Society, Policy & Culture

The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 302 posts.

301

Why everything you have said about the determinants of health expenditure is wrong in one million charts: a response to Noah Smith.

Random Critical Analysis2018cited by 11 details

Household income determines health spending, mostly via higher intensity, not prices. US behaviors are consistent with well-measured income in multiple dimensions.

302

Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site

Krebs on Security2018cited by 11 details

LocationSmart , a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site — without the need for any password or other form of authentication or authorization — KrebsOnSecurity…