jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It carries no weight. The article casts aspersions on Obamacare, but does not give a single example of how Obamacare has or will affect this patient.

We are told that this patient chose a low-cost health insurance policy due to his financial situation. He is exactly the sort of person who is likely to benefit from Obamacare when the subsidies kick in.
I knew I’d see this comment before I opened the HN discussion. Yes, it is fallacious to reject arguments to do the source. No, it is not unreasonable to use known facts about a speaker to weight the trust placed into their statements!
How about requiring that regulators for one country be drawn from the industry experts of another?
Thanks. I guess that one side of the communication is always assured to be authentic and not a MITM as it is not using a pre-generated key. Reading the documentation there is a facility to verify keys [1] with QR codes or voice over the phone. That's really cool.

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Using-Text...
It runs very well on my Asus Eee PC 1000HE as well.

http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook

And I also prefer the 10.04 version to the 10.10 version. No idea what Ubuntu was thinking with that new space-wasting sidebar in 10.10. Can download the older version here:

http://mirror.pnl.gov/releases/10.04/
as more people learn chinese, the available labor pool grows and these jobs may well require chinese skills in the future
I just don't do them and move on to the next company. I've never had an issue landing my next gig. I'll do all day multi round interviews and white board questions. I'm not doing your work or taking a college exam again. Good luck and godspeed is all I can tell them.
In 2007 I joined a company that sold a derivatives trading platform and ran VMS on the core component, the order routing engine that dispatched trading instructions to the respective exchange.

It was really weird working on it at first after having used both Unix systems and DOS for so long. I was very familiar with DOS and even used CP/M way back in the day when I was a teenager (I'm that old), VMS was a weird amalgam of a pretty advanced OS with a very capable command line environment like unix, but with a lot of conventions that felt familiar from DOS. I was a ware of some of the history of VMS influence on DOS so it was fascinating to work on and I quite enjoyed it even though it was clearly a dead end at that point.
This is an aside, but to my mind, when necessary (when you're storing user data) devs should be transparent about how that data is stored. Websockets won't necessarily mean you avoid persisting state on the browser.

In fact, you'll probably find you'll need to store some tokens on the client, somehow, just to secure the client/server connection.
No, I have the same issue on Linux Mint 20.1
Standardised declarative config/setup I've found really useful, declarative resource specification (as in n servers for service y) I don't really have a use for though I could see how in larger companies with hundreds of servers and lots of employees it would be attractive. If it is rock solid and reliable and impossible to mess up, I could see it being really nice (as your experiences sounds), though it feels to me like end users of services like GKE should not have to know about kubernetes or its complexity, nor have a chance to mess it up by editing configs directly.

I guess the ultimate goal of services like GKE autopilot is for you not to have to worry about kubernetes at all, just give them your workload and have it run on whatever resources they think is appropriate?

I do think it's important to recognise though that there are lots of ways to host services, and simpler with less abstractions is often better and more reliable and certainly easier to debug when things go wrong.
I was hoping for that effect as well - since you get three this should have been quite self sustaining. I did my bit, I guess. Sorry it ended up unbalanced.
Buying more panasonic stock as we speak. They are one of their main partners and the stock is still damn cheap.
Revealing that would be worse for the blackmailer than the blackmailee.

Isn't that a bit optimistic? As things typically work out today, no official would ever be personally identified and held to account in court if something like this "accidentally" leaked. Meanwhile, the subject of the leak could have their life destroyed any number of ways, even if the image that gets leaked was taken out of context or otherwise not an accurate reflection of the person in question.

We've seen far too many cases recently where innocent people have been severely harmed, on rare occasions even literally killed, by some part of the government, and yet remarkably often no-one is ever held responsible. Until the authority for these kinds of actions must be tied to a named individual, and the identity of that named individual can never be concealed from a court, and that named individual faces meaningful consequences for any abuses that happen on their watch unless they can show that their subordinate did not follow a proper direction (in which case responsibility transfers to the identified subordinate), and any ultimate subordinate involved in such an action who can't identify the responsible individual gets no more legal protection than any other citizen who did the same thing, this problem will continue.
Mmmm. Threads + mutable data. What a disaster this industry has unleashed upon itself. Blech.

I think that threads are easily up there with null/nil as one of the worst CS mistakes. Communicating via shared variables at the application program level, vs an IPC function / channel, seems like a noose that should be designed away from reach.
Yeah, having looked at Ceylon 1.2 I withdraw the "or Ceylon" part of what I'd said above. It's a lot nicer than when I'd looked at it before. I'd still go to Scala first, but that ain't bad.
That's a very naive worldview. I'll skip the first part of what you said and focus on this though:

>The most important thing to remember with climate change is that there's no downside to being less wasteful.

It doesn't matter if you shower less or use the AC less or use an electric car, all that pales in comparison to you not existing in the first place. So the easiest way to solve the entire issue is not having more children. I feel like this is such a big choice with huge downsides for most people that it doesn't even get talked about that often.
I'm no Rumsfeld fan, but I never understood why that statement would be ridiculed. The quote below makes perfect sense to me.

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."
Thanks Max :)
Resisting the knee-jerk urge to rewrite a piece of software from scratch is something that has taken me a while to master. I'm much more levelheaded about it now. I try to think through whether or not there is a legitimate reason for the rewrite. Sometimes that reason certainly exists, but I've found more often than not that doing so is overkill. It's a lesson that has certainly saved me a lot of time since and allows me to focus on more important tasks.
I'm not really a fan of PHP, but I think it's fair to say that it does let you get started doing really basic stuff quickly and easily. Especially when it came out, that was a pretty big point in its favor compared to the other things out there at the time.
I like how you did the color changes with the Chameleon... looks great.
Don't worry, its a good point that I actually missed in the article, so that makes two of us!
If the exercise event and the liquidity event are not in the same year though, you might not have enough cash to pay the taxes. And if the liquidity event is postponed forever (e.g., market crashes like it did in 2001 and 2008), you're stuck with a big tax bill and no way to pay for it.
Even if you get hired somewhere, most companies will stop you from rising without a degree.

Financially stability is important, but you should also look into getting some sort of degree.
I really glad some of you in Tech started a trend to kill the Tie. I never saw the need for a tie. Plus, I honestly never found a tie that felt mildly comfortable. I graduated college in the late 80's, and the thought of wearing a tie was always on my mind. It has no function, other than conformity. A girdle at least has a purpose--a bad purpose, but at east there's some logic behind it? My father felt the same way. Plus, it seems like every time I felt taken advantage of in business, the guy was wearing a tie?
One of the things I think that tends to underpin "overconsumption" arguments is the idea of consumerism as a cultural force: The idea that if you're leaving your home and going to public space, your business will involve, at some point, making a purchase, and this purchase is intended to reflect on your identity.

Now, of course that isn't what people actually do, but that's how we've aligned everything: If you "go out" but you don't do work or buy something while you're out, you're transgressing the cultural rules. But if we design spaces and situations that are only for buying, we cut off other avenues of experience.

An idea I recall from a well-known chef, which I'm probably butchering a bit, is that a high-end restaurant experience isn't there just to be everyday consumption, but to inspire one's own cooking as well. That's very different from the purpose of going to a McDonald's, and the simplistic branding wars of "McDonald's vs. Burger King" or "Coke vs. Pepsi." It's the latter type of thing that anticonsumerism really seeks to stamp out.
$4,600 for a 46mb hard drive. That is $10,000 adjusted for inflation. I think a DVD which holds approx 4600mb is probably a few pennies today. How far we have come, absolutely incredible. I guess this means we should reach the singularity very soon. Perhaps when Windows 10 is released. :)

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYT...
Chuck Moore did this a long time (10 or more years) ago: built a computer with a simple OS and capable of driving video on one of his Forth SoCs, and soldered it in place of the microcontroller inside a standard mouse. It was a nifty demonstration of "look how much functionality we can pack into a small space".
If one segment of the population decides to segregate itself by not participating in the political process in good faith, then they must be cut out of the process as much as legally possible. Previous attempts to reach across the aisle have been increasingly ineffective since at least Gingrich and they have led to this - an insurrection in the Capitol building mere weeks before a planned peaceful transition of power.

This is the first time in more than a century and a half that a transition hasn't been peaceful. Fort Sumter all over again.
> how hopeful can one be in such a situation ?

Quite.

The main legislative response I've seen floated from the people party that will soon control the political branches of government is transferring command of the D.C. Guard under normal circumstances to the chief executive of the District (the Mayor until and unless D.C. becomes a State, with the power a State Governor would have over the Guard, but also making D.C. a State.

Aside from that, while it hasn't spawned any legislative proposals, the President-Elect, VP-Elect, and a number of members of Congress have highlighted racial disparities in policing being evident in the event, which seems to suggest (whether legislative or merely administrative approaches) that racism in and extremist infiltration of law enforcement agencies may be recognized as a governmental security concern rather than “merely” a civil rights concern. This was obviously already going to get more attention in a Biden Administration than in the Trump Administration, but this potentially escalates that.
Yes, i'm saying that this law/rule (or whatever it's called, I'm not from USA) should be changed.

You should be able to choose a status, either "platform" or "published", and in the case of the first, you'd have to leave everything not directly illegal (with rules in place, how to contest the legality in court if the post was removed and the author think it's legal speech - sort of like with DMCA claims), or you're a publisher, where you can decide what content you want and which you don't want, and then take responsibility for the content you've let stay on your site.

Currently we have social networks like facebook deciding that one type of -ism is worse than the other tipe of -ism, and letting one stay while removing the other [0]. If you expand this to politics, you can get greater consequences than just a few people being recist (but since it's against whites and men, it's "ok" in the eyes of facebook).

So yes, sites like facebook and twitter (which generally have a monopoly) should be regulated more, and having to choose their status.

[0] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/12/03/facebook-ranks...
Have you submitted to Product Hunt yet?
I too find this type of posting horrible, and avoid opening these generally. Part of my problem is specifically with Twitter UI and slow load times though, so when I do feel like it's worth opening, I use a Nitter redirect addon in my browser. Loading via Nitter instances is much faster for me, and works without even needing Javascript.
Part of the talent shortage is the SV is competing with other higher paying and higher social status professions.

Its even more pronounced in the UK and Europe.
"Last night was -2'c in London with a Northerly wind, and yet all of my windows were left open and I slept soundly."

Do you use blankets/a duvet?

Have you a thermometer to monitor internal temperature in your sleeping space? OA recommends 12 to 16 Celsius?

I grew up in a (sound, dry) house without central heating in the Northern UK and remember Jack Frost on the windows by the way.
Yeah, it happens every year, unless the 31st falls on the last day of the week.

Also, the 'Y' character was a relatively late addition to Java, in v1.7. Before that it was an invalid value.
I love it when old-timers weigh in on HN comments.

What do you use these days?
it isn't opensourced... at least not yet.

Hubzilla is different. Kalaksi is still centralized, but the content is fully open and readable from anywhere (via RSS). So you can publish/curate, and your readers dont necessarily need to use kalaksi to access it.
How feasible is it for Palestinian developers to get work in Israel? As far as I understand, all Palestinians speak fluent hebrew.
Welcome to the wonderful world of "Show HN"
Why would any one use Shopify 20% instead of 3 -4 % of stripe? Sounds like Shopify is total rip off.
Why not setup store of your own ? and keep all your profite
(minus stripe transaction fee)
I think you're setting up a strawman. The arguments against it are numerous, but I've never seen anyone say it has no productivity value.
"Let me google that" pulls out character map pretty poor UX if you ask me. Almost as bad for search ability as calling your product "go" or "cloud" or "driver" or any other one-word generic, hard to find even with contextual terms around it.
I've discovered elixir several weeks ago and fell in love. Dynamic functional language with great concurrency support and ruby syntax. Wow. Lots of other goodies, too.

Started a complete rewrite of my data analysis project in elixir and it is going great. I am nearly sure that my chemistry with elixir will stick for a long time.

Due to practical reasons javascript is my primary choice for small, short-term projects. As an example, meteor is really interesting. I consider JS to be a safe-ish investment of my time due to its momentum and huge ecosystem. It doesn't make me happy, though.

So, to answer your question my languages of choice are JS + Elixir.

Before elixir I've tried python, ruby, go, r, javascript, haskell and c. Btw, I consider programming in haskell to be a good learning exercise for understanding advanced CS concepts.
It's a little unsporting to whack Google over the head with it's own (very recently) released design guidelines[1], but hey, Google is a corporation and so basically has the feelings of a psychopath, and compassion and empathy is wasted on it, right? :)

Of course the OP is correct when he says those contrast ratios (nice tool[2] for calculating that, BTW) are way too low.

[1] http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...

[2] http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/#%23389088-on-%2300...
Go has a much better runtime system than Python (can spawn lots of green threads in parallel using goroutines), but it's also broken in so many ways (e.g.: type system).
The main protest here seems to be that fixing what unions break inevitably benefits capitalists while cheating the worker. I'd genuinely like to know: what's the best example of an industry disrupted in this way that left workers net behind?

Everyone knows it's annoying to see the rich philosophize in armchairs while the rest of the world does the lifting. Is that all that's left to say? pg seems to be claiming that (a) unions indicate breakage for startups to fix, and that (b) fixing this breakage is in fact more profitable for startups if they do it good-naturedly instead of simply taking workers' pie. Is this false?
Back in the day you sized your image for the web, there was no need for dimensions in img tags

> For example, vanilla `<img>` will ship the same image to every device,

As it should be, for simplicity's sake.

Designers trying to assert pixel-perfect control of layout is part of why the web sucks so much today.

Let the browser handle layout, that is one of the things it is designed to do!
The Intel Mac mini had two Thunderbolt ports but 4 USB-A ports. The M1 mini only has two USB-A ports. I had a ton of USB stuff plugged into my old mini so the dearth of USB-A ports is an annoyance.
The browser is the bitch. Out of control, bloated, willingly so, in interaction with layers of scripting on both sides. The server and client are bait. There should be a serious effort to tackle the world of academics and their use of analog tools for digital publishing. Nothing is better mined and searched(for any entity not meta-rapers that "employ" slave coders as battery-chickens) as text. There should be a tendency to reductionist auto-censuring or have coders but one ambition? Being scooped up by corporations for scraps so they can piggy back on their wild efforts for cents on the dollar?
I had a cold once that led to a total anosmia that lasted for over a week after my nose had cleared. It was very disturbing. I couldn’t smell anything at all. Not peanut butter, ammonia, gasoline, anything. Then like a light switch it all turned back on.
Newsy is my current project. I have quite a few un-used idle domains, which I have been meaning to develop for quite some time but never had time for.

I wanted to quickly create a site that worked well, runs on its own, content-driven and few other features that I wanted in it (e.g. membership, automated newsletters, ability to sell domain or get leads) - imagine a Reddit-like content aggregator site. So I created Newsy.

https://newsy.co

We're currently in beta so lots of bug fixing. Here's a few sites that run on Newsy.

https://www.heystartup.com
https://www.faithfulnews.com
People don’t do that in the UK. Public transport is much more convenient.
Isn't a large proportion of cases asymptomatic?
I've been wondering this myself. Every nerd, hacker, and maker space are talking about 3d printing our way out of this mess, but I've used a 3d printer before. They're not quick.

It's pretty easy to build a diy injection molder. Why aren't the hobbiests with cnc lathes and mills making molds and sending them to the hobbiests without?
Not yet, but planning to launch an Android version soon. If you want me to ping you when an Android version is out, just let me know an email.
Has Netflix done live video on anything approaching this scale? I don't doubt that they have the capabilities to put a live streaming infrastructure together for something like this, but DTV's out starting next year and there's a lot of work to get done in that time. That would be a lot of risk.
For situations where laws allow for sub-standard wages, such as restaurant wait staff, I agree with you. It's not really an option, it's exhausting, there's no point.

For situations that aren't codified into law like that, it can more legitimately be modulated according to how the service made you feel, from zero to "keep the change" to a couple bucks to sky's the limit.

The former should be solved by abolishing tipping. The latter should be solved by technology that's somehow as frictionless as cash.
Honestly, I think the list is quite good - It's not like any of the suggestions couldn't carry over into OmniFocus or Org-Mode, and most of them are of the "life hack" variety that aren't tech focused.
Just this past week, I realized that irs.gov does this, and had exactly that reaction.
Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/thingsinjars/8bitalpha
Yeah maybe they do an auto replace on windows, I actually haven't been bitten by the bug because I've never written a program intended to run on windows, ever :) Just happened to notice that File.separatorChar is there and that's what it's for. When it first came out, apple was using ":", anyone remember that?
We can though a process of cleaning described in Heartfulness. Desirelessness is but one step in evolution as per 8 steps of Patanjali’s Yoga.
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917353

I probably should write this up properly sometime, along with the comment[0] dang[1] suggested I expand on.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807580

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang
I code at work and occasionally on quick personal tasks. I consider myself as someone who isn't coding enough.

I feel this way because over a year ago I began a project in the hopes of answering a single question. Every day I am looking for information that might help me answer that question.

Some people would argue that I should stop trying to answer the question and instead try to test things in code. That the process of coding will help me solve the problem. For this problem, I disagree. There is so much I don't know that sitting down and testing things feels like a waste of time. I refuse to program until I have the structure of the program cemented into my brain. Not every single little detail, just the big picture.

When I program, I am chasing an idea. And if I don't fully understand that idea, then programming it becomes so much more difficult.
The Clementine Vulgate is a great example here. You can buy a copy with the Douay-Rheims translation alongside the Latin from Baronius Press, or read it online[0].

[0] http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/NT/Jn
How many politicians do you know that are good at science? If science is driven by politicians, science is fucked.
Like most Scientology celebs, he was carefully taken care of by the church. I doubt he was ever aware of how shitty they treated his staff.
The problem is that this is mostly done by people from privileged white background who can afford to give their work away for free and that puts into disadvantage people who simply cannot do that, because they need to pay bills and feed their families. For the same reason in many countries companies are not able to accept free labour, they have to pay at least a minimum wage for this reason as these spots would have been taken by people with rich parents "who want to find themselves" and poor people would miss out. This levels up the playing field.
If you think deeper about this issue, you should be able to notice that this is somewhat a loophole around this legislation packaged into a nice and catchy marketing.