jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From experience, an Australian doesn't have the correct frame of reference to even engage in the US healthcare debate. I have tried to understand the issues many times but it comes from such a fragmented starting point it's difficult to understand unless you've been in it for a long, long time.

Your points about uninsured are valid, but it's much more complicated than just saying 'hey, you guys should insure everyone'. So I generally try and observe from the sidelines.
The Great Lakes can be pretty dangerous. They're large bodies of water, pretty deep and cold, and can experience very strong storms. Over the years they've carried a lot of commerce and some big ships have gone down there.

That said, there probably are tens of thousands of shipwrecks in the oceans as well.
"... the decision is so egregiously bad that it may well permanently discredit not only Wikipedia but the entire open Web. If a mature and well-funded site like Wikipedia can’t distinguish between reason and perfidious slander, if it punishes volunteers who enforce its own policies against libel, then who will trust any publication that doesn’t bear the brand of ABC/Disney, Reuters, or Al-Jazeera? ..."

There are broader implications here, though you might be right though to flag this post. Gamer-gate is such a laugh, boys and man-children squabbling over what others can write and think.
You can be denied for a checking account. Most banks use ChexSystems to look up your account history.

I've known a small handful of people who were simply unable to open a checking account. They had to resort to all manner of ridiculous work-arounds, such as having friends deposit their paychecks for them. Even if you aren't taken advantage of by predatory businesses, it is a serious inconvenience.

Some had bounced checks in the past, which is somewhat understandable. Others had been the victims of fraud themselves, and were still trying to figure out how to convey that to the anonymous checking overlords.
Look deeply at yourself here.
And you'll never believe what happened next!
Zoloft worked great for me with Kolonpin as a backup if I had an anxiety attack. But once Zoloft started working, I didn't have to use it.

I took Zoloft for about 8 months and then weaned off and I feel back to normal.

Pot and Kolonpin (and other benzos) are really only for temporary treatment. I'd recommend taking SSRIs but you have to wait for the 6 week ramp up period to see if it works. If it doesn't, you have to change SSRIs.
I am trying to catch a task while they are talking. Then I say "let me do this, ok?" for the tasks that I have no idea. Then I start asking questions people around. I think it is very hard to maintain this.
Geez, there are threats involving boobie traps and explosives in the comments. Some people...

My guess it's downvoted because maybe some readers here are offended that they're being called out.

Anything to feel superior I guess.
A few remarks:

* Codebase should be defined as 'the platform'. where one team will most likely never look at the code of other team's microservices.
* this communication problems and overhead start the moment you go from 2 to 3 or more teams.
* the term 'team' in this context should be interpreted very broadly. One dev working alone on a microservice should be considered "a team".

Also, things mentioned in the article: you don't want to implement TLS, circuit breakers, retries, ... in every single microservice. Keep them as simple as possible. Adding stuff like that creates bloat very quickly.
I am not sure if this is a complete explanation of the notarization requirement.

Isn’t this either disable-able or bypassable with admin rights to the machine, similar to existing Gatekeeper? I assume Homebrew, MacPorts, and others will continue to work, just as Gatekeeper does not block them today.

According to https://eclecticlight.co/2019/06/07/notarization-in-mojave-a...

“ If you build your own apps, using Automator, AppleScript, another scripting system or even Xcode, you don’t need to acquire a developer ID, code signing certificate, and start notarizing them unless you provide them to others via the Internet. Catalina still runs apps which haven’t been notarized or even signed, including those built after 1 June 2019. But you may find them more complex to run, and they don’t of course benefit from any of new security protection unless they’re signed and hardened.

Apple has, though, announced that it intends that a future version of macOS (possibly 10.16) will not run unsigned code so readily. How that will affect those who build their own apps isn’t yet clear. Let’s get notarization sorted first.”

Therefore, I assume right-clicking the app and choosing “Open” will still be available to bypass the first-run check for a downloaded software, as it is today.
Linux has a fairly stable driver API, it just doesn't have an ABI.
While true about all being homo sapiens and shaped there is still fundamentally rightful to blame from causality.

Even with the nature and nurture given the nature of time the past generations have an impact on the future generations.

With power comes responsibility - blame should be proportionate to power to have actually prevented something. It is far more reasonable to blame a doctor for not even trying to save a wounded stranger than a blind quadriplegic because the latter wouldn't have been able to do anything more than give a redundant call for help. Blame is also fundamental to systems.
I guess after .org scandal it's will be much harder for ICANN to take control away from Verisign under guise of some anti-monopolistic practices. On other hand they already make tons of money from control of their domain zones and since they are public company they'll less likely try to pull of something ugly.
I believe it's still technically a dupe. In the past, the mods here decided to merge comments on articles reporting the same event.
It is a truly remarkable engineering achievement that Facebook has managed to implement a less functional search feature than Google Reader, which ironically, holds the unique distinction of the least searchable system that I interact with daily. We have extended conversations on Reader, mostly related to recent papers that someone shares, and the comments are not searchable so you have to guess keywords in the title to find old threads. I assume they will fix this eventually, but it's a major usability problem at present.
Many US mobile/cell plans include paying for receiving text messages.

Clearly no-one in the US gets any text message spam, or they'd be _really_ angry about paying to receive that.
Just get an SSL certificate for your site, you will instantly feel a lot more legit!
Nice, phones with 4GB of memory on their way? :)
Yours for €11.000 (European price).
> How do you look at this issue and see even a whiff of anything related to gender?

How about the article's explanation? It requires historical context (that is, can't be looked at in a vacuum).

> Walk through a museum. Look around a city. Almost all the artifacts that we value as a society were made by or at the order of men. But behind every one is an invisible infrastructure of labor—primarily caregiving, in its various aspects—that is mostly performed by women.

yes? or no?
As long as you can ensure my contracts eventually halt :p
> Docker and CoreOS might be competitors, and we might disagree on many things (ethics in particular)

I can't believe you, the founder and creator of Docker and Dotcloud, just called the CoreOS team unethical.
For the curious, they're hosting their rework of the UI off github in order to comply with their DMCA takedown: http://git.libreboard.com/libreboard/libreboard/
I can't help but think that the LGBT folks most at risk aren't necessarily going to be over 18 and have ready access to a credit card.

Is there a way to buy an Invisible Boyfriend/Girlfriend as a gift for a friend?
Super placebo isn't a thing. There is a bounty of research on how psychedelics affect the brain both physiologically and psychologically. They are effectively a suggestive (vs a stimulant or a depressant)
I've been using Emacs for 40 years.

My .emacs file is 59 lines long.

Most of the customizations turn off features have been added (menu bars and so forth), or that disable "helpful brain damage" that simply got in the way. I've spent 2-3 hours over the last decade tweaking things.
This is correct. In the 90s you’d do a round or two or private capital and then go public. It was also a lot better for early employees... you can probably hold out 5 years for a liquidity event... 10 seems highly unlikely.

Microsoft famously had a single venture investment for what amounted to less than 10% of the company (but did get a board seat).
Maybe you would resign, but plenty of other people would rather stay and fight. You can have much more impact by staying and fighting than by leaving.
One of the incremental changes I would make to the privatization of public research is that IP could not be granted exclusively. Free for noncommercial use, 0.5% of gross for commercial, done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
This seems very sensationalist.

I can not see how someone visiting a page you published publicly is a form of spying on you.

I also do not see why Google or anyone else should be obligated to access your page from an IP address block with their name on it.
I had already built a nice audio setup pre-pandemic because I play games with friends every other evening for the most part.

4K webcam (Logitech BRIO), Blue Yeti for the microphone + a pop filter and a shock mount, and my noise cancelling headphones. All together they cost a fraction of what my work laptop does.

No one complains about my audio. Except when teams decides to randomly switch back to the built-in laptop mic which is hideous as it's right next to the cooling fans...
You can already do that today. Create a Github App and add it only to a single repo.
Hah - well you made a point with your links that I didn't want to bring up, but since you did: the only people calling themselves "European" are people who really detest the idea of Brexit. But let me ask you something, what possible question could you be asked about yourself that would result in the answer "European". Here let me try:

Where are you from?
> "Europe" is too vague, people want country or city.

What would your cultural heritage be?
> Again, "European" is far to vague. Mine's English and Irish.

I'm really struggling here...

Again, if I didn't make myself clear: the use of the term "European" is entirely political (pro-EU).
People aren't tools. Amazon doesn't by virtue of being a business deserve apolitical drones to do its bidding.

That's the entire point of unions. Employers have too much leverage over employees, so employees have to use activism to counterbalance.

> these workers clearly were focused on their campaign to make Amazon, their employer, look bad publicly.

So the question you are begging is, "Is Amazon privately bad?" From what I have heard about the company over the last few months, the answer is likely, "Yes."

So shouldn't the employees who have the most leverage be the most politically active? How else do we reconcile the inherent leverage a "bad" corporation has over its employees?

> Imagine just trying to do your job and having to deal with these two on your team.

Imagine trying to just do your job, but knowing it's all for a corporation that is treating other employees extremely poorly; and fighting to keep its leverage over them. Don't you have a moral imperative to do something about it?

Do you actually instead have a moral imperative to keep your head down and focus on your work? I find that notion outrageous.
hi thanks for the input, yes it is very early and I just posted this mainly for validation; I wanted to know if only I thought this was cool or if others also saw it as something fun. I did not anticipate so many people using this. I plan to implement most of the expected shell features soon.
Gabapentin is a very widely prescribed drug so arguably very safe, certainly safer than ssri, but you won’t hear about this outcome from CBD:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314910/

CBD can be hepatotoxic so not a perfect solution even if it’s highly effective.
That's exactly my point. The OP's question was not about whether he's right or wrong. It was: "why do we care what he thinks ... anymore than what the average schmuck thinks?". The stellar review performance proves that, for the reasons I outlined above, we, average schmucks, do care what he thinks.
check out this gentleman https://gist.github.com/travisbrown
This doesn't really address the underlying proposal. If the corporate tax rate was lowered to 0% no one would choose to operate an S-corp anymore.
Lately Intel is trying to enter several device markets. Other than their core products they now have at least the following "compute" products:

- Intel NUC
- Intel Galileo
- Intel Edison

Now comes the Compute Stick.
> but we have a decent idea of what it would probably cost, and most VC firms could fund it.

I'd wonder if a "CaaS" startup (Cracking as a service) would be feasible. Using amazon spot instances, it would require only as much funding as to serve the first ten users - and requiring each user to send the money to an escrow, e.g. a notary (in Germany, it's possible to deposit an amount at a notary, which gives the customer the assurance that without the private key, the company gets their money and the company has the assurance that the customer doesn't walk away with the keys and leaves the company with a 5-figure AWS bill).
> Personally, I'd love it if Apple went a step farther and used the network layer and code signing to identify which apps actively use which trackers and tracking networks the same way they currently identify apps that use the microphone and camera. It'd be fascinating to see an operating system feature that says 50% of my network traffic in Application X was telemetry being sent to Facebook, for example.

If you had broken this paragraph out into a separate post, it might get more and highly deserved attention.
Touchscreens will be on the way out. But what I do expect what will come down the line that hasn't been done yet is custom shaped screens embedded within analog controls. Since notches in phone screens started becoming a thing, the ability to manufacture non-rectangular shaped screens has an array of so far unexplored options for dynamic information communication without foregoing the tactile user experience.
Someone once made an insightful comment about touchscreens: that it's ironic that they're the type of device you can't operate by touch.
I thought Session(1), a signal fork, was ridiculous for adding a crypto currency, but now Signal is doing it too?

I don't want this stuff in my messenger. It's supposed to send messages, not money. This is just going to accelerate my departure from Signal - or at least the official client.

1: https://getsession.org/
Just an anecdotal...

Here in utah we have water shortages and major droughts.

Politicians like the governor plead with us to "watch our water" while not doing anything about industrial use of water.

Now for statistics... All private use of water in the state amounts to under 3% total. Meaning: If everybody in the state took one shower per year it'd do diddly for the water shortages/droughts.

Because industry is still using the bulk by a shit-ton.

It's all posturing to make us "feel good" that we're "helping" but it doesn't do anything. My yearly household amount of water is something like 0.016% of state use..or maybe it's 0.0016... I read the statistic somewhere else, but it's not even worth doing anything because it won't move the needle one iota.

I personally have an abhorrence towards all politicians, at least the ones who take money from special interests and corporations (so 95% of politicians).
> Value is lost to existing shareholders who have the value of their shares diluted.

You're confusing percentage dilution with absolute diluation.

The shares represent the value of the company. The value of the company has increased by the amount of money raised. Each share represents a lower percentage of the company, but this is offset by the fact that the value of the company has increased by the amount of money raised. The shares have not been diluted on an absolute value scale.

Owning 10% of a company worth $1mm is the same value as owning 5% of a company worth $2mm.

If you own 10% of a $1mm company that raises another $1mm by selling more shares, you now own 5% of a 2mm company. Your percentage ownership is diluted, but your value has not been stolen.

This is basic pre- and post-investment math. Shareholders are diluted on a percentage basis, but not on an absolute basis.
The landscape is already a bit weird in terms of "out of the box" features for MySQL because there are at least a few major distributions between Oracle MySQL, Percona XtraDB, MariaDB, etc. They're generally all compatible. They have some different defaults, and very rarely different features. But particularly for XtraDB you tend to get access to better diagnostic info and some better defaults for InnoDB (or at least you used to, my info may be a year or two out of date at this point).

While it is true that MySQL support for online DDLs has gotten much better over the years, I think the tools like pt-online-schema-change are still extremely valuable - there are still certain kinds of changes that you can't make with an online DDL in MySQL, or sometimes you specifically don't want to take that approach. But I'd think of the Percona Toolkit stuff as more a nice set of tools to have in your DBA toolkit, rather than an essential part of your DBMS for anyone running it in production. Its not like the pgbouncer situation. Everybody wants to avoid process-per-connection, but plenty of people can get by without complex online schema migrations.
> It was not "promoted in the Eastern bloc"

Yes it was, the counterletter was posted on Russian forums a number of times, and it was regularly promoted in 4chan's /g/ too, where it was also drafted. There's probably still /g/ threads promoting the counterletter right now, as this is a cause celebre for 4chan. It's a 4chan-written letter promoted in the Russian-speaking internet. Russia has a well-documented state-sponsored homophobia and that attitude trickles down to many of her citizens in various ways.
Well you can just stick with Facebook Messenger then and feed the beast.
What, if anything, do these have to do with each other?
Landing back that spent rocket stage is perhaps the most impressive.
Given that NN components are demonstrated to have universal computation properties, it is more like deriving a program from training data. Technically a program here is a 'curve' but it's insanely complex one.

Do you consider programming math? Since technically you write a function which deals with 0s and 1s.
What makes you think there's no indication that he's been is or has ever been suicidal? Why would we know about it, if there had been? Is it not plausible that a kid who was pretty screwed up in the first place, who committed treason on a lark, and who is now facing life in prison for betraying his country, might turn suicidal?

The only indication we have one way or the other is that he's on Prevention of Injury watch, which is a pretty good sign that somebody thinks he is.
This is a very big problem in the games industry right now, because all controlled platforms have committed to not selling adult only games. The consequences of which have filtered all the way down the chain, and the chilling effect is seen almost every single day in the games industry.

The problem is that if you get an ESRB AO rating, no one will publish it, because everyone believes that Adults Only means porn or gratuitous sex. And maybe it does. But it can also mean violence, or mature content, or things which are simply not appropriate for non-adults. I don't think the distinction should actually exist, honestly, but that's a separate discussion.

But the problem is if you consider a game of some sort that has extensive use of graphic violence, then you put yourself directly in line for a bit censorship banhammer.

NC-17 films can still be made. But effectively, AO games cannot, as the market space for it is artificially shrunk through censorship.

So any time you are working on a game, and the violence or sex or maturity of content starts reaching a potential AO level, it gets cut, or toned down.

There are game ideas right now which can never be made, thanks to platform censorship. It holds the industry back.
He has access to books and magazines.
Military law is different than civilian law. The UCMJ often operates with judge and jury.
I wonder if anyone here has studied the Trachtenberg Method of Speed Mathematics, or Vedic Mathematics. If anyone here has, I'd like to find out what they thought of the way those methods are taught.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/435/
Does the author discuss pros and cons of Google Wave? Pretty insightful. Why doesn't he cover Apple Newton likewise?
Cobol programming was actually not teeth-cringing at all. Boring, tedious, even mindless... yes. But you were working in a top-to-bottom stack from one vendor, with pretty much one standard set of patterns to learn and follow.
Right, I like to think that there are milieus of English with which knowledge and conformance can be useful. Formal writing for example. But to say that the rules of formal writing should be extended to all domains is akin to saying that all food should be stir-fried. Just like there is no such thing as standard cooking, there is no such thing as standard English.
Upvoted on spec. Funny how I knew what strip you referred to by its index alone. I've cited it myself often enough in the past.
The page keep scrolling up to the top with every automatic refresh (once a minute?). Not very nice if one is browsing/reading/watching-video below the fold.
This is the type of positive political pressure news agencies should be putting on governments.

It shouldn't be just wikileaks - there are far too many reporters and far too few journalists.
Talk about wrong tools for the job. A far simpler to write, and more robust solution could be had many other way, simple_html in php for example, or javascript, any DOM parser will be more robust and easier to follow than all those sed/grep calls.
I've been without TV for about 5 years now after noticing a creeping & growing revulsion for what I saw on it.

Even if I'm not more productive, I'm less desensitized without one.
Well, apparently the GC doesn't work too well here (the self-followup talks about a non-maskable interrupt watchdog triggering, i.e. the GC takes too long). But yes, I don't understand why this would necessarily be unsolvable.
As does Admiral Ackbar!
No, I'm in agreement with you. I don't think the world needs yet another way to share photos on Twitter. I'm just saying it's frustrating when you see those sorts of companies getting millions thrown at them while other, perhaps more ambitious or "deserving" (by some definition of the word) projects go unfunded.
I loved http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/index.html, where a parser is just build by hand. Looks surprisingly easy!