skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say, "If your software engineering begins and ends with [jargon] you're likely doing a terrible job. Measure, and test. Always."

As a field, do we measure and test the effect of using various programming paradigms, patterns, and coding standards? I don't think most companies do this. Most developer decisions are made by "gut." As a field, we are still more like the "before" of Moneyball than the after.
I think OWSAP needs to update its DDoS vectors to include "HN front page listing".
How does this compare to something like zeroMQ?
That's not the only problem. For example, another problem is that consumers cannot choose based upon price because they are frequently in an emergency situation. Another is that they can't choose based upon price because they are locked into a health insurance plan which negotiates reasonable prices only with preferred providers.
Conda is 100% free and open source, but is developed by Continuum, which is a company (but one that contributes heavily to many of the key components of the open-source pydata/scipy ecosystem, and whose CEO basically created numpy/scipy for the community at the expense of his academic career). Personally I have had nothing but good interactions with people from Continuum and the software they develop. They (as a company and as the individuals in it) do an incredible amount for the open source community and we all benefit from that. They seem to have worked out a sustainable model for running a company and working in/contributing to open source.
> But to suggest that it's a disease seems disingenuous.

That allows (at least) two things: pressuring insurance companies to pay for treatment, and pressuring students to undergo treatment.
I thought the Wii had great fundamentals. I loved playing a lot of the core Wii games.
Behind the Branding of the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Farm subsidies aren't a bad idea, either. There are advantages to retaining food production within your borders, and without them, you'd probably be importing a lot more of what you eat and there are security risks there. Food has downward pressure on pricing due to external markets, and subsidies address that.

Healthcare has no such external downward pressure on pricing. The vast majority are not going to import their medical care from Mexico, South America or Asia because it's expensive at home. If you as a government want to increase access by reducing prices on healthcare, you simplistically have two ~~options~~ (edit: methods). One, increase the supply side, more facilities, doctors, and critically, more training for those new doctors (that's a big bottleneck now, since residencies are almost all funded by medicare, and that limits how many med school slots can exist initially). Two, create a taxpayer funded single payer system - a monopsonist, who is by definition not a price taker. Realistically you need to implement both options, since #2 can only impose price up to some economic limits, and those limits are determined by #1 since the current health system can't actually service everyone without significant sacrifices around wait. If you implement #2 fully and #1 to the point where you have capacity to treat everyone that objectively needs care in a timely manner, then you've implemented a functioning right to health care.

Lots of economic handwaving in there for sure, but that's how you extend the farm subsidy parallel to healthcare, and realize it's much more complicated for healthcare.
This could be said about everything.

BUT, lets be real. Operations people love Node because i can run 100 containers of a node app behind a load balancer. If a single node app dies the orchestration system re-starts it. If developed well you have a reporting/analytics/metrics platform and tracing tool that allows you to capture failures, fix them and deploy new code.

I'd wager that for the majority of the world, no matter the language used, most people are implementing patterns/behaviors because that is what they need to do something. Very rarely do people create something / invent something novel thus the level of developer abilities you seem to project don't need to be the standard abilities and that is ok.
I figure it's meant to be more of a hint hint 'we know the architecture we're programming for from the inside'

Now, what position they held definitely will make a difference. But the reason they're not specifying it could be to avoid any violations of employer agreements they had at Apple.

For example, saying "I've worked on the mac desktop interface team and know the architecture and worked with the codebase for X years so I can implement the same (proprietary) architecture" would cause trouble, Obviously they won't be as blatant as this, but it is better to occupy the vague corner and still reap the ex-apple recognition.
Thanks! it works now.
There are no free markets where price transparency doesn't exist.
Even surgeons can't predict what prices will be for a procedure.

Healthcare, because of the complexity of understanding how the body works, is a natural local monopoly.

Are you going to shop around for a better deal on a quadruple bypass when you already trust your surgeon? How would you know if the cheaper surgeon was as good?

Healthcare insurance suffers from the classic agency problem and has no incentive to keep costs low over the long term because they take ~7% off the top for a pass through transaction.
> If you have production-ready actor-model libraries for all the random things I might want to connect to, great, but I'm not currently aware of such things existing.

If you have production-ready event loop libraries for all the random things I might want to connect to, great, but I'm not currently aware of such things existing.

Part of the problem with the Node ecosystem is that the bar for "production ready" is very, very low. For example, literally nothing in NPM is production ready where security matters, because the package system is fundamentally insecure. left-pad broke builds everywhere--what if instead of failing to download, it introduced a backdoor? And even if you assume all the randos who maintain NPM packages are trustworthy, there's no signature verification on code, so any of them could have their accounts compromised and there would be no way to tell. This is the code you want me to run on my server? Really?

Node has a large ecosystem, but the subset of Node's ecosystem which is actually quality software is quite small.

> But I would much rather bring a knife to a gunfight than some totally awesome, straight-from-the-laboratory gun that's never been tested in combat.

Me too, but I'm exceedingly surprised to hear you quote this as a positive of Node.
So what kind of value does Instapaper adds/will add to Pinterest? Will there be a pin it later functionality? I fail to see how Pinterest gains from such an acquisition.
Ahahahahaha!
You're amazingly invested in this topic for an account with so few historical comments. I counted 11 comments on this topic out of 20 comments total.

I'm not saying you're a shill, but it's suspicious.
I agree the author makes the wrong inferences from the situation, but her points do often go overlooked in the debate: people make a big deal about "omg, someone died because they couldn't afford [more] health care", even though this will always be true, in every system, even the best ones -- you can't save everyone.

(Similarly, the rhetoric around "death panels" was toxic made this insight harder to accept.)
i wouldn't trade salary for it. i don't think it's a scam but i wouldn't be surprised to find some employers use it to take advantage of workers.

at my shop we are encouraged to take as much time as we need and managers even regularly encourage us to take more time off.

sometimes i feel like it's a trick and i don't take as much time off as most people do. they do track how many days you take off but you can come in late whenever you want and use 1/2 day pto if you don't want to stay late. or, if it's nice outside, take a personal day for the hell of it.

the only consideration is we have to be sure to have someone covering any ongoing work so we still meet deadlines.
I agree that that was an inflammatory statement that went over the top, but please keep internet tropes of rudeness off HN. They send bad signals into the community.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345614 and marked it off-topic.
See my reply to the same comment. And I think the rice and beans of medical treatment is to pour some 'tussin on it.
Often times, it's bulk rather than weight that determines transport feasibility. That's historically been a significant limiting factor in the practicality of prefabricated structures for general use...the difficulty of prefabricating a foundation being perhaps the only more significant one.
"To claim that healthcare is a "right" ultimately means healthcare providers are slaves."

So teachers are slaves? As are judges? etc.
The numbers on the Mars rover missions are more staggering in my opinion. From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover) :

The total cost of building, launching, landing and operating the rovers on the surface for the initial 90-sol primary mission was US$820 million.[4] Since the rovers have continued to function beyond their initial 90 sol primary mission, they have each received five mission extensions. The fifth mission extension was granted in October 2007, and ran to the end of 2009.[4][5] The total cost of the first four mission extensions was $104 million, and the fifth mission extension is expected to cost at least $20 million.[4]

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lost contact with Spirit after last hearing from the rover on March 22, 2010 and continued attempts to regain communications lasted until May 25, 2011, bringing the elapsed mission time to 6 years 2 months 19 days, or over 25 times the original planned mission duration.[9]
Perception: there's a 75% chance my kid will be kidnapped by a pedophile.
Reality: there's a 0.01% chance of the pedophile kidnap, but a 75% chance of drowning in the bathtub.

Numbers are made up.

Perception is not reality.

Another example: Trayvon Martin was a dark-skinned young male wearing a hoodie. Perception: he is a criminal casing the houses in order to commit a future crime. Reality: he was a kid walking home to his house.

Other examples:
* Perception of the likelihood of terrorist attack, vs likelihood of dying in a fatal traffic crash.

* Perception that vaccinations cause autism, vs reality that vaccinations prevent fatal disease.
This is absolutely spot on.

Health care is not a right, neither is education, food, or access to the internet.

These are all things that people at some point or another have claimed as "inalienable human rights".

There is always a cost benefit analysis here. Should we perform this extremely expensive treatment to give somebody a few days in agonizing pain, or maybe save a few dozen other people with a simple, straightforward procedure?

The painful part is realizing that no matter what, people with more resources (money or otherwise) will have better (and longer) lives on average then people without resources. There is no way to legislate that away. See Venezuela for an example of that.
Researchers design chip that identifies defects, monitors performance
You seem to be overlooking the part of those predictions that deal with the societal effects that the forced migration of entire cultures would likely entail when those groups try to ensure their own survival as they leave behind their homelands because their land is under water / no longer arable / too hot / too cold.

War.
Many policies have some catch-all clause saying that they share with services that are contracted to perform parts of the service, which would cover those.
Doesn't that completely ignore the fact that Snowden got caught in Russia in the first place because his passport got revoked?
It's even better because in a bit of a dick move, they tried to buy pinboard.com back in 2009 or 2010. I say "dick move" because Pinboard predates Pinterest and they were aware of me.
How many of the core wii games used motion controls?
Even the big Nintendo IP games used primarily a classical control scheme if not exclusively.
I used ramen noodle as an example. There are plenty types of food that you can buy for cheap. Are you really telling me that for a family of 4, your grocery bill will be $1500/month ? That is the average cost that I was paying out of pocket for a good plan (with low deductibles etc). And yes, I have kids which makes it absolutely critical to have a really good plan.

My grocery bill for 4 of us goes about $500/month and that too when we are not really into coupons and stuff.
The cost is not entirely relevant, even putting aside the need to take out the carbon that we have already emitted. There is a power law distribution of wealth, and people on top have just about all of the financial and technological means to combat global warning, but limited means to convince the people on the bottom to use their tools. Deforestation, automotive and agricultural emissions are just not going to stop fast enough. It's faster, easier and probably more morally sound to build something like a Gigafactory for carbon sequestration modules than to wage (even economic) war on countries that emit too much greenhouse gas.
The elevation contour lines run pretty much north-south in the middle of the continent. The dark-light line seems to be around 1000 feet of elevation.
>The free market ruthlessly punishes businesses that do not meet consumer demands.

True. But only as ruthlessly as the market approaches the free market ideal (readily available and accurate information on products, other users, choice at time of purchase etc). And we know there are no true free markets and that markets can drift far from the ideal even absent of government interference.

Who is the first to try out a newly released epipen?

>Only through government interference are substandard businesses sustained.

Now THAT is a very strong statement. Information asymmetry that has nothing to do with government is one category of ways a sub-standard business can thrive. Are we to believe that information asymmetry is all rooted in government interference?

> Profits are the signal that a business is doing something right.

Most of the time. An abundance of sustained profits is also a signal that the business is doing something wrong (or taking advantage of a market failure of some kind) or competitors would be jumping in and eating away at them.
That's not an either-or situation. Health care, food, clothing and shelter are rights and businesses.

The rights are positive rights, in other words they must be provided, and cost resources to provide. (In contrast to negative rights like freedom of expression, where it costs resources to take the right away from you)

As positive rights (aka obligations), they must be rationed. Welfare et al provides enough money to pay for basic food & shelter but not for caviar and mansions. The article is a very reasonable discussion of why it's harder to ration health care, but the conclusion (and title) doesn't necessarily follow.
Why a Boston Entrepreneur Walked Away from a $60M Opportunity with Uber
But no one on this thread believes it. It certainly says something, and not a good thing, about the startup ecosystem when "in the know" people like us automatically treat news of an acquisition as a death sentence for the product, even if the team claims otherwise.
My best guess is that the line represents the upstream limit of navigability of the Mississippi River's western tributaries. West of this line, it makes less and less economic sense to settle (unless it's next to a railroad line) since it's so difficult to ship things to and from the outside world.
Tons and tons of works are basically lost because of this. It's the kind of thing the Lost Media Wiki is trying to track:

http://lostmediawiki.com/Home

And for an example of a made for TV movie nearly lost this way... well, the Rapsittie Kids Believe in Santa was only found in September 2015, presumably thanks to some random guy saving it on a tape or something:

http://lostmediawiki.com/Rapsittie_Street_Kids:_Believe_in_S...

Of course, it also kind of proves that a lot of lost media isn't particularly good (the film mentioned there is one of the worst animated films ever made, and yet somehow still managed to air on network TV), but yeah, same thing applies. Lots of thought lost or thought non existent media is just waiting around on videos and cassettes.
I'm glad they are releasing version 1.0 but I feel that the maintainers of the Go gRPC team have a lot of work to rebuild trust.

I've seen backwards incompatible changes made by core go team members and core gRPC maintainers. Where the API is statically consistent but actually behaves in completely different broken ways. One of these was big enough that I said screw it and am moving that application away from gRPC.

I've seen multiple issues where the library you generate against ends up being incompatible with the library you link against at build time. They finally added a version check as part of the build/run step to prevent this from causing silent runtime errors.

Maybe in a year gRPC will actually be stable, maybe it has been over the last three months. I don't really know but I gave up, am moving my applications off of it and actively pushing for coworkers to do the same.
Nature's Secret: Why Honey Bees Are Better Politicians Than Humans
It's pretty easy to institute the life changes needed for you to go from not having enough food to survive on a daily basis to having enough to survive.

You can't go from not having enough to treat cancer to having enough to treat cancer easily or ever in many cases. This is like saying FEMA should be a for profit institution. Getting cancer is no different than having a tornado level your home. No amount of picking yourself up by the bootstraps will get you back on track. This is why we have a social safety net. Healthcare is no different.
Ask HN: Outside of SV, is age discrimination in IT common?
It seems to be pretty well established that there is a preference for younger candidates in IT/software development jobs in Silicon Valley. Is this true in other areas? Should I be looking for a new career as an individual contributor past 40/50?
Anyone remember "Drawing with Friends"? It was all the rage for about 15 minutes.
ES6 Overview in Depth
That's not true -- for any given health situation, there is a range of options, with different resource costs and different health benefits and risks (some strictly worse in all respects). It's not like Moses comes from the mount with tablets that say "the only way to treat that condition is with this resource that happens to cost exactly $100k".

(Obvious caveat about what options you can consider in emergencies.)
First of all some people do think food is a right !
Second generally speaking all but the poorest can at least find some kind of food to purchase or get donated even if it's not perfect

For healthcare it's totally different with treatments costing thousands of of dollars plus, doctor visits out of the question without insurance for many (and even with) and monopolies on drugs and treatments contributing to vastly higher prices in the US than many other countries.

We may not have "death panels" but we definitely have insurance "no-men" aplenty (and high deductibles) to effectively deny people (especially the poor) decent care

This article is pretty wrong IMO there is no example in the US of "free-market" care to compare anything to.
The distinction is important when the Dutch patent trolls show up and demand a licensing fee.
As with with any other dopamine-jerking drug -- first there's a rush; then a plateau; then a refactory period. And just like the more familiar (street-level) drug dealers, the creators are going to have to think of something stronger, longer-lasting or at least more novel-seaming in order to maintain market share. Or cede their turf.
Internaut Day and the World Wide Web
I once read that for every 2 kids kidnapped by a stranger, someone is killed by a lightning strike. This was backed up by stats.
When people say "I don't believe in ADHD", they're not saying that the symptoms don't exist, they're just rejecting the premise that a large percentage of the population is disabled by it.

As someone diagnosed with ADHD and who occasionally takes Adderall for it, I certainly empathize with this viewpoint. I love the way my brain works both on and off medication. I feel like my ADHD gives me a creative swiftness that evades most people. However, there are indeed times when I need to buckle down and focus one aspect of something for an extended amount of time and that's where the Adderall comes in.

Like introversion or any other number of tendencies, I think of ADHD as a dimension of personality rather than a disability. Do I consider myself disabled by it? No. But I can certainly appreciate that our academic system disadvantages those with the condition to the point that it appears to be a disability.

And yes, I am aware that some people have ADHD to such an extent that they are functionally disabled by it. I just don't think it's everyone that is diagnosed.
I'm sure the ban wave of legitimate players interest has died down.
Tesla ex-partner finds someone else to help with self-driving tech
I would have to really dig for the emails the company sent out (I should have them archived someplace), but I thought the issue wasn't discounts, but a revoking of the license to sell Windows if the OEMs didn't comply.

I did a quick search and came up with Quora answer given here: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-BeOS-dropped

but this doesn't jive with my memory. I will have to see if I can find an old email or maybe dig further on the net. I certainly don’t want to be rewriting history.
> unsafe languages

There is no such thing.
> We have real data which heavily backs the case for medicating.

> You have emotion and conjecture.

No, I asked for you to provide a reference to a credible study, you have failed to do so. There is no need or place for ad-hominem attacks here. Who is 'we' btw?

> You're suggesting all these studies are funded by pharma cos and the scientists are falsifying data?

What I wrote explicitly was:

>>> if the research doesn't support their product they can shelve it and fund some other studies until they have research which does.

Are you claiming this is not true? Or that this does not happen?

On a side-note: standards in psychology research are much lower than in hard sciences, so the conflict of interest is exacerbated.

> Until you have anything besides personal feelings and unfounded beliefs we should obviously stick to what we're doing. Anything else is dangerous and unscientific.

Per chance, despite the immature nature of your tone - you are actually a researcher who has worked on many studies supporting what you claimed above and your research has been funded by pharmaceutical companies.

Has really not a single study with a source of funding which is not pharmaceutical company been able to replicate your results? I would consider that deeply suspicious in any field; and on the contrary to argue that it's not, is dangerous and unscientific.
Dead simple distributed locking for Node.js
We used Haskell for a dependency of our Omnibus packages before but it turned out to be very hard to install on many platforms.

Anyway, we don't install any tools on shared runner, we recommend you use a docker image and/or the scripts to do that.

We mostly do Ruby for the web app and Go for the heavy lifting https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-workhorse/

Now that we plan to ship with Cog we need Elixir for the first time. Help with https://forum.mattermost.org/t/help-wanted-cog-integration-f... is appreciated.
> Today’s startups were focused on consumer, developer tools, security, hardware, marketplaces, and non-profit. We’ll see a different set tomorrow concentrated around enterprise, B2B, biotech, edtech, and fintech

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