skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you seriously claiming that the only non-working government dependents are the elderly and disabled?

I'm saying that the overwhelming majority of government spending on the non-working is benefits to the aged and disabled.

SS and Medicare alone are the majority of such spending, and go exclusively to that group, and overwhelming to the aged specifically; the next big chunk is Medicaid (at least, the portion that goes to people that aren't working, some Medicaid beneficiaries are low-income but employed) which, while income qualified, has a very significant fraction of its expenses go to Medicaid/Medicare dual eligibles.

And, so, to the extent that your pointing to the share of government spending that goes to the non-working is intended as something other than a red herring, it only makes sense if you plan on dragging the aged and disabled into your forced labor army as a condition of their continued survival.
Wouldn't it make more sense for surveillance to route around privacy ?
>Personal insurance requires personal liability to insure.

Any insight into how this gets established by profession? Seems to be an entire industry offering and encouraging nurses to take out malpractice insurance, beyond whatever their employers' coverage is.

On the effort backfiring...maybe, but I don't see why it would play out the way that you describe. The criminal justice system lets these cops skate, but apparently the civil system is picking up the slack -- as evidenced by that NYC figure cited. Somebody is going to keep paying for these, I do not think there's anything the unions can do to change that fact. So the only question is who and if you can make the case to taxpayers that it sure as hell shouldn't be them, self-interest might rule and help fix this.

Edit: some clues here as to the question of personal liability of cops. From a study by Joanna Schwartz in the NYU law review:

>This Article empirically examines an issue central to judicial and scholarly debate about civil rights damages actions: whether law enforcement officials are financially
responsible for settlements and judgments in police misconduct cases. The Supreme Court has long assumed that law enforcement officers must personally satisfy settlements and judgments, and has limited individual and government liability in civil
rights damages actions—through qualified immunity doctrine, municipal liability standards, and limitations on punitive damages—based in part on this assumption.

>Scholars disagree about the prevalence of indemnification: Some believe officers almost always satisfy settlements and judgments against them, and others contend indemnification is not a certainty. In this Article, I report the findings of a national study of police indemnification.
Through public records requests, interviews, and other sources, I have collected information about indemnification practices in forty-four of the largest law enforcement
agencies across the country, and in thirty-seven small and mid-sized agencies.

>My study reveals that police officers are virtually always indemnified: During the study period, governments paid approximately 99.98% of the dollars that plaintiffs
recovered in lawsuits alleging civil rights violations by law enforcement. Law enforcement officers in my study never satisfied a punitive damages award entered
against them and almost never contributed anything to settlements or judgments — even when indemnification was prohibited by law or policy, and even when officers
were disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for their conduct.

http://www.nyulawreview.org/sites/default/files/pdf/NYULawRe...

A rational taxpayer should be very upset about this.
1) respiration is burning the food, but it's not burning all the food; "calories in" refers to calories absorbed, not calories put in your mouth; and the proportion between those two varies depending on all kinds of things, including e.g. gut microbiome and temporary changes to that due to various drugs; so if you strictly count calories put in mouth you still get a hard-to-measure variability in actual "calories in" (unless you put a respirator on the subject and measure it that way).

2) All other things being equal, changing "calories in" will make you lose/gain weight. The trouble is, all other things are not equal - simply changing how much you eat will significantly change those other things, it has an effect on your metabolism and eagerness for physical activity, thus directly affecting also "calories out" if you don't carefully monitor that and work to keep that stable.

3) All other things being equal, changing "calories out" will make you lose/gain weight. The trouble is, all other things are not equal - simply starting/stopping working out will significantly change your natural appetite, how hungry you are and how often you're hungry, and which types of food you have cravings for, thus directly affecting "calories in" unless you carefully track what and how much you eat everything and actually do keep that schedule exactly the same.
In DC with the Metro having problems, the bus is frequently faster--even from downtown.
while you were easily able to buy porn and guns, on the flip side the people who sold you the porn and guns had to go through a high-risk payment processor just as if they'd try to sell porn/guns online. you don't notice anything because if you had to deal with that hassle, would you have bought your guns/porn from that shop? no. stores eat the cost of high-risk payment processors because customers want to pay with credit card.

you are mistaking visa: the credit card, with visa: the payment network.
Strangers has worked in some of the earlier rooms I've worked with... I think the issue here is that it's basically all strangers to start.

It's easy to add a few new people to some who already know each other, but harder to just throw a bunch of strangers (some of whom are more in troll-mode) into a room together.
For an argument that is espousing the benefits of empathy, your condescending tone is very off-putting. You also use a straw-man argument - there is a difference between trusting professors more than lay people and believing that scholarly education grants you "the Always Right card". I also don't believe that "as long as you're very intelligent and highly educated, you're probably right on any arbitrary topic, and your opinions trump those of less intelligent and/or less educated people regardless of the relative degrees of experience involved on that topic". That is an obvious straw man. At the same time, I don't think working at Wendy's somehow constitutes the necessary experience to understand humanity that working as a professor doesn't provide. Would a Wendy's employee be better able to cook a hamburger? Yes, but if I want economic advice on how to improve the lives of poor people I'm still going to trust an economist who studies the issues over a Wendy's employee. Would working a year as a Wendy's employee really help the economist better understand the economy?

The fundamental point of the article - that scientists don't understand society because they are somehow different and privileged - is wrong at best and dangerously anti-intellectual at worst.
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The bravest pioneer
No budget too steep, no sea too deep
Who's that?
It's him, James Cameron
James, James Cameron explorer of the sea
With a dying thirst to be the first
Could it be? Yeah that's him!
James Cameron

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People over a certain age get a UBI (in many countries).

Maybe extrapolate from what they do...
Some school districts in my area give students laptops. They have the specs of chromebooks, valued around $150. Various brands are part of this program: Apple, Lenovo, HP. The districts are in suburban areas that you don't think of as poor, but there are still a lot of kids who get laptops from the program who don't have internet at home, or have sporadic internet because their parents can pay for it some months and not others, and/or would otherwise not have a family computer.
This is exactly how I pictured it happening.
Is your point that they see elephants the same way people in Vietnam might see dogs? I can understand that point, but not the inhuman point.
> Also, "effectively free if you make no changes" doesn't make sense -- free software requires you to have the freedom to make changes to the software.

The GPL places some conditions on distribution; most notably, anyone distributing binaries is required to also make the source available. In the "standard" GPL, this applies even if the distributed binaries are compiled directly from the upstream source -- this is sometimes used as a "gotcha" to harass companies that use GPLed code (e.g, in embedded devices), but which fail to make every single piece of source code available for download. The exception granted by FreeRTOS makes perfect sense in this light.
We got all of these in Australia when I was a kid, including Australia's own effort at anarchistic kids telly, Aunty Jack: https://youtu.be/vIqqiK4ncfs
I have limited experience with these, but don't they tend to be like 45 minutes to an hour? You need to go at least as far as dinner time if you want kids to actually complete assignments there, not just start them.
What a lame duck election year!

I wish Assange would find evidence that Trump is Clinton's puppet.. continue to say the most insane things and worse. In turn that trustworthy, amazing woman becomes our next queen ... ooops i mean president. She acts way more like the former then latter!
It sounds like they're pushing an agenda (everything else is terrible; buy our products).

No asset is "risk-free" but it's certainly possible to get risk-adjusted returns of 4% in the stock market. Even if you include 2008, you would average 4% over any 30 year period.

At a minimum, you can get ~2% in treasuries. There are even savings accounts offering 1% returns.
In startups they are pretty common. They've been in place at every job/company I've been at (~9 companies)
Or rather, the synthetic ones are only 'fake' insofar as they are passed off as natural (perhaps to gain a higher price). Put a different label on the box (for instance, the label 'Diamonds'), and they're 'real' again.
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That's what Verizon charged for FiOS in my apartment.
Over WAN you pretty much can't make things consistent. Well... I suppose you can, but it will be really slow due to speed of light.
Machine learning is a tool that cuts both ways - sites can use it to try and find trolls, but trolls can also use it to better automate bots.
> wat, undef

Oh, undef is as easy as knowing HTML trivia. Getting a falsey value to return an arbitrary string when invoked as a function is at least a little harder...

> random3

... is almost as easy as random1

> random4

is exactly as impossible as it looks
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> If they were higher on that list, wouldn't it mean they were bad at their jobs? Police officers face people intentionally trying to kill them, the other jobs generally face some sort of accidental risks.

That is the same line of thinking that leads to people playing up other reasonably low risk threats (i.e. Terrorists) and ignoring high risk threats (i.e. medical errors).

Statistical risk is far, far more important than people's feelings that humans are more dangerous than trees.

Flip your logic around, are you going to argue that loggers are bad at their jobs because statistically they are more likely to be killed by a tree than police officers are by human violence?

The goal for the worker in both cases is not getting killed while performing your job function.

The simple fact is the police have a far, far less dangerous job than most people are willing to admit.

https://www.aei.org/publication/is-there-really-a-war-on-cop...

Even staunchly Republican sources are ready to admit that as long as they aren't Fox News.

> According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 58% of likely voters believe there is a “war on police” in America today. The same poll found that 60% believe “comments critical of the police by some politicians make it more dangerous for police officers to do their jobs.” But misinformation also abounds.

> According to the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), which keeps data on officer deaths going back over 100 years, 24 officers have been shot and killed by suspects this year. This puts the US on pace for 36 non-accidental, firearm-related police fatalities in 2015 [I calculate 35 deaths in 2015 based on 24 during the first 251 days this year]. Each one of such deaths is a tragedy for the officers killed, their families and the communities they serve, but this would be the lowest total in 25 years [ more than 125 years according to the ODMP website] aside from 2013 which saw 31 such deaths.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/study-finds-police-f...

> In the study, researchers wrote that their analysis of the 990 fatal shootings in 2015 “suggests the police exhibit shooter bias by falsely perceiving blacks to be a greater threat than non-blacks to their safety.”

> In 2015, The Post documented 990 fatal shootings by police, 93 of which involved people who were unarmed. Black men accounted for about 40 percent of the unarmed people fatally shot by police and, when adjusted by population, were seven times as likely as unarmed white men to die from police gunfire, The Post found.

I'm more worried about the police shooting unarmed civilians (given it happens more often) than the reverse, particular since trees are more dangerous to loggers than civilians are to police.
For the ones not in the know, climbing down is way harder than climbing up.

I take it you didn't climb this route before, and were trying to flash it ? How did you handle your emotions, it must have been really difficult to keep them under control in order to get down safely ?
The solution is actually really simple.

You sterilize at birth, and then once a child reaches the age of majority they are allowed to get it reversed at zero cost simply be requesting it be done.

This removes the moral hazard, and requires a positive action and conscious choice to have a child. At that point you can start making moral judgements and holding people accountable.
I didn't like Donald Duck on TV but I loved the comic books.

I collected hundreds of them at flea markets about 40 years ago.
The word "fearmongering" is a more effective acerbic dismissal when it's applied to someone who hasn't talked openly about deploying the US nuclear arsenal against his real or imagined enemies. Anti-Trump fear is indeed strong "these days".
That's neither true nor fair; downvotes are explained by the commenter clearly wanting to escalate the argument. collision said tends to, so the objection here is weak and certainly doesn't merit name-calling like "Laughable".

A better way to phrase something like this is as a question. For example: "Wouldn't these criteria apply to Shopify? If Shopify is a legitimate business, how can other legitimate businesses overcome the same hurdle?" Putting it that way would abide by the HN guidelines, would be more likely to get a substantive response, and would take the thread in a direction where we all learn something.

It's hard, of course, to keep one's poise in a discussion about one's business being rejected for an arguable reason, but the alternative is for people to yell at each other, which helps no one and degrades this site.
Very few institutions are single-purpose. An uneducated populace is detrimental to growth, but as you note, the 'daycare effect' of schools is also a valuable benefit. Your arguments don't negate the possibility that schools are run by good actors who believe their work benefits students in the objective sense.
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> Are you trying to log every TCP and UDP packet?

No. Although I've done that too...

To debug timing critical code. Or Heisenbugs that disappear when you log. Ever had a bug that vanishes when you enable logging?

Not 5M sustained, just short sub-millisecond bursts here and there.
> It's a fifty dollar ticket to a hike through a lurid 1970s sci-fi book cover.

And now you're speaking my language!
Could you please clarify what you mean by this? Are you referencing concatenation as being a form of logical AND?
> People over a certain age get a UBI (in many countries).

> Maybe extrapolate from what they do...

People over the age for drawing public pensions (whether or not those are UBI-like; most I'm familiar with are not) are probably not representative of the broader population in their decisions with regard to engagement in the labor market, entrepreneurship, etc., and how those decisions are impacted by changes in available resources.
I am currently doing it. Spent 4 weeks in Stockholm, two weeks in Cluj Romania, currently in Prague as I type this. Next up is Berlin. I am from San Francisco, and have one startup (https://commando.io) that has paying customers, and also working on a new company as well.

So far I love it. Though I will admit, it sometimes can be difficult to put in the hours when there are so many things to see, people to meet, and things to explore. Also, I am not exactly doing it like a backpacker/cheap either, which improves the experience.

Happy to answer any questions.
I would love to see this diamond in person, but I can't see it being a good investment given the technological change coming, both in sorting for diamonds up to 5000 carats and the real risk someone will figure out how to grow diamonds this big.
I always wonder why live data isn't more of a focus for charting libraries. In this case, it's almost ridiculous that live data (and examples of such) aren't front and center. Isn't the point of doing anything in React the reactive nature of the thing? If it doesn't make the process of having live interactive data easier, building it in react seems like a pointless exercise.

I'm sure it is possible to do live data with this, of course, I just don't see it obviously discussed in any of the examples or docs, and that's a shame. I can't think of any instance where I've looked into charting in the past five years that I didn't want live data and interactivity.
This is different from the advice we got during traffic school from an off-duty CHP officer.

His suggested steps:

1. Turn on the inside cabin light (the overhead light).

2. Pull over.

3. Turn off your engine, but leave the key turned to Accessories so you can
roll down the windows later.
(But wait until commanded to do so.)

4. Put your hands on the top of the steering wheel.

5. Refrain from:

a. Rolling down any windows.

b. Reaching for the glove compartment.

c. Reaching for your wallet.

d. Opening the car door.

6. Await further instructions from the officer, follow lawful orders.
>Don't like it? Work in another field.

It's hard enough to find good people (note the qualification) willing to be police already. Add more restrictions and penalties and you'll soon find that nobody will be willing to take the job.
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> barrage of antisemitic tweets

It is convenient to label anything or anybody critical of Israel as being antisemitic.

For many years, many western countries blood and treasure have been spilled and spent in propping up that country. People should be allowed to reevaluate these policies, discuss the issues, and comment on the pertinent events.

It is a common tactic used both to shut people up, when speaking to them, and to discredit them when talking about them, to claim they are racist or antisemitic. This tactic is common because it is effective, but it needs to be called out when observed, as I am doing now with you.

You hopefully are unaware that you are personally contributing to a chilling effect that inhibits a rational public discourse, when you engage in this name calling.

===============
EDIT because I can't reply to tptacek for some reason.

I did go and see the tweet you're talking about. The infraction in this instance, is that he used the word "tribalist". "Tribalist" is indeed a derogatory term, in my opinion. I certainly use it in that manner.

For me personally, AIPAC* members and others who actively seek to steer American resources in directions that do not actually benefit America are a source of frustration and concern. Calling them 'tribalists' captures the fact that they are acting as an autonomous group that I am not part of and frankly, find foreign and frightening.

I love Feynman, Einstein, and Peter Schiff (all Jewish). I do not love those who have a US passport, but would seek to benefit another country at the expense of the US. The word tribalist, or even zionist, is a way to distinguish a particular behavior or ideology from the Jewish race in general. It is a disservice to Jewish people in general, to allow a small subgroup to claim a mantle of moral infallibility and imperviousness from criticism in their name, under threat of being branded a racist.

* AIPAC. AIPAC is an extremely effective pro-Israel lobbying group, composed of course mostly by jewish people, that is perceived by many (including myself) to exert a very disproportionate and perhaps inappropriate influence on American foreign policy.
If the universities really cared about open access, they could unionize against the publishers. Imagine the top 20 schools, which also happen to be the ones producing the research, refused to abide by the publisher rules. Would they all have their access revoked?

It's never made sense to me why, despite billions of dollars budgeted toward scientific funding, private companies make money charging for journal access. Why can't all that public funding also go toward funding the peer review, editing, and publishing?
A math course without a computer is not a modern math course. Humans are not going to advance the field, or even keep up to date, when it is insisted that students do everything their equally intelligent predecessors did plus new things. Something has got to go, and top of my list is a vast amount of pen and paper bullshit.
> The only thing I'm proposing doing is reducing the disincentives to joining the private sector.

No, that's not all you are proposing. You are proposing a particular mechanism that you claim is aimed at that goal (not merely proposing the goal itself), which has concrete features beyond just the goal you claim for it.

> Comparisons to the Soviet Union are nonsensical.

Perhaps, but you haven't provided a reason to believe that, just offered a factually-incorrect distinction between your proposal and the labor policy of the Soviet Union.
Accuses OP of moral superiority, condescendingly quotes "feeling like shit."
Russia is also in the same category of cheap high-speed internet access. Romania is there too. In the rest of Eastern Europe it's a bit more expensive, but still below $20.
Ask HN: What is the market for Clojure skills? Should I stick with it?
When I see job postings for Clojure, it's in a long list of languages and the company wants experience in "one of them". It seems like Clojure is a signal skill but not something many companies actually use?

I guess I was under the impression that Clojure was eventually going to become a bigger force in industry but it doesn't seem that way.

I'm trying to figure out what to focus on in terms of technical skills as I move forward in my career.

What are your perspectives?
From 21 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12145137