skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I can see a case for getting out of providing pensions, but I would respectfully disagree about broadly getting out of healthcare and education. Certainly in certain subsections of those areas there is much to improve and perhaps less government involvement would be good, but I think overall it's not a great plan. My reasoning is as follows:

For healthcare it's hard to see how a system that is even more privatized than the one in the US would do well. Healthcare is an area where there are massive information asymmetries and where price discovery is hard to do. If I need a trauma surgeon or a broken leg fixed, then I'm not going to "shop around" for the best one. For less time sensitive problems you end up with issue 2:

It's a sector where it's not obvious how to measure quality. Is the doc with the fewest patients that die the best one? Maybe he's the guy who gets the sickest patients because he's actually the best at handling the complicated cases, so more of his patients die because they start out sicker!

Education faces some of the same problems. It's notoriously hard to measure great teaching, though I'm sure we've had great teachers and "we'd know it when we see it". It's also an area where the feedback between the service you buy and the result of the service is highly decoupled in time. It can take years after you've finished your education to figure out if it was a good deal or not.

Now I'm sure there are ways in which government should leave these sectors. I have heard interesting arguments (though personally I don't agree with them) about getting out of financing student loans, or doing it differently (those I'm usually more in agreement). It's harder for me to see how I would want less government in my healthcare, I think we have a far too private system as it stands, but maybe in terms of HIPAA. I think medical data should have strong privacy protections, but I've definitely seen how the protections currently enforced are counterproductive. I also think it makes it way too hard to get a hold of your own data for personal use.

Anyway, these are issues where plenty of people have different opinions. It's good to talk them out and debate :)
It depends on what is being built. E.g.,

> It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program — each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.

> The product is only as good as the plan for the product.

> Take the upgrade of the software ... a change that involves just 1.5% of the program, or 6,366 lines of code. The specs for that one change run 2,500 pages, a volume thicker than a phone book. The specs for the current program fill 30 volumes and run 40,000 pages.

> Don't just fix the mistakes — fix whatever permitted the mistake in the first place.

> Ten years ago the ... group was considered world-class. Since then, it has cut its own error rate by 90%.

- All from http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

Not every piece of software needs such an obsessive approach - but, there are pieces of software that absolutely do need such an obsessive approach!

In other words, there isn't a single binary correct answer for every choice. There are some things that are best decided at the neighborhood level, there are some things that are best decided at the global level, and there are are many things that are best decided at levels in between.

It seems to me a national approach, with significant input from the states, seems like a very appropriate level for something like an interstate road system. Particularly given our already successful history with the National Highway System [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System].

Why is it bizarre to consider an approach that is logical and has already been demonstrated to be effective?
Every piece of software, in the release notes, should include a brief blurb about what the software is, and a link to get more information.

And yes, the "home" button should go to the project home, not the blog home (or there should be a separate button for that).
Thanks for a thoughtful response - and about politics! It's positively un-American these days! A few points in response, hopefully equally thoughtful:

First, to expand on one point, note that the devolution also is or was used by segregationists, by pro-life advocates, and by Obamacare opponents, to name a few. But to the heart of it:

1) Consider these questions: Name your local state Representative, state Senator and their opponent(s) in this year's election. How about the leader(s) of your state house(s)? Maybe you know, but I think you'll agree that probably <10% or even <5% of voters can answer even the first question.

2) Is there a real chance those incumbents will lose? If like (most? many?) people these days there is not, then to whom are those representatives accountable?

3) If citizens have no awareness of and often no choice about their state representatives (or their activities), then state legislatures are not democratic, de facto. It makes them much easier targets for influence by the well-funded few and I know that some, such as the Koch organizations, have pushed devolution for that very reason, and conduct much/most of their activity at state and local levels.

Regardless of the principle or theory behind it, most advocates use it when it serves their purposes: When they are being outvoted in Washington and so they seek a different forum, and when a powerful few want more political control, as described above (including people left-of-center, as you point out, though my impression is that it's less common).

Personally I think it's a political tool, good for some things and bad for others, and I look at the outcomes: Which gets better results? My highest principle is people's health, liberty and welfare, not abstract theories of government.
sorry, maybe my comment is wrong because of my lack of knowledge about the tool (I've seen it used 10 minutes) but it's seems like it's a nice UI replacing what a terminal does, if I'm right. So all I'm saying is, since i'm confortable using a terminal, and I'm usually already there using vim, etc., then it's more convenient for me to test stuff in my terminal than going into my browser to test in jupyter
Go find yourself one of those old rail corridors. You'll notice they don't always take what seems to be the straightest or even the most sensible route.

Find a historical society that knows about the rail and they'll be all too happy to tell you why. Typically the reroute was because some business interest bought off the company and they went miles out of their way to come to him. They'll also be able to tell you about the abandoned town that should have been on the route, but withered and died after the railroad went around them (not unlike the little towns along Route 66 a century later).

Occasionally it'll be because some landholder wouldn't let them cut across his homestead, but usually it was graft.
Ask your folks about the hybrid seed they've been buying since before you were born. GMOs didn't change a thing about the economics of seed because hybrid crops have been around for a lot longer.

It's only when you recognize this that the decline of seed co-ops makes sense. It didn't just start to happen recently, it's been going on for decades.

As long as GMOs are so expensive to take to market (and they're dirt cheap to develop), then they're only available to the big companies. Open up the market, and you can have GMOs that serve other interests.
You can put big guns on drones.

A-10 are anti tank, and anti dug in positions. If someone is running in the open ground forces can just shoot them. Further, a person running at 25 mph takes 27 ms to move one foot. So a little latency is not an issue. Remember, these things are spraying billets in a line on the ground. They don't need or really want pin point accuracy.
"Level of crazy I wasn't prepared for" may sum up all marriages.

I am genuinely not trying to be dismissive of your side of it. Often, things get better simply because the babies get older. Infants and toddlers are incredibly demanding.

Anyway, best of luck. Sincerely.
Apple sells an adapter, I believe.

The latest version of Thunderbolt is using the USB-C connector (and is compatible with it), so I assume next generation of Apple laptops will only have these ports.

https://thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-d...
Just downloaded it, fyi it tries to get you to buy money with money literally at the very beginning of the first two games I tried, definitely don't recommend this game.
> every VR headset looks like pure garbage next to my 4K monitor and to add insult to injury you need to beef up your machine for the privilege of a worse experience

if you have enough computer to drive even a relatively recent game at 4K you have plenty of machine to run VR.
exactly. But I'm already in iTerm using vim, so I use the iTerm repl instead. Not saying jupyter wouldn't do a great job, just that seems more convenient to use what's in my environment instead :)
Not necessarily revenue - they might have "early warning" metrics (# of downloads, turnover in top lists, # of new apps meeting a certain download threshold) that alert them to potential problems in the health of the ecosystem, long before it shows up in revenue.

Relying on anecdotal evidence is always tricky - nobody in my immediate circle ever paid for anything on their iPad/iPhone. But anecdotally, most iPhone devs I know consider discoverability to be a potentially platform-killing problem, and are finding that they can't make a living as indie devs because it's too hard to surface their app. Other platforms like the web don't have this problem, which might explain why webapps still get a lot of attention even though the iPhone userbase is now a much larger share of time spent online.
Physical Web Pages
Ah, okay. I didn't realize that. I was trying to point out there are everyday valid use cases for JIT that don't involve the JVM.

I've used Rust's regex engine before, it's very promising. It's really neat how the regex itself is fully compiled.
Possibly, but particularly for interstate issues it's hard to see how that works. And even where it does, it's usually slow and difficult to scale.

The first thing that comes to mind is environmental issues. These have national implications that it's hard to see how even coalitions of states can have the same kind of impact. And if they did, you'd end up with a patchwork of regulations that makes it harder for business to work.

I'm a proponent of relatively stronger central government, but I know that's not a universal belief. After all, the national government is a coalition of all the states :)
Is Hydrogen a notebook replacement? The demo makes it look like a fancy REPL. Does it have section headers, latex support, etc.?
Yes, you're right. Average human reaction time is on the order of hundreds of milliseconds though. If you can keep latency under ten milliseconds you're probably doing pretty good, and that's reasonable over distances of a few hundred kilometers. Having the operator thousands of kilometers away is only really necessary for extrajudicial assassinations, which should be put to a stop anyways.

I can remember playing Quake on a server with a latency of 40 ms and being an untouchable god because of it.
The only time I buy anything on my android phone is after I've downloaded the free version first, found it was actually useful, and then upgrade and get the pro features. Apps are so cheap I have no problem spending the money, but testing the app out first is crucial because there is so much crapware on the app store!

I literally do not trust buy-only apps anymore because of it. For example I wanted to log my gym progress in an app, and I had to go through at least 10 different apps before I finally found one that had the functionality I wanted (fitframe devs thank you!).
Product doesn't exist / discontinued. Footer has copyright date of 2014. Why was this posted? :)
Yes there is some friction in the process of wage determination, but in aggregate anything that reduces your productivity will reduce your income.

I think we might be talking past each other a little. It is not that companies should not provide training (most good ones do as it is in their interest for many reasons), but that each person should take responsibility for their own career development and not expect this is something provided by their employer. Apart from the fact that any employer is unlikely to invest the ideal amount in your development (since you can walk out the door), the training provided by the company reflects the skills they want you to have, not the ones that you might most want to have.

Letting anyone else set your training almost certainly is sub-optimal for you. Developers need to get out of the mindset that it is the company that grows them and into the mindset that it is their own responsibility. Sure you might take advantage of the opportunities offered by the company, but don’t expect that someone else will be responsible.
well with improving optics and coordination who needs CAS drones, the things will be deployed anywhere on the horizon and either employ a rail gun or long term a laser to blanket an area. Railguns are frighteningly fast and don't require close proximity to their target to respond to a situation near instantly.
I wonder what structural forces cause this to be the case.

Less attention from the people (and the press)?
More restrictive state constitutions?

I don't have a lot of hypotheses.
You did _not_ lose anything! That's a paper loss! Are you a speculator expecting to sell the house in 2-4 years? If you went to all of that effort to buy a _family_ home, presumably you are planning on staying there for a while (possibly long enough for the price to recover).

On the other hand, I agree that now you're underwater and if you're forced to sell you'd be in trouble. But if there was a risk you'd have to sell the house so soon, why would you buy it in the first place?
I think the fact that a call is coming from a voip service is not necessarily the problem, the problem is that a voip number can be made extremely easily.

Some sort of "non-anonymous" score can be assigned a voip number. Paying via a credit card or cheque can attach an address to the voip number. Does this address match the reported home of the caller? Does the IP originate from the same area as the caller? Has this voip number been used by the same account for several years?
Like I said, it puts them on the same level which doesn't tell the whole story. Right and left agree that working is good, but if you can't/don't work, one side will hold you up as an example of a moral failing of character to be stigmatized and one side won't.
Shmura matza is charred, chewy and robust in flavor - compared with soda-cracker-like machine-made matza, it is really more like an artisanal, organic whole wheat bread.

I don't think that strictly kosher food generally tastes any better than non-kosher food, but in this instance the traditional hand-rolled product is really way better.
Before I click it, the cynic in me feels like this link goes to some bad news. I feel so jaded. Burned. Am I alone?

Going to click thru now.

Edit below:

That didn't take long. From the site (which didn't load with my content blocker "Focus" active, by the way, so I almost missed it):

If your Product handles personal or sensitive user data that is not closely related to functionality described prominently in the Product’s Chrome Web Store page and user interface, then prior to the collection, it must:

It goes on to say that it must, basically, get informed consent at that moment in time, rather than passively listing it in a privacy policy somewhere.

The way it should read, IMHO:

If your Product handles personal or sensitive user data, then prior to the collection, it must:

And then enforce this via the API itself. If we've learned anything, it's that random browser extension authors are not likely to care, or will creatively interpret this language to suggest their collection of PII is related to something "described prominently" as required, but only with specific semantic interpretations of "described".

Why are these sorts of decisions left to the ISVs when the platform itself could do a much better job of ensuring compliance. Further, changes to compliance requirements could be implemented in the platform rather than in a document that is toothless for three months, all the while extensions leak PII everywhere (yeah I know what that looked like).
> Speaking as an avid gamer, every VR headset looks like pure garbage

Have you tried any headsets? I got a free GearVR with my S7 and comparing the experience to a monitor just doesn't make any sense. With VR you get a sense of scale that a monitor just can't convey. In VR I feel that an object is right there in front of me. I can estimate its distance from me, as in 'that table is about 1 meter away'. It's a surreal feeling.

> you need to beef up your machine for the privilege of a worse experience.

Again. This doesn't make sense. The experience isn't worse. It's just different. It's so different that it's difficult to even compare monitor to HMD.

I gave my dad a demo and the sense of presence was so strong for him that he lost his balance just looking around in one of the lobbies. He's not a gamer and he had an ear to ear grin just looking around in the Oculus video lobby.

> They're expensive, you look incredibly stupid wearing one

That's true. I felt like an idiot wearing the headset.
My recollection is that almost all the code I wrote at Microsoft used Allman style, the only exception that I remember was Midori which used K&R

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style
This. Seems many advocating increasing control of society forget the USA was created precisely because of a deep & pervasive hatred of being bossed around by strangers far away holding very different sociopolitical views. Don't underestimate the simmering & growing opposition to such encroaching centralized control.
TLDR >> "a bill that would undermine the FCC’s ability to enforce key net neutrality protections."

"Fortunately, President Obama has said that he will veto the bill if it reaches his desk."
That's a quote from the article, but it's not intended as a fact. In the context of the full quote, he's offering a caricatured viewpoint that he does not agree with, and then going on to show that the world is not so simple:

Reading The Red Pill, then, offers two possible answers to
the question “how shitty are men really?”

The first situates The Red Pill as another toxic
technoculture on a spectrum of digital misogyny: on Twitter,
any woman who says anything even moderately controversial
will receive torrents of direct physical threats as a matter
of course. Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post
thousands of revenge porn images without consent. Gamers on
Xbox Live will be sexually harassed, inevitably.

The answer to the question of how shitty men are, from this
perspective, is “really pretty shitty”.

But an entirely different approach emerges with a slight
shift in emphasis: how shitty are men really? That is, how
does these men’s behaviour online translate into non-digital
life ? The Red Pill poses one of the absolute conundrums of
our time: are we our real selves on the internet, or are we
not?
An F-35 starts at around $100M, and that's the plane the air force is touting to take over the CAS role. Does it really cost more than $10M per infantryman killed?
Yes this is one of the difficulties of management. You need to balance the desires of the employees with the needs of the company and try to achieve the right balance. It is not easy.
It took the west a long time to figure out the stable government structures. I saw one theory that civilisation started around the Med because it was easy to get about by boat and was slow in Africa because it was pretty hard to get about before jet aviation. I figure that now they've got internet they'll catch up.

Hans Rosling's thing is interesting showing Africa catching a bit towards the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
That does sound very very nice.

How's the screen like? Do you see pixels when reading text/code? If my calculations are correct, the Dell Chromebook has 169PPI, while the MBP 13 has a 227 PPI display.
>Think of what Africans could've accomplished with consistent, basic decent governance from the top, over the last ~50

What I'm about to say is a mixture of facts and pure speculations.

There was a Ghananian president called Kwame Nkrumah. He wanted a unified West Africa. If you check the dates of independence of many west African countries, you'll notice they revolve around the 60s. A Judge in Ghana told me that Nkrumh was the cause.

He set up schools training "revolutionaries," teaching them governance and how to fight. And this hastened their independence - Nigeria was one.

His plan was a united Africa where the countries trade amongst each other. And would not be forced to accept rates dictated by the west for their produce.

Unfortunately, before he could effect lasting change he was overthrown. And he ran to Guinea where he was made a co-president. (I see the CIA's hand here (IMO))

It's not like governments only know how to loot. A chief source of problem is the rapid change of policies. A new government used to mean a completely different environment and rules for businesses.

So, you have one step in one direction and then the next government moves two steps in the opposite direction. Partisian thinking is just ridiculous.

Another big problem is tribalism. It's so big a problem that I'm chuckling right now. A person is often elected for no other reason than the tribe the person represents. The current Nigerian president is on that seat for that very reason.

According to people I've Nigerians I've talked to, there would have been a killing rampage by the Hausas if the current president didn't win.
IME, it climbs WAY slower.
Pentagon’s Hypersonic Missile Could Inadvertently Spark Nuclear War
no, you miss the point of the notebooks. You use it to tell story.
Legal analysis can be in an academic context or an advocacy context. When a lawyer is advocating for a client, he's giving the most one-sided presentation that he can make in good faith. The EFF's analysis is generally of the advocacy sort. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it's important to recognize that.
The U.S.'s GDP might be growing, but only very few are benefitting. For the vast majority, their wages haven't increased in 30 years while costs of housing, health care, and higher eduation have skyrocketed.
Yes? (by far)
South Africa seems to be having a lot of trouble lately, of a sort that doesn't comport with most people's understanding of 'first-world' country.

https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+trouble

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+south+africa+safe+for+whi...

https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+violence

Accounts of Johannesburg:

http://imgur.com/BO5YwQl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYOwKlDIE
You're right, bureaucracy/red tape generally increases with size.

But the federal government is distinctly different in one major way: private corporations must make money. The federal government is immune to going out of business.
Well respected? In earlier times for sure. But Mozilla of today has totally left power users alone. I would not call that what is left a genuinely good company
Yeah, that one doesn't make much sense to me, and seems to go against the goal of equalizing population between states. I guess they thought it had too much land area, but still with so little population, and so little arable land out of that much land, it makes more sense to just leave it a single state. Most of the land in the northern half is just unusable tundra.
In Ohio I've seen Juvenile Life for serious offenders, which means your released at 21