jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nothing, including capping Medicare, will "work" if you mean "provide all possible health care to seniors."

Medical science is wonderful, but it's moving faster than the overall economy - the things we can do are advancing faster than our ability to pay. There will simply be too many old people, with too many health problems, to provide top-flight treatment to everyone. Someone will have to tell them "sorry, you don't get that procedure." The only remaining question is: will that decision maker be a health insurance company, a government official, or the health provider refusing to work without payment.

Seniors, and their children, will loudly demand that the government pay their health bills, no matter what the economic wreckage. That's why we need to lay the political groundwork now. Pundits, economists, and anyone else who can understand the situation should be repeating loudly and repeatedly: Health care is not a right, because it can't be. All of us will die, eventually. Most of us will die even though a treatment exists that could have extended our lives a bit. We need to get used to that fact.
There's a significant price differentiation between living in Manhattan and in other boroughs. One really can't lump them all together.

I have friends that pay $6-700/mo for rooms in reasonable apartments in convenient locations in Brooklyn (e.g. off the Lorimer L stop, less than 10 mins from Union Square). Rents have also significantly gone down in NYC in the past two years. I had mine decreased by 12% last year and it hasn't gone up since.
access 24/7, big shop next door, casino across the road, best bar in town 5 minutes walk, a hacker atmosphere
What level of tax professional does someone in the OP's situation need? Will a trip to the local H&R block sort it, or does he need to look for someone more specialized and if so, how would he identify them?
If you sort people by wealth (or height, or IQ, or penis length, or any other numerical quantity), and then divide them into the top N% and the bottom 100-N%, the top N% will have more than N%, unless everyone has the same wealth, height, etc..

The wider the range of the distribution, the bigger the concentration will be.

I wonder how much of the wealth distribution disparity is simply a consequence of the fact that we have a wide range (near $0 to many $billions).
Nothing. That's why I left. Some folks like the SF nightlife scene but I wasn't a big fan of that either. Too many hipsters. Plus it's impossible at nights because of the lack of transport back to the south bay.
I'm going to commit the cardinal sin of meta-commenting twice on the same submission and rhetorically ask why anyone would be downvoting the parent?

To clarify the stated fact: the name appears in the left margin on an iPad, just like on a desktop browser at normal width. However on an iPhone, it appears at the bottom of the page. It does the same thing if your browser window is set to less than 768px wide.

It's not hard to see how in those circumstances, someone could be misled into thinking that the article's author was Woz, especially if they didn't read all the way to the end.
These people will sell you a cert for US$5 per year:

https://cheapsslsecurity.com/comodo/positivessl.html

If that's a barrier, I don't know what to say. Registering the domain name probably costs twice that.
Then the full name should be anough to determine the floor. More problematic though is the inaccuracy of GPS. Where I live, my smartphone's GPS encircles 3 buildings.
And the US has killed tens of thousands of civilians in the middle east.

They're terrorists too.
The way the exploit works isn't actually that bad. It just has to do with exploiting Coq's assumption that its bytecode VM evaluator is equivalent to normal CBV reduction. Turns out that's false---though that was certainly always a potential weakness in that assumption.
You can also not use them.
What do you mean? The underground market is perfectly free, you have only private entities contracting with each other, with no appeal to a higher power (i.e. the law) possible. Whatever rules are in effect instead are instituted and upheld by the market participants.
diigo.com been using it for a couple of years now.
That's a decent use case, and one that I'm surprised I forgot, given that I've written that same line of code so many times. :)
context is extremely important and very difficult to get right

Yep... solving "context" 100% is equivalent to solving A.I.!
Thats I get for relying on spell check instead of reading my post before submitting.
Has that torrent been released? Last I checked it was still forthcoming.
Everytime I see a 'how could people not get that it was a parody' posts or commments, I wonder, really? How long have you been on the internet/lived in this world. Of course plenty of people aren't going to get it. If you are 'surprised' by that you are either being disingenuous or have a highly inflated idea of how critical most people are of what they read.
I must be old, because I don't get it.
This is my first post to HN. I'm not sure where "text" shows up. Here is my commentary for this post:

Many articles have raved about how the new Facebook profiles let users add a bit of creative flair to their profiles. What I haven't seen reported is the potential for users to post creative content on other users' profiles. Enter Tagsie.

Tagsie lets users quickly tag many of their friends in one photo. Clever users can use Tagsie on five photos to exploit the design of the new Facebook profiles and plaster banners on their friends' profiles.

Facebook should change the way photos are chosen for the new profile. Users should opt-in to what is on their profile; users should not have to opt-out. There should be a way to keep others from posting vulgar things on my profile. Worst, users who haven't chosen to see the new profiles may still have banners hanging on their profile without ever knowing.

After my room mate and I built this I was able to hang "STEVE" across the profiles of all my friends. Friends who shared my name were pleased.

http://i.imgur.com/YeyxG.png

Currently only tested for Chrome.
If a single person holds all positions in the LLC, i.e. closely held, that veil is easily pierced as they can say 'you' committed the negligence as the GM of the company and the company is just a tax vehicle. In this case, a closely held LLC or S-Corp provides very little liability protection, and his E&O insurance will reflect that.
The more I read about Bob Iger, the more I like him. This guy knows exactly how to critique the company from the inside and has the balls to just execute on a solution that makes sense rather than tip-toeing around focus groups. His agility has been impressive, especially for a near-100 year old behemoth like Disney.
To some extent, bullshit jobs, given however slight of a start, make and propagate themselves.

People jealously guard their career territory through legislative or other means and seek to expand it, even though what they are doing is ultimately of little (or even negative) value. Anyone who has spent any time in an organization of any size has no doubt seen micro examples of this. No dark cabal needed.
Never had it in re bridges, but "no lock-step while carrying a stretcher" was a mandatory part for me.
Rezo.net is a leftist portal, often displaying obscure blogs no one reads. I started reading it around 1999 and I’m glad it is still here.

Around 2005 there was a very cute php generalist forum called kopikol.net but I still lament that they had to close around 2008
That and in the position of the bottom bracket, in a 'stiff' bike you'll definitely see much less movement of the bottom bracket (and thus less change in orientation of the pedals), on an aluminum based frame this can be quite noticeable while cycling, especially when standing on the pedals.
So I'm in infosec and I know a lot of americans and some of them work with OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and some things that they spend hours on, a 10 year old kid can do in 5 minutes here in sweden.

It's kind of hilarious.
Not entirely true, but not entirely false either: the quadratic has degenerate cases where it can't be represented by a single quadratic polynomial, and regardless of the order, each dimension in a nth order Bezier curve is guaranteed to be a plain old nth order polynomial function.

Most properties for the cubic curve as a whole come from evaluating each dimension independently, which still allows for a fair number of optimizations, and we can classify cubics in a few canonical forms that let us do even more optimizations ("a geometric characterization of parametric cubic curves" by Stone and DeRose is a good read on that)

So a cautionary note: finding the angle necessary to turn a quadratic curve into a parabola (for unbalanced curves) can cost as much as using an optimized canonical cubic, where the user's input only defines the linear transform that you throw at the graphics context to make sure the curve you then draw matches the curve the user expected.
It's one of my favorite Saint-Exupery quotes.

This is also relevant: (from my vague memory)

"Any fool can add things. Subtracting, however, requires a genius." - Greek saying
Gotta disagree on that one. Well maybe with the small change to "Earth and her current inhabitants".

There's current projects that hope to launch small probes to the nearest start (under 5 light years away) at a few % of speed of light powered by large arrays of lasers. Assuming it gets attention and additional funding the probes will get bigger and of course sensors are continuing to improve per unit of mass.

With a better survey of the nearest star, plants, asteroids, comets, and magnetic field we'd have a much better idea for what to send next.

Assuming reasonable progress on fission, fusion, plasma drives, light sails, and related technologies we could look at accelerating on this ends and slowing down at the opposite end. Once we can send small probes they would work on building mirrors to help decelerate whatever we send next. Similarly on this end we could put more solar panels+lasers in orbit to help with launches.

If any of the planets looking promising it doesn't seem insurmountable to eventually send humans (or at least their DNA) to the nearest star.
With that attitude, no one would have ever started trying to write and run their own kernel called Freax on a PC...
The way they've implemented it suggests that it's intended for there to be support to boot other things.

Going back on it and locking it down could end in another lawsuit like the OtherOS removal from the PS3 (Which ended in $65 settlement payments it seems)
I had the pleasure of meeting Niels during a short stint at Google. Didn’t help my imposter syndrome xD.
This is very anecdotal but every single laptop I have bought in the last 10 years (4) worked perfectly out-of-the box with either Linux Mint or Ubuntu (which are the same on the inside). I only vaguely remember once I had to change some conf file for my trackpad to work after a dist update but that was it.

Not sure why everyone in this thread is so hesitant about Linux on a laptop? It literally just works (tm) for me and I haven’t used windows for 10 years and will never have a personal Mac.
Super great write up. This really took me back to my days of working on the container platform behind CloudFoundry.

In particular, we also used to use loop devices [1] but with AUFS mounted on them.

Later we moved over to BTRFS and then Overlay on XFS [2] to help with our unprivileged (security) story.

Also, this was a great piece of technical writing. Thanks for sharing!

1: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-attic/garden-shed/blob/6c5b0...

2: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/grootfs
Sure, but convention is to treat `-long` as `-l -o -n -g'.
It works surprisingly well for synthetic data. Is it a pre-trained transformer in the backend?

I have a competing side-project in the same space, but using bitext and a vanilla transformer.
Apple has publicly stated their intent to permit users to run other operating systems on Apple silicon, and has provided various mechanisms for them to do so in a first-class way (still supporting secure boot, for instance). Of course, they haven't gone as far as many of use would like - marcan has had to do a lot of reverse engineering of stuff they could have just released the docs for, and it's always possible they'll change their mind and reverse course.

But those of us who daily-drive macs but need to use Linux occasionally are very much rooting for this to be a going concern.
The discussion about reforming IO has been going on since December 12: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/517

Furthermore, consider that many programming languages have gotten popular post-1.0, so if anything, they had _even less_ experience than we will have.
Thank you, kind words really mean a lot to me.
These chemicals will change your brain, and your brain is who you are.

It's not philosophical. It's physical.
Some of these are hilarious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wik...
Really? I've been working for a CAD company which only recently (about 10 years ago) got visual modelling for their 30+ years old product, and still a majority of their customers do not want to use it, preferring a huge, convoluted, awful text-based language instead.
In what sense is Emacs (or emacs-likes) "always" available? In most operating systems it is something will have to be installed explicitly, while I haven't seen a unix-like without a vi-clone or nano in a while. Hopefully the lack of emacs-likes can be addressed with something like mg, but so far I don't see it a lot in the wild.

I believe that Workbench 2+ for the Amiga came bundled with MicroEMACS, though!
When essentially the entire country is united except the political forefront, the effects have reached the entire nation. Once the government gets too distanced from the populace, it loses relevance and becomes the enemy.

How many violations before the populace decides on another Tea Party?
I loathe PHP's docs for two reasons:
- the colour choice;
- the comments.

The colour choice for code examples is orange on gray. This is almost impossible to read for colour-blind people. I have to squint to make out each character. I can't get in to a flow and read the code, I have to decode each character then put them together to read the snippet in its entirety.

I don't think user-land comments have any place in documentation. The docs form part of the official specs for the language and, personally, I find user comments create too much unintentional confusion. You often find well-intentioned amateurs make basic errors in PHP's doc examples. User comments can be great for examples, but they belong in a separate place, say, a wiki.

An example of good docs IMO is Python's. A nice helpful topic bar on the left, and careful docs on the right.
"misquoted" != "mistakenly quoted". People intentionally misquote people to further their agenda or to drive readership.
So you think that the opinion (whatever it is) of a man that actually built a personal computer in a time they were none and influenced what has become today's commodity computer hardware has no value when discussing a piece of technology?

I'm actually not a fan of Woz, far from it actually, but I give credit where credit is due. The man deserves respect, and let's be honest, if he gets coverage it's because people want to know what he has to say.

I'm sorry but I'd rather take Woz opinion (which I a lot of time disagree with) and give it the weight it deserves because of what he's done, as opposed to giving some .NET wunderkind more credibility than he should have.

But yeah whatever you have a bone to pick with Woz and that is your choice; however I'm not going to waste any more of my time trying to explain to you why Woz deserves respect and the fact that people want to hear his opinion, which means people see value in it, regardless of what dislike you might have with the man's persona.
It is 2010. I'm sure there are apps that were a success after 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, and some after a year or two of pivoting.

If its an innovative and useful idea users "get it" almost immediately.

If it's not as innovative and you're building an app that is improving another idea it will take more time for users to see it, try it, and switch.

I don't think there is a magic number.
Scheme on the iPad!

http://www.speakipad.com/ipad-apps/pixie-scheme-iii-educatio...
I would probably nap all day.
"Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record, followed by death."
Just find the function that does what you want to do in the docs

I often go looking for the wrong thing. I'll think "In Ruby/plain JavaScript/C/whatever, I'd achieve X by doing Y and then Z" and then look for jQuery's equivalents to Y and Z, rather than doing it the easier and conventional jQuery way.

Books are good at relaying the thought processes of experts rather than the function by function material that, yes, a reference site provides a lot better.

For a slightly convoluted example, let's say I have a little JavaScript and DOM knowledge and am a few days into using jQuery without following any serious tutorials or books. To change the code within an element I might try something like $('#whatever').innerHTML = 'whatever' rather than the more jQueryesque $('whatever').html('whatever') - a simple example but it can get a lot more elaborate than that.

However, it's definitely a case of different strokes for different folks. You might be able to pick up on the idioms and nuances of new libraries and languages without much guidance, but books like Rebecca's can provide a much needed "guided tour" for some people nonetheless.

All of the above is why I wrote Beginning Ruby despite the existence of the venerable Pickaxe. The Pickaxe is an awesome reference book with a relatively weak tutorialesque set of chapters tacked on the front. My book caters to people who want to learn in a more linear, narrative fashion (and, to be fair, has a relatively weak reference section tacked on the end ;-))
Yeah, about the same as sending an email to Posterous
Slashdot should be nuked from orbit & put out of its misery. Its more painful to watch it because (at least) I expect better from geeks. Especially old-skool geeks. I've seen entire article comment threads that were completely technically wrong & ignorant. There's one person wading in there trying to explain but he's drowned out.

(PS. I am still trying to think of the word that describes the feeling of seeing an article on /. about something you or someone you know did and knowing you really shouldn't read the comments but you just can't help yourself and then you are disappointed in humanity. If you know what it is, plz email.)
The more I learn about this world, the more I am totally sold on "code make the difference" rather than the license that protect users from "EVIL CORPORATIONS". Then a guy made 43000 USD in a few month from a public domain game.

That when I finally said "Copyright is dead! Long live the public domain!".

The way I look at it, is that software freedom will prevails over the long run, even when entire industries try to conspire to strangle it. Even when copyright lobbys pressure for the most draconian measures possible.

Incidently, ESR is thinking along the same lines too.

*GPL is not needed: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=928d

And he also fear that intellectual property abolitionists might be right after all: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1337
You're obviously (by your rate and believes) a newcomer to enterprise architecture ;) Distributed transactions are an anti-pattern even with WS-Transactions. And business rules belong to the services themselves, not to the service infrastructure.
British Columbia Innovation Council: www.bcic.ca.

They're a crown corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_corporations_of_Canada)

From their site: "BCIC develops entrepreneurial talent and commercializes technology through startup companies and partnerships between industry and academia. BCIC focuses on competitively positioning British Columbia in today's global knowledge economy in order to provide significant employment opportunities and a high standard of living for British Columbians."
It was either 2nd semester Freshman year or 1st semester Sophomore year, honestly I don't remember which it was.
Very much so. Very happy to have it too - I had to return my iPad when the orientation lock button broke 1 day in. Having a software option for this makes a lot of sense.
Since January 2008, Microsoft has enabled a public symbol server containing source code
for most of the .NET Framework libraries. This means you can step into the source code for
System.Web.dll and various other core assemblies, which is extremely useful when you have
an obscure problem and not even Google can help. This contains more information than the
disassembly you might get from Reflector you get the original source code, with comments.
This reminds me of when one of my good friends came back from China with a knockoff iPhone. I bought his extra one off him for $50 out of sheer curiosity. Everything this article said about the knockoff tablet vs. the real thing was true for the phone--it was billed as a touch phone and yet came with a stylus, because using it with your fingers was impossible; in fact using it with the stylus was almost impossible too. It had the look-and-feel of an iPhone, but all the apps were clearly just cheap, badly translated knockoffs that were just truly awfully made. The wifi would "connect" but never worked. The screen was scratched after two days of use.

I ended up sending a few text messages with it (it took me 15 minutes to compose each one because of the awful interface) and after messing around with it for a while got so frustrated that I promptly "lost" it.

It was a great conversation starter though--"Hey, want to see my Chinese iPhone?" It always got a laugh out of people when I showed them.
Yup, it's pretty bad for you. I try to stand as much as possible, but standing desks aren't exactly cheap, and I don't have a dresser that's the right height.

NYTimes ran a few articles a while back about this very subject..

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/stand-up-whi...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who...

A key point:
"The men worked out, then sat in cars and in front of televisions for hours, and their risk of heart disease soared, despite the exercise. Their workouts did not counteract the ill effects of sitting."
I got the updated version of the Pickaxe recently and skimmed through all of the 1.9 updates. I was appalled to see REXML is still the blessed XML parser. I liked it when I started using Ruby and I still see it in the wild, but to me that's usually the sign of old code or a developer not tuned in to the latest developments.

On the other hand, there has been some progress. It's good to see MiniTest replace Test::Unit (while also remaining mostly backwards compatible).
Why not just put an incorrect solution online?
I'm sorry but you don't seriously think the Exo is comparable to this. The idea of the UNHCR program is to supply low cost, easy to install, easy to maintain housing. The product you've just described doesn't meet any of these requirements when compared to the Ikea solution.

It's a great product and perfect for many use cases e.g. events. But I wouldn't say that you could use it for the millions of desperate refugees in the world.
To me, the language is interesting because it could be used for other things...or to put it a different way interactive fiction seems a useful design abstraction for other real world tasks.

What would it mean to wire inform up to arbitrary hardware as a primary user interface?
BREW. Oh dear god.
indeed, the first definition of "algorithm" i ever heard was that it was essentially a recipe.