skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reality, of course, being that the US has death panels: Insurance providers, so the argument was idiotic to begin with.

The difference is that with most socialised systems there are two system in parallel:

A public system whose priorities set based on measured impact, rather than by . E.g. in the UK, a separate agency develops guidance independently that measures how treatments affect "quality adjusted life years".

And a private system, whose priorities are, like in the US, based on how deep your pockets are.

For the vast majority the public system is the only one they use, but about 10% pay for private insurance. In practice this acts like a good indicator:

If takeup goes up it means more patients believe NHS care is slipping and makes them feel they need to "top it up".

If prices goes up (private insurance here is exceedingly cheap, since most providers are based on you going to the NHS first and then referring you privately if you e.g. don't get to see a specialist within X days) it's an indicator the providers see NHS as deteriorating (causing more claims from their customers).

The US could do the same - continue to allow private healthcare, but cover a certain level of treatment via a public system.
I feel like this point could have been made without referring to infants and developmentally disabled teenagers as "hijacker users."

I hate to moralize, but this essay helped me realize that there is, in fact, a baseline level of humanity we hold one another to in this community. And it is pretty inhumane to reduce the weakest members of society to mere obstacles to your business success. Choose another example and you will make your point more effectively.
Funny, I thought ATI had a pretty large presence in Canada before AMD bought them?
so from reading the comments, am I correct that with an object like this

{"key":1}

if one user changes it to be

{"key":2}

while the other at the same time changes it to be

{"key":3}

and another user changes it to

{"key":[2, 3]}

it's impossible to tell if there was a conflict between the first 2 users or the third user just made an update
"Above and beyond" are the key words here. If this was a 100% private sector I would be fine with it because its about the companies choice. But the fact it is associated to the gov opens up many questions.

- how do gov programs want to accept feedback?

- does the government want open forums and discusion places?

- how much anonymity does the gov want to provide in such discussions?

- what types of contracts forve a company by law to abide by government principles of discussion?

We have laws of what you cant do. We also have laws such as "you can not deny a person water" in arizona [0]. Is the internet to be placed under similar laws or can I run a non-profit with my own agenda in mind with no interest in handling feedback from the taxpayers funding it?

[0] http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/asked-answered/201...
Oh, I'd agree completely that, as an implementation of universal health care, Obamacare falls far short. I always say, it's better than what preceded it, but that is a pretty low bar to achieve.

(My own story: I had my gallbladder out in 2004, and from that time on was denied personal health insurance for BS "pre-existing condition" reasons...until Obamacare.)

But while the implementation is pretty poor, the idea behind it is significant: everyone should have access to health care. Not just tied to a job, not just if you've got lots of money. It isn't working great, but that's the goal at least.

I know there are still lots of people who come back with opposition to that idea (even in these comments a few people are trotting out the whole "universal health care is slavery" junk), but whatever, there are people who oppose all kinds of things. Obama shifted the playing field of expectations, and good things will come as a result of that. That's all I'm trying to say.
No, uh, look, running an EXE one finds hosted on GitHub, deliberately disabling the virus-checking on that EXE file and running the EXE is the reckless behavior. Even assuming that the person who made the EXE didn't mean so maliciously, any kind of a MitM attack or other way of sureptuously putting a payload in that EXE is an attack vector.
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I have a small laptop I seldom use, and when I powered it up in a meeting, it downloaded vast numbers of updates. Then I couldn't shut it down for 15 minutes while it installed updates. I was stuck in a conference room alone while the thing updated.
I wouldn't mind if there were some convoluted steps to enable it. Something akin to turning on Android's "developer mode".
FYI check the promotions tab in Gmail if you're missing the email.
I believe it's wrong to say that users don't care.

Rather, users, don't really have a choice.

From personal experience, linux is still far from actually being user-friendly. And it's easy for me to compare: 1) I haven't had a blue screen on neither my, or my mother's laptop since XP SP2. 2) 6 months ago when I wanted to switch to Ubuntu I had my HDD suddenly die after an update. No mo trying for me.

Besides, these "clueless" users everybody imagines are not the ones making the choices. They resort to their kids, nephews, or that computer kid down the road to reinstall their Windows. And I am not that crazy yet to install linux on my mother's laptop. I bet it won't even work.
No shit. I was just trying to avoid the year of the linux desktop meme, since I gave up on that already, while also doubting that "they" are going to ditch Windows.
If you weren't familiar enough with Microsoft's products to immediately recognize that the acronym "AD" within the context of Microsoft anything, means Active Directory, then you are thousands of dollars, and possibly multiple years away from moving in that direction.
I will admit to the apostrophes that I skipped. That was purposeful. But now you have piqued my interest, was there anything else?
Rubber used to come from trees. The US invented rubber from oil to get around an embargo in WWII.
There's a problem in language here too. Obviously a child isn't a form of paid work in service of a company, but if not work and if not vacation what is this? If this is a medical leave, then how do we extend this opportunity for medical leave to those who choose to not or cannot have children?

Or do we just say that having children is just that, having children, and that parenting is a privileged class?
Probably unintentional, but the picture contains coordinates in the EXIF data which you may want to remove.
This comment is over simplistic and reads like it was written by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. All of these technologies have their place, but they should be adopted incrementally and where it makes sense. Posting a frenetic conversation benefits no one.
OP's argument is to match supply with demand, not to increase demand (which is more of a function of the job market in the area than anything else)
For people who do not know what "Worse is Better" means, here's the link: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Nice! I have one of their devices in my car and it's excellent -- adding the 3G sounds like it will add a lot of cool possibilities in terms of possible features. Seems especially useful for those with kids.
One does not simply get into that type of position without being an psychological apex predator. In fact, many high functioning sociopaths are attracted to positions of power both in the business and political worlds.
In what way is it not a vacation?

It's time off work to pursue a personal lifestyle choice, seems pretty much like the definition of a vacation to me.
15 trillion/month is almost 6 million queries/second average. We're also replicated across multiple regions (Data centers) in a multi-master configuration.
I'd argue that they haven't really tried it.

Maybe their failure is not prioritizing it enough in the algorithm. If I look for weather, there are tons of shitty, heavy-js sites. Yet http://myfreeweather.com/ (which still has some JS, but not a ton) is nowhere listed.

The first few pages of sites that google offers me are all terrible choices.
I wonder how many people would trade individual mandate for public option.
Honestly, I do not know. Telemetry isn't my biggest gripe with Windows 10, but besides that at some point the only version of Windows with security support will be Windows 10 or some descendant of it and I have no reason to believe my issues with 10 will be fixed by then.

As I said elsewhere, I'd love to be *nix only but my gaming preferences will not allow it.
> blurbed

What does this mean? Is it a typo for blogged, a new social network used by Knuth and Shteyngart, or a word I've never heard of?
Subarus are some of the most reliable cars on the market, and they handle Quebec winters better than Priuses.
Sit down... at the sink?

Wow
It's only a matter of time though.
Safe spaces come to NPR.
I guess people shouldn't be speaking while debating if <INSERT-CURRENT-YEAR> is the year of the Linux desktop or not. The choices in life are usually (and i emphasize usually) simple, and this case is no exception.
You either discard your privacy and maybe your security and go Windows, or you discard your usability (for some) and go Linux. Or go Mac, FreeBSD, hell, even BeOS or Hurd or whatever floats your boat.

But seeing people still bitching about how they can't go over Windows "because I have to play games" well ... it hurts. It really hurts.

We should know better.
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The reason Uber/Lyft were able to disrupt medallions was primarily due to ending the artificial shortage. Technology was just a means to that end, not the primary factor.
I'm not sure I'm convinced by "different problem explanation" - in both cases you produce a reusable component to use in your application.

> WebComponents provide strong encapsulation for reusable components, while React provides a declarative library that keeps the DOM in sync with your data.

You can use something like reflux with web components to do this too. The fact that react uses virtual dom is an implementation detail I think.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here.

Even react tutorial operates with components: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html
And to think that before this, people were angry at Microsoft for not providing updates to new versions of Windows free of charge, and free of hastle.

Damned if they do. Damned if they don't.

But now at least, they'll have a much smaller install base for ancient versions of Windows, so my guess is that even with all this bad PR, it's going to pay off.
We also literally just had the Windows key leaks within the last week. Un-updatable signing keys are still an uncloseable exploit vector. (And updatable signing keys are an uncloseable exploit vector. You can't win.)

Physical-access-only updates: yes please. We know what the security boundary is on those, and how to reset it.
Ask HN: How many hours of coding is a 40hour work week?
My job description says I work 40 hours a week. So how many hours of coding is that really? Assuming 8 hours per day Monday-Friday.
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So the solution is a unethical, privacy invading, profile building company run by a guy who thinks his users are "dumb fucks"? No thank you.
I love the comparison to chinese food for 2. As if everyone lives in the US with the same economic situation. Your posts are truly despicable.
Docker contains the effects of sucky programming to a single container. If your programs follow best practices, systemd is just as good.
What other government resources should have comment sections? Should IRS.GOV?
Does it really matter what the content of the stream is, as long as it is bringing in viewers? They've built the Twitch brand around games, but it is also the largest streaming site of any kind.
> So are you suggesting that you should be able to leave your key in the door as much as you want beacuse you're under no obligation to protect yourself?

Yes, and in fact am legally able to.

> The argument here is that perhaps Walmart, as a large retailer, should take security measures, just as a homeowner should not leave his key in the lock. Yes they don't have to have security, but then it may not be reasonable for them to demand immediate police response, just like I might not expect the cops to help me every day if I leave my key in the lock.

But that's not how criminal justice works. It's not to protect and serve those who are doing everything to protect and serve themselves, it's to protect and serve everyone regardless of their ability or even willingness to protect themselves. Would you blame the victim of a break-in for not owning a gun?

> The clause you added about rape is just wrong in so many ways.

Indulge me - name one way in which it's wrong.
First of all, it makes no sense if you've mandated the specifications of the product being sold via legislation. Having said that, a huge benefit would be the ability to buy insurance: actual insurance, in which you're paying a subscription fee for the service of protecting you from the risk of a huge surgery bill, rather than a payment plan that covers everything inside the walls of a hospital. As a young adult, I would be happy to pay for a service that would insulate me from risk I can't handle, because it would make me financially stable. But if the plan also covers predictable things like obese people needing diabetes meds, children being delivered, and obscenely expensive cancer treatment that only slightly extends a low-quality end of life, that's a different question. Suddenly (probability of medical emergency) X (expected cost) << (cost of insurance premium), even if you add a $500 penalty to the left side of the equation. Bankruptcy seems like the smart insurance if I'm not amassing significant savings, in that case.

Everything outside of those complicated, expensive procedures would suddenly be susceptible to price sensitivity, since the users would also be the people paying. Faced with that pressure, routine procedures would fall to prices that don't look like typos.

Having said that, what I've read about the British system seems like it could be effective, if it were politically feasible: procedures have to stay below the cost per unit of increase in life expectancy or quality of life, or else you have to fund it yourself. When the current American system was being battled into law, it seems like that number was about 30kpounds per year of life.
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Indeed.

I think the % of Americans doing the off-shore thing is very very low.

Now from a raw $$$ standpoint, perhaps it is a problem. Is 10% of wealth hidden offshore by the .1% of abusers? Or is it only 5% I doubt anyone knows for sure. I suspect it is less than the "legally" held offshore money using the double irish and other such accounting tricks.
This is broadly speaking not true at all. NYC's train system currently runs far below its physical capacity, mostly because of old switching technology.

E.g. Paris steadily runs a train every couple minutes on many lines with no problems, and we could too after deploying switching technology improvements.

And the only pedestrian sidewalk I've ever seen at gridlocked capacity is Rockefeller center in Christmastime.
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And if you don't want kids the consolation prize is lots of unpaid overtime covering for your fellow employees...
It would be easier to read the post if it was in regular English. I have no idea what is being said by the following sequences of characters, that may be words, such as "Meh", "Schweet", and "Mmmmk".

The conclusion of the story is anti-climactic, since from the problem statement itself, it was clear an object was trying to print itself. Then the given line showed the issue exactly, but the author didn't know about "display" in Ruby.

If he used the variable name "Mmmmmk" instead, rather than "display", it would have been more clear.
> In our case, it should have been the string "display" but called display instead, and by sheer coincidence the word display in any Ruby object is a valid caller.

Wow, that sounds incredibly dangerous... how do you even test for not introducing a bug like that somewhere? I am not so familiar with Ruby, is there a linter or something that can catch these?
For someone that's not a developer, using the words "reinvented yourself" because you've changed your programming language sounds a bit exaggerated :) of course I'm not the bearer of the universal truth, so please just take this as one more opinion.

Reinventing yourself IMHO could be to go from dev to manager, to product then to architect... Tackling different challenges, having different goals, dealing with unrelated technology, not just another way of doing the same.

If you are a very senior developer you don't suddenly become a junior developer because you've changed language. However if I'm a senior architect and I want to become a developer I'd hardly land a senior developer gig.
The "open inwards" issue is due to building codes prohibiting doors from blocking traffic in a hallway. I think you'll find that most doors that aren't in hallways actually do open outwards.
A couple of points:

1. There is no way to remove a domain from an existing certificate. Changing a certificate in any way always results in a new issuance. That's just how certificates work, nothing specific to Let's Encrypt. Certificate issuance cannot be scaled to infinity, so the same limit has to apply here (otherwise anyone could just bypass the rate limit by adding and removing subdomains and launch a DoS that way).

2. The relevant rate limit here would be 20 per week, not 5. (5 is for completely identical domain sets, i.e. duplicates)

3. Do you revoke the certificate after reissuing it without the subdomain (i.e. because it's a delegated domain and your user explicitly wants to remove trust)? If not, you might as well keep it around until your next renewal of that particular certificate and remove it at that point.
Ask HN: Is there a mapping of HN usernames to well known people in tech?
I know many high profile developers participate on HN, and I often see people mention projects they've worked on which I've heard of or used before. While it can be nice to read a comment completely oblivious to who the author is, often extra context can add insight. A lot of the time the HN handle is non-obvious and even different from their GitHub username (if they have one). Is there something like a public list that shows some of the more seasoned voices and what their HN username is?
To collect EI benefits, the individual must have worked 600 hours in the qualifying period (ie the 12 months before the leave starts). And I believe the max duration is 50 weeks, further payment requires another 600 hours of work.

Three consecutive years would involve a significant amount of unpaid time which (I'm going to presume you are American) you Americans are certainly able to take.

Source: Parent of two in Ontario and http://www.esdc.gc.ca/en/ei/maternity_parental/eligibility.p...

Edit: Grammar, clarity
So can you go into detail about why the things you mentioned are bad and what the alternatives are?
This is a good point. Same with Uber. Most Cab companies are required to provide access to wheelchair bound and disabled members of society at no extra charge. Not sure if Uber has the same requirement - and if and when it starts moving cab's out of business it will definitely prove to be a problem.
Don't know of this helps, but most of them also comes in ePub format which you could read on an e-paper device.
Most startups never make it past their first year, but for those that do I think this is the biggest problem they encounter. Especially if there's a sales team, the temptation to say yes to prospective customers is enormous.

A lot of founders get tripped up by needing to show hockey stick growth as soon as they can, because they're usually top performers that are used to knocking expectations set on them out of the park. Saying yes to lots of people is an easy way to show the hockey stick in the first year, but it'll turn into linear growth pretty quickly. Congratulations you now own a consulting company, and your product team is groaning under the weight of enormous technical debt.

Your company is probably going to die now, because you're top engineers probably hate your product and vision.

I don't blame people though, because there really isn't a full proof way to avoid this. Sure, anchor customers can help, but how do you know when you really have anchor customers and when you're just saying "yes" to lots of ideas? In the end, IMO, it's totally subjective (building a great product). You just have to have a sense for it and be willing to fail quickly.

In my experience the best founders actually don't take as much signaling, at least explicitly, from their customers as you would expect. They have a maniacal vision, and they are following it. Their customer help give form to the sculpture, but the basic outline is set. If real hockey stick growth follows, so be it.
>lynching

Last I heard Appelbaum is still alive, though?
Yikes. In that case it'd be cheaper to fly to London and have it done privately here. It should typically be less than $8k for a gall bladder removal.
So this is what they meant with cloud-first...
No, and Walmart isn't expecting the police to station themselves at their stores. I would, however, expect the police to do their job and arrest repeat offenders so they can be locked up and potentially reformed.
I think he means the quotes praising the book that appear typically on the back cover of a physical book. https://susanleighnoble.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/writing-an-...
An anecdata point for the "did force" - what it did to me was schedule the upgrade for a specific time, and the dialog let me know that's when it was scheduled. You had to change the scheduled time to "do not upgrade" to avoid the upgrade; simply closing the dialog left the scheduled update in place.
I can come up with lots of reasons you haven't heard of them: maybe you're not from a large or mid-size city, maybe you intentionally avoid billboards, television, radio, and print advertisements, maybe you don't live in the U.S.; the list goes on. But this is a distraction.

Do you or don't you concede that the significant sales of products contradicts your claim that they are shut out of the market?

> Cisco paid the lobbyists in DC very well.

This is a non-sequitur and sensational flame bait.

Bonus: Even in 2010 Huawei recorded over $500M in revenue in the United States. http://www.huawei.com/us/about-huawei/corporate-info/researc...
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A version of this problem I've seen is that often customers (particularly enterprise customers) want you to make solutions specific to their exact needs rather than the broad needs of their whole category. Even if they want the same problem addressed that you do they will want you to make the product suit their needs EXACTLY. That won't scale and backs you into being a services company instead of a product company. Strategies we've used to fight this are to listen to feedback from all users and only build what everyone agrees is needed, and also offer an API so we don't have to flat out say no. Instead with an API we can say, you're welcome to do whatever you'd like... Finally, when we do have to say something like "no" instead we just put a astronomical price tag on it and let the customer decide no for themselves. ...or maybe they'll say ok and then we'll know our thinking might be flawed if some feature is worth a hefty premium. Hope that's helpful to others!
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