixels, get the color value and move on. On the other hand, the approach could do anti-aliasing: average those values being tread over. That is usually solved with mipmapping, though: pre-filtered textures at multiple resolutions. Again: no iterative work per display pixel.
Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking [pdf]
That's a very professional looking site and just goes to show how far medical marijuana has come ... in the US. As a UK citizen, I'm full of jealousy and saddened by the fact that we're probably further away from legalisation than ever. This petition [1] shows that there is at least some demand for a change in the law, but it seems unlikely to occur anytime soon with the current government in power.
it's probably unlikely microsoft has made a profit at all with the xbox. keep in mind it lost a lot of money fixing the RROD problems (not enough thermal paste will cost you $$$!). then with R&D for 3 consoles, marketing, advertising, etc i'd be surprised if the entire thing has ever made money for them.

they are just dumping money into in the hopes that they will not lose out as a competitor in the family entertainment system although they totally screwed that one up during the whole E3 XBox One fiasco.
Drones and Areial Observation: New Technologies for Property Rights, Human Rights
It's ironic that one of the features which originally motivated my switch to Google was the way they didn't seem to care whether I got an account or not. I've almost completely stopped using any of their services now that they're so pushy about getting you to log in.

This includes Android phones: I don't know why people claim that they can't be used without a Google account, because I'm on my second, I've never put any Google account credentials into either one, and they've worked just fine. Can't use the app store, but I don't care about that anyway.
If server is compromised, web app source code would probably change to something else.
You're right about the vendor thing. I have a hunch that changing a job under duress is more stressful than finding a new customer (vendor), and thus employees would be somewhat more inclined to have long term stability, but I certainly can't prove it and I'm not entirely convinced of it.

As to the idea that employees will sacrifice shareholder value (of which they have, roughly, zero) in order to feel better about working (revenge feels good, after all), perhaps that is not unexpected. In my scenario, the employees would have another outlet: they could make it clear to the board that they won't tolerate toxic managers. As things stand, a smart board (I would argue) understands this today, but things get awfully muddy in the real world.

What the proposal does is broaden the conversation from just considering shareholders to another group of stakeholders.
So I just bought a new Macbook which although is amazingly thin is also somewhat underpowered. I also own a beefy Mac Pro (the trash can) and the thought had crossed my mind that I might use remote desktop to utilize the power of my Mac Pro from the convenience of my new Macbook. For gaming, latency is a huge issue, but I could deal with 50ms latency when doing my work if it meant not having my system lag in other respects. I only wish there was a OS X equivalent.
Damn, whole lot of hate in these comments. Chill out guys, nobody's trying to kill QR codes here.

samfpetersen, you made a cool thing. Expiration of small tags is an interesting way to solve the landgrab problem. I think these would be fun to use and I hope I see some around.
I'm sure people will appreciate if you can attach the emails that talked about the cleaning fee, puking, pictures etc? You left out the interesting/important part basically.

So did you have alcohol or not?
Article says VCs got their money back, which in all likelihood means employees got nothing.
Show HN: GhCM – write a message in you GitHub contributions graph
How We Impersonate Users to Fix Problems Faster
Especially since the last celebrity hack took place almost exclusively through iCloud hacking / spearfishing.
According to Moxie[1], TextSecure does not pass media on to anything involving stagefright, unless/until you tell it to open it (which will popup a warning that things are leaving TS's sandbox).

1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817
The dark side of health IT
Great when you have an Ubuntu phone, which their app almost certainly won't install on.
But all too common on the buy-side, e.g. in PE/VC, and even most public equity investors.
Google Developers Console Down
Problem is, we are pretty good at picking out problematic people. A general AI might reason as well as a human, but if they want to be able to update bugs they need to have a option for reprogramming it, so there's a bit of paranoia for me of it being a human very prone to suggestion.
There is Dashlane though I've never used it. Once I heard Mitro was getting turned off I sadly switched to Lastpass Premium. It works. Isn't the best, but it gets the job done.
Are those the steps for Android 5/Lollipop? I don't see any of those menus in settings.

edit: Ah it's in the actual hangouts app that you have to go to settings. Also if those settings are greyed out then you might not have Hangouts handling your SMS messages, so run the Messaging app instead and go to its settings to disable auto open of MMS.
Pleasant!? Up Hawk Hill?! (Mostly joking while nursing some very sore legs after my first ride in a few weeks)
I have a travel book [1] with QR-codes that link to video sequences corresponding to that part of the book. Thay maybe the only time I used QR-code!

1: http://oceans.taraexpeditions.org/m/qui-est-tara/les-expedit...
2011?
You should try Steam streaming - you can run your full and regular desktop in it (by using fake passthrough apps), and is how I often use Lightroom and Solidworks from my Macbook in bed.

Coming from VNC and Remote Desktop, it's remarkable how low the latency is. In many cases, because I can get a signifcantly higher framerate by remote rendering, the latency is better than if I was doing stuff locally.

For games, it's worked pretty well with everything you'd be happy playing with a gamepad (e.g. GTAV, but not CoD).
I have a LinkedIn with ~50 connections, but I know of no one who uses it for anything other than an online resume. People i know might go on once every two weeks, if that. It's strange to me that someone would be active enough on here to notice an ad like this. Whose experience is abnormal here?
ROTATO: Change Your Perspective
The Malibu Arts Festival
It's time for the visual internet
According to the reddit discussion, 5.1.1 is demonstrated to be vulnerable (so it affects everything 2.2 and later).
Hey everyone my name is Prah and I'm one of the founders of Mimir. There is a huge demand for good engineers so we built Mimir to solve the problem at the source. Our platform automates most the bureaucratic work involved in teaching a CS course and allows instructors to focus on their students.

If anyone has any questions, I would be happy to answer them.
I love your maps! For a web version, I would recommend Mapbox - I was able to get custom maps up and running in no time. CartoDB is another good option. Ping me if you need any help. Cheers
Good luck guys! I'm incredibly excited. This feels like a modern day Apollo launch.
This is completely insane. '98 was the year of games like Dune 2000, Thief, Half-life, Fallout 2, RE2, Starcraft, etc yet someone out there was making a 16-bit FPS for a console released nine years prior?

Brazil's tough import laws create weird outcomes I guess.
It looks like they're building legends on these maps. I wonder if the legends are standardized. It'd be cool if whoever is reviewing these, or someone involved in the process, could scan them in and make a public repository.
Are people trying to get in touch with you regularly for business purposes? On the flip side, are you trying to get in touch with them?

My LinkedIn is pretty invaluable for scoping out potential clients and making an initial approach. I don't usually try to use InMails, but I'll figure out the right person to talk to and make an email approach with that information.
Thanks for this post. How do things change if you use the default Messenger app vs. Hangouts?

I just updated my Messenger app settings to uncheck these options, but when I went into Hangouts to check there, "Auto retrieve MMS" was checked, but all of those boxes were greyed out and it said "SMS disabled - Touch to make Hangouts your default SMS app".

So the question then is whether that is a sufficient indicator that Hangouts is not used, and is Hangouts still vulnerable if I am just using the default Messenger app?

EDIT:
Stock Nexus 4 running vanilla Android 5.1.1
Delegated Decision-Making: The Next Billion Dollar ECommerce Opportunity
Just to chime in with the obligatory: sounds-interesting-but-for-the-love-of-turing-it's-infuriatingly-hard-to-find-a-basic-description-of-what-it-actually-is.
Drones have been successful in refueling from tanker aircraft, specifically the "Salty Dog" X-47B Navy UAV testbed:

http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/04/22/navy-nava...
No, that's not my argument. My argument is that you shouldn't leave your doors wide open simply because theft is illegal. It still happens, and so will actions with "illegal" weapons.

I'm not suggesting we should ignore it, I'm suggesting that aside from making us feel nice, it's not an effective "solution".
This is like saying "it's not my fault that trains have a lot of mass and kinetic energy", after you are warned against pushing people in front of them and do it anyway.
I today decided to try it on small project. I had a lot of class name clashes (wsimport from similar but different WSDLs). I had a nightmare in Java and Kotlin saved me, thanks to its smart import. Properties are much more readable than getters-setters. And there are a lot of sugar here and there, which makes programming more fun.

I literally spent may be 5 minutes reading their site. The language is extremely small and intuitive to pick up, if you had some experience with Scala.

IDE worked fine. I had few exceptions, but they didn't ruined anything. Refactorings worked. IDE support is very nice.
I'm sorry, but no.
Some aesthetics categorically reject choice. Everybody else thinks deliberate choice by the artist is what makes art worthwhile. In these gif images, every pixel is chosen for its contribution to the whole. The source photo illustration isn't nearly so rigorous, and IMHO that's what makes it skillful to a point but totally pedestrian and uninteresting. A bit hard to look at, actually. YMMV of course.
All the snarky and negative comments on anything that gets created here is really turning me off. Been using HN for a long time, but it might be time to move on.
Well, it kinda does show that you've never used QR codes, otherwise you'd know that all of this is pretty much handled by the app. Which means:

No need to store the hi-res pictures of bar codes; no need to load up camera ap, as that's handled by the QR code app; no need to load up the browser, since a small embedded one appears to open the link, as a rule.

That said, yeah, it's 100% a gimmick. I have only seen one or two problems for which QR codes really made sense, and none of them included scanning a URL with your phone.
Smarky – the smart car alarm (prototype – feedback appreciated)
Thanks for mentioning JSPM/System.js. It's really cool; it runs ES6 compilation with Babel (or Traceur) in the browser, and is able to download arbitrary versions of dependencies off a CDN.

I'm still fiddling a bit with hotloading React and caching source files, but it looks promising.
How do you say Bitcoin didn't succeed?

The currency currently has a market cap of about $4,300,000,000 USD, processes transactions equivalent to $300,000,000 USD daily and can be used globally by anyone.

It's been running completely decentralized for 6 years without compromise.

It has probably succeeded far beyond most expectations for it.