skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here is the thing that people do not understand: quality healthcare or quality education are expensive, there is no way around that, no magic welfare taxes will fix it. Whether private or public, it will cost you an arm and a leg. Only thing that could fix it would be innovation but unfortunately these sectors are highly regulated and this is a barrier to innovation so things will progress very slowly.

Everyone complains about regulation in health care until you get faulty medical equipment or contaminated pills and a couple dozen people die.

It is a tired and irrelevant complaint.
Sure, crowd sourced curation.

The problem is, what happens when someone buys 100 reviews? If there was marketplace curation - wouldn't matter, still only 4 listings for SD card 16gb. But with 600 people competing and buying reviews for SD cards? Who knows what shows up as the highest reviews...

FWIW Amazon has 1,826 results for that query, and Jet has 35. I am sure Amazon has more unique products, but not that many more.
They can read your email and listen to your phone calls without a warrant.

They can feel you up and go through all your luggage on any domestic flight.

But they can't prosecute criminal treatment of classified documents.

America is dead. The rule of law is done. It's now a slow descent to totalitarianism.
I thought "cost synergies" involved getting rid of redundancies -- e.g. we don't need to maintain two separate accounting organizations and can save a bunch of money by combining them.

Yes, that could involve layoffs, but what's the alternative? Do you think Microsoft (or any buyer) is going to keep around unnecessary personnel after an acquisition if they manage to get a lower price? I would assume they'd end up saving money on the acquisition and cutting personnel. Why would they do otherwise...?
Most of the modern increase in life expectancy has come from clean water, plenty of nutritious food, and vaccines against childhood diseases.
>The allies had far less incidents of rape. And defently not systematic like Japan.

Systematic? Is that a joke? Millions more german and japanese women were raped by the allies than vice versa.

Lets not belittle the german and japanese women who were raped.
I'm aware history is repeating itself ionised.

The question I want the answer to is why is the left pushing all the buttons that will produce conflict. This is not a rhetorical question, it is both a statement of fact and a real question.

Let us not pretend inviting millions of foreigners to Europe is some kind of ancient policy of the left wing. This is one of the largest mass migrations in our history. This is a new thing. The response of the right is often reactionary. Classically their forms of terror are also reactionary. Which brings me to the question:

So why is this happening?

I understand very well why people from other countries wish to improve their circumstances, nothing could be more human. Like I already said, the main vitriol of the right is against their countrymen of the left persuasion, not the refugees/migrants. This is something not entirely comprehended by the media despite the terrorism of Anders Brevik and that ignorance is itself highly problematic because it underestimates the danger of reaction.

To put it technically; xenophobia is a second order effect.

I am asking you to explain the first order effect, the cause of allowing ancient borders to be superseded. Why is this happening?

If my posts make you angry then I ask you to resist replying. If I present an opinion it is because I believe it to be so. Liberals often ask questions of authority e.g. the so-called truth to power. I am doing same thing to them and calling them to account for their actions. If this is too blasphemous or irksome we can just move onto other topics.
Why are most of your contracted illnesses now viral and not fungal or bacterial? Because modern medicine has rendered the latter two nearly obsolete. People who contract them get treated for them and they're less likely to spread throughout your community.

Even many viral infections are far less common thanks to vaccinations and early intervention/isolation.

> Almost all of my illnesses have been contracted either at work or from my partner who contracted it at work.

And this is a social problem, not a "modern medicine" problem. Idiots need to stop going to the office sick. One dumbass knocked out half my office 3 or 4 years back. Came in with a cold, 15 people sick over the next two weeks.
Didn't know that. Icing on the cake of my claim. Not even me having anything against SEAL's: two in my family with one decorated. I just have to assume their loyalty will lead them to side with military or intelligence over Constitutional principles. It would be different if code was all open, jurisdiction + servers non-US, and review by mutually-suspicious parties. Then I could focus on product more than the subversion risk of people or country involved. Lacking any of these, there's residual risk.
Love! Thanks!
Really? I feel the market for entertainment and those interested in niche activities is as rich as it has ever been.

Right. If you have money to spend on those.

The author is talking about things people can do for free on public land - ostensibly what you would need to occupy people if they had no work or money to spend on leisure.
Interesting anecdote, although, as I never get tired of stressing, other people do exist and have different experiences. People are kept alive all the time by medicinal techniques that have been developed and just because your doctor visits have not saved your life does not mean that many others have not experienced the wonders of modern medicine.

Also you're taking for granted all of the illnesses you avoided merely by being vaccinated for them as a child. Almost nobody in developed society contracts polio anymore, but that doesn't make it any less lethal to groups not acquainted with modern medicine.
You're ignoring all of the diseases you don't get due to vaccinations and other eradication efforts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diseases_eliminated_fr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_dise...
That makes sense, but is Microsoft saying that this device will "kill" the iMac (whatever that means), or is this just a catchy phrase that journalists like to use?
You are taking my comment a bit too literally (especially since the only thing I was trying to convey was: url files != filesystem files). I don't mean defined behavior, I mean what is expected, since that is what you were talking about.

If we go with defined behavior, then wget using the server-provided name just like a web browser does (resolving the redirects, and then explicitly noting that the file is being saved with that new file name), is completely expected, no?
Indeed, but as the article points out, we can do a much better job of managing the problem. Paying $150,000 per year per person is simply ridiculous. We can look at Salt Lake City and Houston for proven examples of better solutions.
From what I can see that is exactly what is happening.

Edit: And the downvotes come in. You're all pathetic lol.
NSFW: Picture of a testicle
They definitely _can_ improve, by my point was I doubt they care enough to do so. 1 - it costs them time/money 2- most of their customers won't care enough
How to make your own BitTorrent client with Node.js
You're fortunate.

When your hunter-gatherer alter ego gets wounded by a spear or an animal, there's a high probability that that wound is going to get infected, and a moderate probability that the wound turn into sepsis and kill you.
on systems where wget isn't installed the common practice to download a file is `curl -O`
jwz is such a...unique individual.
And yet, his experiments suggest that how the sausage is packed can exacerbate curling in one direction over another.
To people confused about the link, copy and paste it instead. The owner of that site is trolling people with the HN referrer.
Can you elaborate on the "tournament type structure?" Are you referring to those at a high enough level where the expectation is that they source deals? If so, then yes, because at that point it is sales, and if you don't deliver new business, you bomb out, same as any other sales job.

If you are low enough level though, that isn't necessarily a concern since you aren't expected to source deals.
Startup API cases also often have a chicken & egg situation: you can't know what a good API is until you've had several clients use it, but then you have several clients who will be broken if you change it.
> So, for example, many of the internal private blockchains in use at major banks and corporations will be able to benefit from Raiden.

What is the purpose of a "private blockchain"? Why not just use a traditionally centralized application if your organization is the only user?
That's because you've been vaccinated and centuries of disease outbreak management have decimated the prevalence of infectious disease. You're also far more likely to have medical problems from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle: frequent activity can lead to injury, frequent contact with animal life, and poor food sanitation. Not to mention that once you get sick you can't produce food, which means your tribe has to support you. Which would be okay if food is plentiful and only a few people are sick, but if there's an epidemic suddenly your half your tribe is sick and no one can gather food for the next two weeks.
How Clara Labs (YC S14) Is Using Humans to Build AI
Ashcroft appointed a special prosecutor for the Plame leak. Why was none appointed here?
>I've read the opposite from PG, who suggests that children are now unhappy and depressed because they have no purpose.

Dr. Gray is a long-time professor of psychology who has written a book about the subject. What are Paul Graham's qualifications in regards to this topic? What research has he done?

Dubious claims, indeed.
jwz doesn't like Hacker News so he redirects traffic from Hacker News to a picture of a testicle.
JWZ redirects all accesses with Referer: news.ycombinator.com to this image [NSFW] http://imgur.com/32R3qLv
As a mobile dev and tinkerer I buy lots of tech to test ideas and see the state of tech.
Ask HN: What are the limits of machine learning?
Machine learning seemed to be all the hype for at least the past 4 years now, with major companies like Google putting it to all of their products. In fact, there is a post on front page right now about ML and infosec.

In the wild, I see products like Google Now/Siri, various image recognition applications, and as extreme as AlphaGo. They seem all to be solving problems where it is very difficult to come up with a theoretical model from a large volume of data.

At the same time, while I have no evidence to back this up, from things I've read online and discussions I've had with people IRL, machine learning seems to be people's universal answer to modeling phenomenons without actually doing the work. To me it feels like, instead of trying to work out models for the world, like Newton's 3 laws, we are just "throwing machine learning at it" and hope for >99% accuracy.

I've taking Andrew ng's ML course when it first offered. I also dabbled with projects to classify news articles and such. It feels like just another way to process data rather than some magical bullet that everyone tries to market me. However, I'm far from an expert so I would like to know what people who actually work on this stuff thinks:

1. What actually qualifies as machine learning? Facial recognition? Detecting anomaly like sudden burst of traffic?

2. What can machine learning do and what are the limits?

3. Why does it have so much hype over it? Why does it seem like the preferred solution over coming up with a real model.
It would seem that his server auto-displays an image based on the referrer.

If you want to see the original article you have to copy and paste the URL into a browser yourself, and not click the link from this site.
> Most of the modern increase in life expectancy has come from clean water, plenty of nutritious food, and vaccines against childhood diseases.

... All of which have been driven by the application of lessons learned by public health doctors and scientists.
Which would involve needing to reinstall the OS, or at least the kernel, because Trisquel strips out the kernel drivers needed to update the microcode.
That'd be a8
Not me, apparently. (No, seriously! I'm seeing the page I expect to see when I click that link in that comment. If I'd known jwz was doing what you claim he is, I'd have wrapped it with a referrer stripping bouncer or something. Sorry!)
"The stock market doesn’t reward big acquisitions in these categories as they often do with Silicon Valley giants, and they’re expected to justify these purchases, at least partially, on financials. This massively constrains the realm of possible outcomes."

Yes! Let's do much more of this.
I'd like to see a federal court case over publishing "Apr 2016 - " in a context that meant it's a canary. Go ahead and publish it. No one will sue you. Nobody will throw you in prison. Nobody will show up in black cars and take you to an interrogation. Nobody will put a bullet in your head. These questions about warrant canaries have been answered by judges, and not in the way that either I quoted or that you clarified.

I welcome any links you have that show otherwise.
Lol, he is redirecting referral traffic from hacker news to an imgur picture of a testicle mocking hacker news users.

Trolling level A+
More like transparent Legos. Discrete transistor circuits have terrible switching characteristics.
When, during the Wilson-Palmer saturnalia of oppressions [1918-1920], specialists in liberty began protesting that the Declaration plainly gave the people the right to alter the government under which they lived and even to abolish it altogether, they encountered the utmost incredulity.

I find this true today as well. A lot of people just can't seem to accept the idea that the founding fathers of the USA wanted to allow their descendants the same right to start over that they were exercising at the time.

I must admit that even given an appreciation of that I am hard pressed to imagine what a popular uprising and establishment of a new government would look like in today's America.
I've been using Silent Circle's black phone 2 for almost a year now, and it is a rather terrible experience.

They are ahead on app-specific permission denials, but they have hardly any sense of decent QA for their SilentOS.

Previous updates had power regressions where the phone would be dead from a full charge within 8 hours. Took 3 months for them to fix that. Most recent update no longer has a functioning headphone jack, and will forget all bluetooth paired devices on reboot. It also is crashing after 15 minutes of map usage as it seems to overheat.

Perhaps they may do better in the future, but I won't be staying with their product and services for much longer.

That said, it seems like the explicit update-system they run for their own software and the operating system would lessen the likelihood of an on-demand compromise from a state agent to an individual's device. Though it's not like the individual can do anything besides trust that the signed packages are authentic.
I was really excited about referencing this, until the racist part. 1921 you old dog.
I guess Perl is kind of a special case :) I got up to speed by reading half of some fairly old Perl book, then reading most of Modern Perl.
Excuse me while I step on my soapbox, but as more of an outside observer this particular issue has really demonstrated the extremely toxic political culture that results from the two party system in the US.

So many reasonable people are very happy to simply brush this away out of some "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" primordial thinking.
I posted the following side projects, but didn't get enough attention:

- Turkish Poncho (The first Turkish messenger bot for weather forecasts)
story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913204
link: http://havadurumu.herokuapp.com/
comment: I wasn't expecting any new users anyway. This is only for Turkish facebook users.

- Pour – Simple and secure Azure diagnostics for C# and Node.js
story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021606
link: http://www.trypour.com/
comment: Similar to previous project, this has a limited audience as well (Azure) I think.

I guess I need to think for bigger audiences.
Have you written about your crossing?
"I was horrified to see how a society so prosper can be so dehumanized."

In fairness, where should their morals come from? I'm not religious myself, but it seems that for all their faults religions provide a shared morality. Why should a society without a fixed set of morals be humane? There's no source of truth as to what humane even means. Why is helping an old woman humane? Why should I believe you, or feel shame when something like this happens?
The folks doing the pillaging and sacrificing were probably quite happy with themselves.
Having read all the comments below, it appears to me that people most fervently pro-bitcoin are the kind of people who convince people towards the other directions with their arguments. Whatever merits cryptocurrency might have, "we need no goddamn taxes or governmetn" is likely NOT bound to convince people FOR bitcoin etc.
Your browser is probably caching the page. If you click your link then do a hard refresh (hold shit & click) you'll see the redirect.
Individual SMT parts are cheaper part-by-part, on average too.
Not all of them. As the article states, SF "gets an influx of about 450 chronically homeless people a year".

Part of the problem is that SF has become known as a sanctuary city for the homeless. People come from all over the US. That is good, from the perspective that we have some positive karma for treating people better than other cities. It is bad, from the perspective that we bear more of the burden.
Happens far too commonly. I'll see a great link in the RSS feed and come to look for discussion about it after reading, but the article will have been removed. I've learned to search site:ycombinator.com with the article's title in order to track it down and see if there was any discussion before it was binned.
Therein lies the fault. An investigation by the FBI is not a courtroom, so "legal principles" aren't their job, but determining whether they could move forward with a prosecution or not is. I suppose the two are not linearly independent, but IANAL so I don't know enough to make a judgement on it.

It's hard really to tell from here whether this means Clinton is above the law or not, but I can definitely say this gives the appearance of it. Moreover, Trump won't give a shit what the FBI uses, he'll use it against her anyway and big portion of the American public, Trump supporters and non-supporters (ie., disaffected Bernie supporters) will agree with him on this anyway.
The sale happened ten years ago and it is extremely unlikely that there are any contractual obligations for this anymore. Let's put this meme to rest; Lenovo has been building solid Thinkpads.
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that warrant canaries work through inaction. If a court were to require the continued publishing of the canary, they'd be crossing the line from something approximating a "temporary restriction", to compelled speech. And though I think neither are particularly defensible, the latter is much less so.

The key with warrant canaries is that they aren't removing a line from something previously published, but failing to publish an update to to it.
> hold shit & click

Such a beautiful inadvertency. Anyway, it should be solved now. Sorry!
Needs a way to easily get back to the start. I accidentally clicked something on screen that took me out beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Trying to scroll back to the start will take forever!

Other than that, nice work!
Depends on the -source of the links.
It's not especially conductive to the dream of charging Hillary Clinton, I suppose. But it's a good point.

More to the point, shadow IT exists for a reason. Taken out of the context of the State Department and the political sphere, this was classic shadow IT. I've used shadow IT, and I've provided shadow IT, because I've worked a lot in large, sluggish bureaucracies, and that's How Things Get Done sometimes. "Security" becomes a catch-all excuse for laziness and cowardice.

If she felt like she could do her job with the existing State Department tools, she wouldn't have set up a shadow IT operation, period. It's not like she's completely ignorant of either operational security or political ramifications. To do this, she must have felt thoroughly hampered by the existing system.
I don't accept this reasoning.

I'm not debating the specific points, but the general reasoning.

Is it not plausible that sometimes we periodically really do lose something valuable and the conservatives in society notice this?

Otherwise we are postulating or at least heavily implying that conservatism is always wrong.

Why then... would it exist at all? Are we not creatures of evolution?
Would anyone be interested in participating in a beta test?
Hi All!!

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We are looking for a few developers who would like to join our beta test and either a) upload and allow us to host one of your API's or b) use one of our hosted API's in your app. (We can iron out details on how this can be beneficial to everyone involved. We like it when everyone wins;)

Please let me know if any of you might be interested. You can tech me directly or leave info below.

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how could you possibly justify daily... as in, you need to know the day of... but knowing within the hour, so you can do whatever you would do with that data immediately isn't a better idea???

you obviously haven't thought about much, lady.
Eh, the director of the FBI doesn't prosecute, prosecutors do that. The job of the FBI is to collect and collate the evidence.

Prosecutors in fact explicitly ask police and others they rely on to not substitute their own judgement for what merits prosecution and what not.
Ironically written on/in Wordpress.
You'd be guessing badly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036826

I've also had similar experiences with Java, nevermind Javascript.

It is an utter and simple fact that due to tech being an everchanging landscape, any book more than a few years old is going to teach bad habits or explain concepts incorrectly.
I guess it depends on who you are. As a consumer - android is in "shambles" because there isn't one phone that is "perfect" as per original comment. There isn't one phone that is comparable to the iPhone in every regard (equal battery life, stability, camera, accessory compatibility etc) so no matter what you get your experience is "compromised"

As a OEM android is in shambles because despite the fact that android is open, it's very hard to build an experience significantly different than googles. For example, if I wanted to make a phone with different sync behaviour to get better battery life, google wouldn't certify it and then I'd have to ship a phone with no apps. I COULD build my own market, my own version Google Play Services and convince people to use my market (like amazon is trying to do) but that would be very expensive, and likely wouldn't convince users to buy my phone. So I'm forced to build something very similar to other devices on the market, and thus have the same tradeoffs as other OEMs, making competition difficult.

As google, Android is doing great, billions of devices shipped, billions of users, billions of dollars earned.