skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely understand where you're coming from. And to clarify, I definitely do not want a system where anyone dies from a disease that could be treated. The argument about pricing really is separate from any argument about how the high prices can be paid for (state vs personal). For example, state funded insurance could cover the cost of expensive treatments.

The question is really a macro one as much as a micro one. What percent of our resources should we spend on healthcare? That question is simply a sum of all the prices paid.

I actually think that it's possible that in much of the developed world, economies may not be spending enough on healthcare, due to state intervention. Like much of the developed world, I already have a car, a TV, a computer, enough food, leisure activities, and live a comfortable life. Why would I not spend any of my truly expendable income to live a long and healthy life?
Even apple has earned so much money from chinese,there are no CDN server for distributing Xcode in China.
"He's declared bankruptcy multiple times (three?)"

My understanding has it that he has never filed for personal bankruptcy. Corporations with his name, in which he had a non-negligible ownership stake, filed for bankruptcy. It's never been clear to me how much of a management role he had in the time leading up to those events (not that I have looked tremendously hard).
+1 for your comment. I really can't stand antivirus software.Sometimes no antivirus is better than antivirus software.It is another area of software development that is broken and crying for a fix.Who is ready to up this challenge?
FYI that cannot be read on my phone at all. These are the only two ways I can view it: http://m.imgur.com/a/TeEJg there is no way to see the text by scrolling or zooming
Just fyi, it's not that they wanted to use an unofficial source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10243271
Speak for yourself. I'd choose enslavement over extermination in a heartbeat.
I am far from a blackhat/malware expert, but I've used enough ASLR exploits with ROP toys to win a few CTF's. I'm way too old to have any allegiance to BSD vs Linux vs POSIX{foo}. I say this to clarify my point - in the 90s I was a teenage-FreeBSD bigot; now, I don't give a hoot. To successfully manipulate the lack of memory address randomization (i.e., attack via ASLR), one either either has a target running BIND circa 1999 that will let you smash the stack and 'sploit da EIP remotely, or the malicious attacker has a local, non-jailed shell. At which point you have far more to worry about than ASLR. DEP and ASLR are effective (especially with doing interesting things more advanced than just swapping on a ROP gadget - JIT stream exploits are _very clever_) but I'd take the out-of-the-box FreeBSD over any distro of Linux out-of-the-box for security.
My sentiments exactly. I haven't found anything like that as a computer game yet.

Perhaps the iPad version of the boardgame Eclipse comes close.
I couldn't agree more with you! I've had apps accepted in 1 day, and I've had them in review for 3-4 weeks. Not once did I think it was personal, or that the app review team was punishing or rewarding me for some unknown reason.
A stereo record should still work on a needle-and-cup player; the two channels will just get munged together. The point is not that you can make a good player in 2 minutes, but rather that you can make one at all.
Thank you. People calling web-render wrappers "native applications" must not realize how great it is when applications are mere coördinators on top of an integrated platform full of services designed to improve user productivity.

I guess if that demographic did, there would be less "unix philosophy" cultism, as the efficacy of the unix shell is merely on par with that provided by other relatively coherent software toolsets. The shell is really pretty barebones compared to the rich semantics provided by many toolkits and object systems on which user interfaces have been built: GObject and NeXT are two modern examples.

[That said, where shell shines is by providing so few abstractions that virtually any garbage has the same semantic depth as things which were designed to be used in the shell. Bytes are universal on the common computing substrate.]

The web, on the other hand, is a platform "designed" by the erosive flow of eyeballs during the 1st-nth browser wars, without much of a direction beyond tacking on additional pretty features without breaking backwards compatibility too much.

Attributes like a11y, embeddability, composability, and effective resource sharing tend to simply fall out of well-designed platforms. The web has an effective answer for none of these desirable concerns. Look at how screen readers break on js-heavy and dynamic web pages, the ongoing security disasters of XSS and iframes (and the complexity of login services like Facebook's/oauth/openid), the disappearance of Google reader, and the half-assed way CDNs offer partial, ad-hoc offloading of some resources via surrender to centralization.
Most poor people don't work at all, and about half of those who do are only part time.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/a-profile-of-the-working...

Doesn't cover multiple jobs, but it shows most poor folks don't work at all, and a little under half of those who do are part time.

Do you have any data suggesting a significant number of poor people work multiple jobs, or work more than 50 hours/week?
Part-time palaver: The importance of the “employee” label
Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213313
To be honest, FreeBSD lack so many other modern features that barely makes it usable. (Properly working)NUMA? Virtualization? Yes, I'm fully aware about work in progress.
NOT GFW, just concerning Apple's money.
Chinese have downloaded so much HD video crossing the border through the GFW,but the speed is not so slow as Xcode downloading.
For those struggling to beat the AI, Connect Four is a solved game [1] and whoever goes first can force a win by starting in the middle column.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
(t)csh is more likely available and the default on all Unix machines, which is the root of FreeBSD.

iirc, bash must be installed everywhere else and is not as readily available except on Linux.
You don't depend on elephants for food, it doesn't mean no one else does.

Once an elephant is shot, the villagers just start to appear. Word gets out fast.

It is like a celebration when an elephant is killed, the entire village will join in.

The natives cut all of the meat off the bone and take it to their village to eat.
They don’t let anything go to waste.

http://gothunts.com/see-what-happens-to-an-elephant-after-el...

You're right, there is a distinction. We don't imprison elephants and raise them for the sole purpose of imprisonment, impregnation and death.
A general point for someone physically in a different location to their boss: Make sure to give a weekly status update not just on 'work' but on all of the other things, small side projects, etc.

It's so easy to assume someone knows what you're doing, then to get hit by finding out they don't. Give yourself exposure in HQ if you're not in HQ.
Yep, exactly.

When the entire economy is market-based, if you lower profit incentives in one industry, capital/talent/resources will simply flow into other industries.

Maybe we should cap doctors pay at $15 an hour too. But I suspect when you are on the operating table, you want to pay top dollar for the person about to cut you open.
Correct. More specifically, pkg-ng uses the same database as ports, and pkg-ng was made the default starting in 10. It was available in prior versions, but only opt-in and with a conversion process from the legacy package database to the newer one.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html

For anyone who's tried FreeBSD in the past (before pkg-ng) but ended up going back to Linux or OS X, I would highly recommend giving FreeBSD 10.x another shot. pkg(7) is a very well-designed and modern package management system, on par with Arch's pacman and superior to apt-get, in my opinion.
You could probably solve more nonexistent problems with caching than by limiting thread depth.
And clean up other people's shit

(figuratively, usually)
Kickstarter is a public benefit company
And yet Netflix chose FreeBSD over Linux to serve about 40% of all internet traffic, as does WhatsApp.
Actually asking a genuine question here, do you feel that the fear and hate that web publishers feel towards ad-blocking is comparable to the Luddite movement?
Siberian landscapes suffer much from not having mammoths, sabertooth tigers and wooly rhinos. Half of Siberia could be productive arctic steppe instead of grim forest we see today (we don't because there's no business being there).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
Totally agree.

On working from home, a physical barrier for 'work' and 'home' may help. For example, a physically separate attic or basement space with door that does feel separate, and can be reassuring for a child, as it is seen as 'mommy/daddy work time/space' rather than feeling neglected (assuming someone else is at home to look after the child).
On one hand Windows is free because it came with my laptop, on the other hand a day of my time lost on Linux is worth more than the $200 Windows license.

Although this is very much about Linux on desktops.
This article is poorly researched and psychologists are the wrong people to ask about this phenomenon.

The region of the brain (at least chiefly) involved in facial recognition is the facial fusiform gyrus, and was named as such because of this observed role. However, it was later discovered that it does more than that: show, say, a car mechanic a small intricate car part that only an expert would recognize, and his facial fusiform gyrus will activate. Same thing with an expert bird watcher and species of birds.

It turns out that that area of the brain is used for distinguishing objects based on fine detail. As the article mentions, low exposure to other races at a young age will lead to "they all look the same", because there are certain sets of facial features that most often vary within members of a race.

Therefore, yes, it is true that it is not "racist" for members of another race to all look the same to you, the neural networks in this region of your brain may not have been trained to look for and recognize a certain set of features. The psychologists making the observations mentioned in the article are surely making correct observations, but the real reason isn't mentioned at all.

I would cite sources, but this knowledge is from my undergraduate degree in neuroscience from years ago, and I'm on mobile. I'll try to come back later and edit in some citations.
It's possible that we all are. In fact, it should be assumed that everyone who uses Xcode is using it from "some shady source". Shady, as in the CIA/NSA.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/how_the_cia_m...

> The security researchers also claimed they had created a modified version of Apple's proprietary software development tool, Xcode, which could sneak surveillance backdoors into any apps or programs created using the tool. Xcode, which is distributed by Apple to hundreds of thousands of developers, is used to create apps that are sold through Apple's App Store.

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Edit:

Until Xcode is fully open source it should be considered compromised. Unfortunately, even if it ever became fully open source, it will still be difficult to trust a compiler that you use to build Xcode [1]. However, at the very least, all possible build utilities and distribution components should be open source.

[1] Reflections On Trusting Trust, by Ken Thompson: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Great points. Do these people have a computer with internet access or do they generally just rely on their phones for business?

Furthermore, I often see the homeless guys in NYC with cheap Dell laptops and Thinkpads using public Wifi to Skype their buddies. So there's that.
Wow, apparently wechat developers are.
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Since when Netflix accounts for 40% of internet traffic?
> How can a bunch of bumbling elected city councils manage to construct adequate water and sewer works, and private builders who actually know what they are doing cannot.

Because they know what they're doing. Tragedy of the Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Prettier links:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernighan...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TSUGXKE/
FreeBSD supports being run as Xen dom0, has OS-level virtualization through jails, the bhyve hypervisor and can run as a VirtualBox host. I'm thus not sure what you mean by a lack of virtualization.

Touché on NUMA. How this makes FreeBSD "barely usable" is beyond me.
Netflix video accounts for over 40% of all internet traffic, yes.
I'm interested, how did you figure out that's what was happening (just the first example)?
This makes no sense to me. If the CIA/NSA had the ability to force Apple to modify their offical XCode distribution then surely they could force Apple to do anything. This could include not encrypting iCloud data.
It's like roads. Private builders enter into agreements all the time to enter into deals with local governments where they'll expand roads or whatever right around where they're developing. If you get lucky you'll have a contiguous string of adjacent developers and you'll end up with a nice road for a few miles. If you're unlucky, you'll end up with 4 lane divided road-farm road-4 lane divided road-farm road, off and on for miles and miles and it's pretty much the worst.

Private developers don't have incentive to build a national highway system, they'll just build whatever is the minimum necessary that figures into their profit model.
> they are exerting editorial control on identities

This is something that a lot of people (including Facebook) need to realize. Policies like Facebook's "real name" requirement - and the power to decide which names qualify as "real" - is the very definition of "editorial control".

It doesn't matter what the original intention was in creating that policy; if the situation as described by in the linked post are true, then Facebook's choices in how they handle account names have included (probably unintentionally) the choice to libel someone who doesn't even use their service.

The power to "edit" opens up the possibility of being liable for those edits. Sometimes it might be a better idea to avoid the liability risk by avoiding content-based decisions.
In one sense you are correct. And many companies have found great success in that model.

In another sense, burger flipping doesn't require certifications.
How do you figure 400,000+ adverse event reports, and why do you think that raw number is useful?

As you know, because you had to acknowledge the statement:

> "A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine."

I downloaded the 2014 data set, 2014VAERData.csv. There are fewer than 35K reports for all of 2014, across all vaccines. There are 25 years of reports. Did you simply add up all the reports for the last 25 years to get your 400,000+ count? (Based on your report elsewhere, that seems to be the case.)

One of the <21K reports for 2015 is:

> Pt. fainted for just a few seconds after the shot and once he gained consciousness he informed us that he could hear everything and apologized for not informing us earlier that he always passes out for less than a minute for any shots due to immense fear of shots. He was absolutely fine in less than a minute and said it wasn't because of vaccines.

another is:

> Fainted after varicella, Tdap, HPV and meningo. Had not eaten since 8am. Vaccines given at 4pm.

A third is:

> I am an RN and therefore am knowledgable in respect of proper/safe IM injection technique. I could tell that the vaccinator was nervous & can remember the feeling so I looked away in hopes of taking some pressure off of him. After the initial stick, I could tell something was wrong and turned to look at what was happening. This is when I noticed the worried look on the administrator's face before he proceeded to withdraw the needle a little bit and then inject the vaccine. I myself was very worried once I realized how very high up on my arm the injection was placed. It felt as if he had administered the shot directly into my joint & completely missed any sliver of muscle tissue altogether. After receiving the vaccine, I instantly/constantly experienced extreme pain in shoulder w/ any movement, range of motion, stretching, weight bearing, etc. The pain has since caused me to wake up in the middle of the night and is only somewhat relieved with high doses of NSAIDS.

A fourth is:

> Initial misuse report received from a healthcare professional on 12 November 2013. A 10-year-old patient (gender was not reported) received a dose of DAPTACEL. No adverse event was reported. Documents held by sender: none.

Did you include all of these in your count? If so, why?
Check out the full piece by The Intercept, it explains a lot of this: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-...

Note that it's not that CIA forced Apple to do something; the allegations are that CIA could be doing this without Apple even knowing.

Edit: But yes, I would agree with the idea that it might be possible for CIA or NSA to have "rooted" Apple entirely, and have total control over iCloud, iOS, Mac OS, etc. It does not seem entirely unlikely in fact.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why planning permission was invented. Your proposed subdivision exceeds capacity of existing roads? Sorry, can't build here, because you can't make bank while unloading your externalities on the town council or the county. You want to build in a floodplain? Sorry dude, can't have that, it will flood, and everyone living there is suddenly a burden on the public purse because their savings vehicle has just been drowned.
When was the last time you installed Linux? 2008?
I think this should be the future of native apps. You do get all of the benefits of native apps -- there are plenty of modules to handle key bindings, notifications, file system IO, etc. By using web page rendering you also get the incredible ecosystem of front-end tooling and plugins (React, Bootstrap, the infinite jQuery plugin world). All of this beats Qt in my opinion, having designed both.
I love IntelliJ IDEA and it's forks so I wasn't really that upset about any of those licensing changes, well other than requiring an internet connection. You know sometimes I'm going to want to do work when I don't have internet on, like on the train to work or while waiting for my daughter to finish her music lessons.

I am glad that they reversed those decisions.
> H2 just doesn't provide enough bang for your buck.

This seems to be a stretched generalization. You do need energy accumulator to use it in transport systems, and H2 is pretty efficient by mass. It's not without problems of course, but dismissing it as a whole...
> Kudos to E&Y for taking a radical approach to hiring.

Kudos to E&Y for taking a sensible approach to hiring.

As I'm sure your aware most colleges and secondary schools share similar patterns for teaching and student evaluation. Those patterns are not optimal for all brain types. Furthermore those patterns are not optimal for all work types.

Anecdotally many of use can point to one or more unimpressive individuals holding impressive credentials of post graduate education.

Personally speaking, I'm a high school dropout. I work in a niche that did not exist during the time I would have been in college. What degree plan would have served me best? Oddly enough, a degree in philosophy. Obviously that would have been mine (and my parents) last choice.

I'm not saying college or secondary education are bad, it's just that when I look ahead for my children, it's a crap shoot. Should I pressure them to attend college? Why? Short of medicine, and certain credentialed professions what essential knowledge about their future profession will they learn in college that they could not possibly learn on their own (ab initio or ad hoc) through various other means?
Heathrow-Sydney required a lot of subsonic sectors though (eg over India).

In theory Concorde could perform a one-stop Sydney to LA service (stopping at Cassidy International, Kiribati), supersonic the whole way.
Hasn't most free software been doing this all along? I assumed they already were.
> I've lived in San Francisco for about 5 years now

I don't think I would want to equate living in SF or NYC as being what the rest of the United States is like as a whole. It would be like assuming people in France are all like Parisians (which they aren't).

Being a born and raised US Citizen for roughly 30 years, I don't think I would want to live in either city for an extended period of time, but that's just my perspective. Nice places to visit, but not where I'd want to live.
The Peace App “Experiment”
1) Say no to multitasking
2) Morning ritual
3) Don’t work all the time
4) Eliminate distractions

Key points taken from https://techblog.livingsocial.com/blog/2014/04/02/working-fr...
Is Virtual Reality Gaming Bound to Crash?
This may be an unpopular theory, but I believe an insecure system was in MS's best interest. This would explain their weak tools and poor security.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any substantial disagreement between your comment and the article, only more technical detail.
It's Chromium? Then why do the Slack folks keep saying the preferences UI bug is a Webkit bug? It can't be a Webkit bug if they're using Chromium.
Someone once told me that the key to scaling is tolerating inefficiency.

Example: Instead of a front end team and a backend team, have two full stack teams. If they are working on similar parts of the codebase, don't stop them. It's better for both teams to build the same piece of functionality and throw one away than to have one team dependent on the other. Many teams grind to a halt when they say "We could build this in a week, but let's let the other team do it because it will only take them a day or two."
Command line interfaces are two edges swords.
The purpose of a GUI is to make explicit what actions are available to the user. Command line interfaces use implicit knowledge. Implicit knowledge is more powerful in almost every way. Since it allows a much richer set of tools and the ability to combine tools, in a way that is not possible in a GUI.
The issue with command line is that it requires significantly more investment of time and knowledge learning the implicit tools.
Private developers will build whatever people want, which sometimes is completely unlike what people need. Sometime back, there was a recently built over-55 community discussed here. It looked just like your generic subdivision. One wonders how much misery will be there 20 years from now. Wide roads without sidewalks are not good for people with low mobility and vision problems, and there is no adequate hospital and nursing services around, not even a food store within close distance. The future in that development will be fun to watch.