jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The story on healthcare is complicated, but growth in healthcare costs has actually slowed dramatically in the last few years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/health-care-spendin...

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141223/NEWS/312239...

Also on housing: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-07-01/the-re-explo...

The Bay Area (and probably New York) are alternate housing realities that have nothing to do with the larger picture of the economy.

And housing costs in the Bay Area can mostly be explained by a bizarre alliance between left progressives and wealthy homeowners who both somehow think of the view from their bedroom windows as a basic human right.
If it won't be written because people get shot down when they make outrageous claims about their security then I'm ok with that. Everyone should be.

I'm not sure what it is you want here. Nobody's telling you not to use it. Nobody's telling you not to tinker. Everyone's encouraging you to learn, and giving you advice on the best way of doing that. You seem to want every bad, amateurish attempt at novel crypto, accompanied by self aggrandising copy, to be hailed as if it was awesome. It's not.
Or they just send a takedown notice again (yes it's against the law but they won't have anything happen to them)
I saw the same sentence but I just laughed - I read that as "your crappy provider has to somehow enable this, which they're obviously not going to bother doing".
Waiting for them to ship mine. I'm looking forward to having something I can actually put my own code on.
Maybe no one complained to them, so technically they're not aware? I'm not sure how that works.
I was really stoked when the Motorola Atrix came out, and was hoping that would turn into a trend:

http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Motorola-ATRIX-4G-Laptop-D...
You have two weeks. Rehearse the shit out of your talk. Run through it several times every day. Do it until you're completely sick and tired of hearing yourself, and then run through it some more. Get friends and family to watch. Videotape yourself. But go through it as much as possible. That's the most reliable way to beat the nervousness and deliver a kick-ass talk. I know Steve Jobs makes it seem like it's something you have or you don't, but I've read he spends like 20 - 30 hours prepping and rehearsing for his keynote talks. There's a word for this: sprezzatura. Good luck!

http://lifehacker.com/5449141/deliver-polished-presentations...

http://sivers.org/sprezzatura
Being able to point my phone at a sign written in a foreign language and having it translated into English instantly is not only a killer app for me, it blows my mind that we've gone from no cellphones 20 years ago to this.

For those of us that don't use Android - which app is this?
I just wish I could plusvote this one twice.
That's true for most non-U.S. countries. In the U.S. and a very few other countries, however, an inventor has a one-year grace period after publication (or offer for sale, or "public" use) in which to file a patent application. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_(patent).
I don't think a 14 year old web business counts as a startup... but it's paying the bills. I only returned to it 4 years ago after an long um 'sabbatical'.
Why would you trust HR to forward you the CVs anyway? I had to beg and plead to get HR to send me the unfiltered resume submissions but finally got them to do so. They're completely unqualified to determine which experience is necessary or relevant (which is fine, since they're not programmers; they just shouldn't be filtering resumes).
This is what we get when we embrace closed platforms. Free Software gets you nice, simple, easy to use services and closed platforms will always manipulate you for their needs.

This is why I want to make a Free Hardware cell phone. I have made one wireless product already and wrote the frequency hopping stack myself, but something like a phone needs better data rates and a more advanced protocol.

Still, I dream of a simple cell phone that runs vanilla linux and has apps for IRC, XMPP, and the other functions you would want. The key component would be that the protocol would be designed from the ground up to respect user privacy, including a "broadcast" mode for towers where certain low data rate data channels are streamed without requiring any transmission from the handset. Then you could follow IRC or twitter during a protest without any risk of being probed for your location.

The protocol would also be built with anonymity in mind as much as possible, so phones would route data using rolling anonymous ID numbers and spoofing location could perhaps be trivial for plausible deniability (unless that opens up a vector for DoS).

I met the "Game of Drones" guys last night and they seemed interested in my wireless. I can only do 1km at 20kbps with current boards and 10km at 20kbps with amplified boards, but I think they might be interested in a solution that would work for FPV and that could be a good excuse to develop something that would also work for a cell phone.

I am 100% Free Hardware all the way, so maybe your dreams can come true eventually. :)
This may not be unique to XMPP...I use regular Google Hangouts with my fiancee (also on stock Google Hangouts) and have found that occasionally messages to my fiancee get to her hours later or not at all. Apparently the Hangouts team doesn't consider "reliable message delivery" to be a key feature.

I think people don't realize just how unreliable the major messaging networks are. There was a Reddit thread a year or so ago where some folks who worked in the telecom industry said that they shoot for a 98% delivery rate with SMS, i.e. one in every 50 SMS messages will just get lost. I've personally experienced arriving at a friends' house, sending them a text to let them know I'm there, waiting 10 minutes, knocking on the door, and then 20 minutes later, while I'm in the car with them, my own text message finally arrives.
I'm on board with the free expression of individuals that they'll shun RMS and the FSF. Good. Let them. Copyleft will survive it. Open source will survive it.

But I'm on the other side here. Personally, considering the sort of complaints leveled at the FSF (including the ludicrous nonsense that it's bad that one of the board members spends a lot of time and sweat on Wikipedia; or that RMS's toe-jam eating thing is some evidence of how he hurts people), I've flipped the bozo bit on these complainants. These are not evil things so even though some of those other things that are mentioned seem like evil things, if you mention these not-evil things in the same vein as the evil things, I am not going to believe you on either.
The biggest wars are fought over resources? I’m don’t know.

The biggest wars the US fought are WWII, WWI, and the Civil War. None were over resources.
Google could probably do it if they REALLY wanted to. But to handle all the small nuances and complexities is not trivial. An example - larger companies will never use Expensify because of a lot of features that it lacks compared to Concur.
It would be some of the products listed here:

https://www.oracle.com/erp/financials-cloud/

If you're a big enterprise like Google, managing your financials is super-non-trivial. Solutions like Oracle or SAP are pretty much the only options.
I don't know any of the people involved. But seeing stuff like:

"Mr. Stallman’s behavior clearly has a basis in his handicap. "

This is a strong claim but seems to be made without any explaination or evidence and it is surprising that I see many here seem to accept that without questioning it.

Would an equivalent defense be made for Robert Long, that man who just murdered those Asian spa girls? I'm curious if there's a possible equivalence of what Bruce Perens is saying to that Georgia sherrif saying "He'd had a bad day". Seems like sympathy for perpetrators is reserved only for certain persons.
I did not claim it was upperclass. My claim was that calling it underclass is absurd.
> $100M valuation

For others reading, they recently raised from a16z at a $1 _billion_ dollar valuation. [1]

That comes less than a year after they raised $10m at a $100m valuation from a16z. [2]

1. https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/clubhouse-picks-up-new-fund...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/05/15/andreesse...
You can tolerate people without putting them in positions of leadership. No one has a right to a seat on the FSF board - it's dependent on behavior in accordance with the organization's principles.
So, the author doesn't like congestion pricing because it is regressive. This is another strong argument for Basic Income - proper market solutions can be used for public problems without worrying about gouging the poor.
Here are some integer values for the characters of two of the QBFs

[72, 55, 81, 36, 86, 49, 49, 37, 38, 61, 62, 86, 40, 63, 57, 43, 57, 62, 50, 47, 36, 43, 68, 38, 36, 54, 54, 86, 67, 46, 69, 52, 78, 37, 61, 33, 46, 77, 55, 41, 49, 70, 70, 53, 46, 74, 32, 50, 63, 40, 81, 82, 51, 90, 58, 82, 69, 77, 54, 42, 73, 67, 74, 80, 84, 85, 48, 86, 75, 71, 77, 61, 32, 58, 74, 44, 54, 53, 33, 78, 73, 41, 54, 69, 51, 44, 39, 32, 38, 60, 85, 68, 78, 80, 47, 33, 33, 32, 65, 35, 51, 34, 44, 35, 65, 39, 45, 73, 63, 34, 63, 79, 86, 63, 71, 80, 34, 45, 52, 52, 89, 61, 41, 60, 83, 35, 46, 39, 75, 87, 77, 50, 72, 58, 77, 53, 48, 48, 38, 70, 73, 71, 35, 77, 49, 85, 79, 73, 89, 46, 44, 47, 70, 35, 38, 50, 44, 49, 77, 74, 54, 67, 54, 45, 40, 35, 46, 80, 59, 33, 55, 58, 33, 75, 35, 53, 34, 42, 87, 67, 51, 77, 84, 67, 41, 83, 75, 72, 85, 45, 39, 55, 56, 81, 67, 39, 36, 80, 33, 52, 81, 88, 79, 57, 58, 88, 45, 87, 51, 59, 50, 54, 70, 40, 73, 86, 43, 71, 71, 79, 65, 67, 61, 40, 39, 76, 85, 33, 82, 59, 87, 72, 54, 74, 67, 87, 35, 82, 54, 50, 60, 85, 59, 57, 86, 79, 44, 70, 47, 62, 72, 53, 76, 68, 87, 35, 49, 41, 65, 58, 75, 48, 84, 80, 37, 63, 82, 50, 51, 65, 88, 78, 52, 55, 85, 33, 44, 33, 35, 89, 42, 32, 71, 61, 67, 48, 35, 55, 88, 41, 64, 58, 67, 74, 80, 62, 80, 63, 41, 38, 48, 43, 64, 33, 67, 71, 35, 55, 87, 44, 41, 61, 36, 37, 88, 39, 75, 70, 84, 88, 49, 73, 44, 70, 43, 33, 43, 37, 37, 71, 78, 82, 85, 85, 68, 49, 57, 66, 89, 44, 57, 37, 40, 62, 50, 44, 40, 72, 48, 39, 53, 35, 68, 55, 73, 70, 33, 49, 55, 61, 58, 39, 50, 40, 68, 82, 52, 83, 78, 78, 34, 41, 71, 61, 58, 81, 39, 68, 53, 69, 85, 68, 33]

[33, 56, 70, 50, 62, 48, 75, 72, 47, 71, 67, 61, 60, 78, 80, 64, 65, 39, 51, 44, 77, 34, 33, 71, 36, 77, 77, 85, 55, 88, 73, 46, 79, 77, 55, 69, 79, 81, 66, 85, 75, 76, 45, 80, 86, 66, 62, 39, 54, 64, 84, 32, 59, 42, 45, 67, 83, 46, 53, 66, 37, 47, 59, 34, 76, 39, 79, 81, 63, 46, 38, 81, 35, 81, 56, 33, 57, 65, 47, 48, 87, 53, 78, 82, 52, 72, 38, 84, 51, 60, 64, 83, 52, 79, 46, 48, 44, 80, 47, 47, 74, 33, 53, 53, 49, 67, 53, 54, 39, 47, 54, 45, 81, 41, 55, 72, 41, 74, 59, 55, 52, 33, 57, 67, 89, 87, 66, 85, 48, 81, 87, 53, 49, 65, 87, 52, 50, 59, 45, 68, 39, 59, 79, 65, 72, 66, 61, 89, 87, 77, 70, 75, 78, 77, 55, 75, 54, 66, 62, 62, 62, 71, 32, 59, 74, 75, 86, 36, 73, 86, 52, 35, 74, 81, 61, 59, 88, 85, 38, 61, 43, 40, 89, 84, 64, 42, 39, 41, 43, 37, 34, 41, 34, 55, 44, 35, 71, 36, 88, 62, 50, 74, 84, 72, 34, 64, 33, 83, 44, 62, 85, 43, 84, 65, 86, 63, 54, 37, 41, 52, 86, 85, 50, 43, 60, 35, 41, 87, 50, 37, 61, 85, 81, 74, 72, 82, 55, 90, 66, 55, 75, 64, 63, 65, 51, 33, 34, 73, 46, 63, 74, 69, 49, 82, 74, 66, 44, 88, 37, 33, 70, 39, 63, 62, 76, 63, 61, 88, 88, 46, 39, 36, 82, 39, 88, 88, 34, 82, 40, 84, 65, 85, 46, 85, 48, 58, 55, 52, 58, 46, 34, 64, 57, 77, 57, 69, 79, 73, 71, 71, 58, 67, 57, 50, 63, 75, 90, 41, 66, 50, 89, 38, 62, 61, 87, 51, 74, 45, 74, 44, 38, 40, 85, 56, 39, 47, 72, 39, 55, 57, 90, 65, 85, 67, 85, 69, 60, 81, 64, 67, 75, 71, 56, 41, 88, 44, 57, 37, 60, 59, 63, 79, 80, 79, 75, 72, 83, 60, 48, 34, 90, 68, 65, 65, 85, 82, 57, 50, 33, 42, 60, 65, 71, 70, 77, 55, 42, 81, 55, 60, 44, 49, 82]
I support domain seizures. Can anyone give me a good argument why domains shouldn't go into an administration period when it is discovered that they are serving up copyright material?
wunderlist allows you to change the background (i dislike the woody theme myself).

plus, wunderlist is open source:

https://github.com/6wunderkinder/wunderlist
The lack of HD video recording absolutely blows me away. How could they _remove_ features from the Nexus S line? Make the damn thing a half millimeter thicker if you have to and it will still be thinner that the old version plus a Flip video.
Don't surveil your customers. It's creepy.
I wonder if the market for 'dumbphones' will increase as/if this sort of thing becomes more common? Probably not, but it's fun to think about. I know Nokia are still making bare-bones, extra-long-life models aimed at developing countries (eg the 105, 220).
How is this different than Wallabag? (http://wallabag.org/) Wallabag is mature, has mobile apps, self hosted or on their servers and allows you to export stuff as PDF, epub or json.
That's a pretty ridiculous use case. I'd think if you wanted to make a change this drastic, having to reload the game wouldn't be a huge deal. I mean, you'd want to make sure everything up to the point you were at still works anyway. (Besides, this is an awful way to represent 2D points in practice).

FWIW, It's certainly possible to write code that reorders struct fields on changes, but it requires either boilerplate, macro hell, or parsing part of your C code for structure declarations (I've heard this sounds worse than it is). Arbitrary mappings are more difficult and IMO not worth the trouble.

Not to say this technique doesn't have downsides. It's downsides are so huge that IMO it's benefits aren't worth it, unless you were already going to program in that style to begin with.

- No pointers to static memory (globals, vtables, and pointers to string literals or constant arrays are out)
- No pointers to functions (most other ways of emulating dynamic dispatch are out).
- You need to use custom allocators that work out of your game state block. And since you have no global or thread local state... you need to hope that any library you want to use allows you to provide a context for any memory allocation it wants to do. Most don't.
- etc, etc, etc... you get the picture. Essentially, you need to write your game like its 1995.

And sure, maybe you can get this in lisp without any limitations (I don't know, but I believe it if you say you can), but the reality we live in is that it's unrealistic to write production-quality game engines in lisp. I've heard it's used for scripting and AI in some places (probably just Naughty Dog, tbh), but most of the code that goes into a game isn't in script, unless it's a slow game.
> Anytime someone says "I think too much" I feel the need to speak up.

I always remind people of Robert DeNiro's quote from Ronin, when people mock his mindset.

"Do you think I'm reluctant because I'm happy!?"

That is my refrain all the time, and people still do not really get it, oh well.
> I guess in lisp you could more easily write a function that maps the previous representation into the new one.

Lisp provides a simple way redefine classes. There is a generic function (basically a function that is extensible), update-instance-for-redefined-class[0], which is called on instances of the old representation to map them to the new one. All a programmer has to do is extend it with the behavior they want. Coincidentally, the link I gave shows how to do this to change the representation of a point from Cartesian coordinates to polar coordinates.

[0] http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec...
Pantheism. God is a word to describe the wholeness of reality, seen as a single living being (the One). "Living" here means complex, intelligent, interactive, responsive, loving, joyful, prospering, creative, amplifying, mysterious. To me (PhD, philosopher, entrepreneur, developer) these are the best attributes to describe the world I live in. Science describes this world in excruciating detail and beauty for my mind, religion makes the same available for my intuition.

If I would say "I don't believe in God", I wouldn't be talking about God, because then I no longer talk about the One, but about two things: myself and God. Then I merely criticize my own limited image of God. Which is fine.

Besides that, my religion is a school for love. Loving is tricky: strong emotions, complex beings with individual edges and blind spots, very close to each other, causing friction. Much more tricky than for example driving cars. Yet, we all agree that attempting to learn to drive cars all on our own is not a good idea. Sure, like love, in the end driving cars is about developing intuition and following our instincts, and we can make it work somehow after lots of bruises, but its better to have some guidance and mentoring along the way. We need to learn about the basic rules that make traffic safe, or we'll end up hurting ourselves or others. The same is true for love. Wisdom traditions that provide guidance on how to love (aka religions) are useful tools that add value here.
Yeah. Maybe it was a bit unclear, but when I used the term "undefined behavior" I think I meant exactly what "free-for-all" means in your sentence.
Might it be pay?
You can limit the number of sign up by IP addresses.

Also, you can disable sign up from VPN to avoid abuses.

IP2Proxy https://www.ip2location.com/web-service/ip2proxy is an VPN detection API and detecting more than 300 major VPN providers.
I thought the Andrew Sullivan example was pretty enlightening. He is a person who has interesting views on many, many issues.

Yes, I definitely find some of his views on trans and race issues repugnant or downright disgusting.

But he raises them with an open mind, airs dissenting views, and often (especially on his podcast) provides a platform for alternatives. For example, he recently hosted a respectful discussion with Mara Keisling, a trans rights activist, about trans issues. She definitely came out on top on most of the points, and hearing the back-and-forth really helped to improve my understanding of the issues.

Is Sullivan the kind of person who deserves to be de-platformed? Was it wrong for Substack to invite him to its platform? No, in my opinion. He's not pushing an ideology or trying to silence others. He's just a persuasive writer with some very wrong-headed and gross views on some things.

We're never going to advance as a society if everyone who holds a diverse opinion is silenced.
Synopsis (since the podcast transcript isn't posted yet): with Red Had effectively killing CentOS and it's 10 year support guarantee, many administrators who defaulted to using RHEL at work and Fedora and/or CentOS at home/for side projects are now giving serious thought to whether that makes sense and if it's time to change. This threatens to completely destroy Red Hat's position in the marketplace as administrators look at each other and realize "We never call Red Hat for support anyway... do we really need to be paying a premium for it?"
We banned this account for trolling.

Please don't do this here.
Yup, writing good technical content in Hindi is nigh-impossible.
You're probably right for road bikes. Money buys you carbon.

But for mountain bikes, the high-end seems to be titanium.

https://www.bikesdirect.com
> It has aged and worked amazingly well, and have 0 confidence that the politicians of today, if starting from scratch, would do better.

It has aged well only if you ignore the fact that millions of Americans who were at first considered property, and then “freed” only to be incarcerated and discriminated against, don’t have a say in what “well” means.

Politicians of today understand today’s problems and are better equipped to find answers to those problems. They are armed with a team of educated aides and have access to political science research. I’m confident they could devise a better, modern constitution today.
You also have reactive losses with AC.
What I don't get it how relevant this info is for companies at such an early stage. For the few home runs each year, oftentimes a bunch of the success can be attributed to aid provided by some of the VCs. They may provide value between seed and an A round since the investors often matter less there, but one there is a provable business model after A or after B, the investor, if chosen correctly, can be a big multiplier of value, especially for first time entrepreneurs.

Good VCs like A16Z, help with hiring, provide great signaling to potential partners, potential hires and future investors, and well as helping refine the business model.

Seems like any score they ascribe to a company would have to incorporate the value of each of their clients. e.g. the scores given to A16Z would look different from VenRock, since the compatibilities between the startup and the VC matter. VenRock is likely to multiply the value of a health-related startup in a way that most other VCs can't and this changes things.

I'd even go as far as saying that for some VCs the partner you get should be factored into the scores as well.
We really are the same. I keep a journal in org-mode and in my .emacs I have cron-like periodic function that switches to my journal in the middle of the night so that it's the first thing I see when I unlock my computer in the morning. Something like:

(run-at-time "23:59" 86400 (lambda ()
switch-to-buffer "journal.org")))
Thanks, dude! Maybe mobile, but I just wanted to see the reaction on desktop and web.

All this game business is new to me. It is my first game and I need to probe the ground a little :-)
Well gold and land both have a resale value that is pretty much exactly what you paid for it, assuming other things are equal. The point of the article is that diamonds (as used in jewellery) really don't, and therefore are not suited to investment (or currency, or some other store of value) as gold and land might be.

If you buy gold or land in a fair auction, you can flip it in a day or two for roughly the same price minus fees. You can't do that with a diamond ring.
This paper tried that with positive results: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6572
Or do as I've been doing, tailoring my skills to match the market, it's no bad thing and makes life interesting.
Way better than demonstrating against robots or driving around with a vinyl wrap on your car. You should go bigger next year.
Are all humans susceptible to the checker shadow illusion? Or just those that have been trained to interpret flat arrangements of color as accurate representations of 3D scenes and objects? If you showed the checker illusion to someone who had never seen a photograph or representative painting, would they see different colors or the same color?

I don't know the answer. I do find it fascinating that something as simple as perspective (which we take for granted in a graphic like the checkers illusion) is a fairly recent technique, invented by Renaissance artists.
The issue isn't whether every case should go to trial. A plea bargain is an exchange of (forgoing) a trial for a reduced charge or sentence. The undesirable outcome (for pretty much everyone but the prosecutor) is that an innocent person accepts a plea bargain to avoid the worst outcome, and we should do more to prevent this from happening.

> If there's a suspicion of false confession, meaning that the suspect may not be the offender

Are you assuming that this represents a minority of cases? Who has to suspect that the accused is not really guilty, a jury of his peers?
This has been discussed before and is a favorite of some of the robotics communities. This particular drone seemed to be a bit overloaded (2.7kg?) and I'm guessing the person who launched it hadn't made the connection between flight time and weight. But still it seems a pretty straight forward way to get drugs from point A to point B.

That said, 2.7kg of crystal meth might be worth $270,000 [1]. So the cost of the drone is insignificant to the 'value' of the meth it was carrying. Sending 1kg chunks over on $10,000 drones would still net a decent profit. And $10,000 is a pretty nice drone.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/
Is this Free Software? In case it is I encourage you to make it available on F-droid!