skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these are pretty interesting. Algernon's Law, however, is a ridiculous misunderstanding of evolutionary biology.
My resolution isn't a specific project, but more of a general commitment to spending regular time on side projects.

I've very recently been enjoying using pomodoro[1] cycles to track my productivity at work and I'd like to translate the same behavior to my side projects and commit to getting 4 cycles done per week (~2 hours), and tracking that information to keep myself accountable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
You can do this in Ruby with Fibers and people have been doing so for the past 6 or 7 years.
I can understand doing this from a maintainer point of view - I'll bet this gets written in a better way using the lessons learned from the first version.

Moving fast and breaking things seems par for the course in javascript land, I don't really try to keep up.

I've ended up only using NodeJS for plumbing type apps (e.g. web hook listeners calling other APIs), definitely not for full on web apps, which I've found too-easily devolve into a mess of code.

Keeping up with anything in the NodeJS community is hard - from Node/NPM itself to all the OSS projects around it. I still use it, but I do definitely make fun of how often I'm destroying the node_modules directory and npm installing "fresh" due to the weirdest errors.
if public healthcare was wonderful, there'd be no private insurance business in germany. it baffles me that people think the same government that pisses away billions on big digs, pointless fighter jets, and whatever else would magically save us billions on health care.
You can't explain away the massive discrepancy between the UK and the US simply by saying it's because the police face more people with guns, I'm afraid, although clearly the ridiculous US gun laws are implicated. There's simply no willingness to take the generally speaking white-cop-on-black-guy murder seriously; it doesn't require a conspiracy to explain it; the transition from slavery to lynching to today just hasn't been handled very well and therefore it's essentially still happening in slow motion. Sort that out and you'll address much of the problem. The other side of the coin is the whole US military industrial thing; the massive profits in being a provider to the military for their little ongoing adventures in muslim countries, and the sideline in providing much of the kit to police forces. This will only get worse as the divide between rich and poor continues to grow. There's no need for conspiracy theories to explain what's happening; no need to look for secret meetings; this is all out in the open and has been for decades.
Do you have cattle or pets?

Moving cattle should mostly be a DNS flip. Moving pets is harder... and a good reason to avoid pets ;)
US private spaceflight companies buy lots of Russian engines. I dont know if it is through Roscosmos.
Umm you're right that whoever cares more will usually win, but edit warring is a quick way to get yourself banned. There's a talk page right next to the "Read" tab. Use it and come to a consensus like a reasonable person. If you treat Wikipedia like a battleground, of course people are going to assume you aren't there to build an encyclopedia.
Totally. That was the first thing that stuck out to me.
Let's do both.
> the right to health care is a basic human right

Calling healthcare a human right is implying that we have the right to take from others what we need, even if indirectly via the police-power of the state (i.e., threat of violence or actual violence if necessary). To take this further, it means we have the right to a portion of another citizens labor.

Now, don't get me wrong. Talking about what governments should provide their citizens as part of their benefits package is important, but calling healthcare a right is a stretch. None of the rights on the UN or US Bill of Rights involve coercion towards other citizens to provide said rights.
The problem is not about how to take a scientific conclusion and make it suitably less scientific to serve as a business explanation.

The problem is to replace inept employees who believe "business decisions" are not scientific questions, so that over time there is a convergence to using the scientific method, with legitimate statistical rigor, when making a so-called business decision.

Generally speaking, the only people who want for there to be a distinction between a "business question" and a "scientific question" are people who can profit from the political manipulation that becomes possible once a question is decoupled from technological and statistical rigor. Once that decoupling happens, you can use almost anything as the basis of a decision, and you can secure blame insurance against almost any outcome.

This is why many of the experiments testing whether prediction markets, when used internally to a company, can force projects to be completed on time and under budget are generally met with extreme resistance from managers even when they are resounding successes.

The managers don't care if the projects are delivered on time or under budget. What they care about is being able to use political tools to argue for bonuses, create pockets of job security, backstab colleagues, block opposing coalitions within the firm. You can't do that stuff if everyone is expected to be scientific, so you have to introduce the arbitrary buzzword "business" into the mix, and start demanding nonsense stuff like "actionable insight" -- things that are intentionally not scientifically rigorous to ensure there is room for pliable political manipulation for self-serving and/or rent-seeking executives, all with plausible deniability that it's supposed to be "quantitative."
If you decide to grab the code and have any questions please feel free to reach out.
Actually, high deductible health plans ($10k+ deductibles) are on the rise after Obamacare was passed.
I saw this the other day and really appreciated it. It was a nice change from how some other languages (WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED) just say "no, we're not adding this, and if you keep thinking we should then you're just not smart." This Swift document on the other hand explains thoroughly their reasoning behind it.
That's helped take some of the load off Wikipedia, and may be responsible for some of the decline in number of editors. Wikipedia used to have a big problem with fancruft - vast amounts of detail about some popular culture icon. There's an article for every Pokemon. There have been attempts to create articles for every episode of popular shows, and every minor One Piece character. There's pushback on that, and general agreement now on how much is too much.

The fanatical fans now go to to Wikia or TVTropes, where they can write endlessly on their pet subjects without having to cite reliable third party sources. That's a good thing. You don't need the heavy scrutiny of Wikipedia on those subject.
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I think it would be fascinating if some of the older fab processes could be democratized and people could start experimenting with chip fab at home. Perhaps some tech out of the 3D printing field would be adaptable. No, you're not going to make something blazingly fast, but imagine printing your own ATMEGA328P or MSP430 or even 8086 clone.
Every inch? Even roofs in areas with very low sunlight available for solar energy? There must be some places where solar panels on roofs is not the most economical choice for renewable energy.
It goes way further than that. How about people who have children (again a choice) as that also increases health expenses. Living in areas with more sun (let's call that a choice too) means more likelihood of skin cancer. Those people using private cars rather than public transport are also more likely to be more severely hurt in more accidents. Someone engaging in "bad behaviour" like smoking may have higher health costs at the end of their life, but their lifetime total costs may be lower because their life ends quicker than healthy people having a longer end of life period. (And the smokers paid more tax, collected less social security etc.)

Realistically all legal choices and activities have to be covered, or you would be arbitrarily victimising certain groups.
All you Americans are fired
Sure. Employer observes that they can spend $10,000 on wages to increase the employee's take-home pay by $1,000; or they can spend spend $5,000 on insurance premiums and buy the employee an excellent health plan. The employee and employer both have incentive to take the tax break.

I'm taking about the 1950 here, when the top marginal rate was around 90%.

Edit: grammar.
Could we get the date on the title? This is from 2014.
That's what real insurance is for, currently known as "catastrophic insurance", and unfortunately being outlawed.
That's not what OCD is.

If you care about how you come across: You sound as ignorant as someone saying "I want my accountants to be Jews. They're good with money". (Although I accept that this level of ignorance about OCD is very common.)

http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-h...

>> Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is described as an anxiety disorder. The condition has two main parts: obsessions and compulsions.

>> Obsessions are unwelcome thoughts, images, urges or doubts that repeatedly appear in your mind; for example, thinking that you have been contaminated by dirt and germs, or experiencing a sudden urge to hurt someone.

>> These obsessions are often frightening or seem so horrible that you can’t share them with others. The obsession interrupts your other thoughts and makes you feel very anxious.

[...]

>> Compulsions are repetitive activities that you feel you have to do. This could be something like repeatedly checking a door to make sure it is locked or repeating a specific phrase in your head to prevent harm coming to a loved one.

>> The aim of a compulsion is to try and deal with the distress caused by the obsessive thoughts and relieve the anxiety you are feeling. However, the process of repeating these compulsions is often distressing and any relief you feel is often short-lived.
Absolutely agree with this, as being his best essay.

The unfortunate fact, however, is that both moderators and participants of pg's own discussion site seem to have never read it, or never taken it to heart. There are definitely things you're not allowed to say here. The notion of open discussion of ideas does not exist.
The police ask to be police; I don't care about occupational hazards; I'm more concerned with people going to work and not coming back home because of a cops paranoia or attitude problem. And it's not interesting to me to determine which percentage of cops are guilty of misconduct; the problem is that the system as a whole is was not designed to protect justice or the citizens of the US but the people who run it and the people it was set up to protect (the wealthy) so you'd not expect it to do a very good job of protecting poor black people. Whether 1% or 60% of cops overstep the mark, murder, frame, torture etc? Not really a very interesting statistic.

The various news sources in the UK have no reason to attack the US police; i'm not sure where you get that from; perhaps it's something you say when someone receives information you don't agree with or find damaging to your beliefs. Statistics; simply the number of dead; don't really lend themselves to much to "narratives".
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This old claim gets resubmitted to Hacker News over and over and over, and there is never anything new here.

The authors of the overly cited study don't represent a mainstream view in political science research. The more developed literature about Public Choice Theory[1] provides a lot more insight about how politics works--in every country in the world.

Reading the BBC brief commentary kindly submitted here, which summarizes the "study" details that have been posted here many times before, I still have to ask, where is the comparison with other countries of the world? The United States continues to enjoy a high rate of net immigration with regard to essentially all other countries on the planet, and I know happy immigrants to the United States from China, India, Russia, Canada, Mexico, the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, Singapore, Somalia, Argentina, Ecuador, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Ghana, South Africa, Haiti, and plenty of other countries that aren't immediately coming to mind. Are there problems in the United States, including problems caused by poor governance? Sure there are. But, on the other hand, where is there somewhere that is a better democracy than the United States to the degree that local people there have to institute restrictive immigration measures to keep the United States citizens from migrating in?

AFTER EDIT: I can see the silent downvotes for disagreement as well as anybody can, but meanwhile can you respond to what I have brought up substantively? Most of the other comments here also think that the authors overstated the problem they identified in their "study," and anyway how is one country any different from another country in this regard?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Public+Choice+Theory&oq=Publ...
Why not pre-Vista? Besides the bad rap because driver developers took advantage of undocumented features (among other reasons), how is it different architecturally from 7? Internally, Vista and up are all NT 6.x releases (XP was 5.x): Vista was 6.0, 7 was 6.1, 8 was 6.2, etc.
> the discourse surrounding education in the last 30 years of the United States.

Not that you're wrong, but TFA is talking about Canada:

> I wish to speak about third- and fourth-tier Canadian schools that are primarily undergraduate institutions.

which I find interesting.
Wouldn't want an unseemly argument to continue... people might gawk.
Trees do lots of cool things that we don't know how to do. That's true of biological life in general. Heck, the lightest insulation for outdoor clothing is still feathers.
That's a silly notion.

I've lived in many places (Seattle, Edinburgh) where a solar panel is only useful about 25% of the year due to clouds, or the simple fact of being so far north. We don't all live in Southern California.

The Sahara presents an environment with lots of sunlight, little clouds, and nothing else being developed there. And it doesn't need to be solar panels- solar farms based on collectors reflecting to a central tower are what is being cited in the article. We can't do that in most developed areas, because it takes up a lot of space- deserts are mostly empty, perfect for that.

In short, it would make far more economic sense to build solar panels in the Sahara and lose 50% of the power to transmission loss piping it all to Scotland than it ever would to put the same solar infrastructure into Edinburgh (or many other cities in the world).
Also, they become intellectual "defaults" such that any argument which does not assume their truth must be incorrect. They become self-referential, considered true because people assume them to be true.
The deGrasse Tyson talk page discussion about his "made up quotes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neil_deGrasse_Tyson/Archi...
Horses aren't great in houses either.

(Unfortunately, this is still a perfect analogy for HTTP.)
To produce all the energy needed by humans, only a minuscule part of the desert has to be covered - the environmental aspects would be pretty neglectable. The pro of using the Sahara would of course be efficiency, the downside are politics and transporting the energy produced to somewhere where it can be used.
At least 1/3 of the US population, probably closer to half, is pretty serious about not wanting much government involvement in personal affairs. I'm left of center but that sentiment doesn't seem crazy or crazy to associate with freedom.
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Actually, AMD/ATI spun off their fab into a separate business. Makes sense, really. Lets them more easily fab their chips where it makes sense, while still giving them fallback for safety.
The AMS is interesting. It is CERN-like detector in space. Its the most expensive experiment on the ISS. It required a special act of Congress to extend the shuttle program one extra mission past its termination.

Early results show more anti-matter positrons in space than predicted. One interpretation attributes this to dark matter. AMS continues to collect data to refine results.
The oligarchs should mandate education camps
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Win7 does have plenty of API changes too, and Vista never had much of a market share.
I always find it strange that people found that thing Rumsfeld said dumb, bizarre or (worse) his own invention [1].

Those are standard epistemological distinctions, known (and written about) since at least the times of Aristotle.

[1] (I mean the philosophical essence of what he said -- not that he didn't tried to use it an an excuse for BS).
It's too easy to blame the billionaires' checkbooks. US elections can be bought, but only indirectly. Money buys advertising, but the people still have the power not to listen to advertising. Just ask Jeb! Bush. I still blame the individual voters who choose to remain so ignorant.
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If you're talking about RD-180s, they're from NPO Enrgomash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPO_Energomash
We moved to AWS. It's now less expensive than Linode when uptime is factored in.
Obama administration moves to give work permits to 100k foreign college grads
Except the problem is when Chrome/Firefox/Safari prevent access to their favorite website that still uses SHA-1 or whatever, people don't blame the website, they blame Google/Mozilla/Apple.

When a website is hacked and your data leaked, it's not the website's fault for leaving it on a publicly accessibly page, it's the hacker's. Sure, the hacker was wrong for doing so, but the website failed to enact _basic_ security practices; something people should be up in arms about, but aren't.
Oh, US, US, US is the center of the world. Can't you see the entire world is exactly like the US in these matters? If the US is not a democracy, you can start blaming the mankind.
React: reinventing Angular one step at a time. And in more repos.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/two-way-binding-helper...
> There are definitely things you're not allowed to say here.

Any example? I am genuinely interested.
Well, the space industry in Russia was never privatised in the first place.

And I am afraid that moving parts of Khrunichev Institute out of Moscow (for example — it happens independently of top-level restructuring) will deal more damage than formal rearrangement of top-level control.
Brushes are fine.
Then why the "Ignore it all" ? You're basically saying what other people and I have said more succinctly "Quit your job". Don't get me wrong, I think your analysis brings a lot to the table and it's great to have different people give their own input in different ways.

But your point isn't fundamentally different than what has been said despite what you suggest in your first paragraph. The choice the OP faces doesn't depend of "times in life", as a general rule one"s job should fit in the life balance he has chosen, not the other way around.

I totally agree with : "If you're carrying anxiety home, you better have a significant stake in the company". This is what I called his best interest. Unless you cash in 5 of 6 figures bonuses at the end of the year, don't give too much to your work, learn to leave at 5. It really isn't wise to do otherwise, even business wise. If your employer tries to set you working like a senior executive as a norm, you're being fucked. And reading your post I have a sense that you're being fucked, that's why I suggest you to find a new job.
Deductibles are part of it but coverage is the bigger element. What is typically referred to as "catastrophic insurance" is only available to people under 30 or with a "hardship exemption". Higher deductibles and higher coverage (i.e., higher premiums) are basically the worst of the worst situation.
How is moving to another provider just a DNS flip? It's a huge pain no matter how it was designed. How can you move 100s of GBs of data when your servers are being DDOSed to hell multiple times per day?
then looting them of anything valuable
Those were the oligarchs who came to power in the 90's. He turned against them shortly after he became president and is currently consolidating power for himself in a very, very large country that's had petty competing centers of power since the collapse of the USSR.
Yeah, trees are annoyingly good at absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. They have the benefits:

1. CO2 dissolves into their fluids

2. The CO2 is almost immediately next to the places that is going to use it

3. Since the Calvin Cycle is distributed, they don't have to collect and concentrate the CO2

4. A lot of surface area on the cellular level to absorb CO2.

I'm reading http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/prospects-for-dire... and it's unfortunate that "Each machine would require roughly 1.1 megajoule of electricity for pumping and compressing per kilogram of CO2 captured."
A TL;DR will be greatly appreciated :]
After reading "On Fairy-Stories" by Tolkien I recommend listening to this class by the Tolkien Professor: http://tolkienprofessor.com/wp/lectures/courses/the-undergra...
Yep. Pretty much my experience as well. The best way to describe schwab is "it just works." I don't even notice that I have a bank account any longer. It's great.
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You might want to read or watch this presentation before doing that: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LO_WI3N-3p2Wp9PDWyv5...

Mozilla went from Python to Go and then back again for reasons I think you would also run into.
I'm told by Americans that Putin is looting everything meanwhile Americans have to buy parts from Russians to get to space.
It is systems that allow for bad results. Blaming the individual is silly. If people are ignorant, there is a system keeping them so.
Thanks for the recommendation! FYI for those interested, the ebook is 4.9* on Amazon. Here's the Amazon link:

http://smile.amazon.com/Rationality-From-Zombies-Eliezer-Yud...

I bought it and plan on reading it.
There is an awful lot of pseudo religious bollocks that surrounds it but within that there's a really solid method for improving the quality of your life.
Yet another opinionated englishman mis-representing facts about Yoga. Yoga's got nothing to with religion. Me dad's been practicing it for 30 years, does the basic asanas. None of those Boutique Iyengar yoga that you find at Uppity Yoga places such as this http://www.samyamayogacenter.com/custom_pages/weekly_class_s...
I live literally across the street from this place and havent bothered. Not everyone who lives in Palo Alto drives a Tesla if you know what I mean. Now some straight facts. It is pureBollcks to say that Yoga directly contributes directly to your Good Health. My said father who has been practicing for 30 years and counting suffered a major heart attack and had to undergo angioplasty. He is vegetarian and in addition to yoga leads a fairly active life. It did help him manage the pain and subsequent recovery though.
This is also what Composer (package manager for PHP) did. They ported openSUSE's libzypp to PHP to solve the dependency management problem. After resolving versions the dependencies are installed in a flat list.
Someone should graph the Avengers which seems to ave an abundance of main characters. Shakespera results seem to show on or two protangonists and antagonists each works better.