skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GP's comment also included this crucial statement, which you might have overlooked:

> I'm good at having sympathy (not always empathy), but I'm not good at expressing it.

He wants to be better at expressing the sympathy he feels. That's why I said that, even though it feels fake at first, stick with it and model yourself after what you see other people do, and over time it will become quite natural. This is the same process by which humans learn almost all social behavior; it's just relatively rare to do it as an adult, when consciousness and introspection are fully formed and the concept of sincerity discovered.

The problem with the example you provided is not that it didn't appeal to me; I can understand where you're coming from with it, and I appreciate its sincerity. The problem I have is that that statement is not fit for purpose. In almost any case, it's not a tool which will work.

When I participate in this kind of conversation, I do so expressly because it's an opportunity to help someone. In order to accomplish that goal, it is necessary that my interlocutor be comfortable enough to open up and share the kind of information I need to fulfill the role I've chosen for myself in that context. In order for that to occur, I need to meet that person where he is. As I said, I understand and appreciate the nature of your proposed statement - but I also understand that most people are not like us, and not the sort of person with whom a such a bald statement ("Message: I care") is going to resonate.

So it's going to be very rare that a statement like that will serve the purpose I require of it, which in turn means that, if I use it, I will fail at something into which I've decided it is worth investing considerable time and effort toward succeeding.

My initial analysis suggested that, in order to make it possible for people to be comfortable enough with me that I might have a meaningful probability of being able to help them by any means, it would be necessary to develop a great deal of social fluency. So I did that. Then I went looking for ways in which I could deploy it to the benefit of others, and I found them. I'm still nowhere near as good at that as I intend eventually to become, but retrospective analysis suggests that even the moderate degree of skill I've developed in that regard has enabled me to produce a net positive emotional impact on the people around me - perhaps marginal for the most part, but demonstrable nonetheless, and showing a distinct if modest upward trend.

But I've put a lot of work into it, too, and it is not quite accurate to say that I'm the same person I was when I started. You might want to put some thought into whether that's something you feel is worth your while.

I hope you'll decide that it is. I've chosen to make a vocation of creating for other people, for a little while, a world to live in in which, sometimes, someone just cares. If you decide to do the same, it increases the chance that someday someone will do that for me. And there are days when I could really use it.
Germany is mixed private/public insurance.

EDIT: So does France.
The answer to complex problems is usually "all of the above" in some degree. Weakened bees can succumb to things they normally would weather ok. Each different assault weakens them. Which is the 'real problem'? I'm thinking, all of them together.
"Had 10 years of PHP, but 0.5 years of Angular and only a few years in very scripty/hacky jQuery / JS. Didn't stop me from getting a $23,500 raise though."

Thats a little depressing, trying to extrapolate upwards mobility as my career progresses
Why Can’t Anyone Write a Simple Webpack Tutorial?
What advantages could possibly exist in enhancing our ability to store data in decaying meat?
For a content host (ie the one who bought the hardware, who pays the bills and maintains the equipment) any system that puts all the cost on me and gives all the benefit to someone else is useless. See the Tragedy of the Commons and Free Rider problems.

I'm sure for some people the externalization of the costs and risks are the benefit. But since most of those people won't be contributing anyway, who cares what they think.
The main issue with healthcare in the u.s. actually has to do with Medicare, Medicaid, and social security.

All of the state options pay only ~10% of what they are billed no matter how large the bill (there is also usually a cap). This forces hospitals to charge exorbitant prices. Private insurance options pay larger percentages: 12 - 50%. People without insurance usually will pay either 100% or 0%, with some people negotiating in between.

Honestly, the easiest way to fix it is to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, and social security or force everyone to pay 100% as opposed to negotiating lower rates.

Fyi I worked in a medical billing office for 5 years. We did payment processing for about 30% of all hospitals on the east coast and Midwest
Lessons in entrepreneurship and failure, as taught by my 2-year-old
"They are not supposed to make decisions regarding personal management, but if those decisions consist in throwing money at employees, they will certainly be pissed off."

Not only are shareholders not supposed to make such decisions, they also actually don't make those decisions. Literally owning the company doesn't actually mean they can do what they like it, and that's how it should be. It's not as if they're liable for anything the company does wrong, so even calling it "ownership" is a leap.

Secondly, I am a shareholder and I applaud this. I'm not pissed off. I take a long term view and I find the attitude of shareholder value above all to be backwards and damaging.

I also know that the best shareholders could do is put up their own nominations for directorship positions. It would damage the company and should be done, frankly, only if the company was already a slow motion car crash. Sometimes you see activists doing this as a prelude to getting as much money as they can out of a healthy company.

Here's a company doing its job, looking after its employees and investing in its future.
Anyone who thinks this is leading to single-payer is dreaming. Whether you think it's a good idea or not, the political will wasn't there for in 6 years ago, and there is much less political will for it now.
Can you elaborate on "pull to open" and why it's a problem. I'm not sure what you're talking about.
When my wife and I took a birth class in Boston, the ice breaker was to go around and say who you were and how much time you had off once the baby came (ostensibly so the instructor could tailor her advice).

After a long string of answers like "two weeks.. three weeks.. six weeks.. four weeks", the international parents in the group felt compelled to begin their introductions with an apology for numbers like six months, one year, two years...

I've never been able to understand how a parent could advocate against European-style healthcare goals (implementation details left as an exercise for technocrats).
There is a solution to this..

If there was say a more market based price tier and that tier to Obamacare was made up of both US Federal workers plans and State workers plans than there would be a huge amount of healthy people in the whole group and private ins co's would be striving to be part of ObamaCare as their costs than would not exceed their revenues.
You can also avoid rental fees by moving into newer buildings that have in house rental offices. I've never actually had to pay a broker fee in the 10 years / 4 apartments I've had here.

Brokers are the worst. Their incentives are not aligned with yours on anything besides wanting to get it over with asap.
free market systems are dynamic and adjustable to real-world inputs in a way that no planned system can match in terms of providing the most service/product to the most people.

what people really want when they push for socialized medicine is equality over improvement.

envy holds us back so much.
it's also the same economic system that saved american seniors from dying destitute before SS and medicare.
It's hard to tell if there are inefficiencies and waste or if health care is just simply really expensive.

Health care is done by the Provinces in Canada, with transfers from the Federal Government to help out. The most recent Alberta budget[0] puts the cost of health care at about $20B. This represents approximately 40% of Alberta government spending.

Is that due to waste or inefficiencies? I honestly have no idea. I just know that it's a big number.

Another thing to keep in mind is that, at least in Canada, the government provides some base amount of health services, but there are still other things that aren't covered. In Alberta, someone might go to the ER for a severe asthma attack and that's covered, but the prescriptions to keep the asthma under control are paid for out of pocket or from a benefit plan (which could be an individual plan or through an employer). Similarly, dental is not covered, but may be covered under a benefit plan.

[0] http://finance.alberta.ca/publications/budget/budget2016/fis...
Nitpick, but "leftist" doesn't mean what you think it means.

"My country is great and it deserves to do what it wants to do!" doesn't suddenly become "leftist" just because the person saying it is from a different country.
Tell it to Australia, Canada, and the UK.
There's no benefit I can see. Our present system combines everything that is bad about "socialized" medicine (loads of regulation, bureaucracy, inflexibility, etc.) with everything that is bad about private medicine (inequality, high cost, fragmentation).
They still exist. You can also find several at fairgrounds.
looks like original research to me
If you are not fine with the minimum feature set, it is not the "minimum feature set" and the in-browser app that you are writing will not work with it.

I get what is so compelling about it, but I don't think I've ever seen anybody use such things correctly in practice. At least not on the web.
Fc00::/8 – Mapping Hyperboria
The German Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung (FAZ / http://www.faz.net) also has thoughtful comments. I used to think it was something about the community but at this point it seems more related to moderation. You don't see a lot of trolls on the site.
You can make oblivious storage (and even ORAM) on top of IPFS, without too much work actually. A critical point here is that making something oblivious by default is a nonstarter for 99% of users on the internet, because major consumer and corporate applications would never use something that (a) adds that much latency to requests, or (b) may have pushed "bad bits" to their computers. This is a design constraint BECAUSE of adoption.

The point is to establish IPFS as a base layer, and build the oblivious storage platform on top.
Before the pitchforks come out, keep this in mind: before Obamacare increased access to affordable individual plans, employers were the typical purchasers of health care plans. When you have a 100+ person company, the company pays a rate that averages out their employee pool's healthcare needs. Now we have a situation where more people can more efficiently participate in the healthcare market. Individuals who are young and healthy will opt for a lower cost plan, and those who already have illnesses or higher risk for illness will spend more for their healthcare. This efficiency on the consumer side is destroying revenue for the healthcare companies.

I am not saying that anything was even close to perfect before, but we're seeing the private sector responding to Obamacare - it's not profitable enough or even sustainable in some cases. Now the government wants to block companies from trying to salvage their profits? Yes, consumers are benefitting now, but what happens when there are 2 options left for healthcare in each state?

I think in this case, it's clear that the hybrid Capitalist / Socialist approach is not the way to go. Either the government needs to let health care companies operate the way the market allows them to, or move to a single payer system.
The basic idea is that in db you generate events (lots of ways) and a custom script listens and reacts (sends the email)
This page can give you an idea http://postgrest.com/examples/users/ (somewhere in the middle of the article)

But also note that there are tons of ways to extend the functionality of PostgreSQL.
Here is a stackoverflow answer about this also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12002662/how-can-i-send-e...

it is even possible to do it directly in the db (but not recommended) http://brandolabs.com/pgmail
Any time you put some new distributed computing technique into production, you should do it while listening to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on repeat.
Gee, I missed the bread lines when I grew up in Norway, and I must've managed to miss them in the UK too.
The purpose of government is not to require the most efficient option. Government isn't capable of it anyway. Government is force - nothing more. The purpose of government is to protect our rights. "Single payer" (a euphemism for socialized medicine) by definition violates rights by forcing people to do things against their will. For example, in Canada (until recently) people were prohibited from using private health care even if they want to.

The health systems in Europe are not radically different from the US system. The efficiencies of each are difficult to quantify without context. For example, the US invents most of the drugs and medical technology used by the world. Would this still happen if there was more invasive regulation? We can't know.

Besides all of this, think of every other area of the market where the government insinuates itself. Are public schools better than private schools? Almost never. Is the US postal system better than FedEx? Of course not. The government is not a commercial entity. The incentives and influences on it are not conducive to producing quality products at good prices.
> (government, aka "public option")

that wouldn't happen. since it's monopolism.
You would end up in a system like germany. And at the moment these "public" health insurance companies raising their fee's every year. Not better than having private ones, since their regulators just don't care.
They praise their reduces with taxes but they don't care if everything else got higher we still end up in a loss.
I wasn't the one who downvoted, but I've heard someone who has met him speak (in a semi-private, company-internal event), and his exact words were "Putin is scary." This is from someone who is in tight with the current US administration, and who in the same talk mocked Kim Jong-un saying "North Korea has one export - fear. Everything else, they suck at", so it's not like he's afraid of all world leaders.

You don't get to the highest levels of power by being a normal person nor by having other people who you like, respect, and admire, particularly not in a country with a long tradition of autocratic rule. I think that people who are assuming Putin is just another old Joe are projecting their own thought processes onto him, which in a way is admirable - I would love to believe the best in people too - but is at odds with both the culture and history of the country he rules and with the workings of power across all cultures.
Communication is hard.

I can imagine the doc was trying to reassure you or head off questions s/he gets often by going through the litany of scary stuff ruled out. But maybe should not have buried the lede.
You have a very... unique view on security.
> Honestly, the easiest way to fix it is to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, and social security or force everyone to pay 100% as opposed to negotiating lower rates.

Bullshit. This isn't an easy problem, and you're casually dismissing systems that support millions of people.
I'd also like to throw in some work by a former colleague of mine at Argonne, Sven Leyffer on nonlinear programming:
- A compendium he co-edited named (appropriately enough) Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming
- A review paper he co-authored for Acta Numerica: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/papers/P3060-1112.pdf

Also, yeah, the "Alexander Schrijver - Theory of Linear and Integer Programming" reference is solid.
Thanks, fixing it now.
AMD already is making a good open source driver for Linux, and both AMD and nVidia has been making proprietary drivers for Linux for a while.

Also AMD seemly releases some "Pro" features for workstation on Linux first.

The problem of Linux gaming is not the graphics drivers, in fact this part has been working "ok" for a while now.

The problem with Linux gaming is:

1. Audio is still a mess, the fastest audio library still is OSS4 (not 3), that won't ever get in the mainstream distributions (sometimes it is even explicitly banned and will get you banned from forums and irc servers if you ask about it), JACK still is finnicky to work with, PA is still buggy and slow, and ALSA although much better now, is also too slow and has terrible API (while coding for OSS, any version, is very easy).

2. Desktop is still a pain to setup, even the most "GUI-happy" distros still have problems here and there, when I asked some random people about it, I got outright hostile replies, people telling me they deliberately don't want to make Linux easier, because they don't want "dumb people using something they are not worth using", mind you, this wasn't once, or in one community, more than one person shared this view with me.

3. Some people in the community are outright hostile to games, and even sabotage efforts to make games work better, I saw a flamewar where one guy was claiming games were purely dumb entertainment, and that people that played games weren't not only inferior humans, but people that deserved Windows, as punishment. This guy was of the opinion that no GUI server should ever support exclusive fullscreen properly, that instead they should have all features focused on "Work" features always.

4. Lots of other random hardware is a pain to setup on Linux, even things that usually don't cross people minds, for example I couldn't figure how to make Linux properly support my motherboard Super I/O chip, that is even a common one, I even convinced the manufacturer to give me the chip datasheet, but I couldn't even figure to what project I would need to contribute code. (as for what the Super I/O chip does: control the motherboard sensors, fans and power distribution, including voltage values and regulation commands on my motherboard)
> The women in our offices up North seemingly crank out a new kid almost as soon as they are back from the first one

Also known as "the women in our offices have kids". Only so many years to get that done.
All those countries are very different.

There's this cartoon understanding the health care system, where the US has system A, and every other country in the world has system B. You will find people on both sides of the aisle believing this. Even though Germany is closer to the US than it is to France.
help 5 people, hurt 100 people.

the idea that SS and medicare are great and have done wonders is what's causing the country to go broke and costs to skyrocket.

it was never good in the first place. you see the benefits when the programs are implemented, but everyone fails to see the costs and lost future opportunities.
There's no way that we'd get single payer here because the Republican party has convinced their base that single-payer health care is socialism and that socialism is evil, which leads to the situation where poor people who desperately need health care and can't afford it still oppose single-payer even though they stand to gain the most from it.
What is UWP?
Obamacare has had one significant, lasting effect: culturally, the idea is now that everyone should have access to health care. That's the default. Bringing in a public option will be an easy, natural next step, if not for Clinton, then for whoever succeeds her.
That's great for the people with lots of money. Not great for the people who die or go bankrupt in the name of "improvement".
How are you planning to monetizing? Are you an amazon affiliate?
One of the few benefits is that the rich do well in this system.
I live in Canada so I get "free" healthcare as well.

Norway's system of delivering food isn't a full socialist/single-payer model, so you wouldn't get breadlines there.
> For the citizen, none.

Actually, that's false. I can assure you that having lived in Canada and having moved to the US because of health care, having options beyond "deal with it" when not getting any sort of care or service is wonderful. Single-payer is great if you are actually getting the care you need. But when it fails, you are left with little to no alternative.

What's worse is that because of the perception that single-payer is so great, people don't really push for real solutions to solve its many problems. People would rather stick their head in the sand and ignore the very real problems, pretending everything is ok.

Until then, we happily live here in the US where we get more services for less than what it would have cost in Canada.
Goodwill? The likely fact that this is better for Nvidia's long term finances (retention, cost of hiring, PR, easier recruiting, etc)...?
Telcos get green light to stiff WhatsApp, OTTs
I am in Canada.

Animals have a MUCH higher quality of healthcare in Canada than humans do.
Sure, but living in the Bay Area, is a choice, too. And certainly a valid application of the CAP theorem. ;)
They Don’t Get It
Personally, I would have split the difference... I would have created an NPO insurance corporation that was the default for all government paid access programs (employees, retired va, medicare/aid, state programs backed by federal funding)... this likely would have cost less than was already being paid out, in effect consolidating the management of several government programs as well as opening that corporation up to the states, businesses and individuals.

Following would have been mandated coverage by employers, and from there would probably have been room to cover most of the rest or provide tax incentives to do so.

As it is, when people are paying the entire premium cost directly, they're far more likely to use that resource more, effectively raising costs... the lockin is another negative issue.

Creating a publicly sponsored baseline would establish more competition and as an NPO incentive to drive down pricing. The larger issue is IP surrounding medications and medical equipment. Much of which could be improved by front-loading patent application fees, reducing the approval rates for extension patents, and statutory licensing fees for medications more than 5 years old.

In the end government should encourage competition, with innovation as a side effect instead of trying to encourage innovation by expanding upon misguided protectionist extremism.

But that's my thought on a pragmatic solution that could have worked better with a libertarian mindset.
Then at least Aetna will twist in the wind for their avarice.
I was able rent my apartment off of craigslist from a old school Brooklyn family. I think they did go through a broker but they also paid for the broker fees I believe. I didn't have to pay anything to a broker.

Is there some legal requirement in New York that rentals must go through a broker? I don't know any other city in the country that you probably will pay a broker fee to rent an apartment. It just seems like the real estate industry dipping their hands into the NYC rental market as a completely unnecessary middle man. I wonder if this is because of New York's history of being majority rentals which, until recently, was fairly unique in the US.
Does anyone know what MS does with this data? Is it just for ads?
Yes. If you want that control, all you have to do is buy a subscription [0]. $7 per month isn't that much to be able to control your own computer is it? That's only $84 per year or $252 every 3 years -- it's practically a discount for buying an upgrade every 3 years!

[0] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2867542/microsoft-touts...
I generally like and often agree with yummifajita's comments.